chore: merge main into codex/audit-browser-scenario

test(ghidra): remove the retired processor-context suite (#9915 )
* test(ghidra): keep the bridge context contract out of an empty suite Source tests collect src/ghidra/GhidraFunctionValues.test.ts directly. The empty describe failed that file with "No test found in suite" even though every shard passed. Assert the bridge bindings at file level. * test(ghidra): retire superseded source-text context assertions Co-authored-by: gensokyo-dev <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: N0zoM1z0 <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: gensokyo-dev <[email protected]>
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "name": "rea",
+  "interface": {
+    "displayName": "REA"
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "rea",
+      "source": {
+        "source": "npm",
+        "package": "rea-agents",
+        "version": "6.8.0"
+      },
+      "policy": {
+        "installation": "AVAILABLE",
+        "authentication": "ON_INSTALL"
+      },
+      "category": "Developer Tools"
+    }
+  ]
+}
@@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ equivalent completed investigations. A useful outcome can also be a measured
 decision to leave an implementation alone.

 Follow the checkout's [performance priorities](../../../AGENTS.md#performance),
-[tool design](../../../docs/tool-design.md), and
-[testing guide](../../../docs/testing.md). This skill supplies an optimization
+[tool design](../../../docs/development/tool-design.md), and
+[testing guide](../../../docs/development/testing.md). This skill supplies an optimization
 workflow, not additional permission to execute targets, publish, or merge.
 Use the current contracts, provider prerequisites, and user authorization.

+Reserve performance measurements for changes that target performance or have a
+concrete regression concern. Routine cleanup uses correctness checks and does
+not require this optimization workflow or synthetic benchmarks merely because
+helper calls, imports, or representations change.
+
 Read [the Kuna case study](references/kuna-case-study.md) when selecting a
 reuse strategy or interpreting a benchmark. Its pinned observations illustrate
 tradeoffs; they are not current-provider guarantees or universal speedups.
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: Prepare or rewrite REA release changelogs and GitHub release notes
 # REA changelog update

 Use this for release-note preparation and contributor attribution. Read
-[docs/releasing.md](../../../docs/releasing.md) from the repository root for
+[docs/development/releasing.md](../../../docs/development/releasing.md) from the repository root for
 publication authority and the existing checkpoint checks. This skill prepares
 notes; it does not authorize merging, tagging, or publishing.

@@ -68,9 +68,10 @@ closing-issue reporters. Grouping preserves all those credits in one line.
 When Highlights, detailed entries or migrations reference the same work,
 put its thanks in one of those entries, not all of them. Include issue links.
 Direct-commit bullets carry the commit link and known human credit.
-Exclude GitHub bots and known agent accounts. REA's observed Anthropic, Cursor
-and Codex co-author trailers resolve to `@claude`, `@cursoragent` and `@codex`
-with GitHub type `User`; the credit policy excludes them while retaining their metadata.
+Exclude GitHub bots and known agent accounts. REA's observed Anthropic, Cursor,
+Codex, and Copilot co-author trailers resolve to `@claude`, `@cursoragent`,
+`@codex`, and `@Copilot` with GitHub type `User`; the credit policy excludes
+them while retaining their metadata.
 At the REA maintainer's request, omit `@morluto` self-thanks while preserving
 authorship in the inventory. Other human contributors remain eligible.
 Use explicit GitHub links for cross-repository references to avoid ambiguous
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Establish which checks still catch real regressions and which costs can be
 removed without losing that protection. The outcome may be a verified fix,
 an evidence-backed recommendation, or an explicit decision to stop.

-Follow the checkout's `AGENTS.md`, [testing guide](../../../docs/testing.md),
+Follow the checkout's `AGENTS.md`, [testing guide](../../../docs/development/testing.md),
 and [contribution rules](../../../CONTRIBUTING.md). Use their current commands
 and pinned toolchain, rather than commands remembered from an earlier audit.
 Preserve the requested scope: investigation alone does not authorize edits;
@@ -1,20 +1,43 @@
 ---
 name: rea-tool-design
-description: Design or change REA investigation tools, CLI/MCP contracts, provider capabilities, and Evidence semantics.
+description: Audit, investigate, design, or change REA investigation tools, CLI/MCP contracts, provider capabilities, and Evidence semantics.
 ---

 # REA tool design

-Use the [tool-design guide](../../../docs/tool-design.md) for tool boundaries,
+Use the [tool-design guide](../../../docs/development/tool-design.md) for tool boundaries,
 contract semantics, provider ownership, and discoverability. Inspect the current
 contract and nearest existing tool relevant to the analyst question; source,
 documentation, and live catalogs may describe different versions.

+For provider-backed work, exercise the analyst's task through REA and compare
+relevant native provider and independent artifact observations where available.
+Check applicable partial results, recovery and session boundaries; report what
+was not exercised. For failure guidance, follow [design recovery around the
+failure](../../../docs/development/tool-design.md#design-recovery-around-the-failure).
+Use [workflow verification](../../../docs/development/testing.md#provider-backed-workflow-verification)
+to select evidence for the proposed contract instead of seeking provider API
+parity.
+
+For an audit, follow [audit existing tools](../../../docs/development/tool-design.md#audit-existing-tools):
+scope representative tasks, exercise the live workflow, and distinguish
+reproduced bugs, supported limitations, design opportunities and unverified
+claims. Check relevant rendered MCP prompts, guided workflows and packaged skill
+advice against the live contracts and exercise their suggested handoffs. Report
+working alternatives and evidence limits as well as findings.
+
+For wording audits and agent trials, use
+[focused tool-description trials](../../../docs/development/client-verification.md#focused-tool-description-trials).
+Start with representative workflow boundaries and repeat failures or ambiguous
+outcomes; keep actual arguments and supported final claims separate. Reuse the
+repository's evaluation tooling and report actual runtime/model versions and
+synthetic versus production coverage rather than copying a harness into a skill.
+
 For a design request, return the proposed boundary, input/result shape, Evidence
 semantics, nearest alternative, and verification approach. Implement when
 requested, preserving the user's scope and existing authorization.

-For implementation or verification, consult [testing](../../../docs/testing.md)
+For implementation or verification, consult [testing](../../../docs/development/testing.md)
 for the affected consumer and provider lanes, and
 [contributing](../../../CONTRIBUTING.md) for generated-file ownership. Read
 provider/workflow guides only as the task requires.
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 name: reverse-engineer-anything
-description: Reverse engineer native, managed, Electron/JavaScript, packaged, firmware, and browser targets with REA. Use shipped-artifact or requested runtime evidence to explain features, compare versions, decompile code, or guide a reconstruction. Skip REA for ordinary source-repository architecture analysis.
+description: Reverse engineer native, managed, Electron/JavaScript, packaged, firmware, and browser targets with REA, and build agent environments (AgentEnv bundles) of web applications from a live instance or a capture, and of Linux desktop apps with a task from a request. Use shipped-artifact or requested runtime evidence to explain features, compare versions, decompile code, or guide a reconstruction. Skip REA for ordinary source-repository architecture analysis.
 metadata:
-  version: "46"
+  version: "62"
 ---

 # REA
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ readiness or provider commands.

 Installing this skill supplies instructions; it does not register the REA MCP
 server, install analysis engines, or add tools to an already-running agent.
+The exception is a Claude Code or Codex plugin install: the plugin bundles
+this skill and registers its own `rea` server, outside the state that
+`rea setup` and `rea doctor` manage.

 If REA tools are available and their registration is not known to be stale,
 proceed directly to the target. Do not run diagnostics or setup before every
@@ -37,42 +40,23 @@ repeat or known not to have started. If it may already have changed the
 target, or it fails again, tell the user and ask them to restart the MCP
 client. If REA could not start its connection, retry once, then tell the user
 and ask them to restart the MCP client. Do not retry a startup failure that
-returns the same unchanged result. Run `rea doctor` when REA could not start
+returns the same unchanged result. For plugin installs, follow
+[plugin recovery](references/connection-and-recovery.md#rea-installed-as-a-client-plugin).
+For setup-owned registrations, run `rea doctor` when REA could not start
 or tools stay missing after that restart. For `cleanup_incomplete`, a retryable
 capacity limit, or `configuration_invalid`, follow the recovery guide's ladder
 before asking for a restart. Read that guide before a second repair attempt.

-1. Diagnose without changing REA or client configuration. `npx` may download
-   the package and write to npm's cache. For Codex, run
-   `npx -y rea-agents@latest doctor --client codex --json`. Substitute the current
-   supported client: `claude_code`, `claude_desktop`, `codex`, `cursor`,
-   `gemini_cli`, `windsurf`, `devin`, `opencode`, `antigravity`, `copilot_cli`,
-   `commandcode`, `vscode`, `grok_build`, `omp`, or `grok_bot`. `grok_bot` has no local
-   file registration: doctor reports the Grok Bot chat step, and setup does not
-   write `mcp.json`. If the client is unknown, use `doctor --json` and
-   inspect its registration results before choosing a setup scope.
-2. Distinguish the reason. Missing, malformed, or stale registration needs a
-   scoped configuration repair. An aligned registration with no tools in the
-   active session needs a restart/reconnection; doctor cannot prove that the
-   current agent has connected. A missing provider affects only tasks requiring
-   that provider: static JavaScript inspection needs neither Hopper nor Ghidra,
-   and Android inspection has separate bring-your-own JADX/Java prerequisites.
-3. For a configuration repair, prepare the read-only plan:
-   `npx -y rea-agents@latest setup --client codex --dry-run --json`.
-   Use the current client's ID, show its exact proposed paths, backups, and
-   changes, and obtain approval before setup writes configuration or installs
-   Hopper. Setup normally installs the matching bundled skill too; include that
-   replacement in the reviewed plan. After approval, apply the same scope with
-   `npx -y rea-agents@latest setup --client codex --yes`. Add `--install-hopper`
-   only if that separate installation was needed and explicitly approved.
-4. Restart/reconnect the affected agent. Verify that REA tools actually appear
-   in the session, then resume the original investigation. If they remain
-   absent, inspect the client's MCP launch error rather than repeating setup.
+Choose the installation owner before repairing registration. Plugin installs use
+[plugin recovery](references/connection-and-recovery.md#rea-installed-as-a-client-plugin);
+only setup-owned registrations use the guide's
+[registration repair plan](references/connection-and-recovery.md#repair-registration-when-needed).
+A plugin-only doctor result of `missing` does not call for `rea setup`.

 REA setup never installs or upgrades Node.js, npm, Homebrew, Java, Ghidra, IDA,
 JADX, Kuna, Binwalk, or Unblob. Use existing prerequisites; do not install unrelated
 software to repair MCP registration. For an unsupported client, use manual stdio
-registration with a version-pinned `rea-agents` package or continue through the CLI.
+registration with an existing installation’s absolute runtime and entry script, or continue through the CLI.

 A concrete CLI fallback for an operator-supplied JavaScript tree or ASAR is:

@@ -85,8 +69,11 @@ graph, limitations, and unknowns with the same care as an MCP result; the CLI
 returns the Evidence record directly. This fallback does not establish that
 MCP is configured. Native CLI tasks still require their selected engine.
 Prefer an existing `rea` CLI. When none is installed and REA package acquisition
-is within the authorized scope, use `npx -y rea-agents@latest` in its place.
-Configuration repair starts with a read-only setup plan; show paths, backups and
+is within the authorized scope, use `npx -y rea-agents@latest` in its place from a
+trusted directory outside the target project, with absolute target paths. Managed
+setup binds the current installation directly; retain its runtime and package
+cache entry, or restore that installation before repairing its registration.
+For setup-owned registration, configuration repair starts with a read-only setup plan; show paths, backups and
 skill replacement before applying authorized changes. Preserve existing approval
 and target-execution boundaries.

@@ -107,6 +94,15 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  than extra calls and schemas. Runtime options are metadata, not files.
  Compact delivery still inventories and hashes members. See the
  [Python packaged applications guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/python-packaged-applications.md).
+- Bun `--compile` executable: `open_binary`, then `inspect_artifact`; the Bun
+  module graph is the application layer. Extract stored modules and analyze the
+  JavaScript. See [Bun standalone executables](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/bun-standalone.md).
+- Deno `deno compile` executable: `open_binary`, then `inspect_artifact`; the
+  embedded virtual filesystem is the application layer. Extract stored files and
+  analyze compatible JavaScript. Environment-file values and CA certificate bytes
+  are retained in local Evidence with their counts and byte lengths. The npm
+  snapshot length is reported and not decoded, and the executable is not run. See
+  [Deno compile executables](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/deno-standalone.md).
 - Apple app plist, Interface Builder, asset catalog, or keyed archive resources:
  `open_bundle_resources`, then the selected resource tool. This does not
  require `CFBundleExecutable` or a deep provider. Resource sessions have no
@@ -118,7 +114,9 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
 - Firmware image: `inspect_firmware_regions` when advertised. Use
  `extract_firmware` when extraction is requested, with a caller-selected new
  absolute output directory. These tools use caller-supplied Binwalk/Unblob on
-  Linux; see the [firmware guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/firmware-analysis.md).
+  Linux; see the [firmware guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/firmware/firmware-analysis.md).
+- ESP32-family app or bootloader image (`0xE9` magic): `inspect_artifact`
+  without a provider; see the ESP section of `references/native-and-artifacts.md`.
 - .NET NativeAOT PE/ELF: native Ghidra analysis. Native code can yield pseudocode;
  consult the NativeAOT workflow in `references/native-and-artifacts.md` for
  optional metadata recovery and its supported host/layout boundary.
@@ -129,10 +127,29 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  cleanup effects, and do not require a preliminary static session unless their
  own contract says so.
 - User-owned browser page already open: `list_browser_targets`.
+- Passive traffic capture of a SPA: the default scope is the page's own origin,
+  and data APIs usually live on another origin. Discover API origins from
+  absolute URLs in loaded bundles or script text via JavaScript analysis tools
+  (another passive capture without those origins still scopes to the page
+  origin, and `completeness.excluded` counts lack URLs). Pass both the page
+  origin and those API origins in `allowed_origins` — the list replaces the
+  default scope — and read `completeness.excluded` before reporting that an
+  API is absent. For long captures with body shapes, use
+  `export_evidence_bundle` instead of expecting an inline result.
 - Browser action the agent must perform (click, type, navigate):
  `capture_browser_scenario` with declared actions. See
  [runtime observation](references/runtime-observation.md) for connect/launch
  and the focused follow-up browser tools.
+- Agent environment (AgentEnv bundle) of a web application: read
+  [environments](references/environments.md) before recording; it records with
+  `capture_browser_scenario` and writes the bundle with `export_environment_bundle`.
+- Task for a desktop application's exported environment, from a
+  `capture-desktop-application` folder: read
+  [desktop application tasks](references/environments.md#tasks-for-a-desktop-application-environment).
+- Environment of a Linux desktop app with a task, from a request such as
+  "build me an Inkscape environment where the agent changes a poster's
+  headline": read [desktop builds](references/desktop-build.md). You drive the
+  app on a build computer from `start_build_computer`, then export and witness.
 - Fiddler Everywhere traffic or a native `.saz` capture: read the
  [Fiddler workflow](references/runtime-observation.md#fiddler-everywhere-traffic-debugging).
  Inspect saved SAZ with `inspect_web_network_capture` and `format: "saz"`;
@@ -143,7 +160,7 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  old-generation heap is `REA_CAPTURE_DECODER_OLD_GENERATION_MIB` (default 192 MiB,
  floor 8, maximum 16384), set where REA starts. Host memory and `NODE_OPTIONS` do not
  raise it. See
-  [historical captures](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/web-network-captures.md) for the exact upstream
+  [historical captures](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/web/web-network-captures.md) for the exact upstream
  profile and credential exclusions. Qlog support starts with aioquic 1.5.0
  JSON 0.3; stream coverage and endpoint loss declarations do not recover bodies
  or establish network loss. Prefer detail summary, then kind qlog trace/stream
@@ -155,8 +172,10 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  and field names/types before choosing fields for `inspect_packet_capture`.
  Query/page the relevant records; registrations do not establish observed traffic.
 - Recorded packet captures: `inspect_packet_capture` with selected TShark fields,
-  display filters and decode-as rules. Requires Linux, util-linux prlimit and `REA_TSHARK_COMMAND`; see
-  [capture guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/packet-captures.md).
+  display filters and decode-as rules. Requires Linux, util-linux prlimit and
+  TShark 4.x on an absolute `PATH` entry or via the optional absolute
+  `REA_TSHARK_COMMAND` override; see
+  [capture guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/data/packet-captures.md).
  Packet limits count input packets before filtering. Output defaults to 50 matching
  frames; use `match_offset` / `match_limit` for later pages, or explicit null
  limit for complete matching output. Preserve the source digest across pages.
@@ -164,7 +183,7 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  For address/DNS/SNI/protocol summaries use `inspect_pcap_capture` with MCP
  detail summary, then retained kind pcap pages. Requires Wireshark 4.x tshark
  and capinfos, with Linux prlimit or Windows Job Objects; see
-  [packet summaries](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/pcap-analysis.md).
+  [packet summaries](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/data/pcap-analysis.md).
  Select an exact DNS question for address pages; page exhaustion does not prove
  network completeness. This reads recordings and does not acquire traffic.
 - Decoder discovery: `inspect_signal_decoders` searches installed decoder IDs
@@ -172,7 +191,7 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  relevant details before choosing settings; this does not scan hardware.
 - Recorded logic/signal traces: `decode_signal_recording` with explicit decoder,
  channel and protocol settings. On Linux with util-linux prlimit, supply sigrok-cli 0.7.2 through
-  `REA_SIGROK_COMMAND`; see [recording guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/signal-recordings.md).
+  `REA_SIGROK_COMMAND`; see [recording guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/signals/signal-recordings.md).
  Output defaults to 50 literal lines; select annotation classes and page with
  `line_offset` / `line_limit`, or explicit null for all remaining output.
  Window counts are display lines, not annotations or samples. Preserve source digests across pages.
@@ -181,7 +200,7 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  through `REA_WABT_BIN_DIRECTORY`; retain exact byte/tool identity and decoded WAT.
  Select JavaScript glue and candidate paths explicitly and preserve URL/path
  ambiguity. No implicit fetch or target execution; WAT is not original source.
-  See the [WASM guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/wasm-artifacts.md).
+  See the [WASM guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/wasm/wasm-artifacts.md).
 - Explicit local Android APK (or ZIP/AAB) signing: `inspect_apk_signature`.
  Prefer its summary or selected signer/digest/lineage page; retain complete
  Evidence and use `inspect_analysis_view` kind `apk-signature` for follow-ups.
@@ -200,13 +219,17 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  Evidence stays retained under its original identity. Use the returned
  `parent_evidence_id` for exact function or `bytecode_hex`/stdout/stderr pages.
  Candidate coverage does not establish interface completeness. See the
-  [EVM bytecode guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/evm-bytecode.md).
- Embedded Go compiler, module or build-setting metadata: `inspect_go_binary`
-  with the explicit local file. This built-in target-free inspection requires no
-  Go installation or disassembler. Preserve raw module bytes and source ranges;
-  absent metadata does not prove a binary is not Go, and unparsed text records
-  remain explicit. See the
-  [Go binary guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/go-binaries.md).
+  [EVM bytecode guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/evm/evm-bytecode.md).
+- Embedded Go compiler, module, build-setting metadata, or static `(ptr, len)`
+  string literals: `inspect_go_binary` with the explicit local file (pass
+  `include_string_literals: true` and optional `max_string_literals` for bounded
+  inferred static string-header recovery, and page retained rows with
+  `inspect_analysis_view` kind `go` collection `string_literals`). This built-in
+  target-free inspection requires no Go installation or disassembler. Preserve
+  raw module bytes and source ranges; absent metadata does not prove a binary is
+  not Go, static string recovery excludes compiler-inlined stack or immediate
+  strings, and unparsed text records remain explicit. See the
+  [Go binary guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/go-binaries.md).
 - Embedded CUDA/HIP code objects: `inspect_gpu_code_objects`; inventory targets
  first, then decode selected payloads and query retained GPU Evidence.
 - Bundled GGUF or safetensors model declarations: `inspect_model_artifact`
@@ -259,12 +282,54 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  proof the image never imported APIs through another table. Bound snapshots
  and loaded IAT contents remain unobserved. See the
  [PE import guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/pe-imports.md).
+- Windows Shell Link shortcuts: `inspect_windows_shortcut` with the explicit
+  local `.lnk` file. This built-in target-free inspection requires no Windows
+  SDK or COM. Preserve header flags and FILETIMEs, IDList items, LinkInfo
+  volume and network names, StringData arguments and icon location, ExtraData
+  signatures, and Tracker droid facts labelled derived. Unknown IDList items
+  and ExtraData signatures stay raw with SHA-256. The target path is not
+  resolved or executed. See the
+  [Windows shortcut guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/windows-shortcut.md).
+- PE TLS callbacks and load configuration: `inspect_pe_load_config` with the
+  explicit local PE32/PE32+ file. This built-in target-free inspection requires
+  no Windows SDK. Preserve callback VAs as strings with their RVA, file offset
+  and section, and the size-covered security cookie, SafeSEH, CFG,
+  EH-continuation and XFG fields. Guard-flag mitigation claims are inferred
+  linker declarations, not proof of enforcement. A missing directory is observed
+  absence of that declaration. See the
+  [PE load configuration guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/pe-load-config.md).
+- ELF, PE, and Mach-O hardening: `inspect_binary_hardening` with the explicit
+  local file. This built-in target-free inspection requires no pwntools or other
+  host tool. One image per Mach-O slice. Each property is `enabled`, `disabled`,
+  `partial`, `unknown`, or `not_applicable`, with the header field or import
+  behind it. A missing stack-protector or fortify import is `unknown`, not
+  proof the protection was omitted. Authenticode and Mach-O code signatures
+  report presence, not validity. Hardened runtime stays unknown and names
+  `inspect_signature`. The image is not executed. See the
+  [binary hardening guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/binary-hardening.md).
 - ELF note tables: `inspect_elf_notes` with the explicit local ELF32/ELF64
  file. This built-in target-free inspection requires no disassembler. Preserve
  PT_NOTE and SHT_NOTE ranges, owners, types, descriptor SHA-256, and GNU
  build-id or ABI-tag fields. A missing table is observed absence of those
  declarations, not proof the image never carried notes. See the
  [ELF notes guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/elf-notes.md).
+- Code that runs before `main` or at exit in ELF or Mach-O:
+  `inspect_native_initializers` with the explicit local file (and
+  `architecture` for a universal Mach-O). This built-in inspection requires no
+  disassembler. Preserve slot and target addresses, the `resolution` of each
+  entry, and its limitations. An `unresolved` slot is not a zero pointer, and a
+  missing table is not proof that no constructor exists. See the
+  [initializer guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/native-initializers.md).
+
+- ELF unwind function ranges: `inspect_elf_unwind_ranges` with the explicit
+  local ELF32/ELF64 file. This built-in target-free inspection requires no
+  disassembler. Preserve FDE start, end, size, containing section, exact
+  symbol name, CIE index, LSDA, and personality. Page with `offset` and
+  `limit`. A missing `.eh_frame` is observed absence of that declaration,
+  not proof the image has no functions. `.debug_frame` is reported present
+  or absent and is not decoded. CFA instructions are counted and not
+  evaluated. See the
+  [ELF unwind ranges guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/elf-unwind-ranges.md).
 - Apple `.ips` crash reports: `inspect_apple_ips` with the explicit local
  file. This built-in target-free inspection requires no Xcode, atos, or
  pwntools. Preserve first-line metadata, `bug_type` as a string, process and
@@ -273,6 +338,26 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  body; other types, including `"288"` stackshots, return no crash result.
  Opened Mach-O and dSYM UUID joins remain unobserved. See the
  [Apple IPS guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/apple-ips.md).
+- Linux kernel module metadata: `inspect_kernel_module` with the explicit local
+  ELF32/ELF64 relocatable file. This built-in target-free inspection requires
+  no Linux host or `modinfo`. Preserve `.modinfo` key order and duplicate keys,
+  `__versions` CRC hex, section file ranges, and the appended signature
+  trailer's PKCS#7 SHA-256. A missing section is observed absence when section
+  names are known, not proof the module never carried that metadata.
+  `struct module` is not decoded. The signature is not validated. gzip, xz, and
+  zstd containers are unsupported; decompress into a separate file with an
+  external codec utility, then inspect the decompressed `ET_REL` image. See the
+  [kernel module guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/kernel-modules.md).
+- Linux kernel version and build config (`CONFIG_*` options such as
+  `CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX`): `inspect_kernel_build_config` with the explicit
+  local `vmlinux`, raw `Image`, x86 `bzImage`, or `configs.ko`. This built-in
+  target-free inspection requires no Linux host or `extract-ikconfig`. Preserve
+  the banner version, config SHA-256, option count, and value kinds; use `name`
+  for one option. An `IKCFG_ST` string is a config only with a valid gzip member
+  and `IKCFG_ED`. An absent config may mean the kernel was built without
+  `CONFIG_IKCONFIG`. Non-gzip payloads are unsupported; decompress externally,
+  then inspect the result. See the
+  [kernel build config guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/kernel-build-config.md).
 - CPython 3.7–3.13 `.pyc` header, nested marshal code objects and bytecode
  identity: `inspect_python_pyc` with the explicit local file. This built-in
  target-free inspection requires no Python installation. Preserve magic,
@@ -296,17 +381,17 @@ explicit path or endpoint and do not need it.
  20 rows; request `schema_scope: "database"` for the complete stored schema. Preserve both database and existing sibling WAL identity; row samples
  report truncation and have unspecified order. Use a quiescent snapshot rather
  than assuming a live database/WAL pair was copied atomically. See the
-  [SQLite guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/sqlite-databases.md).
+  [SQLite guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/data/sqlite-databases.md).
 - Explicit Linux ELF file for offline layout, symbols, relocations or static
  mitigation evidence: `inspect_binary_layout`. This target-free operation uses
  caller-supplied pwntools without opening a disassembler database. Preserve its
  raw locations and inference/coverage limits; see the
-  [offline binary guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/binary-diagnostics.md).
+  [offline binary guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/binary-diagnostics.md).
 - Supplied Linux x86-64 ELF core: `inspect_recorded_crash`. Read every recorded
  thread, raw note and source-bound register without opening a live target.
  Historical PIDs do not select live processes. Request `include_debugger_context`
  only when core-only mapping candidates help; see the
-  [recorded crash guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/recorded-crashes.md).
+  [recorded crash guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/recorded-crashes.md).
 - PE resource type/name/language trees and static icon group references:
  `inspect_pe_resources` with an explicit path. This portable operation requires
  no active target or engine; opaque payloads retain file ranges and SHA-256.
@@ -322,7 +407,12 @@ The legacy attached profile binds the already-open GUI input by SHA-256 and
 leaves its database open. The modern headless profile creates and closes an
 owned private database without saving. Installation and registration reuse
 [mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp](https://github.com/mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp); see the
-[IDA provider guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/ida-provider.md).
+[IDA provider guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/providers/ida-provider.md).
+For migration to the separate native IDA MCP plugin, follow the guide's
+[legacy attached migration](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/providers/ida-provider.md#migrate-a-legacy-attached-registration).
+Replace the upstream registration explicitly; modern mrexodia tools are not the
+native profile. Native attachment preserves the database but does not provide
+direct callers; check session availability and the guide's verification limits.
 Proceed directly to `analyze_function`, pseudocode, or function/string searches
 after opening; IDA does not supply `binary_overview`. Consult session availability
 when composing broader workflows. Modern direct callers and unsupported dossier
@@ -353,18 +443,28 @@ native target whose analysis tool operates on the active target. Do not call an
 unadvertised tool; inspect `binary_session` with `{}` and its
 `result.tool_availability` for availability reasons and remediation. Expand each
 group's `names` into entries, inheriting the inventory-level client requirements
-unless the group overrides them. In its closed effect and annotation vocabularies,
-listed flags are true and omitted known flags are false. The grouped name union
-is the complete tool inventory; use `tools/list` for canonical tool schemas.
-Provider candidate facts describe possible providers, while top-level session
-capabilities describe the current route and `analysis_provider_binding` names the
-selected provider. Do not treat those scopes as interchangeable.
+unless the group overrides them. The grouped name union is the complete tool
+inventory; use `tools/list` for canonical tool schemas. The default summary keeps
+each provider candidate's availability and target-support status, code and
+reason; `omitted_fields` lists what it leaves out. Request `{"detail": "complete"}`
+only when you need an unavailable candidate's remediation, provider
+diagnostics, candidate capability sets, or tool surface, effect and annotation
+flags; in those closed flag vocabularies, listed
+flags are true and omitted known flags are false. Provider candidate facts
+describe possible providers, while top-level session capabilities describe the
+current route and `analysis_provider_binding` names the selected provider. Do
+not treat those scopes as interchangeable.
+
+For editable Ghidra analysis that must survive a later agent process, select
+the [owned Program checkpoint workflow](references/native-and-artifacts.md#continue-editable-ghidra-analysis-across-processes)
+before making metadata edits. It is separate from Evidence/Unknown persistence.

 For a Ghidra startup timeout on a large native target, follow
 [deadline recovery](references/native-and-artifacts.md#ghidra-startup-deadline-recovery)
 before abandoning deep analysis or repeating the same cold import. The default
-330 seconds is configurable; changing the server's environment requires a new
-REA process.
+330 seconds can be changed for new startup attempts through
+`update_analysis_settings` using `ghidra.startup_timeout_ms`. Changing the
+server's launch environment instead requires a new REA process.

 ## Work summary-first

@@ -376,9 +476,18 @@ call `analyze_javascript_application` or `inspect_binary_layout` with
 a flag: its default reply is the summary, and the complete dossier stays
 retained under `parent_evidence_id` for facet paging. Pass that ID as a
 `retained-evidence` reference to `compare_functions`, or inside
-`match_native_functions` `left_observations`/`right_observations`; request
-`"detail": "complete"` only when the dossier must travel inline, as
-`build_call_path` requires.
+`match_native_functions` `left_observations`/`right_observations` or
+`build_call_path.functions`; request `"detail": "complete"` only when the
+dossier must travel inline.
+Use the same exact-reference form in other advertised logical Evidence inputs,
+including optional sources, arrays and nested sources across domains. Each
+source can independently be inline or retained; preserve its source identity,
+coverage, partial facts and unknowns. A summary or inspection page has its own
+Evidence ID: use `normalized_result.parent_evidence_id` when the consumer needs
+the complete source. For portable CLI follow-ups, commands advertising
+`--evidence-bundle` resolve references from that selected exported bundle.
+See [Evidence composition](references/evidence-workflows.md) for scope and
+recovery; file selectors are supported only where explicitly advertised.
 Page module identities and select the returned `node_id` before requesting an
 item; a single file path can represent several graph roles. Do not repeat an
 identical analysis or rejected call without a changed input or resolved blocker.
@@ -397,7 +506,10 @@ output also streams without a single MCP frame.
 When the retained parent ID is unknown, use `get_evidence_bundle` with
 `detail: "summary"` and exact filters for operation, target SHA-256,
 analysis-profile digest or canonical procedure address. Select its returned
-Evidence ID for the next view instead of requesting the complete bundle.
+Evidence ID for the next view instead of requesting the complete bundle. When
+that record has no supported view (for example an annotation), read it with
+`detail: "records"` and an `evidence_id` filter; `missing_evidence_links`
+names linked sources this session does not retain.
 `retention: "complete-record"` means the whole record is stored; native
 value-flow truncation and unknown metadata remain separate. For an exported
 portable bundle, use `rea inspect-evidence-bundle` with JSON containing `path`,
@@ -471,10 +583,21 @@ as complete while required questions remain open.
  [references/runtime-observation.md](references/runtime-observation.md)
 - Evidence paging, comparisons, residual unknowns, and verification:
  [references/evidence-workflows.md](references/evidence-workflows.md)
+- Agent environments (AgentEnv bundles) of a web application, recorded from
+  a live instance or a HAR:
+  [references/environments.md](references/environments.md)
+- Tasks for a desktop application's exported environment:
+  [references/environments.md](references/environments.md#tasks-for-a-desktop-application-environment)
+- A desktop app environment from a request, built and witnessed on build
+  computers: [references/desktop-build.md](references/desktop-build.md)

 ## Finish the task

 Explain findings in plain language and tie them to returned evidence. When the
 user asks to build something, use normal coding tools and separate observed
 behavior from design choices. Close an opened native session with
-`close_binary` when the investigation is complete.
+`close_binary` when its engine is no longer needed. Evidence references and Unknown
+history remain in memory on the same MCP connection. End the investigation with
+`reset_investigation`; supply `save_path` to checkpoint the complete bundle before
+clearing. Import the saved bundle to restore original references and Unknown
+history in a new process. Retention is bounded and is not automatic persistence.
@@ -13,6 +13,27 @@ own APK path and explicit selectors; do not open a native session first.
 Choose an `overload_index` from the class inventory when methods are ambiguous
 instead of guessing.

+For JNI implementations, discover `inspect_android_jni_bindings`. Select raw
+DEX class/method identities and optional descriptors, ABI or logical library
+paths. Prefer `detail: "summary"`; complete Evidence remains retained and
+`android-jni` views page declarations, libraries, candidates or binding rows
+with exact fields. Global native-pair ambiguity survives class selection.
+Preserve slot/relocation provenance and source coverage: matched means observed
+candidate presence; partial scans do not establish uniqueness or absence.
+This reads DEX/ELF bytes without loading the APK into the decompiler or executing
+target code. Runtime registration and loading remain unknown. See the
+[JNI guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/android/android-analysis.md#link-native-declarations-to-jni-candidates).
+
+For an R8/ProGuard release build with its `mapping.txt`, pass the absolute
+`mapping_path` to `inspect_android_class` or `inspect_android_method`. Prefer
+`detail: "summary"` to receive normalized symbols or the selected body without
+duplicate raw class metadata. Complete Evidence stays retained under the linked
+parent ID and can be exported; CLI summary delivery requires `--evidence_output`.
+Omitted or complete detail preserves the full inline response. Keep
+selecting by observed names; the separate `mapping` block reports each symbol
+as `mapped`, `ambiguous` or `unmapped` after checking DEX types and prototypes.
+REA does not verify that the mapping belongs to the APK build.
+
 The provider requires a separately supplied headless JADX MCP JAR 0.7.1 and
 Java 17 or newer. `REA_JADX_MCP_JAR` selects the absolute JAR path; `JAVA_HOME`
 can select Java. Use `rea doctor --provider jadx --json` to check the JADX
@@ -28,8 +49,11 @@ stdio. A full JDK, including `jdk.compiler`, is required on every host; Windows
 verification coverage. Calls use one worker and provider deadlines; optional
 `REA_JADX_HEAP_MIB` selects the JVM heap and `REA_JADX_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS`
 the per-operation deadline (integer milliseconds from 1 to 2147483647, default
-120000; a change applies on the next process start; the MCP client's tool
-timeout must also allow it). The APK is never launched,
+120000). To change that deadline on a running MCP server, set
+`jadx.operation_timeout_ms` through `update_analysis_settings`, then retry after
+work and cleanup settle. Newly accepted operations use the override; accepted
+work keeps its budget. Changing the launch environment requires a new process.
+The MCP client's tool timeout must also allow the selected deadline. The APK is never launched,
 and no emulator is required.

 Manifest entries and decompiled text are static observations, not execution or
@@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ main and an older release expose the same arguments. Tool-name prefixes belong
 to the client: find the canonical REA operation in its actual tool listing and
 server association before concluding that it is absent. A shared prefix alone
 does not establish which server an approval wildcard covers. See
-[client tool names and discovery](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/client-configuration.md#client-tool-names-and-discovery).
+[client tool names and discovery](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/getting-started/client-configuration.md#client-tool-names-and-discovery).

 ## Choose the remedy from the observed failure

 | Observation                                                     | Meaning and next step                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | --------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| No REA tools in the active session                              | Inspect registration with `rea doctor --client codex --json`. A skill installation alone does not register MCP.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| No REA tools in the active session                              | If REA was installed as a client plugin, follow the plugin section below. Otherwise inspect registration with `rea doctor --client codex --json`. A skill installation alone does not register MCP.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
 | Missing, malformed or stale registration                        | Prepare a scoped setup plan; apply only authorized changes with backups.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
 | Aligned registration, but no connected tools                    | Restart/reconnect the client. Doctor checks registration; it cannot establish the current agent's connection. Inspect the client's launch error if reconnection fails.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | MCP connection dropped or REA could not start                   | If the connection drops, retry that call once only when it is safe to repeat or known not to have started. If it may already have changed the target, or the same failure returns, tell the user REA's connection failed and ask them to restart the MCP client. If REA could not start its connection, retry once, then tell the user and ask them to restart the MCP client. Do not retry a startup failure that returns the same unchanged result. Run `rea doctor` when REA could not start or tools stay missing after restart. Doctor cannot restore a live connection by itself. |
 | `MCP tool call requires approval, but approval policy is never` | Codex rejected the call before REA executed it. Do not install an engine or repeat setup to solve this client-policy decision. See the approval section below.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
-| REA returns `provider_unavailable` or an unavailable tool entry | Read that operation's provider diagnostics or `binary_session.result.tool_availability`. Expand each group's tool names and inherit the shared client requirements unless overridden. Use the operation's availability, reason, and remediation; a complete tool catalog does not imply every operation is available.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| REA returns `provider_unavailable` or an unavailable tool entry | Read that operation's provider diagnostics or `binary_session.result.tool_availability`. Expand each group's tool names and inherit the shared client requirements unless overridden. Use the operation's availability, reason, and remediation; a complete tool catalog does not imply every operation is available. Request `{"detail": "complete"}` only for provider diagnostics.                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | `rea` is missing in a child shell, or Node is incompatible      | Inspect the actual shell PATH and launcher/runtime. A prefix installation may be absent from a login shell's PATH; this does not establish a broken MCP registration.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

 If the client cannot launch its shell/sandbox helper or read the installed skill,
@@ -116,6 +116,32 @@ is not a recommendation to change it. Do not invent a setting. Host memory and
 - `invalid_request`: correct the reported fields from the current schema. Do
  not repeat the unchanged call.

+## REA installed as a client plugin
+
+A Claude Code or Codex plugin owns its `rea` server and this skill. Doctor's
+`--client` and `--skill` checks and `rea setup` read and write only
+setup-owned state, so for a plugin-only install they report `missing`, and
+applying setup would add a second `rea` server. If this skill was loaded from
+a plugin, or the client lists a `rea` plugin, do not prepare a setup plan for
+missing tools. Instead:
+
+- Check that the plugin is installed and enabled with the client's own
+  listing: `claude plugin list` and `/mcp` in Claude Code, `codex plugin list`
+  in Codex.
+- Restart or reconnect the client, then read its launch error for the `rea`
+  server if tools are still absent. The plugin starts its bundled runtime; a missing build or version mismatch
+  requires a reinstall, or a fresh build when developing from source.
+- Check analysis engines through the connected server's
+  `binary_session.result.tool_availability`. `rea doctor --provider <id> --json`
+  from a shell reports that shell's environment, which can differ from the
+  environment the client gave the plugin server. If you still run it through
+  the package runner, use the version pinned in the plugin manifest's server
+  entry (`rea-agents@<version>`), not `@latest`, so it matches the server the
+  plugin starts.
+
+Use the setup repair below only when the user wants a setup-owned registration
+instead of the plugin, and remove or disable the plugin first.
+
 ## Repair registration when needed

 For Codex:
@@ -128,9 +154,12 @@ rea setup --client codex --dry-run --json
 Use the current supported client's ID: `claude_code`, `claude_desktop`, `codex`,
 `cursor`, `gemini_cli`, `windsurf`, `devin`, `opencode`, `antigravity`,
 `copilot_cli`, `commandcode`, `qwen_code`, `vscode`, `trae`, `grok_build`, `omp`, `pi`,
-`hermes`, `qoder`, `droid`, `zcode`, `dsh`, or `grok_bot`. If unknown, inspect `doctor --json` before choosing a
+`hermes`, `qoder`, `droid`, `zcode`, `dsh`, `freebuff`, or `grok_bot`. If unknown, inspect `doctor --json` before choosing a
 scope. `grok_bot` uses a chat registration step rather than local `mcp.json`.
-For unsupported clients, use version-pinned manual stdio registration or CLI.
+For unsupported clients, use manual stdio registration with the selected
+installation’s absolute runtime and entry script, or continue through the CLI.
+Acquire packages from a trusted directory outside the target project. Keep a
+package-runner installation and its runtime available while registrations use it.

 Show the plan's exact paths, backups, changes and bundled-skill replacement.
 Obtain approval for writes when that concrete scope is not already authorized,
@@ -175,6 +204,17 @@ writing. Managed policy can constrain client settings. Consult the
 for the installed client's supported settings. This is an optional recovery
 choice, not a prerequisite for every REA task.

+## Repair an editable REA limit
+
+If `details.limit` names an editable setting and its bounds, call
+`update_analysis_settings` directly with a `changes` entry containing `setting`,
+`action: "set"` and `value`. `inspect_analysis_settings` is optional when those
+facts are already present. Retry the same input after work and cleanup settle.
+Runtime defaults affect new work only; explicit per-call arguments take
+precedence and must be corrected directly when selected. Reset restores launch
+values. Updates survive target close/open but disappear on REA restart. They do
+not edit host deadlines, response buffers, registrations or fixed limits.
+
 ## Continue through an installed CLI

 Check the command environment only if the launcher fails:
@@ -0,0 +1,860 @@
+# Desktop app environments from a request
+
+Use this when someone asks for an environment of a Linux desktop app with a
+task, such as "Build me an Inkscape environment where the agent changes a
+poster's headline and saves it". You are the building agent: you drive the
+app on a build computer through REA's MCP tools, write the task, export the
+bundle and witness it in a fresh computer. REA runs no model. The tools are
+MCP-only and need a Linux host with Docker, agentenv and REA's packed
+runtime. When a start reports one missing, tell the person to run
+`rea doctor --provider desktop_build` and apply its fixes, or
+`rea setup --client <client> --desktop-build` and restart the client, and
+stop.
+
+For the whole build:
+
+- Drive the app only with `act_on_build_computer`. Never script it, run
+  commands in the computer or write its files another way. The one command
+  you write for the computer is a task's reader, which REA runs to check a
+  file; it never makes the seed or the edit.
+- Ask the upfront questions once, then work on your own. Pause only when
+  blocked.
+- The seed's content is synthetic. Never put real personal data in it.
+- Close every computer you start, on success and on failure.
+- Note the time you start; the report gives the build time.
+
+## Ask once, upfront
+
+In one message, ask only what the request leaves open, and keep the list for
+the report. Skip each question the request answers; when it answers them all,
+start without asking:
+
+1. The app and the task, if either is unclear: what changes, in which
+   document.
+2. Whether they have a starting file of their own; otherwise you make one.
+3. Whether they want the tasks measured after the witness: with which
+   model, within which budget, and whether to harden a task until it lands
+   in the band.
+4. If so, whether they want to review the tasks before those solves.
+
+When you cannot ask, as in a headless `claude -p` run, do not stop: take
+these defaults for whatever the request leaves open, say which you took in
+your first message and in the report, and go on. Install from the Ubuntu
+archive, make a synthetic seed, skip the review, and measure each task
+within $4 in all, with the model the request names, without hardening.
+
+## When you are blocked
+
+Stop, say what you need and wait only for:
+
+- a licence the app or its installer asks someone to accept: never accept it
+  on your own; name it and where to read it, and go on only once the person
+  says they accept it. Then record their words with `record_build_consent`,
+  kind `licence`, and accept it on their behalf;
+- credentials: ask the person to write each secret, and nothing else, in a
+  file named after a handle you choose, such as `keepassxc-master`, in
+  `~/.config/rea/build-secrets/` on this host (under `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` when
+  it is set), readable only by them (`chmod 600`), and wait until they say it
+  is there; then type it with `type_secret` (see Drive the app). Never ask
+  for a password or key in chat, and never read, list or print that folder;
+- a signed-in state in the seed: by default the export withholds it (see
+  Sign-in and licence state). Seed it only when the person says the bundle
+  may hold it: record their words with `record_build_consent`, kind
+  `seed_sign_in`, and export with `seed_sign_in: true`;
+- an install this flow cannot do, below.
+
+Decide everything else yourself and note it in the report.
+
+## Sign-in and licence state
+
+What an app writes when someone signs in or activates a licence is withheld
+from the seed: the bundle's receiver supplies their own. Mark
+`pre-sign-in` with `mark_build_checkpoint` just before the sign-in or
+activation and `post-sign-in` just after, both before `seed`: every file
+under the owned paths that changed between them is withheld, and the draft
+leaves it out. A file the app writes at first launch, such as a trial's
+licence file, changes before you can mark anything: name it in
+`export_build_environment`'s `withhold`. The export lists each withheld file
+in `withheld_files` with the environment variable a deploy reads it from and
+the handle of the secret REA keeps its bytes in; a check may not name one.
+The export refuses a seed file holding a withheld file's exact bytes, such as
+a `.bak` copy, but a backup that differs from it is not caught: trash backups
+before `seed`.
+Explicitly withhold any other files the person identifies as sensitive;
+REA does not infer secrecy from a value's shape or a file name.
+
+## Choose the install
+
+The computer is Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) on this host's architecture only. Use
+the first source that has the app:
+
+| Source                       | `install`                                                                                   |
+| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Ubuntu archive               | `{"kind": "archive", "package": "inkscape"}`                                                |
+| PPA or vendor apt repository | `{"kind": "apt_repository", "package", "uri", "suite", "components", "key_file"}`           |
+| `.deb` by URL                | `{"kind": "package_file", "url", "sha256", "architecture", "dependencies"}`                 |
+| AppImage by URL              | `{"kind": "appimage", "url", "sha256", "architecture", "extra_packages"}`                   |
+| Tarball by URL               | `{"kind": "tarball", "url", "sha256", "architecture", "program", "name", "extra_packages"}` |
+
+- A PPA's `uri` is `https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/OWNER/NAME/ubuntu`,
+  `suite` `noble`, `components` `["main"]`. `key_file` is the repository's
+  signing key saved on this host; for a PPA, fetch it from
+  keyserver.ubuntu.com by the fingerprint its Launchpad page shows.
+- When the app exits at launch for want of a runtime piece its package does
+  not install, start a new build computer with that package in
+  `extra_packages`, up to 16 archive names; the export installs them too.
+  MyPaint needs
+  `{"kind": "archive", "package": "mypaint", "extra_packages": ["librsvg2-common"]}`
+  for its SVG icons, and Freeplane `["openjdk-17-jre"]`, since its launcher
+  refuses noble's Java 21. Name one up front, too, when a package the app
+  only recommends holds its content, such as QElectroTech's element library
+  `qelectrotech-data`, without which no component can be placed.
+- Take the `.deb` path only when the app is not in the archive at all, not
+  to add a package. Ask the requester for its URL and SHA-256; do not fetch
+  a vendor's download page yourself. List its `Depends` as `dependencies`,
+  with any runtime piece it lacks: it installs with the network off.
+- Take an AppImage or a tarball only when no package has the app. Pin it by
+  the release file's URL for this host's architecture and the SHA-256 its
+  project publishes, such as a GitHub release asset's digest or the
+  release's `SHA256SUMS`; ask the requester when the project publishes none.
+  The computer downloads it when the bundle is put, refuses other bytes, and
+  unpacks it under `/opt/rea-apps/<desktop_entry>` with the network off; the
+  export downloads the same file.
+- An AppImage installs its own desktop entry, so `desktop_entry` is the
+  `.desktop` file at the top of the image, such as FreeCAD's
+  `org.freecad.FreeCAD`. A wrong name fails the start with the entries the
+  image has: start again with one of them. The image brings its libraries,
+  so `extra_packages` is rarely needed; FreeCAD 1.1.4's needs none.
+- A tarball has no entry of its own. `program` is the program's path inside
+  the archive, such as `firefox/firefox`; REA writes an entry named
+  `desktop_entry` that runs it with the files it opens, and `name` is what
+  the Applications menu shows. A tarball uses the computer's libraries: name
+  what its program lacks in `extra_packages`. gzip, bzip2 and xz archives
+  are read, zstd ones are not.
+- Flatpak and snaps are not supported: say so and stop. Flatpak's sandbox
+  needs user namespaces the computer's container does not grant, so a
+  Flathub app installs but never opens; ask for the project's AppImage,
+  tarball or `.deb` when it ships one. An archive package that only installs
+  a snap, such as noble's `firefox`, counts as a snap. A package with no
+  build for this host's architecture (some PPAs are amd64 only) cannot be
+  installed either.
+- `desktop_entry` is the package's `.desktop` file name under
+  `/usr/share/applications` without `.desktop`, such as
+  `org.inkscape.Inkscape`. Add `window_class` when you know it; Inkscape's
+  is `Inkscape`. AbiWord's entry is `abiword` and its class `Abiword`.
+- To find the entry, read the package's file list: its page on
+  packages.ubuntu.com, or `apt-get download PKG && dpkg -c PKG_*.deb` where
+  apt runs. The entry may ship in a companion `-data` or `-common` package,
+  as Planner's in `planner-data`: read that package's list too. The entry's `StartupWMClass` may not be the window's real
+  class, so do not take `window_class` from it: MuseScore 3's says
+  `mscore3`, its window's is `MuseScore3`. The export uses the class the
+  capture saw.
+
+## Drive the app
+
+- Pass `computer_id` and the action's fields at the top level: click
+  `{x, y, count}`, scroll `{x, y, direction, amount}`, a screenshot region
+  `[x0, y0, x1, y1]`. The rest are in
+  [the build-computer guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/desktop-build-computer.md).
+- Take a `screenshot` before pointing: points are pixels of the latest
+  frame. If a response is too large, ask for a `region`, or `jpeg` with a
+  lower `quality`. A screenshot with `region` does not capture the screen
+  again; it crops the latest frame, so take a full screenshot, or a `wait`
+  with `screenshot: true`, first. The crop then becomes the latest frame:
+  take a full screenshot before pointing again.
+- A drawn caret does not prove keyboard focus. After using a toolbar
+  control, click into the document, then type a few characters and look
+  before a long text.
+- Confirm a dialog with `key` Return, not a trailing `\n` in `type`.
+- An action's own screenshot is taken at once. After opening a menu, a
+  dialog or a window, look with
+  `{"action": "wait", "ms": 500, "screenshot": true}`.
+- On a computer started from a request the app is not open at first, and
+  `start_build_capture` opens it: never open it yourself before that. Do not
+  close it while capturing; the capture ends when the app exits. When the
+  app is closed at any other time, open it from Applications → Other → the
+  environment's name.
+- Type a secret with `{"action": "type_secret", "secret": "<handle>"}`,
+  only into a field that masks what is typed: check in a screenshot that it
+  is a password field, which shows dots. A screenshot shows any field that
+  shows its text, such as many licence-key boxes, so never type a secret into
+  one: say the app needs a secret the build cannot type unseen, and stop.
+  `type_secret` takes no `screenshot`; look with a `wait` after it. A refusal
+  names the secret's file and what is wrong with it: tell the person, never
+  the value.
+- Prefer shortcuts and typing to long pointer paths: `key` takes `keys`, an
+  array holding one chord's keys, such as
+  `{"action": "key", "keys": ["Control", "s"]}`, and `type` turns `\n` into
+  Enter.
+- Before `type`, check in a screenshot that a text cursor or a focused
+  field is there. In apps with single-key shortcuts, such as Inkscape, text
+  typed without one runs as commands.
+- Save As differs by app. Check the dialog's current folder first: most
+  open in the home, so click Documents in the sidebar, but Scribus opens in
+  `~/Documents` and its sidebar has no Documents entry. Type only the file
+  name. A dialog taller than the 1280×800 screen hides its buttons:
+  maximize it from its title bar, or confirm it with `key` Return, as when
+  HomeBank's Save button is off-screen. When a GTK Save dialog ignores
+  clicks or runs off the screen, type `~/Documents/<name>` in its Name field
+  and press Return.
+- Answer the app's save questions, such as keeping the format, then check
+  the saved path in the title or status bar, or the dialog's folder when
+  the app shows only the name, and that it shows no unsaved mark, before
+  you mark a checkpoint or check. Where the title never shows one, as in
+  HomeBank, a greyed Save or Revert, or the file reopened from recent
+  files, confirms the save.
+- Qt spin boxes change their value on scroll: move the pointer off them
+  before you scroll.
+- gLabels edits an object's text in Object properties → Text, not on the
+  canvas.
+- In Grisbi's transaction form Return moves to the next field; only Return
+  in the last field, Notes, records the transaction.
+- ghostwriter autosaves a new document as `~/Documents/untitled-1.md`: name
+  it with File → Rename, not Save As; Ctrl+Shift+S does nothing, and Enter
+  after a checklist item starts another `- [ ]` item.
+- KMyMoney's first launch opens the New File Setup wizard; Finish asks for a
+  storage type (XML), then a Save As where typing `Documents/<name>.kmy`
+  works. Its date field is a sectioned Qt editor: double-click the month and
+  type each part, since Ctrl+A garbles it. A new transaction's payee comes
+  prefilled and selected. Amounts are saved as reduced fractions, such as
+  `-1749/20`, so compare them exactly. Untick Help → Tip of the Day → "Show
+  tips on startup" before `seed`, or the tip appears at every boot.
+- QElectroTech: an element dropped from Collections follows the pointer until
+  a click on the folio places it. Its title shows only the app, so it needs
+  `state_paths`; its settings are in `~/.qet`.
+- Rosegarden: after a dialog its Transport window can take keyboard focus,
+  so save with File → Save.
+- Pencil2D: the Tools dock is too narrow for its buttons, so use shortcuts
+  (B for the brush); double-click a layer's name to rename it.
+- Umbrello: the title shows no unsaved mark, so confirm a save with a probe
+  checkpoint. An Untitled document autosaves `~/autosave.xmi`: delete it
+  before `seed`. Add attributes from the tree: right-click the class → New →
+  Attribute.
+- Hydrogen: the computer has no audio device, so Hydrogen falls back to a
+  null driver and its BPM field snaps back to 120 within about 100 ms.
+  Before `seed`, set Preferences → Audio System → ALSA with device `null`
+  and click "Apply and restart output", which `~/.hydrogen/hydrogen.conf`
+  keeps for the seed; also set autosaves per hour to 0, and dismiss the
+  development-version dialog with "Don't show again". `pulseaudio` as an
+  extra package does not help.
+- Poedit cannot add entries by hand. Use File → New, pick the language and
+  save to `Documents` first (Sources Paths stays locked until then), then
+  Properties → Sources Paths → + → Add Files with a source such as
+  `/usr/lib/python3.12/argparse.py`. It writes `fr.mo` beside the `.po`, and
+  the language box's autocomplete popup takes the first OK click.
+- CherryTree: its first-run autosave "Choose Storage Type" dialog swallows
+  keys, so save once early as `.ctd` and untick autosave.
+- VSCodium (its tarball, with `extra_packages: ["libnss3",
+  "libasound2t64"]`) runs on outside REA's reach, so `stop_build_capture`
+  fails to clean it up: after `end`, quit it with Ctrl+Q, then stop. Enter
+  accepts its word suggestions, so press Escape after typing a line.
+- Glade: a new widget's id is empty until you set it, and a second save
+  writes a `.glade~` backup, which shows in the draft as an unrelated
+  change. A backup present at `seed` is seeded with the document, so trash
+  it before `seed`. The draft names a button's `<child>` by the id
+  its widget carries, `[name=child][>object@id=submit_button]`, which moving
+  the button keeps; give the widget an id before `seed` so it can.
+- VYM: the title never names the map, so pass `Documents/<map>.vym` in
+  `state_paths`. Its settings live in `.config/InSilmaril` and are written
+  only at a clean exit. It writes `<map>.vym.lock` while a map is open, so
+  close the map before `seed`. Press A only after clicking a branch on the
+  canvas: keys typed in the tree editor run other shortcuts.
+- KmPlot: Create → Cartesian Plot, then edit the formula in the Function
+  tab and press Return. It stores minus as U+2212 (`−`). Its file:// title
+  still names the file.
+- RedNotebook keeps each month in `~/.rednotebook/data/YYYY-MM.txt`, YAML
+  read as text, folded at about column 80: pick check phrases the fold keeps
+  on one line.
+- Qt5 apps saving with QDom, such as KmPlot, write attributes in a random
+  order in each process, so check their XML by element, never by whole line.
+- Gnumeric's desktop entry is `org.gnumeric.gnumeric`. Its Save As dialog
+  runs off the 1280×800 screen: type `~/Documents/<name>` in Name and press
+  Return. Rename a sheet with right-click on its tab, then Rename….
+- Parley's title shows the collection's title, so name the file in
+  `state_paths`. File → New opens the new collection's Properties dialog:
+  confirm it with OK, since Cancel keeps the old collection and its autosave
+  lock open. A new collection starts with 15 blank entries: delete them.
+  Pick languages from the dropdown; a typed name keeps the previous locale.
+  While a document is open KDE keeps an autosave and its `.lock` in
+  `~/.local/share/stalefiles/parley/`, and there is no File → Close: before
+  `seed`, use File → New, then reopen the collection from Open Recent.
+- Sigil: pass `extra_packages: ["libqt5svg5"]`, or its SVG toolbar icons are
+  blank. Its title names the book, so it needs no `state_paths`. It unpacks
+  the open book into `.local/share/sigil-ebook/sigil/workspace/Sigil-XXXXXX/`
+  and deletes it on exit, so never name the whole `sigil-ebook` folder: that
+  seeds the stale copy.
+- What the app saved under the home before `seed`, such as a document in
+  `~/Documents` or its settings, is part of the seed. A file you move to the
+  Trash is left out, and the export lists it in `limitations`. Trash a stray
+  file rather than starting over. JabRef 3.8 writes `<file>.bak` and
+  `<file>.sav` beside a `.bib` it saves; in the owned folder they are seeded
+  and show in the draft as noise, so trash them before `seed` if they should
+  not ship.
+- Dismiss first-run dialogs, such as a welcome screen, before `seed`. A
+  choice the app saves only later, such as Inkscape's "show this every
+  time", may not reach the seed, so expect the dialog in the witness too.
+- Some apps write their settings late: Freeplane writes
+  `~/.config/freeplane/1.7.x/auto.properties` only once Preferences is
+  confirmed, and a seed without it reopens its documentation map. Before
+  `seed`, open the app's preferences and confirm them, then read a probe
+  checkpoint's `changed_files` to see the settings file written.
+- Before `seed`, click into the document to clear any selection the app
+  would save: Gnote saves its cursor and selection with the note.
+- An app whose state folder is named after it, such as
+  `~/.local/share/gnote`, or after it and its version, such as TreeLine's
+  `~/.treeline-3.1`, is found without `state_paths`.
+- TreeLine: File → New opens a template window. Book List's CATEGORY makes
+  AUTHOR children by default; change it under Data → Configure Data Types →
+  Default Child Type. A new child opens an inline rename showing "", so
+  press Escape and fill its fields in the Data Edit tab. Ctrl+A adds a child
+  node even while a field has focus. Clicking a node already selected starts
+  an inline rename, so Ctrl+X then cuts its text: cut a node from its
+  context menu. It saves nodes sorted by their
+  generated uid1, so their order changes from run to run. The draft names a
+  new node by its format and a field of its `data`,
+  `/nodes/[format=BOOK][>data~1Title=The Silk Roads]`, and checks its other
+  fields through that, so give each new node a title no other node has.
+- After an app crashes, capture again on a fresh computer, so the seed
+  carries no crash-recovery state, such as MyPaint's "Recover interrupted
+  work?".
+- Give what the task changes a stable name where the app has one, such as an
+  id in Inkscape's Object Properties, so a check can select it.
+- Expect apps to split text into runs: Writer's revision ids split an
+  edited paragraph into spans and may give it an automatic style such as
+  `P1`, and AbiWord wraps each insertion in `<c>`. Check such text whole
+  with `text_equals` (see Write the task), and find the paragraph by
+  something the edit keeps, such as AbiWord's `xid`.
+- Freeplane's first launch opens a documentation map: close it with Ctrl+W.
+  Its Ctrl+N asks for a template.
+- MyPaint 2.0.1 crashes on brush strokes on the build computer: build its
+  seed with flood fill and layer operations.
+- GnuCash's Ctrl+S on a new book opens a Save dialog with no format choice:
+  use File > Save As to pick XML. Close the book (File > New File) before
+  `seed`, so its `.LCK` lock is not seeded.
+
+## Build the seed and the edit
+
+1. `start_build_computer` with
+   `{"source": {"kind": "request", "desktop_entry": ..., "install": ...}}`.
+   The first start of an app builds its image, and starts at the same time
+   on this host wait for each other; either can take minutes. A failed
+   start returns the build's error: fix the request, or stop when the
+   install cannot work, and close any `computer_id` the error names.
+2. `start_build_capture`. It returns once the app's window is open. A
+   `package_lists_error` may stop the capture finding the package's
+   sources; the export says when that matters. When the app exits before
+   its window opens, the error gives its exit code and the end of its
+   stderr, which may name what it lacks, such as an icon loader or a Java
+   runtime: close the computer and start a new one with that package in
+   `extra_packages` (see Choose the install), or stop as for an install
+   this flow cannot do.
+   - REA counts a file as the app's document only when the app's window
+     title shows its file name or `~/` path. When the title shows something
+     else, such as MuseScore's score title, pass the path you will save the
+     document at in `state_paths`, relative to the home:
+     `{"computer_id": ..., "state_paths": ["Documents/MuseScore3/Scores/Morning_Song.mscz"]}`.
+     It need not exist yet. Add the app's settings folder when its name
+     differs from the app's, such as `.config/MuseScore`, so the seed keeps
+     the dismissed first-run dialogs. Do not pass the document as a launch
+     argument to make REA see it: `state_paths` is the way. gLabels' title
+     leaves out the file's extension and Grisbi's shows the entity's name,
+     so both need it.
+   - An app whose document is a folder of pages, such as a Zim notebook
+     (`Notebooks/Notes`, a `.txt` file per page), never shows a file in its
+     title: pass the folder in `state_paths`. Every page in it is then a
+     document, so the bundle opens none at launch and the app starts where
+     it keeps its place; check the page the task changes.
+3. Make the seed through the app and save it from the app under
+   `~/Documents`: build the document in the app, or write its source where
+   the app edits its format as text, then save it again from the app. Make
+   it look real but synthetic: the thing the task changes, plus a few things
+   the change must leave alone. Keep it to one document: the bundle's app
+   opens the seed's document at launch only when there is exactly one, and
+   otherwise starts on its own screen. For a starting file of the requester's,
+   read it here and rebuild it in the app with synthetic data in place of
+   personal data; REA cannot copy a file into the computer.
+   - An app that keeps its own data and saves after every change, such as
+     Osmo's contacts in `~/.local/share/osmo/contacts_records.xml`, has no
+     document: that state is the seed. Build it in the app and mark `seed`
+     once the app has written. To see whether it has, mark a throwaway
+     checkpoint, such as `probe-1`, and read its `changed_files`: up to ten
+     files that changed since the checkpoint before, those a window title
+     named first, then those under `state_paths` and those the app held
+     open, caches last, with `more_changed_files` counting the rest.
+   - The app's own compressed format works when it is gzip, such as
+     Gnumeric's `.gnumeric`, Dia's `.dia` or Inkscape's `.svgz`: REA reads
+     the document inside, and checks point into it as into the same
+     document uncompressed. Compression may be off by default: Dia's
+     "Compress diagram files" is unticked, which REA reads as plain XML. A format REA reads as binary, such as one
+     compressed with xz, has no view: save in a format the app offers that
+     REA reads, then reopen the file once and check that a plain Ctrl+S
+     keeps that format. When the task is about the app's own binary
+     format, such as GIMP's `.xcf` or Blender's `.blend`, keep it and check
+     it through a reader (see Read a binary file with a reader).
+4. Only once the seed is saved, `mark_build_checkpoint` with name `seed`.
+5. Make the change the task asks for, as a user would, and save it.
+6. Only once the change is saved, `mark_build_checkpoint` with name `end`.
+   For more tasks in this environment, make each next task's change on top
+   of the last as a user would, save it, and mark `end-<task name>`, such as
+   `end-add-bread`. Each task is checked at its own end, so its checks must
+   not read what a later task changes, and a solving agent starts each from
+   the seed, so a task must not need an earlier one done first.
+   Then, for each task you can, make a near miss of its change on top, a
+   plausible wrong edit such as a typo or a wrong number, save it and mark
+   `near-<task name>`: the export refuses a task whose near miss passes every
+   check. Take the near misses after the last end, since each later draft
+   starts from the end before it.
+7. `stop_build_capture`. Read `draft.files` (each file that changed, with
+   its net change and its `values`), `draft.task.checks` (suggested
+   checks), `draft.guards`, `draft.notes` and `limitations`; each
+   `later_drafts` entry is the same for one later task, from the end
+   checkpoint before its own, so it shows only that task's change. When
+   `draft` is null, read `draft_refusal` first: a missing `seed` or `end`
+   checkpoint means capturing again on a new build computer, while a failed
+   draft command names its own cause to fix. If a declared secret was used,
+   automatic drafting is withheld: write the task manually and export it.
+   When `draft.files` is empty,
+   `draft.notes` says why:
+   - `no_change`: nothing was saved between `seed` and `end`. Capture again
+     on a new build computer, and save before marking `end`. When the app
+     keeps the task's state only on screen, such as a calculator's result,
+     judge the screen instead (see Judge the screen).
+   - `unowned_changes` with `no_document`: the app saved your document
+     where REA did not count it as the app's. Its `files` list what changed,
+     with their roles; the document is among them. Close the computer and
+     capture again on a new one with that path in `state_paths`; the export
+     refuses a check on a file outside the owned paths.
+   - `uncheckable_changes`: the app saved the change in dconf, as gedit does
+     its preferences, and no check reads dconf. Saving again does not help:
+     choose a change the app saves in a file, and capture again on a new
+     build computer, or judge the screen (see Judge the screen).
+   - `unreadable_changes`: a dconf database changed but REA could not read
+     it; `error` says why. This is not evidence the app saved there: report
+     the error rather than changing the task.
+
+   A note with a `file` says why that file's suggestions are thin:
+   - `by_position`: only position names what changed; its `elements` lack
+     a naming attribute. Name a record that keeps its fields as child
+     elements by one of them, as Osmo's contact by
+     `[name=contact][>first_name=Delphine]`, a JSON record by a field
+     inside it, `[>data/Title=…]` (`~1` for the `/` inside a pointer), or
+     an element by an id its child carries, `[>object@id=…]`; count records
+     with `member_count`, `matching` `[name=contact]`; otherwise check an
+     ancestor's text, or give the element an id in the app and capture again.
+   - `view_state_only`: every change is view state, a renumbered id or a
+     time the app stamps, and its `pointers` are the checks kept. The edit
+     was likely not saved: capture again and save it before `end`.
+   - `long_text`: the element's text is too long to check whole; check a
+     phrase in it with `text_contains`.
+   - `cut_view` or `unreadable_view`: REA's view holds only part of the
+     file, or none a check can read, such as a binary format (step 3). For
+     a binary file, read it with a reader (see Read a binary file with a
+     reader).
+
+## Write the task
+
+Write `{"name", "prompt", "checks"}` from the draft and what you did, one
+per task, each with its own name.
+
+- `name`: lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, not `smoke`.
+- `prompt`: what the requester wants, in their words and the app's terms,
+  starting with the app's name, naming the document as a user would and
+  ending with saving it: "In Inkscape, change the poster's headline in
+  Documents/poster.svg to Summer Bake Sale and save it." Name the app: the
+  solving agent's own shell cannot see the computer's files, and the app's
+  name sends it to the screen. Leave saving out for an app that saves on its own, after every change
+  or a few seconds after the last one, such as Osmo or Gnote: grading waits
+  until the app's files have held for 3 s, so the solving agent need not
+  wait for the save. A save more than 3 s after the agent stops is still
+  missed; name such an app in the report. Never say how the file stores it,
+  and never give the checks.
+- Checks are file-based: content checks that prove the edit, never only that
+  a file exists or changed. Start from the suggestions; keep those that say
+  what the user did and drop what follows from how the app saves.
+- Compare exact values, so a typo or a wrong number fails.
+- Read each file's `values` before writing checks: every value the change
+  added, changed and removed, with `before` and `after` (an uncut scalar, or
+  a preview cut at 600 characters) at the pointer a check names it by. Copy
+  the pointer. Copy `after` into `value` only when it is an uncut scalar: a
+  string without a trailing `…`, a number, or a boolean. Compact XML and a
+  JSON array or object are preview strings, so a `value_equals` check needs
+  the structured value from the file's view, and element text uses
+  `text_equals` or `text_contains`.
+  Only XML files, archives, JSON and key files have values: a text file's
+  or SQLite database's `change` already lists its lines and rows.
+  `refers_to` says what a number or id stands for, such as `category="44"`
+  naming `<cat key="44" name="Groceries"/>`, or a new KMyMoney
+  transaction's splits naming their account and payee; use it for the
+  prompt's words. `alternatives` gives a changed value's pointer by the
+  element's other names, such as a label beside an id, to pick another key
+  without another export.
+  Skip entries whose `note` is `by_position` (no check can use that
+  pointer) or noise (`view_state`, `renumbered`, `volatile`,
+  `timestamp`, `upkeep`, `layout`). `values_cut` means a limit left some out.
+- Select elements by what they hold, never by position: SVG text by id,
+  `/root/children/[name=g][@inkscape:label=Layer 1]/children/[name=text][@id=headline]/children/[name=tspan]/children/0`,
+  or an ODF paragraph by style,
+  `/entries/[name=content.xml]/view/root/children/[name=office:body]/children/[name=office:text]/children/[name=text:p][@text:style-name=Title]/children/0`.
+  A selector must match exactly one element, so give the target a unique id
+  or style in the seed. The draft's pointers already do this: a name-like
+  attribute such as Scribus's `ANNAME` before a coordinate, and two
+  attributes together where one is not enough, as a spreadsheet cell's
+  `[@Col=3][@Row=2]`. Only an element's text is read by position, as
+  `children/0`.
+- When an app may split an element's text into runs, check it whole:
+  `text_equals` (or `text_contains` for a value inside a sentence) on the
+  element compares all its text, however it is split. Add
+  `normalize_whitespace: true` when the app may reflow spaces. Example, an
+  AbiWord paragraph by its stable id:
+  `{"kind": "text_contains", "file": "Documents/memo.abw", "pointer": "/root/children/[name=section]/children/[name=p][@xid=6]", "value": "at 3:30 PM"}`.
+  Point a text check at the paragraph or another element the edit keeps,
+  never at a run such as AbiWord's `[name=c]`: a reopened document splits
+  the text into several runs. The draft lists only what changed; an
+  unchanged element is in `draft.guards` when it is a like sibling of a
+  changed one, and otherwise use the app's usual numbering, such as another
+  paragraph's `xid`, and let the export confirm it.
+- In an ODS spreadsheet no attribute names a row: the draft names it by its
+  label cell, `[name=table:table-row][>table:table-cell=February]`. Where no
+  cell names it alone, name the sheet in the seed, and check its whole
+  text: `text_equals` on
+  `/entries/[name=content.xml]/view/root/children/[name=office:body]/children/[name=office:spreadsheet]/children/[name=table:table][@table:name=Q1 Sales]`,
+  or a stretch of it with `text_contains`. Cell texts join with nothing
+  between, so a row reads `February23100`.
+- For a line added to free text, such as an item on a note's list, the
+  draft compares the whole text with `text_equals`. This rejects longer or
+  negated items, but can reject a correct edit with different ordering or
+  spacing. Report that limitation when the task permits such variations.
+- For a note placed by its own `x` and `y`, such as Xournal++'s `<text>`
+  on a layer, the draft checks its text on the layer with `text_contains`,
+  which passes wherever the user puts it, and guards each note it kept.
+- Some apps keep text in an attribute, one element per run, such as
+  Scribus's `<ITEXT CH=...>`: add `"text_attribute": "CH"` to `text_equals`
+  or `text_contains` on the frame,
+  `/root/children/[name=DOCUMENT]/children/[name=PAGEOBJECT][@ANNAME=Headline]`,
+  to read its runs' values joined.
+- When the draft shows no values or no checks, a scratch export can expose
+  `envs/<env>/seed/` only after the task has at least one valid check: it must
+  pass on the captured end state and fail on the seed. Before the first
+  successful export, use `act_on_build_computer` to open the saved file in an
+  available GUI text editor or viewer and inspect its actual representation
+  without changing it. Use the visible saved content and the task's edit to
+  write a check; an export refusal can also name the end state's value, such
+  as `is "44", not "1"`. If the file cannot be inspected or expressed by a
+  supported check, report the limitation instead of guessing a check.
+- Where easy, add one check that the rest is untouched, such as another
+  text's value the edit must leave alone. `draft.guards` offers them at
+  their seed values, which the end holds too: a field on the nearest like
+  siblings, one the user sets, such as Planner's `work`, before a default
+  they all share; the text an addition kept; a text file's lines beside its
+  new one. Copy one or two into `checks`; they pass on the seed, which is
+  fine, since the export needs only one check to fail there.
+- The draft suggests a decimal the app writes as text, such as `146.83`,
+  as a number with `tolerance: 0.001`; keep the tolerance for any number
+  you check that way.
+- When the draft shows an XML document's changes as `lines`, REA read it
+  as text, for example because its DOCTYPE declares entities. Selectors are
+  impossible there, and `line_count` with `contains` only approximates a
+  value: `3:30` also matches `13:30`. Bound it with neighbouring text and
+  name the check as approximate in the report's limitations.
+- Some apps save a document reloaded from disk differently from one typed
+  in the same session: AbiWord wraps each new insertion in its own markup.
+  Your build's end state hides this, which is why whole-text checks matter;
+  expect the witness to show the real format.
+
+The kinds and pointer rules are in
+[the desktop tasks section](environments.md#pick-the-checks).
+
+### Read a binary file with a reader
+
+When the draft notes `unreadable_view` on a binary document, add a reader to
+the task: the app's own headless command, which REA runs in the computer on a
+private copy of the file, and whose output a check reads instead of the file.
+Write it in the app's scripting mode, print each fact on a line starting
+with `REA ` (with the space), and name the copy `{file}`:
+
+- GIMP `.xcf`, layer names, as `lines`:
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "id": "layers",
+    "file": "Documents/poster.xcf",
+    "argv": ["gimp-console-2.10", "-i", "-d", "-f", "-b", "-"],
+    "stdin": "(let ((image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE \"{file}\" \"{file}\")))) (for-each (lambda (layer) (display \"\\nREA layer \") (display (car (gimp-item-get-name layer)))) (vector->list (cadr (gimp-image-get-layers image)))) (newline))\n(gimp-quit 0)\n",
+    "output": "lines"
+  }
+  ```
+
+  checked with `{"kind": "lines_present", "file": "Documents/poster.xcf", "reader": "layers", "lines": ["layer Summer Sale"]}`.
+  Script-Fu's prompt `ts> ` starts a line, so print a newline before each
+  marked line, as `\nREA` does. A text layer's text is
+  `(car (gimp-text-layer-get-text layer))`.
+
+- Blender `.blend`, objects with their type and location, as `json`:
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "id": "objects",
+    "file": "Documents/scene.blend",
+    "argv": [
+      "blender",
+      "-b",
+      "--factory-startup",
+      "{file}",
+      "--python-expr",
+      "import bpy, json; print('REA ' + json.dumps({o.name: {'type': o.type, 'location': [round(v, 4) for v in o.location]} for o in bpy.data.objects}, sort_keys=True))"
+    ],
+    "output": "json"
+  }
+  ```
+
+  checked with `{"kind": "value_equals", "file": "Documents/scene.blend", "reader": "objects", "pointer": "/Crate/location/0", "value": 2, "tolerance": 0.001}`.
+  Print every value a check compares as a number or string a check can
+  name, rounded where the app stores floats.
+  Blender 4 shows its Quick Setup splash at every launch until its
+  preferences are saved: with `.config/blender` in `state_paths`, confirm
+  Quick Setup with Continue, save the preferences (Edit → Preferences, then
+  Save Preferences in the menu at its bottom left), and read a probe
+  checkpoint's `changed_files` for `.config/blender/4.0/config/userpref.blend`
+  before `seed`, so solves start on the scene. Blender often takes the first click on a
+  menu or a dialog's button only to focus it: click again.
+
+- A format LibreOffice opens but REA cannot read, such as a legacy `.xls`,
+  converted with `--convert-to`:
+
+  ```json
+  {
+    "id": "cells",
+    "file": "Documents/budget.xls",
+    "argv": [
+      "sh",
+      "-c",
+      "soffice --headless --convert-to csv --outdir out \"$1\" >/dev/null && sed 's/^/REA /' out/*.csv",
+      "sh",
+      "{file}"
+    ],
+    "output": "lines",
+    "timeout_s": 120
+  }
+  ```
+
+  Pass `{file}` to `sh -c` as an argument, as here, rather than inside the
+  script.
+
+The reader runs without the display, in a fresh home with the app's default
+settings, so use the app's headless or batch mode; set `display: true` only
+for an app that has none. It must exit 0 within `timeout_s` (60 s by
+default, at most 300) and print at most 1 MiB. Pick facts the change sets and
+the near miss gets wrong, such as a name or a number, not the app's whole
+output.
+
+Give the task the reader in `readers`, and each check through it `reader`
+and the reader's `file`. `json` readers serve `value_equals`, `value_absent`
+and `member_count`; `lines` readers `lines_present`, `lines_absent` and
+`line_count`. The export runs the reader in the build computer on the seed
+and the end: when a check through it fails on the end, the refusal shows
+what the reader printed, and a reader that fails shows its error and the end
+of its stderr. Fix the reader or the check from that and export again.
+
+### Judge the screen
+
+Only when no file shows the change, as when the draft notes `no_change`
+because the app keeps its state on screen, write the task's checks as
+screen judges: `{"id": "shown", "kind": "screen_judge", "question": "Does the
+calculator's display show 8.568?"}`. A model, the judge, answers the question
+on a screenshot three times, and the check passes when most answers are yes.
+
+- REA keeps a screenshot at each checkpoint. Mark `seed` with the screen
+  showing the state before the task, where the answer is no, and `end` with
+  the change showing, where it is yes: the bundle ships both as the judge's
+  examples.
+- Ask about what the change makes visible, with exact values, so the near
+  miss is a no: a result, a label, a selected item. Avoid what a window
+  moved or a cursor blinking can change.
+- The prompt asks to leave the result showing, since the judge sees only
+  the screen when the agent stops.
+- A task with screen judges holds only screen judges and no readers. The
+  export refuses one when a file shows the change, and checks none of its
+  questions: the witness does, running the bundle's own judge with the
+  runner's model endpoint (`LITELLM_BASE_URL` and `LITELLM_API_KEY`, or
+  `[model]` in `.agentenv/config.toml`) on a fresh screenshot at each stage.
+  Without an endpoint the witness's check fails: say what to set and stop.
+- The judge's model is `[model.roles] judge`, else `[model] default`, else
+  `anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5`. `agent-env run --judge-model` does not
+  reach it. Each grade costs about $0.02.
+
+## Export
+
+`export_build_environment` with `tasks` and `directory`, the absolute path of
+a new or empty folder here, such as `<home>/rea-builds/poster/bundle`. Each
+entry of `tasks` is `{"task": ..., "end_checkpoint": ...}`: leave
+`end_checkpoint` out for the task checked at `end`, and give
+`end-<task name>` for each later one. The
+export seeds what was saved at `seed`, replaces the computer's host name,
+`user@host` and home path (a bare user name, such as AbiWord's author
+`user`, stays), and checks each task against `seed`, its own end and its
+`near-<task name>` when you took one. It refuses a task
+unless at least one check fails on the seed, every check passes at its
+end and one fails at its near miss, and says which task and why, such as a
+pointer that names nothing at the end. A
+check that the rest is untouched passes on the seed too, which is fine. On
+a refusal, fix the task and export again, into another folder if that one
+is no longer empty. The bundle's eval lists every task, so a run of the
+bundle runs them all. A refusal naming a secret's handle means a file of the
+bundle holds that secret, most often an app's sign-in or licence state in
+the seed: do not work around it, but report it and stop. Keep
+`seed_files`, `scrubbed_files`, `unscrubbed_files` and `limitations` for the
+report.
+
+The limitations name the folders the app wrote that the bundle neither owns
+nor seeds, such as `~/.config/MuseScore`, so the app starts without them:
+expect its first-run wizard, a tour or a "restore session?" question at every
+boot. If the witness shows one, capture again on a new build computer with
+those folders in `state_paths`, and dismiss the dialogs before `seed`. Lock
+files the app holds while it runs, such as LibreOffice's `.lock` and
+`.~lock.<name>#`, GnuCash's `<book>.LCK` or Grisbi's `.<file>.lock`, are
+left out of the seed and listed after "Left out of the seed". An app can
+still start fine yet refuse every save when a lock was seeded, so close the
+document before `seed` where the app lets you (apps other than LibreOffice,
+such as Rosegarden, also write `.~lock.<name>#` and autosaves beside a
+document, and closing it covers them too), and treat "file is locked"
+on a save in the witness as a seeded lock: delete it from the bundle's seed
+and witness again in a new computer. In LibreOffice, own the profile
+(`state_paths: [".config/libreoffice"]`) for a clean boot, and close the
+document before `seed`, then reopen it from Recent Documents to make the
+change: the export also leaves out the recovery list LibreOffice writes while
+a document is open, which would start the bundle into document recovery. A
+limitation naming `~/.config/dconf/user` as unread means the app's dconf
+settings, such as a first-run tip you turned off, are not seeded: capture
+again on a new build computer. The limitations also name seeded WebKit,
+Chromium or QtWebEngine storage and caches; when the witness's boot is clean,
+list them in the report.
+
+Keep the build computer open until the witness holds: a task fix exports
+again from it.
+
+## Witness
+
+Witness each task in its own fresh computer of the bundle, from the prompt,
+as a solving agent would; a computer is witnessed once, so the steps below
+repeat for each task, each with its own record folder. Do not replay the build's actions or coordinates, and do not
+check between stages to steer the edit: a solving agent never sees the
+checks. Give every `check_build_task` the task exactly as exported.
+
+1. `start_build_computer` with
+   `{"source": {"kind": "bundle", "path": "<bundle>"}}`, adding
+   `"settings": {"<variable>": "<handle>"}` for each of the export's
+   `withheld_files`, or the deploy is refused for want of them, and agentenv
+   keeps that bundle's build failed, so start from a fresh copy of it. The app starts
+   with the seed's files in place and opens the seed's document when the
+   seed holds exactly one and the app takes a file. When the export's
+   `limitations` say it opens no document, open it from the prompt's path,
+   as a solving agent would. Take a `wait` screenshot first, since the
+   desktop may not have drawn yet. When the start fails because the
+   computer never got ready, and its error names lock files in the bundle's
+   seed, delete them from the bundle and start again.
+2. `check_build_task` with `stage: "seed"` and `directory`, the absolute
+   path of a new or empty folder for the record. A check must fail.
+   Recording starts. Later stages take no `directory`.
+3. Do the task from the prompt with `act_on_build_computer` and save.
+   `check_build_task` with `stage: "after_edit"`: every check must pass.
+   Each check waits until the app's files have held for 3 s, as the
+   bundle's verifier does, so an app that saves on its own needs no wait of
+   yours. A result with `settled: false` means the files were still
+   changing at the 15 s bound, and `read_cut: true` that a slow read was
+   still running there.
+4. Make a near miss on top of it: a plausible wrong edit, such as a typo or
+   a wrong number, and save. `check_build_task` with `stage: "near_miss"`:
+   a check must fail.
+5. `act_on_build_computer` with `action: "reset"`, then `check_build_task`
+   with `stage: "after_reset"`: a check must fail again.
+6. The last stage ends the witness: `witness.record` has the verdict, the
+   path of `witness.json` and the recording's segments in `directory`.
+   `close_build_computer` on the witness computer.
+
+A stage that does not hold ends the witness as `failed`. Read each check's
+result and decide:
+
+- `after_edit` failed though the saved file is right: the check is brittle.
+  Fix it, export again and witness in a new computer.
+- `after_edit` failed because your edit was wrong: witness again in a new
+  computer; a computer is witnessed once.
+- `near_miss` passed: the checks are too loose. Tighten them, export again
+  and witness again.
+- `after_reset` passed: the reset did not restore the seed. Report it as a
+  limitation.
+
+Stop after three witnesses of a task and report what still fails.
+
+## Measure
+
+Only if the requester asked for it, or by the headless default above. If
+they wanted to review the tasks first, show them each prompt and checks and
+wait for their approval. Then `measure_build_task` each task with `bundle`,
+`task`, `model` and `budget_usd`, its share of the budget. It runs the task
+in fresh computers, 3 times, then 2 more unless they passed none or all, and
+keeps a task that passes 1 to 3 of 5 (`band: "in_band"`). It stops before a
+solve the largest cost so far would take past the budget, and writes the
+record into the bundle's `difficulty.json` and README. The solver needs a
+model endpoint where REA starts: `LITELLM_BASE_URL` and `LITELLM_API_KEY`, or
+`base_url` and `api_key` under `[model]` in `.agentenv/config.toml`; when the
+measure says a solve did not run for want of one, tell the person what to
+set and stop. Read the result's `failures_per_check` and each solve's
+`failed_checks` before calling a task hard: a check that fails in most failed
+solves while the app shows the right change is brittle, so fix the check,
+export and witness again, rather than count it as difficulty.
+
+## Harder tasks
+
+When the requester wants tasks worth evaluating or training on, harden a
+task that came out `too_easy` and measure it again, within the budget. The
+solver sees and fixes its slips on screen, so one edit with the value in the
+prompt is solved almost every time; so far, on TreeLine with Sonnet 5.5, so
+were one more dialog, a conditional move of seven records, and ten
+corrections read from a second document and applied across the list. Try,
+one at a time, measuring each:
+
+- A longer chain of exact edits than that, each a value the checks compare
+  whole, so one slip in the chain fails the task.
+- Facts read in one view and used in another: values the solver must read
+  from a second document the app opens, or from another record, rather than
+  from the prompt, such as "the same year as The Quiet Glacier's".
+- Distractors beside each target: records with near-identical names or
+  values, and a guard check on each that it stays as it was.
+- Mistakes that do not show once saved: a value the app displays rounded or
+  formatted unlike what it stores, or an edit the app keeps only when its
+  field loses focus.
+
+Stop when the budget left cannot cover 3 solves of the hardened task, and
+report the bands measured.
+
+Each hardened task stays sound: its checks still fail on the seed and pass on
+its end, its near miss fails, and another valid way of doing it passes, so
+check values, never the order or method the solver used. Put the second
+document in the seed. Count records with `member_count` and check each
+value by a selector that names its record, since no check joins two records.
+
+## Close and report
+
+`close_build_computer` on every computer still open, also after a failure.
+If a close fails, call it again; if it still fails, tell the requester what
+is left.
+
+Report:
+
+- the bundle path and the environment name;
+- each task's name, prompt and end checkpoint;
+- each check, and why it proves the edit and fails the near miss, and each
+  reader's command;
+- each task's witness stages with their results, the verdict, and the paths of
+  `witness.json` and the recording;
+- the seed's contents: `seed_files` and what each holds;
+- `scrubbed_files` and `unscrubbed_files`; an unscrubbed file still names
+  the host or user, so it needs review before sharing. `recompressed_files`
+  are gzip seeds whose headers were cleared, their content unchanged: give
+  their count;
+- limitations: the capture's, the export's and anything you could not do;
+- each measured task's band, passes of finished solves, turns, cost and
+  failures per check, from `difficulty.json`;
+- the build time and the questions you asked.
+
+Never publish or share the bundle yourself.
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+# Agent environments from a live application
+
+Use this when the user asks for an agent environment (an AgentEnv bundle) of a
+web application: a folder `agent-env` deploys, whose MCP tools answer from what
+one recording of the application observed and serve the writes that recording
+confirmed. The workflow records the application once with
+`capture_browser_scenario`, checks what the environment would serve, records
+again if a hint names a gap, then writes the bundle with
+`export_environment_bundle`. For a HAR the user already has, skip to
+[export](#export-and-hand-off) through `inspect_web_network_capture`, or use
+`rea environment-build <capture.har> <dir>`. For a task in a desktop
+application's exported environment, read
+[its section](#tasks-for-a-desktop-application-environment).
+
+## Before recording
+
+- Record only against an instance the user says is disposable or seeded for
+  this purpose: every write step creates, edits or deletes its data. If the
+  user has not said so, ask before any scenario that writes. REA does not
+  start, seed or reset applications.
+- Credentials come from environment variables the user names. Declare each as a
+  scenario secret, `{secret_id, environment_variable}`; the variable must be set
+  in the environment REA's MCP server started with. Never ask for a password in
+  chat. Declared secrets are redacted as the capture records.
+- Map the application first with `inspect_web_page` (and `capture_web_screenshot`
+  when layout matters): the login form's locators, and the API calls behind the
+  pages that list and edit the entities the user asked about.
+- `inspect_web_page` cannot sign in. To see pages behind sign-in, run a short
+  `capture_browser_scenario` that signs in and opens them, with
+  `"capture": {"after_each_step": ["accessibility"]}` (`"dom"` for markup).
+  Read a step's tree with `inspect_analysis_view`, `view: {kind:
+  "browser-scenario", collection: "text", step_index, artifact:
+  "accessibility", offset: 0, limit: 2048}`, paging with `offset`. Capture
+  options are only `after_each_step`, `at_end`, `events`, `network` and
+  `limits`.
+
+## Record a session an environment can learn writes from
+
+One `capture_browser_scenario` records the whole session. Start from this
+shape, with the application's own locators, paths and headers:
+
+```json
+{
+  "browser": { "mode": "launch", "executable_path": "/usr/bin/chromium" },
+  "start_url": { "url": "http://127.0.0.1:3000/login" },
+  "secrets": [
+    { "secret_id": "admin_password", "environment_variable": "APP_PASSWORD" }
+  ],
+  "capture": {
+    "network": {
+      "request_body": true,
+      "response_body": true,
+      "header_values": true
+    }
+  },
+  "actions": [
+    {
+      "step_id": "user",
+      "action": "fill",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "css", "selector": "input[name=username]" },
+      "value": { "source": "literal", "value": "admin" }
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "password",
+      "action": "fill",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "css", "selector": "input[name=password]" },
+      "value": { "source": "secret", "secret_id": "admin_password" }
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "sign-in",
+      "action": "press",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "css", "selector": "input[name=password]" },
+      "key": "Enter"
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "signed-in",
+      "action": "wait_for",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "css", "selector": "nav a[href='/settings']" },
+      "state": "visible"
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "folders-1",
+      "action": "request",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "method": "GET",
+      "path": "/api/folders",
+      "expected_status": [200]
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "new-folder-1",
+      "action": "click",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "role", "role": "button", "name": "New folder" }
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "folder-title-1",
+      "action": "fill",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "css", "selector": "input[name=title]" },
+      "value": { "source": "literal", "value": "Scratch folder 1" }
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "create-folder-1",
+      "action": "click",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "locator": { "kind": "role", "role": "button", "name": "Create" },
+      "save_response": {
+        "method": "POST",
+        "path": "/api/folders",
+        "save": [{ "name": "folder_1", "json_pointer": "/id" }]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "step_id": "read-folder-1",
+      "action": "request",
+      "timeout_ms": 15000,
+      "method": "GET",
+      "path": "/api/folders/{saved:folder_1}",
+      "expected_status": [200]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Give each step that accepts `timeout_ms` a deadline. Without one, a step waits
+until it completes or the scenario is cancelled, so a locator that never
+matches hangs the capture and the client with it. The `wait_for_timeout` pause
+instead uses `duration_ms` and does not accept `timeout_ms`. Match `wait_for`
+locators to exactly one element.
+
+1. Sign in through the UI: `fill` the user and password fields (the password
+   as a secret reference), submit, then `wait_for` an element only a signed-in
+   user sees.
+2. Read with `request` steps: each collection the environment needs, twice
+   before any write, so fields that change on their own show up; then each
+   object a list shows by id, up to ten per collection. An object known only
+   from a list that leaves out fields its own read shows cannot be read by id
+   or updated in the environment.
+3. Write the way the application's UI does: fill its forms and click its
+   buttons, so each request carries the fields the UI sends, including ones
+   the server would otherwise derive. Give the click or key press that submits
+   a create `save_response` to keep the new object's ID, then `goto` its page
+   (`/items/{saved:item_1}`) or read it with a `request` step. Never guess an
+   ID, and never create a probe object to learn the next one. Write with
+   `request` steps instead only when the UI cannot reach the operation (an
+   API-only resource, or a UI that does not call the JSON API), or when coverage
+   withholds the UI-shaped write as `unexplained-change` or `contradicted`;
+   that counts as one of the two re-recordings. A `request` step write that
+   coverage withholds that way usually lacks fields the UI sends: record it
+   through the UI instead. If a journey cannot be scripted, leave the write
+   unserved and report the limitation.
+   Record two numbered scratch objects per write type,
+   with varied free text. After each write, and before the next one, read the
+   object back by id and then its list: create 1, read 1, list, create 2,
+   read 2, list; never several writes before their reads.
+4. Leave more than a second between two creates and between a create and its
+   first edit (`wait_for_timeout` with `duration_ms: 1100`), so lists sorted
+   by creation time show them in order.
+5. Update both objects and read each back, changing the fields a person
+   would change (a name, an email address, a status, a due date) rather than
+   only a description: a served update accepts only the members a recorded
+   update stored. Run an action that turns something on or off (star,
+   bookmark, archive) twice in a row on one object, reading it back after
+   each: the second call shows whether it sets or flips the field, and the
+   environment serves the action only once a call has shown it. Delete both
+   and read each back (expect 404, or the object marked deleted) and the list.
+6. Vary what the two creates send, however you write them: the first every
+   field the application takes, the second only what a person must give (its
+   title or name), with the other fields left out or empty. A served create
+   requires each member both creates filled in and lets a caller leave out one
+   a create left out or sent empty, so an agent that names only a title is not
+   refused for fields it had no reason to set.
+
+About `request` steps:
+
+- `path` is on the start URL's origin; the page must be on that origin.
+- Header values are literals, declared secrets, a cookie the browser holds
+  (`{source: "cookie", name}`), a local storage entry
+  (`{source: "local_storage", key, json_pointer}`), a saved value
+  (`{source: "saved", name}`), or Basic credentials
+  (`{source: "basic_credentials", parts: [username, password]}`, sent as the
+  base64 of `username:password` and redacted), with an optional `prefix` such as
+  `"Bearer "` or `"Basic "`. Each credential part is a literal, secret, saved
+  value, cookie or local storage entry, so a header the frontend builds from a
+  login token (the username and the token) can be copied too; the password is
+  a secret or saved value, never a literal. Copy the
+  headers the application's own requests send (a CSRF header such as
+  `X-CSRFToken` from the `csrftoken` cookie, a bearer token). Values read from the page are redacted from records made after they
+  are read, not from the login response that returned them, and values
+  shorter than 8 characters are not redacted at all.
+- `save: [{name, json_pointer, secret}]` keeps a string or number from the
+  step's JSON response, such as the created object's `/id`, for later steps;
+  `secret: true` redacts it, as for a token the API returns, so mark every
+  saved token, key or session value secret. This also protects the selected
+  source response before its body or headers are retained. Compressed or
+  unknown-size UI responses cannot supply saved values. On a `click` or `press`,
+  `save_response: {method, path, save}` keeps values from the response to the
+  new request observed while the step waits (`{*}` in `path` matches one segment).
+  Matching does not prove UI causality: choose a path distinct from polling;
+  multiple observed matches fail as ambiguous. The step
+  fails unless a 2xx JSON response arrives before its `timeout_ms`. Later
+  steps send a saved value as `{saved:name}` in a request `path` (and its
+  query) or a `goto` URL; in the `json` body, where a string that is only
+  `{saved:name}` keeps the saved JSON type; or as `{source: "saved", name}` in
+  a header or credential part.
+- Reading a page value makes later bodies costlier to keep: after a CSRF
+  token, bodies over about 47 KiB are kept as `unavailable`. When the API
+  returns larger responses, raise `capture.limits`
+  (`max_network_body_allocation_bytes`, `max_total_event_allocation_bytes`).
+- Request steps follow no redirects: a redirect fails the step, and
+  `expected_status` cannot name a 3xx status. Use the path the redirect names,
+  such as the one with the trailing slash.
+- Set `expected_status` on every step, so a refused call fails its step and
+  the later steps report not having run, instead of recording read-backs of
+  nothing.
+
+Keep it to about 60 to 160 requests. A scenario with no `request` step is
+recorded exactly as before.
+
+The capture returns its whole Evidence, every recorded body included, which is
+often more than a client shows inline. Before checking coverage, confirm that
+every entry of `normalized_result.steps` has `status: "completed"`; if the
+client saved the result to a file, search it for `"status":"failed"` and read
+that step's `error`. A failed sign-in or write cancels every step after it.
+Use the result's `evidence_id` for coverage and export; do not paste the
+Evidence back into another tool.
+
+## Check coverage
+
+`inspect_analysis_view` with `source: {kind: "retained-evidence",
+evidence_id}` (the capture's id) and `view: {kind: "environment-coverage",
+template_rules: ["after-uid-literal", "opaque-token", "sibling-variance",
+"prefix-variance"]}`. It reports read tools
+answered from the state or replayed (`reads.recorded_reasons`), the served write
+tools, and each withheld write with its `reason` and `hint`. It does not apply
+the serve-time catalog and state size checks; the export reports those.
+
+Re-record a withheld write at most twice, and only for a recording gap. Stop at
+once when the reason is application behaviour, and report the write as
+withheld with its hint:
+
+| Reason                | What to do                                                                                                                  |
+| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `no-state-target`     | Check the path template and recorded views; record missing reads. The route form may not be supported as a mutation target. |
+| `no-observation`      | Re-record: read the entity back by id after the write; read it first for an update or delete.                               |
+| `unconfirmed`         | Re-record: read the entity and its list after the write.                                                                    |
+| `incomplete-entities` | Re-record: read the entity through every view that lists it.                                                                |
+| `unexplained-change`  | Re-record once with a second, different call of the same write.                                                             |
+| `no-call`             | Re-record once with a write that succeeds.                                                                                  |
+| `side-effect`         | Stop: the application changes other entities.                                                                               |
+| `contradicted`        | Stop: a later read disagrees with the modelled effect.                                                                      |
+| `body-unusable`       | Re-record a UI write once with `request` steps (its body was not exposed); else stop.                                       |
+
+Use new scratch names on each attempt, and delete what an earlier attempt
+created before recording again (through the UI, or a `request` step with the
+id that capture shows): the environment starts from what the recording first
+reads, so a leftover object becomes seeded data that write tasks then find.
+New browser scenario captures include request times, so a fully timed capture
+can learn a write clock and serve updates that stamp modification times. Older
+captures or ones missing a request start keep record order and learn no clock.
+When coverage reports that limitation, record again with the current version
+before concluding that the timestamp change cannot be served.
+
+## Export and hand off
+
+`export_environment_bundle` with `source: {kind: "retained-evidence",
+evidence_id}` (or `{kind: "evidence-file", path}`), an absolute
+`output_directory` that does not exist yet and whose parent does, and a `name`
+(required when the application runs on `localhost` or an IP address). It returns
+the coverage again, `tool_count`, the written files and warnings; `dry_run:
+true` reports without writing. The bundle installs `rea-agents` of this REA's
+version from the registry; when the user runs an unreleased REA build, pass the
+`package_tarball` they give you (a packed `rea-agents` tarball) instead.
+
+Tell the user how many tools answer from the state, which writes are served and
+which are withheld and why, and the run command (`agent-env run <folder>`). Say
+that the bundle ships the recorded responses and the capture's local paths
+(for a browser scenario, the browser executable's path), and
+list any `credential-named-members` warning pointers for review. Never publish
+or share the bundle yourself.
+
+See
+[agent environments](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/agent-environments.md)
+for what the state, replay and the bundle establish, and
+[evidence workflows](evidence-workflows.md) for the manifest and state views.
+
+## Tasks for a desktop application environment
+
+Use this when the user has a folder from `rea capture-desktop-application` and
+wants a task for the environment `rea export-desktop-application` makes from
+it: a prompt for a computer-use agent and checks that grade what the agent
+left in the app's files. You write the prompt and the checks; REA validates
+the task against the capture and exports it. These commands are CLI only. To
+build the environment and its task from a request instead, follow
+[desktop builds](desktop-build.md).
+
+### Describe the change
+
+Run `rea describe-desktop-application-task CAPTURE --format json`. Read:
+
+- `owned_paths`: the only paths whose files the app serves, so the only files
+  a check can read.
+- `files`: each file there whose state differs between the capture's first
+  and last version, with its `role`, the `baseline` and `final` versions and
+  the net `change`. Text changes list each added and removed line once, and
+  `line_counts` gives lines found at both ends whose count changed.
+- `values` in each of those files: what the change added, changed and
+  removed, `before` and `after`, at the pointer a check names it by, with
+  `refers_to` naming the element a key such as `category="44"` stands for.
+  Skip entries noted `by_position` or as noise. Only XML files, archives,
+  JSON and key files have values: a text file's or database's change
+  already lists its lines and rows.
+- `task`: a draft whose `checks` are suggestions from the net change of the
+  documents the user worked on, or of the app's own state when no document
+  changed.
+- `guards`: optional checks that the rest kept its seed values, such as a
+  like sibling's field or a text file's neighbouring lines; add one or two
+  to show the rest is untouched.
+- `notes`: why `files` is empty, or why a file's suggestions are thin, such
+  as `by_position` when no attribute names the changed element.
+
+### Write the prompt
+
+Say what the user wants done, in their words and the app's terms, naming the
+app: "In Mousepad, add buy milk to my to-do list and save it". A solving
+agent's own shell cannot see the computer's files; the app's name sends it to
+the screen. Never say how the file stores it: no
+paths the user would not name, line formats, XML, keys or SQL, and never the
+checks. Replace the draft's placeholder; the export refuses it.
+
+### Pick the checks
+
+Checks must express only the observed change:
+
+- Keep a suggestion only if it says what the user did. Drop those that follow
+  from how the app saves: a format rewrite, renumbered lines, counters. A
+  LibreCAD drawing gaining four holes was rewritten from DXF R12 to 2007, and
+  the draft suggests counts of `SECTION`, `ENDSEC` and `CIRCLE`; only
+  `CIRCLE` equals 9 is the user's change.
+- Never check unchanged content, whole files, or values the app stamps:
+  times, ids it assigns, window sizes. REA refuses ISO 8601 and `asctime`
+  date-times (`Thu Nov  5 09:20:31 2026`); the
+  rest is your judgment.
+- Prefer a few robust checks: whole lines over positions, rows by meaningful
+  columns over generated ids, `at_least` when the user may add more.
+
+Kinds: `file_present` and `file_absent`; `lines_present` and `lines_absent`
+(`lines`); `line_count` (`exact` or `contains`, and `equals`, `at_least` or
+`at_most`); `value_equals` and `value_absent` (a JSON `pointer` into the view,
+such as `/groups/GROUP/KEY` for a key file); `text_equals` and
+`text_contains` (an XML element's whole text at a `pointer`, optional
+`normalize_whitespace`); `row_present` and `row_absent` (`table`, `where` by
+column) and `row_count`. Each names its `file` as a path under the home. A
+document saved as a zip archive, such as FreeCAD's `.FCStd`, reads as its
+entries: point into an entry's view, and name array members by selector
+rather than position, as
+`/entries/[name=Document.xml]/view/root/children/[name=Object][@name=Hole]`,
+so the check survives an app version that writes them in another order. A
+gzip-compressed document, such as Gnumeric's `.gnumeric`, reads as the
+document inside: point into it as into the same document uncompressed. Give
+`value_equals` a `tolerance` to compare a number the app writes as text, such
+as `"5.0000000000000000"`, with a number. Check what the user wrote in a
+document with `text_equals` on its paragraph element, not `value_equals` on a
+text node: apps such as AbiWord and Writer split a paragraph into runs as they
+save, so its first text node holds only part of it; use `text_contains` for a
+value within a sentence, such as a time. A binary document, such as GIMP's
+`.xcf`, has no view: give the task a `readers` entry, the app's own headless
+command printing `REA ` lines, and a check naming it in `reader`, as
+[desktop builds](desktop-build.md#read-a-binary-file-with-a-reader) shows. The
+[desktop application tasks](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/desktop-application-tasks.md)
+guide has the exact rules.
+
+### Export the task
+
+Write the task as JSON with a `name`, the `prompt` and the `checks`, then run
+`rea export-desktop-application CAPTURE DIRECTORY --task TASK.json`. REA keeps
+the task only when its checks fail on the seed and all pass on the captured
+end state. A refusal names the check: one that fails on the end state does not
+match what the user left; "every check already passes on the seed" means no
+check captures the change. For several tasks from one capture, repeat
+`--task` and name each later task's end with `--task-end NAME=CHECKPOINT`.
+
+When the export refuses an application that no apt repository installs, ask
+the user for the `.deb` file they installed it from and capture with
+`--package-file`, then ask where the computer may download that file and pass
+it as `--package-url`. Never fetch a vendor's download page yourself: such
+sites often refuse automated downloads, and the copy and its licence are the
+user's to choose.
+
+Tell the user the task's name, prompt and checks, and how to measure a solve
+rate: run `agent-env run DIRECTORY --task NAME --agent claude-code` with
+`--model MODEL` three times and count the runs reported `passed`. The runs
+need a model endpoint: `LITELLM_BASE_URL` and `LITELLM_API_KEY`, or
+`base_url` and `api_key` under `[model]` in `.agentenv/config.toml`. Do not run
+agents unless asked. The bundle's seed is the user's real data: keep it local.
@@ -11,6 +11,44 @@ returned inline. When complete `inspect_binary_layout` or
 `inspect_analysis_view` for a summary, one section/symbol/module, or a stable
 page instead of repeating the producer.

+For any logical Evidence source that advertises retained references, pass
+`{kind: "retained-evidence", evidence_id}` instead of copying the complete
+record back into a call. The same contract covers individual, optional, array
+and nested sources across native, process, JavaScript, managed, mobile and WASM
+workflows. Sources can independently mix inline records and exact references.
+Resolution preserves the source's identity, provenance, coverage, partial facts
+and unknowns; it neither reruns analysis nor makes incomplete facts complete.
+Keep domain role and identity requirements: a native dossier cannot substitute
+for a managed member observation, for example.
+
+When starting from a summary or inspection page, use its
+`normalized_result.parent_evidence_id` to reference the complete source.
+The view's own `evidence_id` names
+only that view. `compare_artifacts` explicitly supports artifact summary inputs
+and resolves their parents; do not assume every consumer does. When a workflow
+follows source links, keep those linked records available too.
+
+MCP references belong to the current connection's ledger. If the ID is known,
+pass it directly; no discovery call or provider setup is needed. If it is missing,
+import the exported bundle or supply complete inline Evidence. Do not retry an
+unchanged reference or rerun a producer merely to move an existing record.
+Export before closing the session when the source must survive it. For CLI JSON
+workflows that advertise `--evidence-bundle`, the same reference JSON resolves
+against one explicitly selected authenticated bundle:
+
+```bash
+rea trace-application-feature request.json --evidence-bundle /absolute/path/evidence.json --json
+```
+
+This includes JavaScript traces/comparisons and runtime reconciliation, managed
+reconstruction/native verification/graph projection, Android/Apple/Harmony graph
+projection, WASM interface comparison and retained analysis views. The managed
+member comparison CLI still takes two assembly paths; process comparison takes
+two capture Evidence JSON paths. Check command help for the installed version.
+An input bundle grants no implicit file lookup: `evidence-file` and historical
+graph file selectors are accepted only by contracts advertising them. See the
+[CLI reuse guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/getting-started/cli.md#import-export-and-compare-evidence).
+
 Completed `inspect_artifact` inventory also supports a summary and
 `view: {kind: "inventory", collection: "occurrences", logical_paths: ["package.json", "main.js"]}`.
 Omit `logical_paths` to page all available occurrences; `[]` selects none.
@@ -35,6 +73,14 @@ Parent Evidence ID plus source index preserves same-address
 alternatives. Follow `coverage.next_offset` only as far as the question needs;
 exhausting retained rows does not establish complete program discovery.

+`batch_decompile` returns every body unless you select `detail: "summary"` when
+the connected tool advertises it. Use its parent Evidence ID with
+`view: {kind: "batch-decompile", collection: "items"}` for body-free rows and
+exact `where.indices`, `addresses`, `procedure_addresses` or `statuses`. Add
+`include_pseudocode: true` for several chosen bodies, or use
+`collection: "pseudocode"` with one row's `index` to page a large body. Batch
+limitations aggregate every item, so do not attribute them to one successful row.
+
 Use `record_unknown` to track unresolved questions in the user's investigation
 and name the authority or environment still required. Supply supporting and
 contradicting evidence IDs. It updates the session registry directly.
@@ -46,18 +92,22 @@ Use comparisons with complete, compatible page sets when claiming equivalence
 or absence:

 - `compare_artifacts` compares inventory pages by occurrence path, content,
-  metadata, and graph relations.
+  metadata, and graph relations. Name each side as
+  `{kind: "retained-evidence", evidence_id}` (an `inspect_artifact` result,
+  its nested inventory or its summary) or
+  `{kind: "evidence-file", path, evidence_id?}` instead of resending Evidence.
 - `compare_functions` compares explicit function Evidence, not fuzzy
  whole-binary matches. It rejects an `analyze_function` summary reply; pass
  the summary's `parent_evidence_id` as a `retained-evidence` reference or
  the complete dossier.
 - `compare_bundles` compares canonical bundle membership and unknown history.
 - `find_changed_behavior` combines existing comparisons; static differences
-  remain candidates, not causal proof.
+  remain candidates, not causal proof. Its `comparisons` accept exact references.
 - `build_call_path` needs explicit function dossiers from one artifact/provider;
-  an incomplete frontier makes absence unknown.
+  pass complete parent IDs in `functions`. An incomplete frontier makes absence
+  unknown.
 - `correlate_static_and_runtime` uses explicit mappings; matching patterns are
-  hypotheses, not causality.
+  hypotheses, not causality. Both comparison arrays accept exact references.
 - `verify_reconstruction` evaluates a finite typed specification. A pass covers
  only declared comparable claims, not global equivalence.

@@ -106,6 +156,13 @@ each plan states why in its `reason`. It replays the capture instead with
 `--replay-only` or when the state is unavailable (not derivable, or a catalog
 over the discovery budget), and its stopped document's `state` says which
 applied.
+Use `view: {kind: "environment-coverage"}` with the same rules to see what an
+environment built from a capture would serve: read tools answered from the
+state or replayed with their reason, and each write tool served or withheld
+with a hint about what to record next; it does not apply the serve-time
+catalog and state size checks. `rea environment-build <capture.har> <dir>`
+inspects, projects and exports in one step and prints the same coverage, or
+`null` when the bundle serves replay.

 For a PE/ELF export question, `inspect_native_exports` accepts `detail: "summary"`
 and retains the complete table. Query `inspect_analysis_view` with
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ For captured or bundled JavaScript that needs readable source recovery, use
 `additional_paths` when advertised, then analyze the returned `analysis_input`
 directory together. Each input retains its own snapshot, digest and byte-range
 provenance; inputs and recovered code are never executed. Recovery requires a
-caller-supplied Wakaru on Linux x64; see [the recovery guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/javascript-recovery.md).
+caller-supplied Wakaru on Linux x64; see [the recovery guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/javascript/javascript-recovery.md).

 Use `analyze_javascript_application` directly on the operator-supplied ASAR or
 extracted tree. When the question concerns known source paths and the connected
@@ -24,9 +24,13 @@ not an unfiltered request. `detail: "summary"` reduces delivery
 and does not by itself reduce analysis work.

 ASAR header/index admission defaults to 16 MiB / 16777216 bytes;
-`REA_ASAR_MAX_HEADER_BYTES` (at most 256 MiB, set where REA starts) changes it.
-`source_paths`, `detail`, and `max_heap_mb` do not bypass or raise it. Or
-analyze an extracted directory.
+an admission error names `asar.max_header_bytes` and its bounds (at most
+256 MiB). Call `update_analysis_settings` with that setting, `action: "set"`
+and enough bytes, then retry the same full-archive request. No inspection or
+REA restart is required. `REA_ASAR_MAX_HEADER_BYTES` seeds future REA processes.
+`source_paths`, `detail`, and `max_heap_mb` do not bypass or raise header admission.
+Runtime JavaScript timeout/heap defaults are also editable; explicit per-call
+`analysis_timeout_ms` and `max_heap_mb` take precedence.

 Exact `#alias` specifiers resolve through the importer's
 enclosing package `imports` map to package-local files; nested `node_modules`
@@ -74,6 +78,15 @@ classification, and unavailable sources never establish route reachability or
 the complete application route denominator. See the
 [route inventory guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/javascript-route-inventory.md).

+For captured endpoint observations and inference facts, `analyze_web_bundle`
+also accepts `view: {kind: "web-bundle", collection: "endpoints", limit: 32}`
+with `detail: "summary"`. Read later `endpoints`, `inferences`, or `summary`
+pages from the retained parent. Filter before requesting detail; retain
+`source_index` together with parent ID and collection, and request `location`
+or `basis` when tracing sources. Page exhaustion does not mean producer
+completeness: check `completeness`, structured `source_unknowns`, and limitations.
+Endpoint candidates remain inferences rather than confirmed network behavior.
+
 ## Read a module without repeating analysis

 Use the actual returned parent ID, on the same connection, as `source.evidence_id`.
@@ -156,7 +169,10 @@ leaving it, and `both` when the question needs both. Trace traversal includes
 containment relationships, so even a narrow seed can expand many nodes; a
 bidirectional trace can reach unrelated sibling modules. A module item or page
 is preferable when its observations already answer the question. Do not treat
-all reached nodes as participants in the feature.
+all reached nodes as participants in the feature. For a broad trace, pass
+`view: {"kind": "feature-trace", "collection": "paths"}` (or `summary`) to
+retain the complete trace and read terminal paths first; page `nodes` or `edges`
+with exact `where.node_ids` through `inspect_analysis_view` as needed.

 Reuse retained parent Evidence when the server advertises it, or supply complete
 Evidence inline. Include Hopper or Ghidra Evidence only when its artifact digest
@@ -223,10 +239,19 @@ This notation is
 a template: replace it with the actual returned ID. Versions before 4.1.0 accept only full
 inline Evidence. Use the exact ID
 returned by the producer on the same MCP connection. Resolution does not run
-analysis or select a provider; findings remain inline. Native observation
-arrays still take full Evidence. `close_binary` clears retained references;
-export a bundle before closing, or supply portable inline Evidence in another
-connection. A missing reference includes its ID and recovery guidance.
+analysis or select a provider; findings remain inline. For summary or inspection
+replies, select the complete `normalized_result.parent_evidence_id`. Native
+observation arrays and runtime reconciliation's `static_layers[].analysis` and
+`runtime_observations[]` also accept exact references where advertised. Each
+source can independently be inline or retained, preserving identity, coverage
+and unknowns. CLI workflows advertising `--evidence-bundle` resolve these inputs
+from the explicitly selected bundle. `close_binary` releases the engine while
+retaining references and complete Unknown history on the same MCP connection.
+`reset_investigation` explicitly clears them; optional `save_path` checkpoints the
+complete bundle before clearing. Import that bundle in another connection to
+restore its original references. Retention is bounded, in-memory and never silently
+evicted; `binary_session.investigation` reports the budget. A missing reference
+includes its ID and recovery guidance.

 For exact file/native metadata or processing gaps, use
 `view: {kind: "javascript-facts", where: {paths: ["package.json"]}, property_keys: ["name", "operation", "analysis_status"], limit: 32}`.
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 # Native, managed, and packaged artifacts

-For release comparisons, export `list_procedures` Evidence from each target before
-closing it. Close clears session records: import both bundles after collecting the
-two targets, or supply portable inline Evidence. `match_native_functions` pairs unique exact names and, when supplied,
+For release comparisons on one MCP connection, retain `list_procedures` Evidence
+from each target and reuse its exact IDs after target switches or `close_binary`.
+For a handoff or new process, export the complete bundle and import it there,
+including its source closure. `reset_investigation` explicitly clears retained
+records; optional `save_path` checkpoints them before clearing.
+`match_native_functions` pairs unique exact names and, when supplied,
 complete observed body bytes. Reuse optional same-context `list_names`,
 `procedure_info`, `read_bytes` and existing `analyze_function` dossiers as
 `left_observations`/`right_observations`; an MCP `analyze_function` summary
@@ -13,6 +16,20 @@ Select columns, batch IDs and page individual facts; aliases remain unresolved.
 Unpaired observations do not prove additions/removals. Existing matched dossier
 pairs include inputs for `compare_functions`; otherwise analyze just chosen pairs.

+Aggregate completed comparisons with `find_changed_behavior`, selecting each
+comparison's exact `retained-evidence` ID instead of resending full records.
+Inline comparison Evidence remains accepted. References belong to the current
+server: after handoff, import the original bundle including its source closure.
+Do not substitute dossier IDs or summary views. Static differences remain
+behavior candidates, with runtime behavior unknown unless separately observed.
+
+For a matching representation refusal, inspect `details.limit` and raise
+`native.matching_representation_bytes` with `update_analysis_settings` before
+retrying the unchanged MCP request. CLI launch seed:
+`REA_NATIVE_MATCHING_REPRESENTATION_BYTES`. The default is 96 MiB; the policy
+range is 1 byte to 1 GiB and does not bound process RSS. Keep the complete
+inventories: splitting them changes global name/body uniqueness.
+
 ## Apple app resources

 Use `open_bundle_resources` with the selected app path, then `inspect_plist`,
@@ -50,11 +67,18 @@ See [desktop installations](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/deskto
 Use `inspect_go_binary` for an explicit local ELF, PE or Mach-O (universal
 files need `architecture`) when the
 question concerns the embedded compiler version, module/dependency versions,
-local replacements or build settings. No `open_binary`, Go installation or
+local replacements, build settings, or static Go string literals packed without
+NUL terminators. Pass `include_string_literals: true`
+(`--include-string-literals`, optional `max_string_literals` /
+`--max-string-literals`) to recover bounded inferred word-aligned `(ptr, len)`
+UTF-8 string slices from read-only data and page them through `go`
+`string_literals` views. No `open_binary`, Go installation or
 target execution is required. The CLI equivalent is `inspect-go-binary PATH`.
 Preserve artifact SHA-256, original file ranges, framed module bytes and every
 unparsed module-text line. A missing record is an unknown, not proof of a
-non-Go binary; observed metadata does not authenticate its claims. Function,
+non-Go binary; observed metadata does not authenticate its claims, and static
+`(ptr, len)` string recovery excludes compiler-inlined stack/immediate strings
+without proving runtime reachability. Function,
 source and type recovery remain a separate native-analysis question.

 ## Model files
@@ -125,6 +149,45 @@ table or overlay. Bound snapshots, loaded IAT contents, and export-forward
 resolution remain unobserved. See
 [PE import and delay-load tables](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/pe-imports.md).

+## Windows Shell Link shortcuts
+
+Use `inspect_windows_shortcut` for an explicit local `.lnk` file when the
+question concerns the recorded target path, arguments, working directory, icon
+location, volume serial, network share names, ExtraData blocks, or Tracker
+droid identifiers. No `open_binary`, Windows SDK, COM, or target execution is
+required. The CLI equivalent is `inspect-windows-shortcut PATH`. Preserve
+artifact SHA-256, FILETIME raw decimals, IDList type bytes, and ExtraData
+signatures. Unknown IDList items and ExtraData signatures remain raw with
+SHA-256; they are not guessed. Version-1 UUID MAC and timestamp values are
+labelled derived. A missing optional section is observed absence of that
+structure. See
+[Windows Shell Link shortcuts](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/windows-shortcut.md).
+
+## PE TLS callbacks and load configuration
+
+Use `inspect_pe_load_config` for an explicit local PE32/PE32+ image when the
+question concerns code that runs before the entry point through TLS callbacks,
+or the security cookie, SafeSEH, CFG, EH-continuation and XFG declarations in
+the load configuration. No `open_binary`, Windows SDK, or target execution is
+required. The CLI equivalent is `inspect-pe-load-config PATH`. Preserve artifact
+SHA-256, directory and callback-array file ranges, and callback VAs as
+hexadecimal strings. Fields outside the declared `Size` are `null`. Guard-flag
+mitigations carry `evidence_kind: "inferred"`; enforcement remains unobserved.
+See
+[PE TLS callbacks and load configuration](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/pe-load-config.md).
+
+## Binary hardening
+
+Use `inspect_binary_hardening` for an explicit local ELF, PE, or Mach-O file
+when the question concerns PIE or ASLR, NX, RELRO, stack-protector or FORTIFY
+signs, control-flow flags, or stripped state. No `open_binary`, pwntools, or
+target execution is required. The CLI equivalent is
+`inspect-binary-hardening PATH`. Universal Mach-O files return one image per
+slice. A missing import is `unknown`, not proof the protection was omitted.
+Authenticode and Mach-O code-signature rows report presence, not validity.
+`hardened_runtime` stays unknown and names `inspect_signature`. See
+[binary hardening](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/binary-hardening.md).
+
 ## ELF note tables

 Use `inspect_elf_notes` for an explicit local ELF32/ELF64 image when the
@@ -136,6 +199,36 @@ absence of those declarations, not proof the image never carried notes in
 another container. See
 [ELF note tables](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/elf-notes.md).

+## ELF and Mach-O initializer functions
+
+Use `inspect_native_initializers` for an explicit local ELF or Mach-O image
+when the question is which functions run before `main` or at exit: ELF
+`DT_PREINIT_ARRAY`, `DT_INIT`, `DT_INIT_ARRAY`, `DT_FINI`, `DT_FINI_ARRAY` and
+legacy `.ctors`/`.dtors`, or Mach-O `__mod_init_func`, `__init_offsets` and
+`__mod_term_func`. Pass `architecture` for a universal Mach-O. The CLI
+equivalent is `inspect-native-initializers PATH`. PIE slots are resolved
+through RELATIVE, RELR and section relocations, and Mach-O slots through
+chained fixups. Keep each entry's `resolution`: `unresolved` means the value was
+not established, and `unresolved_import` names an external symbol. Page with
+`offset` and `limit`. See
+[ELF and Mach-O initializer functions](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/native-initializers.md).
+
+## ELF unwind function ranges
+
+Use `inspect_elf_unwind_ranges` for an explicit local ELF32/ELF64 image when
+the question concerns function starts and lengths that survive `strip`, which
+functions have an LSDA, or which ranges have no exact symbol. No
+`open_binary` or target execution is required. The CLI equivalent is
+`inspect-elf-unwind-ranges PATH`. Preserve artifact SHA-256, FDE start and
+end, containing section, exact symbol name, CIE index, LSDA, and personality.
+Page later ranges with `offset` and `limit`. A missing `.eh_frame` is
+observed absence of that declaration and of `PT_GNU_EH_FRAME`, not proof the
+image has no functions. Header disagreement is a limitation and does not drop
+decoded ranges. `.debug_frame` is reported present or absent and is not
+decoded. CFA instructions are counted and not evaluated. Indirect EH pointers
+are not dereferenced. See
+[ELF unwind function ranges](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/elf-unwind-ranges.md).
+
 ## Apple IPS crash reports

 Use `inspect_apple_ips` for an explicit local Apple `.ips` file when the
@@ -148,6 +241,46 @@ uppercase image UUIDs, and integer literals that exceed IEEE-754 range. Only
 no crash result. Opened Mach-O and dSYM UUID joins remain unobserved. See
 [Apple IPS crash reports](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/apple-ips.md).

+## Linux kernel modules
+
+Use `inspect_kernel_module` for an explicit local ELF32/ELF64 relocatable
+object when the question concerns `.modinfo` license, vermagic, alias,
+depends, or parm strings, the `__versions` symbol CRCs, or an appended module
+signature trailer. No `open_binary`, Linux host, or `modinfo` program is
+required. The CLI equivalent is `inspect-kernel-module PATH`. Preserve
+artifact SHA-256, key order, duplicate keys, CRC hex, and section file ranges.
+A missing section is observed absence when section names are known, not proof
+the module never carried that metadata. `.gnu.linkonce.this_module` is reported
+as present or absent; `struct module` stays unknown because its layout changes
+with the kernel version. `__ksymtab` records are not decoded. The PKCS#7 range
+and its SHA-256 are observed; certificate, signer, and digest coverage remain
+unvalidated. An absent trailer is not proof the module is unsigned in another
+container. gzip, xz, and zstd whole-file containers are unsupported and name
+`external_decompression` as the next probe: use an external codec utility to
+decompress into a separate file, then call `inspect_kernel_module` on that file. See
+[Linux kernel modules](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/kernel-modules.md).
+
+## Linux kernel build config
+
+Use `inspect_kernel_build_config` for an explicit local kernel image (`vmlinux`
+ELF, raw arm64 `Image`, x86 `bzImage`/`zImage`, or `configs.ko`) when the
+question is which kernel version it is or how it was configured. No
+`open_binary`, Linux host, or `extract-ikconfig` is required. The CLI
+equivalent is `inspect-kernel-build-config PATH`; pass `name` for one exact
+`CONFIG_*` option and `offset`/`limit` to page the rest. Preserve the banner
+version, builder, and compiler, the config SHA-256 and option count, and each
+entry's value kind (`y`, `m`, `string`, `number`, `not_set`). A config is
+accepted only when `IKCFG_ST` is immediately followed by a valid gzip member
+and `IKCFG_ED`, so an ordinary `IKCFG_ST` string is not a config. Offsets with
+`space: "inflated_payload"` are positions in an inflated bzImage payload, not
+file offsets. An absent config describes only the searched bytes; the kernel
+may have been built without `CONFIG_IKCONFIG` or with it as a module. Truncated
+payloads are incomplete, not absent. A framed blob that does not decode, has a
+bad CRC, or holds non-config text is `malformed`, not absent. xz, lz4, lzma, zstd, bzip2, and lzo
+payloads are unsupported and name `external_decompression`: decompress with an
+external utility, then call `inspect_kernel_build_config` on the result. See
+[Linux kernel build config](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/kernel-build-config.md).
+
 ## CPython pyc files

 Use `inspect_python_pyc` for an explicit local CPython 3.7–3.13 `.pyc` when the
@@ -185,7 +318,7 @@ Choose `row_limit` when a finite sample is useful and keep truncation and
 unspecified row order explicit. Virtual tables, shadow tables and views are
 schema facts, not row-read targets. REA inspects private copies and leaves
 the source files untouched; obtain a coherent quiescent database/WAL snapshot
-before inspection. See [SQLite snapshots](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/sqlite-databases.md).
+before inspection. See [SQLite snapshots](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/data/sqlite-databases.md).

 ## Recorded Linux crashes

@@ -200,7 +333,7 @@ The optional `include_debugger_context` facet adds mapping candidates through
 caller-supplied GDB/pwndbg in an owned core-only session. Display names do not
 establish current file identity; zero reported flags leave permissions unknown.
 Requested unavailable context fails with setup guidance. See
-[recorded crashes](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/recorded-crashes.md)
+[recorded crashes](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/recorded-crashes.md)
 for exact upstream profiles, bounds and verification coverage.

 ## Offline ELF layout
@@ -259,6 +392,18 @@ cross-references. Addresses and recovered pseudocode are analysis observations,
 not original source. Provider unavailability and unsupported metadata remain
 unknown rather than false.

+For large pseudocode, request `procedure_pseudo_code` with `detail: "summary"`
+on the first MCP call. It retains the complete observation and returns the
+original selection, text availability and length without the body. Use
+`normalized_result.parent_evidence_id` with `inspect_analysis_view` and
+`view: {kind: "native", facet: "pseudocode", offset: 0, limit: 20000}`;
+follow `coverage.next_offset` for later pages. Choose a smaller limit if one
+page exceeds the client or transport budget. Offsets and limits count UTF-16
+code units, not lines or tokens. Pages reuse the same observation without
+repeating decompilation. Null and empty text remain distinct. Omitted or
+`complete` detail preserves full inline delivery. Summary delivery requires a
+retaining session and does not reduce the work or memory of decompilation.
+
 For a completed `analyze_function` dossier, use `inspect_analysis_view` with
 `view: {kind: "native", facet: "value_flow_operations", offset: 0, limit: 32}`
 and the exact retained Evidence ID to read selected facts without reanalysis.
@@ -284,40 +429,84 @@ run, use `observe_native_calls` with explicit breakpoints and a bounded
 `duration_ms`/`max_events`. It launches a new process under LLDB, so the target
 runs and may change files or use the network. Hardened-runtime targets need the
 `get-task-allow` entitlement.
-Function breakpoints use exact LLDB runtime names: a Darwin C `_main` static symbol
-may be `main` at runtime. REA does not translate names. Set `module` to the image
+Function breakpoints use exact LLDB runtime names: pass an `inspect_macho` export
+or import `runtime_name` (`main`), not its symbol-table `name` (`_main`). REA does
+not translate breakpoint names. Set `module` to the image
 file name when selecting that image only; otherwise loaded system images also
 match. Inspect retained locations and module paths before attributing a call.

 Use `binary_session` with no arguments to check the open target, selected
-provider, and alignment. Its default `result.tool_availability` carries a
-complete inventory grouped by shared facts. Expand each group's `names` and
-inherit the inventory-level client requirements unless a group overrides them;
-availability, reasons, remediation, modes, and flags remain inline. The
-`effects` and `annotations` arrays name true flags from fixed vocabularies, so an
-omitted known flag is false. `tools/list` remains the canonical source for full
-tool schemas when target or provider state changes.
+provider, and alignment. Its default summary `result.tool_availability` carries
+the complete tool inventory grouped by current status. Expand each group's
+`names` and inherit the inventory-level client requirements unless a group
+overrides them; availability, reasons, remediation, and modes remain inline.
+Provider candidates keep availability and target-support status, code, and
+reason. `omitted_fields` names what the summary leaves out; `{"detail":
+"complete"}` adds each unavailable candidate's `remediation`, provider
+diagnostics, candidate capability sets, and tool surface, `effects`, and
+`annotations`. Those arrays name true flags from fixed
+vocabularies, so an omitted known flag is false. `tools/list` remains the
+canonical source for full tool schemas when target or provider state changes.

 Provider capability groups carry provider identity and ordered limitations.
 Prepend each set's `shared_limitations` to a group's `limitations` to recover the
-operation's full ordered list. Candidate capabilities describe possible
-providers. Top-level session capabilities describe the current route, and
+operation's full ordered list. Candidate capabilities, returned with complete
+detail, describe possible providers. Top-level session capabilities describe the current route, and
 `analysis_provider_binding` identifies the selected provider.

+## Continue editable Ghidra analysis across processes
+
+For a task spanning agent sessions, check `binary_session` after selecting
+Ghidra: the current provider's `capabilities[].shared_limitations` states whether
+Program checkpoints are enabled or the session is ephemeral. Successful native
+queries distinguish initial analysis from an actually restored packed Program;
+do not infer that restoration happened merely because checkpoint mode is enabled.
+
+In ephemeral mode, choose a private absolute directory and set
+`REA_GHIDRA_CHECKPOINT_DIR` in the environment starting REA. Restart the MCP server
+after changing that launch configuration; no current tool call or runtime
+analysis-setting update enables it. Stock ELF/PE/Mach-O imports on Linux/macOS
+are supported; see the [checkpoint setup and limitations](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/getting-started/installation.md#automatically-checkpoint-an-owned-ghidra-program).
+
+With the setting enabled, normal opens restore compatible saved Programs
+automatically. Initial completed analysis is saved, and `close_binary` saves
+later metadata edits; no separate save/restore tool is needed. Repair a reported
+save failure and retry close. Cancellation or process failure can lose edits
+after the last successful save; unfinished initial analysis cannot resume.
+Keep the same checkpoint configuration for later processes. Evidence/Unknown
+history and immutable REA query snapshots have separate persistence workflows.
+
+## Reuse caller-selected Ghidra analysis
+
+When the caller supplies an expanded project, configure `REA_GHIDRA_PROJECT_PATH`
+(the `.gpr` marker) and optionally `REA_GHIDRA_PROGRAM_NAME` (one root program),
+then restart/reconnect before `open_binary`. CLI uses the same configuration.
+REA opens only a fingerprint-bound owned copy with `-process -noanalysis -readOnly`;
+original project files are not opened by the engine or saved. Database edits,
+import overrides and repair scripts are unavailable in this mode. Treat original
+analysis completeness/settings as unknown and prior edits as caller-project state.
+The program's recorded import digest must match the target; changed project content
+requires reopening for a fresh profile. See the
+[setup and preparation guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/getting-started/installation.md#reuse-an-existing-ghidra-project).
+
 ## Ghidra startup deadline recovery

 `provider_timeout` during the first Ghidra query can cover import, auto-analysis,
 bridge startup, and readiness. The default 330,000 ms is configurable through
 `REA_GHIDRA_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_MS`; a smaller query still needs the same cold import.

-Preserve useful Evidence before closing the session or restarting REA. Check
-`close_binary` and resolve reported cleanup failures. Set a larger startup budget
-in the environment that launches REA, then restart REA and reconnect the MCP
-client before reopening the same target. Closing and reopening a binary in the
-existing server keeps its original configuration and starts import again.
-Environment changes in an agent's shell do not update an already running MCP
-server. If its launch configuration cannot be changed, report that constraint
-and the exact retry setting instead of claiming a fixed technical limit.
+When the error names `ghidra.startup_timeout_ms`, call
+`update_analysis_settings` with `action: "set"` and a larger value within the
+reported bounds. Resolve retained cleanup before the next startup attempt.
+No REA restart is needed; an already accepted startup keeps its original
+budget. Follow the error's session-specific restart guidance, and preserve useful Evidence before closing
+and reopening the target when remediation requires that lifecycle step.
+
+For a per-function timeout, update `ghidra.decompile_timeout_seconds` and retry
+the same function on the existing Program. Explicit `null` removes that
+per-function deadline. Inspection is optional when the error supplies the
+setting and bounds. Runtime updates disappear when REA exits; environment
+changes only seed future REA processes.

 The client's tool-call deadline must allow startup plus the requested query;
 server settings and progress notifications cannot override it. CLI analysis
@@ -332,7 +521,7 @@ and memory controls in place. Disable specific expensive analyzers only when
 their missing coverage is acceptable and retain the resulting limitations.
 Exported C and embedded resources remain useful independent evidence, but a
 timeout does not establish complete analysis or absence of code. See the
-[deadline and client guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/mcp-contracts.md#ghidra-first-query-deadlines-and-recovery).
+[deadline and client guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md#ghidra-first-query-deadlines-and-recovery).

 ## Bridge request ceiling

@@ -363,6 +552,21 @@ encoded in bounded batches.
 The 25000 ms Cutter request deadline and the 256-candidate discovery budget
 still have no runtime override.

+## Selected native facts and call graphs
+
+For a large `get_call_graph`, or repeated `procedure_address`,
+`procedure_callees`, `procedure_callers` and `resolve_containing_procedure`
+queries, select `detail: "summary"` when the first 64 recorded observations
+suffice. Read further `native-observation` pages from the returned parent Evidence
+ID. Graph message IDs index that page's exact-text dictionary; keep level,
+source index, failed nodes, and partial/unknown relationship coverage.
+Read referenced source context through `native-context` facets `overview`,
+`analysis-profile`, `limitations` and `result-limitations`. Reuse inspected
+context/profile values only for the same digest; until caveats are read,
+interpretation beyond the returned facts remains unknown. Complete Evidence
+remains retained and exportable. Small complete replies can cost fewer tokens
+than additional context/page calls; count the completed task and discovery.
+
 ## Static memory and original file bytes

 For Ghidra, `read_bytes` reads initialized analysis memory, including loader
@@ -390,6 +594,14 @@ loaded bytes, file mappings, relocations and the entry against the immutable
 snapshot. Keep `mismatch` and `unsupported` explicit. Verified import covers the
 reported static image, not runtime DOS or PC-98 hardware behavior.

+For a large load-image report, select `detail: "summary"` and query its
+`parent_evidence_id` with `inspect_analysis_view` kind `native-load-image`.
+Choose a collection such as `relocations` or `mappings`, select only needed
+fields, and page with offset/limit. Original indices preserve same-address
+alternatives. Null collections remain unrecorded or inapplicable; paging does
+not upgrade unsupported verification. CLI requires `--evidence_output` for
+summary delivery so complete source Evidence remains accessible.
+
 For Ghidra decompilation, `procedure_pseudo_code` also accepts `procedure: "file-offset:0x..."`; CLI `rea decompile <path> --file-offset=0x... --provider ghidra` resolves the source byte offset internally. An unresolved 0x-prefixed numeric procedure selector also falls back to a unique file mapping. Existing symbols and analysis addresses win; multiple mappings fail as ambiguous. Preserve the returned file-offset and address locations and raw selection observations. ELF virtual addresses are distinct from file offsets; never assume an arbitrary offset plus image base is an analysis address.

 Complete function body ranges use inclusive ends and can contain gaps. Do not
@@ -433,6 +645,11 @@ names), coverage and per-collection counts. Page rows with
 `view: {kind: "managed-members", collection: "call_edges", offset: 0, limit: 64}`
 over `types`, `exported_types`, `fields`, `methods`, `member_refs`, `call_edges`,
 `field_accesses` or `user_strings`.
+Use exact `names` and `declaring_types` filters before paging supported
+collections. For a compact method lookup, request `fields: ["name",
+"declaring_type", "signature"]`; omit `body` to avoid anchors. Identity tokens,
+original `source_index`, module/MVID and source coverage remain. Check
+`unresolved_filter_rows` before interpreting an empty match as absence.

 ### .NET NativeAOT

@@ -455,7 +672,7 @@ broader metadata recovery on Linux; it requires an explicitly configured
 NativeAOT JAR. These are separate routes. The built-in parser also runs on
 Windows Ghidra P0; read frozen literals from its report, because
 `search_strings` does not include them. See the
-[NativeAOT guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/ghidra-nativeaot.md)
+[NativeAOT guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/providers/ghidra-nativeaot.md)
 for setup, supported layouts, and host restrictions. Preserve binary identity
 and distinguish derived metadata from Ghidra database observations. Recovered
 types and native pseudocode are not original C# source. Windows Ghidra P0 has
@@ -484,12 +701,22 @@ every executable in the bundle. It also lists missing or weak loads and earlier
 provides them.

 Use `extract_artifact` when materialized files from a supported format are needed.
-It extracts the active target and accepts optional `integrity_policy`; see the [MCP contracts](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/mcp-contracts.md).
+It extracts the active target and accepts optional `integrity_policy`; see the [MCP contracts](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md).
 It materializes all regular files into a fresh temporary directory chosen by
 REA. Symlinks and encrypted entries are inventory facts, not extractable files.
 The result reports the materialized directory; callers do not choose the
 destination. No separate permission grant is needed.

+For classic iNES cartridges, `open_binary` recognizes the byte signature without
+an executable architecture. `inspect_artifact` retains header facts and each
+PRG/CHR file unit's offset, length and SHA-256; its nested inventory's
+`ines.reconstruction` verifies the actual ordered region bytes against the
+whole-file digest. Extraction includes the original header, optional trainer
+and uninterpreted trailing bytes. These file units are not mapper/CPU bank
+maps. NES 2.0, UNIF, dirty legacy headers and truncated payloads are explicitly
+refused. No emulator or 6502 analysis is performed. See the
+[iNES guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/ines-containers.md).
+
 Native DMG traversal automatically uses a read-only mount on supported macOS
 hosts, with an owned temporary mount directory and cleanup. It needs no approval
 flag. Unsupported hosts or mount failures remain explicit limitations; do not
@@ -502,7 +729,7 @@ temporary, not a retained export of the image's contents.
 For headerless DOS COM, explicitly open with `format: "dos-com"` (CLI
 `--target-format dos-com`). Inspect the load image before trusting function
 analysis: the entry is `0x10100`, file offset zero, with imposed real-mode segment
-context. PSP/stack/device state remains unmodeled. See [DOS guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/ghidra-dos.md).
+context. PSP/stack/device state remains unmodeled. See [DOS guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/providers/ghidra-dos.md).

 Use `inspect_byte_entropy` to triage high- and low-entropy ranges before extraction.

@@ -516,11 +743,34 @@ otherwise. Big-endian ARM, Thumb-only, and Cortex-M variants are unsupported.
 `0x0000..0xffff`. 65C02, 65816, cartridge containers, bank switching, and mapper
 semantics are unsupported. `m68k` requires an even entry and decodes the 68040
 superset of the 68000 family; Amiga/Atari containers and vector-table entry
-discovery are unsupported. Windows Ghidra P0 admits raw images only for `6502`. See [raw binary guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/raw-binary.md).
+discovery are unsupported. Windows Ghidra P0 admits raw images only for `6502`. See [raw binary guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/providers/raw-binary.md).
+
+Intel HEX, S-record, UF2 and DfuSe files are containers, not raw images:
+`inspect_artifact` lists address regions (UF2 per familyID, DfuSe per element
+with its alternate setting), and `extract_artifact` writes each region. Open an
+extracted region as `raw-binary` with its start address as `entry_point`. UF2
+numbering gaps leave coverage unknown; a DfuSe suffix CRC mismatch follows
+`integrity_policy`. See [UF2 and DfuSe](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/uf2-dfuse.md).

 ### Function annotations in Ghidra

-Use `annotate_native_function` for one function name and/or entry comments, with at least one explicit change. Review its annotation readback and refreshed dossier inline. Changes are atomic and session-scoped; empty comments clear them, omitted fields preserve them. Later MCP calls observe edits until close. CLI `annotate-native-function` returns the updated analysis before discarding the session. Original executable bytes are unchanged; edits invalidate immutable snapshots. Windows P0 does not admit database mutations. For naming only, `set_address_name` / `set_addresses_names` also work with Ghidra: they name function entries or data addresses (primary labels) and return compact per-address success booleans instead of a dossier.
+Fresh-import sessions admit annotations; existing-project reuse is read-only.
+Use `annotate_native_function` for one function name and/or entry comments, with at least one explicit change. Review its annotation readback and refreshed dossier inline. Changes are atomic; empty comments clear them, omitted fields preserve them. Later MCP calls observe edits. Normal close saves them when owned Program checkpoint mode is enabled; ephemeral mode discards them. CLI `annotate-native-function` follows the same setting when closing after its updated result. Select the [checkpoint workflow](#continue-editable-ghidra-analysis-across-processes) before edits that must survive a later process. Original executable bytes are unchanged; edits invalidate immutable snapshots. Windows P0 does not admit database mutations. For naming only, `set_address_name` / `set_addresses_names` also work with Ghidra: they name function entries or data addresses (primary labels) and return compact per-address success booleans instead of a dossier. Ghidra rejects batch addresses that request the same name or a name another selected address holds; `raw_result.failures` gives each failure's reason.
+
+A provider switch or different target can retire the active Ghidra database and discard
+its edits, even if the new provider fails on a later call. Same-target,
+same-profile reopen keeps the active database. Retained annotation Evidence
+records what happened; it does not restore the edits.
+
+For `compare_functions`, obtain `analyze_function` Evidence before and after the
+edit while the MCP session is open; annotation Evidence is not a comparison
+input. Export the needed Evidence before close if comparison will happen later.
+Authenticated same-artifact coordinates preserve renamed entries as
+`matched / same-entry`, with the canonical `entry_address` inline; name and
+exact-text changes remain separate dimensions. This requires compatible
+architecture, provider-owned mapping and selected-image commitments. Equal
+numeric addresses alone cannot establish correspondence; inspect retained
+source Evidence and coverage when the match remains ambiguous.

 ## Offline PE resource inventory

@@ -532,7 +782,7 @@ code pages, payload hashes and static icon-group references. Same-language icon
 resolution is explicit; missing references and size mismatch remain visible.
 Other payloads are opaque, and this operation does not decode images or simulate
 Windows resource loading. Consult the budgets and supported tree profile in
-[offline binary diagnostics](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/binary-diagnostics.md).
+[offline binary diagnostics](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/binary-diagnostics.md).

 ## Offline PE and ELF export tables

@@ -542,13 +792,15 @@ directory or ELF dynamic symbol table on any host without opening a native
 target. Ordinal-only, forwarded and hidden-version exports stay distinct;
 partial or unsupported coverage means the inventory is incomplete, not that
 exports are absent. Use `inspect_macho` for Mach-O. See
-[offline binary diagnostics](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/binary-diagnostics.md).
+[offline binary diagnostics](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/binary-diagnostics.md).

 For exact core-module import/export differences, use `compare_wasm_interfaces`
 with two complete inspection Evidence records (or current-session retained
 references) and explicit scope. Preserve unknown types/duplicate names; static
 interface equality is not runtime compatibility. CLI accepts complete inline
-Evidence in `rea compare-wasm-interfaces input.json --json`.
+Evidence in `rea compare-wasm-interfaces input.json --json`, or exact references
+with `--evidence-bundle /absolute/path/evidence.json`. Use the complete parent
+ID when the inspection returned a summary.

 ## Godot PCK

@@ -568,3 +820,112 @@ page cannot prove absence in unknown coverage. Retained views are historical,
 not fresh filesystem checks. No decryption, Godot resource decoding, GDScript
 decompilation or target execution is provided. See
 [Godot PCK](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/godot-pck.md).
+
+UnityFS AssetBundle containers (`.bundle`, `.ab`, YooAsset packages and other
+byte-identified files) list `CAB-*` SerializedFiles and `.resS` members with
+header and node facts; none/LZ4/LZ4HC member blocks stream on demand. Bundles
+declaring asset-bundle encryption keep header facts with unknown directory
+coverage; LZMA member bytes retain named occurrences with unavailable hashes.
+Virtual member offsets are not physical carrier locations. Format 6–8 readers
+cache one decoded block and support retained filtered/paged views. No
+decryption or SerializedFile object decoding is provided. See
+[UnityFS](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/unityfs.md).
+
+WeChat mini-program packages (`.wxapkg` files with `0xBE`/`0xED` marks) list
+members with declared names and absolute carrier offsets; member bytes are
+stored verbatim. `V1MMWX` PC-client packages report `encrypted` directory
+status with unknown coverage and are refused on extraction; no decryption is
+attempted. See
+[wxapkg](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/wxapkg.md).
+
+U-Boot legacy uImages use the same inspection/extraction workflows. Prefer a
+retained summary and selected inventory views for header facts or component
+IDs. Header addresses/CPU/OS are declarations; payloads remain as stored.
+Multi-file components retain their aligned physical ranges; the full payload
+is also materialized. Unknown name text retains its original 32 bytes. See
+[U-Boot uImage](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/uimage.md).
+
+## ESP images
+
+For an ESP32-family app or bootloader image, `open_binary` then
+`inspect_artifact` with `detail: "summary"`. `root_format_metadata` holds the
+observed `header` and `descriptor` (its `kind` is the app or bootloader role)
+and the derived `chip`, `checksum`, `appended_sha256` and
+`undescribed_trailing` ranges. Segment rows (`segment-NN.bin`) carry
+`load_addr`, `classification` (`mapped`, `loaded`, `not-loaded` or `unknown`,
+per ESP-IDF `should_map`/`should_load`; RAM ranges are not checked) and
+`source_location`; select them with `inspect_analysis_view` and
+`logical_paths`. Signature blocks are `unverified`; `public_key_sha256`
+matches eFuse key digests.
+
+Unknown `source_coverage` means truncation or undescribed trailing bytes, such
+as the flash segments of a `--ram-only-header` image; do not infer absence
+from it. Erased flash is described. Integrity mismatches are facts, not
+refusals. ESP8266 images are refused, and flash-encrypted images are not
+recognized. Segments are not disassembled, and RISC-V or Xtensa segments
+cannot be opened as raw-binary. See
+[ESP images](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/esp-image.md).
+
+## ESP flash images
+
+A whole-flash dump opens as `esp-flash-image`. `root_format_metadata` holds
+`partition_table` (its `method`: `default`, `caller` or a derived
+`scan`), `bootloader` and `apps` ESP image facts, the `otadata` records,
+`partitions_outside_dump` and `boot_selection`. Every table has a
+`boot_selection`: its `basis` names the bootloader's branch (`no-otadata`
+without otadata, `none` when the bootloader rejects the table, `unknown`
+when a record is missing), and it lists its `assumptions`;
+`running_partition` is always `unknown`. Each image names its entry
+`path`. With `detail: "summary"` the root kind is `esp-flash-image-summary`
+and each image is a compact `summary` (chip, entry point, segment count,
+classified load ranges, signature block count, descriptor identity,
+integrity); complete detail keeps every segment. Partition rows
+(`partitions/<label>.bin`) carry the declared `type`, `subtype`, names,
+`flash_address`, `size` and flags; `encrypted` is a storage flag, not
+proof of ciphertext. `written_offset`/`written_end` bound the bytes that
+are not erased: an app slot whose facts say `erased` can still hold an older
+image, and a limitation says so. For a dump read from another flash address, call
+`open_binary` with `format: "esp-flash-image"` and `flash_offset`; an
+`esp-image` whose `flash_dump` is set names that offset in a next probe; a
+relocated table can be named with `partition_table_offset`. No table found
+means unknown, often flash encryption. Extraction writes `nvs_keys` as
+ordinary data. See
+[ESP flash images](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/esp-flash-image.md).
+
+## Bun standalone executables
+
+A `bun build --compile` executable stores its module graph in Mach-O
+`__BUN,__bun`, a PE or ELF `.bun` section, or an appended trailer.
+`open_binary` then `inspect_artifact` reports root format `bun-standalone` with
+the carrier, structural layout, module count, entry point, raw flags and
+compile exec-argv; each module keeps its `/$bunfs/...` source name, loader,
+encoding, sizes and SHA-256, with sourcemap, bytecode and module-info regions as
+separate children. Use summary root metadata `entry_point_logical_path` as the
+exact inventory `logical_paths` selector, then read the selected content node by
+its artifact ID; the reader owns virtual-name normalization and indexed fallback. `extract-artifact` writes stored contents through the safe
+output tree; route extracted JavaScript to `analyze_javascript_application`.
+Layout labels describe record shapes, not a detected compiler version; unknown
+or ambiguous layouts are unsupported. Bytecode is retained, not decoded, and the
+executable is never run. See
+[Bun standalone executables](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/bun-standalone.md).
+
+## Deno compile executables
+
+A `deno compile` executable stores its application in a Mach-O `__SUI,d3n0l4nd`
+section, an Intel Mach-O `<~sui-data~>` trailer, an ELF `SUI` note of type
+`0x53554901`, or a PE `RT_RCDATA` resource named `D3N0L4ND`.
+`open_binary` then `inspect_artifact` reports root format `deno-standalone`
+with the carrier, entry point, recorded options, and one occurrence per virtual
+file, including size and SHA-256. Transpiled output, CJS export analysis, and
+source maps are separate occurrences with the file's `index` and their own
+`role`. They normally use a `.deno-*` suffix on the file path and move to an
+indexed path on a collision, so use the reported `logical_path`. Symlink targets
+stay recorded path parts. A virtual filesystem that cannot be listed leaves
+coverage unknown.
+Environment-file values and CA certificate bytes are retained in local Evidence
+with their counts and byte lengths. The npm snapshot length is reported and not
+decoded. `extract-artifact` writes
+stored files through the safe output tree; route extracted JavaScript to
+`analyze_javascript_application`. Other layouts are unsupported, and the
+executable is never run. See
+[Deno compile executables](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/deno-standalone.md).
@@ -41,10 +41,16 @@ behavior unknown. Record truncation, unmatched breakpoints, changed target
 identity and cleanup uncertainty as limitations, rather than treating no retained
 event as proof that the behavior never occurs.

-Detailed contracts and prerequisites: [Frida](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/frida-instrumentation.md),
+For same-session MCP comparisons, pass each capture inline or reuse it as
+`{"kind":"retained-evidence","evidence_id":"ev_..."}`. Default comparison
+keeps capture-local timing as provenance without treating scheduler or observer
+latency as a behavior change; use an exact `trace_spec` event when timing is part
+of the analyst question.
+
+Detailed contracts and prerequisites: [Frida](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/runtime/frida-instrumentation.md),
 [GDB/Rizin/Cutter](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/reverse-engineering-tools.md),
-[process capture](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/process-capture.md),
-and [native calls/UI](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/native-investigation.md#native-desktop-observation).
+[process capture](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/runtime/process-capture.md),
+and [native calls/UI](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/native/native-investigation.md#native-desktop-observation).

 ## Browser and Electron

@@ -86,6 +92,8 @@ Page-declared WebMCP tools are untrusted inventory and are never invoked by REA.
  browser and profile. Check `browser.cleanup` for the outcome.
  Request only the DOM, accessibility, or network details needed for the question.
  The default final capture contains the URL; step outcomes are reported separately.
+  For multi-step flows with trees or events, select `detail: "summary"` and page
+  exact steps, transactions, text slices or events with `inspect_analysis_view` kind `browser-scenario`.
  Add a wait action for the expected page state before capturing it. Report that
  REA performed the declared actions.

@@ -128,5 +136,5 @@ Inspect native `.saz` snapshots with `inspect_web_network_capture` and
 traffic analysis, connect Everywhere's separate MCP server and use its
 advertised session tools with an explicit `sessionsSource` (`LiveTraffic` or
 `AgentCalls`). Preserve existing sessions and filters when inspecting a
-recorded run. See the [capture and MCP guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/web-network-captures.md)
+recorded run. See the [capture and MCP guide](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/guides/web/web-network-captures.md)
 for the workflow and Telerik's public setup and traffic-debugging skills.
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
+  "name": "rea",
+  "description": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.",
+  "owner": {
+    "name": "morluto",
+    "url": "https://github.com/morluto"
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "rea",
+      "description": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.",
+      "source": {
+        "source": "npm",
+        "package": "rea-agents",
+        "version": "6.8.0"
+      },
+      "category": "development"
+    }
+  ]
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "name": "rea",
+  "version": "6.8.0",
+  "description": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "morluto",
+    "url": "https://github.com/morluto"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://rea.tools/",
+  "repository": "https://github.com/morluto/rea",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "keywords": [
+    "reverse-engineering",
+    "binary-analysis",
+    "decompiler",
+    "mcp-server"
+  ],
+  "skills": "./skills",
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "rea": {
+      "command": "node",
+      "args": [
+        "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/plugin-mcp-launcher.mjs",
+        "6.8.0"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "icon": "./assets/rea-plugin.png"
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "rea": {
+      "command": "node",
+      "args": [
+        "./scripts/plugin-mcp-launcher.mjs",
+        "6.8.0"
+      ],
+      "cwd": ".",
+      "startup_timeout_sec": 30
+    }
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+  "name": "rea",
+  "version": "6.8.0",
+  "description": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "morluto",
+    "url": "https://github.com/morluto"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://rea.tools/",
+  "repository": "https://github.com/morluto/rea",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "keywords": [
+    "reverse-engineering",
+    "binary-analysis",
+    "decompiler",
+    "mcp-server"
+  ],
+  "skills": "./skills",
+  "mcpServers": "./.codex-plugin/mcp.json",
+  "interface": {
+    "displayName": "REA",
+    "shortDescription": "Reverse engineer anything",
+    "longDescription": "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.",
+    "developerName": "morluto",
+    "category": "Developer Tools",
+    "capabilities": [
+      "Interactive",
+      "Read",
+      "Write"
+    ],
+    "websiteURL": "https://rea.tools/",
+    "defaultPrompt": [
+      "Use REA to explain how this binary implements a feature.",
+      "Use REA to compare two versions of this application.",
+      "Use REA to recover the sources from this JavaScript bundle."
+    ],
+    "composerIcon": "./assets/rea-plugin.png",
+    "logo": "./assets/rea-plugin.png"
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Review changes to security-sensitive automation and dependency inputs.
+/.github/CODEOWNERS @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/.github/dependabot.yml @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/.github/workflows/ @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/.github/actions/ @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/package.json @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/package-lock.json @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/scripts/verify-tools/skills/package.json @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/scripts/verify-tools/skills/package-lock.json @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/scripts/fixtures/http3-lab-requirements.txt @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/website/requirements.txt @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
+/third_party/ @morluto @kaoru0822-kitauji @N0zoM1z0 @gensokyo-dev
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ body:
    attributes:
      label: Documentation location
      description: Link the page, section, command, API, skill, or inline comment.
-      placeholder: README.md#quick-start or docs/mcp-contracts.md
+      placeholder: README.md#quick-start or docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md
    validations:
      required: true

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name: REA production code
+
+# Match the existing default-setup scan's local-input threat model.
+threat-models: [local]
+
+# Retain root traversal, including future production roots. Hidden directories
+# need their own root; use a directory so Python can share this configuration.
+paths:
+  - .
+  - docs/.vitepress
+
+# Keep the default query suite and all production roots, including bridge/,
+# install.sh, runtime scripts, release controllers, and GitHub Actions.
+# Exclude test inputs at extraction time so they cannot taint production callers.
+paths-ignore:
+  - tests
+  - scripts/fixtures
+  - "**/*.test.*"
+  - "**/*.fixture.*"
+  - "**/test_*.py"
+  - "**/*_test.py"
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: npm
+    directories:
+      - /
+      - /scripts/verify-tools/skills
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+    cooldown:
+      default-days: 7
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+    groups:
+      npm-minor-and-patch:
+        update-types:
+          - minor
+          - patch
+
+  - package-ecosystem: pip
+    directory: /website
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+
+  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+    groups:
+      actions-minor-and-patch:
+        update-types:
+          - minor
+          - patch
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ unchecked. Maintainers can help resolve open questions.
 Use "none" or "not applicable" only when established. -->

 - Semantic owner and earliest changed stage:
+  <!-- Name the producer of parsed facts or resources and its affected consumers.
+  Summarize superseded paths removed and any distinct policy, lifecycle,
+  lazy-loading, or compatibility responsibility retained. -->
 - Contribution scope fit and linked maintainer decision:
 - CLI and MCP/tool-catalog contract:
 - Provider, bridge, target-format, or platform compatibility:
@@ -68,6 +71,10 @@ source, link, or rendered-document checks. -->
 - User-visible CLI/MCP output (if applicable):
 - Remaining proof gaps:

+For boundary fixes, identify the applicable [boundary regressions](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/development/testing.md#boundary-regressions)
+and [lifecycle regressions](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/development/testing.md#lifecycle-regressions)
+covered by the evidence above, and explain relevant gaps.
+
 For evidence-bearing changes:

 - [ ] Observed, derived, and inferred claims remain distinguishable.
@@ -92,14 +99,15 @@ limits, security/privacy/containment implications, and meaningful proof gaps. --
  its new behavior and migration, and why compatibility/deprecation cannot
  preserve it. Every release increments minor, including breaking changes;
  keep breaking markers and migration notes so callers can assess compatibility.
-  See docs/releasing.md. -->
+  See docs/development/releasing.md. -->
 - Real Hopper/Ghidra, browser, or OS coverage:
 - Package or release metadata impact:
 - Security, privacy, process, or containment review:

 ## Author readiness

-<!-- The human owner completes these declarations before requesting review.
+<!-- The human owner completes these declarations before requesting review,
+unless the PR author is exempt as listed in CONTRIBUTING.md.
 The PR author is the owner by default. A different owner must explicitly accept
 ownership on this PR.
 AI agents must leave these declarations to a human to dictate to them or there could be catastrophic consequences for many users of REA.
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ jobs:
      qualification_run_id: ${{ steps.qualification.outputs.run_id }}
      code: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.code }}
      reverse_tools: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.reverse_tools }}
+      python: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.python }}
+      packet_capture: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.packet_capture }}
+      signal_recording: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.signal_recording }}
      sqlite: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.sqlite }}
      runtime: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.runtime }}
      package: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.package }}
@@ -144,6 +147,9 @@ jobs:
      - uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020 # v4.4.0
        with:
          node-version-file: .nvmrc
+      - name: Validate source architecture before dependency installation
+        if: needs.changes.outputs.code == 'true'
+        run: node scripts/verify/architecture-guards.mjs
      - name: Cache npm package downloads
        id: npm-cache
        uses: ./.github/actions/npm-cache
@@ -264,6 +270,27 @@ jobs:
          if-no-files-found: ignore
          retention-days: 7

+  python:
+    name: Python producer tests
+    needs: changes
+    if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true' && needs.changes.outputs.tier == 'fast'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4.4.0
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020 # v4.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
+      - name: Cache npm package downloads
+        id: npm-cache
+        uses: ./.github/actions/npm-cache
+      - run: npm ci
+      # Analysis-efficiency checks import compiled process modules.
+      - name: Reuse portable build outputs across runs
+        uses: ./.github/actions/portable-build-cache
+      - run: npm run test:prepare
+      - run: npm run test:python
+
  test-source:
    name: Source tests
    needs: changes
@@ -391,7 +418,9 @@ jobs:
      needs.changes.outputs.web_network == 'true' ||
      needs.changes.outputs.web_runtime == 'true' ||
      needs.changes.outputs.web_source_map == 'true' ||
-      needs.changes.outputs.agentenv == 'true'
+      needs.changes.outputs.agentenv == 'true' ||
+      needs.changes.outputs.packet_capture == 'true' ||
+      needs.changes.outputs.signal_recording == 'true'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10
    permissions:
@@ -515,7 +544,7 @@ jobs:
          --coverage.reporter=text
          --coverage.reporter=json-summary
          --coverage.reporter=lcov
-          --reporter=default
+          --reporter=dot
          --reporter=junit
          --reporter=json
          --reporter=./scripts/ci/test-timing-reporter.mjs
@@ -530,7 +559,7 @@ jobs:
           needs.test-source.result == 'success' || needs.test-source.result == 'failure')
        run: >-
          npm exec -- vitest --merge-reports
-          --reporter=default
+          --reporter=dot
          --reporter=junit
          --reporter=json
          --reporter=./scripts/ci/test-timing-reporter.mjs
@@ -750,9 +779,23 @@ jobs:
          npm run verify:legacy-simulator
          npm run verify:apple-dispatch
          npm run verify:interface-builder
+      - name: Verify portable iNES CLI, MCP and source boundaries
+        run: >-
+          npm run test:focused --
+          tests/acceptance/inesContainer.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/filesystem/inesArtifact.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/filesystem/inesCancellation.test.ts
      - name: Run native Apple and process boundary regressions
        run: >-
          npm run test:focused --
+          tests/boundary/providers/hopper/hopperMacLaunchArguments.test.ts
+          tests/acceptance/providers/hopperStartupRecovery.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/providers/hopper/hopperClient.helperFailure.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/providers/hopper/bridgeBootstrapCleanup.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/providers/hopper/bridgeTargetLease.integration.test.ts
+          tests/acceptance/artifactDmgAttachmentRecoveryCli.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/providers/native/nativeDmgArtifactReader.test.ts
+          tests/process-global/dmgCancellationReason.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/installScript.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/nibNativeHierarchy.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/interfaceBuilderBundle.test.ts
@@ -762,9 +805,13 @@ jobs:
          tests/boundary/cli/nativeDemangleCli.test.ts
          tests/boundary/cli/nativeDispatchPropertyAttributes.test.ts
          tests/boundary/mcp/nativeDemangleMcp.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/mcp/nativeMachoSummaryMcp.test.ts
          tests/boundary/providers/native/nativeSignatureTargetBinding.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/providers/native/nativeUiOffscreenWindow.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/process/nativeUiVerifierLane.test.ts
          tests/boundary/cli/nativeSignatureCli.test.ts
          tests/boundary/cli/nativeMachoArm64_32Cli.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/cli/nativeMachoEncryptionCli.test.ts
          tests/boundary/mcp/nativeSignatureTargetBindingMcp.test.ts
          src/process/capture/FilesystemSnapshot.test.ts
          tests/process-global/filesystemSnapshotFallbackCancellation.test.ts
@@ -852,12 +899,32 @@ jobs:
      # The matching native artifact establishes real Job Object and private
      # runtime boundaries for these fixtures. Ghidra and Java are not needed;
      # real engine claims remain in the separate controlled-provider workflow.
+      # Run native proofs before the broad curated suite so an unrelated
+      # fixture failure cannot hide the real control and recovery checks.
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+        with:
+          name: windows-process-boundary-fixture
+          path: .cache/windows-process-boundary/
+      # Passing the fixture adds the breakaway, caller/child token, environment
+      # semantics and ancestor reparse observations, which the lane skips
+      # entirely when it is absent.
+      - run: >-
+          npm run verify:windows-native -- .
+          "${{ github.workspace }}\.cache\windows-process-boundary\process-boundary.exe"
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+        with:
+          name: windows-native-inspection-fixture
+          path: .cache/windows-native-inspection-fixture/
+      - name: Verify native inspection failure ownership and recovery
+        run: node scripts/verify-windows-native-inspection.mjs
      - name: Run curated Windows capability tests
        run: >-
          npx vitest run --coverage.enabled=false
          src/process/capture/FilesystemSnapshot.test.ts
          tests/process-global/filesystemSnapshotFallbackCancellation.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/typescriptCompiler.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/filesystem/releaseProposal.test.ts
+          tests/acceptance/byteEntropyWindowsIdentity.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/binaryTarget.test.ts
          src/contracts/sessionPathInputs.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/directAnalysisSnapshotReplay.test.ts
@@ -867,6 +934,7 @@ jobs:
          tests/boundary/providers/native/artifactProvider.extractionCompleteness.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/setupUnavailableProvider.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/windowsNpxRegistration.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/filesystem/claudeDesktopSkillUninstallWindows.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/clientConfigurationEnvironment.test.ts
          tests/boundary/filesystem/clientConfigurationLayeredEnvironment.test.ts
          tests/acceptance/setup/registrationRuntimeEnvironmentCli.test.ts
@@ -878,6 +946,7 @@ jobs:
          tests/boundary/process/packageNpmInvocation.test.ts
          tests/boundary/process/packedBridgeVerification.test.ts
          tests/boundary/process/windowsOutputCapture.test.ts
+          tests/boundary/process/windowsExecutableSelection.test.ts
          tests/acceptance/webModuleCli.test.ts
          tests/acceptance/webSourceLocationCli.test.ts
          tests/boundary/cli/referenceSourceImportStatus.test.ts
@@ -902,22 +971,6 @@ jobs:
          tests/process-global/runnerCancellation.test.ts
          tests/process-global/windowsOwnedCommand.test.ts
          tests/conformance/providers/ghidra/realGhidraWindowsWorkflow.test.ts
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
-        with:
-          name: windows-process-boundary-fixture
-          path: .cache/windows-process-boundary/
-      # Passing the fixture adds the breakaway, caller/child token, environment
-      # semantics and ancestor reparse observations, which the lane skips
-      # entirely when it is absent.
-      - run: >-
-          npm run verify:windows-native -- .
-          "${{ github.workspace }}\.cache\windows-process-boundary\process-boundary.exe"
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
-        with:
-          name: windows-native-inspection-fixture
-          path: .cache/windows-native-inspection-fixture/
-      - name: Verify native inspection failure ownership and recovery
-        run: node scripts/verify-windows-native-inspection.mjs
      - name: Verify real Node Inspector discovery and observation
        timeout-minutes: 10
        env:
@@ -964,8 +1017,8 @@ jobs:
        uses: ./.github/actions/npm-cache
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run docs:check
-      - name: Render documentation and validate page links
-        run: npm run docs:build
+      - name: Verify published routes, source links and local anchors
+        run: npm run verify:docs:routes
      - name: Generation leaves authored files unchanged
        run: git diff --exit-code
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
@@ -1078,6 +1131,26 @@ jobs:
      build_cache_artifact: rea-build-cache
      remote_cache_write: ${{ inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch')) }}

+  packet_capture:
+    needs: [changes, static, build]
+    if: needs.changes.outputs.packet_capture == 'true'
+    secrets:
+      TURBO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TURBO_TOKEN }}
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/real-packet-capture.yml
+    with:
+      build_cache_artifact: rea-build-cache
+      remote_cache_write: ${{ inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch')) }}
+
+  signal_recording:
+    needs: [changes, static, build]
+    if: needs.changes.outputs.signal_recording == 'true'
+    secrets:
+      TURBO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TURBO_TOKEN }}
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/real-signal-recording.yml
+    with:
+      build_cache_artifact: rea-build-cache
+      remote_cache_write: ${{ inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch')) }}
+
  nativeaot:
    needs: [changes, static]
    if: needs.changes.outputs.nativeaot == 'true'
@@ -1104,6 +1177,9 @@ jobs:
        static-deep,
        build,
        reverse-tools-quality,
+        python,
+        packet_capture,
+        signal_recording,
        test-shard,
        test-source,
        sqlite-runtime,
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+name: CodeQL production
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "37 5 * * 1"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+  group: codeql-production-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    # A repository administrator must disable default setup before enabling
+    # this workflow; default setup rejects advanced CodeQL result uploads.
+    if: vars.REA_CODEQL_ADVANCED == 'true'
+    name: Analyze production (${{ matrix.language }})
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 45
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      max-parallel: 1
+      matrix:
+        language: [javascript-typescript, python, actions]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@d23441a48e516b6c34aea4fa41551a30e30af803 # v6.1.0
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Initialize production analysis
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@9b3254085494b55a0f7c4c2b3d2d52cc712ce370 # v4
+        with:
+          languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+          build-mode: none
+          config-file: .github/codeql/production.yml
+          threads: 2
+          ram: 4096
+      - name: Analyze production code
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@9b3254085494b55a0f7c4c2b3d2d52cc712ce370 # v4
+        with:
+          category: /language:${{ matrix.language }}
+          output: ${{ runner.temp }}/codeql-production-results
+          threads: 2
+          ram: 4096
+      - name: Retain complete analysis evidence
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
+        with:
+          name: codeql-production-${{ matrix.language }}
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/codeql-production-results
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          retention-days: 7
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
          node-version-file: .nvmrc
      - name: Validate the SDK pin against the provider's verified release
        run: node scripts/verify-ghidra-bridge-sources.mjs --check-sdk-pin >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-      # The bridge probe imports only source-owned ARM/Thumb bytes and never
+      # The bridge probe imports only source-owned ARM, Thumb and MIPS bytes and never
      # executes target code. All SDK/project state stays in runner storage.
      - name: Acquire checksum-verified Ghidra SDK in isolated runner storage
        shell: bash
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ jobs:
          java_home_variable="JAVA_HOME_${GHIDRA_JAVA_MAJOR}_X64"
          test -n "${!java_home_variable}"
          JAVA_HOME="${!java_home_variable}" npm run verify:ghidra:bridge-sources -- --verified-sdk
-      - name: Inspect real ARM and Thumb instruction context through the bridge
+      - name: Inspect real ARM, Thumb and MIPS instruction context through the bridge
        shell: bash
        run: |
          java_home_variable="JAVA_HOME_${GHIDRA_JAVA_MAJOR}_X64"
@@ -58,7 +58,79 @@ jobs:
            -import "${probe_root}/arm-thumb.bin" -loader BinaryLoader -processor ARM:LE:32:v7 \
            -noanalysis -readOnly -deleteProject \
            -scriptPath "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/tests/conformance/ghidra;${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" \
-            -postScript ReaArmContextProbe.java "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" \
+            -postScript ReaInstructionContextProbe.java "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" \
            > "${probe_root}/output.log" 2>&1 || { cat "${probe_root}/output.log"; exit 1; }
          cat "${probe_root}/output.log"
          grep -F 'REA_ARM_CONTEXT_OK arm=0 thumb=1 unavailable=null (injected provider value)' "${probe_root}/output.log"
+          mkdir -p "${probe_root}/mips-project"
+          # MIPS32 addiu v0,a0,3; MIPS16 li v0,90. These bytes are never executed.
+          printf '\003\000\202\044\132\152\000\000' > "${probe_root}/mips.bin"
+          timeout 180s "${GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR}/support/analyzeHeadless" "${probe_root}/mips-project" MipsContext \
+            -import "${probe_root}/mips.bin" -loader BinaryLoader -processor MIPS:LE:32:default \
+            -noanalysis -readOnly -deleteProject \
+            -scriptPath "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/tests/conformance/ghidra;${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" \
+            -postScript ReaInstructionContextProbe.java "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" mips \
+            > "${probe_root}/mips-output.log" 2>&1 || { cat "${probe_root}/mips-output.log"; exit 1; }
+          cat "${probe_root}/mips-output.log"
+          grep -F 'REA_MIPS_CONTEXT_OK standard=0 mips16=1' "${probe_root}/mips-output.log"
+      # Each probe imports source-owned bytes at 0x1000, away from the Cortex-M
+      # vector symbols that ARMCortex.pspec defines at 0, and decodes them from
+      # the language's default context, so M-profile Thumb state must hold at
+      # the first byte. The bytes are never executed.
+      - name: Decode M-profile ARM and Xtensa bytes in their default context
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          java_home_variable="JAVA_HOME_${GHIDRA_JAVA_MAJOR}_X64"
+          export JAVA_HOME="${!java_home_variable}"
+          probe_root="${RUNNER_TEMP}/rea-decode"
+          mkdir -p "${probe_root}"
+          # mrs r0, msp; bx lr
+          printf '\357\363\010\200\160\107' > "${probe_root}/cortex.bin"
+          # mrs r0, msplim (ARMv8-M only); bx lr
+          printf '\357\363\012\200\160\107' > "${probe_root}/v8m.bin"
+          # entry a1, 32; retw.n
+          printf '\066\101\000\035\360' > "${probe_root}/xtensa.bin"
+          decode() {
+            local name="$1" language="$2"
+            shift 2
+            mkdir -p "${probe_root}/${name}-project"
+            timeout 180s "${GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR}/support/analyzeHeadless" "${probe_root}/${name}-project" Decode \
+              -import "${probe_root}/${name}.bin" -loader BinaryLoader -loader-baseAddr 0x1000 \
+              -processor "${language}" -noanalysis -readOnly -deleteProject \
+              -scriptPath "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/tests/conformance/ghidra" \
+              -postScript ReaDecodeProbe.java "${language}" "$@" \
+              > "${probe_root}/${name}.log" 2>&1 || { cat "${probe_root}/${name}.log"; exit 1; }
+            cat "${probe_root}/${name}.log"
+            grep -F "REA_DECODE_OK ${language} $*" "${probe_root}/${name}.log"
+          }
+          decode cortex ARM:LE:32:Cortex mrs/4/msp bx/2/lr
+          decode v8m ARM:LE:32:v8-m mrs/4/msplim bx/2/lr
+          decode xtensa Xtensa:LE:32:default entry/3/a1 retw.n/2
+      # A call through a writable slot keeps Ghidra's recorded target as an
+      # observed callee while callee coverage stays partial; a direct call is
+      # the complete control. The source-owned x86-64 bytes are never executed.
+      - name: Keep computed-call targets non-exhaustive in callee coverage
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          java_home_variable="JAVA_HOME_${GHIDRA_JAVA_MAJOR}_X64"
+          export JAVA_HOME="${!java_home_variable}"
+          probe_root="${RUNNER_TEMP}/rea-computed-call"
+          mkdir -p "${probe_root}/project"
+          {
+            printf '\270\001\000\000\000\303\314\314' # 0x1000: mov eax, 1; ret
+            printf '\270\002\000\000\000\303\314\314' # 0x1008: mov eax, 2; ret
+            printf '\377\025\052\000\000\000\303\314' # 0x1010: call [rip + 0x2a]; ret
+            printf '\377\320\303\314\314\314\314\314' # 0x1018: call rax; ret
+            printf '\350\333\377\377\377\303\314\314' # 0x1020: call 0x1000; ret
+            printf '\314%.0s' $(seq 24)               # 0x1028: int3 padding
+            printf '\000\020\000\000\000\000\000\000' # 0x1040: slot = 0x1000
+          } > "${probe_root}/computed-call.bin"
+          test "$(wc -c < "${probe_root}/computed-call.bin")" -eq 72
+          timeout 180s "${GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR}/support/analyzeHeadless" "${probe_root}/project" ComputedCall \
+            -import "${probe_root}/computed-call.bin" -loader BinaryLoader -loader-baseAddr 0x1000 \
+            -processor x86:LE:64:default -noanalysis -readOnly -deleteProject \
+            -scriptPath "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/tests/conformance/ghidra;${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" \
+            -postScript ReaComputedCallCoverageProbe.java "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/bridge/ghidra" \
+            > "${probe_root}/output.log" 2>&1 || { cat "${probe_root}/output.log"; exit 1; }
+          cat "${probe_root}/output.log"
+          grep -F 'REA_COMPUTED_CALL_COVERAGE_OK slot=observed-complete-discovery-unknown register=partial direct=complete callers=discovery-unknown' "${probe_root}/output.log"
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ jobs:
        id: npm-cache
        uses: ./.github/actions/npm-cache
      - run: npm ci
-      - run: npm run docs:build
+      - run: npm run verify:docs:routes
@@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ jobs:
      - uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
        with:
          python-version: "3.12"
-      # Public ECR caps anonymous pulls by data per source IP and hosted runners share IPs, so the
-      # framework's image builds can fail here for hours. mirror.gcr.io serves the same Docker
-      # official images under the same digests, so each base image the pinned framework builds from
-      # is pulled there and named as its Dockerfile names it, as the framework's own CI does.
+      # The pinned framework builds its gateway and service-db images only when pulling them from
+      # ghcr.io fails, from public ECR base images; public ECR caps anonymous pulls by data per source
+      # IP and hosted runners share IPs, so such a build can fail here for hours. mirror.gcr.io serves
+      # the same Docker official images under the same digests, so each base image those Dockerfiles
+      # name is pulled there and named as its Dockerfile names it, as the framework's own CI does.
      # Digest-pinned names are set in containerd, whose images Docker reads only on the containerd
      # image store; switching stores restarts dockerd, so it happens before anything uses Docker.
      - name: Use the containerd image store
@@ -72,16 +73,16 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          runner_root="${RUNNER_TEMP}/rea-agentenv-runner"
          python -m venv "${runner_root}"
-          "${runner_root}/bin/python" -m pip install --require-virtualenv --no-cache-dir 'agentenv-framework==0.9.1334'
+          "${runner_root}/bin/python" -m pip install --require-virtualenv --no-cache-dir 'agentenv-framework==0.9.1431'
          "${runner_root}/bin/agent-env" --version
          docker version --format '{{.Server.Version}}'
          echo "REA_AGENT_ENV_COMMAND=${runner_root}/bin/agent-env" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
          echo "REA_DOCKER_COMMAND=$(command -v docker)" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
-      - name: Pull the pinned framework's public ECR base images from mirror.gcr.io
+      - name: Pull the gateway and service-db public ECR base images from mirror.gcr.io
        shell: bash
        run: |
          package="$("${REA_AGENT_ENV_COMMAND%/agent-env}/python" -c 'import agent_env, pathlib; print(pathlib.Path(agent_env.__file__).parent)')"
-          grep -rhoE '^FROM +public\.ecr\.aws/docker/library/[^ ]+' --include='Dockerfile*' "${package}" | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u |
+          grep -rhoE '^FROM +public\.ecr\.aws/docker/library/[^ ]+' --include='Dockerfile*' "${package}/env/gateway" "${package}/env/envs/service_db" | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u |
            while read -r image; do
              name=${image#public.ecr.aws/docker/library/}
              source=mirror.gcr.io/library/$name
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ on:
      - tests/conformance/android/**
      - tests/fixtures/android/static-initializers/**
      - tests/fixtures/android/direct-invokes/**
+      - tests/fixtures/android/external-invokes/**
      - .nvmrc
  workflow_dispatch:
  workflow_call:
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ jobs:
          "$JAVA_HOME/bin/javac" -J-Xmx512m -J-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=2 \
            -classpath "$jar" -d "$classes" \
            bridge/android/ReaJadxBridge.java \
-            tests/conformance/android/ReaJadxMetadataRegression.java
+            tests/conformance/android/ReaJadxMetadataRegression.java \
+            tests/conformance/android/ReaJadxExternalReferencesRegression.java
          "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" -Xmx512m -XX:ActiveProcessorCount=2 \
            -classpath "$classes:$jar" ReaJadxMetadataRegression \
            "$android_root/ApiDemos-debug.apk" \
@@ -53,3 +55,9 @@ jobs:
            | tee "$android_root/metadata.log"
          grep -F 'RAW_CLASS_SELECTOR_REGRESSION_PASS nested=true metadata=true references=true' \
            "$android_root/metadata.log"
+          "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" -Xmx512m -XX:ActiveProcessorCount=2 \
+            -classpath "$classes:$jar" ReaJadxExternalReferencesRegression \
+            "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/tests/fixtures/android/external-invokes" "$classes" \
+            | tee "$android_root/external-references.log"
+          grep -F 'EXTERNAL_REFERENCE_REGRESSION_PASS prototypes=2 using_nodes=3 sites=4' \
+            "$android_root/external-references.log"
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ jobs:
      - uses: ./.github/actions/portable-build-cache
        with:
          build_cache_artifact: ${{ inputs.build_cache_artifact }}
+      - name: Install AArch64 and ELF32 cross toolchains for source-owned fixtures
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends \
+            gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu gcc-i686-linux-gnu gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-mips-linux-gnu gcc-mipsel-linux-gnu \
+            libc6-dev-arm64-cross libc6-dev-i386-cross libc6-dev-armel-cross libc6-dev-mips-cross libc6-dev-mipsel-cross
      - name: Acquire exact upstream libraries in an isolated runner environment
        shell: bash
        run: |
@@ -48,7 +48,13 @@ jobs:
      - uses: ./.github/actions/portable-build-cache
        with:
          build_cache_artifact: ${{ inputs.build_cache_artifact }}
-      - run: npm run verify:browser
+      # Own a fresh bus so Chromium never depends on an inherited session address.
+      - run: dbus-run-session -- npm run verify:browser
+        env:
+          REA_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/google-chrome
+          REA_BROWSER_NO_SANDBOX: "true"
+      # The preceding verifier builds the runtime used by this request journey.
+      - run: dbus-run-session -- node scripts/verify-browser-request.mjs
        env:
          REA_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/google-chrome
          REA_BROWSER_NO_SANDBOX: "true"
@@ -1,39 +1,35 @@
 name: Real packet capture
 on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      build_cache_artifact:
+        description: Portable build cache artifact from the calling CI run.
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: ""
+      remote_cache_write:
+        description: Trusted release qualification may publish the remote cache.
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+    secrets:
+      TURBO_TOKEN:
+        description: Remote cache token. Only trusted callers pass it.
+        required: false
  workflow_dispatch:
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "tests/boundary/captures/**"
-      - "tests/boundary/cli/captureCleanup.test.ts"
-      - "tests/boundary/mcp/packetCaptureMcp.test.ts"
-      - "src/captures/**"
-      - "src/pcap/**"
-      - "src/domain/pcap/**"
-      - "src/domain/analysisView/pcapCaptureView.ts"
-      - "src/application/pcap/**"
-      - "src/contracts/pcap/**"
-      - "src/server/registerPcapTools.ts"
-      - "tests/boundary/pcap/**"
-      - "src/domain/captures/**"
-      - "src/application/captures/**"
-      - "src/contracts/captures/**"
-      - "src/composition/captures.ts"
-      - "src/cli/captureCommands.ts"
-      - "src/server/registerCaptureTools.ts"
-      - "scripts/verify-packet-capture.mjs"
-      - ".github/workflows/real-packet-capture.yml"
-permissions:
-  contents: read
+
 env:
  HUSKY: "0"
-  # Writes only on the default branch for push, schedule, manual dispatch,
-  # and workflow_call. Pull requests get an empty token and remote read-only mode.
-  TURBO_TOKEN: "${{ (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'workflow_call')) && secrets.TURBO_TOKEN || '' }}"
+  # A called workflow sees the caller event, so workflow_call is not an event
+  # name here. Writes when remote_cache_write is set, or on the default branch
+  # for push, schedule, and manual dispatch. Open pull requests stay empty-token
+  # and use the local cache only.
+  TURBO_TOKEN: "${{ (inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'))) && secrets.TURBO_TOKEN || '' }}"
  TURBO_TEAM: ${{ vars.TURBO_TEAM }}
-  TURBO_CACHE: "${{ (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'workflow_call')) && 'local:rw,remote:rw' || 'local:rw,remote:r' }}"
-concurrency:
-  group: real-packet-capture-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
+  TURBO_CACHE: "${{ (inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'))) && 'local:rw,remote:rw' || 'local:rw' }}"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
 jobs:
  tshark:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
@@ -48,8 +44,18 @@ jobs:
        uses: ./.github/actions/npm-cache
      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y tshark util-linux python3
      - run: npm ci
+      - uses: ./.github/actions/portable-build-cache
+        with:
+          build_cache_artifact: ${{ inputs.build_cache_artifact }}
      - run: npm run build:cached
-      - run: npm run test:focused -- tests/boundary/captures/fieldDiscovery.test.ts src/process/LinuxResourceLimits.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/captureProvider.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/captureDescriptorCleanup.test.ts tests/boundary/pcap/pcapProvider.test.ts tests/boundary/pcap/pcapProviderCrossPlatform.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/resourceLimits.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/packetOutput.test.ts tests/boundary/mcp/packetCaptureMcp.test.ts tests/boundary/cli/captureCleanup.test.ts
+      - name: Run focused tests and require Linux resource and cleanup cases
+        run: |
+          report=".cache/rea-packet-required-tests.json"
+          mkdir -p .cache
+          rm -f "$report"
+          node scripts/run-exact-tests.mjs run --reporter=default --reporter=json --outputFile.json="$report" \
+            tests/boundary/captures/fieldDiscovery.test.ts src/process/LinuxResourceLimits.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/captureProvider.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/captureDescriptorCleanup.test.ts tests/boundary/pcap/pcapProvider.test.ts tests/boundary/pcap/pcapProviderCrossPlatform.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/resourceLimits.test.ts tests/boundary/captures/packetOutput.test.ts tests/boundary/mcp/packetCaptureMcp.test.ts tests/boundary/cli/captureCleanup.test.ts tests/acceptance/pcapVerifier.test.ts
+          node scripts/ci/require-provider-tests.mjs packet "$report"
      - run: node scripts/verify-packet-capture.mjs
        env:
          REA_TSHARK_COMMAND: /usr/bin/tshark
@@ -1,32 +1,35 @@
 name: Real signal recording
 on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      build_cache_artifact:
+        description: Portable build cache artifact from the calling CI run.
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: ""
+      remote_cache_write:
+        description: Trusted release qualification may publish the remote cache.
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+    secrets:
+      TURBO_TOKEN:
+        description: Remote cache token. Only trusted callers pass it.
+        required: false
  workflow_dispatch:
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "tests/boundary/signals/**"
-      - "tests/boundary/cli/signalCleanup.test.ts"
-      - "tests/boundary/mcp/signalRecordingMcp.test.ts"
-      - "src/signals/**"
-      - "src/domain/signals/**"
-      - "src/application/signals/**"
-      - "src/contracts/signals/**"
-      - "src/composition/signals.ts"
-      - "src/cli/signalCommands.ts"
-      - "src/server/registerSignalTools.ts"
-      - "scripts/verify-signal-recording.mjs"
-      - ".github/workflows/real-signal-recording.yml"
-permissions:
-  contents: read
+
 env:
  HUSKY: "0"
-  # Writes only on the default branch for push, schedule, manual dispatch,
-  # and workflow_call. Pull requests get an empty token and remote read-only mode.
-  TURBO_TOKEN: "${{ (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'workflow_call')) && secrets.TURBO_TOKEN || '' }}"
+  # A called workflow sees the caller event, so workflow_call is not an event
+  # name here. Writes when remote_cache_write is set, or on the default branch
+  # for push, schedule, and manual dispatch. Open pull requests stay empty-token
+  # and use the local cache only.
+  TURBO_TOKEN: "${{ (inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'))) && secrets.TURBO_TOKEN || '' }}"
  TURBO_TEAM: ${{ vars.TURBO_TEAM }}
-  TURBO_CACHE: "${{ (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'workflow_call')) && 'local:rw,remote:rw' || 'local:rw,remote:r' }}"
-concurrency:
-  group: real-signal-recording-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
+  TURBO_CACHE: "${{ (inputs.remote_cache_write == true || (github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', github.event.repository.default_branch) && (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'))) && 'local:rw,remote:rw' || 'local:rw' }}"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
 jobs:
  sigrok:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
@@ -41,8 +44,18 @@ jobs:
        uses: ./.github/actions/npm-cache
      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y sigrok-cli util-linux python3
      - run: npm ci
+      - uses: ./.github/actions/portable-build-cache
+        with:
+          build_cache_artifact: ${{ inputs.build_cache_artifact }}
      - run: npm run build:cached
-      - run: npm run test:focused -- tests/boundary/signals/decoderDiscovery.test.ts src/process/LinuxResourceLimits.test.ts src/domain/signals/annotationTextWindow.test.ts tests/boundary/signals/recordingProvider.test.ts tests/boundary/signals/recordingDescriptorCleanup.test.ts tests/boundary/signals/resourceLimits.test.ts tests/boundary/mcp/signalRecordingMcp.test.ts tests/boundary/cli/signalCleanup.test.ts
+      - name: Run focused tests and require Linux resource and cleanup cases
+        run: |
+          report=".cache/rea-signal-required-tests.json"
+          mkdir -p .cache
+          rm -f "$report"
+          node scripts/run-exact-tests.mjs run --reporter=default --reporter=json --outputFile.json="$report" \
+            tests/boundary/signals/decoderDiscovery.test.ts src/process/LinuxResourceLimits.test.ts src/domain/signals/annotationTextWindow.test.ts tests/boundary/signals/recordingProvider.test.ts tests/boundary/signals/recordingDescriptorCleanup.test.ts tests/boundary/signals/resourceLimits.test.ts tests/boundary/mcp/signalRecordingMcp.test.ts tests/boundary/cli/signalCleanup.test.ts
+          node scripts/ci/require-provider-tests.mjs signal "$report"
      - run: node scripts/verify-signal-recording.mjs
        env:
          REA_SIGROK_COMMAND: /usr/bin/sigrok-cli
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ jobs:
      - uses: ./.github/actions/portable-build-cache
        with:
          build_cache_artifact: ${{ inputs.build_cache_artifact }}
-      - run: env -u DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS npm run verify:browser:runtime
+      # Own a fresh bus so Chromium never depends on an inherited session address.
+      - run: dbus-run-session -- npm run verify:browser:runtime
        env:
          REA_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/google-chrome
          REA_BROWSER_NO_SANDBOX: "true"
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ jobs:
          build_cache_artifact: ${{ inputs.build_cache_artifact }}
      - name: Install the pinned compiler into an isolated fixture directory
        run: npm install --prefix "$RUNNER_TEMP/rea-web-source-map-compiler" --no-audit --no-fund --package-lock=false [email protected]
-      - run: npm run verify:browser:source-maps
+      # Own a fresh bus so Chromium never depends on an inherited session address.
+      - run: dbus-run-session -- npm run verify:browser:source-maps
        env:
          # Retain browser launch argv/PID/stderr in the verifier's captured
          # CLI failure diagnostics without changing its deadline or retrying.
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ jobs:
          python-version: "3.12"
          cache: pip
          cache-dependency-path: website/requirements.txt
+      - name: Set up Node.js for the website Worker checks
+        uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020 # v4.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
      - name: Install sharing-image dependencies
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ jobs:
          python-version: "3.12"
          cache: pip
          cache-dependency-path: website/requirements.txt
+      - name: Set up Node.js for the website Worker checks
+        uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020 # v4.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
      - name: Install sharing-image dependencies
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
@@ -75,10 +79,21 @@ jobs:
          PY
      - name: Configure Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@983d7736d9b0ae728b81ab479565c72886d7745b # v5.0.0
+      # upload-pages-artifact excludes dot directories, including .well-known.
+      - name: Package the website including agent discovery
+        run: |
+          tar --dereference --hard-dereference --directory website/_site \
+            --exclude=.git --exclude=.github -cf "$RUNNER_TEMP/artifact.tar" .
+          tar -tf "$RUNNER_TEMP/artifact.tar" \
+            ./.well-known/ard.json ./.well-known/ai-catalog.json \
+            ./.well-known/agent-skills/index.json > /dev/null
      - name: Upload the website
-        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@7b1f4a764d45c48632c6b24a0339c27f5614fb0b # v4.0.0
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
        with:
-          path: website/_site
+          name: github-pages
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/artifact.tar
+          retention-days: 1
+          if-no-files-found: error

  deploy:
    needs: prepare
@@ -130,14 +145,24 @@ jobs:
          PUBLISH_TARGET: ${{ inputs.target }}
        run: |
          python3 -u - <<'PY'
+          import hashlib
          import json
          import os
          import sys
          import time
          from urllib.error import URLError
-          from urllib.parse import urljoin
+          from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlsplit
          from urllib.request import Request, urlopen

+          def open_public(url, accept=None):
+              headers = {
+                  "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
+                  "User-Agent": "REA-Website-Verifier/1.0 (+https://github.com/morluto/rea)",
+              }
+              if accept:
+                  headers["Accept"] = accept
+              return urlopen(Request(url, headers=headers), timeout=10)
+
          expected = os.environ["GITHUB_SHA"]
          pages_url = os.environ["PAGES_URL"]
          if not pages_url:
@@ -153,11 +178,7 @@ jobs:
              for name, base in list(pending.items()):
                  url = urljoin(base, "deployment.json") + "?commit=" + expected
                  try:
-                      request = Request(url, headers={
-                          "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
-                          "User-Agent": "REA-Website-Verifier/1.0 (+https://github.com/morluto/rea)",
-                      })
-                      with urlopen(request, timeout=10) as response:
+                      with open_public(url) as response:
                          actual = json.load(response).get("commit")
                      if actual == expected:
                          print(f"{name} serves {expected}: {base}")
@@ -172,6 +193,27 @@ jobs:
                  time.sleep(5)
          if pending:
              sys.exit("Could not verify published revision on: " + ", ".join(pending))
+          for name, base in hosts.items():
+              with open_public(urljoin(base, ".well-known/agent-skills/index.json")) as response:
+                  skill, = json.load(response)["skills"]
+              # Fetch from each selected host, including the /rea/ mirror.
+              artifact_url = urljoin(base, urlsplit(skill["url"]).path.lstrip("/"))
+              with open_public(artifact_url) as response:
+                  digest = "sha256:" + hashlib.sha256(response.read()).hexdigest()
+              if digest != skill["digest"]:
+                  sys.exit(name + " serves a skill archive with the wrong digest")
+              for manifest in ("ard.json", "ai-catalog.json"):
+                  with open_public(urljoin(base, ".well-known/" + manifest)) as response:
+                      if not json.load(response).get("entries"):
+                          sys.exit(name + " serves an empty discovery manifest")
+              if name == "Cloudflare":
+                  with open_public(base, accept="text/markdown") as response:
+                      vary = {value.strip().lower() for value in response.headers.get("Vary", "").split(",")}
+                      if response.headers.get_content_type() != "text/markdown" or "accept" not in vary:
+                          sys.exit("Cloudflare did not negotiate Markdown with Vary: Accept")
+                      if 'rel="ard"' not in response.headers.get("Link", ""):
+                          sys.exit("Cloudflare is missing its discovery Link header")
+              print(name + " serves the discovery manifests and verified skill archive")
          with open(os.environ["GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"], "a", encoding="utf-8") as summary:
              links = " and ".join(f"[{name}]({url})" for name, url in hosts.items())
              summary.write(f"Published commit `{expected}` to {links}.\n")
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Thumbs.db

 # Local reference sources and analysis artifacts
 /_reference/
-/experiments/analysis-efficiency/results/
+/experiments/analysis-efficiency/

 # Generated website download
 /website/public/examples/notes-example.zip
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@
    "node_modules/**",
    "CHANGELOG.md",
    "package-lock.json",
+    ".claude-plugin/plugin.json",
+    ".codex-plugin/plugin.json",
    "_reference/**",
-    "third_party/**"
+    "third_party/**",
+    ".codex-plugin/mcp.json"
  ]
 }
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 {
  "$schema": "./node_modules/oxlint/configuration_schema.json",
-  "plugins": ["typescript", "import", "unicorn", "oxc"],
+  "plugins": ["typescript", "import", "unicorn", "oxc", "vitest"],
  "rules": {
+    "rea/no-buffer-deep-equality": "error",
+    "rea/cancellation-cause": "error",
+    "no-async-promise-executor": "error",
+    "no-unreachable": "error",
+    "no-unsafe-optional-chaining": "error",
+    "no-useless-escape": ["warn", { "allowRegexCharacters": ["-"] }],
    "complexity": ["warn", 20],
    "max-depth": ["warn", 4],
    "max-lines": [
@@ -23,7 +29,38 @@
    "max-params": ["warn", 4],
    "no-var": "warn",
    "no-var-requires": "error",
-    "typescript/no-import-type-side-effects": "error"
+    "typescript/no-import-type-side-effects": "error",
+    "vitest/no-standalone-expect": "off",
+    "vitest/no-conditional-expect": "off",
+    "vitest/expect-expect": "off",
+    "vitest/no-disabled-tests": "off",
+    "vitest/require-mock-type-parameters": "off",
+    "vitest/require-to-throw-message": "off",
+    "import/no-duplicates": [
+      "warn",
+      {
+        "preferInline": false
+      }
+    ],
+    "vitest/valid-expect": [
+      "warn",
+      {
+        "maxArgs": 2
+      }
+    ],
+    "rea/no-evidence-json-preadmission": "error",
+    "rea/no-positional-tool-contract": "error",
+    "rea/no-fixture-root-cleanup": "error",
+    "typescript/no-floating-promises": "error",
+    "typescript/no-misused-promises": "warn",
+    "typescript/return-await": ["error", "error-handling-correctness-only"],
+    "typescript/switch-exhaustiveness-check": [
+      "error",
+      {
+        "considerDefaultExhaustiveForUnions": true
+      }
+    ],
+    "rea/no-shared-module-mock": "error"
  },
  "overrides": [
    {
@@ -36,6 +73,12 @@
        "no-var-requires": "off"
      }
    },
+    {
+      "files": ["src/**/*.ts"],
+      "rules": {
+        "typescript/no-misused-promises": "error"
+      }
+    },
    {
      "files": ["tests/**/*.ts", "src/**/*.test.ts", "src/**/*.fixture.ts"],
      "rules": {
@@ -47,7 +90,8 @@
            "skipBlankLines": true,
            "skipComments": true
          }
-        ]
+        ],
+        "typescript/no-misused-promises": "warn"
      }
    },
    {
@@ -91,6 +135,45 @@
          }
        ]
      }
+    },
+    {
+      "files": ["tests/**/*.test.ts", "src/**/*.test.ts"],
+      "rules": {
+        "vitest/valid-expect": [
+          "warn",
+          {
+            "maxArgs": 2
+          }
+        ],
+        "vitest/valid-expect-in-promise": "error",
+        "vitest/no-focused-tests": "error"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "files": [
+        "scripts/lib/http3-capture-assertions.test.mjs",
+        "scripts/lib/http3-verifier-lifecycle.test.mjs"
+      ],
+      "rules": {
+        "typescript/no-floating-promises": [
+          "error",
+          {
+            "allowForKnownSafeCalls": [
+              {
+                "from": "package",
+                "package": "@types/node",
+                "name": "test"
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "files": ["scripts/fixtures/javascript-recovery/code-split/entry.mjs"],
+      "rules": {
+        "typescript/no-floating-promises": "off"
+      }
    }
  ],
  "env": {
@@ -109,5 +192,14 @@
    ".devin",
    ".factory",
    "third_party"
+  ],
+  "options": {
+    "reportUnusedDisableDirectives": "error"
+  },
+  "jsPlugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "rea",
+      "specifier": "./scripts/lint/index.mjs"
+    }
  ]
 }
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "6.7.0"
+  ".": "6.8.0"
 }
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ Preserve caller-selected inputs and local evidence, including output, URLs, path

 ## Architecture and Cleanup

-Dependencies flow inward: domain semantics and contracts, provider adapters, shared application workflows, then CLI/MCP adapters. Keep engine protocols and provider-specific code out of domain/application layers. See [docs/architecture.mermaid](docs/architecture.mermaid) when changing composition.
+Dependencies flow inward: domain semantics and contracts, provider adapters, shared application workflows, then CLI/MCP adapters. Keep engine protocols and provider-specific code out of domain/application layers. See [docs/architecture/architecture.mermaid](docs/architecture/architecture.mermaid) when changing composition.

 Give each interpretation and resource a clear owner. Consumers must use that owner's parsed facts rather than reinterpret raw source. Preserve identity, omission, uncertainty, and source evidence across boundaries. Retain ownership of resources whose cleanup failed. Reuse `src/process/` supervision and identity primitives; a PID and executable path alone do not establish ownership after exit or reuse.

 Keep proof of ownership separate from validity, editability, and readiness. Malformed owned data may still be safely removable. Unresolved identity or applicability must remain unknown rather than be treated as absent, foreign, or aligned.

-For lifecycle changes, follow [ownership and completion invariants](docs/tool-design.md#own-the-lifecycle) and select the applicable [lifecycle regressions](docs/testing.md#lifecycle-regressions). Include late handshakes, cancellation during final cleanup, mixed child outcomes, and cleanup retry where those stages exist; active-execution cancellation alone does not cover finalization.
+For lifecycle changes, follow [ownership and completion invariants](docs/development/tool-design.md#own-the-lifecycle) and select the applicable [lifecycle regressions](docs/development/testing.md#lifecycle-regressions). Include late handshakes, cancellation during final cleanup, mixed child outcomes, and cleanup retry where those stages exist; active-execution cancellation alone does not cover finalization.

 Before adding complexity for a speculative or vanishingly unlikely race or security edge case, explain the concrete failure mode, likelihood, and complexity cost to the user and get their buy-in. Do not silently expand scope for theoretical robustness.

@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Assess brittleness in touched code during implementation, debugging, review, and

 When fixing a bug, inspect the producing boundary and affected consumers for duplicated interpretation or unclear ownership. Complete any directly related refactor in the same change and remove superseded code. Passing regression tests alone does not establish that the brittleness is resolved. If related cleanup remains, explain what remains and why.

+After confirming a bug, search sibling adapters, consumers and similar workflows
+for the same failure. Verify suspected matches, record working comparisons, and
+group findings by root cause instead of filing duplicate reports.
+
 When addressing a review thread, inspect the producing boundary and affected consumers for brittleness. Complete directly related refactoring in the same change. Before resolving the thread, explain the root cause, structural fix, validation, and any remaining cleanup.

 Parse unknown boundary values and model expected failures with the tagged error algebra and `Result`. Preserve partial facts and meaningful failure reasons. Keep identity and lookup values separate from display formatting; preserve source values and explicit unknowns when normalization loses information. Absolute paths, file URLs, and HTTP paths have different semantics.
@@ -53,14 +57,23 @@ Optimize in this order:
 3. CPU and memory. Avoid unnecessary work and copies; bound concurrency,
   retained state and serialization growth.

-For changes affecting these costs, measure representative completed tasks and
-compare equivalent workflows before and after where available. Report token
-usage, elapsed time, CPU time and peak process-family memory. Separate cold
+Reserve performance measurements for changes that target performance or have a
+concrete regression concern. Routine cleanup uses correctness checks; changes
+to helper calls, imports, or representations alone do not require synthetic
+benchmarks. When measurement is warranted, measure representative completed
+tasks and compare equivalent workflows before and after where available. Report
+token usage, elapsed time, CPU time and peak process-family memory. Separate cold
 and warm runs, label estimates, and state unmeasured costs. Fewer bytes alone
 do not establish fewer tokens or faster analysis.

 ## Development

+Documentation ownership and authoring conventions live in
+[docs/development/documentation.md](docs/development/documentation.md). A feature
+uses `docs/specs/<domain>/<feature-slug>/spec.md`, one `plan.md` and `tasks.md`;
+individual architectural decisions use `docs/adr/<domain>/<decision-slug>.md`.
+Consult the [documentation directory](docs/README.md) before adding a guide.
+
 Use [.nvmrc](.nvmrc) and `package.json#packageManager` for the pinned toolchain. Cursor Cloud may place older Node.js first on `PATH`; environment setup installs the pinned toolchain under `/usr/local/bin`. Prefix `PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"` before `node` and `npm`.

 - `npm ci`: install locked dependencies.
@@ -72,15 +85,24 @@ Use [.nvmrc](.nvmrc) and `package.json#packageManager` for the pinned toolchain.

 Use relevant checks for the change. The complete local gate, `npm run check:pr`, is optional for broad changes or CI diagnosis. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for development, generated-file ownership, and release conventions.

-Coordinate expensive checks across agents. If a test unexpectedly consumes heavy CPU, stop its owned process family and profile a bounded representative case before retrying. Inspect production work, fixture generation, subprocesses, and repeated setup; preserve regression coverage when optimizing. Follow the [test resource guidance](docs/testing.md#developer-commands).
+When changing installers or setup recovery, follow
+[Checking installers and publisher downloads](docs/development/testing.md#checking-installers-and-publisher-downloads).
+
+Coordinate expensive checks across agents. If a test unexpectedly consumes heavy CPU, stop its owned process family and profile a bounded representative case before retrying. Inspect production work, fixture generation, subprocesses, and repeated setup; preserve regression coverage when optimizing. Follow the [test resource guidance](docs/development/testing.md#developer-commands).

 `docs/public/product-catalog.json`, `docs/verification/managed-conformance-*.json`, and `skills/` are ignored outputs. Edit source contracts and `.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/`, then regenerate as needed. `.cache/mcp-tool-catalog.json` is test metadata; runtime builds and source checking do not consume it. Never commit binaries, provider project documents, credentials, `dist/`, `node_modules/`, or local planning artifacts.

 ## Tool and Test Changes

-For tool design, follow [docs/tool-design.md](docs/tool-design.md): start from the analyst question, reuse existing contracts, preserve caller choices, and return useful evidence inline. Limits must follow real format, protocol, authority, or resource constraints. Account for representation expansion before allocation; derive completeness from examined coverage.
+For tool design, follow [docs/development/tool-design.md](docs/development/tool-design.md): start from the analyst question, reuse existing contracts, preserve caller choices, and return useful evidence inline. Limits must follow real format, protocol, authority, or resource constraints. Account for representation expansion before allocation; derive completeness from examined coverage.

-For test changes or provider claims, use [docs/testing.md](docs/testing.md). Prefer real public CLI/MCP workflows, then production-boundary integration, then producer goldens. Keep module tests for distinct semantics stronger workflows cannot reliably reproduce. Preserve malformed-input, cancellation, cleanup, permission, capacity, and target-identity coverage when pruning. Report unverified coverage explicitly; simulated providers do not establish real-provider behavior.
+For user- or agent-facing tool problems, prioritize fixing the owning behavior,
+contract, and actionable result or recovery at the point of use. Document the
+result in product docs when explanation is needed. Add skill guidance only for
+workflow judgment or context that the tool cannot reasonably convey; do not use
+a skill as the primary repair for a discoverability or contract defect.
+
+For test changes or provider claims, use [docs/development/testing.md](docs/development/testing.md). Select applicable [boundary regressions](docs/development/testing.md#boundary-regressions) for parser, inventory, snapshot, and projection fixes. Prefer real public CLI/MCP workflows, then production-boundary integration, then producer goldens. Keep module tests for distinct semantics stronger workflows cannot reliably reproduce. Preserve malformed-input, cancellation, cleanup, permission, capacity, and target-identity coverage when pruning. Report unverified coverage explicitly; simulated providers do not establish real-provider behavior.

 Use Conventional Commit subjects and PR titles. Mark breaking changes with `!` or a `BREAKING CHANGE:` footer. Describe behavior changes, relevant validation, and real-provider verification scope.

@@ -108,11 +130,12 @@ distinguish source-derived conclusions, proposed checks, and unavailable coverag
 Address actionable automated review findings and explain disagreements.

 Leave the template's **Author readiness** declarations unchecked for the human
-owner to complete. Never attest to human review on their behalf. Keep the PR in
-draft until the human declares the PR initially ready. Later pushes do not
-invalidate that declaration or require another human sign-off. Keep the PR body
-and affected validation current as work changes. The readiness check validates
-the filled declaration; CI and automated review results do not establish that
+owner to complete. Never attest to human review on their behalf. Draft status
+is optional; preserve the PR's current draft status unless the user asks to change
+it. Later pushes do not invalidate the readiness declaration or require another
+human sign-off. Keep the PR body and affected validation current as work changes.
+The readiness check validates the filled declaration or the author exemption
+listed in CONTRIBUTING.md; CI and automated review results do not establish that
 human review occurred, maintainer scope approval, or merge permission.

 <!-- BEGIN:turborepo-agent-rules -->
@@ -1,5 +1,107 @@
 # Changelog

+## [6.8.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/compare/rea-agents-6.7.0...rea-agents-6.8.0) (2026-10-25)
+
+### Highlights
+
+- Build local agent environments from network captures, browser scenarios, or a prompt, then serve derived reads and evidence-gated writes and compare them with fresh application captures.
+- Inspect more shipped formats, including GPU code objects, BEAM, Python bytecode, Unity IL2CPP metadata, Godot PCK, PyInstaller, Node.js SEA, devicetree, and additional PE/ELF tables.
+- Keep large investigations focused with retained summaries, selected fact queries, configurable recovery limits, and row-oriented CLI exports. Complete Evidence remains available.
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+- **Function analysis:** `analyze_function` now defaults to a retained summary. Set `detail: "complete"` for the previous inline dossier; the CLI retains its complete default and requires `--evidence_output` when selecting a summary. [#5660](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5660). Thanks @CryptoJones, @gensokyo-dev, @RishTheFish21.
+- **Accessibility:** Accept JSON numbers and booleans in node `value`, alongside strings and null. Update consumers that previously assumed text-only values. [cc90771](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/cc90771af14f045538651615147d8bf86b576549), [#6759](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6759), [#6467](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6467). Thanks @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @mvanhorn.
+- **JSON Lines:** `--format jsonl` now emits object-collection rows followed by a `$rea: "jsonl/v1"`, `type: "metadata"` record; scalar selections and unsupported reports are refused. Parse control records separately, select a single supported collection when necessary, and use `--format json` for the previous whole-document output. See [JSON Lines framing](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/rea-agents-6.8.0/docs/cli.md#json-lines-record-output). [#5629](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5629), [#5487](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5487). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @jayykernel, @vijaykiran06.
+- **Interface Builder:** Keyed-archive graph identities use decimal table UIDs instead of authored `objectID`/`object-id`. Treat authored IDs as attributes and update persisted graph lookups; ibtool and native NIBArchive identities keep their source semantics. [6fbe67d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6fbe67d66e3d716db69929503a3a232a7ada0860).
+- **Frida:** `instrument-with-frida` JSON returns the canonical Evidence directly. Read `normalized_result.cleanup_error` instead of the former top-level wrapper field. [48f700e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/48f700ee35e0988ed973e5486dc9db33f2a5d944).
+- **Reconstruction proof:** ID-array proof records no longer establish verified or ready ledgers. Supply implementation/revision bindings and individual claim outcomes; handle inapplicable, unavailable, and failed proof diagnostics. [f8b65e7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f8b65e78723b1e2169f94dd1226198ea3139707e).
+- **Mach-O imports:** Handle a null import `name` when identity is ambiguous; use `raw_name` and `name_status` to distinguish observed expressions from exact symbols. [5d0d243](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5d0d243a45c9132e1aff75d454ab53d86a74cc31), [169512a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/169512a35bb015ff209168fb8bc1c9b31a2c678b).
+- **Node.js:** Use a runtime satisfying `^22.23.4 || ^24.22.1 || >=26.12.1`; Node 23 and 25 are unsupported. Upgrade Node before installing or updating REA; the installer does not upgrade it. [#6315](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6315), [#6283](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6283). Thanks @GamerDubz, @gensokyo-dev, @ShikamaruNaaraa.
+- **Browser storage:** Historical hashed storage remains readable, but comparisons stay unknown until both captures are recaptured in the new representation. [#6341](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6341), [#6289](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6289). Thanks @coygeek, @gongfpp.
+- **Environment serving:** `environment-serve` serves derived state by default, including write tools whose effects are confirmed by recorded evidence. Use `--replay-only` for stateless replay of manifest tools. Read stop-summary `state` instead of `state_evidence_id`. [#5351](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5351), [#6158](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6158). Thanks @earakely-scale, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **MCP schemas:** Input advertisements default to compact. Set `REA_MCP_INPUT_SCHEMA_PROFILE=full` for complete advertised guidance and nested constraints. [#5975](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5975). Thanks @gensokyo-dev.
+- **Browser console arguments:** Accept null `argument_types` and `text_capture.status: "unavailable"` when the protocol argument inventory is omitted or malformed; preserve that uncertainty. [#6016](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6016), [#5934](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5934). Thanks @coygeek, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Reconstruction summaries:** `summary.by_evidence_authority` is keyed by Evidence authority; read the former source-state counts from required `summary.by_source_state`. Regenerate ledgers whose closure digests depended on the old projection. [#5875](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5875), [#5838](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5838). Thanks @coygeek, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Swift bindings:** Conformance `type_name` and `protocol_name` may be null; consume typed `type_binding`/`protocol_binding` evidence. Replace the former Objective-C-specific import-binding type/schema with `MachoImportBinding`. [d0067ba](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/d0067ba34a39ea47dd7e11bb2e6169bc0938cc3f).
+- **WebSocket frames:** Accept null opcodes and preserve unknown frame facts; numeric opcodes are restricted to the four-bit protocol range. [0bc2b42](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/0bc2b42001f684beffcf47b70e507443b1a5d320).
+- **Resource-only inspection:** Evidence subjects and executable digests may be null. Use `resource_root` and each resource's reported provenance instead of requiring an executable target. [6a6adf7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6a6adf703fa44100643947d20fbc670f86260b1b).
+- **Browser timestamps:** Console and session-timeline timestamps may be null when the protocol supplies no finite/comparable time. Keep unknown time explicit in sorting and comparisons. [690fc51](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/690fc518540bae982038a74f47ef7781201785aa), [2a0410f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/2a0410f1717b3126e8a95063d77dea66a597010a).
+- **Reference sources:** Read failed root enumeration from `rootFailure` rather than a synthetic failed child at `"."`; preserve the top-level source-graph limitation. [6296fdf](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6296fdf560f1ac4aa55985558edaa98300aacdbc).
+- **Filesystem capture:** Accept `entry_unavailable` and `identity_changed` enumeration omission reasons in addition to the previous reason literals. [c85b44e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/c85b44e1b14851c54e65327a4807f79ad5cd5a61). Thanks @rudrakshagarwal4200-ai.
+- **APK locales:** Replace numeric legacy selectors such as `es-r419` with `es-419` or `b+es+419`. Two-letter regions remain supported. [29910d1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/29910d16b98fe4b607a7aa15928789a73614b0b9). Thanks @mertkayacs.
+- **XML plist scalars:** Recognize `$plist_type: "unknown"` and read `element`, `literal`, and `reason`; unresolved XML scalars use this wrapper instead of the former real/null unknown marker or malformed scalar prefixes. Supported extended UTC years preserve their timestamp. [3537e58](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3537e58c1ab29309f06eabf50bc52adba9817a0c).
+
+### Changes
+
+- **Binary layouts:** Inspect ELF32 i386, little-endian ARM, and little- or big-endian MIPS `EXEC`/`DYN`/`REL` layouts on Linux x64 using a caller-supplied pwntools environment. [#7052](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7052), [#6934](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6934). Thanks @roblennon, @salmanalmutairi1.
+- **Agent environments:** Project network captures and Evidence files into manifests, preserve template path pairs and positions, export AgentEnv bundles, and serve manifests as replay environments. [#4954](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4954), [#5293](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5293), [#5664](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5664), [#4999](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4999), [#4975](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4975). Thanks @earakely-scale, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Capture to environment:** Build environments from browser scenarios or a prompt, extract the initial observed state, and compare the environment with application probe captures. [#5182](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5182), [#6946](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6946), [#5319](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5319), [#5699](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5699). Thanks @earakely-scale, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **State-backed tools:** Render read filters, search, sorting and paging from state; apply confirmed write effects with broader state targets and recording-based write admission. [#5352](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5352), [293832b](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/293832bafc9a054914ec514fe906dd4936c7a372), [#5800](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5800), [#5787](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5787), [#5600](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5600), [5375ff0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5375ff0f9aadb4fd0d46333815aa0431e3df1010), [#6169](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6169), [#6385](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6385), [#6897](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6897). Thanks @earakely-scale, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **State learning:** Model application-assigned values, preserve view-specific clock spellings, learn write clocks from scenario timing, derive fields, and learn creates across sorted arrays and referenced entities. [7ec9b6e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/7ec9b6e56e1b3762285dca881db6d900a389ab9c), [#6136](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6136), [957bcfa](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/957bcfa149c1a0593bb0aa2466cc56d1d4f62e7d), [#6138](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6138), [#6967](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6967), [#7025](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7025), [#7034](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7034). Thanks @earakely-scale.
+- **Recorded writes:** Serve creates whose compatible read-backs add omitted fields or express timestamps at a different precision, and whole-object updates that regenerate observed slugs or modification times. Conflicting observations still withhold writes. State views and bundles carrying the new read-back data need REA 6.8.0 or later to serve. [#7080](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7080). Thanks @earakely-scale.
+- **Native investigations:** Page native inventory summaries, match functions across builds, export pseudocode to resumable directories, and select objdump disassembly by symbol. [#5378](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5378), [#5390](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5390), [#6170](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6170), [#5171](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5171), [#4249](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4249), [#5343](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5343), [#5159](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5159). Thanks @coygeek, @CryptoJones, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Engine workflows:** Bound a single Ghidra decompilation without closing its session, analyze GameCube/Wii DOL executables, and inspect static CUDA/HIP code objects. [#5662](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5662), [#6240](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6240), [#5813](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5813), [#5340](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5340), [#5345](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5345). Thanks @arielfikru, @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @RishTheFish21.
+- **PE/ELF:** Inspect export tables without an engine, PE imports/delay-loads, Authenticode certificates, TLS callbacks/load configuration, ELF notes, Linux kernel module metadata, and Zstandard section-name tables. [#6278](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6278), [#6509](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6509), [#4830](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4830), [#7008](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7008), [#4837](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4837), [#7010](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7010), [#6987](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6987), [#4057](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4057). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @mvanhorn, @Rinkia, @ShuaixinHuang.
+- **Apple/native metadata:** Inspect IPS crash reports, decode Swift nominal declarations, and select universal Mach-O slices in Go/Rust metadata readers. [#6511](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6511), [#6257](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6257), [#6219](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6219), [#5341](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5341), [#4102](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4102). Thanks @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @mvanhorn, @Rinkia.
+- **Packaged applications:** Triage desktop installation directories and inspect/extract Godot PCK, PyInstaller archives, and Node.js single-executable application blobs. [#5207](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5207), [#3634](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3634), [afa5da7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/afa5da745e0b139e68029a96b776ae30e48ea2b2), [#2433](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2433), [#7000](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7000), [#4399](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4399). Thanks @0xthearchitect, @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @mvanhorn.
+- **Unity and managed code:** Inventory IL2CPP images/types/methods and metadata versions 24/27; read member names and literals, link native methods and generic instances, and export Ghidra seeds. Project managed call/field-access edges and page managed member summaries. [#3807](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3807), [#5326](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5326), [52d1a72](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/52d1a72af047a73b787b8935b032786a34966036), [#5327](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5327), [#5785](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5785), [#6260](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6260), [#5167](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5167), [#3784](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3784), [#5112](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5112), [#4056](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4056), [#5148](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5148). Thanks @8rulerstar, @alexlanghart, @elricfd, @gensokyo-dev, @jaelliot, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @Rinkia.
+- **Android:** Inspect APK signing declarations and structured manifest components; report static-final DEX field values. [e93e3b1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/e93e3b1e7d6e7e4f49c2de24b92452ec29e853f8), [#4158](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4158), [#5025](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5025), [#6981](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6981), [#4537](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4537), [#6397](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6397). Thanks @Abelo9996, @BaaRai, @FerroLx, @gensokyo-dev, @sserrgo12.
+- **Bytecode and firmware:** Inspect and query CPython pyc and BEAM facts, inspect flattened devicetrees, and attribute MMIO peripheral regions in native disassembly. [#4826](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4826), [#6928](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6928), [#4833](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4833), [#6943](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6943), [#7009](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7009), [#5348](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5348), [#6922](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6922), [#6938](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6938). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @liziye627-design, @mvanhorn.
+- **JavaScript:** Retain queryable static route inventories, link assignment values to writes, and accept source selections as a JSON array or file. [#6019](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6019), [#6206](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6206), [#5029](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5029), [#4772](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4772), [#6193](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6193). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @IvenKooLab, @jacobmalibiran, @JoshOsullivan-au, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @KJLavender.
+- **Data inspection:** Decode selected protobuf/gRPC bodies, inspect GGUF/safetensors declarations, and produce byte-entropy profiles. [#5031](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5031), [#5603](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5603), [#2331](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2331), [#4986](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4986), [#3323](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3323). Thanks @AayushJB03, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @KJLavender, @michaelkillgta, @mvanhorn.
+- **CLI input/output:** Accept structured request documents on stdin and expose version/runtime output formats. Row-oriented JSONL exports use the migration above. [#7040](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7040), [#5486](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5486), [#6530](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6530), [169512a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/169512a35bb015ff209168fb8bc1c9b31a2c678b), [#5483](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5483). Thanks @Abelo9996, @ahmed-husssain, @CassieFox23, @DeryFerd, @eco-null, @ezrabrilliant, @GamerDubz, @gensokyo-dev, @gongfpp, @hifzabuildsai, @jayykernel, @mhamzasakhi, @pablodiazjorge, @Plastic-time, @raidnouredden-ux, @SandstromPL, @ShuaixinHuang, @Sriram-PR, @XiaoBinGan.
+- **MCP and setup:** Add opt-in Streamable HTTP and FreeBuff setup registration. FreeBuff support first appears in 6.8.0; installed native FreeBuff loading and skill discovery remain unverified. [#4955](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4955), [#2736](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2736), [#3243](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3243). Thanks @0xLLVEL, @codebuff-team, @earakely-scale, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Recovery controls:** Adjust per-call WASM/SQLite/firmware deadlines, MCP startup budgets, regex matching deadlines/worker heap, capture decoder heap, ASAR header admission, Apple dispatch input, and the bridge request ceiling. MCP runtime limit recovery reports actionable settings. [#5798](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5798), [#5818](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5818), [aa53c06](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/aa53c065387c58b4189d82c47f1f3445fc505e30), [#5863](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5863), [#6304](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6304), [#6267](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6267), [#6301](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6301), [#6299](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6299), [#6209](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6209), [#6233](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6233), [#6376](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6376), [#7049](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7049), [#5797](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5797), [#5812](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5812), [#5851](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5851), [#6176](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6176), [#3917](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3917). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @jaychou813, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **APK output:** Set `string_tables_only` or CLI `--string-tables-only` to omit duplicate primary strings and avoid their output-capacity charge. [7c458f0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/7c458f04b9155707c8ba406f8b455b10016f1b99), [#4990](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4990), [#4982](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4982). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
+- **Retained analysis:** Reuse successful validation of authenticated immutable native/imported-JavaScript parents and captures. Query retained Go build identity, Rust dependencies, JavaScript source-to-bundle mappings, and native export facts without repeating full output. [8f7d12e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/8f7d12e30d63f3d3b4cfe2a90336362841438f56), [#4962](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4962), [#5349](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5349), [#5524](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5524), [#5815](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5815), [#6128](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6128), [#6907](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6907), [#4810](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4810), [#5499](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5499), [#5802](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5802), [#6112](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6112), [#6900](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6900). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
+- **Compact results:** Use retained Frida/GDB/objdump summaries, omit redundant Ghidra raw results, and defer the analysis runtime during MCP catalog discovery. [#5661](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5661), [#5614](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5614), [#5355](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5355), [#4424](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4424), [#5640](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5640), [#5584](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5584), [#5337](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5337). Thanks @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @leeguooooo.
+- **Analysis work:** Reuse Hopper literal-string records, JavaScript workers and captured prefix selections, Interface Builder validation and plist scalar schemas; bound stable reads to one snapshot buffer and avoid decoding omitted GGUF strings. [#5017](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5017), [#5819](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5819), [31de177](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/31de177404461d122761d8243abe4fd24564f4da), [#5885](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5885), [85e38ac](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/85e38ac199dff15e8c43343d9170db7e0e46d284), [#6966](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6966), [#5781](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5781), [#5010](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5010), [#5855](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5855), [#6954](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6954), [#5774](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5774). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Native scheduling:** Batch modern IDA callee lookups, schedule decompilation reads on demand, index NativeAOT type closure, and retain call-path ancestry once per visited node. [0c6fed9](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/0c6fed90b74c75a9fd23d1ec1b510a7274f85887), [06fe7ee](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/06fe7eecbc8c387414b4c1aa0d88ad6314f54f0c), [ce61680](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ce61680c04c95a9cdfad5335632a99542af26d37), [5e4ec0f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5e4ec0fa1b678aa3bf20704ec9110224ba8c1676).
+- **Selected processing:** Prepare CLI positional schemas only for the selected command, separate entropy reads from report resolution, prune typed-array reference escapes, index state-write cutoffs, decode only selected replay query values, and skip payload text during WAT framing. [315b234](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/315b23403f0819967878cee418c3f9cb4b1a69d9), [#6950](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6950), [#5139](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5139), [#5350](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5350), [96ea32b](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/96ea32b7e4e28d3c9cd79a1de4b8e1ba3b4244e9), [70835d3](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/70835d3d5f030deadf606e1c79c70a60883e50c9), [#5766](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5766), [#6947](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6947), [#5760](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5760). Thanks @galleonli, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- **IPS report fields:** Preserve the recorded terminating process and PID, termination flags, parent PID, and build/platform metadata. [#7079](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7079), [#7078](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7078). Thanks @rodricksz4h5.
+- **Ghidra language selection:** Accept stock language IDs containing `LEBE` or slash-separated processor names, and report conflicting DOL language overrides as configuration errors naming `REA_GHIDRA_LANGUAGE_ID`. [#7070](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7070), [#7072](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7072), [#7081](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7081), [#7082](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7082). Thanks @Adolanium.
+- **Setup and Hopper:** Preserve the Linux embedding runtime, supported x86_64 host restriction, readiness-based provider choices, orderly demo-helper shutdown, and installed apt dependency versions. Keep cleanup and skill publication ownership through retries. [#5041](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5041), [#3422](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3422), [f5d1012](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f5d1012fabfe99af82523c3078ce9d93eb3780c1), [#4966](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4966), [#6974](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6974), [211e353](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/211e3533b34f81ae0910ad4f53f2a3d3c8587d3e), [#6920](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6920), [#5015](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5015), [#3419](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3419), [#4921](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4921), [#6975](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6975). Thanks @Abel-I-Akhigbe, @Adolanium, @DavidFB-creator, @DeryFerd, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @sx4im.
+- **Client setup:** Treat empty APPDATA as unset, distinguish MSIX Claude Desktop process views, preserve aliased Hermes server tables, reuse client dialect/alias bindings, and materialize the pinned package-runner cache before the first start. [#5126](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5126), [#4903](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4903), [#3785](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3785), [b7eeded](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b7eededf5af5061a834f93f57f2c888acf870344), [#7032](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7032), [#5104](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5104), [#4278](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4278), [#3320](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3320), [#7027](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7027). Thanks @CmsChase, @coygeek, @myso-kr, @pablodiazjorge, @vaidehi-snk, @wxj006007.
+- **Target admission:** Preserve thin arm64_32 Mach-O support, distinguish JVM identity before FAT admission, validate FAT format/CPU identity, preserve original DOS header padding, and reject NULs in local objdump/rizin paths. [#5788](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5788), [6843dbe](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6843dbea9bce4709ee2e8bf46c38f0bbf640716b), [497037e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/497037e6e3975cbb37cfd89ea0ad300faa2a4769), [#7013](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7013), [#3600](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3600), [#5713](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5713), [#6510](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6510). Thanks @coygeek, @dhruvac29, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @Lew1sWong, @qorvr.
+- **Mach-O and dylibs:** Preserve container framing, facts when dyld rejects a missing UUID, verified-signature snapshot identity, unsigned diagnostics, absolute paths inside the selected root, legacy platform rules, lazy-load payloads, and reasons for rejecting present dylibs. [cf3288d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/cf3288d8cf7a09685acf89103b36c32359be56fa), [2b263a7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/2b263a7fe9e9d4c185c7d6af6b4e67b21a73af30), [eb7acc7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/eb7acc70bf06f119e8639e30a78081d5ba82b0bf), [1502cfb](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/1502cfbc8ca0d1d1d86eebf334018dfb418bbac0), [90062c0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/90062c092228dea9d33fadc0d7e1b968105b8b2c), [#5650](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5650), [3b67b36](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3b67b362aa2cd79eac5af57d0965e81a7d0b8c2b), [#5551](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5551). Thanks @coygeek.
+- **Native facts:** Admit direct dispatch-metadata providers; preserve record-local Objective-C omissions, snapshot profiles, class-import binding identity, stripped class labels, version-like names, and qualified Swift protocol identities. [50b6975](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/50b6975d861069e2c6cfa202780621449f863802), [9eec57b](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/9eec57b469087fe9bff3d29dcc02f47074159e91), [0ba4d6f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/0ba4d6f43ad610dacc861a1548be1a5c4712cd61), [4d7de00](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4d7de00d4cc9a95ec2b7a3123b04e01db2daafa0), [22c84ce](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/22c84ce64aa6c7601aa81af86d4117b5a4c2feac), [4852c83](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4852c830af1e3b9df437235b7a8fa8970a6d1c59), [aa9043f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/aa9043f6b61c453e4735795cfe6a559bf6b6cc16).
+- **Apple resources:** Preserve independent plist scalars, processing instructions, nonstandard table widths, unsupported NIB connector coverage, and strict IPS JSON surrogate validation; classify Interface Builder objects by their declared superclass chains. [fd728f2](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/fd728f271e7de7bcfa63890b573715720d5f948c), [#5806](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5806), [4526862](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4526862728af01f1135714079c0d8a8c754eb364), [14cd78c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/14cd78c3224edcf79fca152915077112f547b9ed), [#6990](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6990), [#5805](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5805), [#5228](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5228), [#5218](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5218). Thanks @coygeek, @DeryFerd, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @Mangolycheematcha, @mhamzasakhi, @Shreyash021104.
+- **Archives and files:** Complete positional ZIP reads, preserve bounded ASAR signatures, report stable symlink loops as resolution failures, retain target applicability, and report unknown traversal coverage. Retain reported integrity contradictions for members present in only one compared artifact. [#4414](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4414), [e8da7e1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/e8da7e1edd075feec0e6beedec93d5645fed8125), [#5571](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5571), [#5763](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5763), [#5867](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5867), [#5521](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5521), [#5731](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5731), [#5837](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5837), [#7076](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7076). Thanks @Afloat16, @coygeek, @jdotc1, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @WenyuChiou.
+- **Extraction and file ownership:** Restrict destination-case recovery to owned collisions, retain physical-read failures through late cancellation/cleanup, preserve cleanup capabilities for retry, and retain independent firmware extraction failures. [932fbb7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/932fbb7d84a9a995b9aee3c1be7da05a8c4d7bbb), [9499667](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/949966712e68d8857a50a165ecddf04c2d7e6d3b), [56679dd](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/56679dd2ae31dda58e181f8bf99775014f7bb82b), [b3c912a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b3c912ab79ad147a37b6cfbe1552a1a5eecec629), [7298bd0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/7298bd08d134860b84b4073f6703021916a5a4c5).
+- **Processes and cancellation:** Retain partial samples and shutdown gaps, unresolved descendants and caller abort reasons; bind cleanup errors to their owners, propagate comparison contradictions, and report no normal exit code for signalled targets. [ba866a2](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ba866a26ecbe179a717e746cbc0d1605ae616ad5), [#5270](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5270), [#6144](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6144), [a721c42](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a721c42c07dc674c32ab939627355b8a1bee97a5), [#6298](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6298), [#6486](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6486), [#5935](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5935), [#5944](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5944), [#6100](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6100), [#6101](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6101), [#6110](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6110), [#6113](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6113), [#6121](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6121), [#6131](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6131), [#6132](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6132), [#6218](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6218), [#6445](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6445). Thanks @agorevski, @coygeek, @gongfpp, @kwakhyun, @mhamzasakhi.
+- **Provider cleanup:** Preserve Windows native handles until close is confirmed, native/Inspector/Electron cleanup ownership, Kuna probe identity and cleanup, IDA registration configuration, and Hopper preparation ownership. [#5772](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5772), [87ab054](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/87ab054ea384b3fcbae2998b1f94685edcd5f624), [ff78165](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ff78165978de9dbcf9fa16c2acf74bf85a69dc44), [04ae07a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/04ae07ab8c9ae1a6697b6ad15489bbde515da8b5), [dd0015a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/dd0015aaf156c5701ef9598bcc6c885e6b8da803), [b231c28](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b231c28cf64c2f799ada99343f8f21e0e6acb15e), [#4505](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4505), [#5616](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5616).
+- **Provider diagnostics:** Give Ghidra restart recovery, stable Homebrew aliases, unsupported-host results for Linux-only integrations, correct IDA regex/readiness handling, and clear diagnostics when Windows refuses a verified native addon. [#5356](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5356), [7c6142e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/7c6142efdc19a42c148d0e8c96b69d18e63c7f87), [#5793](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5793), [#4862](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4862), [99ccfb6](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/99ccfb6e709ac4bc0afe176315280abde9ebcb9f), [#6832](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6832), [#5730](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5730), [#4860](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4860), [#5723](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5723). Thanks @coygeek, @dark13b, @gensokyo-dev, @jgt87, @jpmorris41488, @Lew1sWong.
+- **MCP results:** Preserve protocol envelopes on oversized errors, enforce and advertise absolute Evidence paths, retain typed output-filter errors and selected JSON paths, and give client/provider timeout recovery. Compact advertisements now normalize reported enum and union shapes for strict gateway translation. [562dab0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/562dab00c5cbf76a9b2695bad93792eccdc9a49d), [3cf6206](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3cf6206614e65b5ebb6284a5709090dfb8f9aaee), [0e83d92](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/0e83d92c583ae36afe00b2c23dd2a0f1d025cbca), [4714c7e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4714c7eaa3d1d8b6a5df0aff586e844b9d9ab06d), [1bfa60a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/1bfa60ac20e1a344bcf3132c08d15b6860b05c61), [#5608](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5608), [#3806](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3806), [#5598](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5598), [#3800](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3800). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @Hahaa909, @wang1xiang.
+- **Browser lifecycles:** Retain historical outcomes through cleanup, stop late navigation before session release, stop expired work, observe aborted fetch settlement, and mark later scenario actions skipped after failure or cancellation. [2e5171e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/2e5171e391b83f8a467d0861fd452c1f78621fd8), [599fdac](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/599fdac029912f96c511f859660483405d2de26f), [b2fad36](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b2fad362f2b37f81dc9a6f784f4521e4ca24d41e), [13a8640](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/13a864020414577006dce58d7fdaa877ddd0cb52), [#6023](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6023), [#5943](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5943). Thanks @coygeek, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **Browser comparisons:** Preserve frame identity, default origin scope, unknown body/shape coverage, correspondence and uncertainty, and independent retained-observation budgets. [#4040](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4040), [#4413](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4413), [#4476](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4476), [a0c22ff](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a0c22ff0125b8af7612db54d3708413e2bfecb25), [a0fcc60](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a0fcc60d89eb0cc09b08181eb9f961acfd07d8e9), [#3878](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3878), [#3910](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3910), [#3941](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3941), [#4385](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4385), [#4477](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4477). Thanks @Adolanium, @coygeek, @eco-null, @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @XY-code1.
+- **Electron observations:** Preserve listener callback ownership and count registrations by source callsite; block trash calls in the active hook, retain window handles through cancelled selection, and preserve cancellation during finalization. [dfe8378](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/dfe8378cf5a727e3d93d47a5986233175c6ef898), [5064007](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/506400748eb1d6c674f0cf51330073929c45f939), [816a9dc](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/816a9dc98886e6d824cd8ae88b68731b161d5dda), [1707d17](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/1707d171d750955bf6387e028e378183b360ffe3), [4e2a566](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4e2a566d6c7e053ecbbee1b684311ed31ea163bf).
+- **JavaScript source maps:** Keep unmapped and missing mappings unknown, preserve partial indexed-map facts and section paths, propagate preparation capability errors, and retain observed worker failures through cancellation. [a4dbb36](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a4dbb36d8ea83e9f94dd289ac1a2d220d2c72c9b), [2b2e362](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/2b2e362a00fc5ba2f93fa6c62e2d8780072d1b4b), [498a667](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/498a667234b0140c1cfa43c819b35454ab11d14e), [#6149](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6149), [#6214](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6214), [f01dcca](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f01dccab77f712fb4ac936d0a6e92a70d12f0789), [#6082](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6082), [#6061](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6061). Thanks @coygeek, @diyasharma05, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **JavaScript semantics:** Preserve overflowing timer uncertainty, unavailable-scope comparisons, directory-form URL/ESM path intent, and artifact confinement. Replaced globals lose built-in effects; erased imports no longer become runtime bindings. Treat a known truthy `fork()` `silent` option as piped stdio unless a string/array `stdio` override takes precedence; unresolved options stay dynamic. [#3456](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3456), [8d198d6](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/8d198d6ec707402d75276f516e0090d71767b7e4), [#4646](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4646), [#2700](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2700), [#4565](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4565), [#6994](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6994), [#3400](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3400), [#3882](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3882), [#3367](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3367), [#7083](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7083), [#7084](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7084). Thanks @Adolanium, @amyanger, @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @HawkForge, @rohitg00, @viniciusdsandrade.
+- **JavaScript routes and imports:** Treat path data as route candidates, preserve route flag and lexical RPC identities, package-main trailing-slash selection, catch aliases, and factory parameter ownership. [#6360](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6360), [38ecc02](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/38ecc0248e1993d25a2f7dd350024484cce797bb), [#4219](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4219), [21097b1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/21097b192b1ab94647e3446b1a2a4dd00e924d5e), [f774dc4](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f774dc420b3befe2b8e68971b4116da2d62fc800), [#6349](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6349), [#4189](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4189). Thanks @coygeek, @hemv-857, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @Nikhi00718.
+- **Managed/IL2CPP:** Preserve extension-only scope uncertainty and type discovery after member limits, nested names, ReadyToRun/declaration facts, selected type scope, valid shared-suffix strings, and truncated IL2CPP metadata prefixes. [#5674](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5674), [#5312](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5312), [87fa1b6](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/87fa1b613d2b6bda1722855a00f1390f27731b64), [bc2d494](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/bc2d494030efd1ccabaeaa0bd49226aa87c378a2), [1f0eb22](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/1f0eb228e50908ee2a2aaa72d329178ae1a2cdbd), [4c5fae5](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4c5fae5179dd54c4a0d427cd2a115b9c887e3841), [b3aadaf](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b3aadaf474e59b33e5ff465236008a67eccefb87), [#5467](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5467), [#5146](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5146). Thanks @coygeek, @eco-null, @elricfd, @umi008.
+- **Format boundaries:** Preserve independent facts across malformed inputs in model, GPU, WASM, Rust, Android, and SQLite inspection; report optional metadata warnings without discarding core results. [eb41f35](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/eb41f358cf83d5626f09de68332f9718f9aa6482), [#5789](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5789), [00a9e95](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/00a9e95de91a4bd4d2a41f8aee704a53fa575750), [fc63fe8](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/fc63fe8682654086261540dcf3c59afc36c7d58f), [39a91d4](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/39a91d4db96ca13224c25936330ea84fe78970e5), [6c6e2ad](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6c6e2ad62b20f810b54f5a567e66fc55241514b2), [929a0a7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/929a0a76c870d9991e015dde58308fd9df0280b8), [d137a4c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/d137a4cdde0049de967f1d5cd429ed9e1f7d0a10), [ef475fc](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ef475fcf8b0601c61052b7091568ba574546417d), [#5749](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5749). Thanks @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev.
+- **Capture decoding:** Preserve malformed protobuf trailer facts and wire/schema identity, HTTP/2 URI and UTF-8 failure facts, WebMCP property coverage, and offline capture availability without a browser provider. Report invalid record ordinals as selection errors with actual bounds where available, and trim surrounding SP/HTAB from gRPC-web trailer values while preserving internal whitespace. [9cf7a7c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/9cf7a7cb0d3c72a1121fde280cb11bf911af8055), [b3c3b21](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b3c3b21e43cab4e71b460d08829d8c6e4e9b9c21), [4cb1f1d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4cb1f1d820df4498ee464bcf72a5f47d40cf8dab), [51e5938](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/51e593877642ab42fb5bf25812f4a4110ee7ac26), [d23be5c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/d23be5c0898c39c9f0c54e2e0b43ee746d92d316), [#6725](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6725), [#3947](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3947), [#7067](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7067), [#7068](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7068), [#7069](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7069), [#7071](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7071). Thanks @Adolanium, @coygeek, @Sriram-PR.
+- **Evidence and errors:** Authenticate ledger Evidence before committing; preserve parent-schema diagnostics, canonical correction details and owned cleanup outcomes; identify the rejected function-Evidence side/kind. Fixed allowances now name their actual limits. [0407bbf](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/0407bbfbe65e8fa475e8bb0c78c30170e2c2f55e), [#6361](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6361), [1629266](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/1629266e3c08c90fed6bba5383528af7986a12b7), [#6969](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6969), [#5860](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5860), [#6034](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6034), [#5932](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5932), [#5847](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5847). Thanks @AyoubElleuch, @coygeek, @dhruvac29, @kaoru0822-kitauji.
+- **ADB and firmware recovery:** Report an unparsed push checksum as unverified, normalize absent installer-package sentinels, describe extraction-relative Unblob links, and avoid recommending a budget increase at its fixed ceiling. [#6010](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6010), [#4073](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4073), [#4573](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4573), [#6971](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6971), [#5924](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5924), [#4175](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4175). Thanks @coygeek, @Ganesh2325, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @Rinkia, @XiaoBinGan, @yankikucuk.
+- **CLI formatting:** Share Markdown report formatting, exclude inherited row values, and preserve arrays of empty objects as JSON. Render Markdown table headers and cells literally while keeping intraword underscores readable. [b784912](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b784912811fd10ac9dc425696dc0e9af632afa34), [#6984](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6984), [#7058](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7058), [#7057](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/7057), [#7073](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7073). Thanks @Plastic-time, @ShuaixinHuang, @viniciusdsandrade.
+- **Format identity:** Preserve Python marshal scalar/decode limits, empty optional BEAM chunks, PE resource branch identities and certificate alignment, unsupported compressed ELF notes, and codec-framed GPU bundle extents. [0603223](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/06032237c6755e3dd5f9a8db732c89958b238cc7), [c46064c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/c46064c3f6eaba121c5de7b17390bfdecdd132ef), [66671e8](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/66671e874888e98f7e2b27e68a7c6fb320bbb827), [03077d5](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/03077d54afc49613db4e38f70c506bc60f5223aa), [#6721](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6721), [9fb8c11](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/9fb8c114a03ad60e57c11586967c6df845a3f97e), [f6a1e2c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f6a1e2c892dc23c7583c3d03af9edb01632ff5a5), [#6694](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6694). Thanks @coygeek, @Deepak-Kambala.
+- **WASM and APK metadata:** Preserve ambiguous WASM identity and partial facts, glue URL query/fragment text across line terminators, APK signer identity, and raw issuer identity when comparison rules are unknown. [af8f0ba](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/af8f0badf64fd3546392b6aa4625777904b2f051), [#6802](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6802), [f783f0f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f783f0f1e82472cdddd4de2156d974f729e332a6), [115a78f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/115a78fe241276c34917b496621954c5f29bfc15), [#6639](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6639). Thanks @coygeek, @gensokyo-dev, @gongfpp.
+- **Source identity:** Preserve Next route spelling, module grammar and loader request identity, directory package-main behavior, accessor effects, exact source targets, and resolver-discovery versus module-loading distinctions. [ddd7ac7](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ddd7ac7b846b48191ead1f7dcd0e3bd735468fa8), [9974512](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/99745126009b15060d71c38809418858a07d5afa), [f2e5fd1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f2e5fd148a85fa737302dd194a33172c4561093e), [baf1678](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/baf16784af3592534687052431c145daef55cfd1), [6e324b2](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6e324b224405f2befd953234f6dc210cf72ad50a), [75daf0c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/75daf0c7df108f04ab41f34aec1a31d4a7ceb322), [f91b7f8](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f91b7f8009c9af27a5e0148e3b07d20bfe3b7a2a).
+- **Graphs and selected facts:** Preserve JavaScript graph omissions/version facts, Electron native-loader facts, web JSON identity/coverage, module-path selection, feature-trace qualifications, selected native paths, endpoint context, and mixed Swift demangler outcomes. [30db499](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/30db499db310f073d9bf3d3acfd77985e1cb7e2e), [5a7bddb](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5a7bddb3aeb0345854e76b79d529aed1c40e2054), [79805f2](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/79805f244a1ec0850f3109929168a9c8ebb1b908), [f719dc4](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/f719dc46c51a55b3926eec9659d06e7dfb95132b), [7784fdb](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/7784fdbad78f8b384d513f0e7dae8e983cd48ef8), [76500f1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/76500f12b54e07b1ea700a403b2593890d63b42a), [676d29f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/676d29f9eef794cea668f5f09f0ff510c848a513), [edf7b3d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/edf7b3d32c3248f221e27f7ce5a3d34e8590285b), [93de7bc](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/93de7bc7e324a761162a31625b838ba0d4e3824d).
+- **Managed boundaries:** Honor native platform symbol lookup, consume resolved IL2CPP ELF declarations, and attribute malformed comparison inputs to the supplied argument. [64fa1db](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/64fa1db1309218283df19f3ee4dba61f5fbd2a67), [87745af](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/87745af52ab0ccd3a172c2534c516d41b0095035), [96ad94f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/96ad94f69eda5d68c7335ff775b6927b1376fd2b).
+- **Provider and worker recovery:** Preserve output loss after successful command exit, physical refusal diagnostics, bounded worker control framing, JavaScript worker-phase/budget attribution, admitted ambiguity choices, and selected EVM limiter availability. Scope objdump debug-link limitations to DWARF requests and keep process-capture preparation nonexecuting. [e639edf](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/e639edf6204c05285d96840478926592daf95876), [171b33b](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/171b33b2c4defc6cbea49545bedf4272b72d1ea2), [34563fc](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/34563fcc9bd92af30668820dcac5635e27181094), [3f9357b](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3f9357b5990d166a38440f56f439452266650093), [cec8f1e](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/cec8f1e8f305d6332272457a6ee419d3c5fb6359), [a74d859](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a74d859a19122fb8f1282b3632d320997b1caae0), [c284168](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/c284168c4b1cd214ce7f504d43da28528d82d603), [4fb936f](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4fb936fe86bb7a07f94f819ae8510301f2ef69c9).
+- **Setup and limits:** Retain unknown environment-budget facts, selected-skill/maintenance uncertainty, Hopper URL admission and bookmark verification, and listener failure recovery that matches the system cause. [a718037](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a7180370332350bc0f998fbd643888221759570e), [d1fbebb](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/d1fbebb578538dc94fd5e376e6e1959218efa835), [60accad](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/60accad2de8f2862fe91901502fe26cc5390fb36), [fd7da77](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/fd7da77fc02dcfaf7d1bc9f2fb240d71cdd27c59), [0c440bf](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/0c440bfc07f3cb343e2e836d27cccaed539cfe9c).
+- **State and Evidence:** Retain export tarball ownership and SQLite primary outcomes through cleanup retry, count emitted SQLite schema names across encodings, scope display refresh to matching snapshot bindings, and report retained-result validation failures consistently. Reconstruction uses one effective completion scope and kind-based labels when names are blank. [ab58edc](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ab58edcdf50b4bd687900ee2dc362ecc5c3dce15), [1006714](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/100671427105791a5c5913a918b63a394f6bc83e), [a47788a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a47788a6a4abb067273f954275a9d0a269adf1e7), [8aa40e9](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/8aa40e9a61155cff8b6f3c138c601bf805b20653), [b8c1b45](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b8c1b45316882beeab4a9de49381d94e131fab0f), [a35b933](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/a35b9335a0124674ee5e3abe8c075f1fff6b4fa6), [#6137](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6137), [#6126](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6126). Thanks @carlogiovannineri-rgb, @mohithhhh.
+- **Capture coverage:** Name browser bundle budgets and deadline recovery, separate domain readiness from worker attribution, attribute rendered-frame omissions to their producing stage, share offline-capture host admission with discovery, preserve selected signal-file semantics, and retain short Flutter GNU build IDs. [#6036](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6036), [ba78133](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ba781330d6d28b22d15498e63c144fb40e086156), [5934387](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5934387f4185129efe9dc8b7338d8bc3fa5b25bd), [ad629b2](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ad629b2e31c3a9495b27179360b508fa021fe86a), [928ba76](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/928ba76882bfd216dde8ed79118789b2c3aad4f9), [678c4cf](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/678c4cfa68e2fee12f620075e12dc87d9b1195b0).
+- **Additional boundary facts:** Retain parser format/query occurrence identity and independent malformed-input facts, unresolved nested Swift identifiers, and completed signing-capture coverage; describe crash documents without assuming a provider. [5f702dd](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5f702dd6ccd9e8e505e224854b91678439c3b41f), [99d2d7a](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/99d2d7ad22bcbd780919760008aba6a88e7d1077), [90e433d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/90e433df06b3f83417176b8db1b0a905f9df1d3a), [#5548](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/5548), [ee12d51](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ee12d517a25d34853d40e31fc039c7d1576c60e1), [#5538](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5538). Thanks @coygeek, @ShuaixinHuang.
+- **Documentation:** Add the Romanian README. [#7026](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/7026). Thanks @An3treiu.
+
+Full contribution record: [1740 commits and 497 merged PRs](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/rea-agents-6.8.0/docs/releases/6.8.0.contributions.json).
+
 ## [6.7.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/compare/rea-agents-6.6.0...rea-agents-6.7.0) (2026-10-18)

 ### Highlights
@@ -30,8 +132,8 @@ Full contribution record: [4 commits and 1 merged PR](https://github.com/morluto
 - **Kuna analysis:** Use a caller-installed Kuna for procedure listings, pseudocode, assembly, call relationships, exact-address xrefs and cached string searches. Project exports retain source spans and digests; repeated requests reuse completed work. Recorded real-provider coverage uses Kuna 1.833 on Linux; Windows, PE and universal Mach-O are unsupported. See [the provider guide](docs/kuna-provider.md). ([#3832](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3832), [#3854](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3854), [#4071](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4071), [#4095](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4095)). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
 - **Retained JavaScript facts:** Query exact application paths, selected properties and filtered module references through `inspect_analysis_view`, with paging and complete row Evidence. These views reuse completed analysis and preserve source selection and unknown coverage. ([#4265](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4265), [morluto/rea#4190](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4190), [#4097](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4097), [morluto/rea#4092](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4092)). Thanks @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
 - **APK locale tables:** Request several resource locales in one decode with repeatable CLI `--locales` or MCP `locales`. Each table reports its status and coverage; existing single-locale fields remain available. ([#4804](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4804), [morluto/rea#4777](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4777)). Thanks @abhay-2108, @N0zoM1z0.
- **Windows ARM binaries:** Ghidra admits ARMNT/Thumb-2 and ARM64 PE applications and DLLs on the Windows x64 host lane. Recorded Ghidra 12.1.4 verification uses `WindowsResourceReference` disabled and raised startup budgets; default-analyzer completion, ARM64EC/ARM64X and Windows-on-Arm hosts remain unverified or unsupported. See [the exact scope](docs/windows-ghidra-p0.md#native-authority-and-target-identity). ([#3965](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3965), [morluto/rea#2186](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/2186)). Thanks @N0zoM1z0, @WestLabsAI.
- **Raw m68k images:** Analyze explicitly selected big-endian m68k raw binaries using Ghidra’s fixed 68000 profile and a caller-supplied aligned entry. Real CLI/MCP verification used Ghidra 12.1.4 on macOS arm64; Linux is unverified and Windows P0 does not admit m68k. See [mapping requirements](docs/raw-binary.md). ([#4018](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4018)). Thanks @icedac.
+- **Windows ARM binaries:** Ghidra admits ARMNT/Thumb-2 and ARM64 PE applications and DLLs on the Windows x64 host lane. Recorded Ghidra 12.1.4 verification uses `WindowsResourceReference` disabled and raised startup budgets; default-analyzer completion, ARM64EC/ARM64X and Windows-on-Arm hosts remain unverified or unsupported. See [the exact scope](docs/providers/windows-ghidra-p0.md#native-authority-and-target-identity). ([#3965](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3965), [morluto/rea#2186](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/2186)). Thanks @N0zoM1z0, @WestLabsAI.
+- **Raw m68k images:** Analyze explicitly selected big-endian m68k raw binaries using Ghidra’s fixed 68000 profile and a caller-supplied aligned entry. Real CLI/MCP verification used Ghidra 12.1.4 on macOS arm64; Linux is unverified and Windows P0 does not admit m68k. See [mapping requirements](docs/providers/raw-binary.md). ([#4018](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4018)). Thanks @icedac.
 - **JADX deadlines:** Set `REA_JADX_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS` to extend APK loading and upstream operation deadlines together. Doctor reports the effective value and setup forwards an explicit selection. ([#4466](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4466), [morluto/rea#3918](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3918)). Thanks @jaychou813, @SandstromPL.
 - **Electron window options:** Resolve stable local constant `BrowserWindow` options while retaining source provenance. Relevant writes and escapes keep the result unknown. ([#4400](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4400), [morluto/rea#4366](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4366)). Thanks @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
 - **Language editions:** Add the Greek website edition and Malayalam documentation, with Korean typography and translation corrections across the site. ([#3520](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3520), [#4792](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4792), [#3821](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3821), [morluto/rea#3820](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3820), [#3799](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3799), [morluto/rea#3798](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/3798), [#4344](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4344), [#3856](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/3856), [#4166](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/4166)). Thanks @gensokyo-dev, @hi2242, @kalayciburak, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @kraken-503, @kukinghan, @N0zoM1z0, @yeseong0412.
@@ -90,7 +192,7 @@ Full contribution record: [571 commits and 236 merged PRs](https://github.com/mo

 ## [6.5.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/compare/rea-agents-6.4.0...rea-agents-6.5.0) (2026-10-13)

-Provider prerequisites and recorded verification scope are listed in [the testing guide](docs/testing.md).
+Provider prerequisites and recorded verification scope are listed in [the testing guide](docs/development/testing.md).

 ### Highlights

@@ -118,7 +220,7 @@ Provider prerequisites and recorded verification scope are listed in [the testin
 - **HarmonyOS packages:** inventory HAP/HSP/App Pack structures without executing code. The recorded real workflow covers one pinned HAP through repository-built CLI/MCP; installed-package and real HSP/App Pack coverage remain unverified. ([#1447](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1447)). Thanks @BaaRai.
 - **Ghidra raw inputs and references:** compatible Linux/macOS Ghidra profiles accept caller-selected raw architecture/entry information and expose typed incoming references at exact addresses. Windows Ghidra P0 admits the raw NMOS 6502 profile described below; other raw targets and the incoming-reference facet remain outside Windows P0. ([#1868](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1868), [issue morluto/rea#1836](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/1836), [#1715](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1715), [issue morluto/rea#1245](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/1245)). Thanks @bugstan, @casesolved-co-uk, @mvanhorn, @N0zoM1z0.
 - **Ghidra MIPS:** Add bounded MIPS32r2/o32 relocatable objects, soft-float integer-register storage, admitted MIPS16 shared ELF, and a narrowly admitted recordless legacy MIPS32 executable profile. The latter pins an endian-matched 32-bit language and records inferred o32 as an analysis assumption. Admission follows each documented ABI/flag/relocation boundary. ([#1949](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1949), [issue morluto/rea#1937](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/1937), [#1950](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1950), [issue morluto/rea#1938](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/1938), [#1991](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1991), [issue morluto/rea#1851](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/1851), [#1898](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1898), [issue morluto/rea#1620](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/1620)). Thanks @AurelioB, @BaaRai, @bqw371, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
- **Ghidra RISC-V:** admit little-endian RV32/RV64 `ET_EXEC` ELF declaring the supported double-float ABI. Relocatable/shared, big-endian and other ABI profiles remain refused; see [the profile and recorded lane](docs/ghidra-riscv.md). ([#2151](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2151)). Thanks @NIU-123370.
+- **Ghidra RISC-V:** admit little-endian RV32/RV64 `ET_EXEC` ELF declaring the supported double-float ABI. Relocatable/shared, big-endian and other ABI profiles remain refused; see [the profile and recorded lane](docs/providers/ghidra-riscv.md). ([#2151](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2151)). Thanks @NIU-123370.
 - **PSP static ELF profile:** the Ghidra profile is Linux x64, bounded little-endian ELF32 `ET_EXEC` with the documented PSP/ABI declarations and a compatible caller-installed Allegrex extension. PRX, shared/relocatable images, PBP/ISO/CSO and runtime emulation are outside scope. Historical extension experiments are separate from public-provider verification; real public Ghidra PSP coverage remains unverified. ([#1599](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1599)). Thanks @jaelliot.
 - **Ghidra analysis settings:** apply validated analyzer overrides before analysis while retaining the selected analysis profile. ([#1913](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1913)). Thanks @akushonkamen, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
 - **Attached native IDA MCP:** add an optional native bridge alongside existing legacy/headless profiles. Recorded native runs use Linux IDA Free 9.4 with a navigation correction and Windows IDA Pro 9.3 with a loopback-listener change; stock native switching, native macOS and Windows IDA Free remain unverified. Attached databases remain read-only and are never saved or closed. ([#1544](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1544)). Thanks @imissapixel, @N0zoM1z0.
@@ -190,7 +292,7 @@ Provider prerequisites and recorded verification scope are listed in [the testin
 - **Source maps:** original-source and mapping rows preserve a null source name when unavailable. Handle null explicitly instead of expecting an invented unknown-source string; new index fields remain optional when reading older Evidence. ([ee50ed1](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ee50ed121e38cc6e1a2ff0dc8b789f15f71c5402)).
 - **Streamed filtered JSON:** `--filter-output` now emits JSON `null` instead of `{}` when the selected value is null; consumers must distinguish a present null from a missing selection. Use `--full-output` when an object envelope is required. ([#2333](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2333)). Thanks @Jackmeson1.
 - **Call graphs:** `get_call_graph.normalized_result` is now `{ graph, limitations }`; read traversal-depth groups under `graph` and retain relationship-specific caveats. Contract/fixture validation does not establish new Ghidra or IDA engine coverage. ([5dfb9d0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/5dfb9d050c2cc44a61b183dae765bef4d22a53b7)).
- **MCP discovery:** `binary_session` no longer repeats `server_identity.catalog.tools`. Use the connected server tool list, grouped `tool_availability` and provider capabilities; see [MCP contracts](docs/mcp-contracts.md). Origin: [6395e8d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6395e8d3007d5ee453477460e7ee1c51cff76be0). ([#1988](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1988)). Thanks @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.
+- **MCP discovery:** `binary_session` no longer repeats `server_identity.catalog.tools`. Use the connected server tool list, grouped `tool_availability` and provider capabilities; see [MCP contracts](docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md). Origin: [6395e8d](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/6395e8d3007d5ee453477460e7ee1c51cff76be0). ([#1988](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/1988)). Thanks @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0.

 - **Provider admission:** MIPS targets with unresolved GNU ABI attributes are refused. Supply supported ABI declarations. Saved Hopper databases on macOS are unavailable because the launcher cannot run the analysis bridge when opening a database; select an executable target instead. Database support requires a script-capable database launch route. ([d4bd65c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/d4bd65c53c0254d0195cc7ab8da163dcadfd3b9b)).
 - **Segment extents:** `binary_overview` segment length may be null when Hopper coordinates cannot establish a finite extent in one address space. Preserve unknown rather than converting it to zero or a saturated value. ([36db19c](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/36db19c59)).
@@ -270,7 +372,7 @@ Full contribution record: [336 commits and 163 merged PRs](https://github.com/mo

 ### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

-* **captures:** Historical captures without current producer accounting or transaction identity, and web diffs missing accessibility or storage dimensions, are rejected. Preserve original captures and recapture with the current producer; update comparison consumers to include every dimension rather than synthesizing missing observations. See the [process capture guide](docs/process-capture.md) and [browser scenario contract](docs/browser-scenario-contract.md). ([3283a45](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3283a45d09457c79e3adadb50a48620926d4bc5b))
+* **captures:** Historical captures without current producer accounting or transaction identity, and web diffs missing accessibility or storage dimensions, are rejected. Preserve original captures and recapture with the current producer; update comparison consumers to include every dimension rather than synthesizing missing observations. See the [process capture guide](docs/guides/runtime/process-capture.md) and [browser scenario contract](docs/guides/web/browser-scenario-contract.md). ([3283a45](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3283a45d09457c79e3adadb50a48620926d4bc5b))
 * **browser:** JSON shape paths now contain typed property and array-element segments. WebMCP input_schema_shape is replaced by input_schema and input_schema_sha256, retaining declared examples and defaults.
 * **process:** Filesystem digest omission entries now require system_code; budget and changed-file omissions use null, and unavailable-file omissions preserve the operating-system error code.
 * **contracts:** Provider analysis outputs must explicitly supply metadata previously repaired with defaults; unsupported nullable facets must be reported as null.
@@ -438,7 +540,7 @@ Full contribution record: [336 commits and 163 merged PRs](https://github.com/mo

 ### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

-Read the [6.1 to 6.2 migration guide](docs/migration-6.2.md) before upgrading. REA's `always-bump-minor` policy includes breaking changes; 6.2 is not a backward-compatibility promise. Preserve original saved files and regenerate missing observations rather than fabricating identities or facts.
+Read the [6.1 to 6.2 migration guide](docs/migrations/migration-6.2.md) before upgrading. REA's `always-bump-minor` policy includes breaking changes; 6.2 is not a backward-compatibility promise. Preserve original saved files and regenerate missing observations rather than fabricating identities or facts.

 * **MCP / Evidence / snapshots / artifacts:** Success results are direct canonical Evidence; read `normalized_result` rather than the old `result`/`evidence` wrapper. Evidence requires nullable `analysis_profile`, session provider aliases are removed, snapshots require complete profile-bound query records, and artifact roles/permissions belong to occurrences. Recreate incompatible saved data; adding fields without recomputing their semantic identity is invalid. ([63bf914](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/63bf91405cf97b114a84f337fb1272d98a267999))
 * **Process captures:** Legacy v3 conversion is removed. Explicit executable identity and `event_journal` are required; retain old captures and recapture when current comparisons are needed instead of inventing launch identity or event order. ([2a77469](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/2a7746998d47446c4db6d4f524e0f183d6803f3f))
@@ -2581,7 +2683,7 @@ Read the [6.1 to 6.2 migration guide](docs/migration-6.2.md) before upgrading. R
 * enforce conventional pull request titles ([3a21f16](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3a21f16c1832430765083636511a8c12dbccf2dd))
 * verify installed package with Linux Hopper ([4f97f69](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4f97f699e4d5471557d1ce0ff91e144065d06a61))

-## [0.3.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/compare/rea-agents-0.2.1...rea-agents-0.3.0) (2026-07-12)
+## [0.3.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/compare/rea-0.2.1...rea-agents-0.3.0) (2026-07-12)


 ### Features
@@ -2634,7 +2736,7 @@ Read the [6.1 to 6.2 migration guide](docs/migration-6.2.md) before upgrading. R
 * redesign and localize README ([051b6db](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/051b6db65687fd14826b6462cd623feb2504f123))
 * redesign and localize README ([910eda6](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/910eda6f323ba1151b0771fe5de6c60a91e3d46d))

-## [0.2.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/compare/rea-0.1.0...rea-0.2.0) (2026-07-12)
+## [0.2.0](https://github.com/morluto/rea/releases/tag/rea-0.2.0) (2026-07-12)


 ### Features
@@ -11,20 +11,31 @@ incorrect user instructions warrant standalone corrections. Collect other
 cosmetic-only suggestions in an issue rather than separate PRs.

 For selected architectural owners and dependency paths, use the
-[architecture map](docs/architecture.mermaid). It is not a complete directory or
+[architecture map](docs/architecture/architecture.mermaid). It is not a complete directory or
 import inventory. For current provider wiring, start with
 [`src/composition/binary.ts`](src/composition/binary.ts) for deep candidates and
 the other `src/composition/` factories for tool services, including
 [`gpu.ts`](src/composition/gpu.ts) and [`model.ts`](src/composition/model.ts).
-Live Frida and Cutter adapters are constructed directly in
-[`src/cli/fridaCommands.ts`](src/cli/fridaCommands.ts),
-[`src/cli/cutterCommands.ts`](src/cli/cutterCommands.ts), and
-[`src/server/createServer.ts`](src/server/createServer.ts).
+Live Frida, Cutter, GDB and Rizin construction also uses shared composition
+factories. For service ownership, availability and catalog declarations, follow
+the [capability composition guide](docs/capability-composition.md).
 Production factories construct fresh providers without starting engines or
 acquiring targets; optional adapter failures must preserve successful peers. Run
 `npm run verify:test-discovery` after adding or moving tests. Resolved import
 boundaries are checked by `npm run verify:module-boundaries`, included in lint.

+Before retiring an alias or facade, trace runtime registration, dynamic imports,
+JavaScript verifiers, subprocess scripts, and packaged entrypoints as well as
+TypeScript references. Tests may be the last consumers of a superseded internal
+path; migrate their distinct assertions to the current production path before
+removing it. Preserve validation, lazy loading, caller policy, and resource
+acquisition and cleanup supplied by the old boundary. Published APIs, persisted
+formats, and independently versioned bridges require an explicit compatibility
+decision; an internal representation alone does not establish that obligation.
+See [interpreting boundary facts once](docs/development/tool-design.md#interpret-boundary-facts-once)
+for admission ownership and the distinction between repeated validation and
+independent checks.
+
 For analysis workflows and agent interfaces, follow the
 [performance priorities](AGENTS.md#performance). Explain the selected output
 scope, reuse/cache decisions, and relevant before/after measurements when these
@@ -33,9 +44,11 @@ Use the [analysis optimization skill](.agents/skills/rea-analysis-optimization/S
 to locate provider and shared-workflow bottlenecks, preserve Evidence, and
 compare equivalent real tasks before claiming an improvement.

-When adding or changing an MCP tool, follow the [tool design guide](docs/tool-design.md) and preserve the canonical contracts and generated catalog.
+When adding or changing an MCP tool, follow the [tool design guide](docs/development/tool-design.md) and preserve the canonical contracts and generated catalog.
 When adding or changing an admission ceiling, budget, or deadline, follow
-[admission limits and recovery](docs/design/limits-and-recovery.md).
+[analysis settings, limits, and recovery](docs/design/limits-and-recovery.md)
+for ownership, operation snapshots, provider integration, and the steps for
+adding a runtime setting.

 ## Reporting issues

@@ -80,7 +93,8 @@ Before requesting maintainer review, the human owner must:
  passing. Follow the [verification requirements](#development-feedback-and-pr-verification)
  for required checks and real-provider coverage.
 - Complete the **Author readiness** declaration in the PR template, explicitly
-  stating that the PR is ready for initial review.
+  stating that the PR is ready for initial review, unless the PR author is
+  exempt from the declaration as listed below.

 Keep the PR description concise and current. Explain the problem, observable
 outcome, approach, and useful evidence; link long logs or put them in optional
@@ -89,7 +103,11 @@ Human ownership and review remain required when CI or an automated reviewer
 reports success. Readiness requests maintainer review; it does not grant scope
 approval or permission to merge.

-Draft PRs may request early feedback with open questions and incomplete checks.
+Draft status is optional. Draft PRs may request early feedback with open questions
+and incomplete checks. Agents preserve the current draft status unless asked to
+change it; missing readiness declarations or later updates do not require a PR
+to become a draft.
+
 Leave the readiness declaration unchecked until the human owner has completed
 it. The declaration records initial readiness; later pushes do not invalidate
 it or require another human sign-off. Keep the PR description and affected
@@ -97,9 +115,12 @@ validation current as work changes. AI agents must leave human declarations to
 the human owner and must not attest to a human review on their behalf.

 The `PR readiness` check reports pending for drafts and requires a named human
-owner and all three template declarations for non-drafts. It checks that the
-declaration is filled, not whether the code or evidence is correct. Existing PRs
-can copy the **Author readiness** section from the current template.
+owner and all three template declarations for non-drafts. PRs authored by
+@morluto, @kaoru0822-kitauji, @N0zoM1z0, or @gensokyo-dev are exempt from
+the declaration; their human ownership, review, and evidence responsibilities
+above still apply. The check identifies authors by GitHub account ID. It checks
+that the declaration is filled, not whether the code or evidence is correct.
+Existing PRs can copy the **Author readiness** section from the current template.
 Open PRs must have distinct head commits because GitHub shares commit statuses.

 Maintainers enable merge enforcement after the workflow is merged: run
@@ -109,6 +130,19 @@ status checks alongside its existing checks. Deploy the workflow to each
 protected target branch before requiring it there. The workflow reads PR
 metadata using trusted default-branch code and writes only a commit status.

+When an open PR may overlap another open change or a recently landed fix, note
+the related PR, issue, or commit in the description or a comment as soon as the
+overlap is known. Prefer one clear pointer over repeated status updates.
+
+If an overlapping change merges while a PR awaits review, link that commit on
+the open PR and state what remains useful. Rebase or otherwise align with the
+current base when the remaining work is still wanted, narrow the PR to the
+uncovered portion, or close it when the change is fully superseded. Keep the
+description and validation current after that update. Maintainers may also note
+the expected disposition (rebase, narrow, or close) when they land or recognize
+an overlapping fix. Readiness still does not grant merge permission or a review
+date.
+
 Maintainers may return a PR to the author or close it when the problem is
 unsupported, validation is missing, or the owner cannot explain the change.
 Contributors are responsible for completing this work before requesting review.
@@ -213,7 +247,9 @@ guarantee.
 Use the development toolchain pinned in `.nvmrc` and
 `package.json#packageManager`. Run `nvm use` before installing dependencies;
 installed-package runtime support is documented in
-[installation](docs/installation.md#start-setup).
+[installation](docs/getting-started/installation.md#start-setup).
+Use Node.js and npm for source builds and verifier scripts; the installed
+package's Bun runtime support does not extend to those development scripts.

 ```bash
 npm ci
@@ -228,6 +264,15 @@ catalogs, documentation projections, or managed verification evidence. Turbo
 caches deterministic builds and static checks across Git worktrees. After a package, lockfile, or managed-skill version change, run
 `npm run metadata:generate` before building.

+Dependabot proposes updates for the npm lockfiles, website Python requirements,
+and GitHub Actions. Review dependency changes and run the checks relevant to
+their consumers. For dependencies maintained outside Dependabot, including
+`third_party/` and the HTTP/3 lab's pinned requirements, the maintainer should
+review upstream security advisories when updating or using them. Preserve source
+and version provenance, update license notices when needed, and report which
+verification was actually repeated. The lab requirements describe a recorded
+environment; a dependency update does not verify the revised environment.
+
 Repository invariants live in [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md). Keep provider-specific
 protocols in adapters and shared CLI/MCP workflows in the application layer.

@@ -254,16 +299,23 @@ The general source suite (`npm run test:fast`, `npm run test:changed`, and
 On a Windows checkout, some source tests fail because fixtures use POSIX paths,
 `#!/bin/sh` tool stubs, or POSIX rename semantics. Compare failures against the
 base revision, or run the suite on Linux or WSL, before attributing them to a
-change. See [testing](docs/testing.md#developer-commands) for command scopes
+change. The embedded-artifact parent-swap tests exercise the selected-path
+replacement when the rename succeeds; if Windows refuses it while the admitted
+file is open, they instead verify the refusal and cleanup. See
+[testing](docs/development/testing.md#developer-commands) for command scopes
 and lane selection.

 `git submodule update --init --recursive` fails at the pinned Unblob submodule
 on Windows and can leave later submodules unchecked out. Apply the
-[Unblob checkout workaround](docs/firmware-analysis.md#windows-submodule-checkout),
+[Unblob checkout workaround](docs/guides/firmware/firmware-analysis.md#windows-submodule-checkout),
 then rerun the command.

 ## Documentation website

+Use the [documentation directory](docs/README.md) and
+[authoring guide](docs/development/documentation.md) for document ownership,
+domain-based feature specifications and architectural decision records.
+
 The VitePress site uses the Markdown files in `docs/`. Run `npm run docs:dev`
 for live editing, `npm run docs:build` to check the production build and
 links, and `npm run docs:preview` to preview that build at `/rea/`.
@@ -317,7 +369,7 @@ npm run check:fast
 `test:local` runs source tests without building. `check:changed` combines cached
 static checks with source tests affected since the merge base with `origin/main`.
 Import-graph selection can miss runtime registration, bridges, and generated data;
-select relevant boundary tests explicitly. See [testing](docs/testing.md#developer-commands)
+select relevant boundary tests explicitly. See [testing](docs/development/testing.md#developer-commands)
 for commands, test placement, pruning, and real-provider prerequisites.

 Before requesting review, run relevant tests and `npm run check`; add
@@ -368,9 +420,17 @@ Real-provider execution is uncached.
 ### Temporary files and diagnostics

 Tests use `createTestTempDirectory` from `tests/fixtures/temporaryDirectory.ts`
-for exact-path, awaited cleanup, including failures and timeouts.
+for exact-path, awaited cleanup, including failures and timeouts. It registers
+deletion with Vitest's `onTestFinished`; do not also add its result to a roots
+array or an `afterEach` removal. `createTestWorkspace` from
+`tests/support/workspace/workspaceFixture.ts` leaves cleanup with its caller,
+which must await `removeTestWorkspace`. Keep explicit resource teardown before
+directory deletion, using the case's `finally` or `afterEach`; Vitest runs
+`afterEach` before `onTestFinished` and awaits finish hooks in reverse
+registration order.
 `npm run verify:test-temp-hygiene` runs the suite under a fresh `TMPDIR` and
-rejects remaining REA-owned paths. Never glob-clean shared `/tmp/rea-*` content.
+rejects remaining REA-owned paths. It cannot detect duplicate deletion owners or
+prove resource-close ordering. Never glob-clean shared `/tmp/rea-*` content.

 `REA_LOG_LEVEL` selects `trace`, `debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`, `fatal`, or
 `silent`. Logs go to stderr: MCP defaults to `info`, and one-shot CLI logging
@@ -384,8 +444,8 @@ Run `npm run verify:hopper` on a supported macOS host or
 `npm run verify:hopper:linux` on the supported Linux demo runner. These build
 native fixtures and verify the installed engine through CLI/MCP; package or
 simulated-provider checks do not establish engine behavior. See
-[real-toolchain verification](docs/testing.md#end-to-end-integration-and-golden-evidence)
-for prerequisites and scope, and [Hopper setup](docs/installation.md#hopper)
+[real-toolchain verification](docs/development/testing.md#end-to-end-integration-and-golden-evidence)
+for prerequisites and scope, and [Hopper setup](docs/getting-started/installation.md#hopper)
 for supported hosts and unattended startup.

 Use the default `build/conformance/manifest.json` unless explicitly verifying
@@ -394,7 +454,7 @@ Generated fixtures and manifests remain ignored.

 ## Maintainer release checklist

-Use the [release guide](docs/releasing.md). Main pushes automatically refresh a
+Use the [release guide](docs/development/releasing.md). Main pushes automatically refresh a
 Release Please PR with the next version and changelog. Review its migration
 notes, wait for the current CI checks to pass, and merge it into main to publish.

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <div align="center">

 **English** · [简体中文](docs/readme/README_zh.md) · [繁體中文](docs/readme/README_zh-TW.md) · [日本語](docs/readme/README_ja.md) · [한국어](docs/readme/README_ko.md) · [Türkçe](docs/readme/README_tr.md) · [Русский](docs/readme/README_ru.md) · [Tiếng Việt](docs/readme/README_vi.md) · [ไทย](docs/readme/README_th.md) · [Deutsch](docs/readme/README_de.md) · [Español](docs/readme/README_es.md) · [Français](docs/readme/README_fr.md) · [Українська](docs/readme/README_uk.md) · [Polski](docs/readme/README_pl.md) · [Português (Brasil)](docs/readme/README_pt-BR.md) · [العربية](docs/readme/README_ar.md) · [فارسی](docs/readme/README_fa.md) · [Bahasa Indonesia](docs/readme/README_id.md) · [Italiano](docs/readme/README_it.md)
-· [Ελληνικά](docs/readme/README_el.md) · [മലയാളം](docs/readme/README_ml.md) · [Roman Urdu](docs/readme/README_ur-Latn.md)
+· [Ελληνικά](docs/readme/README_el.md) · [മലയാളം](docs/readme/README_ml.md) · [Roman Urdu](docs/readme/README_ur-Latn.md) · [Română](docs/readme/README_ro.md) · [Български](docs/readme/README_bg.md)

 # REA: Reverse Engineer Anything

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 **See a feature you like. Understand how it works, down to the binary level.**

 [![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/rea-agents?style=flat-square&color=cb3837)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rea-agents)
-[![MCP tool catalog](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-tool_catalog-5c4ee5?style=flat-square)](docs/mcp-contracts.md#generated-catalog)
+[![MCP tool catalog](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-tool_catalog-5c4ee5?style=flat-square)](docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md#generated-catalog)
 [![Node.js requirements](https://img.shields.io/badge/Node.js-requirements-339933?style=flat-square&logo=nodedotjs&logoColor=white)](#what-you-can-analyze)
 [![skills.sh](https://skills.sh/b/morluto/rea?style=flat-square)](https://skills.sh/morluto/rea/reverse-engineer-anything)
 [![MIT license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-f4c430?style=flat-square)](LICENSE)
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@

 **[Website](https://rea.tools/) · [Guides](https://rea.tools/guides/) · [Showcases](https://rea.tools/showcase/)**

-[Quick start](#quick-start) · [How REA works](#how-rea-works) · [What you can analyze](#what-you-can-analyze) · [Showcases](#showcases) · [FAQ](#faq) · [Documentation](#documentation)
+<a href="https://discord.com/invite/GkcryMnJDM"><img alt="Join the REA community on Discord" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Join%20us%20on%20Discord-5865F2?style=for-the-badge&logo=discord&logoColor=white" height="40"></a>
+
+[Quick start](#quick-start) · [How REA works](#how-rea-works) · [What you can analyze](#what-you-can-analyze) · [Showcases](#showcases) · [Build RL environments](#build-rl-environments) · [FAQ](#faq) · [Documentation](#documentation)

 <code>npx rea-agents setup</code>

@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ See a feature in an app that you want in your own product? Ask your agent to inv

 REA connects your agent to tools for inspecting native binaries, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET assemblies, and websites. You can also use the same tools from your terminal. Analysis runs locally, and results include the evidence and limitations behind each conclusion.

-Setup registers REA with your agent and installs matching workflow instructions. Native analysis can use an existing Hopper, Ghidra, or IDA installation; setup can optionally install Hopper with approval. Static JavaScript analysis needs no native analysis engine.
+Setup registers REA with your agent and installs matching workflow instructions. Native analysis can use an existing Hopper, Ghidra, IDA or Kuna installation; setup can optionally install Hopper with approval. Static JavaScript analysis needs no native analysis engine.

 > **[Visit the REA website](https://rea.tools/)** for setup instructions, illustrated guides, and real case studies.

@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ Setup registers REA with your agent and installs matching workflow instructions.

 On Linux, Ghidra, JADX, firmware tool launches and static JavaScript/Electron
 analysis require a procps-compatible `ps` on REA's `PATH` for process ownership
-checks. Recovery steps are in `docs/installation.md` under
+checks. Recovery steps are in `docs/getting-started/installation.md` under
 "Linux owned-process prerequisite".

 ### Set up your agent
@@ -83,12 +85,15 @@ npx rea-agents setup

 Choose your agents, review the proposed changes, and approve them. Setup adds
 REA's MCP server and matching workflow instructions, with backups of existing
-configuration. Restart your agent afterward.
+configuration. Restart your agent afterward. Setup records the selected runtime and REA
+entry script directly. If acquired through a package runner, keep its cache entry
+available. Run package acquisition from a trusted directory outside the target
+project. Installation and recovery details are in the setup guide below.

 Setup supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok Build and
-[other agents](docs/installation.md#supported-agents). See
-[installation and setup](docs/installation.md) for provider configuration and
-manual MCP registration.
+[other agents](docs/getting-started/installation.md#supported-agents). See
+[installation and setup](docs/getting-started/installation.md) for provider configuration and
+manual MCP registration and Claude Code/Codex plugin installation.

 MCP uses compact input schemas by default to reduce context overhead. Set
 `REA_MCP_INPUT_SCHEMA_PROFILE=full` in your MCP registration when you need the
@@ -96,6 +101,12 @@ complete advertised field guidance and nested validation details. Both profiles
 keep the full tool set and canonical server validation. See
 "Compact input schema profile" in the MCP contracts guide.

+Complete output schemas are advertised by default. If your client caps the
+complete `tools/list` frame, set `REA_MCP_OUTPUT_SCHEMA_PROFILE=compact` to
+bound each advertised output schema, or `off` to omit output schemas entirely.
+Both settings keep canonical server-side validation and complete structured
+results. See "Output schemas" in the MCP contracts guide.
+
 ### Ask your agent

 ```text
@@ -124,7 +135,7 @@ rea --help
 ```

 For native analysis, configure a provider first. See the
-[CLI and Evidence guide](docs/cli.md) for native commands, provider selection,
+[CLI and Evidence guide](docs/getting-started/cli.md) for native commands, provider selection,
 snapshots and scripting.

 ### Update REA
@@ -180,43 +191,47 @@ CLI commands use the same workflows.
 REA requires Node.js 22.x (>=22.23.4), 24.x (>=24.22.1), or 26.12.1+, plus npm.
 Additional tools and host support depend on the target:

-| Target                  | What REA returns                                                                                  | Requirements and guide                                                                                                                |
-| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| Desktop installations   | Runtime candidates, supporting files, component markers and next probes                           | Built-in bounded directory/header inspection; [desktop applications](docs/desktop-applications.md)                                    |
-| Native binaries         | Pseudocode, assembly, strings, symbols, calls and references                                      | Hopper, Ghidra or IDA; [native analysis](docs/native-investigation.md)                                                                |
-| Offline ELF layout      | Sections, segments, original symbols/relocations and static mitigation candidates                 | Caller-supplied pwntools on Linux x64; [binary diagnostics](docs/binary-diagnostics.md)                                               |
-| Go binaries             | Embedded compiler version, modules, replacements and build settings                               | Built-in static ELF/PE/thin Mach-O inspection; no Go installation required                                                            |
-| GPU code objects        | CUDA/HIP targets, selected kernel parameters and resources, retained PTX text                     | Built-in static ELF/PE/fatbin/CUBIN/PTX inspection; [GPU code objects](docs/gpu-code-objects.md)                                      |
-| Model artifacts         | GGUF / safetensors metadata, tensor declarations and derived totals                               | Built-in header inspection; optional full-file hash; [model files](docs/model-artifacts.md)                                           |
-| IL2CPP metadata         | Unity global-metadata.dat assembly images, type and method names and index ranges                 | Built-in static decoding of versions 24, 27, 29, 31 and 39; no Unity required                                                         |
-| Godot PCK               | Archive inventory and extraction, original header/directory facts and selected content identities | Built-in static formats 2, 3 and 4; no Godot required                                                                                 |
-| Rust binaries           | Embedded cargo-auditable crate names, versions, sources and dependency edges                      | Built-in static ELF/PE/thin Mach-O inspection; [Rust binaries](docs/rust-binaries.md)                                                 |
-| PE certificates         | Authenticode WIN_CERTIFICATE entries and PKCS#7 signer/X.509 identity fields                      | Built-in static PE inspection; [PE certificates](docs/pe-certificates.md)                                                             |
-| PE imports              | Import and delay-load DLL names, ordinals, IAT RVAs and pefile import hash                        | Built-in static PE inspection; [PE imports](docs/pe-imports.md)                                                                       |
-| ELF notes               | PT_NOTE/SHT_NOTE owners, types, GNU build-id and ABI-tag fields                                   | Built-in static ELF inspection; [ELF notes](docs/elf-notes.md)                                                                        |
-| Apple IPS crashes       | .ips metadata, threads, images, registers and documented crash classes                            | Built-in static JSON inspection; [Apple IPS](docs/apple-ips.md)                                                                       |
-| Erlang BEAM             | IFF chunks, atoms, exports, imports, lambdas and the Code header                                  | Built-in static BEAM inspection; [Erlang BEAM](docs/erlang-beam.md)                                                                   |
-| WASM artifact           | Validation, sections, exact import/export WAT forms and decoded WAT                               | Caller-supplied WABT 1.0.42; `inspect_wasm_artifact`                                                                                  |
-| EVM bytecode            | Dispatch selectors, byte offsets, inferred arguments and mutability                               | Local raw/hex carrier on Linux x64; [offline EVM guide](docs/evm-bytecode.md)                                                         |
-| SQLite databases        | Tables, columns, indexes, views, triggers and selected ordinary-table rows                        | Local database/WAL snapshot; Node.js 24.x >=24.15 or 26+ with native SQLite limits                                                    |
-| Recorded Linux crashes  | Raw notes, every recorded thread's registers/signals and optional mapping candidates              | Caller-supplied pwntools on Linux x64; optional GDB/pwndbg; [recorded crashes](docs/recorded-crashes.md)                              |
-| JavaScript / Electron   | Modules, imports, source maps, routes, IPC and native add-on relationships                        | Node.js and npm; Linux: procps-compatible `ps`; [application analysis](docs/javascript-application-workflows.md)                      |
-| Websites                | Page structure, scripts, network observations and requested screenshots                           | A Chrome-family browser; [browser analysis](docs/browser-observation.md)                                                              |
-| Saved network captures  | Requests, responses, exposed payloads and source locations                                        | HAR or Fiddler Everywhere SAZ; mitmdump on Linux for native mitmproxy; [capture guide](docs/web-network-captures.md)                  |
-| .NET assemblies         | Metadata, CIL instructions, declared native dependencies and build comparisons                    | None (static only); [managed-code guide](docs/managed-code-analysis.md)                                                               |
-| Android APKs            | Manifest declarations, classes, decompiled methods and references                                 | Headless JADX and a full JDK on Linux/macOS/Windows x64; [Android guide](docs/android-analysis.md)                                    |
-| APK signatures          | v1/v2/v3/v3.1 signers, certificate fingerprints, key rotation and digest self-consistency         | None (static only); `inspect_apk_signature`                                                                                           |
-| Android devices         | Devices, packages, processes, logs, dumps, screen captures, and APK/file transfers                | Caller-supplied adb (emulator or hardware); [ADB guide](docs/adb-device-analysis.md)                                                  |
-| JEB projects            | Engine-backed project units, artifact digests and type/method pseudo-code                         | A caller-started JEB client serving MCP, selected with REA_JEB_MCP_URL; [JEB guide](docs/jeb-analysis.md)                             |
-| Android resources       | Decoded manifest, string tables, locales and version facts                                        | Caller-supplied Apktool launcher; [resource guide](docs/apktool-resource-analysis.md)                                                 |
-| Flutter apps            | Dart snapshot hash, per-ABI library digests and engine build provenance                           | None (static APK parsing); [Flutter guide](docs/flutter-analysis.md)                                                                  |
-| Firmware                | Regions, extraction results and native-analysis handoffs                                          | Binwalk / Unblob on Linux; [firmware guide](docs/firmware-analysis.md)                                                                |
-| Recorded packets        | Selected fields, repeated values, filters and decode-as rules                                     | Linux: TShark 4.x + prlimit; [capture guide](docs/packet-captures.md)                                                                 |
-| Packet summaries        | Endpoints, DNS, TLS SNI, protocol distribution and HTTP requests                                  | Caller-supplied tshark and capinfos (Linux-verified); [pcap guide](docs/pcap-analysis.md)                                             |
-| Recorded logic signals  | Decoder annotations, sample ranges and diagnostics                                                | Linux: sigrok-cli 0.7.2 + prlimit; [signal recordings](docs/signal-recordings.md)                                                     |
-| Packages and resources  | File inventories, digests, plists, Apple bundle anatomy and extracted resources                   | [Artifact and JavaScript guide](docs/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md), [Apple applications](docs/apple-application-analysis.md) |
-| Process behavior        | Terminal output, interactions, exit and filesystem observations, and run comparisons              | Linux/macOS with a native PTY; [process capture](docs/process-capture.md)                                                             |
-| PyInstaller executables | CArchive members, Python version, entry scripts and extracted bytecode                            | None (static only); [Python packaged applications](docs/python-packaged-applications.md)                                              |
+| Target                  | What REA returns                                                                                  | Requirements and guide                                                                                                                                               |
+| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Desktop installations   | Runtime candidates, supporting files, component markers and next probes                           | Built-in bounded directory/header inspection; [desktop applications](docs/desktop-applications.md)                                                                   |
+| Native binaries         | Pseudocode, assembly, strings, symbols, calls and references                                      | Hopper, Ghidra, IDA or Kuna; [native analysis](docs/guides/native/native-investigation.md)                                                                           |
+| Offline ELF layout      | Sections, segments, original symbols/relocations and static mitigation candidates                 | Caller-supplied pwntools on Linux x64; [binary diagnostics](docs/guides/native/binary-diagnostics.md)                                                                |
+| Go binaries             | Embedded compiler version, modules, replacements and build settings                               | Built-in static ELF/PE/thin Mach-O inspection; no Go installation required                                                                                           |
+| GPU code objects        | CUDA/HIP targets, selected kernel parameters and resources, retained PTX text                     | Built-in static ELF/PE/fatbin/CUBIN/PTX inspection; [GPU code objects](docs/gpu-code-objects.md)                                                                     |
+| Model artifacts         | GGUF / safetensors metadata, tensor declarations and derived totals                               | Built-in header inspection; optional full-file hash; [model files](docs/model-artifacts.md)                                                                          |
+| IL2CPP metadata         | Unity global-metadata.dat assembly images, type and method names and index ranges                 | Built-in static decoding of versions 24, 27, 29, 31 and 39; no Unity required                                                                                        |
+| Godot PCK               | Archive inventory and extraction, original header/directory facts and selected content identities | Built-in static formats 2, 3 and 4; no Godot required                                                                                                                |
+| Rust binaries           | Embedded cargo-auditable crate names, versions, sources and dependency edges                      | Built-in static ELF/PE/thin Mach-O inspection; [Rust binaries](docs/rust-binaries.md)                                                                                |
+| PE certificates         | Authenticode WIN_CERTIFICATE entries and PKCS#7 signer/X.509 identity fields                      | Built-in static PE inspection; [PE certificates](docs/pe-certificates.md)                                                                                            |
+| PE imports              | Import and delay-load DLL names, ordinals, IAT RVAs and pefile import hash                        | Built-in static PE inspection; [PE imports](docs/pe-imports.md)                                                                                                      |
+| Windows shortcuts       | Shell Link target, arguments, working dir, ExtraData and Tracker droid facts                      | Built-in static LNK inspection; [Windows shortcuts](docs/guides/native/windows-shortcut.md)                                                                          |
+| ELF notes               | PT_NOTE/SHT_NOTE owners, types, GNU build-id and ABI-tag fields                                   | Built-in static ELF inspection; [ELF notes](docs/elf-notes.md)                                                                                                       |
+| Binary hardening        | PIE, NX, RELRO, CFG and related header flags for ELF, PE and Mach-O                               | Built-in static header inspection; [binary hardening](docs/binary-hardening.md)                                                                                      |
+| Apple IPS crashes       | .ips metadata, threads, images, registers and documented crash classes                            | Built-in static JSON inspection; [Apple IPS](docs/apple-ips.md)                                                                                                      |
+| Linux kernel modules    | .modinfo keys, __versions CRCs, this_module presence, and signature trailer                       | Built-in static ELF inspection; [kernel modules](docs/kernel-modules.md)                                                                                             |
+| Erlang BEAM             | IFF chunks, atoms, exports, imports, lambdas and the Code header                                  | Built-in static BEAM inspection; [Erlang BEAM](docs/erlang-beam.md)                                                                                                  |
+| WASM artifact           | Validation, sections, exact import/export WAT forms and decoded WAT                               | Caller-supplied WABT 1.0.42; `inspect_wasm_artifact`                                                                                                                 |
+| EVM bytecode            | Dispatch selectors, byte offsets, inferred arguments and mutability                               | Local raw/hex carrier on Linux x64; [offline EVM guide](docs/guides/evm/evm-bytecode.md)                                                                             |
+| SQLite databases        | Tables, columns, indexes, views, triggers and selected ordinary-table rows                        | Local database/WAL snapshot; Node.js 24.x >=24.15 or 26+ with native SQLite limits                                                                                   |
+| Recorded Linux crashes  | Raw notes, every recorded thread's registers/signals and optional mapping candidates              | Caller-supplied pwntools on Linux x64; optional GDB/pwndbg; [recorded crashes](docs/guides/native/recorded-crashes.md)                                               |
+| JavaScript / Electron   | Modules, imports, source maps, routes, IPC and native add-on relationships                        | Node.js and npm; Linux: procps-compatible `ps`; [application analysis](docs/guides/javascript/javascript-application-workflows.md)                                   |
+| Websites                | Page structure, scripts, network observations and requested screenshots                           | A Chrome-family browser; [browser analysis](docs/guides/web/browser-observation.md)                                                                                  |
+| Saved network captures  | Requests, responses, exposed payloads and source locations                                        | HAR or Fiddler Everywhere SAZ; mitmdump on Linux for native mitmproxy; [capture guide](docs/guides/web/web-network-captures.md)                                      |
+| .NET assemblies         | Metadata, CIL instructions, declared native dependencies and build comparisons                    | None (static only); [managed-code guide](docs/guides/managed/managed-code-analysis.md)                                                                               |
+| Android APKs            | Manifest declarations, classes, decompiled methods and references                                 | Headless JADX and a full JDK on Linux/macOS/Windows x64; [Android guide](docs/guides/android/android-analysis.md)                                                    |
+| APK signatures          | v1/v2/v3/v3.1 signers, certificate fingerprints, key rotation and digest self-consistency         | None (static only); `inspect_apk_signature`                                                                                                                          |
+| Android devices         | Devices, packages, processes, logs, dumps, screen captures, and APK/file transfers                | Caller-supplied adb (emulator or hardware); [ADB guide](docs/guides/android/adb-device-analysis.md)                                                                  |
+| JEB projects            | Engine-backed project units, artifact digests and type/method pseudo-code                         | A caller-started JEB client serving MCP, selected with REA_JEB_MCP_URL; [JEB guide](docs/providers/jeb-analysis.md)                                                  |
+| Android resources       | Decoded manifest, string tables, locales and version facts                                        | Caller-supplied Apktool launcher; [resource guide](docs/guides/android/apktool-resource-analysis.md)                                                                 |
+| Flutter apps            | Dart snapshot hash, per-ABI library digests and engine build provenance                           | None (static APK parsing); [Flutter guide](docs/guides/android/flutter-analysis.md)                                                                                  |
+| Firmware                | Regions, extraction results and native-analysis handoffs                                          | Binwalk / Unblob on Linux; [firmware guide](docs/guides/firmware/firmware-analysis.md)                                                                               |
+| Recorded packets        | Selected fields, repeated values, filters and decode-as rules                                     | Linux: TShark 4.x + prlimit; [capture guide](docs/guides/data/packet-captures.md)                                                                                    |
+| Packet summaries        | Endpoints, DNS, TLS SNI, protocol distribution and HTTP requests                                  | Caller-supplied tshark and capinfos (Linux-verified); [pcap guide](docs/guides/data/pcap-analysis.md)                                                                |
+| Recorded logic signals  | Decoder annotations, sample ranges and diagnostics                                                | Linux: sigrok-cli 0.7.2 + prlimit; [signal recordings](docs/guides/signals/signal-recordings.md)                                                                     |
+| Packages and resources  | File inventories, digests, plists, Apple bundle anatomy and extracted resources                   | [Artifact and JavaScript guide](docs/guides/javascript/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md), [Apple applications](docs/guides/apple/apple-application-analysis.md) |
+| Process behavior        | Terminal output, interactions, exit and filesystem observations, and run comparisons              | Linux/macOS with a native PTY; [process capture](docs/guides/runtime/process-capture.md)                                                                             |
+| PyInstaller executables | CArchive members, Python version, entry scripts and extracted bytecode                            | None (static only); [Python packaged applications](docs/python-packaged-applications.md)                                                                             |
+| Deno compile binaries   | Virtual files, entry point, recorded options, npm snapshot length                                 | None (static only); [Deno compile executables](docs/deno-standalone.md)                                                                                              |

 Static JavaScript and .NET inspection read the supplied files without running
 the application. Runtime capture runs or interacts with the selected target
@@ -230,15 +245,15 @@ or update either provider.
 <a id="choosing-a-deep-analysis-provider"></a>

 Native formats and host support vary by provider. See
-[Hopper and Ghidra setup](docs/installation.md#hopper), the
-[IDA guide](docs/ida-provider.md) (including an optional native MCP bridge), the
+[Hopper and Ghidra setup](docs/getting-started/installation.md#hopper), the
+[IDA guide](docs/providers/ida-provider.md) (including an optional native MCP bridge), the
 [Kuna decompiler guide](docs/kuna-provider.md), and
-[experimental Windows Ghidra support](docs/windows-ghidra-p0.md).
-Ghidra also supports [16-bit DOS analysis](docs/ghidra-dos.md).
+[experimental Windows Ghidra support](docs/providers/windows-ghidra-p0.md).
+Ghidra also supports [16-bit DOS analysis](docs/providers/ghidra-dos.md).
 For large binaries, raise the provider's startup deadline with
 `REA_GHIDRA_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_MS` or `REA_HOPPER_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_MS`.
-For provider selection, see the [CLI guide](docs/cli.md#choose-a-provider).
-Check [release availability](docs/installation.md#released-package-and-main)
+For provider selection, see the [CLI guide](docs/getting-started/cli.md#choose-a-provider).
+Check [release availability](docs/getting-started/installation.md#released-package-and-main)
 for features added since the latest npm release.

 ## Showcases
@@ -275,28 +290,78 @@ historical compiler output.
 [Read the case study](https://rea.tools/showcase/th04/) ·
 [Reconstruction repository](https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/th04)

+### Build RL environments with REA
+
+Record a web app session, turn its API into tools, and export an environment an AI agent can use. Run it with AgentEnv, then add tasks and reward checks for RL training or evaluation.
+
+[Read the guide](https://rea.tools/guides/rl-environments/) ·
+[Watch the video](https://x.com/reatools/status/2112574822584918075?s=20)
+
 If you've used REA on something interesting, we'd love to see it. Share your
 case in an [issue](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues) or a
 [pull request](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pulls), including the target,
 your question, how REA helped, and what you found.

+## Build RL environments
+
+Give an AI agent a local environment to practice tasks such as finding an issue or creating a folder, without running the original app. Use it for reinforcement learning (RL) or to test how well an agent completes tasks.
+
+REA turns recorded API requests and responses into tools the agent can call. The environment uses the recorded data and supports changes only when the recording confirms their effects.
+
+With REA set up in your agent, replace the example URL and folder tasks below with your own:
+
+```text
+Use REA to build an RL environment from my test web app at
+http://127.0.0.1:3000.
+Cover listing, creating, renaming, and deleting folders. You may create and
+remove test folders. Leave existing data unchanged.
+Save it in a folder named my-env. Check which operations work and tell me
+how to run it.
+```
+
+<details>
+<summary>Use the command line instead</summary>
+
+Use these commands if you already have a file containing the app’s recorded browser requests and responses. Running the result also requires AgentEnv and Docker.
+
+```sh
+rea environment-build ./session.har ./my-env --name my-env --json
+agent-env run ./my-env
+```
+
+</details>
+
+REA exports a runnable environment with a basic test to check that it starts and responds. Use it with your RL framework to define task goals, add reward checks, and run training.
+
+[Build an environment](https://rea.tools/guides/rl-environments/) ·
+[Environment reference](docs/agent-environments.md) ·
+[Watch the demo on X](https://x.com/reatools/status/2112574822584918075?s=20)
+
+### Desktop app environments
+
+REA can also build an environment of a Linux desktop app, which an agent uses through screenshots, the mouse and the keyboard. From a one-line request, such as "Build me a Gnote environment where the agent adds olive oil to the shopping list note", your agent installs the app on a local build computer, writes the task, exports the environment and checks the task in a fresh computer. The machine that builds it needs Linux on amd64 or arm64, Docker and the agentenv framework version the guide pins.
+
+[Set up desktop app environments](docs/desktop-build-computer.md)
+
 ## FAQ

 <details>
 <summary><strong>Which agents can use REA?</strong></summary>

 Any agent that supports local MCP servers. Setup configures the
-[supported agents](docs/installation.md#supported-agents); other clients can use
-[manual MCP registration](docs/installation.md#mcp-registry).
+[supported agents](docs/getting-started/installation.md#supported-agents); other clients can use
+[manual MCP registration](docs/getting-started/installation.md#mcp-registry).

 </details>

 <details>
-<summary><strong>Do I need Hopper, Ghidra or IDA?</strong></summary>
+<summary><strong>Do I need a native analysis engine?</strong></summary>

-Deep native analysis uses one of them. Static JavaScript and .NET inspection
-work without a native analysis engine. Setup can install Hopper after approval;
-Ghidra and IDA use your existing installations. See [provider setup](docs/installation.md#hopper).
+Deep native analysis uses Hopper, Ghidra, IDA or Kuna, depending on the target
+and operation. Static JavaScript and .NET inspection work without a native
+analysis engine. Setup can install Hopper after approval; Ghidra, IDA and Kuna
+use your existing installations. See [provider setup](docs/getting-started/installation.md#hopper)
+for the options and their supported targets.

 </details>

@@ -307,7 +372,7 @@ REA starts Hopper when an operation needs it. On macOS, a first-run dialog may
 ask you to choose demo mode or activate your license. Complete that prompt in the
 same user session before your first CLI/MCP operation or unattended job. Open
 Hopper manually if needed. See
-[Hopper startup and troubleshooting](docs/installation.md#launcher-paths-and-troubleshooting).
+[Hopper startup and troubleshooting](docs/getting-started/installation.md#launcher-paths-and-troubleshooting).

 </details>

@@ -316,7 +381,7 @@ Hopper manually if needed. See

 The skill supplies investigation instructions for your agent. Use `npx rea-agents setup`
 to register REA's MCP server and install the matching instructions, then restart
-your agent. See [skill-only installation](docs/installation.md#skill-only-installation).
+your agent. See [skill-only installation](docs/getting-started/installation.md#skill-only-installation).

 </details>

@@ -365,18 +430,18 @@ with your REA version, target type, steps to reproduce and error output.
 Start with the website's [worked guides](https://rea.tools/guides/).
 For exact options, prerequisites and result contracts:

- [Installation and setup](docs/installation.md): agent registration, provider configuration, updates and uninstall.
- [Readiness and troubleshooting](docs/installation.md#check-readiness-for-your-task): diagnose one agent or analysis engine.
- [CLI and Evidence](docs/cli.md): commands, provider selection, snapshots, import/export and exit statuses.
- [MCP contracts](docs/mcp-contracts.md) and [agent prompts](docs/mcp-prompts.md): tool results, sessions and guided investigations.
- [Tool catalog](docs/mcp-contracts.md#generated-catalog): generated inventory of tools, providers and CLI commands.
- [Roadmap](docs/roadmap.md): planned work and capability trackers.
+- [Installation and setup](docs/getting-started/installation.md): agent registration, provider configuration, updates and uninstall.
+- [Readiness and troubleshooting](docs/getting-started/installation.md#check-readiness-for-your-task): diagnose one agent or analysis engine.
+- [CLI and Evidence](docs/getting-started/cli.md): commands, provider selection, snapshots, import/export and exit statuses.
+- [MCP contracts](docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md) and [agent prompts](docs/getting-started/mcp-prompts.md): tool results, sessions and guided investigations.
+- [Tool catalog](docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md#generated-catalog): generated inventory of tools, providers and CLI commands.
+- [Roadmap](docs/development/roadmap.md): planned work and capability trackers.

 Report vulnerabilities through [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).

 ## Star history

-🎉 **300,000 GitHub stars — thank you!**
+🎉 **400,000 GitHub stars — thank you!**

 Thanks to everyone using REA, reporting bugs, requesting features, testing builds, and contributing fixes.

@@ -405,8 +470,8 @@ report a bug or suggest a feature, or [send a pull request](https://github.com/m
 to improve the code or docs.

 See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for development setup and checks,
-[testing](docs/testing.md) for verification lanes, and the
-[architecture map](docs/architecture.mermaid) for selected layers and dependency paths.
+[testing](docs/development/testing.md) for verification lanes, and the
+[architecture map](docs/architecture/architecture.mermaid) for selected layers and dependency paths.

 ## License

@@ -4,13 +4,124 @@

 Security fixes are provided for the latest published version of REA. Upgrade to the latest release before reporting a problem that may already have been resolved.

+## Security boundary
+
+REA is a local reverse-engineering and automation tool. CLI and MCP use the
+same application workflows and run with the host process's permissions.
+REA is not a general-purpose sandbox or a multi-tenant authorization service.
+
+### Threat model
+
+- **Trusted authority:** the operating-system account running REA, the caller
+  or agent host that selects operations, and configured analysis providers,
+  their executables and extensions, and service endpoints. An MCP client can
+  invoke the operations exposed to it; its host must enforce the user's tool
+  permissions and approvals.
+- **Untrusted data:** target binaries, archives, source files, project contents,
+  captures, web pages and returned target content can be malicious. Selecting
+  an input for static inspection does not authorize commands embedded in that
+  input. Agents must treat target text and Evidence as data rather
+  than instructions granting additional authority.
+- **Operation-specific effects:** static inspection parses target data and may
+  launch an analysis engine. Runtime, debugger, instrumentation, browser,
+  desktop and environment workflows can deliberately execute code, attach to
+  processes, make network requests, write files or interact with applications
+  and devices. Review the selected operation's effects and limitations; static
+  inspection does not authorize launching or interacting with the target
+  application. See
+  [runtime and network responsibilities](DISCLAIMER.md#runtime-network-and-device-operations).
+
+Standard client registrations use a dedicated stdio process. Opt-in
+[HTTP MCP](docs/reference/mcp-contracts.md#transports) uses plain HTTP without
+TLS or client authentication and shares provider/active-target state across
+protocol sessions. Its session ID is not a user-authentication or isolation
+boundary. Keep this endpoint within a trusted local or isolated environment.
+
+### Intended security properties
+
+Static JavaScript and .NET inspection do not run the target application.
+Unexpected execution of input code through a data-only analysis path is a
+security concern. Analysis engines themselves are executable software trusted
+with the host account's permissions; parsing an input in an external engine
+does not isolate that engine from the host.
+
+REA authenticates its managed Hopper and Ghidra bridges with per-session random
+capability tokens transferred through private session files, rather than
+process arguments or environment variables. POSIX uses current-user Unix
+sockets. Windows Ghidra uses authenticated loopback TCP and a private NTFS
+runtime whose DACL admits only the current user and SYSTEM. These controls
+protect the managed session boundary, not every external provider or debugger
+endpoint. See [Windows Ghidra transport and lifecycle](docs/providers/windows-ghidra-p0.md#private-runtime-transport-and-lifecycle).
+
+Provider ownership and mutation rules remain specific to each workflow:
+
+- Ghidra's working projects are temporary and owned by REA. Opt-in
+  [checkpoints](docs/getting-started/installation.md#automatically-checkpoint-an-owned-ghidra-program)
+  retain REA-owned Program state. A
+  [caller-selected existing project](docs/getting-started/installation.md#reuse-an-existing-ghidra-project)
+  is fingerprinted and copied into an owned runtime for read-only processing;
+  Ghidra does not open or save the original database through that workflow.
+- [IDA analysis](docs/providers/ida-provider.md) is read-only. An attached GUI
+  database is never saved or closed by REA; owned headless sessions have a
+  separate lifecycle.
+- Cleanup must stay within resources REA owns. Failed or unverified cleanup
+  can retain a workspace or session for retry; closing a session
+  does not imply that every investigation artifact has been erased.
+
+`rea setup` shows planned configuration and installation changes and requires
+approval before applying them. Ghidra, Java and IDA are user-managed. Approved
+Linux Hopper installation authenticates the package's detached PGP signature
+against the pinned publisher identity and checks the signed launcher against
+the selected release's digest. The release feed's display version is separate
+from that authenticated identity. See [installation and publisher verification](docs/getting-started/installation.md#hopper).
+
+### Limits and caller responsibilities
+
+- **Host isolation:** private runtimes and capability tokens do not protect
+  against malicious software already running as the same operating-system
+  user, or a compromised trusted client or provider. Use an appropriately
+  isolated account, VM or restricted environment when handling hostile targets.
+- **Resource bounds:** timeouts, cancellation, streaming and size limits are
+  operation-specific. They are not a universal CPU, memory, disk or wall-time
+  limit on every target and third-party tool. Enforce hard host resource limits
+  externally when needed. Failures of a documented boundary or cancellation
+  control still warrant investigation.
+- **Data and network exposure:** Evidence, caches, checkpoints, exports and
+  captures can retain private target data, paths, URLs and memory contents.
+  Local execution does not make these outputs safe to publish. Requested
+  network operations, agent hosts and provider features such as
+  [IDA Free's cloud decompiler](docs/providers/ida-provider.md) can communicate
+  outside the host. Review their data handling and secure any exposed endpoint.
+- **Interpretation:** analysis, reconstruction and generated environments can
+  be incomplete or incorrect. Identity checks, signatures and successful
+  analysis do not establish that a target, provider or generated program is
+  safe to execute. Review the Evidence and proposed actions before relying on
+  them.
+
+### Vulnerability scope
+
+Please report suspected violations of these boundaries privately. Examples
+include unintended code execution during data-only inspection, escaping a
+documented extraction/output boundary, bypassing bridge authentication or
+target/session identity checks, unauthorized effects on an unrelated resource,
+and disclosure of transport credentials or explicitly marked sensitive values.
+An attacker-triggered bypass of a documented resource or cancellation control
+can also be security-relevant without code execution.
+
+Incorrect analysis, unsupported formats, crashes, hangs and high resource use
+without a security-boundary impact are generally ordinary bug reports. Effects
+explicitly requested through an execution or interaction workflow are not by
+themselves a vulnerability. A dependency advisory needs its actual REA exposure
+assessed; a complete exploit or diagnosis is not required to report a concern.
+If you are unsure whether a boundary is affected, use the private channel below.
+
 ## Reporting a vulnerability

 Do not disclose vulnerabilities, proof-of-concept exploits, credentials,
 private binaries, Hopper documents, or private Ghidra projects in a public
 issue.

-Use **Report a vulnerability** in the repository's **Security** tab to submit the report privately. Do not open a public issue to request a private contact channel.
+Use **Report a vulnerability** in the repository's **Security** tab as the preferred way to submit the report privately. If GitHub private reporting is unavailable to you, email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Do not open a public issue to request a private contact channel.

 Include the affected REA version, operating system/distribution, selected
 provider and version, impact, reproduction conditions, and any suggested
@@ -21,30 +132,3 @@ unrelated local paths from logs or examples.
 The maintainer will acknowledge the report, assess its scope, and coordinate
 remediation and disclosure timing with the reporter. Please allow time for
 provider-dependent behavior to be reproduced safely.
-
-## Security boundary
-
-REA authenticates its Hopper and Ghidra bridges with per-session random
-capability tokens. POSIX uses current-user Unix sockets; Windows Ghidra uses
-authenticated loopback TCP with a private NTFS runtime whose DACL admits only
-the current user and SYSTEM. See [Windows Ghidra P0](docs/windows-ghidra-p0.md#private-runtime-transport-and-lifecycle).
-Tokens are transferred through private session descriptors rather than process
-arguments or environment variables.
-This is not a sandbox and does not protect against malicious processes already
-running as the same operating-system user. Opening an untrusted binary
-delegates parsing and analysis to the selected local provider with that user's
-permissions.
-
-Ghidra sessions use a packaged Java `HeadlessScript`, an isolated temporary
-project, and private home, cache, and runtime directories. REA imports only the
-requested target, bounds startup and protocol messages, requests bounded CPU
-and heap settings, and deletes the temporary project when the session closes.
-These controls limit accidental persistence and resource use; they do not make
-Ghidra a sandbox. REA does not open or modify user-owned Ghidra projects.
-
-`GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR` and optional `JAVA_HOME` identify user-managed
-installations. Setup can add those values to detected client configuration only
-after showing its plan and receiving approval. REA does not download, install,
-upgrade, or modify Ghidra or Java.
-
-On Linux, REA accepts release metadata only from Hopper's HTTPS endpoint, restricts package URLs to Hopper's public download origin, bounds the package size, and compares the downloaded bytes with Hopper's published checksum before requesting installation. The published SHA-1 value is a corruption check, not a modern package signature; HTTPS origin validation remains part of the trust boundary. Dependency installation is delegated without shell evaluation to `apt-get`, `dnf`, or `pacman`, directly as root or through `pkexec`. REA never invokes `sudo`.
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ notices supplied with the software you actually obtain or redistribute.
 | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | npm dependencies         | [Complete inventory](licenses/npm-dependencies.txt) of every entry in `package-lock.json`, including transitive, optional platform, development, and website dependencies. [Runtime notices](licenses/npm-runtime-notices.txt) preserve the copyright, license, and NOTICE documents from integrity-verified release archives, plus the MIT notice for Rolldown's generated runtime helpers. Development dependencies are inventoried but are not all distributed in REA's npm package.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | pefile ordinal tables    | Import-hash ordinal names are derived from [pefile 2024.8.26](https://github.com/erocarrera/pefile/tree/4b3b1e2e568a88d4f1897d694d684f23d9e270c4), copyright 2004–2024 Ero Carrera. Preserve the [MIT license](licenses/pefile-2024.8.26-LICENSE.txt). The Python package is not a runtime dependency.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| UF2 family names         | UF2 family IDs and short names are copied from [microsoft/uf2 `utils/uf2families.json`](https://github.com/microsoft/uf2/blob/cf3bd7f9c274b949528f8cd6a19eef2502a687d2/utils/uf2families.json), copyright Microsoft Corporation. Preserve the [MIT license](licenses/microsoft-uf2-MIT.txt).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | NativeAOT parser         | REA's derived parser uses the MIT-licensed [ghidra-nativeaot](https://github.com/Washi1337/ghidra-nativeaot/tree/effeb734fc570c32650f88b159608979dc7b423e) work of Washi and the NativeAOT layout definitions in [dotnet/runtime](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/a3b2d40328be0be3f8dd43f0e5cc925b8827b044). Preserve [Washi's MIT notice](licenses/nativeaot-parser-MIT.txt) and the [.NET Foundation MIT notice](licenses/dotnet-runtime-MIT.txt).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | EVM analysis             | `[email protected]`, MIT, copyright 2023 Maxim Andreev. The published npm archive omits its license document; REA retains the [original upstream license](third_party/evmole/LICENSE) and [provenance](third_party/evmole/README.md). It is also included in the runtime notices.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | Windows native addon     | The release addon is compiled with MinGW-w64 and statically links GCC runtime libraries. Preserve the [MinGW-w64 runtime notices](licenses/MinGW-w64-runtime.txt), [GPLv3 text](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt), and [GCC Runtime Library Exception 3.1](licenses/GCC-Runtime-Library-Exception-3.1.txt). The exception governs eligible compiled combinations; it does not relicense the runtime itself under MIT. The Node-API build headers are from Node 22.19.0; its [original license and component notices](licenses/Node-22.19.0-LICENSE.txt) are retained. Node itself is supplied by the user. Snapshot provenance and release-toolchain review requirements are in [licenses/README.md](licenses/README.md). |
@@ -53,27 +54,27 @@ REA's adapters do not grant, replace, or waive these licenses. The upstream
 executables and their dependency graphs are supplied separately. Git submodules
 pin inspection sources; they are not included in the npm package.

-| Project                        | License and source                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | REA relationship                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| Ghidra                         | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.1.4_build/LICENSE), with the government-work and component qualifications in its [NOTICE](https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.1.4_build/NOTICE) | Bring your own Ghidra; see [supported versions](docs/installation.md#ghidra). Copies of the 12.1.4 [LICENSE](licenses/ghidra-12.1.4-LICENSE.txt), [NOTICE](licenses/ghidra-12.1.4-NOTICE.txt), and [DISCLAIMER](licenses/ghidra-12.1.4-DISCLAIMER.txt) are retained for reference. |
-| ghidra-nativeaot               | [MIT](https://github.com/Washi1337/ghidra-nativeaot/blob/effeb734fc570c32650f88b159608979dc7b423e/LICENSE.md)                                                                                                                                            | Pinned inspection source; derived parser attribution above.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| JADX                           | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/skylot/jadx/blob/v1.5.6/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                                                         | The audited jadx-headless-mcp source uses JADX 1.5.6 for Android decompilation; the engine JAR is separately supplied.                                                                                                                                                             |
-| jadx-headless-mcp              | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/1013503897/jadx-headless-mcp/blob/5844800a486d2248fa949b74c9896285f5b54de2/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                      | v0.7.1; pinned submodule and user-supplied JAR.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
-| Kuna                           | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/Noelo-Lab/kuna/blob/v1.833/LICENSE), with its [NOTICE](https://github.com/Noelo-Lab/kuna/blob/v1.833/NOTICE)                                                                                                             | Bring your own `kuna`; REA verified 1.833 and never downloads, installs or bundles it. REA invokes it as a separate process.                                                                                                                                                       |
-| Apktool                        | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/blob/master/LICENSE.md)                                                                                                                                                                              | User-supplied Android resource decoder.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| Binwalk                        | [MIT](https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/blob/4fdab3d464d97b68e0af9088df3f9e2e1545b21c/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                       | v3.1.0; pinned submodule and user-supplied firmware engine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| Unblob                         | [MIT](https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/1fcc7a0a584a70a96c31f5a276c20944d199a089/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                        | 26.6.4; pinned submodule and user-supplied firmware engine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| Wakaru                         | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/pionxzh/wakaru/blob/8219bf5016a063d7fb215101a8c45d5959ec733f/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                    | v1.14.0; pinned source and separately obtained JavaScript reconstruction tooling.                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| WABT                           | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/blob/ff0ef7e0009402740c805a9744c09b05be063e48/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                  | v1.0.42; external WebAssembly tools; [integration provenance](third_party/wabt/README.md).                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| pwntools                       | [MIT, with GPL/BSD component qualifications](https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools/blob/3ad86ec5adab1abf9781ca7552a6f5d7cff7a33c/LICENSE-pwntools.txt)                                                                                                  | 4.15.0; caller-supplied offline ELF analysis package.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| pyelftools                     | [Public-domain dedication and component notices](https://github.com/eliben/pyelftools/blob/v0.33/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                | 0.33; includes separately licensed bundled material, including Construct.                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
-| Unicorn                        | [GPL-2.0 and component notices](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/blob/2.1.2/COPYING)                                                                                                                                                            | 2.1.2; used by the caller-supplied ELF analysis profile for instruction emulation.                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| pwndbg                         | [MIT](third_party/pwndbg/LICENSE.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 2026.09.15, commit `55596aa676a2756efb8d67034f31675170eabe48`; separately obtained debugger extension.                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| GNU GDB                        | [GPL-3.0-or-later](https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/COPYING)                                                                                                                                                                  | Caller-supplied debugger for the optional pwndbg core-file workflow.                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| LLDB / LLVM                    | [Apache-2.0 with LLVM exceptions](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/LICENSE.TXT)                                                                                                                                                            | Caller-supplied debugger; the installed distribution's component and historical notices also apply.                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| mitmproxy                      | [MIT](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/6c09d56e4c29a92f5ad01b03199977584b8ea14f/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                      | 12.2.3; separately supplied network capture proxy.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| Android Debug Bridge (adb)     | [Apache-2.0](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/adb/+/refs/heads/main/NOTICE)                                                                                                                                                    | User-supplied Android device tool. A complete Android SDK download has its own [SDK license terms](https://developer.android.com/studio/terms); adb's source license does not replace them.                                                                                        |
-| ILSpy / ICSharpCode.Decompiler | [MIT](https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/blob/master/ICSharpCode.Decompiler/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs)                                                                                                                                                | Optional separately installed .NET decompiler; not a redistributed REA dependency.                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| Project                        | License and source                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | REA relationship                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Ghidra                         | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.1.4_build/LICENSE), with the government-work and component qualifications in its [NOTICE](https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.1.4_build/NOTICE) | Bring your own Ghidra; see [supported versions](docs/getting-started/installation.md#ghidra). Copies of the 12.1.4 [LICENSE](licenses/ghidra-12.1.4-LICENSE.txt), [NOTICE](licenses/ghidra-12.1.4-NOTICE.txt), and [DISCLAIMER](licenses/ghidra-12.1.4-DISCLAIMER.txt) are retained for reference. |
+| ghidra-nativeaot               | [MIT](https://github.com/Washi1337/ghidra-nativeaot/blob/effeb734fc570c32650f88b159608979dc7b423e/LICENSE.md)                                                                                                                                            | Pinned inspection source; derived parser attribution above.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| JADX                           | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/skylot/jadx/blob/v1.5.6/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                                                         | The audited jadx-headless-mcp source uses JADX 1.5.6 for Android decompilation; the engine JAR is separately supplied.                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| jadx-headless-mcp              | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/1013503897/jadx-headless-mcp/blob/5844800a486d2248fa949b74c9896285f5b54de2/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                      | v0.7.1; pinned submodule and user-supplied JAR.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| Kuna                           | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/Noelo-Lab/kuna/blob/v1.990/LICENSE), with its [NOTICE](https://github.com/Noelo-Lab/kuna/blob/v1.990/NOTICE)                                                                                                             | Bring your own `kuna`; REA verified 1.990 and never downloads, installs or bundles it. REA invokes it as a separate process.                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| Apktool                        | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/blob/master/LICENSE.md)                                                                                                                                                                              | User-supplied Android resource decoder.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| Binwalk                        | [MIT](https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/blob/4fdab3d464d97b68e0af9088df3f9e2e1545b21c/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                       | v3.1.0; pinned submodule and user-supplied firmware engine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| Unblob                         | [MIT](https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/1fcc7a0a584a70a96c31f5a276c20944d199a089/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                        | 26.6.4; pinned submodule and user-supplied firmware engine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| Wakaru                         | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/pionxzh/wakaru/blob/8219bf5016a063d7fb215101a8c45d5959ec733f/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                    | v1.14.0; pinned source and separately obtained JavaScript reconstruction tooling.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| WABT                           | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/blob/ff0ef7e0009402740c805a9744c09b05be063e48/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                  | v1.0.42; external WebAssembly tools; [integration provenance](third_party/wabt/README.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| pwntools                       | [MIT, with GPL/BSD component qualifications](https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools/blob/3ad86ec5adab1abf9781ca7552a6f5d7cff7a33c/LICENSE-pwntools.txt)                                                                                                  | 4.15.0; caller-supplied offline ELF analysis package.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+| pyelftools                     | [Public-domain dedication and component notices](https://github.com/eliben/pyelftools/blob/v0.33/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                | 0.33; includes separately licensed bundled material, including Construct.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| Unicorn                        | [GPL-2.0 and component notices](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/blob/2.1.2/COPYING)                                                                                                                                                            | 2.1.2; used by the caller-supplied ELF analysis profile for instruction emulation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| pwndbg                         | [MIT](third_party/pwndbg/LICENSE.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 2026.09.15, commit `55596aa676a2756efb8d67034f31675170eabe48`; separately obtained debugger extension.                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| GNU GDB                        | [GPL-3.0-or-later](https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/COPYING)                                                                                                                                                                  | Caller-supplied debugger for the optional pwndbg core-file workflow.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| LLDB / LLVM                    | [Apache-2.0 with LLVM exceptions](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/LICENSE.TXT)                                                                                                                                                            | Caller-supplied debugger; the installed distribution's component and historical notices also apply.                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| mitmproxy                      | [MIT](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/6c09d56e4c29a92f5ad01b03199977584b8ea14f/LICENSE)                                                                                                                                                      | 12.2.3; separately supplied network capture proxy.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| Android Debug Bridge (adb)     | [Apache-2.0](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/adb/+/refs/heads/main/NOTICE)                                                                                                                                                    | User-supplied Android device tool. A complete Android SDK download has its own [SDK license terms](https://developer.android.com/studio/terms); adb's source license does not replace them.                                                                                                        |
+| ILSpy / ICSharpCode.Decompiler | [MIT](https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/blob/master/ICSharpCode.Decompiler/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs)                                                                                                                                                | Optional separately installed .NET decompiler; not a redistributed REA dependency.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

 Ghidra's original notice credits software developed at the National Security
 Agency. It explains that US-government-created portions are not subject to US
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Plugin icon
+
+`rea-plugin.png` is a square adaptation of the left panel of REA's GitHub
+social preview, retrieved on 2026-10-28:
+
+https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com/1209966933/1a3fef9a-be4b-41f4-8830-a94c0e8288cc
+
+The image was adapted with imagegen, preserving the cyan REA lettering,
+pixel typography, orange rule, and taglines. Both plugin manifests reference
+this shared asset; only the PNG is included in the npm package.
@@ -0,0 +1,516 @@
+"""Run REA inside an agentenv build computer for REA on the host: capture the app, draft its task and export it.
+
+REA sends this file's source through the computer's ``computer-exec/v1`` route as
+``python3 -I -c <source> <command> <JSON arguments>``. JSON that would exceed the bytes Linux
+passes as one string travels as several arguments, which this file joins before parsing. Each command prints
+one JSON line and exits. ``start``
+leaves the capture running on its own: its stdin is a FIFO it holds open for reading and writing, so it never
+sees the end of its input, and ``mark`` and ``stop`` write their requests there and wait for the capture's own
+acknowledgement on its progress log. A small shell around the capture writes its exit status to a file, the
+mark a later command reads. REA runs as the session user in the home, with no ``AGENTENV_*`` variable, so
+neither REA nor the app it launches holds the computer's control token, and with ``APT_CONFIG`` naming the
+package lists ``start`` downloads as that user, so the capture finds the package's sources.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import time
+
+POLL_S = 0.2
+TAIL_BYTES = 4096
+
+
+def _say(value: dict) -> int:
+    print(json.dumps(value), flush=True)
+    return 0
+
+
+def _tail(path: str) -> str:
+    try:
+        with open(path, "rb") as handle:
+            handle.seek(max(0, os.path.getsize(path) - TAIL_BYTES))
+            return handle.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
+    except OSError:
+        return ""
+
+
+def _environment(work: str) -> dict:
+    environment = {name: value for name, value in os.environ.items() if not name.startswith("AGENTENV_")}
+    environment["APT_CONFIG"] = os.path.join(work, "apt", "apt.conf")
+    return environment
+
+
+def _apt(work: str, timeout: float) -> dict:
+    """Download the package lists into the work folder as the session user, until one update succeeds."""
+    root = os.path.join(work, "apt")
+    lists = os.path.join(root, "lists")
+    updated = os.path.join(root, "updated")
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(lists, "partial"), exist_ok=True)
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(root, "cache", "archives", "partial"), exist_ok=True)
+    with open(os.path.join(root, "apt.conf"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as conf:
+        conf.write(
+            f'Dir::State::Lists "{lists}";\n'
+            f'Dir::Cache "{root}/cache";\n'
+            'Debug::NoLocking "true";\n'
+            'APT::Update::Error-Mode "any";\n'
+        )
+    # apt keeps lists compressed as it fetched them, such as *_Packages.lz4 on Ubuntu.
+    count = lambda: len([name for name in os.listdir(lists) if re.search(r"_Packages(\.\w+)?$", name)])  # noqa: E731
+    # A marker left by an update that fetched nothing is not a success; download again.
+    if os.path.exists(updated) and count() > 0:
+        return {"lists": count(), "updated": False}
+    log = os.path.join(root, "update.log")
+    try:
+        with open(log, "wb") as output:
+            code = subprocess.run(["apt-get", "update"], env=_environment(work), stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                                  stdout=output, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, timeout=timeout).returncode
+    except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired) as error:
+        return {"lists": count(), "updated": True, "error": f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"}
+    lists_fetched = count()
+    if code == 0 and lists_fetched > 0:
+        # Only a whole update that fetched lists is kept, so a failed or empty one runs again.
+        open(updated, "w").close()
+        return {"lists": lists_fetched, "updated": True, "exit_code": code}
+    if code == 0:
+        return {"lists": lists_fetched, "updated": True, "exit_code": code,
+                "error": "apt-get update exited 0 without a package list"}
+    return {"lists": lists_fetched, "updated": True, "exit_code": code,
+            "error": f"apt-get update exited {code}: {_tail(log)[-1500:].strip()}"}
+
+
+def _exit_code(capture: str):
+    try:
+        with open(os.path.join(capture, "exit"), encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+            return int(handle.read().strip() or "-1")
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        return None
+
+
+def _ended(capture: str, code: int) -> dict:
+    """A capture that has exited: its status, the end of its progress log and its output's size, which REA reads
+    whole for the Evidence or failure it ended with, whichever step was waiting on it."""
+    return {"exited": code, "progress": _tail(os.path.join(capture, "progress.log")),
+            "output_bytes": os.path.getsize(os.path.join(capture, "capture.out"))}
+
+
+def _event_line(path: str, offset: int, kinds: set, name):
+    """The first progress line after ``offset`` whose event is of one of ``kinds``, for ``name`` when given."""
+    try:
+        with open(path, "rb") as handle:
+            handle.seek(offset)
+            lines = handle.read().decode("utf-8", "replace").splitlines()
+    except OSError:
+        return None
+    for line in lines:
+        try:
+            event = json.loads(line)["rea_progress"]["event"]
+        except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
+            continue
+        if isinstance(event, dict) and event.get("kind") in kinds and (name is None or event.get("name") == name):
+            return line
+    return None
+
+
+def _wait(capture: str, offset: int, kinds: set, name, timeout: float) -> dict:
+    """Wait for the capture's event, or for it to exit, or for time to run out."""
+    log = os.path.join(capture, "progress.log")
+    deadline = time.monotonic() + timeout
+    while True:
+        line = _event_line(log, offset, kinds, name)
+        if line is not None:
+            return {"line": line}
+        code = _exit_code(capture)
+        if code is not None:
+            return _ended(capture, code)
+        if time.monotonic() > deadline:
+            return {"timed_out": True, "progress": _tail(log)}
+        time.sleep(POLL_S)
+
+
+def _within(path: str, folder: str) -> bool:
+    return path == folder or path.startswith(folder + os.sep)
+
+
+def _state_paths(values: list, work: str):
+    """Each state path as an absolute path strictly under the home and outside REA's work folder, both as named
+    and with its links resolved, or the refusal of the first that is not. The capture resolves the links again
+    and retains what they lead to, so a link out of the home is refused here. Each passes on as named, so the
+    capture keeps what its spelling means, such as a hidden settings folder."""
+    home = os.path.normpath(os.path.expanduser("~"))
+    real_home, real_work = os.path.realpath(home), os.path.realpath(work)
+    spellings = {home, real_home}
+    paths = []
+    for value in values:
+        relative = value[2:] if value.startswith("~/") else value
+        path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(home, relative))
+        if ".." in relative.split("/") or not any(path.startswith(spelling + os.sep) for spelling in spellings):
+            return None, f"The state path {value} is not under the computer's home, {home}."
+        # Every link on the way is followed, a dangling one too; a path that does not exist yet resolves
+        # through its nearest existing folder.
+        resolved = os.path.realpath(path)
+        if not resolved.startswith(real_home + os.sep):
+            return None, f"The state path {value} leads through a link to {resolved}, which is not under the computer's home, {home}."
+        if _within(path, work) or _within(resolved, real_work):
+            return None, f"The state path {value} is in REA's work folder {work}, which every capture leaves out."
+        paths.append(path)
+    return paths, None
+
+
+def start(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    work, capture = os.path.abspath(arguments["work"]), os.path.abspath(arguments["capture"])
+    rea = shutil.which("rea")
+    if rea is None:
+        return _say({"error": "REA is not installed in this computer; start the computer from a request, which installs it."})
+    state_paths, refusal = _state_paths(arguments.get("state_paths", []), work)
+    if refusal is not None:
+        return _say({"refused": refusal})
+    if os.path.exists(capture):
+        return _say({"error": f"the capture folder {capture} is already used"})
+    apt = _apt(work, arguments.get("apt_timeout_s", 600))
+    try:
+        os.makedirs(capture)
+    except FileExistsError:
+        return _say({"error": f"a stop claimed {capture} before the capture launched", "apt": apt})
+    control = os.path.join(capture, "control")
+    os.mkfifo(control, 0o600)
+    argv = [rea, "capture-desktop-application", "--desktop-entry", arguments["desktop_entry"],
+            "--output", os.path.join(capture, "capture"), "--exclude", work, "--json"]
+    for value in arguments.get("arguments", []):
+        argv += ["--argument", value]
+    for path in state_paths:
+        argv += ["--state-path", path]
+    if arguments.get("package_file"):
+        argv += ["--package-file", arguments["package_file"]]
+    # Reading and writing, so the capture never reads the end of its input between requests.
+    reader = os.open(control, os.O_RDWR)
+    process = None
+    try:
+        try:
+            with open(os.path.join(capture, "capture.out"), "wb") as out, \
+                    open(os.path.join(capture, "progress.log"), "wb") as progress:
+                process = subprocess.Popen(
+                    ["sh", "-c", 'done=$1; shift; "$@"; code=$?; printf "%s" "$code" > "$done.tmp" && mv "$done.tmp" "$done"',
+                     "sh", os.path.join(capture, "exit"), *argv],
+                    cwd=os.path.expanduser("~"), env=_environment(work), stdin=reader, stdout=out, stderr=progress,
+                    start_new_session=True)
+        except Exception as cause:
+            # Nothing will write exit. Record one and drop the FIFO, so stop does not wait on it.
+            try:
+                with open(os.path.join(capture, "exit"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+                    handle.write("1")
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+            try:
+                os.unlink(control)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+            return _say({"error": f"the capture did not start: {cause}"})
+    finally:
+        os.close(reader)
+    if process is None:
+        return _say({"error": "the capture did not start"})
+    waited = _wait(capture, 0, {"window_open"}, None, arguments.get("timeout_s", 120))
+    return _say({"pid": process.pid, "apt": apt, **waited})
+
+
+def _request(capture: str, line: str) -> bool:
+    """Write one request to the running capture; False when nothing reads its FIFO any more."""
+    try:
+        fd = os.open(os.path.join(capture, "control"), os.O_WRONLY | os.O_NONBLOCK)
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    try:
+        os.write(fd, (line + "\n").encode("utf-8"))
+    finally:
+        os.close(fd)
+    return True
+
+
+def mark(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    """Request a checkpoint and answer with the capture's acknowledgement line as it wrote it: the checkpoint's
+    counts and up to ten of the files that changed, home-relative, with a count of the rest."""
+    capture, name = os.path.abspath(arguments["capture"]), arguments["name"]
+    code = _exit_code(capture)
+    log = os.path.join(capture, "progress.log")
+    if code is not None:
+        return _say(_ended(capture, code))
+    # A checkpoint already taken, whose answer was lost, is answered from the capture's own log.
+    taken = _event_line(log, 0, {"checkpoint"}, name)
+    if taken is not None:
+        return _say({"line": taken})
+    offset = os.path.getsize(log)
+    if not _request(capture, f"checkpoint {name}"):
+        return _say({"error": "the capture is not reading its requests"})
+    return _say(_wait(capture, offset, {"checkpoint", "checkpoint_refused"}, name, arguments.get("timeout_s", 600)))
+
+
+def stop(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    capture = os.path.abspath(arguments["capture"])
+    if _exit_code(capture) is None and not os.path.exists(os.path.join(capture, "control")):
+        # Never launched: claim the folder, so a start still on its way finds it used and launches nothing.
+        os.makedirs(capture, exist_ok=True)
+        return _say({"absent": True})
+    if _exit_code(capture) is None:
+        _request(capture, "stop")
+    deadline = time.monotonic() + arguments.get("timeout_s", 600)
+    while (code := _exit_code(capture)) is None and time.monotonic() < deadline:
+        time.sleep(POLL_S)
+    log = os.path.join(capture, "progress.log")
+    if code is None:
+        return _say({"timed_out": True, "progress": _tail(log)})
+    output = os.path.join(capture, "capture.out")
+    return _say({"exit_code": code, "progress": _tail(log), "output_bytes": os.path.getsize(output)})
+
+
+def run(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    """Run one REA command with its output in a file, after writing the files it reads."""
+    rea = shutil.which("rea")
+    if rea is None:
+        return _say({"error": "REA is not installed in this computer"})
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(arguments["stdout"]), exist_ok=True)
+    for path, text in arguments.get("files", {}).items():
+        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(path), exist_ok=True)
+        with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+            handle.write(text)
+    with open(arguments["stdout"], "wb") as out:
+        try:
+            done = subprocess.run([rea, *arguments["argv"]], cwd=os.path.expanduser("~"),
+                                  env=_environment(os.path.abspath(arguments["work"])), stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=out,
+                                  stderr=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=arguments.get("timeout_s", 1800))
+        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+            return _say({"timed_out": True})
+    return _say({"exit_code": done.returncode, "stdout_bytes": os.path.getsize(arguments["stdout"]),
+                 "stderr": done.stderr[-TAIL_BYTES:].decode("utf-8", "replace")})
+
+
+# The controller is sent with python -c, so a detached supervisor needs its
+# own source. It alone holds the child process handle and signals its group.
+LONG_RUN = r'''
+import json, os, signal, subprocess, sys, threading, time
+job = sys.argv[1]
+result = {}
+child = None
+drainer = None
+stderr_tail, stderr_errors = bytearray(), []
+
+def drain(stream):
+    try:
+        while chunk := stream.read1(65536):
+            stderr_tail.extend(chunk)
+            del stderr_tail[:-4096]
+    except OSError as error:
+        stderr_errors.append(str(error))
+    finally:
+        try:
+            stream.close()
+        except OSError as error:
+            stderr_errors.append(str(error))
+
+def timed_out_marker():
+    try:
+        open(os.path.join(job, "timed_out"), "x").close()
+    except FileExistsError:
+        pass
+
+try:
+    request = json.loads("".join(sys.argv[2:]))
+    if os.path.exists(os.path.join(job, "cancel")):
+        result = {"absent": True}
+    else:
+        with open(request["stdout"], "wb") as out:
+            child = subprocess.Popen(request["argv"], cwd=request["home"], stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                                     stdout=out, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, start_new_session=True)
+            drainer = threading.Thread(target=drain, args=(child.stderr,), daemon=True)
+            drainer.start()
+            deadline = time.monotonic() + request["timeout_s"]
+            interrupted = False
+            timed_out = False
+            while child.poll() is None:
+                timed_out = timed_out or time.monotonic() >= deadline
+                if not interrupted and (timed_out or os.path.exists(os.path.join(job, "cancel"))):
+                    interrupted = True
+                    if timed_out:
+                        timed_out_marker()
+                    try:
+                        os.killpg(child.pid, signal.SIGINT)
+                    except OSError:
+                        pass
+                time.sleep(0.2)
+            # A descendant can still hold stderr after the leader exits. Do
+            # not publish completion until that stream has actually closed.
+            while drainer.is_alive():
+                drainer.join(0.2)
+                if time.monotonic() >= deadline:
+                    timed_out = True
+                    timed_out_marker()
+            result = {"exit_code": child.returncode, "stdout_bytes": os.path.getsize(request["stdout"]),
+                      "timed_out": timed_out, "cancelled": interrupted and not timed_out,
+                      "stderr": bytes(stderr_tail).decode("utf-8", "replace")}
+            if stderr_errors:
+                result["error"] = f"The REA command's stderr could not be read: {stderr_errors[0]}"
+except Exception as error:
+    result["error"] = f"The REA command supervisor failed: {error}"
+    # Keep the child handle until it exits, including when cancellation arrives
+    # after an unexpected supervisor error.
+    while child is not None and child.poll() is None:
+        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(job, "cancel")):
+            try:
+                os.killpg(child.pid, signal.SIGINT)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+        time.sleep(0.2)
+    if drainer is not None and drainer.ident is not None:
+        drainer.join()
+    if child is not None:
+        result.setdefault("exit_code", child.returncode)
+        result.setdefault("stderr", bytes(stderr_tail).decode("utf-8", "replace"))
+        try:
+            result.setdefault("stdout_bytes", os.path.getsize(request["stdout"]))
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+if child is None or child.poll() is not None:
+    temporary = os.path.join(job, "result.tmp")
+    with open(temporary, "w", encoding="utf-8") as out:
+        json.dump(result, out)
+    os.replace(temporary, os.path.join(job, "result.json"))
+'''
+
+
+def run_begin(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    """Start one long REA command in its own capture-owned job folder."""
+    rea = shutil.which("rea")
+    if rea is None:
+        return _say({"error": "REA is not installed in this computer"})
+    job = os.path.abspath(arguments["job"])
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(job), exist_ok=True)
+    try:
+        os.mkdir(job, 0o700)
+    except FileExistsError:
+        return _say({"refused": "the command job folder is already used"})
+    process = None
+    try:
+        with open(os.path.join(job, "owner"), "x", encoding="ascii") as out:
+            out.write(arguments["token"])
+        for path, text in arguments.get("files", {}).items():
+            os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(path), exist_ok=True)
+            with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+                handle.write(text)
+        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(arguments["stdout"]), exist_ok=True)
+        request = json.dumps({"argv": [rea, *arguments["argv"]], "stdout": arguments["stdout"],
+                              "home": os.path.expanduser("~"), "timeout_s": arguments["timeout_s"]})
+        chunks = [request[i:i + 60000] for i in range(0, len(request), 60000)]
+        with open(os.path.join(job, "supervisor.log"), "wb") as log:
+            process = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-I", "-c", LONG_RUN, job, *chunks], cwd=os.path.expanduser("~"),
+                                       env=_environment(os.path.abspath(arguments["work"])), stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                                       stdout=log, stderr=log, start_new_session=True)
+    except (OSError, ValueError) as error:
+        stage = "did not start" if process is None else "started but its setup did not finish"
+        result = {"error": f"The REA command supervisor {stage}: {error}"}
+        if process is None:
+            temporary = os.path.join(job, "result.tmp")
+            with open(temporary, "w", encoding="utf-8") as out:
+                json.dump(result, out)
+            os.replace(temporary, os.path.join(job, "result.json"))
+        return _say(result)
+    return _say({"started": True})
+
+
+def _run_result(job: str):
+    try:
+        with open(os.path.join(job, "result.json"), encoding="utf-8") as source:
+            return json.load(source)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        return None
+
+
+def _owns_run(job: str, token: str) -> bool:
+    try:
+        with open(os.path.join(job, "owner"), encoding="ascii") as owner:
+            return owner.read() == token
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+
+
+def run_poll(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    job = os.path.abspath(arguments["job"])
+    if not _owns_run(job, arguments["token"]):
+        return _say({"error": "the command job ownership is not confirmed"})
+    deadline = time.monotonic() + arguments.get("timeout_s", 30)
+    while (result := _run_result(job)) is None and time.monotonic() < deadline:
+        time.sleep(POLL_S)
+    if result is None:
+        pending = {"pending": True, "timed_out": os.path.exists(os.path.join(job, "timed_out"))}
+        progress = _tail(os.path.join(job, "supervisor.log"))
+        return _say({**pending, **({"progress": progress} if progress else {})})
+    return _say({"finished": True, **result})
+
+
+def run_cancel(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    job = os.path.abspath(arguments["job"])
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(job), exist_ok=True)
+    try:
+        os.mkdir(job, 0o700)
+    except FileExistsError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        # A late begin cannot launch into a folder cancellation claimed.
+        with open(os.path.join(job, "owner"), "x", encoding="ascii") as owner:
+            owner.write(arguments["token"])
+        return _say({"absent": True})
+    if not _owns_run(job, arguments["token"]):
+        return _say({"error": "the command job ownership is not confirmed"})
+    with open(os.path.join(job, "cancel"), "a", encoding="utf-8"):
+        pass
+    return run_poll(arguments)
+
+
+def listing(arguments: dict) -> int:
+    """Every regular file under a folder, by its path relative to the home, with its size and SHA-256.
+
+    The list goes to the file ``output`` names, outside the folder, and the answer gives its size: a large
+    bundle's list outgrows the 1 MiB of stdout a command answers with, so REA reads it through ``data/get``.
+    """
+    home = os.path.expanduser("~")
+    files, skipped = [], []
+
+    def fail_walk(error: OSError) -> None:
+        raise error
+
+    for directory, folders, names in os.walk(os.path.abspath(arguments["root"]), onerror=fail_walk):
+        folders.sort()
+        # os.walk does not follow directory symlinks; disclose them to the consumer.
+        for name in folders[:]:
+            path = os.path.join(directory, name)
+            if os.path.islink(path):
+                skipped.append(os.path.relpath(path, home))
+                folders.remove(name)
+        for name in sorted(names):
+            path = os.path.join(directory, name)
+            relative = os.path.relpath(path, home)
+            if os.path.islink(path) or not os.path.isfile(path):
+                skipped.append(relative)
+                continue
+            digest = hashlib.sha256()
+            with open(path, "rb") as handle:
+                for chunk in iter(lambda: handle.read(1 << 20), b""):
+                    digest.update(chunk)
+            files.append({"path": relative, "size": os.path.getsize(path), "sha256": digest.hexdigest()})
+    output = os.path.abspath(arguments["output"])
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(output), exist_ok=True)
+    with open(output, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+        json.dump({"files": files, "skipped": skipped}, handle)
+    return _say({"listing_bytes": os.path.getsize(output)})
+
+
+COMMANDS = {"start": start, "mark": mark, "stop": stop, "run": run, "list": listing,
+            "run-begin": run_begin, "run-poll": run_poll, "run-cancel": run_cancel}
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(COMMANDS[sys.argv[1]](json.loads("".join(sys.argv[2:]))))
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+"""Keep one agentenv computer up for REA until stdin closes or SIGTERM arrives.
+
+REA runs ``computer.py <bundle folder> [task]`` with the agentenv runner's own interpreter, so ``agent_env``
+imports. It deploys the bundle's task, ``smoke`` by default, on this machine with
+``run_bundle(keep=True, emulate=False)``, prints one JSON line naming the computer's address, MCP URL, control
+token and sandbox id, or ``{"error": ...}``, and tears the computer down once its stdin closes or it gets SIGTERM
+or SIGINT. Everything else it or agentenv prints, a build's output included, goes to stderr. It exits 0 once
+the teardown left nothing up, 1 when it did, and 2 when no computer came up.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import signal
+import sys
+import threading
+
+
+def _protocol():
+    """A private copy of stdout for the JSON line; fd 1 then points at stderr, as do children that inherit it."""
+    protocol = os.fdopen(os.dup(1), "w", encoding="utf-8")
+    os.dup2(2, 1)
+    sys.stdout = sys.stderr
+    return protocol
+
+
+def _say(protocol, value: dict) -> None:
+    protocol.write(json.dumps(value) + "\n")
+    protocol.flush()
+
+
+def _computer(result):
+    """The run's deployed computer, or why there is none."""
+    run = result.runs[0] if result.runs else None
+    if run is None:
+        return None, "the bundle ran no task"
+    if run.error is not None or run.failed_steps:
+        return None, f"the task failed: {run.error or run.failed_steps}"
+    for env in run.context.deployed_envs:
+        if env.environment_url and env.mcp_url and getattr(env, "sandbox_id", None):
+            return env, None
+    return None, "the task deployed no computer"
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
+    protocol = _protocol()
+    bundle, task = argv[1], argv[2] if len(argv) > 2 else "smoke"
+    try:
+        from agent_env.bundle import run_bundle
+    except ImportError as error:
+        _say(protocol, {"error": f"agent_env does not import with {sys.executable}: {error}"})
+        return 2
+    try:
+        result = run_bundle(bundle, tasks=[task], keep=True, emulate=False, sandbox="local",
+                            on_progress=lambda line: print(line, file=sys.stderr, flush=True))
+    except BaseException as error:  # noqa: BLE001 - a signal's RunInterrupted too; run_bundle tore its runs down
+        _say(protocol, {"error": f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"})
+        return 2
+    stop = threading.Event()
+    for signum in (signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIGINT):
+        signal.signal(signum, lambda *_: stop.set())
+    env, problem = _computer(result)
+    try:
+        if env is None:
+            _say(protocol, {"error": problem})
+        else:
+            _say(protocol, {"base_url": env.environment_url, "mcp_url": env.mcp_url,
+                            "control_token": env.control_token, "sandbox_id": env.sandbox_id})
+            threading.Thread(target=lambda: (sys.stdin.buffer.read(), stop.set()), daemon=True).start()
+            while not stop.wait(0.5):
+                pass
+    finally:
+        torn_down = result.teardown()
+    still_up = [sandbox for run in torn_down.runs if run.torn_down is not None for sandbox in run.torn_down.still_up]
+    if still_up:
+        print(f"still up after the teardown: {still_up}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
+        return 1
+    return 0 if env is not None else 2
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+"""Run one solve of a bundle's task in a fresh agentenv computer for REA and print how it ended.
+
+REA runs ``solve.py <bundle folder> <task> <model> <agent>`` with the agentenv runner's own interpreter, so
+``agent_env`` imports. It runs the task once on this machine with ``run_bundle``, the solver deployed as the agent
+and asked on the model, the endpoint taken from the environment or agentenv's config as a run takes it, and the
+computer torn down as the run ends. It prints one JSON line: the run's outcome, instance id, seconds, each check's
+result, the solver's turns and cost from its trajectory when that is a local file, and agentenv's version; or
+``{"error": ...}`` when the task could not run. Everything else, agentenv's progress included, goes to stderr. It exits
+0 after a run and 2 when none ran.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+from importlib import metadata
+from pathlib import Path
+
+#: The most characters of a check's description or a run's error REA keeps.
+MAX_TEXT = 400
+
+
+def _protocol():
+    """A private copy of stdout for the JSON line; fd 1 then points at stderr, as do children that inherit it."""
+    protocol = os.fdopen(os.dup(1), "w", encoding="utf-8")
+    os.dup2(2, 1)
+    sys.stdout = sys.stderr
+    return protocol
+
+
+def _say(protocol, value: dict) -> None:
+    protocol.write(json.dumps(value) + "\n")
+    protocol.flush()
+
+
+def _field(value, name: str):
+    """A field of agentenv's dataclasses, or of the dicts a stored context holds."""
+    return value.get(name) if isinstance(value, dict) else getattr(value, name, None)
+
+
+def _trajectory_end(context) -> tuple:
+    """The solver's turns and cost from the last record of its local trajectory, or None for each."""
+    for response in reversed(_field(context, "prompt_responses") or []):
+        url = _field(response, "agent_trajectory_object_url") or ""
+        if not url.startswith("file://"):
+            continue
+        try:
+            records = json.loads(Path(url[len("file://"):]).read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
+            return None, None
+        last = records[-1] if isinstance(records, list) and records and isinstance(records[-1], dict) else {}
+        turns, usd = last.get("num_turns"), last.get("total_cost_usd")
+        return (turns if isinstance(turns, int) else None,
+                float(usd) if isinstance(usd, (int, float)) and not isinstance(usd, bool) else None)
+    return None, None
+
+
+def _checks(context, task: str) -> list:
+    """Each check's result as the task's verifier recorded it under the instance's verifications."""
+    verifications = (_field(context, "metadata") or {}).get("verifications") or {}
+    found = verifications.get(task) or next(iter(verifications.values()), {})
+    results = found.get("results") if isinstance(found, dict) else None
+    return [{"id": str(result.get("id")), "passed": result.get("result") is True,
+             "description": str(result.get("description", ""))[:MAX_TEXT]}
+            for result in results or [] if isinstance(result, dict)]
+
+
+def _version() -> str | None:
+    try:
+        return metadata.version("agentenv-framework")
+    except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+        return None
+
+
+def _cleanup(result) -> dict:
+    """Only a returned teardown report can confirm what agentenv released."""
+    if result is None:
+        return {"unknown": True, "sandboxes": []}
+    unknown, sandboxes = False, []
+    for run in result.runs:
+        report = getattr(run, "torn_down", None)
+        if report is None:
+            unknown = True
+        else:
+            sandboxes.extend({"id": item.sandbox_id, "type": item.sandbox_type} for item in report.still_up)
+    return {"unknown": unknown, "sandboxes": sandboxes}
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
+    protocol = _protocol()
+    bundle, task, model, agent = argv[1:5]
+    try:
+        from agent_env.bundle import run_bundle
+    except ImportError as error:
+        _say(protocol, {"error": f"agent_env does not import with {sys.executable}: {error}",
+                        "cleanup": {"unknown": False, "sandboxes": []}})
+        return 2
+    try:
+        result = run_bundle(bundle, tasks=[task], model=model, agent=agent, sandbox="local", emulate=False,
+                            on_progress=lambda line: print(line, file=sys.stderr, flush=True))
+    except BaseException as error:  # noqa: BLE001 - a signal's RunInterrupted too; run_bundle tore its run down
+        _say(protocol, {"error": f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"[:MAX_TEXT * 4],
+                        "cleanup": _cleanup(getattr(error, "result", None))})
+        return 2
+    run = result.runs[0] if result.runs else None
+    if run is None:
+        _say(protocol, {"error": "the bundle ran no task", "cleanup": _cleanup(result)})
+        return 2
+    turns, usd = _trajectory_end(run.context)
+    error = getattr(run, "error", None)
+    _say(protocol, {"outcome": run.outcome.value, "instance_id": run.instance_id,
+                    "seconds": round(float(run.duration), 1), "checks": _checks(run.context, task),
+                    "turns": turns, "usd": usd, "agentenv": _version(),
+                    "error": None if error is None else f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"[:MAX_TEXT],
+                    "cleanup": _cleanup(result)})
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+"""Recover local sandboxes under one stopped solve's private agentenv root."""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import contextlib
+import json
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def _docker(*args: str) -> str:
+    command = os.environ.get("REA_DOCKER_COMMAND") or "docker"
+    result = subprocess.run([command, *args], capture_output=True, text=True, check=False)
+    if result.returncode:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Docker {' '.join(args[:2])} failed: {result.stderr[-1000:]}")
+    return result.stdout.strip()
+
+
+async def cleanup(root: Path) -> None:
+    # A helper has already stopped. agentenv lists the sandboxes under the root
+    # (AGENT_ENV_LOCAL_SANDBOX_DIR); anything else there remains owned for inspection.
+    if not any(root.iterdir()):
+        return
+    from agent_env.providers.sandbox_providers.local_docker.provider import (
+        LocalSandboxProvider, local_sandbox_ids, remove_local_work_dir,
+    )
+    for sandbox_id in local_sandbox_ids():
+        await LocalSandboxProvider().terminate_sandbox(sandbox_id)
+        # The pinned provider reports incomplete teardown and retains the folder.
+        # Keep REA's independent Docker/Linux checks before releasing that owner.
+        if _docker("ps", "-aq", "--filter", f"name=^agent-{sandbox_id}$"):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Sandbox {sandbox_id} still has its agent container")
+        if _docker("ps", "-aq", "--filter", f"label=agentenv.sandbox={sandbox_id}"):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Sandbox {sandbox_id} still has labeled containers")
+        if _docker("network", "ls", "-q", "--filter", f"label=agentenv.sandbox={sandbox_id}"):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Sandbox {sandbox_id} still has labeled networks")
+        if sys.platform != "linux":
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Cannot verify host processes for sandbox {sandbox_id} on {sys.platform}")
+        from agent_env.providers.sandbox_providers.local_docker.provider import _marked_pids
+        if _marked_pids(sandbox_id):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Sandbox {sandbox_id} still has marked host processes")
+        if remove_local_work_dir(sandbox_id) is None:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Could not confirm removal of sandbox {sandbox_id}'s work folder")
+    leftover = sorted(entry.name for entry in root.iterdir())
+    if leftover:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Unexpected sandbox root entries: {', '.join(leftover)}")
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    try:
+        with contextlib.redirect_stdout(sys.stderr):
+            asyncio.run(cleanup(Path(os.environ["AGENT_ENV_LOCAL_SANDBOX_DIR"])))
+        print(json.dumps({"ok": True}))
+        return 0
+    except Exception as error:
+        print(json.dumps({"ok": False, "error": f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"}))
+        return 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+"""Exercise the capture controller's filesystem inventory boundary."""
+
+import json
+import io
+from contextlib import redirect_stdout
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from bridge.agentenv import capture
+
+
+CONTROLLER = Path(__file__).with_name("capture.py")
+
+
+class CaptureListingTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def run_listing(self, root, output):
+        return subprocess.run(
+            [
+                sys.executable,
+                str(CONTROLLER),
+                "list",
+                json.dumps({"root": str(root), "output": str(output)}),
+            ],
+            text=True,
+            capture_output=True,
+            check=False,
+        )
+
+    def test_directory_symlink_is_disclosed_without_following_it(self):
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as parent:
+            parent = Path(parent)
+            root = parent / "root"
+            target = parent / "target"
+            output = parent / "listing.json"
+            root.mkdir()
+            target.mkdir()
+            (root / "present.txt").write_text("present")
+            (target / "outside.txt").write_text("outside")
+            try:
+                (root / "linked").symlink_to(target, target_is_directory=True)
+            except OSError as error:
+                self.skipTest(f"directory symlinks unavailable: {error}")
+            result = self.run_listing(root, output)
+            self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, result.stderr)
+            listing = json.loads(output.read_text())
+            self.assertEqual(
+                [item["path"] for item in listing["files"]],
+                [os.path.relpath(root / "present.txt", Path.home())],
+            )
+            self.assertEqual(
+                listing["skipped"], [os.path.relpath(root / "linked", Path.home())]
+            )
+
+    def test_missing_root_does_not_produce_an_empty_successful_inventory(self):
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as parent:
+            parent = Path(parent)
+            output = parent / "listing.json"
+            result = self.run_listing(parent / "missing", output)
+            self.assertNotEqual(result.returncode, 0)
+            self.assertFalse(output.exists())
+
+
+@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "desktop build computers use Linux")
+class LongRunTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.tmp = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
+        self.addCleanup(self.tmp.cleanup)
+        self.root = Path(self.tmp.name)
+        self.bin = self.root / "bin"
+        self.bin.mkdir()
+        rea = self.bin / "rea"
+        rea.write_text(
+            f"#!{sys.executable}\n"
+            "import os, signal, subprocess, sys, time\n"
+            "signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda *_: sys.exit(130))\n"
+            "if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'wait':\n"
+            "    open(sys.argv[2], 'w').close()\n"
+            "    time.sleep(30)\n"
+            "if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'ignore':\n"
+            "    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)\n"
+            "    open(sys.argv[2], 'w').close()\n"
+            "    while not os.path.exists(sys.argv[3]): time.sleep(0.02)\n"
+            "if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'stderr':\n"
+            "    sys.stderr.write('x' * 100000 + 'TAIL')\n"
+            "if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'hold':\n"
+            "    subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, '-c', 'import os,sys,time\\nwhile not os.path.exists(sys.argv[1]): time.sleep(0.02)', sys.argv[2]], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=sys.stderr, start_new_session=True)\n"
+            "    sys.exit(0)\n"
+            "print(os.environ.get('AGENTENV_CONTROL_TOKEN', 'no token'))\n"
+        )
+        rea.chmod(0o755)
+        self.environment = {**os.environ, "HOME": str(self.root), "PATH": f"{self.bin}{os.pathsep}{os.environ.get('PATH', '')}",
+                            "AGENTENV_CONTROL_TOKEN": "not-for-the-child"}
+        self.job = self.root / "job"
+        self.output = self.root / "out.json"
+
+    def command(self, name, **values):
+        result = subprocess.run([sys.executable, str(CONTROLLER), name, json.dumps(values)],
+                                env=self.environment, text=True, capture_output=True, timeout=10, check=True)
+        return json.loads(result.stdout)
+
+    def begin(self, argv, timeout=60):
+        return self.command("run-begin", job=str(self.job), work=str(self.root), stdout=str(self.output),
+                            token="owner-token", argv=argv, files={}, timeout_s=timeout)
+
+    def test_runs_and_reports_its_output(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.begin([]), {"started": True})
+        result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+        self.assertEqual(result["exit_code"], 0)
+        self.assertEqual(self.output.read_text().strip(), "no token")
+
+    def test_passes_large_command_without_persisting_its_arguments(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.begin(["done", *("x" * 4000 for _ in range(20))]), {"started": True})
+        result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+        self.assertEqual(result["exit_code"], 0)
+        self.assertFalse((self.job / "request.json").exists())
+
+    def test_keeps_only_a_bounded_stderr_tail(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.begin(["stderr"]), {"started": True})
+        result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+        self.assertEqual(len(result["stderr"]), 4096)
+        self.assertTrue(result["stderr"].endswith("TAIL"))
+
+    def test_cancels_a_running_child_and_confirms_exit(self):
+        ready = self.root / "ready"
+        self.assertEqual(self.begin(["wait", str(ready)]), {"started": True})
+        import time
+        deadline = time.monotonic() + 5
+        while not ready.exists() and time.monotonic() < deadline:
+            time.sleep(0.02)
+        self.assertTrue(ready.exists())
+        result = self.command("run-cancel", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+        self.assertTrue(result["cancelled"])
+        self.assertEqual(result["exit_code"], 130)
+
+    def test_cancel_before_late_start_claims_the_job(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.command("run-cancel", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=1), {"absent": True})
+        self.assertIn("already used", self.begin([])["refused"])
+        self.assertFalse(self.output.exists())
+
+    def test_cancel_refuses_a_folder_without_the_matching_owner(self):
+        self.job.mkdir()
+        (self.job / "owner").write_text("someone-else")
+        result = self.command("run-cancel", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=1)
+        self.assertIn("ownership is not confirmed", result["error"])
+        self.assertFalse((self.job / "cancel").exists())
+
+    def test_reports_supervisor_output_if_completion_is_unconfirmed(self):
+        self.job.mkdir()
+        (self.job / "owner").write_text("owner-token")
+        (self.job / "supervisor.log").write_text("supervisor failed")
+        result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=0)
+        self.assertEqual(result["progress"], "supervisor failed")
+        self.assertTrue(result["pending"])
+
+    def test_reports_a_timed_out_child_that_has_not_stopped(self):
+        ready, release = self.root / "ready", self.root / "release"
+        self.assertEqual(self.begin(["ignore", str(ready), str(release)], timeout=3), {"started": True})
+        try:
+            result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=4)
+            self.assertTrue(result["pending"])
+            self.assertTrue(result["timed_out"])
+            self.assertTrue(ready.exists())
+        finally:
+            release.touch()
+            self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+
+    def test_waits_for_an_inherited_stderr_pipe_after_the_child_exits(self):
+        release = self.root / "release"
+        self.assertEqual(self.begin(["hold", str(release)], timeout=3), {"started": True})
+        try:
+            result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=4)
+            self.assertTrue(result["pending"])
+            self.assertTrue(result["timed_out"])
+        finally:
+            release.touch()
+            result = self.command("run-poll", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+            self.assertTrue(result["finished"])
+
+    def test_failure_closing_supervisor_log_after_launch_does_not_claim_exit(self):
+        ready = self.root / "ready"
+        original_open = open
+        original_popen = subprocess.Popen
+        supervisors = []
+
+        class FailingClose:
+            def __init__(self, file):
+                self.file = file
+
+            def __enter__(self):
+                return self.file
+
+            def __exit__(self, *args):
+                self.file.close()
+                raise OSError("log close failed")
+
+        def opening(path, *args, **kwargs):
+            file = original_open(path, *args, **kwargs)
+            return FailingClose(file) if str(path).endswith("supervisor.log") else file
+
+        def spawning(*args, **kwargs):
+            process = original_popen(*args, **kwargs)
+            supervisors.append(process)
+            def cleanup():
+                if process.poll() is None:
+                    (self.job / "cancel").touch()
+                    process.wait(timeout=5)
+            self.addCleanup(cleanup)
+            return process
+
+        arguments = {"job": str(self.job), "work": str(self.root), "stdout": str(self.output),
+                     "token": "owner-token", "argv": ["wait", str(ready)], "files": {}, "timeout_s": 60}
+        with patch.dict(os.environ, self.environment, clear=True), patch("builtins.open", side_effect=opening), patch.object(capture.subprocess, "Popen", side_effect=spawning), redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()) as output:
+            capture.run_begin(arguments)
+        self.assertIn("started but its setup did not finish", json.loads(output.getvalue())["error"])
+        import time
+        deadline = time.monotonic() + 5
+        while not ready.exists() and time.monotonic() < deadline:
+            time.sleep(0.02)
+        self.assertTrue(ready.exists())
+        self.assertFalse((self.job / "result.json").exists())
+        result = self.command("run-cancel", job=str(self.job), token="owner-token", timeout_s=5)
+        self.assertTrue(result["cancelled"])
+        supervisors[0].wait(timeout=5)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+"""Exercise cleanup decisions without a live agentenv provider."""
+import asyncio
+import tempfile
+import types
+import unittest
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from bridge.agentenv import solve_cleanup
+
+
+class SolveCleanupTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.temp = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
+        self.addCleanup(self.temp.cleanup)
+        self.root = Path(self.temp.name)
+        self.folder = self.root / "agent-env-local-a1b2c3d4-abcdef12"
+        self.folder.mkdir()
+        self.terminated = []
+        self.module = types.ModuleType("agent_env.providers.sandbox_providers.local_docker.provider")
+        test = self
+
+        class Provider:
+            async def terminate_sandbox(self, sandbox_id):
+                test.terminated.append(sandbox_id)
+
+        self.module.LocalSandboxProvider = Provider
+        self.module.local_sandbox_ids = self._listed
+        self.module.remove_local_work_dir = lambda sandbox_id: self._remove(sandbox_id)
+        self.module._marked_pids = lambda _sandbox_id: []
+        self.patch_module = patch.dict("sys.modules", {self.module.__name__: self.module})
+        self.patch_module.start()
+        self.addCleanup(self.patch_module.stop)
+
+    def _listed(self):
+        # As agentenv lists them: `agent-env-<id>-<suffix>` folders, whatever the id's shape.
+        found = set()
+        for entry in self.root.iterdir():
+            sandbox_id, _, suffix = entry.name.removeprefix("agent-env-").rpartition("-")
+            if entry.name.startswith("agent-env-") and sandbox_id and suffix and entry.is_dir():
+                found.add(sandbox_id)
+        return sorted(found)
+
+    def _remove(self, sandbox_id):
+        folder = next(self.root.glob(f"agent-env-{sandbox_id}-*"))
+        folder.rmdir()
+        return folder
+
+    def run_cleanup(self):
+        asyncio.run(solve_cleanup.cleanup(self.root))
+
+    def test_terminates_owned_sandbox_before_removing_its_folder(self):
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value=""), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertEqual(self.terminated, ["local-a1b2c3d4"])
+        self.assertFalse(self.folder.exists())
+
+    def test_retains_folder_when_docker_reports_container_then_retries(self):
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value="still-running"), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "still has its agent container"):
+                self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertTrue(self.folder.exists())
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value=""), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertFalse(self.folder.exists())
+        self.assertEqual(len(self.terminated), 2)
+
+    def test_partial_cleanup_and_late_folder_are_retried(self):
+        later = self.root / "agent-env-local-f1223344-abcdef12"
+        later.mkdir()
+        def docker(*args):
+            return "still-running" if "local-f1223344" in " ".join(args) else ""
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", side_effect=docker), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "still has its agent container"):
+                self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertTrue(later.exists())
+        self.assertFalse(self.folder.exists())
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value=""), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertEqual(list(self.root.iterdir()), [])
+
+    def test_macos_keeps_folder_when_host_process_cleanup_cannot_be_verified(self):
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value=""), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "darwin"):
+            with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "Cannot verify host processes"):
+                self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertTrue(self.folder.exists())
+
+    def test_cleans_up_each_sandbox_agentenv_lists_whatever_its_id_looks_like(self):
+        self.folder.rmdir()
+        listed = self.root / "agent-env-local-a1b2c3d4e5-abcdef12"
+        listed.mkdir()
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value=""), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertEqual(self.terminated, ["local-a1b2c3d4e5"])
+        self.assertFalse(listed.exists())
+
+    def test_unexpected_entry_remains_owned(self):
+        self.folder.rmdir()
+        (self.root / "unexpected").mkdir()
+        with patch.object(solve_cleanup, "_docker", return_value=""), patch.object(solve_cleanup.sys, "platform", "linux"):
+            with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "Unexpected sandbox root entries: unexpected"):
+                self.run_cleanup()
+        self.assertEqual(self.terminated, [])
+        self.assertTrue((self.root / "unexpected").exists())
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
@@ -1,20 +1,35 @@
 import com.atxx.jhmcp.*;
 import com.google.gson.*;
+import com.android.tools.smali.dexlib2.Opcodes;
+import com.android.tools.smali.dexlib2.dexbacked.DexBackedDexFile;
+import com.android.tools.smali.dexlib2.dexbacked.DexBackedClassDef;
+import com.android.tools.smali.dexlib2.dexbacked.DexBackedMethod;
 import io.modelcontextprotocol.kotlin.sdk.server.*;
 import io.modelcontextprotocol.kotlin.sdk.types.*;
 import jadx.api.*;
+import jadx.api.plugins.input.data.annotations.EncodedValue;
+import jadx.api.plugins.input.data.attributes.JadxAttrType;
 import jadx.api.plugins.input.data.ICodeReader;
 import jadx.api.plugins.input.data.IMethodRef;
 import jadx.api.plugins.input.insns.InsnIndexType;
 import jadx.api.plugins.input.insns.Opcode;
+import jadx.core.codegen.TypeGen;
 import jadx.core.dex.info.MethodInfo;
+import jadx.core.dex.instructions.args.ArgType;
 import jadx.core.dex.nodes.*;
+import jadx.core.xmlgen.BinaryXMLParser;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.zip.CRC32;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
 import kotlin.Unit;
 import kotlin.ResultKt;
 import kotlin.coroutines.Continuation;
@@ -37,16 +52,25 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
  private Map<String, List<ClassSnapshot>> classes = Map.of();
  private JadxSession manifestSession;
  private ManifestSnapshot manifestSnapshot;
+  private ExternalInventory externalInventory;

  private record MethodSnapshot(String name, String rawName, String shortId, List<String> bodyAbsenceMarkers,
      Map<String, Object> summary) {}
-  private record ClassSnapshot(JavaClass node, List<MethodSnapshot> methods, Map<String, Object> summary) {}
+  private record ClassSnapshot(JavaClass node, List<MethodSnapshot> methods, Map<String, Object> summary,
+      Map<String, Object> summaryWithValues) {}
  private record ManifestSnapshot(String text, Map<String, Object> summary) {}
+  private record ExternalMethod(MethodInfo info, Map<String, Object> summary) {}
+  private record ExternalInventory(JadxSession session, String className, String methodName,
+      List<ExternalMethod> methods) {}

  private static final class InputFailure extends IllegalArgumentException {
    final String field;
    InputFailure(String field, String message) { super(message); this.field = field; }
  }
+  private static final class ReferenceLimit extends IllegalArgumentException {
+    final String stage;
+    ReferenceLimit(String stage) { super("External reference representation limit"); this.stage = stage; }
+  }

  private ReaJadxBridge(SessionHolder holder) { this.holder = holder; }

@@ -142,6 +166,14 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
    return value.getAsString();
  }

+  private static boolean flag(JsonObject args, String name) {
+    JsonElement value = args.get(name);
+    if (value == null) return false;
+    if (!value.isJsonPrimitive() || !value.getAsJsonPrimitive().isBoolean())
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException(name + " must be a boolean");
+    return value.getAsBoolean();
+  }
+
  private static int integer(JsonObject args, String name, int fallback) {
    JsonElement value = args.get(name);
    if (value == null) return fallback;
@@ -165,6 +197,206 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
  private void clearManifest() {
    manifestSession = null;
    manifestSnapshot = null;
+    externalInventory = null;
+  }
+
+  // One bounded DEX at a time, beside the already admitted analysis JVM. The
+  // response allowance accounts for worst-case JSON escaping before retention.
+  private static final int NATIVE_DEX_BYTES = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
+  private static final long NATIVE_TOTAL_DEX_BYTES = 256L * 1024 * 1024;
+  // This JSON is escaped again inside an 8 MiB MCP frame.
+  private static final long NATIVE_JSON_BYTES = 4L * 1024 * 1024;
+
+  /** The bundled decoder allocates its declared UTF-16 length before validating bytes. */
+  private static final class NativeDex extends DexBackedDexFile {
+    private OptionalIndexedSection<String> boundedStrings;
+    NativeDex(byte[] bytes) { super(Opcodes.getDefault(), bytes); }
+
+    @Override public OptionalIndexedSection<String> getStringSection() {
+      if (boundedStrings == null) {
+        var source = super.getStringSection();
+        boundedStrings = new OptionalIndexedSection<>() {
+          @Override public int size() { return source.size(); }
+          @Override public int getOffset(int index) { return source.getOffset(index); }
+          @Override public String getOptional(int index) { return index == -1 ? null : get(index); }
+          @Override public String get(int index) {
+            int offset = getBuffer().readSmallUint(source.getOffset(index));
+            int units = getDataBuffer().readerAt(offset).readSmallUleb128();
+            if (units > NATIVE_JSON_BYTES / 6
+                || units > getDataBuffer().getBuf().length - offset)
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("DEX string exceeds the native decoding allowance");
+            return source.get(index);
+          }
+        };
+      }
+      return boundedStrings;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static void checkNativeInterrupted() {
+    if (Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted())
+      throw new java.util.concurrent.CancellationException("Native declaration inventory interrupted");
+  }
+
+  private static final class NativeInventory {
+    final List<Map<String, Object>> methods = new ArrayList<>();
+    final List<String> unknowns = new ArrayList<>();
+    long retainedBytes = 1024;
+    int dexEntries;
+    int examinedDexEntries;
+    int examinedClasses;
+    int examinedMethods;
+    boolean partial;
+    boolean diagnosticLimit;
+
+    void unknown(String reason) {
+      partial = true;
+      long bytes = 64L + reason.length() * 6L;
+      if (unknowns.size() < 16 && retainedBytes + bytes <= NATIVE_JSON_BYTES - 4096) {
+        unknowns.add(reason);
+        retainedBytes += bytes;
+      } else if (!diagnosticLimit) {
+        diagnosticLimit = true;
+        unknowns.add("Additional native-inventory limitations exceed the retained diagnostic allowance.");
+      }
+    }
+
+    boolean retain(Map<String, Object> method, long bytes) {
+      if (retainedBytes + bytes > NATIVE_JSON_BYTES - 4096) {
+        unknown("Native declarations exceed the 4 MiB retained JSON allowance; remaining declarations are unknown.");
+        return false;
+      }
+      retainedBytes += bytes;
+      methods.add(method);
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    Map<String, Object> result() {
+      return Map.of("scope", "apk-root-dex-declarations", "methods", List.copyOf(methods),
+          "coverage", Map.of("status", partial ? "partial" : "complete",
+              "dex_entries", dexEntries, "examined_dex_entries", examinedDexEntries,
+              "examined_classes", examinedClasses, "examined_methods", examinedMethods),
+          "unknowns", List.copyOf(unknowns));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Match Android's standard root multidex carriers, without a basename guess. */
+  private static boolean nativeDexEntry(String name) {
+    return name.equals("classes.dex") || name.matches("classes[0-9]+\\.dex");
+  }
+
+  private static byte[] readNativeDex(ZipFile archive, ZipEntry entry) throws IOException {
+    long size = entry.getSize();
+    if (size < 0 || size > NATIVE_DEX_BYTES)
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("DEX exceeds the 64 MiB single-member read allowance");
+    byte[] bytes = new byte[(int) size];
+    CRC32 crc = new CRC32();
+    try (InputStream input = archive.getInputStream(entry)) {
+      int offset = 0;
+      while (offset < bytes.length) {
+        checkNativeInterrupted();
+        int read = input.read(bytes, offset, Math.min(65536, bytes.length - offset));
+        if (read < 0) throw new IOException("DEX is shorter than its ZIP declaration");
+        if (read == 0) continue;
+        crc.update(bytes, offset, read);
+        offset += read;
+      }
+      if (input.read() != -1) throw new IOException("DEX exceeds its ZIP declaration");
+    }
+    if (entry.getCrc() < 0 || entry.getCrc() != crc.getValue())
+      throw new IOException("DEX does not match its ZIP CRC32 declaration");
+    return bytes;
+  }
+
+  /** Raw DEX ownership precedes JADX's duplicate-class selection and aliases. */
+  static Map<String, Object> nativeDeclarations(Path apk) {
+    NativeInventory inventory = new NativeInventory();
+    try (ZipFile archive = new ZipFile(apk.toFile())) {
+      Map<String, Integer> names = new HashMap<>();
+      var directory = archive.entries();
+      while (directory.hasMoreElements()) {
+        checkNativeInterrupted();
+        ZipEntry entry = directory.nextElement();
+        if (!entry.isDirectory() && nativeDexEntry(entry.getName())) {
+          inventory.dexEntries++;
+          names.merge(entry.getName(), 1, Integer::sum);
+        }
+      }
+      long totalBytes = 0;
+      int entryIndex = -1;
+      directory = archive.entries();
+      while (directory.hasMoreElements()) {
+        checkNativeInterrupted();
+        ZipEntry entry = directory.nextElement();
+        entryIndex++;
+        String path = entry.getName();
+        if (entry.isDirectory() || !nativeDexEntry(path)) continue;
+        if (names.get(path) != 1) {
+          inventory.unknown("Duplicate root DEX entry name cannot be selected uniquely by the ZIP reader: " + path);
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (entry.getSize() < 0 || entry.getSize() > NATIVE_DEX_BYTES
+            || entry.getSize() > NATIVE_TOTAL_DEX_BYTES - totalBytes) {
+          inventory.unknown("Root DEX member exceeds the 64 MiB member or 256 MiB total read allowance: " + path);
+          continue;
+        }
+        totalBytes += entry.getSize();
+        try {
+          DexBackedDexFile dex = new NativeDex(readNativeDex(archive, entry));
+          var classes = dex.getClassSection();
+          for (int classIndex = 0; classIndex < classes.size(); classIndex++) {
+            checkNativeInterrupted();
+            DexBackedClassDef cls = classes.get(classIndex);
+            String type = cls.getType();
+            if (!type.startsWith("L") || !type.endsWith(";"))
+              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Class definition has no reference type");
+            String className = type.substring(1, type.length() - 1).replace('/', '.');
+            // Passing false retains duplicate encoded method references too.
+            for (Iterable<? extends DexBackedMethod> group : List.of(
+                cls.getDirectMethods(false), cls.getVirtualMethods(false))) {
+              for (DexBackedMethod method : group) {
+                checkNativeInterrupted();
+                inventory.examinedMethods++;
+                if ((method.getAccessFlags() & 0x100) == 0) continue;
+                String methodName = method.getName();
+                String returnType = method.getReturnType();
+                long characters = 2L + returnType.length();
+                for (CharSequence parameter : method.getParameterTypes()) {
+                  characters += parameter.length();
+                  if (characters * 6L > NATIVE_JSON_BYTES) break;
+                }
+                long bytes = 512L + 6L * (className.length() + methodName.length()
+                    + path.length() + characters);
+                if (inventory.retainedBytes + bytes > NATIVE_JSON_BYTES - 4096) {
+                  inventory.unknown("Native declarations exceed the 4 MiB retained JSON allowance; remaining declarations are unknown.");
+                  return inventory.result();
+                }
+                StringBuilder descriptor = new StringBuilder((int) characters).append('(');
+                for (CharSequence parameter : method.getParameterTypes()) descriptor.append(parameter);
+                descriptor.append(')').append(returnType);
+                Map<String, Object> row = Map.of("source_index", inventory.methods.size(),
+                    "class_name", className, "method_name", methodName, "descriptor", descriptor.toString(),
+                    "dex_entry", path, "dex_entry_index", entryIndex, "class_index", classIndex,
+                    "method_index", method.getMethodIndex());
+                if (!inventory.retain(row, bytes)) return inventory.result();
+              }
+            }
+            inventory.examinedClasses++;
+          }
+          inventory.examinedDexEntries++;
+        } catch (IOException | RuntimeException failure) {
+          if (failure instanceof java.util.concurrent.CancellationException) throw (RuntimeException) failure;
+          inventory.unknown("Root DEX native declarations could not be fully read from " + path + ": "
+              + failure.getClass().getSimpleName()
+              + (failure.getMessage() == null ? "" : " (" + failure.getMessage() + ")"));
+        }
+      }
+    } catch (IOException failure) {
+      // A failed archive close must fail the operation so the provider retires
+      // its owned JVM; do not cache a result with lost file-resource ownership.
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("APK ZIP native declaration inventory could not finish its reader", failure);
+    }
+    return inventory.result();
  }

  /** Original archive identity, never a deobfuscated basename or name suffix. */
@@ -179,10 +411,7 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
        selected = resource;
      }
      if (selected == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Root AndroidManifest.xml not found");
-      var content = selected.loadContent();
-      if (content == null || content.getDataType() != jadx.core.xmlgen.ResContainer.DataType.TEXT)
-        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Root AndroidManifest.xml did not decode as text");
-      String xml = content.getText().getCodeStr();
+      String xml = manifestText(selected);
      ManifestSnapshot snapshot = new ManifestSnapshot(xml, manifestSummary(xml));
      manifestSnapshot = snapshot;
      manifestSession = current;
@@ -190,6 +419,23 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
    return manifestSnapshot;
  }

+  /** Decode with resource names but without JADX's class alias substitution. */
+  static String manifestText(ResourceFile resource) {
+    var decompiler = resource.getDecompiler();
+    // BinaryXMLParser resolves android:name against its root's class identities
+    // and replaces raw '$' and relative names with Java-style aliases. A fresh
+    // root owns no classes, while its resource-name table preserves reference
+    // rendering from the loaded target.
+    RootNode root = new RootNode(decompiler.getArgs());
+    root.getConstValues().setResourcesNames(decompiler.getRoot().getConstValues().getResourcesNames());
+    try {
+      return ResourcesLoader.decodeStream(resource,
+          (size, input) -> new BinaryXMLParser(root).parse(input).getCodeStr());
+    } catch (jadx.core.utils.exceptions.JadxException failure) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Root AndroidManifest.xml did not decode as text", failure);
+    }
+  }
+
  /** One parsed XML owner supplies namespace-aware values alongside the exact decoded text. */
  static Map<String, Object> manifestSummary(String xml) {
    Element root;
@@ -233,7 +479,7 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
    return Collections.unmodifiableMap(summary);
  }

-  private ClassSnapshot selected(JsonObject args) {
+  private void indexClasses() {
    JadxSession current = session();
    if (indexedSession != current) {
      Map<String, List<ClassSnapshot>> index = new LinkedHashMap<>();
@@ -259,21 +505,46 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
                .map(Object::toString).collect(Collectors.joining(", "))
                + "): " + method.getReturnType().toString();
            return new MethodSnapshot(name, rawName, shortId, List.copyOf(bodyAbsenceMarkers), Map.of(
-                "name", name, "signature", signature,
+                "name", name, "raw_name", rawName, "signature", signature,
                "dex_descriptor", descriptor,
                "is_constructor", method.isConstructor(), "def_pos", 0));
          }).toList();
-          List<Map<String, Object>> fields = node.getFields().stream()
-              .sorted(Comparator.comparing(FieldNode::getAlias))
-              .map(field -> Map.<String, Object>of("name", field.getAlias(),
-                  "type", field.getType().toString(), "def_pos", 0)).toList();
+          List<FieldNode> orderedFields = new ArrayList<>(node.getFields());
+          orderedFields.sort(Comparator.comparing(FieldNode::getAlias));
+          List<Map<String, Object>> fields = new ArrayList<>();
+          List<Map<String, Object>> valuedFields = new ArrayList<>();
+          boolean anyValue = false;
+          for (FieldNode field : orderedFields) {
+            // Raw DEX identity for mapping lookups; the display type can carry generics.
+            Map<String, Object> entry = Map.of("name", field.getAlias(),
+                "raw_name", field.getFieldInfo().getName(),
+                "type", field.getType().toString(),
+                "dex_type", TypeGen.signature(field.getFieldInfo().getType()), "def_pos", 0);
+            fields.add(entry);
+            Map<String, Object> value = dexStaticValue(field);
+            if (value == null) valuedFields.add(entry);
+            else {
+              anyValue = true;
+              Map<String, Object> valued = new LinkedHashMap<>(entry);
+              valued.put("dex_static_value", value);
+              valuedFields.add(Collections.unmodifiableMap(valued));
+            }
+          }
          List<String> inner = node.getInnerClasses().stream().map(ClassNode::getFullName).toList();
+          List<String> innerRaw = node.getInnerClasses().stream().map(ClassNode::getRawName).toList();
          Map<String, Object> summary = Map.of(
              "full_name", cls.getFullName(), "raw_name", cls.getRawName(), "name", cls.getName(),
              "method_count", methods.size(), "field_count", fields.size(),
-              "inner_class_count", inner.size(), "inner_classes", inner,
-              "methods", methods.stream().map(MethodSnapshot::summary).toList(), "fields", fields);
-          ClassSnapshot snapshot = new ClassSnapshot(cls, methods, summary);
+              "inner_class_count", inner.size(), "inner_classes", inner, "inner_class_raw_names", innerRaw,
+              "methods", methods.stream().map(MethodSnapshot::summary).toList(), "fields", List.copyOf(fields));
+          // DEX static values are opt-in, so method and reference lookups keep the member-only reply.
+          Map<String, Object> summaryWithValues = summary;
+          if (anyValue) {
+            Map<String, Object> copy = new LinkedHashMap<>(summary);
+            copy.put("fields", List.copyOf(valuedFields));
+            summaryWithValues = Collections.unmodifiableMap(copy);
+          }
+          ClassSnapshot snapshot = new ClassSnapshot(cls, methods, summary, summaryWithValues);
          index.computeIfAbsent(cls.getFullName(), ignored -> new ArrayList<>()).add(snapshot);
          // Keep the binary identity supplied by JADX; '$' can also be a literal
          // name character, so replacing separators would invent lookup aliases.
@@ -284,6 +555,10 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
      classes = Collections.unmodifiableMap(index);
      indexedSession = current;
    }
+  }
+
+  private ClassSnapshot selected(JsonObject args) {
+    indexClasses();
    String name = string(args, "class_name");
    List<ClassSnapshot> candidates = classes.get(name);
    if (candidates == null) throw new InputFailure("class_name", "Exact class not found: " + name
@@ -293,6 +568,28 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
    return candidates.get(0);
  }

+  /** A static final field's class-definition static value; a static initializer can still assign it. */
+  private static Map<String, Object> dexStaticValue(FieldNode field) {
+    if (!field.getAccessFlags().isStatic() || !field.getAccessFlags().isFinal()) return null;
+    EncodedValue encoded = field.get(JadxAttrType.CONSTANT_VALUE);
+    if (encoded == null) return null;
+    Object value = encoded.getValue();
+    // JADX also attaches the shared null to static finals without a value, so null is never reported.
+    // Wide and floating values keep their Java text instead of a lossy JSON number.
+    return switch (encoded.getType()) {
+      case ENCODED_BOOLEAN -> Map.of("type", "boolean", "value", value);
+      case ENCODED_BYTE -> Map.of("type", "byte", "value", value);
+      case ENCODED_SHORT -> Map.of("type", "short", "value", value);
+      case ENCODED_CHAR -> Map.of("type", "char", "value", (int) (Character) value);
+      case ENCODED_INT -> Map.of("type", "int", "value", value);
+      case ENCODED_LONG -> Map.of("type", "long", "value", value.toString());
+      case ENCODED_FLOAT -> Map.of("type", "float", "value", value.toString());
+      case ENCODED_DOUBLE -> Map.of("type", "double", "value", value.toString());
+      case ENCODED_STRING -> Map.of("type", "string", "value", value);
+      default -> null;
+    };
+  }
+
  private List<MethodSnapshot> methods(ClassSnapshot cls, JsonObject args) {
    String name = string(args, "method_name");
    List<MethodSnapshot> result = cls.methods().stream().filter(method -> method.name().equals(name)).toList();
@@ -361,12 +658,18 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
  // JSON-RPC/CallToolResult envelope and generated numeric request id, and
  // account for JSON text being escaped again inside TextContent.
  private static final int MAX_XREF_TEXT_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024 - 1024;
+  // Leave room for the prototype reply, reference reply, retained raw calls,
+  // normalized Evidence and their text/structured MCP copies, not just one frame.
+  private static final int MAX_EXTERNAL_XREF_BYTES = MAX_XREF_TEXT_BYTES / 8;
  private static int escapedJsonBytes(Object value) {
    return JSON.toJson(JSON.toJson(value)).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8).length;
  }
  private static final class InvokeBudget {
    long remaining;
    InvokeBudget(long remaining) { this.remaining = Math.max(0, remaining); }
+    boolean fitsText(long characters) {
+      return remaining >= 256 && characters <= (remaining - 256) / 12;
+    }
    boolean admit(Map<String, Object> site) {
      // Check a conservative two-layer escape bound before serialization.
      long bound = 256;
@@ -381,26 +684,55 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
  }
  private record DirectInvokes(List<Map<String, Object>> sites, boolean exhaustive) {}

-  /** Raw DEX invokes within one JADX using method; offsets are code units from its code start. */
-  private static DirectInvokes directInvokes(JavaMethod source, MethodInfo target, InvokeBudget budget) {
-    MethodNode node = source.getMethodNode();
+  @FunctionalInterface private interface InvokeVisitor {
+    void accept(MethodInfo target, int offset, int index, Opcode opcode);
+  }
+
+  /** Decode raw invoke identity once at the shared bridge boundary, without generating source. */
+  private static void visitInvokes(MethodNode node, InvokeVisitor visitor) {
+    checkNativeInterrupted();
    ICodeReader code = node.getCodeReader();
-    if (code == null) return null;
-    List<Map<String, Object>> sites = new ArrayList<>();
-    boolean[] exhaustive = {true};
+    if (code == null) return;
    code.visitInstructions(insn -> {
+      checkNativeInterrupted();
      insn.decode();
      if (insn.getIndexType() != InsnIndexType.METHOD_REF) return;
      Opcode opcode = insn.getOpcode();
      if (!opcode.name().startsWith("INVOKE_")) return;
      IMethodRef ref = insn.getIndexAsMethod();
      ref.load();
-      if (!MethodInfo.fromRef(node.root(), ref).getRawFullId().equals(target.getRawFullId())) return;
+      visitor.accept(MethodInfo.fromRef(node.root(), ref), insn.getOffset(), insn.getIndex(), opcode);
+    });
+  }
+
+  /** Raw DEX invokes within one JADX using method; offsets are code units from its code start. */
+  private static DirectInvokes directInvokes(JavaMethod source, MethodInfo target, InvokeBudget budget) {
+    return directInvokes(source.getMethodNode(), target, budget);
+  }
+
+  private static void visitDirectInvokes(MethodNode node, MethodInfo target, InvokeVisitor visitor) {
+    visitInvokes(node, (referenced, offset, index, opcode) -> {
+      if (referenced.getRawFullId().equals(target.getRawFullId()))
+        visitor.accept(referenced, offset, index, opcode);
+    });
+  }
+
+  private static boolean referencesMethod(MethodNode node, MethodInfo target) {
+    boolean[] found = {false};
+    visitDirectInvokes(node, target, (referenced, offset, index, opcode) -> found[0] = true);
+    return found[0];
+  }
+
+  private static DirectInvokes directInvokes(MethodNode node, MethodInfo target, InvokeBudget budget) {
+    if (node.getCodeReader() == null) return null;
+    List<Map<String, Object>> sites = new ArrayList<>();
+    boolean[] exhaustive = {true};
+    visitDirectInvokes(node, target, (referenced, offset, index, opcode) -> {
      Map<String, Object> site = Map.of(
          "dex_entry", node.getInputFileName(),
          "source_raw_method_id", node.getMethodInfo().getRawFullId(),
-          "dex_code_unit_offset", insn.getOffset(),
-          "dex_method_index", insn.getIndex(),
+          "dex_code_unit_offset", offset,
+          "dex_method_index", index,
          "opcode", opcode.name());
      if (budget.admit(site)) sites.add(site);
      else exhaustive[0] = false;
@@ -408,6 +740,143 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
    return new DirectInvokes(sites, exhaustive[0]);
  }

+  private List<ClassSnapshot> sourceClasses() {
+    indexClasses();
+    Set<ClassSnapshot> seen = Collections.newSetFromMap(new IdentityHashMap<>());
+    List<ClassSnapshot> result = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (List<ClassSnapshot> group : classes.values())
+      for (ClassSnapshot source : group) if (seen.add(source)) result.add(source);
+    result.sort(Comparator.comparing(source -> source.node().getRawName()));
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  private static long displayTypeCharacters(ArgType type) {
+    if (type.isArray())
+      return 2L * type.getArrayDimension() + displayTypeCharacters(type.getArrayRootElement());
+    if (type.isPrimitive()) return type.getPrimitiveType().getLongName().length();
+    if (type.isObject() && !type.isGeneric() && !type.isGenericType()) return type.getObject().length();
+    throw new IllegalArgumentException("External prototype contains a non-DEX type");
+  }
+
+  private static Map<String, Object> externalMethodSummary(MethodInfo info, InvokeBudget budget) {
+    String name = info.getName();
+    long signatureCharacters = name.length() + 4L + displayTypeCharacters(info.getReturnType())
+        + 2L * Math.max(0, info.getArgsCount() - 1);
+    for (ArgType type : info.getArgumentsTypes()) signatureCharacters += displayTypeCharacters(type);
+    long descriptorCharacters = info.getShortId().length() - (long) name.length();
+    // Use parsed type facts and the existing short-id length before copying/joining strings.
+    if (!budget.fitsText(2L * name.length() + descriptorCharacters + signatureCharacters))
+      throw new ReferenceLimit("method_inventory");
+    String descriptor = info.getShortId().substring(name.length());
+    String signature = name + "(" + info.getArgumentsTypes().stream()
+        .map(Object::toString).collect(Collectors.joining(", "))
+        + "): " + info.getReturnType();
+    Map<String, Object> summary = Map.of("name", name, "raw_name", name, "signature", signature,
+        "dex_descriptor", descriptor, "is_constructor", info.isConstructor(), "def_pos", 0);
+    if (!budget.admit(summary)) throw new ReferenceLimit("method_inventory");
+    return summary;
+  }
+
+  /** Only directly referenced prototypes, not invented definitions or an external classpath. */
+  private List<ExternalMethod> externalMethods(JsonObject args) {
+    String className = string(args, "class_name");
+    String methodName = string(args, "method_name");
+    JadxSession current = session();
+    if (externalInventory != null && externalInventory.session() == current
+        && externalInventory.className().equals(className) && externalInventory.methodName().equals(methodName))
+      return externalInventory.methods();
+    // Retain only the latest bounded selection, never results from a replaced APK/session.
+    externalInventory = null;
+    SortedMap<String, ExternalMethod> methods = new TreeMap<>();
+    boolean[] observedClass = {false};
+    InvokeBudget budget = new InvokeBudget(MAX_EXTERNAL_XREF_BYTES
+        - 4096L - 12L * (className.length() + (long) methodName.length()));
+    for (ClassSnapshot source : sourceClasses()) {
+      for (MethodSnapshot selected : source.methods()) {
+        visitInvokes(method(source, selected).getMethodNode(), (info, offset, index, opcode) -> {
+          if (!info.getDeclClass().getRawName().equals(className)) return;
+          observedClass[0] = true;
+          if (!info.getName().equals(methodName) || methods.containsKey(info.getShortId())) return;
+          methods.put(info.getShortId(), new ExternalMethod(info, externalMethodSummary(info, budget)));
+        });
+      }
+    }
+    if (!observedClass[0]) throw new InputFailure("class_name",
+        "No APK definition or direct DEX invoke references the exact class: " + className);
+    if (methods.isEmpty()) throw new InputFailure("method_name",
+        "No direct DEX invoke references " + className + "." + methodName);
+    List<ExternalMethod> result = List.copyOf(methods.values());
+    externalInventory = new ExternalInventory(current, className, methodName, result);
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  private Map<String, Object> externalSummary(JsonObject args) {
+    List<ExternalMethod> methods = externalMethods(args);
+    return Map.of("class_name", string(args, "class_name"), "reference_target", "external",
+        "observed_method_count", methods.size(),
+        "prototypes", methods.stream().map(ExternalMethod::summary).toList());
+  }
+
+  private record ExternalCaller(MethodNode node, Map<String, Object> row) {}
+
+  /** Reserve the complete using-node inventory before optional instruction positions. */
+  private List<ExternalCaller> externalCallers(MethodInfo target, InvokeBudget budget) {
+    List<ExternalCaller> callers = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (ClassSnapshot source : sourceClasses()) {
+      String className = String.valueOf(source.summary().get("full_name"));
+      Map<String, Integer> overloads = new HashMap<>();
+      for (MethodSnapshot candidate : source.methods()) {
+        int overload = overloads.merge(candidate.name(), 1, Integer::sum) - 1;
+        MethodNode node = method(source, candidate).getMethodNode();
+        if (!referencesMethod(node, target)) continue;
+        if (classes.get(className).size() != 1)
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException("External caller has an ambiguous APK class identity: " + className);
+        Map<String, Object> row = new LinkedHashMap<>(Map.of(
+            "kind", "method", "name", candidate.name(), "full_name", className + "." + candidate.name(),
+            "containing_class", className, "top_class", source.node().getTopParentClass().getFullName(),
+            "def_pos", 0, "source_selector", Map.of("class_name", className,
+                "method_name", candidate.name(), "overload_index", overload),
+            "direct_invokes", List.of(), "direct_invokes_exhaustive", false));
+        if (!budget.admit(row)) throw new ReferenceLimit("caller_inventory");
+        callers.add(new ExternalCaller(node, row));
+      }
+    }
+    return List.copyOf(callers);
+  }
+
+  private Map<String, Object> externalReferences(JsonObject args) {
+    List<ExternalMethod> methods = externalMethods(args);
+    if (methods.size() != 1 && !args.has("overload_index"))
+      throw new InputFailure("overload_index", "Select one of " + methods.size() + " observed external prototypes");
+    int index = integer(args, "overload_index", 0);
+    if (index >= methods.size()) throw new InputFailure("overload_index", "External prototype index out of range: " + index);
+    ExternalMethod method = methods.get(index);
+    MethodInfo target = method.info();
+    Map<String, Object> selected = method.summary();
+    InvokeBudget budget = new InvokeBudget(MAX_EXTERNAL_XREF_BYTES
+        - 4096L - escapedJsonBytes(selected));
+    List<ExternalCaller> callers = externalCallers(target, budget);
+    List<Map<String, Object>> items = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (ExternalCaller caller : callers) {
+      DirectInvokes invokes = directInvokes(caller.node(), target, budget);
+      caller.row().put("direct_invokes", invokes.sites());
+      caller.row().put("direct_invokes_exhaustive", invokes.exhaustive());
+      items.add(caller.row());
+    }
+    Map<String, Object> result = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+    result.put("target", string(args, "class_name") + "." + target.getName());
+    result.put("reference_target", "external");
+    result.put("reference_scope", "direct_dex_invokes");
+    result.put("dex_descriptor", selected.get("dex_descriptor"));
+    result.put("reported_signature", selected.get("signature"));
+    result.put("overload_index", index);
+    result.put("total", items.size());
+    result.put("count", items.size());
+    result.put("resolve_line", false);
+    result.put("items", items);
+    return result;
+  }
+
  private CallToolResult handle(String name, kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject input) {
    JsonObject args = JsonParser.parseString(input.toString()).getAsJsonObject();
    if (name.equals("rea_jvm_status")) return json(Map.of(
@@ -416,6 +885,8 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
        "available_processors", Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors(),
        "java_version", System.getProperty("java.version"),
        "metadata_scope", "parsed_members"));
+    if (name.equals("rea_native_declarations"))
+      return json(nativeDeclarations(Path.of(string(args, "path"))));
    JadxSession current = session();
    if (name.equals("get_app_info")) return json(manifest(current).summary());
    if (name.equals("get_android_manifest"))
@@ -442,8 +913,15 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
          "scope", "top_level", "offset", offset, "limit", limit,
          "items", items));
    }
+    indexClasses();
+    if (flag(args, "reference_target") && !classes.containsKey(string(args, "class_name"))) {
+      if (name.equals("get_class_summary")) return json(externalSummary(args));
+      if (name.equals("get_xrefs_to_method")) return json(externalReferences(args));
+      throw new InputFailure("class_name", "External prototypes are only available to method reference queries");
+    }
    ClassSnapshot cls = selected(args);
-    if (name.equals("get_class_summary")) return json(cls.summary());
+    if (name.equals("get_class_summary"))
+      return json(flag(args, "dex_static_values") ? cls.summaryWithValues() : cls.summary());
    if (name.equals("get_method_body")) {
      List<MethodSnapshot> overloads = methods(cls, args);
      int index = integer(args, "overload_index", 0);
@@ -514,6 +992,9 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
      try { return bridge.handle(name, request.getArguments()); }
      catch (InputFailure error) { return text(JSON.toJson(Map.of(
          "kind", "invalid-input", "field", error.field, "message", error.getMessage())), true); }
+      catch (ReferenceLimit error) { return text(JSON.toJson(Map.of(
+          "kind", "reference-output-limit", "stage", error.stage,
+          "limit_bytes", MAX_EXTERNAL_XREF_BYTES)), true); }
      catch (IllegalArgumentException error) { return text(error.getMessage(), true); }
    });
  }
@@ -526,7 +1007,7 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
    SessionHolder holder = new SessionHolder(defaults);
    ServerCapabilities capabilities = new ServerCapabilities(
        new ServerCapabilities.Tools(null), null, null, null, null, null, null, Map.of());
-    Server server = new Server(new Implementation("rea-jadx-bridge", "6", null, null, null),
+    Server server = new Server(new Implementation("rea-jadx-bridge", "10", null, null, null),
        new ServerOptions(capabilities), "", ignored -> Unit.INSTANCE);
    SessionToolsKt.registerSessionTools(server, holder);
    ClassToolsKt.registerClassTools(server, holder);
@@ -546,6 +1027,11 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
        new ToolSchema(null, new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of()), List.of(), null),
        "Observed worker JVM and metadata scope", null, null, null, null, null, null);
    server.addTool(diagnostics, (connection, request, continuation) -> bridge.handle("rea_jvm_status", request.getArguments()));
+    registerBridgeTool(server, bridge, "rea_native_declarations",
+        new ToolSchema(null, new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of("path",
+            new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of("type",
+                kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonElementKt.JsonPrimitive("string"))))), List.of("path"), null),
+        "Original ACC_NATIVE declarations from the admitted APK's standard root DEX members, without loading or decompiling the APK.");
    for (String name : List.of("get_app_info", "get_android_manifest")) {
      String description = name.equals("get_app_info")
          ? "Namespace-aware summary of the exact root AndroidManifest.xml resource."
@@ -568,9 +1054,18 @@ class ReaJadxBridge {
      if (name.equals("list_classes")) properties.put("query",
          new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of(
              "type", kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonElementKt.JsonPrimitive("string"))));
+      if (name.equals("get_class_summary")) properties.put("dex_static_values",
+          new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of(
+              "type", kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonElementKt.JsonPrimitive("boolean"))));
+      if (name.equals("get_class_summary") || name.equals("get_xrefs_to_method"))
+        properties.put("reference_target", new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of(
+            "type", kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonElementKt.JsonPrimitive("boolean"))));
+      if (name.equals("get_class_summary")) properties.put("method_name",
+          new kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject(Map.of(
+              "type", kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonElementKt.JsonPrimitive("string"))));
      String description = switch (name) {
        case "list_classes" -> "Pages of case-sensitive matching top-level class names; offset and next_offset are inventory positions, limit bounds matching rows. Omitted or empty query inventories all names.";
-        case "get_class_summary" -> "Parsed member metadata for one exact class name; no source generation.";
+        case "get_class_summary" -> "Parsed member metadata for one exact class name; no source generation. Set dex_static_values to include encoded static final field values.";
        case "get_method_body" -> "Source for an exact class and stable same-name overload index; static initializers use smali to preserve folded field initialization.";
        default -> "Complete static using-node inventory for an exact class or selected method overload; one node may contain multiple invoke instructions, and source lines are unresolved.";
      };
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+import ghidra.app.script.GhidraScript;
+import ghidra.program.database.mem.FileBytes;
+import ghidra.program.model.address.Address;
+import ghidra.program.model.address.AddressSpace;
+import ghidra.program.model.listing.Program;
+import ghidra.program.model.mem.Memory;
+import ghidra.program.model.mem.MemoryBlock;
+import ghidra.program.model.mem.MemoryBlockSourceInfo;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.LinkOption;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Rebuild a GameCube/Wii DOL memory map from the validated load ranges REA's TypeScript
+ * admission wrote. BinaryLoader maps the whole file once at address 0; this
+ * script replaces that block with text, data, and BSS blocks at their load addresses.
+ */
+public final class ReaGhidraPrepareDol extends GhidraScript {
+    // Canonical v2 header, 18 section rows, 12 gap rows and entry, using uint32 hex.
+    private static final int MAX_PLAN_BYTES = 13 + 18 * 49 + 12 * 30 + 17;
+    private static final class Section {
+        final String kind;
+        final int index;
+        final long fileOffset;
+        final long address;
+        final long size;
+
+        Section(String kind, int index, long fileOffset, long address, long size) {
+            this.kind = kind;
+            this.index = index;
+            this.fileOffset = fileOffset;
+            this.address = address;
+            this.size = size;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private record BssGap(long address, long size) {}
+
+    @Override
+    public void run() throws Exception {
+        String[] arguments = getScriptArgs();
+        if (arguments.length != 1) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "GameCube DOL preparation requires exactly one section table path"
+            );
+        }
+        if (!currentProgram.getExecutableFormat().equals("Raw Binary") ||
+            !currentProgram.getLanguageID().getIdAsString().startsWith("PowerPC:BE:32:")) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                "GameCube DOL preparation requires a BinaryLoader import in big-endian 32-bit PowerPC"
+            );
+        }
+        Path tablePath = Path.of(arguments[0]);
+        if (!Files.isRegularFile(tablePath, LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS)) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL section table is not a regular file");
+        }
+        if (Files.size(tablePath) > MAX_PLAN_BYTES) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL plan exceeds the canonical format's byte bound");
+        }
+
+        List<Section> sections = new ArrayList<>();
+        List<BssGap> bssGaps = new ArrayList<>();
+        int expectedSections = -1;
+        int expectedGaps = -1;
+        long entry = -1;
+        for (String line : Files.readAllLines(tablePath)) {
+            String[] fields = line.trim().split("\\s+");
+            switch (fields[0]) {
+                case "plan" -> {
+                    requireFields(fields, 4, line);
+                    if (expectedSections >= 0 || !fields[1].equals("2")) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Duplicate or unsupported GameCube DOL plan header");
+                    }
+                    expectedSections = Integer.parseInt(fields[2]);
+                    expectedGaps = Integer.parseInt(fields[3]);
+                    // A DOL has 18 slots, including at most 11 data slots and 12 BSS gaps.
+                    if (expectedSections < 1 || expectedSections > 18 || expectedGaps < 0 || expectedGaps > 12) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL plan counts exceed the format's slot bounds");
+                    }
+                }
+                case "section" -> {
+                    requireFields(fields, 6, line);
+                    if (expectedSections < 0 || sections.size() >= expectedSections) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL section exceeds its declared count");
+                    }
+                    sections.add(new Section(
+                        fields[1],
+                        Integer.parseInt(fields[2]),
+                        Long.decode(fields[3]),
+                        Long.decode(fields[4]),
+                        Long.decode(fields[5])
+                    ));
+                }
+                case "bss-gap" -> {
+                    requireFields(fields, 3, line);
+                    if (expectedGaps < 0 || bssGaps.size() >= expectedGaps) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL BSS gap exceeds its declared count");
+                    }
+                    long address = Long.decode(fields[1]);
+                    long size = Long.decode(fields[2]);
+                    if (address < 0 || size <= 0) {
+                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL BSS gap is not a positive range");
+                    }
+                    bssGaps.add(new BssGap(address, size));
+                }
+                case "entry" -> {
+                    requireFields(fields, 2, line);
+                    entry = Long.decode(fields[1]);
+                }
+                default -> throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown GameCube DOL table line: " + line);
+            }
+        }
+        if (expectedSections != sections.size() || expectedGaps != bssGaps.size() || entry < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL section table is incomplete");
+        }
+
+        Memory memory = currentProgram.getMemory();
+        List<FileBytes> files = memory.getAllFileBytes();
+        if (files.size() != 1) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("GameCube DOL preparation requires exactly one imported file image");
+        }
+        FileBytes fileBytes = files.get(0);
+        AddressSpace space = currentProgram.getAddressFactory().getDefaultAddressSpace();
+
+        // Remove the whole-file block before creating section blocks, so no two blocks claim one address.
+        for (MemoryBlock block : memory.getBlocks()) {
+            for (MemoryBlockSourceInfo source : block.getSourceInfos()) {
+                if (source.getFileBytes().isPresent() && source.getFileBytes().get().equals(fileBytes)) {
+                    memory.removeBlock(block, monitor);
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (Section section : sections) {
+            if (section.fileOffset + section.size > fileBytes.getSize()) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "GameCube DOL " + section.kind + " " + section.index + " exceeds the imported file"
+                );
+            }
+            boolean text = section.kind.equals("text");
+            if (!text && !section.kind.equals("data")) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown GameCube DOL section kind: " + section.kind);
+            }
+            MemoryBlock block = memory.createInitializedBlock(
+                "." + section.kind + section.index,
+                space.getAddress(section.address),
+                fileBytes,
+                section.fileOffset,
+                section.size,
+                false
+            );
+            block.setRead(true);
+            block.setWrite(!text);
+            block.setExecute(text);
+        }
+
+        // Apply the domain owner's exact uninitialized ranges; do not reinterpret BSS here.
+        int gapIndex = 0;
+        for (BssGap gap : bssGaps) {
+            MemoryBlock block = memory.createUninitializedBlock(
+                ".bss" + gapIndex++,
+                space.getAddress(gap.address()),
+                gap.size(),
+                false
+            );
+            block.setRead(true);
+            block.setWrite(true);
+            block.setExecute(false);
+        }
+
+        Address entryAddress = space.getAddress(entry);
+        MemoryBlock entryBlock = memory.getBlock(entryAddress);
+        if (entryBlock == null || !entryBlock.isExecute()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("GameCube DOL entry must lie in an executable section");
+        }
+        addEntryPoint(entryAddress);
+        if (!disassemble(entryAddress) || createFunction(entryAddress, "__start") == null) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("GameCube DOL entry cannot be decoded as a function");
+        }
+        currentProgram.getOptions(Program.PROGRAM_INFO).setBoolean("REA raw binary prepared", true);
+        currentProgram.getOptions(Program.PROGRAM_INFO).setBoolean("REA GameCube DOL prepared", true);
+    }
+
+    private static void requireFields(String[] fields, int count, String line) {
+        if (fields.length != count) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Malformed GameCube DOL table line: " + line);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,283 @@
+import ghidra.app.script.GhidraScript;
+import ghidra.program.database.SpecExtension;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.DataType;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.DoubleDataType;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.Float16DataType;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.FloatDataType;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.FunctionDefinition;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.IntegerDataType;
+import ghidra.program.model.data.StructureDataType;
+import ghidra.program.model.lang.CompilerSpec;
+import ghidra.program.model.lang.Language;
+import ghidra.program.model.lang.PrototypeModel;
+import ghidra.program.model.lang.Register;
+import ghidra.program.model.listing.Function;
+import ghidra.program.model.listing.Parameter;
+import ghidra.program.model.listing.Program;
+import ghidra.program.model.listing.VariableStorage;
+import ghidra.program.model.pcode.Varnode;
+import ghidra.program.model.pcode.XmlEncode;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+/**
+ * Apply the committed RISC-V calling-convention policy after analysis. Ghidra's generic RV32
+ * compiler specification models ilp32d. Each policy derives a program-specific prototype from the
+ * program's own default prototype, as its {@link Policy} row and docs/providers/ghidra-riscv.md state. The
+ * script installs the prototype as a specification extension and assigns it, with dynamic
+ * storage, to every non-thunk function, external function and function definition.
+ */
+public final class ReaGhidraRiscvCallingConvention extends GhidraScript {
+  static final String REPORT_KEY = "REA RISC-V calling convention";
+  /** RISC-V floating-point registers by ABI name: ft0-ft11, fs0-fs11 and fa0-fa7. */
+  private static final Pattern FLOAT_REGISTER = Pattern.compile("f[ast]\\d+");
+
+  /**
+   * What a policy changes in the default ilp32d prototype. Every policy also passes values of 9
+   * bytes or more, such as {@code long double}, by reference.
+   *
+   * @param floatEntryBytes the largest value a floating-point register may pass or return; 0
+   *     removes those entries and every rule that assigns floating-point storage
+   * @param preservesFloatRegisters whether fs0-fs11 stay preserved across calls
+   */
+  private record Policy(
+      String id, String prototype, int floatEntryBytes, boolean preservesFloatRegisters) {}
+
+  private static final List<Policy> POLICIES =
+      List.of(new Policy("ilp32-prototype-v1", "__rea_ilp32", 0, false));
+
+  @Override
+  public void run() throws Exception {
+    String[] arguments = getScriptArgs();
+    Policy policy =
+        POLICIES.stream()
+            .filter(candidate -> arguments.length == 1 && candidate.id().equals(arguments[0]))
+            .findFirst()
+            .orElseThrow(
+                () ->
+                    new IllegalArgumentException(
+                        "REA RISC-V calling convention requires one of the policies "
+                            + POLICIES.stream().map(Policy::id).toList()));
+    Language language = currentProgram.getLanguage();
+    if (!language.getProcessor().toString().equals("RISCV")
+        || currentProgram.getDefaultPointerSize() != 4)
+      throw new IllegalStateException(
+          "REA " + policy.id() + " requires a 32-bit RISC-V program, not "
+              + language.getLanguageID());
+    CompilerSpec spec = currentProgram.getCompilerSpec();
+    new SpecExtension(currentProgram)
+        .addReplaceCompilerSpecExtension(
+            derive(spec.getDefaultCallingConvention(), spec, language, policy), monitor);
+    PrototypeModel model =
+        currentProgram.getCompilerSpec().getCallingConvention(policy.prototype());
+    if (model == null)
+      throw new IllegalStateException("REA " + policy.prototype() + " was not installed");
+    selfCheck(model, policy, language);
+    int functions = 0;
+    List<Function> callables = new ArrayList<>();
+    currentProgram.getFunctionManager().getFunctions(true).forEach(callables::add);
+    currentProgram.getFunctionManager().getExternalFunctions().forEach(callables::add);
+    for (Function function : callables) {
+      // A thunk's signature is its target's; the target is in this list.
+      if (function.isThunk()) continue;
+      if (function.hasCustomVariableStorage()) function.setCustomVariableStorage(false);
+      function.setCallingConvention(policy.prototype());
+      if (policy.floatEntryBytes() == 0) {
+        List<VariableStorage> storage = new ArrayList<>();
+        storage.add(function.getReturn().getVariableStorage());
+        for (Parameter parameter : function.getParameters())
+          storage.add(parameter.getVariableStorage());
+        // An untyped function has no assigned storage yet; the decompiler applies the
+        // prototype when it recovers one.
+        requireIntegerStorage(
+            storage.toArray(VariableStorage[]::new), function.getName(true), true);
+      }
+      functions += 1;
+    }
+    int definitions = 0;
+    Iterator<DataType> types = currentProgram.getDataTypeManager().getAllDataTypes();
+    while (types.hasNext()) {
+      if (!(types.next() instanceof FunctionDefinition definition)) continue;
+      definition.setCallingConvention(policy.prototype());
+      definitions += 1;
+    }
+    // Written last: any failure above leaves no report, and REA refuses the session.
+    currentProgram.getOptions(Program.PROGRAM_INFO).setString(
+        REPORT_KEY,
+        "{\"policy\":\"" + policy.id() + "\",\"functions\":" + functions
+            + ",\"definitions\":" + definitions + "}");
+    println(
+        "REA RISC-V " + policy.prototype() + ": functions=" + functions
+            + " definitions=" + definitions);
+  }
+
+  /** The default ilp32d prototype changed as the policy states. */
+  private static String derive(
+      PrototypeModel base, CompilerSpec spec, Language language, Policy policy) throws Exception {
+    XmlEncode encoder = new XmlEncode();
+    base.encode(encoder, spec.getPcodeInjectLibrary());
+    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+    factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);
+    Document document =
+        factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(encoder.toString())));
+    Element root = document.getDocumentElement();
+    if (!root.getTagName().equals("prototype"))
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected default prototype encoding " + root.getTagName());
+    root.setAttribute("name", policy.prototype());
+    List<Element> floatEntries = new ArrayList<>();
+    NodeList entries = root.getElementsByTagName("pentry");
+    for (int index = 0; index < entries.getLength(); index += 1) {
+      Element entry = (Element) entries.item(index);
+      if (entry.getAttribute("storage").equals("float")) floatEntries.add(entry);
+    }
+    if (floatEntries.isEmpty())
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Default prototype has no floating-point entries");
+    if (policy.floatEntryBytes() == 0) {
+      List<Node> removed = new ArrayList<>(floatEntries);
+      NodeList rules = root.getElementsByTagName("rule");
+      for (int index = 0; index < rules.getLength(); index += 1) {
+        Element rule = (Element) rules.item(index);
+        if (usesFloatStorage(rule)) removed.add(rule);
+      }
+      if (removed.size() == floatEntries.size())
+        throw new IllegalStateException("Default prototype has no floating-point rules to remove");
+      for (Node node : removed) node.getParentNode().removeChild(node);
+    } else
+      for (Element entry : floatEntries)
+        entry.setAttribute("maxsize", Integer.toString(policy.floatEntryBytes()));
+    // Values over 2 x XLEN go by reference. Returns need no rule: a value that the return
+    // registers cannot hold already becomes a caller buffer passed in a0.
+    NodeList inputs = root.getElementsByTagName("input");
+    if (inputs.getLength() != 1)
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Default prototype has no single input list");
+    Element input = (Element) inputs.item(0);
+    Element last = null;
+    for (Node child = input.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child.getNextSibling())
+      if (child instanceof Element element && element.getTagName().equals("rule")) last = element;
+    if (last == null || !joinsAnyValue(last))
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Default prototype's input list does not end with a join");
+    Element byReference = document.createElement("rule");
+    Element datatype = document.createElement("datatype");
+    datatype.setAttribute("name", "any");
+    datatype.setAttribute("minsize", "9");
+    byReference.appendChild(datatype);
+    byReference.appendChild(document.createElement("convert_to_ptr"));
+    input.insertBefore(byReference, last);
+    if (!policy.preservesFloatRegisters()) {
+      NodeList killedLists = root.getElementsByTagName("killedbycall");
+      Element killed = killedLists.getLength() == 0 ? null : (Element) killedLists.item(0);
+      if (killed == null) {
+        killed = document.createElement("killedbycall");
+        root.appendChild(killed);
+      }
+      List<Element> moved = new ArrayList<>();
+      NodeList preservedLists = root.getElementsByTagName("unaffected");
+      for (int list = 0; list < preservedLists.getLength(); list += 1) {
+        NodeList preserved = preservedLists.item(list).getChildNodes();
+        for (int index = 0; index < preserved.getLength(); index += 1) {
+          if (preserved.item(index) instanceof Element varnode
+              && isFloatRegister(varnode, language))
+            moved.add(varnode);
+        }
+      }
+      for (Element varnode : moved) {
+        varnode.getParentNode().removeChild(varnode);
+        killed.appendChild(varnode);
+      }
+    }
+    StringWriter xml = new StringWriter();
+    var transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
+    transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
+    transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(xml));
+    return xml.toString();
+  }
+
+  /** The installed prototype places each class of value as its policy states. */
+  private void selfCheck(PrototypeModel model, Policy policy, Language language) {
+    StructureDataType pair = new StructureDataType("rea_float_pair", 0);
+    pair.add(FloatDataType.dataType);
+    pair.add(FloatDataType.dataType);
+    VariableStorage[] storage =
+        model.getStorageLocations(
+            currentProgram,
+            new DataType[] {
+              DoubleDataType.dataType, FloatDataType.dataType, DoubleDataType.dataType,
+              IntegerDataType.dataType, pair, Float16DataType.dataType
+            },
+            false);
+    VariableStorage quad = storage[storage.length - 1];
+    if (quad.size() != currentProgram.getDefaultPointerSize() || quad.getRegister() == null)
+      throw new IllegalStateException(
+          "REA " + policy.prototype() + " does not pass a 16-byte value by reference: " + quad);
+    if (policy.floatEntryBytes() == 0)
+      requireIntegerStorage(storage, policy.prototype() + " self-check", false);
+    if (policy.preservesFloatRegisters()) return;
+    for (Varnode preserved : model.getUnaffectedList()) {
+      Register register = language.getRegister(preserved.getAddress(), preserved.getSize());
+      if (register != null && FLOAT_REGISTER.matcher(register.getName()).matches())
+        throw new IllegalStateException(
+            "REA " + policy.prototype() + " still preserves " + register.getName());
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static boolean joinsAnyValue(Element rule) {
+    List<Element> children = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (Node child = rule.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child.getNextSibling())
+      if (child instanceof Element element) children.add(element);
+    return children.size() == 2
+        && children.get(0).getTagName().equals("datatype")
+        && children.get(0).getAttribute("name").equals("any")
+        && children.get(1).getTagName().equals("join");
+  }
+
+  /** Whether a rule's action, at any depth, assigns floating-point storage. */
+  private static boolean usesFloatStorage(Element element) {
+    NodeList children = element.getChildNodes();
+    for (int index = 0; index < children.getLength(); index += 1) {
+      if (!(children.item(index) instanceof Element child)) continue;
+      if (child.getAttribute("storage").equals("float") || usesFloatStorage(child)) return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  private static boolean isFloatRegister(Element varnode, Language language) {
+    if (!varnode.getTagName().equals("varnode")
+        || !varnode.getAttribute("space").equals("register"))
+      return false;
+    Register register =
+        language.getRegister(
+            language.getAddressFactory().getRegisterSpace()
+                .getAddress(Long.decode(varnode.getAttribute("offset"))),
+            Integer.parseInt(varnode.getAttribute("size")));
+    return register != null && FLOAT_REGISTER.matcher(register.getName()).matches();
+  }
+
+  private static void requireIntegerStorage(
+      VariableStorage[] storage, String owner, boolean allowUnassigned) {
+    for (VariableStorage item : storage) {
+      if (item.isBadStorage() || (!allowUnassigned && item.isUnassignedStorage()))
+        throw new IllegalStateException("REA RISC-V storage unresolved for " + owner);
+      List<Register> registers = item.getRegisters();
+      if (registers == null) continue; // stack-only storage
+      for (Register register : registers) {
+        if (FLOAT_REGISTER.matcher(register.getName()).matches())
+          throw new IllegalStateException(
+              "REA RISC-V storage still uses " + register.getName() + " for " + owner);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ HOPPER_SYMBOL_NAME_UTF16_UNITS = 1024
 # that does not fit is null, not an older descriptor path.
 # 536870887 is Node's 536870888-character string ceiling minus the framing LF.
 # The ceiling is the encoded payload; JSON expansion is measured before it.
+# Encoded JSON allowance, in bytes, shared by one instruction list, one
+# native-caller list, and one caller-scan page. This release has no runtime override.
+CALLER_SCAN_ALLOWANCE_BYTES = 512 * 1024
 _BRIDGE_MAX_REQUEST_BYTES_SETTING = "REA_BRIDGE_MAX_REQUEST_BYTES"
 DEFAULT_BRIDGE_MAX_REQUEST_BYTES = 16 * 1024 * 1024
 MINIMUM_BRIDGE_MAX_REQUEST_BYTES = 7464
@@ -232,6 +235,9 @@ EXHAUSTIVE_ANALYSIS_METHODS = frozenset(
        "procedure_assembly",
        "procedure_callees",
        "procedure_callers",
+        "rea_caller_scan_page",
+        "rea_caller_scan_target",
+        "rea_caller_base",
        "procedure_info",
        "procedure_pseudo_code",
        "procedure_references",
@@ -485,19 +491,30 @@ def _instruction_addresses(procedure):
    return result


-def _native_calls(procedure, direction):
+def _iter_native_calls(procedure, direction):
    references = procedure.getAllCallees() if direction == "outgoing" else procedure.getAllCallers()
    kinds = {0: "none", 1: "unknown", 2: "direct", 3: "objective_c"}
-    calls = {}
-    unresolved = []
    for reference in references:
        source, target, kind = reference.fromAddress(), reference.toAddress(), reference.type()
        if source in BAD_ADDRESSES:
+            yield None, None, None
            continue
        if target in BAD_ADDRESSES:
-            unresolved.append({"address": _hex(source), "reason": "Native CallReference has no resolved target (type %s)" % kind})
+            yield source, None, {"address": _hex(source), "reason": "Native CallReference has no resolved target (type %s)" % kind}
            continue
-        calls[(source, target)] = {"classification": kinds.get(kind, "unknown"), "provider_type": kind, "provenance": "hopper-public-python-api:CallReference"}
+        yield source, target, {"classification": kinds.get(kind, "unknown"), "provider_type": kind, "provenance": "hopper-public-python-api:CallReference"}
+
+
+def _native_calls(procedure, direction):
+    calls = {}
+    unresolved = []
+    for source, target, detail in _iter_native_calls(procedure, direction):
+        if detail is None:
+            continue
+        if target is None:
+            unresolved.append(detail)
+        else:
+            calls[(source, target)] = detail
    return calls, sorted(unresolved, key=lambda item: int(item["address"], 16))


@@ -547,6 +564,136 @@ def _procedure_map(document):
    return result


+def _caller_target_data(procedure):
+    addresses = []
+    seen = set()
+    size = 0
+    for block in procedure.basicBlockIterator():
+        for address in _block_instruction_addresses(procedure, block):
+            if address in seen:
+                continue
+            encoded = _hex(address)
+            size += len(encoded) + 4
+            if size > CALLER_SCAN_ALLOWANCE_BYTES:
+                return {"target": _procedure_identity(procedure), "instructions": addresses, "instructions_complete": False}
+            addresses.append(encoded)
+            seen.add(address)
+    return {"target": _procedure_identity(procedure), "instructions": addresses, "instructions_complete": True}
+
+
+def _caller_scan_target(document, params):
+    return _caller_target_data(_procedure(document, params.get("procedure")))
+
+
+def _caller_base(document, params):
+    procedure = _procedure(document, params.get("procedure"))
+    callers = []
+    size = 0
+    complete = True
+    for item in procedure.getAllCallerProcedures():
+        address = _hex(item.getEntryPoint())
+        size += len(address) + 4
+        if size > CALLER_SCAN_ALLOWANCE_BYTES:
+            complete = False
+            break
+        callers.append(address)
+    return {
+        **_caller_target_data(procedure),
+        "callers": sorted(callers, key=lambda value: int(value, 16)),
+        "callers_complete": complete,
+    }
+
+
+def _caller_scan_page(document, params):
+    """Observe forward relationships in one bounded, stateless bridge request."""
+    start = params.get("start")
+    if isinstance(start, bool) or not isinstance(start, int) or start < 0:
+        raise InvalidRequestError("Caller scan start must be a non-negative integer")
+    segments = document.getSegmentsList()
+    counts = [segment.getProcedureCount() for segment in segments]
+    total = sum(counts)
+    end = min(start + 64, total)
+    if start > total:
+        raise InvalidRequestError("Caller scan start exceeds the procedure inventory")
+    items = []
+    item_bytes = 0
+    page_limit = CALLER_SCAN_ALLOWANCE_BYTES
+    oversized = False
+    identities = {}
+    containing = {}
+
+    def identity(procedure):
+        entry = procedure.getEntryPoint()
+        if entry not in identities:
+            identities[entry] = _procedure_identity(procedure)
+        return identities[entry]
+
+    def owner(address):
+        if address not in containing:
+            procedure, _ = _containing_procedure(document, address)
+            containing[address] = identity(procedure) if procedure is not None else None
+        return containing[address]
+
+    segment_start = 0
+    for segment, count in zip(segments, counts):
+        begin, stop = max(start - segment_start, 0), min(end - segment_start, count)
+        segment_start += count
+        for index in range(begin, max(begin, stop)):
+            candidate = segment.getProcedureAtIndex(index)
+            item = {"caller": identity(candidate), "callees": [], "references": []}
+            size = len(json.dumps(item, ensure_ascii=True).encode("utf-8")) + 1
+            remaining = page_limit - item_bytes
+            too_large = size > remaining
+            if not too_large:
+                for callee in candidate.getAllCalleeProcedures():
+                    address = _hex(callee.getEntryPoint())
+                    size += len(address) + 4
+                    if size > remaining:
+                        too_large = True
+                        break
+                    item["callees"].append(address)
+            if not too_large:
+                callee_entries = set(item["callees"])
+                for source, destination, call in _iter_native_calls(candidate, "outgoing"):
+                    # Account for every native record, even when its target cannot
+                    # be associated with an observed procedure.
+                    size += 32
+                    if size > remaining:
+                        too_large = True
+                        break
+                    if destination is None:
+                        continue
+                    source_procedure = item["caller"] if _hex(source) == item["caller"]["address"] else owner(source)
+                    target_address = _hex(destination)
+                    if target_address in callee_entries:
+                        target_entry = target_address
+                    else:
+                        target_procedure = owner(destination)
+                        if target_procedure is None:
+                            continue
+                        target_entry = target_procedure["address"]
+                    edge = {
+                        "source_address": _hex(source), "target_address": _hex(destination),
+                        "source_procedure": "caller" if source_procedure is not None and source_procedure["address"] == item["caller"]["address"] else source_procedure,
+                        "target_procedure": target_entry,
+                        "call": call,
+                    }
+                    size += len(json.dumps(edge, ensure_ascii=True).encode("utf-8")) + 1
+                    if size > remaining:
+                        too_large = True
+                        break
+                    item["references"].append(edge)
+            if too_large:
+                oversized = not items
+                break
+            items.append(item)
+            item_bytes += size
+        else:
+            continue
+        break
+    return {"start": start, "next": start + len(items), "total": total, "items": items, "oversized": oversized}
+
+
 def _string_record(segment, address, display):
    """Read one native typed object, retaining its shortened display separately."""
    length = segment.getObjectLength(address)
@@ -887,6 +1034,15 @@ def _dispatch(method, params):
    if method in EXHAUSTIVE_ANALYSIS_METHODS:
        _api().require_analysis_complete(document, method)

+    if method == "rea_caller_scan_target":
+        return _caller_scan_target(document, params)
+
+    if method == "rea_caller_base":
+        return _caller_base(document, params)
+
+    if method == "rea_caller_scan_page":
+        return _caller_scan_page(document, params)
+
    if method == "analyze_function":
        return _analyze_function(document, params)
    if method == "read_function_instructions":
@@ -1243,7 +1399,8 @@ def _serve_connection(connection):
                break
    except (ConnectionError, OSError):
        # A lost client cannot confirm document closure or revoke this run.
-        pass
+        # Keep the listener available for the owner to confirm cleanup.
+        should_stop = False
    finally:
        try:
            file.close()
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ from mitmproxy import ctx, version
 from mitmproxy.io import tnetstring

 PROFILE = "12.2.3"
-OUTPUT_BYTES = 96 * 1024 * 1024
 CREDENTIALS = {b"authorization", b"proxy-authorization", b"cookie", b"set-cookie"}


@@ -204,7 +203,7 @@ def without_userinfo(value, base_scheme=None):
    raise CaptureFailure("decoder", "Normalized URL authority could not be bound to its source.")


-def project_record(state, secrets):
+def project_record(state, secrets, max_depth):
    binaries, numbers, redactions = [], [], []
    byte_secrets = []
    for secret in secrets:
@@ -251,8 +250,8 @@ def project_record(state, secrets):
        del redactions[before[2]:]

    def visit(value, path, depth=0, credential=False, transport_url=False, base_scheme=None):
-        if depth > 64:
-            raise CaptureFailure("input-limit", "Native capture exceeds the 64-level evidence nesting budget.", path)
+        if depth > max_depth:
+            raise CaptureFailure("input-limit", f"Native capture exceeds max_nesting_depth ({max_depth} levels).", path)
        if credential:
            validate_omitted(value, path, depth)
            redactions.append({"pointer": path, "reason": "transport-credential"})
@@ -337,12 +336,12 @@ def decode(request):
            except CaptureFailure:
                raise
            except RecursionError:
-                raise CaptureFailure("input-limit", "Native parser exceeded its recursion budget at byte offset " + str(start) + ".") from None
+                raise CaptureFailure("unsupported", "Native parser reached Python's recursion limit at byte offset " + str(start) + ". max_nesting_depth does not raise that upstream limit.") from None
            except (ValueError, IndexError, UnicodeError, EOFError):
                raise CaptureFailure("format", "Malformed native record at byte offset " + str(start) + ".") from None
            if not isinstance(state, dict):
                raise CaptureFailure("format", "Native flow record must be a dictionary at byte offset " + str(start) + ".")
-            records.append({"ordinal": len(records), "location": {"kind": "byte-range", "offset": start, "bytes": handle.tell() - start}, **project_record(state, request["sensitive_values"]), "limitations": ["Fields are original native states without FlowReader migration. Binary fields contain exact producer bytes; reported UTF-8 strings for those fields are derived display views. Unknown flow/version extensions are retained without interpretation."]})
+            records.append({"ordinal": len(records), "location": {"kind": "byte-range", "offset": start, "bytes": handle.tell() - start}, **project_record(state, request["sensitive_values"], request["budgets"]["depth"]), "limitations": ["Fields are original native states without FlowReader migration. Binary fields contain exact producer bytes; reported UTF-8 strings for those fields are derived display views. Unknown flow/version extensions are retained without interpretation."]})
    return {"decoder": {"id": "mitmproxy-native-tnetstring", "name": "REA offline native mitmproxy adapter", "version": PROFILE}, "container": {"reported": None, "numeric_literals": [], "redactions": [], "records_pointer": None}, "total_records": len(records), "records": records}


@@ -350,6 +349,8 @@ def failure_reply(error):
    """Keep producer constraints, resource exhaustion and adapter defects distinct."""
    if isinstance(error, CaptureFailure):
        return {"ok": False, "reason": error.reason, "message": str(error), "pointer": error.pointer}
+    if isinstance(error, RecursionError):
+        return {"ok": False, "reason": "unsupported", "message": "Native projection reached Python's recursion limit; max_nesting_depth does not raise that upstream limit.", "pointer": ""}
    if isinstance(error, MemoryError):
        return {"ok": False, "reason": "resource-limit", "message": "Native decoder exhausted its 768 MiB address-space budget.", "pointer": ""}
    return {"ok": False, "reason": "decoder", "message": "Offline native decoder failed unexpectedly: " + type(error).__name__ + ".", "pointer": ""}
@@ -362,9 +363,13 @@ class OfflineCapture:
    def running(self):
        resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_AS, (768 * 1024 * 1024, 768 * 1024 * 1024))
        resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CPU, (30, 30))
-        resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (OUTPUT_BYTES, OUTPUT_BYTES))
        resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CORE, (0, 0))
        request = json.loads(Path(ctx.options.rea_request_path).read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+        budgets = request["budgets"]
+        if any(type(budgets[key]) is not int or budgets[key] < 1 for key in ("inputBytes", "outputBytes", "depth")):
+            raise ValueError("Invalid admitted capture budgets")
+        output_bytes = budgets["outputBytes"]
+        resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (output_bytes, output_bytes))
        try:
            response = {"ok": True, "value": decode(request)}
        except Exception as error:
@@ -374,7 +379,7 @@ class OfflineCapture:
                output = json.dumps(response, ensure_ascii=True, allow_nan=False, separators=(",", ":")).encode("ascii")
            except Exception as error:
                output = json.dumps(failure_reply(error), separators=(",", ":")).encode("ascii")
-            if len(output) > OUTPUT_BYTES:
+            if len(output) > output_bytes:
                output = b'{"ok":false,"reason":"limit","message":"Native reply exceeds the complete-evidence output budget.","pointer":""}'
            Path(request["reply_path"]).write_bytes(output)
        finally:
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def location(value, scheme=None):
    state = {"response": {"headers": [[b"Location", value]]}}
    if scheme is not None:
        state["request"] = {"scheme": scheme}
-    record = capture.project_record(state, [])
+    record = capture.project_record(state, [], 64)
    sidecar = next(
        field for field in record["binary_fields"] if field["pointer"] == "/response/headers/0/1"
    )
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ class TransportUserinfoTests(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_native_request_paths_preserve_origin_form_and_redact_absolute_form(self):
        for value in [b"/\\invoice@customer", b"//invoice@customer", b"\\\\invoice@customer"]:
            with self.subTest(value=value):
-                record = capture.project_record({"request": {"path": value}}, [])
+                record = capture.project_record({"request": {"path": value}}, [], 64)
                self.assertEqual(record["reported"]["request"]["path"], value.decode("ascii"))
                self.assertEqual(record["binary_fields"][0]["state"], "retained")
                self.assertEqual(record["redactions"], [])
-        record = capture.project_record({"request": {"path": b"https://user:pass@host/x"}}, [])
+        record = capture.project_record({"request": {"path": b"https://user:pass@host/x"}}, [], 64)
        self.assertEqual(record["reported"]["request"]["path"], "https://host/x")
        self.assertEqual(record["binary_fields"][0]["state"], "redacted")

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class TransportUserinfoTests(unittest.TestCase):
                "request": {"scheme": b"https"},
                "response": {"headers": [[b"Location", b"https:invoice@customer"]]},
            },
-        }, [])
+        }, [], 64)
        self.assertEqual(record["reported"]["backup"]["response"]["headers"][0][1], "https:invoice@customer")
        self.assertEqual(record["redactions"], [])

@@ -24,3 +24,16 @@ func captureAccessibilityValue(_ source: Any?) -> AccessibilityValue {
  }
  return AccessibilityValue(value: NSNull(), gap: "AXValue type \(type(of: source)) is not a supported JSON scalar")
 }
+
+/** Keep an unavailable action list distinct from a successful empty list. */
+func captureActionNames(status: Int32, success: Int32, names: [String]?) -> (names: [String], error: Int32?) {
+  guard status == success else { return ([], status) }
+  return (names ?? [], nil)
+}
+
+/** AX absence is distinct from a failed attribute read. */
+func captureAttributeValue<Value>(status: Int32, success: Int32, absent: [Int32], value: Value?) -> (value: Value?, error: Int32?) {
+  if status == success { return (value, nil) }
+  if absent.contains(status) { return (nil, nil) }
+  return (nil, status)
+}
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ struct Request: Decodable {
 struct Action: Decodable { var kind: String; var path: [Int]?; var direction: String?; var text: String? }
 struct BoundaryFailure: Error { var code: String; var message: String }
 func fail(_ code: String, _ message: String) throws -> Never { throw BoundaryFailure(code: code, message: message) }
-func attribute(_ element: AXUIElement, _ key: String) -> CFTypeRef? {
+func attribute(_ element: AXUIElement, _ key: String) -> (value: CFTypeRef?, error: Int32?) {
  var value: CFTypeRef?
-  return AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(element, key as CFString, &value) == .success ? value : nil
+  let status = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(element, key as CFString, &value)
+  return captureAttributeValue(status: status.rawValue, success: AXError.success.rawValue, absent: [AXError.noValue.rawValue, AXError.attributeUnsupported.rawValue], value: value)
 }
 func childCount(_ element: AXUIElement) -> ChildCount {
  var count = 0
@@ -34,13 +35,15 @@ func children(_ element: AXUIElement, count: Int) -> ChildBatch<AXUIElement> {
    return value as? [AXUIElement]
  }
 }
-func text(_ element: AXUIElement, _ key: String) -> Any { (attribute(element, key) as? String) ?? NSNull() as Any }
-func windowBounds(_ element: AXUIElement) -> CGRect? {
-  guard let p = attribute(element, kAXPositionAttribute), let s = attribute(element, kAXSizeAttribute),
-    CFGetTypeID(p) == AXValueGetTypeID(), CFGetTypeID(s) == AXValueGetTypeID() else { return nil }
-  var point = CGPoint.zero; var size = CGSize.zero
-  guard AXValueGetValue(p as! AXValue, .cgPoint, &point), AXValueGetValue(s as! AXValue, .cgSize, &size) else { return nil }
-  return CGRect(origin: point, size: size)
+func windowBounds(_ element: AXUIElement) -> (bounds: CGRect?, error: Int32?) {
+  let position = attribute(element, kAXPositionAttribute)
+  let size = attribute(element, kAXSizeAttribute)
+  if let error = position.error ?? size.error { return (nil, error) }
+  guard let p = position.value, let s = size.value,
+    CFGetTypeID(p) == AXValueGetTypeID(), CFGetTypeID(s) == AXValueGetTypeID() else { return (nil, nil) }
+  var point = CGPoint.zero; var dimensions = CGSize.zero
+  guard AXValueGetValue(p as! AXValue, .cgPoint, &point), AXValueGetValue(s as! AXValue, .cgSize, &dimensions) else { return (nil, nil) }
+  return (CGRect(origin: point, size: dimensions), nil)
 }
 func observe(_ request: Request) async throws -> [String: Any] {
  guard let app = NSRunningApplication(processIdentifier: request.pid) else {
@@ -65,7 +68,10 @@ func observe(_ request: Request) async throws -> [String: Any] {
  guard SHA256.hash(data: executableBytes).map({ String(format: "%02x", $0) }).joined() == request.sha256 else {
    try fail("target-mismatch", "Running executable bytes differ from the active target digest")
  }
-  guard let windows = CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo([.optionIncludingWindow], request.window_id) as? [[String: Any]],
+  // .optionIncludingWindow omits a selected window while it is off screen, which
+  // is not absence: select from every window, and let capture report what it can.
+  guard let windows = (CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo([.optionAll], kCGNullWindowID) as? [[String: Any]])?
+    .filter({ ($0[kCGWindowNumber as String] as? NSNumber)?.uint32Value == request.window_id }),
    windows.count == 1, let window = windows.first,
    (window[kCGWindowOwnerPID as String] as? NSNumber)?.int32Value == request.pid,
    (window[kCGWindowLayer as String] as? NSNumber)?.intValue == 0,
@@ -81,11 +87,22 @@ func observe(_ request: Request) async throws -> [String: Any] {
    guard AXIsProcessTrusted() else { try fail("accessibility-denied", "Grant Accessibility to the REA host in System Settings > Privacy & Security, then retry") }
    let application = AXUIElementCreateApplication(request.pid)
    AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(application, 2)
-    guard let axWindows = attribute(application, kAXWindowsAttribute) as? [AXUIElement] else {
-      try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Selected application does not expose accessibility windows")
+    let windowsAttribute = attribute(application, kAXWindowsAttribute)
+    if let error = windowsAttribute.error {
+      try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Cannot read accessibility windows: AXError \(error)")
    }
-    let matches = axWindows.filter { windowBounds($0) == bounds }
-    guard matches.count == 1 else { try fail("ambiguous-window", "Accessibility window geometry does not identify exactly one selected window; selected CG bounds \(bounds), AX candidates \(axWindows.map { String(describing: windowBounds($0)) })") }
+    guard let axWindows = windowsAttribute.value as? [AXUIElement] else {
+      try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Accessibility windows are unavailable for the selected application")
+    }
+    let candidates = axWindows.map { (element: $0, observation: windowBounds($0)) }
+    if let error = candidates.compactMap({ $0.observation.error }).first {
+      try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Cannot read accessibility window geometry: AXError \(error)")
+    }
+    guard candidates.allSatisfy({ $0.observation.bounds != nil }) else {
+      try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Accessibility window geometry is unavailable; the selected window cannot be identified")
+    }
+    let matches = candidates.filter { $0.observation.bounds == bounds }.map { $0.element }
+    guard matches.count == 1 else { try fail("ambiguous-window", "Accessibility window geometry does not identify exactly one selected window; selected CG bounds \(bounds), AX candidates \(candidates.map { String(describing: $0.observation.bounds) })") }
    selected = matches[0]
  }
  if let action = request.action, let root = selected {
@@ -96,13 +113,16 @@ func observe(_ request: Request) async throws -> [String: Any] {
      guard let available = count.value else {
        try fail("element-count-unavailable", "Cannot validate selected accessibility path because child count failed with AXError \(count.error ?? -1)")
      }
-      guard index >= 0 && index < available,
-        AXUIElementCopyAttributeValues(element, kAXChildrenAttribute as CFString, index, 1, &selectedChild) == .success,
-        let item = (selectedChild as? [AXUIElement])?.first else { try fail("element-missing", "Selected accessibility path no longer exists") }
+      guard index >= 0 && index < available else { try fail("element-missing", "Selected accessibility path no longer exists") }
+      let childStatus = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValues(element, kAXChildrenAttribute as CFString, index, 1, &selectedChild)
+      guard childStatus == .success else { try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Cannot read selected accessibility child: AXError \(childStatus.rawValue)") }
+      guard let item = (selectedChild as? [AXUIElement])?.first else { try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Selected accessibility child was not returned") }
      element = item
    }
    var owner: pid_t = 0
-    guard AXUIElementGetPid(element, &owner) == .success && owner == request.pid else { try fail("element-owner-mismatch", "Selected element belongs to another process") }
+    let ownerStatus = AXUIElementGetPid(element, &owner)
+    guard ownerStatus == .success else { try fail("accessibility-unavailable", "Cannot identify accessibility element owner: AXError \(ownerStatus.rawValue)") }
+    guard owner == request.pid else { try fail("element-owner-mismatch", "Selected element belongs to another process") }
    let outcome: AXError
    switch action.kind {
    case "click": outcome = AXUIElementPerformAction(element, kAXPressAction as CFString)
@@ -119,10 +139,18 @@ func observe(_ request: Request) async throws -> [String: Any] {
      if nodes.count >= request.max_nodes { truncated = true; break }
      let childCountResult = childCount(element)
      var actions: CFArray?
-      AXUIElementCopyActionNames(element, &actions)
-      let observedValue = captureAccessibilityValue(attribute(element, kAXValueAttribute))
+      let actionStatus = AXUIElementCopyActionNames(element, &actions)
+      let observedActions = captureActionNames(status: actionStatus.rawValue, success: AXError.success.rawValue, names: actions as? [String])
+      if let error = observedActions.error { gaps.append("AX actions unavailable at path \(path): AXError \(error)"); truncated = true }
+      let role = attribute(element, kAXRoleAttribute)
+      let title = attribute(element, kAXTitleAttribute)
+      let value = attribute(element, kAXValueAttribute)
+      for (name, error) in [("role", role.error), ("title", title.error), ("value", value.error)] {
+        if let error { gaps.append("AX \(name) unavailable at path \(path): AXError \(error)"); truncated = true }
+      }
+      let observedValue = captureAccessibilityValue(value.value)
      if let gap = observedValue.gap { gaps.append("\(gap) at path \(path)"); truncated = true }
-      nodes.append(["path": path, "role": text(element, kAXRoleAttribute), "title": text(element, kAXTitleAttribute), "value": observedValue.value, "actions": actions as? [String] ?? [], "children_count": childCountResult.value.map { $0 as Any } ?? NSNull()])
+      nodes.append(["path": path, "role": (role.value as? String) ?? NSNull() as Any, "title": (title.value as? String) ?? NSNull() as Any, "value": observedValue.value, "actions": observedActions.names, "children_count": childCountResult.value.map { $0 as Any } ?? NSNull()])
      guard let totalChildren = childCountResult.value else {
        truncated = true
        gaps.append("AX child count unavailable at path \(path): AXError \(childCountResult.error ?? -1)")
@@ -25,25 +25,17 @@ ARGUMENT_REGISTERS = {
    "x86_64": ["rdi", "rsi", "rdx", "rcx", "r8", "r9"],
    "x86_64h": ["rdi", "rsi", "rdx", "rcx", "r8", "r9"],
 }
-MAX_SELECTOR_BYTES = 1024
-MAX_REPORTED_LOCATIONS = 64
-MAX_OTHER_STOPS = 256
-MAX_TRACE_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024
-MAX_TRACE_FRAMES = 65_536
-MAX_OBSERVATION_JOURNAL_BYTES = MAX_TRACE_BYTES
-MAX_BREAKPOINT_LOCATION_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024
-MAX_TARGET_OUTPUT_BYTES = 1024 * 1024
 OUTPUT_DRAIN_BYTES_PER_PASS = 1024 * 1024
 OUTPUT_EOF_WAIT_SECONDS = 1.0
 OUTPUT_READER_JOIN_SECONDS = 0.5
 LISTENER_NAME = "rea-native-call-observation"


-def _can_retain_trace(current_bytes, current_frames, event_bytes, event_frames):
+def _can_retain_trace(current_bytes, current_frames, event_bytes, event_frames, limits):
    """Whether a complete event fits both aggregate trace budgets."""
    return (
-        current_bytes + event_bytes <= MAX_TRACE_BYTES
-        and current_frames + event_frames <= MAX_TRACE_FRAMES
+        current_bytes + event_bytes <= limits["trace_bytes"]
+        and current_frames + event_frames <= limits["trace_frames"]
    )


@@ -72,7 +64,7 @@ def _fits_trace_budget(value, remaining_bytes):
 class _ObservationJournal:
    """Flush a bounded JSONL prefix so observations survive tracer failure."""

-    def __init__(self, handle, max_bytes=MAX_OBSERVATION_JOURNAL_BYTES):
+    def __init__(self, handle, max_bytes):
        self.handle = handle
        self.max_bytes = max_bytes
        self.bytes = 0
@@ -244,6 +236,20 @@ def _hex(value):
    return "0x%x" % value


+def _source_location(address):
+    """Preserve available line-entry facets without acquiring source files."""
+    entry = address.GetLineEntry()
+    if not entry.IsValid():
+        return None
+    file_spec = entry.GetFileSpec()
+    file_path = str(file_spec) if file_spec.IsValid() else None
+    line = entry.GetLine() or None
+    column = entry.GetColumn() or None
+    if not file_path and line is None and column is None:
+        return None
+    return {"file_path": file_path or None, "line": line, "column": column}
+
+
 def _location(address, target):
    """Load and file address, module and symbol of one code address."""
    module = address.GetModule()
@@ -257,6 +263,7 @@ def _location(address, target):
        "module": module.GetFileSpec().GetFilename() if module.IsValid() else None,
        "module_path": str(module.GetFileSpec()) if module.IsValid() else None,
        "symbol": symbol.GetName() if symbol.IsValid() else None,
+        "source_location": _source_location(address),
    }
    return location

@@ -357,7 +364,7 @@ def _record(context, thread, frame, index, sequence, location, remaining_bytes):
        error = lldb.SBError()
        text = process.ReadCStringFromMemory(
            values[names[1]],
-            MAX_SELECTOR_BYTES,
+            config["capture_limits"]["selector_bytes"],
            error,
        )
        selector = text if error.Success() and text else None
@@ -390,10 +397,16 @@ def _record(context, thread, frame, index, sequence, location, remaining_bytes):
 _TRACE_CONTEXT = None


+def _resource_limit(context, limit):
+    context["resource_limit"] = limit
+    return "resource-limit"
+
+
 def _handle_breakpoint(context, frame, index):
    """Read one hit while LLDB's breakpoint callback owns the stopped frame."""
    if not frame.IsValid() or frame.GetPC() == lldb.LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS:
        raise RuntimeError("LLDB breakpoint callback did not supply a readable frame")
+    limits = context["config"]["capture_limits"]
    thread = frame.GetThread()
    events = context["events"]
    location = _location(frame.GetPCAddress(), context["target"])
@@ -410,49 +423,50 @@ def _handle_breakpoint(context, frame, index):
        context["retained_frames"],
        0,
        event_frame_count,
+        limits,
    ):
-        return "resource-limit"
+        return _resource_limit(context, "trace_frames")
    try:
-        remaining_bytes = MAX_TRACE_BYTES - context["retained_trace_bytes"]
+        remaining_bytes = limits["trace_bytes"] - context["retained_trace_bytes"]
        record = _record(
            context, thread, frame, index, len(events), location, remaining_bytes
        )
    except ValueError:
-        return "resource-limit"
+        return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
    if record is not None:
        if not _fits_trace_budget(record, remaining_bytes):
-            return "resource-limit"
+            return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
        record_bytes = len(json.dumps(record).encode("utf-8"))
-        if context["retained_trace_bytes"] + record_bytes > MAX_TRACE_BYTES:
-            return "resource-limit"
+        if context["retained_trace_bytes"] + record_bytes > limits["trace_bytes"]:
+            return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
        for depth in range(1, frame_count + 1):
            try:
                location = _location(
                    thread.GetFrameAtIndex(depth).GetPCAddress(), context["target"]
                )
            except ValueError:
-                return "resource-limit"
+                return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
            if (
                _estimated_json_size(location) + record_bytes + 1
-                > MAX_TRACE_BYTES - context["retained_trace_bytes"]
+                > limits["trace_bytes"] - context["retained_trace_bytes"]
            ):
-                return "resource-limit"
+                return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
            location_bytes = len(json.dumps(location).encode("utf-8"))
            addition = location_bytes + (1 if record["backtrace"] else 0)
            if (
                context["retained_trace_bytes"]
                + record_bytes
                + addition
-                > MAX_TRACE_BYTES
+                > limits["trace_bytes"]
            ):
-                return "resource-limit"
+                return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
            record["backtrace"].append(location)
            record_bytes += addition
        journal = context.get("observation_journal")
        if journal is not None and not journal.append(
            {"kind": "event", "event": record}
        ):
-            return "resource-limit"
+            return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
        events.append(record)
        context["retained_frames"] += event_frame_count
        context["retained_trace_bytes"] += record_bytes
@@ -484,9 +498,9 @@ def _handle_stop(context, other_stops):
            if journal is not None and not journal.append(
                {"kind": "other-stop", "reason": stop_description}
            ):
-                return "resource-limit"
+                return _resource_limit(context, "trace_bytes")
            other_stops.append(stop_description)
-            if len(other_stops) >= MAX_OTHER_STOPS:
+            if len(other_stops) >= context["config"]["capture_limits"]["other_stops"]:
                return "stop-limit"
    return None

@@ -505,20 +519,19 @@ def _breakpoint_report(target, created, config):
                if not _wanted(config["breakpoints"][index], location["symbol"] or ""):
                    continue
                count += 1
-                if len(locations) < MAX_REPORTED_LOCATIONS:
-                    remaining_bytes = (
-                        MAX_BREAKPOINT_LOCATION_BYTES - retained_location_bytes
-                    )
-                    if not _fits_trace_budget(location, remaining_bytes):
-                        locations_truncated = True
-                        continue
-                    location_bytes = len(json.dumps(location).encode("utf-8"))
-                    addition = location_bytes + (1 if locations else 0)
-                    if addition > remaining_bytes:
-                        locations_truncated = True
-                        continue
-                    locations.append(location)
-                    retained_location_bytes += addition
+                remaining_bytes = (
+                    config["capture_limits"]["breakpoint_location_bytes"] - retained_location_bytes
+                )
+                if not _fits_trace_budget(location, remaining_bytes):
+                    locations_truncated = True
+                    continue
+                location_bytes = len(json.dumps(location).encode("utf-8"))
+                addition = location_bytes + (1 if locations else 0)
+                if addition > remaining_bytes:
+                    locations_truncated = True
+                    continue
+                locations.append(location)
+                retained_location_bytes += addition
        report.append({"index": index, "location_count": count, "locations": locations})
    return report, locations_truncated

@@ -638,7 +651,7 @@ def trace(debugger, config):
        for breakpoint in breakpoints:
            breakpoint_index[breakpoint.GetID()] = index
    listener = lldb.SBListener(LISTENER_NAME)
-    output_budget = config.get("max_output_bytes", MAX_TARGET_OUTPUT_BYTES)
+    output_budget = config["capture_limits"]["output_bytes"]
    stdout = _OutputPipe(
        config["stdout_path"], config["stdout_capture_path"], output_budget
    )
@@ -658,7 +671,8 @@ def trace(debugger, config):
        observation_path = config.get("observation_path")
        if observation_path:
            observation_journal = _ObservationJournal(
-                open(observation_path, "wb")
+                open(observation_path, "wb"),
+                config["capture_limits"]["trace_bytes"],
            )
        process = target.Launch(_launch_info(target, config, listener), error)
        process_created = process.IsValid()
@@ -849,6 +863,7 @@ def trace(debugger, config):
            "breakpoint_locations_truncated": breakpoint_locations_truncated,
            "events": events,
            "resource_limit_reached": outcome == "resource-limit",
+            "resource_limit": context.get("resource_limit"),
            "target_output": {
                "stdout_bytes": stdout.bytes,
                "stderr_bytes": stderr.bytes,
@@ -25,6 +25,45 @@ spec.loader.exec_module(tracer)


 class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_source_coordinates_preserve_partial_metadata_without_reading_source(self):
+        def address(valid=True, file_valid=True, line=23, column=7):
+            class SourceFileSpec:
+                def IsValid(self):
+                    return file_valid
+
+                def __str__(self):
+                    return "/missing/é space/fixture.pas"
+
+            file_spec = SourceFileSpec()
+            entry = types.SimpleNamespace(
+                IsValid=lambda: valid,
+                GetFileSpec=lambda: file_spec,
+                GetLine=lambda: line,
+                GetColumn=lambda: column,
+            )
+            return types.SimpleNamespace(GetLineEntry=lambda: entry)
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            tracer._source_location(address()),
+            {"file_path": "/missing/é space/fixture.pas", "line": 23, "column": 7},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            tracer._source_location(address(column=0)),
+            {"file_path": "/missing/é space/fixture.pas", "line": 23, "column": None},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            tracer._source_location(address(file_valid=False)),
+            {"file_path": None, "line": 23, "column": 7},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            tracer._source_location(address(line=0)),
+            {"file_path": "/missing/é space/fixture.pas", "line": None, "column": 7},
+        )
+        self.assertIsNone(tracer._source_location(address(valid=False)))
+        self.assertIsNone(
+            tracer._source_location(address(file_valid=False, line=0, column=0))
+        )
+
    def test_invalid_launch_process_reports_explicit_no_creation(self):
        class InvalidProcess:
            def IsValid(self):
@@ -82,6 +121,7 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
            result = tracer.trace(Debugger(), {
                "executable": "fixture", "architecture": "arm64", "expected_sha256": "expected",
                "breakpoints": [], "working_directory": "fixture/absent",
+                "capture_limits": {"output_bytes": 1024},
                "stdout_path": "stdout", "stdout_capture_path": "stdout-capture",
                "stderr_path": "stderr", "stderr_capture_path": "stderr-capture",
            })
@@ -281,37 +321,44 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
                return super().flush()

        stream = CountingStream()
-        journal = tracer._ObservationJournal(stream)
+        journal = tracer._ObservationJournal(stream, max_bytes=4096)
        journal.append({"kind": "event", "event": {"sequence": 0}})
        journal.append({"kind": "other-stop", "reason": "signal"})
        self.assertEqual((stream.writes, stream.flushes), (2, 2))
        self.assertEqual(journal.bytes, len(stream.getvalue()))

-    def test_aggregate_trace_budget_admits_exact_boundary_and_rejects_next_record(self):
-        self.assertTrue(
-            tracer._can_retain_trace(
-                tracer.MAX_TRACE_BYTES - 10,
-                tracer.MAX_TRACE_FRAMES - 2,
-                10,
-                2,
-            )
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(
-            tracer._can_retain_trace(
-                tracer.MAX_TRACE_BYTES - 10,
-                tracer.MAX_TRACE_FRAMES - 2,
-                11,
-                2,
-            )
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(
-            tracer._can_retain_trace(
-                tracer.MAX_TRACE_BYTES - 10,
-                tracer.MAX_TRACE_FRAMES - 2,
-                10,
-                3,
-            )
+    def test_aggregate_trace_budget_uses_the_selected_admission(self):
+        limits = {"trace_bytes": 100, "trace_frames": 10}
+        self.assertTrue(tracer._can_retain_trace(90, 8, 10, 2, limits))
+        self.assertFalse(tracer._can_retain_trace(90, 8, 11, 2, limits))
+        self.assertFalse(tracer._can_retain_trace(90, 8, 10, 3, limits))
+        raised = {"trace_bytes": 101, "trace_frames": 11}
+        self.assertTrue(tracer._can_retain_trace(90, 8, 11, 3, raised))
+
+    def test_breakpoint_reports_exact_exhausted_budget_and_accepts_more_room(self):
+        frame = types.SimpleNamespace(
+            IsValid=lambda: True, GetPC=lambda: 1,
+            GetThread=lambda: types.SimpleNamespace(GetNumFrames=lambda: 1),
+            GetPCAddress=lambda: object(),
        )
+        context = {
+            "target": object(), "events": [], "retained_frames": 1,
+            "retained_trace_bytes": 0,
+            "config": {"breakpoints": [{}], "backtrace_frames": 0, "max_events": 10,
+                       "capture_limits": {"trace_bytes": 4096, "trace_frames": 1}},
+        }
+        with patch.object(tracer, "_location", return_value={"symbol": "main"}), patch.object(
+            tracer, "_wanted", return_value=True
+        ), patch.object(tracer, "_record", return_value={"backtrace": []}):
+            self.assertEqual(tracer._handle_breakpoint(context, frame, 0), "resource-limit")
+            self.assertEqual(context["resource_limit"], "trace_frames")
+            context["config"]["capture_limits"] = {"trace_bytes": 8, "trace_frames": 2}
+            self.assertEqual(tracer._handle_breakpoint(context, frame, 0), "resource-limit")
+            self.assertEqual(context["resource_limit"], "trace_bytes")
+            self.assertEqual(context["events"], [])
+            context["config"]["capture_limits"]["trace_bytes"] = 4096
+            self.assertIsNone(tracer._handle_breakpoint(context, frame, 0))
+            self.assertEqual(context["events"], [{"backtrace": []}])

    def test_oversized_producer_string_is_rejected_before_serialization(self):
        self.assertTrue(tracer._fits_trace_budget("method", 1024))
@@ -390,6 +437,9 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
                return FileSpec()

        class Address:
+            def GetLineEntry(self):
+                return types.SimpleNamespace(IsValid=lambda: False)
+
            def GetModule(self):
                return Module()

@@ -417,6 +467,7 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
            object(),
            [[Breakpoint()]],
            {
+                "capture_limits": {"breakpoint_location_bytes": 4096},
                "breakpoints": [
                    {
                        "kind": "objc-method",
@@ -430,6 +481,34 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
        self.assertEqual(report[0]["locations"], [])
        self.assertFalse(locations_truncated)

+    def test_breakpoint_report_keeps_all_locations_under_aggregate_budget(self):
+        class Location:
+            def __init__(self, index):
+                self.index = index
+
+            def GetAddress(self):
+                return self.index
+
+        class Breakpoint:
+            def GetNumLocations(self):
+                return 65
+
+            def GetLocationAtIndex(self, index):
+                return Location(index)
+
+        with patch.object(
+            tracer,
+            "_location",
+            side_effect=lambda address, _target: {"address": address, "symbol": None},
+        ), patch.object(tracer, "_wanted", return_value=True):
+            report, locations_truncated = tracer._breakpoint_report(
+                object(), [[Breakpoint()]], {"breakpoints": [{}], "capture_limits": {"breakpoint_location_bytes": 4096}}
+            )
+
+        self.assertEqual(report[0]["location_count"], 65)
+        self.assertEqual(len(report[0]["locations"]), 65)
+        self.assertFalse(locations_truncated)
+
    def test_breakpoint_report_bounds_aggregate_location_json(self):
        tracer.lldb.LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS = -1
        symbol_name = (
@@ -463,7 +542,24 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
            def GetFileSpec(self):
                return FileSpec()

+        class SourceFileSpec:
+            def IsValid(self):
+                return True
+
+            def __str__(self):
+                return source_path
+
        class Address:
+            def GetLineEntry(self):
+                if source_path is None:
+                    return types.SimpleNamespace(IsValid=lambda: False)
+                return types.SimpleNamespace(
+                    IsValid=lambda: True,
+                    GetFileSpec=SourceFileSpec,
+                    GetLine=lambda: 15,
+                    GetColumn=lambda: 3,
+                )
+
            def GetModule(self):
                return Module()

@@ -487,22 +583,39 @@ class NativeTraceBudgetTests(unittest.TestCase):
            def GetLocationAtIndex(self, index):
                return Location()

-        breakpoint_count = 1000
+        breakpoint_count = 30
        created = [[Breakpoint()] for _ in range(breakpoint_count)]
-        config = {"breakpoints": [{"kind": "objc-method"}] * breakpoint_count}
-        report, locations_truncated = tracer._breakpoint_report(
-            object(), created, config
-        )
-        retained_bytes = sum(
-            len(json.dumps(location).encode("utf-8"))
-            + (1 if index > 0 else 0)
-            for row in report
-            for index, location in enumerate(row["locations"])
-        )
-        self.assertTrue(locations_truncated)
-        self.assertEqual(sum(row["location_count"] for row in report), 64_000)
-        self.assertLess(sum(len(row["locations"]) for row in report), 64_000)
-        self.assertLessEqual(retained_bytes, tracer.MAX_BREAKPOINT_LOCATION_BYTES)
+        config = {"breakpoints": [{"kind": "objc-method"}] * breakpoint_count,
+                  "capture_limits": {"breakpoint_location_bytes": 512 * 1024}}
+        for source_path in (None, "/tmp/" + "源🚀" * 3000 + "/calls.pas"):
+            with self.subTest(source_path_present=source_path is not None):
+                report, locations_truncated = tracer._breakpoint_report(
+                    object(), created, config
+                )
+                retained_bytes = sum(
+                    len(json.dumps(location).encode("utf-8"))
+                    + (1 if index > 0 else 0)
+                    for row in report
+                    for index, location in enumerate(row["locations"])
+                )
+                self.assertTrue(locations_truncated)
+                self.assertEqual(
+                    sum(row["location_count"] for row in report), 1920
+                )
+                self.assertLess(
+                    sum(len(row["locations"]) for row in report), 1920
+                )
+                self.assertLessEqual(
+                    retained_bytes, 512 * 1024
+                )
+                if source_path is not None:
+                    self.assertTrue(
+                        any(
+                            location["source_location"]["file_path"] == source_path
+                            for row in report
+                            for location in row["locations"]
+                        )
+                    )


 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -78,14 +78,9 @@ public final class NativeAotExtension {
                new FrozenObjectAnnotator(program, manager).analyze(located.directory(), scan.getPointerLocations(), monitor, log);
            }
            monitor.checkCancelled();
-            report.addProperty("method_tables", manager.getMethodTableCount());
            JsonObject coverage = auditFrozenObjects(program, scan.getPointerLocations(), monitor);
-            report.add("coverage", coverage);
            if (coverage.get("frozen_objects_annotated").getAsInt() != coverage.get("frozen_object_candidates").getAsInt())
                diagnostics.add("Some frozen-object candidates lack committed instance annotations; inspect coverage counts and Ghidra diagnostics.");
-            report.addProperty("status", diagnostics.isEmpty() ? "complete" : "partial");
-            report.add("reason", JsonNull.INSTANCE);
-            report.add("derived_memory", derivedRange.deepCopy());
            JsonArray tables = new JsonArray();
            for (var mt : manager.getMethodTables()) {
                monitor.checkCancelled();
@@ -94,6 +89,13 @@ public final class NativeAotExtension {
                identity.addProperty("type", mt.getMTType().getPathName());
                tables.add(identity);
            }
+            // Publish recovery facts only after every fallible recovery and audit step.
+            // A failed transaction is rolled back, so it cannot report committed metadata.
+            report.addProperty("method_tables", manager.getMethodTableCount());
+            report.add("coverage", coverage);
+            report.addProperty("status", diagnostics.isEmpty() ? "complete" : "partial");
+            report.add("reason", JsonNull.INSTANCE);
+            report.add("derived_memory", derivedRange.deepCopy());
            report.add("types", tables);
            commit = true;
            return finish(log);
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ struct ProcessIdentityObservation: Encodable {
  let effective_uid: UInt32?
  let lifecycle: String?
  let relation: ProcessRelationObservation?
+  /** Display-only kernel accounting name (p_comm, at most MAXCOMLEN bytes). */
+  let name: String?
  let reason: String?
 }

@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@ struct ProcessMetadata {
  let parentPid: Int32
  let processGroupId: Int32
  let pointerSize: Int
+  let name: String
 }

 struct ProcessSnapshot {
@@ -92,7 +95,8 @@ func readProcessSnapshot(
            lifecycle: process.kp_proc.p_stat == SZOMB ? "zombie" : "non-zombie",
            parentPid: process.kp_eproc.e_ppid,
            processGroupId: process.kp_eproc.e_pgid,
-            pointerSize: process.kp_proc.p_flag & P_LP64 != 0 ? 8 : 4
+            pointerSize: process.kp_proc.p_flag & P_LP64 != 0 ? 8 : 4,
+            name: processName(process)
          )
        )
      },
@@ -103,6 +107,13 @@ func readProcessSnapshot(
  return ProcessSnapshot(metadata: [:], failure: "process_table_failed_\(ENOMEM)")
 }

+/** Decode the NUL-terminated accounting name; invalid UTF-8 is replaced for display. */
+private func processName(_ process: kinfo_proc) -> String {
+  withUnsafeBytes(of: process.kp_proc.p_comm) { bytes in
+    String(decoding: bytes.prefix { $0 != 0 }, as: UTF8.self)
+  }
+}
+
 func readProcessIdentities(pids: [Int32]) -> [ProcessIdentityObservation] {
  readProcessIdentities(pids: pids, snapshot: readProcessSnapshot())
 }
@@ -130,6 +141,7 @@ func readProcessIdentities(
        effective_uid: nil,
        lifecycle: nil,
        relation: nil,
+        name: nil,
        reason: "not-in-snapshot"
      )
    }
@@ -144,6 +156,7 @@ func readProcessIdentities(
        parent_pid: metadata.parentPid,
        process_group_id: metadata.processGroupId
      ),
+      name: metadata.name,
      reason: nil
    )
  }
@@ -157,12 +170,25 @@ private func unavailableIdentity(pid: Int32, reason: String) -> ProcessIdentityO
    effective_uid: nil,
    lifecycle: nil,
    relation: nil,
+    name: nil,
    reason: reason
  )
 }

+enum ProcargsMalformedStage: String, CaseIterable {
+  case header
+  case argumentCount = "argument_count"
+  case executablePath = "executable_path"
+  case pointerSize = "pointer_size"
+  case pathPadding = "path_padding"
+  case arguments
+  case terminator
+  case trailingEntries = "trailing_entries"
+}
+
 enum RunTokenReadError: Error {
  case invalidBuffer
+  case invalidBufferAt(ProcargsMalformedStage)
  case duplicateToken
  case invalidTokenEncoding
  case environmentUnavailable
@@ -202,6 +228,22 @@ func processRunTokenObservation(
  parse: Result<ParsedRunToken, RunTokenReadError>,
  codeSigningFlags: () -> UInt32?
 ) -> RunTokenObservation {
+  // Native inspection restrictions apply even when argv is incomplete or
+  // overwritten, before parsing reaches the environment. Keep this fact at
+  // the native boundary; cleanup still decides whether the process is related.
+  func withheldEnvironment() -> RunTokenObservation? {
+    guard let flags = codeSigningFlags() else { return nil }
+    if (flags & csPlatformBinary) != 0 {
+      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "platform_binary_environment_withheld")
+    }
+    if (flags & csRestrict) != 0 {
+      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "restricted_process_environment_withheld")
+    }
+    return nil
+  }
+  func unavailableEnvironment(_ reason: String) -> RunTokenObservation {
+    withheldEnvironment() ?? unavailable(pid: pid, reason: reason)
+  }
  switch parse {
  case .success(let parsed):
    if let runId = parsed.runId {
@@ -212,38 +254,25 @@ func processRunTokenObservation(
    if parsed.environmentEntryCount > 0 {
      return RunTokenObservation(pid: pid, state: "readable", run_id: nil, reason: nil)
    }
-    let flags = codeSigningFlags()
-    if let flags, (flags & csPlatformBinary) != 0 {
-      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "platform_binary_environment_withheld")
-    }
-    if let flags, (flags & csRestrict) != 0 {
-      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "restricted_process_environment_withheld")
-    }
+    if let withheld = withheldEnvironment() { return withheld }
    return RunTokenObservation(pid: pid, state: "readable", run_id: nil, reason: nil)
  case .failure(let failure):
    switch failure {
    case .environmentUnavailable:
-      let flags = codeSigningFlags()
-      if let flags, (flags & csPlatformBinary) != 0 {
-        return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "platform_binary_environment_withheld")
-      }
-      if let flags, (flags & csRestrict) != 0 {
-        return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "restricted_process_environment_withheld")
-      }
-      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "environment_unavailable")
+      return unavailableEnvironment("environment_unavailable")
    case .ambiguousEnvironmentBoundary:
-      if let flags = codeSigningFlags(), (flags & csRestrict) != 0 {
-        return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "restricted_process_environment_withheld")
-      }
-      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "ambiguous_environment_boundary")
+      return unavailableEnvironment("ambiguous_environment_boundary")
+    // These failures already establish that token bytes were available.
    case .duplicateToken:
      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "duplicate_run_token")
    case .invalidTokenEncoding:
      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "invalid_run_token_encoding")
    case .appleVectorUnavailable:
-      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "apple_vector_unavailable")
+      return unavailableEnvironment("apple_vector_unavailable")
    case .invalidBuffer:
-      return unavailable(pid: pid, reason: "malformed_procargs")
+      return unavailableEnvironment("malformed_procargs")
+    case .invalidBufferAt(let stage):
+      return unavailableEnvironment("malformed_procargs_\(stage.rawValue)")
    }
  }
 }
@@ -302,27 +331,30 @@ func parseProcessEnvironment(
  in bytes: [UInt8],
  pointerSize: Int = MemoryLayout<UnsafeRawPointer>.size
 ) throws -> ParsedRunToken {
-  guard bytes.count >= MemoryLayout<Int32>.size else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer }
+  guard bytes.count >= MemoryLayout<Int32>.size else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.header) }
  let argc = bytes.withUnsafeBytes { $0.loadUnaligned(as: Int32.self).littleEndian }
-  guard argc >= 0, Int(argc) <= bytes.count else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer }
+  guard argc >= 0, Int(argc) <= bytes.count else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.argumentCount) }
  var offset = MemoryLayout<Int32>.size
  guard let executablePath = readString(in: bytes, offset: &offset) else {
-    throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer
+    throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.executablePath)
  }
-  guard pointerSize == 4 || pointerSize == 8 else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer }
+  guard pointerSize == 4 || pointerSize == 8 else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.pointerSize) }
  let pathRecordSize = Array("executable_path=".utf8).count + executablePath.count + 1
  let padding = (pointerSize - pathRecordSize % pointerSize) % pointerSize
  guard offset + padding <= bytes.count,
        bytes[offset..<(offset + padding)].allSatisfy({ $0 == 0 }) else {
-    throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer
+    throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.pathPadding)
  }
  offset += padding
+  let tokenPrefix = Array("REA_PROCESS_RUN_ID=".utf8)
+  var tokenInArgument = false
  for _ in 0..<argc {
-    guard readString(in: bytes, offset: &offset, allowEmpty: true) != nil else {
-      throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer
+    guard let argument = readString(in: bytes, offset: &offset, allowEmpty: true) else {
+      throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.arguments)
    }
+    tokenInArgument = tokenInArgument || argument.starts(with: tokenPrefix)
  }
-  guard bytes.last == 0 else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer }
+  guard bytes.last == 0 else { throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.terminator) }
  if offset == bytes.count {
    throw RunTokenReadError.environmentUnavailable
  }
@@ -340,7 +372,7 @@ func parseProcessEnvironment(
      continue
    }
    guard let entry = readString(in: bytes, offset: &offset) else {
-      throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBuffer
+      throw RunTokenReadError.invalidBufferAt(.trailingEntries)
    }
    trailingEntries.append(entry)
  }
@@ -361,22 +393,28 @@ func parseProcessEnvironment(
    throw RunTokenReadError.appleVectorUnavailable
  }
  if trailingEntries[appleVectorStart...].contains(where: {
-    $0.starts(with: Array("REA_PROCESS_RUN_ID=".utf8))
+    $0.starts(with: tokenPrefix)
  }) {
    throw RunTokenReadError.ambiguousEnvironmentBoundary
  }
  let environmentEntries = trailingEntries[..<appleVectorStart]
  var found: String?
  for entry in environmentEntries {
-    if entry.starts(with: Array("REA_PROCESS_RUN_ID=".utf8)) {
+    if entry.starts(with: tokenPrefix) {
      guard found == nil else { throw RunTokenReadError.duplicateToken }
-      let value = entry.dropFirst("REA_PROCESS_RUN_ID=".utf8.count)
+      let value = entry.dropFirst(tokenPrefix.count)
      guard let decoded = String(bytes: value, encoding: .utf8) else {
        throw RunTokenReadError.invalidTokenEncoding
      }
      found = decoded
    }
  }
+  // A changed process title can overwrite the original argument boundaries,
+  // causing a real environment entry to be consumed as an argument. A real
+  // argument can have this form too, so it proves neither ownership nor absence.
+  if tokenInArgument {
+    throw RunTokenReadError.ambiguousEnvironmentBoundary
+  }
  return ParsedRunToken(runId: found, environmentEntryCount: environmentEntries.count)
 }

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import resource
 import gdb

-OUTPUT_BYTES = 64 * 1024 * 1024


 class ContextFailure(Exception):
@@ -79,6 +78,7 @@ def failure_exit(request_path, status, marker):
 def main():
    request_path = os.environ["REA_CORE_CONTEXT_REQUEST"]
    request = json.loads(Path(request_path).read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    output_bytes = request["producer_limits"]["output_bytes"]
    reserve = bytearray(1024 * 1024)
    try:
        reply = {"ok": True, "value": inspect(request)}
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ def main():
        reply = {"ok": False, "reason": "decoder", "message": type(error).__name__ + ": " + str(error)}
    try:
        encoded = json.dumps(reply, ensure_ascii=True, allow_nan=False).encode("utf-8")
-        if len(encoded) > OUTPUT_BYTES:
-            encoded = json.dumps({"ok": False, "reason": "output-limit", "message": "Complete debugger context exceeds the 64 MiB reply budget."}).encode("utf-8")
+        if len(encoded) > output_bytes:
+            encoded = json.dumps({"ok": False, "reason": "output-limit", "message": "Complete debugger context exceeds producer_limits.output_bytes=" + str(output_bytes) + "."}).encode("utf-8")
        descriptor = os.open(request["reply_path"], os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL, 0o600)
        with os.fdopen(descriptor, "wb") as handle:
            handle.write(encoded)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ BRIDGE = Path(__file__).with_name("core_context.py")


 class CoreContextTests(unittest.TestCase):
-    def inspect(self, failure=None, connection="core", symbols=None, architecture="x86_64-little-endian", objfile="recorded-executable"):
+    def inspect(self, failure=None, connection="core", symbols=None, architecture="x86_64-little-endian", objfile="recorded-executable", output_bytes=16384):
        commands, reads, queries = [], [], []
        state = {"executable": None, "symbols": None, "connection": None}
        gdb = types.ModuleType("gdb")
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class CoreContextTests(unittest.TestCase):
            plugin.write_text("")
            request = stage / "request.json"
            reply = stage / "reply.json"
-            request.write_text(json.dumps({"gdbinit": str(plugin), "architecture": architecture, "snapshot_path": str(root / "object.snapshot"), "reply_path": str(reply)}))
+            request.write_text(json.dumps({"gdbinit": str(plugin), "architecture": architecture, "snapshot_path": str(root / "object.snapshot"), "reply_path": str(reply), "producer_limits": {"output_bytes": output_bytes}}))
            with patch.dict(sys.modules, modules), patch.dict(os.environ, REA_CORE_CONTEXT_REQUEST=str(request)):
                runpy.run_path(str(BRIDGE))
            result = json.loads(reply.read_text())
@@ -104,14 +104,15 @@ class CoreContextTests(unittest.TestCase):
        self.assertEqual(reads, [])
        self.assertEqual(queries, [])

-    def test_output_limit_message_separates_the_words_and_names_the_limit(self):
-        result, _, reads, queries = self.inspect(objfile="m" * (64 * 1024 * 1024))
+    def test_selected_output_limit_reports_recovery_and_accepts_more_headroom(self):
+        result, _, reads, queries = self.inspect(objfile="m" * 2048, output_bytes=1024)
        self.assertFalse(result["ok"])
        self.assertEqual(result["reason"], "output-limit")
-        self.assertNotIn("exceeds64", result["message"])
-        self.assertEqual(result["message"], "Complete debugger context exceeds the 64 MiB reply budget.")
+        self.assertIn("producer_limits.output_bytes=1024", result["message"])
        self.assertEqual(reads, [])
        self.assertEqual(queries, ["maps"])
+        recovered, _, _, _ = self.inspect(objfile="m" * 2048, output_bytes=4096)
+        self.assertTrue(recovered["ok"], recovered)

    def test_wrong_connection_or_remaining_symbols_never_queries_mappings(self):
        for options in [{"connection": "native"}, {"symbols": "unexpected-symbols"}]:
@@ -5,14 +5,12 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import resource
 import sys

-OUTPUT_BYTES = 64 * 1024 * 1024
-
-def lower_resource_limits():
+def lower_resource_limits(policy):
    limits = {}
    for name, kind, maximum in (
-        ("address_space_bytes", resource.RLIMIT_AS, 3 * 1024**3),
-        ("cpu_seconds", resource.RLIMIT_CPU, 30),
-        ("file_size_bytes", resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, OUTPUT_BYTES),
+        ("address_space_bytes", resource.RLIMIT_AS, policy["address_space_bytes"]),
+        ("cpu_seconds", resource.RLIMIT_CPU, policy["cpu_seconds"]),
+        ("file_size_bytes", resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, policy["file_bytes"]),
    ):
        soft, hard = resource.getrlimit(kind)
        finite = [maximum] + [value for value in (soft, hard) if value != resource.RLIM_INFINITY]
@@ -25,6 +23,11 @@ def lower_resource_limits():

 def main(request_path, inspect, failure_type, profile):
    request = json.loads(Path(request_path).read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    policy = request["producer_limits"]
+    for key in ("input_bytes", "output_bytes", "diagnostic_bytes", "address_space_bytes", "file_bytes", "cpu_seconds"):
+        value = policy[key]
+        if type(value) is not int or not 1 <= value <= 9007199254740991:
+            raise ValueError("producer_limits." + key + " must be a positive safe integer")
    os.environ["PWNLIB_NOTERM"] = "1"
    os.environ["PWNLIB_CACHE_DIR"] = str(Path(request_path).parent / "cache")
    limits = None
@@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ def main(request_path, inspect, failure_type, profile):
    # The outer exit-status contract also covers allocation failure during serialization.
    memory_reserve = bytearray(1024 * 1024)
    try:
-        limits = lower_resource_limits()
+        limits = lower_resource_limits(policy)
        descriptor = os.open(Path(request_path).parent / "limits.json", os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL, 0o600)
        with os.fdopen(descriptor, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
            json.dump(limits, handle)
@@ -51,8 +54,8 @@ def main(request_path, inspect, failure_type, profile):
        else:
            reply = {"ok": False, "reason": "decoder", "message": type(error).__name__ + ": " + str(error)}
    encoded = json.dumps(reply, ensure_ascii=True, allow_nan=False).encode("utf-8")
-    if len(encoded) > OUTPUT_BYTES:
-        encoded = json.dumps({"ok": False, "reason": "output-limit", "message": "Complete artifact result exceeds the 64 MiB reply budget."}).encode("utf-8")
+    if len(encoded) > policy["output_bytes"]:
+        encoded = json.dumps({"ok": False, "reason": "output-limit", "message": "Complete artifact result exceeds producer_limits.output_bytes=" + str(policy["output_bytes"]) + "."}).encode("utf-8")
    descriptor = os.open(request["reply_path"], os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL, 0o600)
    with os.fdopen(descriptor, "wb") as handle:
        handle.write(encoded)
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ import sys
 PROFILE = "[email protected];[email protected];[email protected]"
 PACKAGES = {"pwntools": "4.15.0", "pyelftools": "0.33", "unicorn": "2.1.2"}
 OUTPUT_BYTES = 64 * 1024 * 1024
+# (e_machine, ELF class bits, byte order) -> architecture pwntools must also report.
+PROFILES = {(62, 64, "little"): "amd64", (183, 64, "little"): "aarch64", (3, 32, "little"): "i386",
+            (40, 32, "little"): "arm", (8, 32, "little"): "mips", (8, 32, "big"): "mips"}
+PROFILE_SCOPE = ("Layout profile requires ELF64 x86-64, ELF64 AArch64 little-endian, ELF32 i386, "
+                 "ELF32 ARM little-endian or ELF32 MIPS little- or big-endian objects.")


 class LayoutFailure(Exception):
@@ -116,13 +121,16 @@ def inspect_elf(path, cache):
        raise LayoutFailure("format", "Selected object does not contain an ELF header.")
    if len(content) < 16:
        raise LayoutFailure("format", "Selected ELF identification is truncated.")
-    if content[4] != 2 or content[5] != 1:
-        raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", "Initial layout profile requires ELF64 little-endian objects.")
-    if len(content) < 64:
-        raise LayoutFailure("format", "Selected ELF64 header is truncated.")
-    if int.from_bytes(content[18:20], "little") != 62:
-        raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", "Initial layout profile requires x86-64 ELF objects.")
-    if int.from_bytes(content[16:18], "little") not in (1, 2, 3):
+    if content[4] not in (1, 2) or content[5] not in (1, 2):
+        raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", "Selected ELF declares an unknown class or byte order.")
+    bits, header_size = (32, 52) if content[4] == 1 else (64, 64)
+    order = "little" if content[5] == 1 else "big"
+    if len(content) < header_size:
+        raise LayoutFailure("format", f"Selected ELF{bits} header is truncated.")
+    profile = (int.from_bytes(content[18:20], order), bits, order)
+    if profile not in PROFILES:
+        raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", PROFILE_SCOPE)
+    if int.from_bytes(content[16:18], order) not in (1, 2, 3):
        raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", "Selected ELF type is outside the EXEC/DYN/REL layout profile; recorded core analysis is separate.")
    from pwnlib.context import context
    with context.local(cache_dir=str(cache), log_level="warning"):
@@ -185,8 +193,8 @@ def inspect_elf(path, cache):
                        if type is None or section.header.sh_type == type)
        try:
            image = LayoutELF(str(path), checksec=False)
-            if image.arch != "amd64" or image.bits != 64 or image.endian != "little":
-                raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", "Initial layout profile requires x86-64 ELF64 little-endian objects.")
+            if (image.arch, image.bits, image.endian) != (PROFILES[profile], bits, order):
+                raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", PROFILE_SCOPE)
            if image.header.e_type not in ("ET_EXEC", "ET_DYN", "ET_REL"):
                raise LayoutFailure("unsupported-target", "Selected ELF type is outside the EXEC/DYN/REL layout profile; recorded core analysis is separate.")
            length = len(content)
@@ -208,7 +216,7 @@ def inspect_elf(path, cache):
                })
                if h.sh_type in ("SHT_SYMTAB", "SHT_DYNSYM"):
                    if h.sh_entsize < image.structs.Elf_Sym.sizeof():
-                        raise LayoutFailure("format", "ELF symbol entry is smaller than the decoded Elf64_Sym structure.")
+                        raise LayoutFailure("format", f"ELF symbol entry is smaller than the decoded Elf{bits}_Sym structure.")
                    if h.sh_link >= len(all_sections) or all_sections[h.sh_link].header.sh_type != "SHT_STRTAB":
                        raise LayoutFailure("format", f"ELF symbol table {index} links to invalid string table {h.sh_link}.")
                    strings = all_sections[h.sh_link]
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 import { defineConfig } from "vitepress";
+import { dirname, relative, resolve, sep } from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import {
+  documentationRewrites,
+  documentationSections,
+} from "./documentation.js";
+
+const documentationRoot = fileURLToPath(new URL("..", import.meta.url));
+const rewrites: Record<string, string> = {
+  ...documentationRewrites,
+  "README.md": "documentation.md",
+  "specs/README.md": "specs/index.md",
+  "adr/README.md": "adr/index.md",
+};

 export default defineConfig({
  title: "REA",
@@ -6,102 +20,92 @@ export default defineConfig({
    "Reverse engineer binaries, applications, and runtime behavior with one CLI and MCP server.",
  lang: "en-US",
  base: "/rea/",
+  rewrites,
+  markdown: {
+    config(md) {
+      // Repository links resolve from their physical source. Render them from
+      // the stable public route instead, including links across categories.
+      md.core.ruler.after("inline", "documentation-source-links", (state) => {
+        const physicalPath =
+          state.env.realPath ??
+          (state.env.relativePath
+            ? resolve(documentationRoot, state.env.relativePath)
+            : null);
+        if (physicalPath === null) return;
+        const renderedPath =
+          state.env.path ??
+          resolve(
+            documentationRoot,
+            rewrites[state.env.relativePath] ?? state.env.relativePath,
+          );
+        for (const block of state.tokens) {
+          for (const token of block.children ?? []) {
+            const attribute =
+              token.type === "link_open"
+                ? "href"
+                : token.type === "image"
+                  ? "src"
+                  : null;
+            if (attribute === null) continue;
+            const destination = token.attrGet(attribute);
+            if (
+              !destination ||
+              /^(?:[a-z][a-z\d+.-]*:|[/#])/iu.test(destination)
+            )
+              continue;
+            const separator = destination.search(/[?#]/u);
+            const path =
+              separator === -1 ? destination : destination.slice(0, separator);
+            const suffix = separator === -1 ? "" : destination.slice(separator);
+            const source = relative(
+              documentationRoot,
+              resolve(dirname(physicalPath), path),
+            )
+              .split(sep)
+              .join("/");
+            const rendered = relative(
+              dirname(renderedPath),
+              resolve(
+                documentationRoot,
+                source.startsWith("public/")
+                  ? source.slice("public/".length)
+                  : (rewrites[source] ?? source),
+              ),
+            )
+              .split(sep)
+              .join("/");
+            token.attrSet(attribute, rendered + suffix);
+          }
+        }
+      });
+    },
+  },
  srcExclude: ["readme/**"],
  themeConfig: {
    nav: [
      { text: "Get started", link: "/installation" },
+      { text: "Documentation", link: "/documentation" },
      { text: "Reference", link: "/mcp-contracts" },
      { text: "Roadmap", link: "/roadmap" },
    ],
    sidebar: [
      {
-        text: "Getting started",
+        text: "Documentation directory",
        items: [
-          { text: "Installation and setup", link: "/installation" },
-          { text: "Client configuration", link: "/client-configuration" },
-          { text: "CLI and Evidence", link: "/cli" },
-          { text: "Agent prompts", link: "/mcp-prompts" },
-          { text: "Roadmap", link: "/roadmap" },
-        ],
-      },
-      {
-        text: "Investigation guides",
-        items: [
-          { text: "Native binaries", link: "/native-investigation" },
-          { text: "Go build metadata", link: "/go-binaries" },
-          { text: "IL2CPP metadata", link: "/il2cpp-metadata" },
-          { text: "Model artifacts", link: "/model-artifacts" },
-          { text: "Rust dependencies", link: "/rust-binaries" },
-          { text: "PE certificates", link: "/pe-certificates" },
-          { text: "PE imports", link: "/pe-imports" },
-          { text: "ELF notes", link: "/elf-notes" },
-          { text: "Apple IPS crash reports", link: "/apple-ips" },
-          { text: "CPython pyc files", link: "/python-pyc" },
-          { text: "Erlang BEAM", link: "/erlang-beam" },
-          {
-            text: "JavaScript and Electron",
-            link: "/javascript-artifact-reconstruction",
-          },
-          {
-            text: "JavaScript workflows",
-            link: "/javascript-application-workflows",
-          },
-          { text: "Browser observation", link: "/browser-observation" },
-          {
-            text: "Web network captures",
-            link: "/web-network-captures",
-          },
-          { text: "Agent environments", link: "/agent-environments" },
-          { text: "Electron observation", link: "/electron-observation" },
-          { text: "Electron fuses", link: "/electron-fuses" },
-          { text: "Process capture", link: "/process-capture" },
-          { text: ".NET assemblies", link: "/managed-code-analysis" },
-          {
-            text: "Python packaged applications",
-            link: "/python-packaged-applications",
-          },
-          { text: "Android applications", link: "/android-analysis" },
-          { text: "Apple applications", link: "/apple-application-analysis" },
-          { text: "Desktop installations", link: "/desktop-applications" },
-          { text: "Firmware", link: "/firmware-analysis" },
-          { text: "SQLite databases", link: "/sqlite-databases" },
-          { text: "Packet captures", link: "/packet-captures" },
-          { text: "Signal recordings", link: "/signal-recordings" },
-        ],
-      },
-      {
-        text: "Provider guides",
-        collapsed: true,
-        items: [
-          { text: "IDA", link: "/ida-provider" },
-          { text: "Kuna", link: "/kuna-provider" },
-          { text: "Ghidra on Windows", link: "/windows-ghidra-p0" },
-          { text: "Ghidra DOS analysis", link: "/ghidra-dos" },
-          { text: "Ghidra raw binary", link: "/raw-binary" },
-          { text: "Ghidra NativeAOT", link: "/ghidra-nativeaot" },
-          { text: "Ghidra PowerPC", link: "/ghidra-ppc" },
-          { text: "Ghidra semantics", link: "/ghidra-provider" },
-        ],
-      },
-      {
-        text: "Reference and development",
-        collapsed: true,
-        items: [
-          { text: "MCP contracts", link: "/mcp-contracts" },
-          { text: "Tool design", link: "/tool-design" },
-          {
-            text: "Admission limits and recovery",
-            link: "/design/limits-and-recovery",
-          },
-          { text: "Testing", link: "/testing" },
-          { text: "Client verification", link: "/client-verification" },
-          {
-            text: "Reconstruction readiness",
-            link: "/reconstruction-readiness",
-          },
-          { text: "Releasing", link: "/releasing" },
+          { text: "All guides", link: "/documentation" },
+          { text: "Authoring conventions", link: "/development/documentation" },
+          { text: "Feature specifications", link: "/specs/" },
+          { text: "Architecture decisions", link: "/adr/" },
        ],
      },
+      ...documentationSections.map((section) => ({
+        text: section.text,
+        collapsed: section.text !== "Getting started",
+        items: section.items.map((item) => ({
+          text: item.text,
+          link: item.route,
+        })),
+      })),
    ],
    search: { provider: "local" },
    socialLinks: [
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+// Authored guide ownership: physical sources and stable public routes.
+export const documentationSections = [
+  {
+    text: "Getting started",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Installation and setup",
+        source: "getting-started/installation.md",
+        route: "/installation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Client configuration and troubleshooting",
+        source: "getting-started/client-configuration.md",
+        route: "/client-configuration",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "CLI and Evidence",
+        source: "getting-started/cli.md",
+        route: "/cli",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Guided MCP prompts and completion",
+        source: "getting-started/mcp-prompts.md",
+        route: "/mcp-prompts",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Native binaries",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Native binary investigation",
+        source: "guides/native/native-investigation.md",
+        route: "/native-investigation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Go binary build metadata",
+        source: "guides/native/go-binaries.md",
+        route: "/go-binaries",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Offline binary diagnostics",
+        source: "guides/native/binary-diagnostics.md",
+        route: "/binary-diagnostics",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "ELF and Mach-O initializer functions",
+        source: "guides/native/native-initializers.md",
+        route: "/native-initializers",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "ELF unwind function ranges",
+        source: "guides/native/elf-unwind-ranges.md",
+        route: "/elf-unwind-ranges",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Linux kernel build config",
+        source: "guides/native/kernel-build-config.md",
+        route: "/kernel-build-config",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Recorded crash evidence",
+        source: "guides/native/recorded-crashes.md",
+        route: "/recorded-crashes",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Windows Shell Link shortcuts",
+        source: "guides/native/windows-shortcut.md",
+        route: "/windows-shortcut",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "JavaScript and Electron",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "JavaScript Application Graph",
+        source: "guides/javascript/javascript-application-graph.md",
+        route: "/javascript-application-graph",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Cross-layer JavaScript application workflows",
+        source: "guides/javascript/javascript-application-workflows.md",
+        route: "/javascript-application-workflows",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "JavaScript artifact reconstruction",
+        source: "guides/javascript/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md",
+        route: "/javascript-artifact-reconstruction",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "JavaScript source recovery",
+        source: "guides/javascript/javascript-recovery.md",
+        route: "/javascript-recovery",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Passive Node and Electron runtime observation",
+        source: "guides/javascript/javascript-runtime-observation.md",
+        route: "/javascript-runtime-observation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "JavaScript static/runtime reconciliation",
+        source: "guides/javascript/javascript-runtime-reconciliation.md",
+        route: "/javascript-runtime-reconciliation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Electron file-page observation",
+        source: "guides/javascript/electron-observation.md",
+        route: "/electron-observation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "V8 code cache inspection",
+        source: "guides/javascript/v8-code-cache.md",
+        route: "/v8-code-cache",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Browser and captured websites",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Website observation with CDP",
+        source: "guides/web/browser-observation.md",
+        route: "/browser-observation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Browser scenario contract",
+        source: "guides/web/browser-scenario-contract.md",
+        route: "/browser-scenario-contract",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Website runtime source attribution",
+        source: "guides/web/web-runtime.md",
+        route: "/web-runtime",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Historical web network captures",
+        source: "guides/web/web-network-captures.md",
+        route: "/web-network-captures",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "HTTP/3 capture lab",
+        source: "http3-capture-lab.md",
+        route: "/http3-capture-lab",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Captured website source locations",
+        source: "guides/web/web-source-location.md",
+        route: "/web-source-location",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Captured website module relationships",
+        source: "guides/web/website-module-trace.md",
+        route: "/website-module-trace",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Captured website scripts and static JavaScript analysis",
+        source: "guides/web/website-script-export.md",
+        route: "/website-script-export",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Android applications",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Static Android APK analysis",
+        source: "guides/android/android-analysis.md",
+        route: "/android-analysis",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Apktool resource decoding",
+        source: "guides/android/apktool-resource-analysis.md",
+        route: "/apktool-resource-analysis",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "ADB device inspection and acquisition",
+        source: "guides/android/adb-device-analysis.md",
+        route: "/adb-device-analysis",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Flutter build identification",
+        source: "guides/android/flutter-analysis.md",
+        route: "/flutter-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Apple applications",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Apple Application Inventory Projection",
+        source: "guides/apple/apple-application-analysis.md",
+        route: "/apple-application-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: ".NET assemblies",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Managed-code analysis",
+        source: "guides/managed/managed-code-analysis.md",
+        route: "/managed-code-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Firmware",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Firmware analysis",
+        source: "guides/firmware/firmware-analysis.md",
+        route: "/firmware-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "HarmonyOS packages",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Static HarmonyOS package inventory",
+        source: "guides/harmony/harmony-analysis.md",
+        route: "/harmony-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "WebAssembly",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Offline WebAssembly artifacts",
+        source: "guides/wasm/wasm-artifacts.md",
+        route: "/wasm-artifacts",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "EVM contracts",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Offline EVM bytecode",
+        source: "guides/evm/evm-bytecode.md",
+        route: "/evm-bytecode",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Databases and recorded packets",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "SQLite database snapshots",
+        source: "guides/data/sqlite-databases.md",
+        route: "/sqlite-databases",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Recorded packet capture inspection",
+        source: "guides/data/packet-captures.md",
+        route: "/packet-captures",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Packet capture summaries",
+        source: "guides/data/pcap-analysis.md",
+        route: "/pcap-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Process capture and instrumentation",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Process capture",
+        source: "guides/runtime/process-capture.md",
+        route: "/process-capture",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Frida instrumentation",
+        source: "guides/runtime/frida-instrumentation.md",
+        route: "/frida-instrumentation",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Provider setup and formats",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Ghidra provider semantics",
+        source: "providers/ghidra-provider.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-provider",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "DOS MZ and COM analysis with Ghidra",
+        source: "providers/ghidra-dos.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-dos",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Optional NativeAOT metadata recovery",
+        source: "providers/ghidra-nativeaot.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-nativeaot",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "MIPS ELF analysis through Ghidra",
+        source: "providers/ghidra-mips.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-mips",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "PSP static ELF analysis through Ghidra",
+        source: "providers/ghidra-psp.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-psp",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "RISC-V ELF analysis through Ghidra",
+        source: "providers/ghidra-riscv.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-riscv",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Windows Ghidra P0",
+        source: "providers/windows-ghidra-p0.md",
+        route: "/windows-ghidra-p0",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Headerless raw-binary analysis with Ghidra",
+        source: "providers/raw-binary.md",
+        route: "/raw-binary",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "IDA provider",
+        source: "providers/ida-provider.md",
+        route: "/ida-provider",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "JEB instrumentation and analysis",
+        source: "providers/jeb-analysis.md",
+        route: "/jeb-analysis",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Contracts and evidence",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "MCP runtime contracts",
+        source: "reference/mcp-contracts.md",
+        route: "/mcp-contracts",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Reconstruction obligation ledgers",
+        source: "reference/reconstruction-obligation-ledgers.md",
+        route: "/reconstruction-obligation-ledgers",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Development and verification",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Settings and recovery",
+        source: "design/limits-and-recovery.md",
+        route: "/design/limits-and-recovery",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "MCP tool design",
+        source: "development/tool-design.md",
+        route: "/tool-design",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Testing REA",
+        source: "development/testing.md",
+        route: "/testing",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Client and agent verification",
+        source: "development/client-verification.md",
+        route: "/client-verification",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Reconstruction readiness conformance",
+        source: "development/reconstruction-readiness.md",
+        route: "/reconstruction-readiness",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Releasing REA",
+        source: "development/releasing.md",
+        route: "/releasing",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "REA roadmap",
+        source: "development/roadmap.md",
+        route: "/roadmap",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Release migrations",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Upgrading from REA 6.1 to 6.2",
+        source: "migrations/migration-6.2.md",
+        route: "/migration-6.2",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Signal recordings",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Recorded signal inspection",
+        source: "guides/signals/signal-recordings.md",
+        route: "/signal-recordings",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    text: "Additional guides",
+    items: [
+      {
+        text: "Offline API contract inventory",
+        source: "api-contracts.md",
+        route: "/api-contracts",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Bun standalone executables",
+        source: "bun-standalone.md",
+        route: "/bun-standalone",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Deno compile executables",
+        source: "deno-standalone.md",
+        route: "/deno-standalone",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Capability composition and ownership",
+        source: "capability-composition.md",
+        route: "/capability-composition",
+      },
+      {
+        text: ".NET single-file bundles",
+        source: "dotnet-bundles.md",
+        route: "/dotnet-bundles",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "ESP flash images",
+        source: "esp-flash-image.md",
+        route: "/esp-flash-image",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "U-Boot FIT images",
+        source: "fit-images.md",
+        route: "/fit-images",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Measure MCP catalog costs in Codex",
+        source: "mcp-catalog-evaluation.md",
+        route: "/mcp-catalog-evaluation",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Offline Playwright traces",
+        source: "playwright-traces.md",
+        route: "/playwright-traces",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Testing lanes and provider verification",
+        source: "testing-lanes.md",
+        route: "/testing-lanes",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "UF2 and DfuSe images",
+        source: "uf2-dfuse.md",
+        route: "/uf2-dfuse",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "WeChat mini-program wxapkg archives",
+        source: "wxapkg.md",
+        route: "/wxapkg",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Binary hardening",
+        source: "binary-hardening.md",
+        route: "/binary-hardening",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop application capture",
+        source: "desktop-application-capture.md",
+        route: "/desktop-application-capture",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop application export",
+        source: "desktop-application-export.md",
+        route: "/desktop-application-export",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop application state",
+        source: "desktop-application-state.md",
+        route: "/desktop-application-state",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop application tasks",
+        source: "desktop-application-tasks.md",
+        route: "/desktop-application-tasks",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop build computer",
+        source: "desktop-build-computer.md",
+        route: "/desktop-build-computer",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop build witness",
+        source: "desktop-build-witness.md",
+        route: "/desktop-build-witness",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "iNES containers",
+        source: "ines-containers.md",
+        route: "/ines-containers",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Build RL environments with REA",
+        source: "agent-environments-quickstart.md",
+        route: "/agent-environments-quickstart",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Agent environments from recorded captures",
+        source: "agent-environments.md",
+        route: "/agent-environments",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "APK signature schemes",
+        source: "apk-signature.md",
+        route: "/apk-signature",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Apple IPS crash reports",
+        source: "apple-ips.md",
+        route: "/apple-ips",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Static analysis in GitHub Actions",
+        source: "ci-analysis.md",
+        route: "/ci-analysis",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Desktop installation directories",
+        source: "desktop-applications.md",
+        route: "/desktop-applications",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Flattened devicetree inspection",
+        source: "devicetree.md",
+        route: "/devicetree",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Electron fuse state",
+        source: "electron-fuses.md",
+        route: "/electron-fuses",
+      },
+      { text: "ELF note tables", source: "elf-notes.md", route: "/elf-notes" },
+      {
+        text: "Erlang BEAM files",
+        source: "erlang-beam.md",
+        route: "/erlang-beam",
+      },
+      { text: "ESP images", source: "esp-image.md", route: "/esp-image" },
+      {
+        text: "GameCube DOL analysis through Ghidra",
+        source: "ghidra-dol.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-dol",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "PowerPC ELF analysis through Ghidra",
+        source: "ghidra-ppc.md",
+        route: "/ghidra-ppc",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Godot PCK archives",
+        source: "godot-pck.md",
+        route: "/godot-pck",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Static CUDA and HIP code objects",
+        source: "gpu-code-objects.md",
+        route: "/gpu-code-objects",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Intel HEX and S-record images",
+        source: "hex-records.md",
+        route: "/hex-records",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "IL2CPP metadata",
+        source: "il2cpp-metadata.md",
+        route: "/il2cpp-metadata",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Static JavaScript route inventory",
+        source: "javascript-route-inventory.md",
+        route: "/javascript-route-inventory",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Linux kernel modules",
+        source: "kernel-modules.md",
+        route: "/kernel-modules",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Kuna provider",
+        source: "kuna-provider.md",
+        route: "/kuna-provider",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Model file declarations",
+        source: "model-artifacts.md",
+        route: "/model-artifacts",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Match native functions across builds",
+        source: "native-function-matching.md",
+        route: "/native-function-matching",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Node.js single executable applications",
+        source: "node-sea.md",
+        route: "/node-sea",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "PE Authenticode certificate tables",
+        source: "pe-certificates.md",
+        route: "/pe-certificates",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "PE import and delay-load tables",
+        source: "pe-imports.md",
+        route: "/pe-imports",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "PE TLS callbacks and load configuration",
+        source: "pe-load-config.md",
+        route: "/pe-load-config",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Python packaged applications",
+        source: "python-packaged-applications.md",
+        route: "/python-packaged-applications",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "CPython pyc inspection",
+        source: "python-pyc.md",
+        route: "/python-pyc",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Reconstruction coverage",
+        source: "reconstruction-coverage.md",
+        route: "/reconstruction-coverage",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Reverse-engineering tool integrations",
+        source: "reverse-engineering-tools.md",
+        route: "/reverse-engineering-tools",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "Rust binary dependency metadata",
+        source: "rust-binaries.md",
+        route: "/rust-binaries",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "U-Boot legacy uImage containers",
+        source: "uimage.md",
+        route: "/uimage",
+      },
+      {
+        text: "UnityFS AssetBundle archives",
+        source: "unityfs.md",
+        route: "/unityfs",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
+export const documentationRewrites = Object.fromEntries(
+  documentationSections.flatMap((section) =>
+    section.items.flatMap((item) => {
+      const target = `${item.route.slice(1)}.md`;
+      return item.source === target ? [] : [[item.source, target]];
+    }),
+  ),
+);
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+# Documentation directory
+
+REA documentation is organized by reader task and document owner. This directory
+links every authored guide; the [site](https://rea.tools/) also serves separate
+product pages. The VitePress documentation source is this `docs/` tree.
+
+## Getting started
+
+- [Installation and setup](getting-started/installation.md)
+- [Client configuration and troubleshooting](getting-started/client-configuration.md)
+- [CLI and Evidence](getting-started/cli.md)
+- [Guided MCP prompts and completion](getting-started/mcp-prompts.md)
+
+## Native binaries
+
+- [Native binary investigation](guides/native/native-investigation.md)
+- [Go binary build metadata](guides/native/go-binaries.md)
+- [Offline binary diagnostics](guides/native/binary-diagnostics.md)
+- [ELF and Mach-O initializer functions](guides/native/native-initializers.md)
+- [ELF unwind function ranges](guides/native/elf-unwind-ranges.md)
+- [Linux kernel build config](guides/native/kernel-build-config.md)
+- [Recorded crash evidence](guides/native/recorded-crashes.md)
+- [Windows Shell Link shortcuts](guides/native/windows-shortcut.md)
+
+## JavaScript and Electron
+
+- [JavaScript Application Graph](guides/javascript/javascript-application-graph.md)
+- [Cross-layer JavaScript application workflows](guides/javascript/javascript-application-workflows.md)
+- [JavaScript artifact reconstruction](guides/javascript/javascript-artifact-reconstruction.md)
+- [JavaScript source recovery](guides/javascript/javascript-recovery.md)
+- [Passive Node and Electron runtime observation](guides/javascript/javascript-runtime-observation.md)
+- [JavaScript static/runtime reconciliation](guides/javascript/javascript-runtime-reconciliation.md)
+- [Electron file-page observation](guides/javascript/electron-observation.md)
+- [V8 code cache inspection](guides/javascript/v8-code-cache.md)
+
+## Browser and captured websites
+
+- [Website observation with CDP](guides/web/browser-observation.md)
+- [Browser scenario contract](guides/web/browser-scenario-contract.md)
+- [Website runtime source attribution](guides/web/web-runtime.md)
+- [Historical web network captures](guides/web/web-network-captures.md)
+- [HTTP/3 capture lab](http3-capture-lab.md)
+- [Captured website source locations](guides/web/web-source-location.md)
+- [Captured website module relationships](guides/web/website-module-trace.md)
+- [Captured website scripts and static JavaScript analysis](guides/web/website-script-export.md)
+
+## Android applications
+
+- [Static Android APK analysis](guides/android/android-analysis.md)
+- [Apktool resource decoding](guides/android/apktool-resource-analysis.md)
+- [ADB device inspection and acquisition](guides/android/adb-device-analysis.md)
+- [Flutter build identification](guides/android/flutter-analysis.md)
+
+## Apple applications
+
+- [Apple Application Inventory Projection](guides/apple/apple-application-analysis.md)
+
+## .NET assemblies
+
+- [Managed-code analysis](guides/managed/managed-code-analysis.md)
+
+## Firmware
+
+- [Firmware analysis](guides/firmware/firmware-analysis.md)
+
+## HarmonyOS packages
+
+- [Static HarmonyOS package inventory](guides/harmony/harmony-analysis.md)
+
+## WebAssembly
+
+- [Offline WebAssembly artifacts](guides/wasm/wasm-artifacts.md)
+
+## EVM contracts
+
+- [Offline EVM bytecode](guides/evm/evm-bytecode.md)
+
+## Databases and recorded packets
+
+- [SQLite database snapshots](guides/data/sqlite-databases.md)
+- [Recorded packet capture inspection](guides/data/packet-captures.md)
+- [Packet capture summaries](guides/data/pcap-analysis.md)
+
+## Process capture and instrumentation
+
+- [Process capture](guides/runtime/process-capture.md)
+- [Frida instrumentation](guides/runtime/frida-instrumentation.md)
+
+## Signal recordings
+
+- [Recorded signal inspection](guides/signals/signal-recordings.md)
+
+## Provider setup and formats
+
+- [Ghidra provider semantics](providers/ghidra-provider.md)
+- [DOS MZ and COM analysis with Ghidra](providers/ghidra-dos.md)
+- [Optional NativeAOT metadata recovery](providers/ghidra-nativeaot.md)
+- [MIPS ELF analysis through Ghidra](providers/ghidra-mips.md)
+- [PSP static ELF analysis through Ghidra](providers/ghidra-psp.md)
+- [RISC-V ELF analysis through Ghidra](providers/ghidra-riscv.md)
+- [Windows Ghidra P0](providers/windows-ghidra-p0.md)
+- [Headerless raw-binary analysis with Ghidra](providers/raw-binary.md)
+- [IDA provider](providers/ida-provider.md)
+- [JEB instrumentation and analysis](providers/jeb-analysis.md)
+
+## Contracts and evidence
+
+- [MCP runtime contracts](reference/mcp-contracts.md)
+- [Reconstruction obligation ledgers](reference/reconstruction-obligation-ledgers.md)
+
+## Development and verification
+
+- [Settings and recovery](design/limits-and-recovery.md)
+- [Flutter budget calibration](verification/flutter-budget-calibration.md)
+- [Source-map budget calibration](verification/source-map-budget-calibration.md)
+- [Source-location delivery qualification](verification/source-location-delivery.md)
+- [JavaScript precision calibration](verification/javascript-precision-calibration.md)
+- [MCP tool design](development/tool-design.md)
+- [Testing REA](development/testing.md)
+- [Client and agent verification](development/client-verification.md)
+- [Reconstruction readiness conformance](development/reconstruction-readiness.md)
+- [Releasing REA](development/releasing.md)
+- [REA roadmap](development/roadmap.md)
+
+## Release migrations
+
+- [Upgrading from REA 6.1 to 6.2](migrations/migration-6.2.md)
+
+## Architecture and authoring
+
+- [Architecture map](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/architecture/architecture.mermaid)
+- [Documentation ownership and contribution model](development/documentation.md)
+- [Feature specifications](specs/README.md)
+- [Architectural decision records](adr/README.md)
+
+## Machine-owned documentation
+
+| Path                                      | Owner and update command                                                                  |
+| ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `public/product-catalog.json`             | Ignored contract projection; `npm run docs:generate`                                      |
+| `verification/managed-conformance-*.json` | Ignored managed conformance projections; `npm run evidence:generate`                      |
+| `error-contract.schema.json`              | Tracked schema from contracts; `npm run docs:error-schema`                                |
+| `user-visible-errors.csv`                 | Authored error classification inventory; preserve its schema                              |
+| `releases/<version>.contributions.json`   | Durable release contribution record; follow the [release guide](development/releasing.md) |
+| `assets/`                                 | Shared authored images referenced by guides                                               |
+
+Do not edit generated catalogs or evidence to change product facts. Change their
+canonical contracts or producer and regenerate. Historical release records retain
+the exact commit messages and references from the release they describe.
+
+## Additional guides
+
+- [Offline API contract inventory](api-contracts.md)
+- [Bun standalone executables](bun-standalone.md)
+- [Deno compile executables](deno-standalone.md)
+- [Capability composition and ownership](capability-composition.md)
+- [.NET single-file bundles](dotnet-bundles.md)
+- [ESP flash images](esp-flash-image.md)
+- [U-Boot FIT images](fit-images.md)
+- [Measure MCP catalog costs in Codex](mcp-catalog-evaluation.md)
+- [Offline Playwright traces](playwright-traces.md)
+- [Testing lanes and provider verification](testing-lanes.md)
+- [UF2 and DfuSe images](uf2-dfuse.md)
+- [WeChat mini-program wxapkg archives](wxapkg.md)
+- [Binary hardening](binary-hardening.md)
+- [Desktop application capture](desktop-application-capture.md)
+- [Desktop application export](desktop-application-export.md)
+- [Desktop application state](desktop-application-state.md)
+- [Desktop application tasks](desktop-application-tasks.md)
+- [Desktop build computer](desktop-build-computer.md)
+- [Desktop build witness](desktop-build-witness.md)
+- [iNES containers](ines-containers.md)
+- [Build RL environments with REA](agent-environments-quickstart.md)
+- [Agent environments from recorded captures](agent-environments.md)
+- [APK signature schemes](apk-signature.md)
+- [Apple IPS crash reports](apple-ips.md)
+- [Static analysis in GitHub Actions](ci-analysis.md)
+- [Desktop installation directories](desktop-applications.md)
+- [Flattened devicetree inspection](devicetree.md)
+- [Electron fuse state](electron-fuses.md)
+- [ELF note tables](elf-notes.md)
+- [Erlang BEAM files](erlang-beam.md)
+- [ESP images](esp-image.md)
+- [GameCube DOL analysis through Ghidra](ghidra-dol.md)
+- [PowerPC ELF analysis through Ghidra](ghidra-ppc.md)
+- [Godot PCK archives](godot-pck.md)
+- [Static CUDA and HIP code objects](gpu-code-objects.md)
+- [Intel HEX and S-record images](hex-records.md)
+- [IL2CPP metadata](il2cpp-metadata.md)
+- [Static JavaScript route inventory](javascript-route-inventory.md)
+- [Linux kernel modules](kernel-modules.md)
+- [Kuna provider](kuna-provider.md)
+- [Model file declarations](model-artifacts.md)
+- [Match native functions across builds](native-function-matching.md)
+- [Node.js single executable applications](node-sea.md)
+- [PE Authenticode certificate tables](pe-certificates.md)
+- [PE import and delay-load tables](pe-imports.md)
+- [PE TLS callbacks and load configuration](pe-load-config.md)
+- [Python packaged applications](python-packaged-applications.md)
+- [CPython pyc inspection](python-pyc.md)
+- [Reconstruction coverage](reconstruction-coverage.md)
+- [Reverse-engineering tool integrations](reverse-engineering-tools.md)
+- [Rust binary dependency metadata](rust-binaries.md)
+- [U-Boot legacy uImage containers](uimage.md)
+- [UnityFS AssetBundle archives](unityfs.md)
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Architectural decision records
+
+Store one actual decision per `docs/adr/<domain>/<decision-slug>.md`, without a
+global sequence number. Use meaningful names and the Michael Nygard sections:
+Status, Context, Decision and Consequences. Link each decision from its owning
+feature specification.
+
+See [the authoring guide](../development/documentation.md#feature-lifecycle) for
+the distinction between specifications, roadmaps and isolated decisions.
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+# Build RL environments with REA
+
+REA turns a recorded web app session into a runnable environment for training
+and testing AI agents. An agent can practice tasks such as finding an issue,
+creating a folder, or editing a record without running the original app.
+
+REA builds the tools the agent calls, the local data those tools use, and a
+test that checks the environment starts and responds. It supports changes
+when the recording confirms their effects. You can then use the environment
+with your RL framework to set task goals, check rewards, and run training.
+
+## Before you start
+
+Install [REA and its agent integration](getting-started/installation.md). To record an app,
+you also need a running test instance and a Chrome-family browser. Choose an
+instance where the agent is allowed to create, edit, and delete data. REA
+records the app you provide; you start it and prepare its test data.
+
+To run the exported environment, install the
+[AgentEnv framework](https://github.com/scaleapi/agentenv-framework#install)
+and start Docker. REA's [compatibility check](development/testing.md#exported-environment-bundles)
+uses AgentEnv version `0.9.1431` with Python 3.12.
+
+There are two ways to build an environment: ask your agent to record the app,
+or start from a recording you already have.
+
+## 1. Record and build with your agent
+
+Give your agent the app URL, the operations you need, your browser's executable
+path, and an output directory. For an app with folders, adapt this prompt:
+
+```text
+Use REA to build an AgentEnv environment from my test web app at
+http://127.0.0.1:3000. Cover listing, creating, renaming, and deleting folders.
+You may create and remove test folders. Leave the existing data unchanged.
+
+Sign in as admin using the password in APP_PASSWORD. Use the browser at
+/absolute/path/to/chromium. Save the environment to
+/absolute/path/to/my-env, which does not exist yet.
+
+Record the session, check which operations the environment supports, and
+export it. Report any unsupported operations and what is missing.
+```
+
+Replace the URL, account, paths, and folder operations with your own. Set
+`APP_PASSWORD` in the environment that starts REA's MCP server so REA can use
+it without putting the password in the prompt.
+
+Your agent inspects the app, records a session, checks the result, and exports
+a folder containing the runnable environment. It reports which operations
+work and which need more evidence. The app is used during recording; the
+exported environment runs from the saved data.
+
+After your agent exports the folder, skip to
+[run the environment](#run-the-environment). The next section is an
+alternative for an existing recording.
+
+## 2. Or build from a saved recording
+
+A HAR file records a browser's network requests and responses. Export one
+with API response bodies from your browser's network panel, or use a
+recording you already have. To include create, edit, and delete operations,
+record those actions and the reads that show their results.
+
+Build the environment into a new or empty directory:
+
+```sh
+rea environment-build ./session.har ./my-env --name my-env --json
+```
+
+You can also pass capture Evidence JSON saved by REA's
+`capture-browser-scenario` or `inspect-web-network-capture` commands. Here,
+Evidence means REA's saved recording with its source information. The build
+accepts HAR files and those JSON recordings. It reads local data and writes
+the environment folder without contacting the app.
+
+Add `--dry-run` to review the build report without writing the folder. For an
+unreleased REA checkout, use `--package-tarball` with its packed package so
+the exported environment runs the same implementation.
+
+The build report tells you what the environment supports:
+
+| Report field      | What to check                                                                                                            |
+| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `state`           | Whether the environment can answer from local state or uses recorded-response replay.                                    |
+| `coverage.reads`  | Which read operations use state and which replay recorded answers.                                                       |
+| `coverage.writes` | Which create, edit, and delete operations are supported. Each withheld operation includes a reason and a recording hint. |
+| `warnings`        | Recorded content or local paths to review before sharing the folder.                                                     |
+
+A successful build means the folder was created. Check the report to confirm
+it supports the operations your tasks need. `coverage: null` means the build
+could not prepare state for this environment and it will use replay.
+
+<a id="run-the-environment"></a>
+
+## 3. Run the environment
+
+Whether your agent exported the folder or you built it from a HAR, run it
+with AgentEnv:
+
+```sh
+agent-env run ./my-env
+```
+
+Use the folder path your agent reported if it differs. The first run builds
+the container image, so it needs access to the image and package sources.
+
+REA includes a basic test, called the smoke task. It checks the expected tool
+count and, when a suitable read tool exists, calls it and checks its response
+status. Passing this test shows the environment starts and responds in the
+tested setup. It does not yet score an agent on an application task.
+
+The folder contains the recording, a tool manifest describing the available
+operations, a Dockerfile, environment configuration, and the test. The
+[export reference](agent-environments.md#export-a-bundle) describes each file.
+
+## 4. Add tasks and reward checks
+
+Start with one task the exported tools support. Give it a clear goal and a
+checkable result. For example, if folder creation is supported, ask your
+agent:
+
+```text
+Use this exported environment to add an AgentEnv task that asks an agent
+to create a folder named Practice. Check the saved environment state to
+confirm the folder exists with that name, and use that check to score the
+result. Reset the environment before each run so attempts start with the
+same data. Use the AgentEnv task and verifier formats.
+```
+
+This asks your agent to help build the task and its grading check around the
+environment REA generated. A retrieval task might check an answer against a
+recorded value. A task that changes data should check the resulting state.
+When state is available, the environment supports reset, load, and read-back
+operations for repeatable runs.
+
+Use the [AgentEnv documentation](https://www.agentenvframework.com/docs) for
+task configuration, agent connections, scoring, and execution. Connect the
+resulting tasks to your chosen RL training workflow.
+
+## Improve an operation that is missing
+
+For REA to support a change, the recording needs to show what happened before
+and after it. When recording against your test app:
+
+1. Read the list and an existing item before making changes. Repeat the
+   initial reads to show which values change independently.
+2. Create a test item, read it back, and read the list before the next change.
+   Repeat with a second item and different text.
+3. Edit each test item, then read the item and list again. Leave more than a
+   second between creation and the first edit to show time-dependent changes.
+4. Delete the test items, then read them back and read the list to confirm
+   their removal.
+
+Also record filters, searches, sorting, and paging if your tasks need them.
+The agent should check that every recording step completed before using it.
+The [recording workflow](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/references/environments.md)
+has the detailed browser instructions, including timeouts and handling IDs
+assigned by the app.
+
+Use the report's hints to decide what to record next:
+
+| Reason                          | Next step                                                                                                                   |
+| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `unconfirmed`                   | Read the item and its list after the change.                                                                                |
+| `no-state-target`               | Check the path template and recorded views; record missing reads. The route form may not be supported as a mutation target. |
+| `no-observation`                | Read back a created item. For an edit or delete, also read it before changing it.                                           |
+| `contradicted` or `side-effect` | Inspect the reported disagreement. The operation may need behavior REA cannot model yet.                                    |
+
+See the [full reason table](agent-environments.md#build-a-bundle-in-one-step)
+for the other cases. Rebuild from the new recording and check the report
+again. A new recording replaces the build input; combining separate recording
+sessions is not supported.
+
+## Compare with the original app
+
+For a stronger check, record a separate sequence of calls against the real
+app, starting from the same test data as the original recording. This is a
+probe. Restore that starting data before each probe sequence, then compare
+the saved probe recordings with the environment:
+
+```sh
+rea environment-compare ./my-env/envs/my-env/manifest.json \
+  --evidence ./my-env/envs/my-env/evidence.json \
+  --probe ./probe-create-edit-delete.json --probe ./probe-reads.json --json
+```
+
+Each probe file must be capture Evidence JSON from REA. The comparison runs
+offline and reports differences in responses, unsupported calls, and missing
+observations. It accounts for supported differences in IDs, times, and
+modeled generated values. Agreement applies to the calls those probes check.
+See the [comparison reference](agent-environments.md#measure-fidelity-against-the-application)
+for the exact rules.
+
+## Before sharing the environment
+
+The exported folder includes retained response bodies and local source paths.
+Standard authentication headers are excluded, but custom headers, query
+values, and body tokens can remain. Review the content you plan to share.
+Credential-name warnings point to values worth reviewing; they do not remove
+those values or establish that the recording contains no credentials.
+
+For direct MCP serving, replay behavior, state controls, and resource limits,
+see the [environment reference](agent-environments.md). The
+[implementation index](specs/agent-environments/README.md) links the contributing
+PRs and their verification records.
@@ -1,16 +1,27 @@
 # Agent environments from recorded captures

-Use `rea environment-serve` to serve an environment manifest as an agent
-environment: an MCP server whose tools answer from what one retained web
-network capture observed, plus the environment card the agentenv framework
-reads to discover it. By default the server derives the
-[state the capture observed](#the-state-a-capture-observed) at startup and
-answers read tools from it, and the write tools whose effect the capture
-confirmed by changing it; `--replay-only` replays the capture's records
+For a first environment, start with the
+[quickstart](agent-environments-quickstart.md): record an app or use a saved
+session, build and run the environment, and add tasks and reward checks.
+The [implementation index](specs/agent-environments/README.md) links
+the contributing PRs and their verification records. This page is the detailed
+command and behavior reference.
+
+Use `rea environment-build` to turn one recorded capture into an agent
+environment bundle in one offline step: a folder `agent-env run` builds and
+runs, whose MCP server answers from what the capture observed. See
+[Build a bundle in one step](#build-a-bundle-in-one-step).
+
+The steps it composes are separate commands too. `rea environment-serve` serves
+an environment manifest as an agent environment: an MCP server whose tools
+answer from what one retained web network capture observed, plus the
+environment card the agentenv framework reads to discover it. By default the
+server derives the [state the capture observed](#the-state-a-capture-observed)
+at startup and answers read tools from it, and the write tools whose effect the
+capture confirmed by changing it; `--replay-only` replays the capture's records
 instead. Nothing is fetched from the recorded application; every answer comes
 from retained Evidence. `rea environment-export` writes the same pair as a
-bundle folder `agent-env run` builds and runs; see
-[Export a bundle](#export-a-bundle).
+bundle folder; see [Export a bundle](#export-a-bundle).

 ```sh
 rea inspect-web-network-capture /absolute/session.har har --format json > capture.json
@@ -19,7 +30,7 @@ rea environment-serve manifest.json --evidence capture.json --port 8765
 ```

 The first command inspects the capture; the second projects the
-[environment manifest](web-network-captures.md#environment-manifest) view from
+[environment manifest](guides/web/web-network-captures.md#environment-manifest) view from
 it, where `view.json` wraps the capture Evidence as the inline source:

 ```json
@@ -36,11 +47,198 @@ The third command serves that manifest from the state it derives from the
 capture; see [Serve from the state](#serve-from-the-state). Both served files
 are complete REA Evidence JSON as the commands write it with `--format json`;
 the `evidence` member of `view.json` is the whole of `capture.json`.
+A `view.json` can also name the capture file as
+`{"kind": "evidence-file", "path": "capture.json"}`, which projects it as
+retained Evidence instead of charging the whole capture as inline input.
+
+## Build a bundle in one step
+
+```sh
+rea environment-build grafana.har ./grafana --json
+agent-env run ./grafana
+```
+
+`rea environment-build <capture> [directory]` takes a `.har` file, or capture
+Evidence JSON from `inspect-web-network-capture` (HAR) or
+`capture-browser-scenario`, and writes the bundle
+[Export a bundle](#export-a-bundle) describes. It inspects a HAR as
+`inspect-web-network-capture` does (Evidence input skips this), projects the
+environment manifest from that Evidence as retained Evidence, authenticates
+the pair, prepares the state the bundle's server derives at startup, and
+writes the bundle with the export. For the same capture path, every file it
+writes is byte-identical to what `inspect-web-network-capture`,
+`inspect-analysis-view` and `environment-export` write, Evidence ids included,
+when `view.json` lists the same rules in the views' order and the export is
+given the build's name. It reads one file and writes one folder: it fetches
+nothing and launches no browser (HAR inspection runs REA's own decoder
+process), so record a browser scenario with `capture-browser-scenario` first
+and pass its Evidence. Other capture formats are refused, as the manifest view
+refuses them, and a HAR document saved as `.json` is refused with a hint to
+name it `.har`.
+
+- `--template-rule <rule>`, repeated, replaces the default opt-in rules
+  `after-uid-literal`, `opaque-token`, `sibling-variance` and
+  `prefix-variance`, the rules the published capture-built environments use;
+  `--format-rules-only` applies none, the views' own default. Rules apply in
+  the views' fixed order, the report lists them, and a repeated rule is
+  refused as the views refuse it.
+- `--name` names the env folder and env id. Without it the name is the
+  manifest's, unless the capture's origin is a loopback name or an IP literal:
+  the capture file then names it (`grafana.har` and `grafana.capture.json`
+  become `grafana`) and a `name-from-file` warning says so. A file name that
+  yields no portable label (kebab-case, at most 63 characters for a DNS service
+  label, not a Windows device name or a label interpreted as an IP address) is
+  refused; pass `--name`.
+- `--package-tarball` works as for the export, and `--capture-timeout-ms`
+  as for `inspect-web-network-capture`.
+- `--dry-run` runs every stage and prints the report with `status: "planned"`
+  and the files a build would write, but writes nothing and does not check the
+  directory, which may then be omitted. It reads and hashes a
+  `--package-tarball` as a build does before copying it, so it refuses the
+  tarballs a build refuses, including one whose contents cannot be read.
+
+The directory must be absent or empty, as for the export; the build never
+replaces a folder. A refusal before the write leaves nothing behind. A capture
+Evidence file, an inspected HAR's Evidence and the projected manifest must each
+fit the live heap headroom for parsing and sealing, checked before the file is
+read or the Evidence serialized; one that does not is refused as
+`resource_constraint`. Each
+refusal names its stage: `environment-build` for the build's own checks,
+`inspect_web_network_capture` and `inspect_analysis_view` for inspection and
+projection, `environment-export` for the bundle. SIGINT cancels the build
+(`cancelled`); before the bundle stage nothing is written, and a cancellation
+after publication preserves the bundle receipt. Before publication, a failed
+write attempts to remove partial output and reports cleanup failures. See
+[bundle publication and recovery](getting-started/cli.md#export-an-environment-bundle).
+Stage progress is logged to stderr
+at info level; the report is the only output on stdout:
+
+```json
+{
+  "status": "built",
+  "directory": "/work/grafana",
+  "name": "grafana",
+  "capture": {
+    "evidence_id": "ev_…",
+    "operation": "inspect_web_network_capture",
+    "records": 105,
+    "input": "har"
+  },
+  "manifest": {
+    "evidence_id": "ev_…",
+    "tools": 48,
+    "excluded_groups": 0,
+    "template_rules": [
+      "after-uid-literal",
+      "opaque-token",
+      "sibling-variance",
+      "prefix-variance"
+    ]
+  },
+  "state": { "served": true, "evidence_id": "ev_…" },
+  "coverage": {
+    "reads": {
+      "state": 36,
+      "recorded": 6,
+      "recorded_reasons": { "query-varies": 3, "…": 1 }
+    },
+    "writes": {
+      "served": [{ "tool": "delete_folders_by_uid", "effect": "delete" }],
+      "withheld": [
+        {
+          "tool": "post_folders",
+          "effect": "create",
+          "reason": "unconfirmed",
+          "hint": "No later read showed the effect. Read the entity and its list after the write.",
+          "exemplar_ordinal": 94,
+          "contradicted_by": null
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "tool_count": 37,
+  "package_source": { "kind": "registry", "specifier": "rea-agents@…" },
+  "files": [{ "path": "README.md", "bytes": 4210 }],
+  "warnings": [{ "code": "name-from-file", "message": "…" }],
+  "next": ["agent-env run /work/grafana"]
+}
+```
+
+`coverage` is the state's read views and write plans summarized, and `null`
+when the state is unavailable and the bundle serves replay. The
+[environment coverage](guides/web/web-network-captures.md#environment-coverage) view
+reports the same summary for any capture without building, so an agent can
+check it after each recording. The view summarizes the state as derived; it
+does not apply the serve-time admission checks, so for an environment whose
+served catalog exceeds the discovery budget, or whose state exceeds what
+`data/add` loads, it still reports the state while the build reports `coverage:
+null` and the bundle serves replay. Each withheld write carries a hint about
+what to record next; hints never change what is served:
+
+| Reason                | Hint                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `no-state-target`     | The write could not be linked to a modelled target. Check the path template and recorded views; record missing reads. Some route forms may not be supported.                                                                                     |
+| `no-call`             | No recorded call of this tool was modelled, for example because every call failed. Record a successful call.                                                                                                                                     |
+| `body-unusable`       | The retained request or response cannot be modelled. Record a successful call with a complete supported request and reproducible response.                                                                                                       |
+| `no-observation`      | Nothing showed the entity or document this write changed. Read a created entity back by id right after the write; for an update or delete the state must already hold the entity, so read it before the write or record the create that made it. |
+| `unexplained-change`  | The write changed fields it did not send, in a way no rule explains. A second, different call of the same tool can show the pattern.                                                                                                             |
+| `contradicted`        | A later read disagreed with the modelled effect. Check the read at contradicted_by.                                                                                                                                                              |
+| `side-effect`         | The write changed something besides its own entity, which the environment does not model.                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `unconfirmed`         | No later read showed the effect. Read the entity and its list after the write.                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `incomplete-entities` | The write is confirmed, but the views that show its entity cannot render it in full. Read the written entity through every view that lists it.                                                                                                   |
+| `unknown-clock`       | The learned rules generate timestamps, but the capture establishes no global served clock start. Record usable start times and completed durations for every request.                                                                            |
+
+The bundle ships `evidence.json`, the whole capture Evidence, response bodies
+included. Inspection excludes the values of the standard authentication headers
+(`Authorization`, `Cookie` and `Set-Cookie` among them) and URL userinfo; a
+custom key header such as `X-Api-Key`, a token in the query string and tokens
+an application returns in bodies remain. The environment views refuse captures
+inspected with `--sensitive-value`, so scrub a capture before building it. The
+report's `credential-named-members` warning counts recorded header names, query
+parameter names and JSON or form body members whose names look like
+credentials (whole name segments such as `token`, `secret`, `password`,
+`api_key`, `authorization` or `session`) and hold a value, and lists the first
+20 by record and pointer, never by value. A body is read as a form or as JSON by
+its recorded media type, or by its shape when it has none or one naming
+neither. A browser scenario is
+scanned by event (`event 4 response /token` names
+`normalized_result.events.items[4]`): every retained request and response
+content event, including a response whose request began before the browser was
+attached and a transaction no record represents, and each transaction URL's
+query once. Bodies larger than 4 MiB of UTF-8 text are not
+scanned; `credential-scan-incomplete` counts them and lists up to 20 record or
+event pointers, including base64 bodies whose decoded scan was cut. An empty name
+warning does not establish that these bodies were checked. A browser scenario's
+saved values (`save` and `save_response`) named like credentials but not marked
+`secret: true` are recorded unredacted; `credential-named-saved-values` lists up
+to 20 of them by parameter pointer. Names do not establish sensitivity,
+so the build never refuses on them.
+
+Capture Evidence also records the capture file's absolute path (`subject.local_path`,
+`parameters.capture_path`, `locations`, `artifact.path`), and the bundle
+carries it: build from a neutral folder when that path should not ship.
+
+Over MCP, `export_environment_bundle` builds the same bundle and returns the
+same report. Its `source` is capture Evidence the session retained
+(`{"kind": "retained-evidence", "evidence_id"}`), such as a
+`capture_browser_scenario` or `inspect_web_network_capture` result, or a
+capture Evidence file (`{"kind": "evidence-file", "path"}`); inspect a HAR with
+`inspect_web_network_capture` first. Retained Evidence is written into the
+bundle as `--format json` writes it, so the bundle is the one
+`environment-build` writes from that file. `output_directory` must be an
+absolute path that does not exist yet, whose parent does; the tool creates it
+and refuses an existing directory, empty or not. `name`, `template_rules`,
+`package_tarball` and `dry_run` work as `--name`, `--template-rule`,
+`--package-tarball` and `--dry-run` do, and retained Evidence has no file to
+name the environment after, so a loopback or IP origin needs `name`. Unlike
+`--dry-run`, `dry_run` still checks `output_directory`. Destination refusals
+name `export_environment_bundle`; the others name their stage as
+`environment-build`'s do.

 ## From a browser scenario

 The capture can also come from REA itself: a
-[browser scenario](browser-scenario-contract.md) records a scripted session
+[browser scenario](guides/web/browser-scenario-contract.md) records a scripted session
 in a browser REA launches, and its Evidence is a manifest parent like a HAR
 inspection. Select the `network` event family and response bodies. A replayed
 reply carries up to 256 KiB of a recorded body, but the scenario keeps at most
@@ -125,6 +323,54 @@ the replayed body is the bytes the browser exposes for each response, with any
 declared secret replaced by its redaction marker (a body that redaction had to
 empty replays no body).

+To record writes, sign in through the UI and then send the application's API
+calls with [request steps](guides/web/browser-scenario-contract.md#request-steps): each
+sends one request to the start origin through the page's own `fetch`, with the
+session's cookies, and a header can carry the CSRF cookie or stored token the
+application's own requests send. A write is served only when the capture shows
+its effect, so read each collection before writing, read every written entity
+back by id and in its list right after the write, and leave more than a second
+between a create and its first edit. A request step's path is fixed when the
+scenario is written and cannot use a value an earlier response returned, so an
+id must be known before the run: one the caller chooses, such as a `uid` in the
+create body, or one an earlier scenario created. When the server assigns ids,
+read the list after each create (the create's response or the list shows the
+new entity). A second scenario can record updates and deletes using those
+known ids, but produces a separate environment: recordings are not combined.
+That scenario must include its own before/after reads and every action the
+environment should support; it does not inherit the first scenario's create
+evidence. To capture create and subsequent edits together, make them through
+the UI in one scenario. The environment coverage view names each
+write it withholds and what to record next. A scenario with write requests
+changes the application's data: record against an instance whose data may
+change.
+
+```json
+{
+  "step_id": "create-folder-1",
+  "action": "request",
+  "method": "POST",
+  "path": "/api/folders",
+  "headers": [
+    {
+      "name": "X-CSRFToken",
+      "value": { "source": "cookie", "name": "csrftoken" }
+    }
+  ],
+  "json": { "title": "Scratch folder 1" },
+  "expected_status": [200, 201]
+}
+```
+
+Each record takes its start and duration from the browser's timing (the time
+the scenario observed the request where the browser reported no start), so the
+state orders and overlaps
+records as it does a HAR's and learns a write clock: an update the application
+stamps with a modification time can be served. A scenario captured before
+these times were recorded has none; its records keep request order and the
+state learns no clock, so such updates stay `unexplained-change` until it is
+recorded again.
+
 ## What a manifest is

 An environment manifest is a projection of one application's recorded request
@@ -166,7 +412,8 @@ returns that record's recorded response. Selection compares the supplied path
 parameters against the record's path segments at the parameter indexes, then
 the supplied query values against the record's query string, and keeps the
 record with the most matches; ties keep manifest order. A query argument accepts
-one string or an array of strings for repeated values; the array is matched
+one string, a number or boolean sent as its JSON text, or an array of strings for
+repeated values; the array is matched
 against every occurrence in captured order. The raw recorded query remains the
 replay evidence. The result reports
 where the answer came from:
@@ -240,7 +487,7 @@ captured text without changing the tool names or schema fields clients use.

 Replay answers each call from one recording, so the answers reflect whichever
 moment of the capture recorded them. The
-[environment state](web-network-captures.md#environment-state) view extracts
+[environment state](guides/web/web-network-captures.md#environment-state) view extracts
 instead the data the capture's reads observed before the first related write:
 entity types with an identity field, entities with their recorded values,
 documents for reads that are not entities, and a render plan per read tool,
@@ -262,14 +509,14 @@ see [Serve from the state](#serve-from-the-state).

 `--host` and `--port` default to `MCP_HOST` and `MCP_PORT` from the
 environment, then to `127.0.0.1` and an ephemeral port, exactly as
-[`rea mcp --http`](cli.md#serve-mcp-over-streamable-http) resolves them. The
+[`rea mcp --http`](getting-started/cli.md#serve-mcp-over-streamable-http) resolves them. The
 bound MCP URL is written to stderr as one JSON log line
 (`"msg":"MCP transport listening"` with `url`); `REA_LOG_LEVEL` overrides that
 log level. `ENVIRONMENT_NAME` renames the served environment; otherwise the
 manifest's `name` is used, and a set but blank value is refused as
 `configuration_invalid` before binding rather than silently falling back. The
 listener serves one MCP client at a time with the same session, `Host` header
-and shutdown contract as [transports](mcp-contracts.md#transports) describes.
+and shutdown contract as [transports](reference/mcp-contracts.md#transports) describes.
 It runs until SIGINT or SIGTERM, then closes the listener, prints one
 `{"status":"stopped", …}` document whose `state` member says whether it served
 from the state, and exits `130` or `143`.
@@ -344,7 +591,7 @@ names the method and path template, then what the tool returns, one level deep:
 `returns a JSON object with fields …`, `returns a JSON array of objects with
 fields …` or `returns a JSON object whose <member> lists objects with fields …`,
 where a list is an array of objects found by the
-[environment state](web-network-captures.md#environment-state)'s list rule (the
+[environment state](guides/web/web-network-captures.md#environment-state)'s list rule (the
 root array, or the one array of objects an envelope carries). Field and member
 names are written as JSON strings, so a captured name cannot read as more of
 the description; a member name too long to show whole is a quoted prefix marked
@@ -373,8 +620,9 @@ shape and carries no annotations.
 Path parameters are required strings whose
 description names the segment index, the templating rule and the observed
 values (sampled within the list budget above; the manifest keeps them all);
-query parameter names accept an optional string or array of strings (for
-repeated values in captured order); write methods accept an
+query parameter names accept an optional string, number or boolean (a number or
+boolean is sent as its JSON text) or array of strings (for repeated values in
+captured order); write methods accept an
 optional `body` object described by the recorded top-level key types. Each
 input keeps its own argument: a query name equal to a path parameter's name is
 advertised as `query_<name>`, a query name longer than 64 characters as
@@ -399,7 +647,7 @@ rea environment-serve manifest.json --evidence capture.json
 ```

 Before it binds, the server derives the
-[environment state](web-network-captures.md#environment-state) the capture
+[environment state](guides/web/web-network-captures.md#environment-state) the capture
 observed: it runs the `environment-state` view on the capture in-process with
 the manifest's `template_rules` in the same order, exactly as
 `inspect-analysis-view` projects it from the same capture, so the state
@@ -433,7 +681,7 @@ Each read tool answers according to its view in the state:

 | View       | Answer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `item`     | The entity the path arguments name, rendered into the recorded envelope of `envelope_ordinal`. Arguments match as replay matches them: each collection segment equals the held collection's segment as written or after percent-decoding, and the identity is the last argument percent-decoded, then as written; values are never re-split on `/`. Any entity the state holds answers, including one `data/add` loaded; query arguments only decide `replay.exact_match`, except that a call matching one of the view's `projected_query_keys`, or on a view with `projected_record_ordinals` asking for some fields only with a value other than `*` no checked line gave or one a replayed read gave, replays its recording. An entity the state does not hold answers the tool's latest recorded 400, 404 or 410 response with `state.view` `missing`, or is a tool error when none was recorded; one lacking a field every recording carried is a tool error, unless a read showed the application leaves that field out; a body is never invented.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `item`     | The entity the path arguments name, rendered into the recorded envelope of `envelope_ordinal`, whose `per_response_members` (such as a request id), like a list's or a document's, keep their recorded values. Arguments match as replay matches them: each collection segment equals the held collection's segment as written or after percent-decoding, and the identity is the last argument percent-decoded, then as written; values are never re-split on `/`. Any entity the state holds answers, including one `data/add` loaded; query arguments only decide `replay.exact_match`, except that a call matching one of the view's `projected_query_keys`, or on a view with `projected_record_ordinals` asking for some fields only with a value other than `*` no checked line gave or one a replayed read gave, replays its recording. An entity the state does not hold answers the tool's latest recorded 400, 404 or 410 response with `state.view` `missing`, or is a tool error when none was recorded; one lacking a field every recording carried is a tool error, unless a read showed the application leaves that field out; a body is never invented.                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `list`     | When the arguments name one of the lines the view checked exactly (its latest recordings before the first related write; every path and query value equal to the recording's, and every recorded query parameter supplied), that recorded envelope with its array rendered from the state: every entity of the collection in state order for `membership: "all"` or a line `all_record_ordinals` names, or the recorded members still held. A call with no query argument answers from such a line of the collection its path arguments name that only pages its list, with `replay.exact_match` false. On a line the view's `query` answers, and for a call whose every query argument has a role there (an argument-less call aside), the answer is the query evaluated over the state: filtered, searched, sorted and paged, with counters at the number listed and `query.totals` at the number matched, and `state.membership: "query"`; such a call answers on a query or whole line of its collection with `replay.exact_match` false. A value an `inert` parameter never recorded, a parameter without a role, a call matching one of the view's `projected_query_keys`, or a field selection the checked lines do not show (as for `item`), replays its recording. A member lacking a field every recording carried makes the call a tool error rather than a partial list. |
 | `document` | When the arguments name the document's checked line exactly, the state's value for it; a tool error when the state holds none.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | `recorded` | The recording, as replay answers it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
@@ -451,6 +699,21 @@ An item or list view that always spells a clock field otherwise than the
 entity's stored value names that spelling in `clock_formats`, and a value it
 never recorded, such as a created entity's clock, is rendered in it: a list that
 writes `+00:00` where item reads write `Z` lists a new entity the same way.
+A view that names a field in `sorted_arrays` lists that string array sorted, as
+a read-back showed the application does, while the state keeps it in the order
+it was written, so a write's own answer echoes it. If a later counted read
+contradicts that ordering, the view stays recorded and its earlier reads no
+longer confirm served writes. A view that names a field in `nested_fields`
+always showed that field's objects with the same keys, in any order, and fewer
+than an entity stores, such
+as a list showing a parent without the parent's own nested type; a stored
+object it never recorded, such as a created entity's parent, is rendered with
+those keys. Members a view names in
+`per_response_members`, such as a request id each response mints, keep the
+value its recording carried. A list's `counters` and `query.totals` are
+top-level members or members one level down in a paging object
+(`/pageInfo/totalRows`); either is set to the number listed or matched, and
+members beside it such as `isLastPage` stay as recorded.

 A list or document call that names no checked line, including a line recorded
 after a write or with other query values, answers from the recording. Every
@@ -466,6 +729,8 @@ and `POST` tools the capture shows only reading (a lookup answering as a `GET`
 did, an RPC tunnel naming read operations, a session renewal), stay served and
 answer from their recordings with the reason `query-body`; they are not write
 tools.
+`HEAD`, `OPTIONS` and `TRACE` tools also replay their captured responses; their
+state views report `method-replay` and coverage counts them as recorded reads.

 A line establishes whole-collection membership only from the beginning:
 `offset`, `start`, `_start` and `page` must be zero when present. Positive or
@@ -474,35 +739,64 @@ query model may describe supported paging; an empty later page cannot start
 returning earlier entities merely because it was empty in the capture.

 `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE` tools are served only when the state's
-[write plan](web-network-captures.md#environment-state) for them is served:
+[write plan](guides/web/web-network-captures.md#environment-state) for them is served:
 the capture's later reads confirmed the effect the plan models. Other write
 tools are not served, so no call claims a change it does not make; each one's
 plan states why in its `reason`. A served write changes the live state, which
 every MCP session and `data/get` then see:

-| Effect     | Call                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `create`   | Adds an entity to the collection the path names, built from the observed entity with each ruled field taken from the call or generated, at the plan's `insert` position. A plan tied to its exemplar's collection writes only there. |
-| `update`   | Sets the sent members on the entity the path names, constants for members accepted only with their recorded value, and the clock, increment, slug, unique and renewed changes the plan models.                                       |
-| `delete`   | Removes the entity the path names.                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| `document` | Merges the body into the plan's document object, or replaces it for `PUT`.                                                                                                                                                           |
+| Effect                    | Call                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `create`                  | Adds an entity to the collection the path names, built from the observed entity with each ruled field taken from the call or generated, at the plan's `insert` position. A plan tied to its exemplar's collection writes only there.                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `update`                  | Sets the sent members on the entity the path names, constants for members accepted only with their recorded value, and the clock, nested clock, increment, slug, stamp, derived, composed, reference, unique and renewed changes the plan models.                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `update` (action)         | A `POST`, `PUT` or `PATCH` to an item path plus an action segment (`/{type}/{id}/archive`) sets, on the entity before the segment, each scalar the recorded calls showed the action set (`set`), or flips each boolean they showed it flipping both ways (`toggle`), with any sent members; it is served only when a recorded call found what it sets already set, or flipped back what it toggles. |
+| `delete`                  | Removes the entity the path names.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| bulk `update` or `delete` | A `DELETE`, `PUT` or `PATCH` at a collection, or a `POST` to it plus `delete`, `remove` or `destroy`, applies its effect to every entity the body names, as recorded: an array of ids or of objects carrying the id field, at the root or as the body's one array member (`{"IDs": […], "Read": true}`).                                                                                            |
+| `document`                | Merges the body into the plan's document object, or replaces it for `PUT`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+
+An update's unsent changes follow the plan's rules. A `held-clock` is a clock
+the client sends back as it read it and the application stamps anew (Ghost's
+`updated_at`): the call must send the entity's value and the field takes the
+write's clock. A `nested-clock` sets the clocks inside an object the entity
+holds, in that object's recorded format. A `stamp` writes the acting user
+the entity already names under its `created…by` counterpart into a
+`modified…by` or `updated…by` field. A `derived` field takes a value showing
+the one sent member's text that the entity stores nowhere (a field Ghost
+derives from `html`), only with that member's recorded value. An action's
+`set` rule sets a scalar to the value the recorded calls left it at, and its
+`toggle` rule flips a boolean, refusing a call on an entity that holds none
+there (Miniflux's `PUT /v1/entries/{id}/bookmark` stars and unstars).

 Its answer has the status and content type of the plan's recorded response,
 with the written entity or its identity rendered in, no body, or the recorded
 body. A call whose body is not an object, sends a member the capture did not
 show stored, sends a fixed member with another value or a member of another
 JSON type, or lacks a required member is a tool error naming the accepted
-members; so is a rendered answer missing a field the recorded response
-carried, and an update or delete of an entity the state does not hold answers
+members; so is a call sending query parameters other than the exemplar's (they
+may change what the body does), a body not wrapped in the exemplar's envelope
+(Ghost's `{"posts": [{…}]}`), a bulk call naming an id the state does not hold,
+a `held-clock` member sent with another value than the entity holds, a call
+sending a `derived` rule's member to an entity that does not hold the value the
+recorded call found, a nested clock on an entity holding no such object, and a
+rendered answer missing a field the recorded response carried, and an update or delete of an entity the state does not hold answers
 the recorded 400, 404 or 410 of the tool or of an item view of the type, if
-any. A refused call leaves the state unchanged. Values a write generates are
+any. A served delete of a type whose item view has a `deleted_flag` (the
+member, `deleted`, `isDeleted` or `is_deleted`, its reads set `true` on a
+record the application soft-deleted, as EspoCRM does) keeps the entity until
+`data/reset` or `data/add`, within the size `data/add` loads, so a read of it by
+id answers its last fields with that flag `true`. A refused call leaves the
+state unchanged. Values a write generates are
 deterministic: the clock starts at `write_clock` and advances one second per
 served write, sequences take one past both the largest held value and the
 largest they generated, and UUIDs and tokens derive from the state Evidence
-id, tool, field and write count, skipping held values. `data/reset` and
+id, tool, field and write count, skipping held values. If `write_clock` is null,
+plans needing `clock`, `held-clock`, or `nested-clock` retain their learned rules
+but are withheld with `unknown-clock`; other confirmed plans can still be served.
+`data/reset` and
 `data/add` restart the clock, counter and sequences, so the same calls after a
 reset give the same state. Answers carry `state: {"source": "state", "view":
-"create" | "update" | "delete", …}` or `"document-write"`.
+"create" | "update" | "delete", …}` or `"document-write"`; a bulk answer adds
+`ids`, every entity it wrote in body order, with `id` naming the first.

 The data plane serves three JSON-RPC methods:

@@ -602,8 +896,9 @@ names a `document` view once, at its initial document's `path`. The `version`,
 and the `state_evidence_id` and `types` that `data/get` reports, must match
 the served state, so a `data/get` result loads back unchanged. A number without
 an exact native value, or whose serialized spelling would not be read as exact
-(an integer from 2^53 below 1e21, such as `1e20`, in any spelling), or a
-`__proto__` member is refused rather than altered.
+(an integer from 2^53 below 1e21, such as `1e20`, in any spelling), is refused
+rather than altered. Caller data preserves all own JSON members, including
+`__proto__`; unknown members of the state document's structure are refused.
 An invalid document is `-32602` naming the first problem by JSON pointer, as in
 `/rea_state/entities/3/collection` (also in `error.data.path`); a problem
 inside caller data (`fields`, `value`, `types`) is located at that member, so
@@ -657,6 +952,25 @@ after an update and referential rules on delete are not modelled. An exported
 bundle carries no state file: its server derives the state at startup, as the
 export does to predict what it serves.

+Known limits of served writes:
+
+- A recorded view answers from its recordings after a served write: Mailpit's
+  `get_messages`, recorded as `list-differs`, still lists a message a served
+  delete removed.
+- Served n8n workflow updates accept any `versionId`, while served Ghost post
+  updates require `updated_at` to match the entity (a `held-clock`).
+- A slug derived from a title can repeat across served creates with the same
+  title, where the application would make it unique.
+- A `composed` string copies sent text as sent: an application that escapes or
+  renders it (HTML entities, Markdown) differs for text that needs it, as
+  BookStack's `description_html` would for a description holding `&`.
+- A served create's sequence id is the state's next value, not the gaps an
+  application's own sequence would leave.
+- Nested clocks are served in the spelling of the write's own response, which
+  can differ from what a later read of the application shows.
+- A served write to an entity that a replayed (unserved) create made answers
+  as for a missing entity, since the state never held it.
+
 ## Export a bundle

 `rea environment-export` writes the same pair as a bundle folder the agentenv
@@ -693,7 +1007,8 @@ serves replay. The complete tool catalog the bundle serves must also fit the
 server's advertised catalog budget before any files are written. Privately parsed JSON is sealed once so authentication
 and replay share immutable response trees rather than copying the capture repeatedly.
 `--name` replaces the manifest's portable kebab-case name as the env folder and env id
-(Windows device names such as `con` and `lpt1` are refused);
+(at most 63 characters for its DNS service label; Windows device names and
+labels interpreted as IP addresses are refused);
 `--package-tarball <path>` copies a packed `rea-agents` tarball into the env
 folder and makes the Dockerfile install it instead of the registry package and
 remove it in the same layer, which is how a checkout rather than a release is
@@ -711,7 +1026,12 @@ Windows inherits ACLs and REA does not establish owner-only access there. Choose
 an already private Windows destination when captured content needs it.

 The Dockerfile sets `MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0` and `MCP_PORT=18765`, the port the
-framework maps for an MCP server env; the framework's own deploy supplies
+framework maps for an MCP server env, and `MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS` naming the loopback
+addresses and the environment name, because the container binds outside loopback
+and the server refuses to serve on such a bind without an operator-declared
+allowlist: the framework's published port is reached over loopback and its
+gateway proxies to the env container by the compose service name (the
+environment name). The framework's own deploy supplies
 `MCP_HOST`, `MCP_PORT` and `ENVIRONMENT_NAME`, so the served card carries the
 env's name. It installs Debian's `python3` because the framework's local
 sandbox probes a container's readiness with `python3` inside it, which the slim
@@ -735,8 +1055,9 @@ unknown recorded status stays unknown; it is not borrowed from another
 record). A bundle with no such tool yields a verifier that checks the count
 only and says so. `tasks/smoke.json` deploys the env on the local
 sandbox and runs that verifier against the env's MCP endpoint; the first run
-also builds the framework's own infrastructure, and the run tears everything
-down when it ends.
+also pulls the framework's published infrastructure images from `ghcr.io`,
+building one only if its pull fails, and the run tears everything down when it
+ends.

 The README written into the bundle records the capture artifact's SHA-256, the
 capture and manifest Evidence ids, the manifest view digest, the served tool
@@ -784,9 +1105,11 @@ Numeric arrays retain that containing field's clock context through nested
 arrays; an object's own fields establish their own context. Numeric values at
 the body root, in root arrays, or under measurement fields remain literal.

-Generated strings normalize only where this confirmed, served write's entity
-response rules identify generation. A `unique` rule or UUID identity rule must
-still compare two UUIDs; a `renewed` rule applies only at its recorded pointers,
+Generated values normalize only where this confirmed, served write's entity
+response rules identify generation. A UUID identity rule must still compare two
+UUIDs, and a `unique` rule two UUIDs or two generated integers (10 to 20
+digits) of one JSON kind and length; a `renewed` rule applies only at its
+recorded pointers,
 with `*` matching actual array items. Token/sequence strings retain the existing
 format check: equal length of at least eight, the same character classes, and
 a digit. Numeric sequences continue to compare literally unless an ID mapping
@@ -798,6 +1121,12 @@ Admitted generated values must also preserve aliases and distinct identities
 within that response. UUID identity uses the generator's case-insensitive
 matching; token and sequence strings retain their literal identity. This
 correspondence ends with the answer and is not inferred across calls.
+A `composed` response field must spell the value its parts build from that
+response's own fields. Its parts then compare by their rendered text or their
+source fields' clock and ID rules. A coherent archive URL can therefore differ
+only in normalized clock digits without reporting a value difference; an
+incoherent URL still differs even when both sides repeat the same stale text.
+Normalized compositions count under `generated`; source fields are counted once.
 The report counts each kind of normalised
 value; the generation rules remain model-derived facts, rather than new
 observations of the application.
@@ -827,7 +1156,12 @@ global conflict involving an equal pair is not used to normalize either pair; th

 A step agrees when the statuses and the normalised bodies are equal. The report gives agreement overall, per probe and
 per tool, `agreement_ignoring_order` for steps that differ only in item order, and each step's differences, at most 20,
-with a JSON pointer and both values cut short:
+with a JSON pointer and both values cut short. Each step reports `differences_total` before that cap,
+`differences_omitted`, and `differences_truncated` (true when entries were omitted). Agreement and categories use the
+complete comparison. Omitted entries are not retained, so `--full-output` cannot recover them; inspect the original
+capture and probe Evidence to investigate beyond the returned pointers.
+
+The difference categories are:

 | Category        | Meaning                                                                                                      |
 | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
@@ -859,7 +1193,7 @@ read, not that the write had no other effect.
 ## Compatibility verification

 `npm run verify:agentenv:environment` is the hosted `real-agentenv` lane
-described in [testing](testing.md#exported-environment-bundles). It projects
+described in [testing](development/testing.md#exported-environment-bundles). It projects
 the Grafana-shaped source-owned capture through the built CLI, packs the
 checkout, exports a bundle with `--package-tarball`, runs it with the pinned
 `agentenv-framework` release on the runner's Docker and requires the smoke task
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+# Offline API contract inventory
+
+`inspect_api_contract` / `rea inspect-api-contract` supports local OpenAPI JSON
+and GraphQL SDL (`format: "graphql-sdl"`). Neither profile contacts endpoints.
+
+## OpenAPI JSON
+
+The default profile reads one local OpenAPI
+3.0, 3.1 or 3.2 JSON document. It inventories inline operation slots under
+`paths`; the facts describe declarations, not implemented, reachable or
+authorized runtime behavior. YAML, AsyncAPI, callbacks/webhooks, schema graphs,
+contract diffs and traffic correlation are outside this version.
+
+The OpenAPI importer never resolves references, opens sibling documents, evaluates
+examples or contacts declared servers. OpenAPI 3.2 `query` and
+`additionalOperations` follow the [Path Item contract](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.2.1.html#path-item-object),
+including case-sensitive additional HTTP method spelling.
+
+## Select a useful answer
+
+MCP defaults to a summary retaining the complete inventory. An optional view
+returns selected facts immediately, taking precedence over `detail`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "path": "/artifacts/openapi.json",
+  "view": {
+    "kind": "api-contract",
+    "collection": "operations",
+    "methods": ["GET"],
+    "limit": 20
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`operations` supports exact `operation_ids`, `operation_keys`, `methods`,
+`paths`, `declared_ids` and `states` filters. Filters combine by intersection;
+empty arrays select nothing. `fields` chooses columns; identity, source pointer,
+state and unknown reason remain. The other collections are
+`path-item-references` (optional `reference_ids`) and `diagnostics` (optional
+`codes`), also with fields and offset/limit. The default page contains 64 rows.
+
+Query a retained result with `inspect_analysis_view`, using the same view and
+`source: {"kind":"retained-evidence","evidence_id":"..."}`. Copy the complete
+parent ID from `normalized_result.parent_evidence_id`, not the summary's own ID.
+These pages use immutable retained facts without rereading the specification.
+Complete Evidence remains available through `get_evidence_bundle`.
+
+CLI defaults to complete Evidence. For a selected answer, save that complete
+Evidence in an absent bundle path:
+
+```sh
+rea inspect-api-contract ./openapi.json --detail summary \
+  --view '{"kind":"api-contract","collection":"operations","methods":["GET"],"limit":20}' \
+  --evidence_output ./contract.evidence.json --json
+```
+
+Later `rea inspect-analysis-view` can read that bundle through an exact
+`evidence-file` source selection, even after the original specification is
+unavailable. Publication never overwrites an existing file. CLI preserves its
+original path spelling in `caller_input_path`; analysis locations and MCP inputs
+use absolute filesystem paths.
+
+## Identity, provenance and coverage
+
+Each operation has an artifact-scoped `operation_id`, an exact method/path
+`operation_key`, an optional `declared_id` from `operationId`, and its original
+JSON Pointer. Keys can correlate exact declarations in a caller-selected pair
+of revisions; they do not establish equivalence across unrelated APIs, renamed
+path templates or runtime handlers. Declared IDs are not assumed unique.
+The artifact includes the verified byte length, SHA-256 and selected path.
+
+Malformed siblings retain useful declarations plus diagnostics. A Path Item
+`$ref`, including a local fragment, remains unresolved; adjacent inline slots
+are unknown because referenced fields may overlap. Missing or malformed paths
+are explicit, and missing required OpenAPI 3.0 paths does not become a complete
+empty inventory. `source_coverage` is limited to inline paths and records that
+reference resolution and full schema validation were not performed. Page
+exhaustion describes the selected rows and never upgrades source coverage.
+
+Structured transport userinfo credentials are excluded from reference URIs;
+`credential_redacted` reports that change, and an ambiguous credential span leaves
+the displayed reference unknown. Ordinary reference query/fragment text and
+names are retained. Original bytes remain in the caller's artifact; complete
+inventory Evidence does not embed the entire source JSON. Duplicate JSON members
+use the shared parser's last-value-wins behavior, recorded in source coverage.
+
+If decoding or later validation fails after a verified read, the typed error
+retains a compact `file-snapshot-hash` observation with the exact path, digest
+and byte length. Syntax diagnostics do not quote source JSON. Cancellation
+does not replace a parser failure that has already completed.
+
+## Resource bounds and verification
+
+The file-byte allowance and conservative expanded-facts allowance are each
+32 MiB resource policies, not OpenAPI format limits. `max_file_bytes` can lower
+the input allowance. Native JSON parsing additionally checks available heap
+against the shared representation-expansion estimate before decoding. The
+shared JSON nesting limit is 1,000, including uninterpreted schema regions.
+Capacity refusals are typed; reply paging does not increase parser allowances.
+
+The committed [Petstore fixture](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/b7c8caedd4166e6032c49024cdc6fb1154f1a2df/tests/fixtures/openapi/README.md) is an
+original document from the published application, replayed offline through
+public CLI/MCP tests. These check advertised schemas, complete/selected parity,
+retained paging, partial references, zero requests to a loopback reference
+server and unchanged source bytes. They do not establish runtime endpoint
+behavior or full OpenAPI conformance.
+
+## GraphQL SDL and operation documents
+
+Select `format: "graphql-sdl"` for SDL. Optionally supply `operations_path` to
+one local document containing operations and fragments. Both MCP paths are
+absolute; CLI accepts relative spellings:
+
+```sh
+rea inspect-api-contract ./schema.graphql --contractFormat graphql-sdl \
+  --operationsPath ./queries.graphql --detail summary \
+  --view '{"kind":"graphql-contract","collection":"references","limit":20}' \
+  --evidence_output ./graphql.evidence.json --json
+```
+
+Collections are `types`, `fields`, `definitions`, `references`, `fragment-spreads`
+and `diagnostics`. Each supports `fields`, `offset` and `limit` (default 64).
+Exact batch filters include type/field/definition/reference IDs, type names,
+`field_keys` such as `Query.viewer`, owning type names, binding/spread states
+and diagnostic codes. Filters intersect; an empty array selects nothing.
+Identity, source and applicable uncertainty fields always remain. Retained pages
+and bundle-based queries use the same `graphql-contract` views without rereading
+SDL or rebuilding its schema model.
+
+Types and fields retain individual declaration occurrences, including extensions,
+list/non-null wrappers, implemented interfaces and union member names. Operation
+and fragment definitions own field references with aliases and parent-reference
+IDs. Each reference links to a supplied SDL field occurrence, remains `model-only`
+for a library-provided field such as `__typename`, or records an exact unknown
+reason. Rejected schema construction keeps declarations but cannot supply trusted
+bindings. Missing or duplicate fragment names remain explicit. Fragments are
+visited once in their declared type scope and linked by spread edges; cycles
+are never recursively expanded.
+
+The versioned `graphql-sdl-field-bindings-v1` profile records the GraphQL library
+version. It performs syntax parsing and schema construction for field resolution;
+it does not establish whole-schema/operation validity, spread applicability,
+reachability, authorization or endpoint behavior. Arguments, defaults,
+descriptions, directive behavior, enum value inventory, introspection JSON,
+federation composition and version comparison remain outside this profile.
+
+Every fact has a document role, SHA-256, UTF-16 start/end offsets and parser token
+line/column. Offsets address decoded UTF-8 text, including an optional BOM, rather
+than byte positions. The two files are independently verified snapshots, not an
+atomic pair. Fact IDs identify source occurrences; `field_key` separately supports
+exact name-based joins and does not assert equivalence across revisions. CLI
+retains its auxiliary path spelling in `caller_input_paths.operations_path`,
+outside semantic identity, as well as its primary `caller_input_path`.
+
+Malformed operation text retains the SDL inventory with partial coverage and a
+source-located diagnostic. A primary parser refusal or later resource/cancellation
+failure retains known source identities and available interpreted Evidence;
+syntax diagnostics do not quote source text. Complete Evidence contains facts,
+not original document bytes. An exhausted page never upgrades source coverage.
+
+Each file has the same configurable maximum of 32 MiB. Conservatively charged
+facts share a 32 MiB allowance; text/AST allocation is admitted against available
+heap. The parser admits at most 262,144 lexical tokens and 65,536 comments per
+document; subsequent iterative AST admission limits traversal depth to 128.
+These are REA resource policies, not GraphQL language limits. Very deep input can
+be refused by the parser before AST admission. Selected replies reduce transport
+and retained queries reuse immutable facts; they do not avoid the initial parse.
+
+The committed SWAPI SDL is an unchanged public application fixture with provenance
+in `tests/fixtures/graphql/README.md`. It supplies 53 types and 243 fields;
+verification does not execute its API.
+
+Large complete inventories can exceed the default MCP response budget even when
+selected pages fit. Use `export_evidence_bundle` with a caller-selected local
+path for complete retained Evidence, or CLI complete JSON/bundle publication.
+A transport refusal does not erase a completed retained analysis. Narrow pages
+and source coverage remain available on the same continuing connection.
@@ -179,26 +179,31 @@ share the application workflow, projection, retention and publication owners.
  - `schemes_agree_on_signer` (observed): every present block scheme presents
    the same _set_ of signer certificates. An extra signer in one scheme is
    disagreement; a signer without a certificate makes it `null` (unknown).
-    Build-tools 33+ rotate through v3.1 by default, so a rotated app usually
-    reads `false` here and `true` below.
+    A single present block scheme with known signers agrees with itself;
+    v1 is compared separately below.
  - `signer_change_declared_by_rotation` (declared): the signers differ, but
-    each appears in a lineage the APK declares. Read the two together: a
-    rotated APK shows `false` / `true`; signers that differ with no declared
-    lineage containing them show `false` / `false`. It is `null` when a
-    signer's identity is unknown, or when the signers differ and a declared
-    lineage could not be decoded.
+    each appears in a lineage the APK declares. Read the two together: block
+    schemes with different signers covered by a declared lineage show `false`
+    / `true`; differing signers without such a lineage show `false` / `false`.
+    A lineage alone does not establish a change between block schemes. It is
+    `null` when a signer's identity is unknown, or when the signers differ and
+    a declared lineage could not be decoded.
  - `v1_signers_match_block_signers` (observed): the v1 signer certificates
    equal what the lowest block scheme that has signers (v2, else v3, else
    v3.1) expects v1 to carry. That is its signer set, except that a v3/v3.1
    signer declaring a rotation lineage expects the lineage's first
    (original) certificate, as apksig requires. `false` is notable: the JAR
-    signature names a different key than the block signature. A key rotation
-    keeps v1 (and v2) on the original key, so it reads `true` while
-    `schemes_agree_on_signer` reads `false`, with or without v2. `null` when
-    v1 or a block scheme is absent, any signer's identity is unknown (a
+    signature names a different key than the block signature. When v1 uses
+    the lineage's original key and v3 its newer key, this comparison reads
+    `true`. If v3 is the only present block scheme, agreement is `true` and
+    declared inter-block signer change is `false` even though rotation is
+    present. If v2 also uses the original key, agreement is `false` and the
+    declared inter-block change is `true`. `null` when
+    v1 or a populated block scheme is absent, any signer's identity is unknown (a
    `decode_error`, a `null` certificate or a `subjectKeyIdentifier`
    `SignerInfo`), or the lineage's original certificate cannot be
-    identified; a limitation then says why.
+    identified. When identities or a lineage origin are unknown, limitations
+    explain why; absence is shown in the scheme records.
  - `strongest_scheme`, `rotation_present`, `source_stamp_present`,
    `self_consistent`.

@@ -239,13 +244,26 @@ serialized size of the report together with its limitations (which repeat
 archive names) is then checked against an 8 MiB output budget (the exact check
 is authoritative); an over-budget report is refused, not truncated.

-The whole-file reader retains read chunks and a concatenated buffer; total
-process memory exceeds the selected file's size. It also computes the complete
+Signing blocks admit at most 4096 ID/value pairs; at most 4096 signing-relevant
+META-INF entries are retained. These fixed counts, signer/lineage counts and the
+report byte budget return nonretryable `resource_constraint` errors naming the
+effective allowance. This release has no runtime override for them. Waiting for
+an active scan cannot raise a fixed count, and complete CLI JSON cannot raise the
+report budget. Occupied scan-queue capacity remains retryable after a scan finishes.
+
+The whole-file reader allocates the selected snapshot and bounded read scratch;
+total process memory exceeds the selected file's size. It also computes the complete
 file SHA-256, so inspection is not header-only. Content digests are recomputed
 at most once per SHA-256/SHA-512 algorithm during one inspection. Input,
 inflation, decoded-record and serialized-output bounds keep work finite;
 resource refusals are distinct from malformed format errors.

+If the stable read completes but closing its descriptor fails or is cancelled,
+the error retains `details.partial_observation` with the selected path, complete
+file SHA-256 and byte count. These facts describe the acquired file; they do not
+establish any decoded signing facts. Failed cleanup remains visible until the
+provider releases the descriptor on a cleanup retry.
+
 A file that is not a ZIP is refused as an unsupported target. A damaged ZIP
 (local headers but no end-of-central-directory), a central directory that
 cannot be walked or whose declared record count does not account for all of
@@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ body is parsed only when that string is `"309"`. Other types, including `"288"`
 stackshots, return no crash result.

 `process`, `exception`, `termination`, `faulting_thread`, `threads`, and
-`images` reproduce documented body fields when present. Integers keep their
+`images` reproduce documented body fields when present, including each image's
+`name` and each frame's `symbolLocation` (as `symbol_location`, the byte offset
+from the start of `recorded_symbol`). `termination` keeps the terminating
+process as `by_proc` and `by_pid` and its `flags`; `process.parent_pid` keeps
+`parentPid` next to `parent`; and `metadata` keeps `build_version` and
+`platform`. Integers keep their
 decimal literals and a hexadecimal form, including arm64e registers above
 2^53. Frame roles follow the recorded frame index: row zero of the resolved
 faulting thread is `faulting_instruction`, row zero of other threads is
@@ -38,9 +43,22 @@ address uses that row's own image base and offset. The recorded `inline` flag
 does not supply a missing offset or authorize borrowing another row's address.
 When `faultingThread` is missing or does not resolve to a recorded thread
 object, row-zero roles are `unknown`; the recorded lookup remains available.
+A translated process records Rosetta's registers in a nested
+`threadState.rosetta` object; each one is reported as `rosetta.<name>` and
+counts toward the register budget. A [public ReportCrash `.ips` log](https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer/issues/189)
+shows `rosetta.tmp2`, `tmp1`, and `tmp0` beside ordinary x86 registers. The
+test fixture quotes that register excerpt inside an authored report body; it
+does not generate a new Rosetta crash during the test.
+Observed JSON strings retain `""`; `null` means the field was missing or JSON
+`null`. This includes image paths, frame symbols, process text, and the older
+string `osVersion` form. Unlisted JSON keys and generic register names also
+retain empty spellings. An empty image architecture remains recorded as `""`
+while `uuid_unknown` stays true, since that spelling does not establish an
+architecture. An empty UUID is malformed, so its exact spelling appears in
+`coverage.type_mismatches` and its canonical UUID remains unknown.
 `process.os_version` keeps the producer's dictionary (`train`, `build`,
 `release_type`, `is_embedded`) or the older string form. Image UUIDs are uppercase 8-4-4-4-12; an all-zero UUID
-or a missing `arch` is `uuid_unknown`. Image `source` letters keep their
+or a missing or empty `arch` is `uuid_unknown`. Image `source` letters keep their
 documented meaning (`P` process, `S` shared cache, `C` shared cache library,
 `K` kernel, `U` kernel cache, `T` kernel text exec, `A` absolute). Keys the
 documentation does not list remain in `unlisted_keys` or `unlisted_body_keys`.
@@ -67,9 +85,49 @@ canonical hexadecimal form), `EXC_GUARD` subtypes,
 pointer-authentication suffixes, and dyld missing-library strings. A report
 that matches none of those rules is `unclassified`.

-Opened Mach-O and dSYM UUID joins remain unobserved. Symbol names printed
-inside the report are recorded claims and are not verified. Linux ELF cores
-use the separate [recorded crash](recorded-crashes.md) workflow.
+## Joining frames to the crashed Mach-O or dSYM
+
+Pass `join_path` (`--join-path` in the CLI) to select one local Mach-O
+executable or dSYM. UUID bytes in the report and the artifact's `LC_UUID` load
+commands are compared in hexadecimal, so an uppercase `dwarfdump --uuid` value
+and a lowercase report `uuid` match.
+
+```bash
+rea inspect-apple-ips /absolute/path/to/report.ips \
+  --join-path /absolute/path/to/App.app/Contents/MacOS/App --json
+```
+
+Shared-cache image sources `S` and `C` remain unjoined: UUID agreement does not
+establish that a standalone image has the cached layout.
+
+For a FAT container every slice is examined. An image joins only when exactly
+one slice has that UUID **and** an architecture that agrees with the report's
+`arch`; `arm64` and `arm64e` stay distinct, and an all-zero UUID never joins. A
+UUID match with a different architecture, more than one compatible slice, or a
+slice without a readable `__TEXT` segment is reported as a rejected image with
+its reason and stays unjoined rather than being guessed.
+An unknown UUID in another slice prevents a unique join unless its architecture
+rules out a match. Missing or unrecognized architecture and unsupported CPU
+subtypes remain unknown; display-name fallbacks do not establish agreement.
+The parsed slice facts remain available even when no match can be derived.
+
+`join.status` is `selected` with the artifact path, SHA-256, byte length, every
+slice's offset, arch, CPU type and subtype, UUID, and `__TEXT` vmaddr, plus
+`image_matches`, per-frame results, and join-specific limitations. A joined
+frame reports `static_address`, the slice `__TEXT` vmaddr plus the frame's
+recorded `imageOffset`, in decimal and hexadecimal. An unjoined frame reports
+a reason instead; an unknown image UUID, an absent `imageIndex` row, and a
+frame without `imageOffset` all stay unjoined rather than treated as aligned.
+
+An artifact that is not a Mach-O image or FAT container reports
+`join.status: "unreadable"` with a typed reason and leaves every report fact
+intact. Symbol names printed inside the report stay recorded claims. Function
+or symbol lookup at a joined static address, and matching dSYM symbol tables,
+are not performed by this step.
+
+Symbol names printed inside the report are recorded claims and are not
+verified. Linux ELF cores use the separate
+[recorded crash](guides/native/recorded-crashes.md) workflow.

 ## Limits and failures

@@ -102,4 +160,27 @@ success or truncated integer facts.
 rea inspect-apple-ips /absolute/path/to/report.ips --max-integer-text-bytes 16777216 --json
 ```

-This workflow does not execute a target, launch atos, or search for dSYMs.
+`max_join_bytes` (`--max-join-bytes`) independently bounds the join artifact
+read, defaulting to 64 MiB. This workflow does not execute a target, launch
+atos, or search for dSYMs.
+
+## Join admission and failures
+
+The join uses the shared Mach-O container, slice, command-table and segment
+readers. Slice extents and `sizeofcmds` bound every identity observation; duplicate
+UUIDs or malformed commands cannot select the first plausible value. Unreadable
+join results retain the successfully read artifact's path, SHA-256 and byte count.
+
+The integer-text allowance spans the report and join, including repeated integer
+facts and derived static addresses. Reservation precedes derived address
+expansion. If a selected join read, interpretation or allowance fails, the error
+retains the completed IPS report. Join read limits and recovery use
+`max_join_bytes`, even when the report and join paths are identical. Cancellation
+retains the caller's reason independently of those completed facts.
+
+When a failure follows a completed join-file read, `partial_observation` retains
+both the decoded report and a `join_artifact` receipt with the independently
+observed path, SHA-256 and byte count. Frame rejection reasons reference
+`join.limitations`; source-sized architecture diagnostics are retained once per
+image rather than copied into every frame. Universal-image admission includes
+the shared reader's supported hidden ARM64 row and rejects overlapping slices.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ graph TD
    end

    subgraph "Production Composition"
-        COMPOSITION["src/composition/<br/>fresh typed provider and session factories<br/>one-shot binding and independent optional loading<br/>static WASM/EVM descriptors: named contracts, factories, retryable lifetimes"]
+        COMPOSITION["src/composition/<br/>fresh typed provider and session factories<br/>one-shot binding and independent optional loading<br/>typed capability bindings: construction, availability and retryable lifetimes<br/>pure capability declarations feed provider catalogs"]
    end

    subgraph "Adapters"
@@ -21,14 +21,15 @@ graph TD
    subgraph "Application Layer"
        APP["src/application/<br/>Shared CLI/MCP workflows<br/>enhanced analysis and investigations"]
        SESSION["SessionProviderRouter + BinarySession<br/>one immutable deep binding per target<br/>disjoint auxiliary routing"]
-        REGISTRY["AnalysisProviderRegistry<br/>sorted deep candidates<br/>deterministic selection, no fallback"]
+        REGISTRY["AnalysisProviderRegistry<br/>sorted deep candidates<br/>deterministic selection, no fallback<br/>ProviderInspectionScope: prerequisite observation lifetime"]
        RECORDS["src/application/investigation/<br/>composed InvestigationRecords + narrow ports<br/>EvidenceLedger and Unknown ownership"]
-        SNAPSHOT["BinarySessionRecords + AnalysisSnapshotCache<br/>binary target/profile snapshots<br/>compatibility facade and post-commit notifications"]
+        LIFETIMES["CapabilityScope<br/>host-owned service close capabilities<br/>released peers removed; failed cleanup retained for retry"]
+        SNAPSHOT["BinarySessionRecords + AnalysisSnapshotCache<br/>binary target/profile snapshots and session file ownership<br/>record coordination and post-commit notifications"]
        JS_RECON["src/application/javascript/ + src/artifacts/javascript/<br/>JavaScript artifact reconstruction<br/>directory/ASAR reads<br/>AST-only bundle projection"]
    end

    subgraph "Provider Layers (selected adapters)"
-        PROVIDER_OWNERS["src/providers/<br/>shared deferred client and inspection owners<br/>exact cleanup retry and attributed failures"]
+        PROVIDER_OWNERS["src/providers/<br/>shared deferred client owners<br/>exact cleanup retry and attributed failures"]
        PWNTOOLS["src/native/pwntools/ + src/native/pwndbg/<br/>BYO offline ELF/core adapters<br/>owned snapshots/Python and optional core-only GDB<br/>unchanged upstream parsers, ABI structures and mapping API"]
        WASM["src/wasm/<br/>caller-supplied WABT; immutable artifact inspection<br/>owned process supervision and retryable workspace cleanup"]
        APKSIG["src/apkSignature/<br/>in-process APK Signing Block + v1 reader<br/>bounded single read, no device or execution"]
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ graph TD
    end

    subgraph "Domain Layer"
-        DOMAIN["src/domain/<br/>Pure side-effect-free modules<br/>evidence, comparisons, application graphs"]
+        DOMAIN["src/domain/<br/>Pure side-effect-free modules<br/>format declarations, provider selection, Evidence, comparisons, application graphs"]
    end

    subgraph "Configuration"
@@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ graph TD
    MAIN --> COMPOSITION
    CLI --> COMPOSITION
    SERVER --> COMPOSITION
+    COMPOSITION --> LIFETIMES
    COMPOSITION --> SESSION
    APP --> FIRMWARE
    FIRMWARE --> PROCESS
@@ -149,8 +151,7 @@ graph TD
    OBJDUMP --> DOMAIN
    COMPOSITION --> RIZIN
    RIZIN --> DOMAIN
-    CLI --> GDB
-    SERVER --> GDB
+    COMPOSITION --> GDB
    GDB --> PROCESS
    GDB --> DOMAIN
    HOPPER --> HOPPER_BRIDGE
@@ -206,8 +207,7 @@ graph TD
    NATIVE_READERS --> DOMAIN
    COMPOSITION --> FORMAT_READERS
    FORMAT_READERS --> DOMAIN
-    SERVER --> RUNTIME
-    CLI --> RUNTIME
+    COMPOSITION --> RUNTIME
    RUNTIME --> DOMAIN
    PROCESS --> FILESYSTEM
    AUX --> FILESYSTEM
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# Binary hardening
+
+Use `inspect_binary_hardening` to read compile-time and link-time hardening from
+an explicit local ELF, PE, or Mach-O file. No disassembler, pwntools install, or
+target execution is required. Universal Mach-O files return one image per slice.
+
+```sh
+rea inspect-binary-hardening /absolute/path/to/program --json
+rea inspect-binary-hardening /absolute/path/to/program --max-file-bytes 1048576 --json
+```
+
+MCP accepts `{ "path": "/absolute/path/to/program" }`. CLI paths may be relative
+to the current directory; MCP paths must be absolute.
+
+Each image has one row per property: `property`, `state`, `confidence`, `basis`,
+`location`, `note`, and `next_probe`. States are `enabled`, `disabled`,
+`partial`, `unknown`, and `not_applicable`. `confidence` is `observed` for a
+single header or import, and `derived` when the state combines several fields,
+such as ELF PIE or full RELRO. An image's `architecture` is its CPU family, or
+null when REA has no family for it. `machine` and `slice.architecture` keep the
+exact identity, such as `arm64e`.
+
+ELF rows cover PIE (`ET_DYN` with `PT_INTERP` or `DF_1_PIE`), NX (`PT_GNU_STACK`;
+a missing header is `unknown` and the architecture default is only noted), RELRO
+(`PT_GNU_RELRO` plus `BIND_NOW`), stack protector and FORTIFY undefined dynamic
+imports, CET and AArch64 BTI/PAC GNU property notes, `DT_RPATH`, `DT_RUNPATH`, and
+whether a `SHT_SYMTAB` section is present. Only an undefined dynamic import
+counts. Imports come from the table `DT_SYMTAB` declares. A `SHT_DYNSYM` section
+only supplies the symbol count when `DT_HASH` and `DT_GNU_HASH` leave it open,
+and only if it names the same symbol and string tables. Without that count the
+import rows are `unknown` and give the reason. A missing `__stack_chk_fail` or fortify import is `unknown`. That
+absence does not establish that the protection was left out of a static or
+stripped build. A present import is a sign that some code uses the protection,
+not proof that all code does. NX, RELRO, `DT_RPATH`, and `DT_RUNPATH` are
+`not_applicable` when `e_type` is neither `ET_EXEC` nor `ET_DYN`, and `unknown`
+for a linked image with no readable program headers.
+
+PE rows read `DllCharacteristics` for dynamic base, high-entropy VA, NX
+compatibility, force integrity, no SEH, and guard CF. `cfg_instrumented` is the
+load-config `GuardFlags` linker claim when `Size` covers that field. An
+unreadable load configuration, including a TLS failure in that parser, leaves
+only `cfg_instrumented` `unknown`. Authenticode and debug rows report certificate
+and debug directory presence, not signature validity or debug content. A
+directory whose address and size disagree is `unknown`.
+
+Mach-O rows read `MH_PIE`, `MH_ALLOW_STACK_EXECUTION`, `MH_NO_HEAP_EXECUTION`,
+an `__RESTRICT` segment, `LC_CODE_SIGNATURE` presence, encryption from the
+existing encryption reader, the arm64e subtype, and a stack-protector import.
+`hardened_runtime` is `unknown` with `next_probe` `inspect_signature`.
+CodeDirectory flags stay with that tool.
+
+The report states presence of build-time features. It does not state
+exploitability. `inspect_binary_layout` is unchanged.
+
+The default read budget is 64 MiB (`max_file_bytes`, ceiling 512 MiB). A changed
+file is refused. A malformed header, a Mach-O segment or encryption command that fails admission, or a program, section,
+or segment payload declared outside the file returns no partial report, except that one bad slice in a universal Mach-O leaves the other slices. A symbol table or
+symbol name over its budget leaves the import rows `unknown` and keeps the
+header rows. A GNU property note over its budget, or a compressed note section
+that may hold one, leaves the CET and BTI/PAC rows `unknown` and keeps the header
+rows. A dynamic-table budget still fails the ELF report. The image is never
+executed.
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Bun standalone executables
+
+`inspect-artifact` inventories embedded Bun module graphs in Mach-O `__BUN,__bun`,
+PE `.bun`, ELF `.bun`, and appended trailers. `extract-artifact` writes their stored
+module contents through the existing safe output tree. Neither operation executes
+the executable or decompiles bytecode.
+
+```sh
+rea inspect-artifact ./hello --json
+rea extract-artifact ./hello --json
+```
+
+In MCP, open the executable with `open_binary`, then call `inspect_artifact`.
+Use `detail: "summary"` for large graphs and `inspect_analysis_view` to page retained
+Evidence. The root metadata's `entry_point_logical_path` is the reader-owned
+location of its entry module. Use it as an inventory `logical_paths` filter,
+then read selected node fields with the returned content identity. This also
+works for names mapped to indexed extraction paths. The complete Evidence stays
+retained; no source-name normalization is needed in the caller.
+
+The root reports the carrier, layout, module count, entry point, raw flags and
+compile exec-argv. Each module retains its source name, loader and encoding values,
+entry-point status, sizes and SHA-256. Sourcemaps, bytecode and module-info regions
+are separate children. Source names such as `/$bunfs/root/main.js` remain in
+metadata; extraction uses a relative path. Unsafe or non-UTF-8 names receive an
+indexed path and retain their source spelling or bytes. Virtual names deeper
+than the selected `path_parts` allowance (default 256) also use an indexed path with an explicit limitation,
+preventing unbounded path-tree work while retaining the source fact. Duplicate names remain
+separate occurrences; ordinary extraction collision rules apply.
+
+The recognized record shapes are the 36-byte Bun 1.3.3 layout and the 52-byte
+Bun 1.3.9 layout. These labels identify structural layouts, not a detected compiler
+version. Bun does not store an explicit revision identifier: unknown table sizes
+and ambiguous known layouts are unsupported. A future layout that is byte-for-byte
+compatible cannot be distinguished. Invalid pointers and truncated claimed sections
+are malformed. An absent trailer without a named section does not establish a Bun
+graph. Unknown enum values remain raw, with a null name.
+
+Sourcemaps are stored Bun regions, not necessarily standalone JSON source maps.
+Extracted contents retain their original encoding. Use JavaScript analysis only on
+compatible source files; bytecode is retained as evidence, not decoded.
+
+Module parsing reads exact metadata ranges rather than loading stored asset
+bodies or whole pages around small pointers. A cache retains at most 256 KiB
+and 1,024 ranges for one reader preparation. Cumulative uncached metadata reads
+default to 256 MiB, checked before allocation or I/O. The module table,
+decoded strings and combined logical path tree have separate admission checks;
+by default at most 250,000 distinct path prefixes are admitted before inventory construction.
+Stored bodies are range-streamed for hashing and extraction. Header/suffix observations are reused
+only for the same admitted file state, with selected-path checks before publication.
+
+Both artifact operations accept `artifact_limits.bun`. Its independent controls
+are `payload_bytes`, `module_count`, `representation_bytes`, `metadata_read_bytes`,
+`recognition_table_bytes`, `recognition_load_command_bytes`, `path_parts` and
+`path_nodes`. Failed recognition remains explicitly limited instead of proving
+absence. ELF section names are examined at their actual offsets, including names
+beyond a large section-name prefix. Select `artifact_limits.expanded_bytes` to
+change the aggregate referenced-plaintext work allowance.
+
+For a reported metadata-read refusal, keep the same carrier and retry with
+`--artifact-limits '{"bun":{"metadata_read_bytes":536870912}}'` or the equivalent
+MCP `artifact_limits` object. Omitted fields keep defaults. The response names
+the effective limit and exact repair; accepted overrides are reported separately
+from caller selections. Changes apply on the next call without restarting REA.
+Summary and selected extraction do not change the producer's admission.
+
+See [limits and recovery](design/limits-and-recovery.md) for admission ceilings.
+Synthetic tests cover the carriers and malformed declarations. Run
+`node scripts/verify-bun-standalone.mjs` after `npm run build:cached` for local Bun
+verification, and add `--docker` to compile a Linux fixture with `oven/bun:1.4.0`.
+Bun and Docker are fixture producers only and are not installed by REA.
+
+Layout references: [Bun 1.3.3 serializer](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/bun-v1.3.3/src/StandaloneModuleGraph.zig)
+and [Bun 1.3.9 serializer](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/bun-v1.3.9/src/StandaloneModuleGraph.zig).
+
+The current 52-byte record order can also be checked in the
+[Bun 1.4.4 Rust serializer](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/bun-v1.4.4/src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs).
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+# Capability composition and ownership
+
+REA keeps domain contracts and shared workflows separate from provider adapters
+and CLI/MCP translation. A capability can have several provider identities; a
+provider can contribute operations to several capabilities. Those associations
+are source facts, while host availability is an observation.
+
+## Source declarations and runtime bindings
+
+`src/composition/capabilityDeclarations.ts` contains static provider identities,
+named contract-group references and precise operation subsets. Complete groups
+refer to `TOOL_CONTRACT_GROUPS` in the existing contract owner; family definitions
+and provider catalogs read the same arrays, so a new group operation is included
+without updating a copied provider list. Metadata imports only the group ID type
+and pure metadata leaves; it must not load factories, schemas, engines or
+generated catalogs. Catalog generation resolves groups and subsets against the
+canonical contracts and rejects unknown groups/operations and conflicting
+identities. New provider provenance must come from the implementation
+that actually produces the Evidence, including format-specific capture adapters
+and derived workflows.
+
+`src/composition/capabilityServices.ts` binds typed service factories to those
+capability keys. Each runtime entry owns construction, cleanup and any available
+host/configuration facts or live probes. A service entry requires a close
+capability; entries adapting managers retain their existing `closeAll` operation.
+The host maps entries without erasing their individual service/port types. There
+is no generic JSON operation dispatcher.
+
+These two declarations have different loading needs. Static facts can be read
+without loading a schema or provider graph. The full runtime composition is
+materialized only when the MCP runtime needs it. One-shot CLI adapters import the
+selected factory rather than constructing a complete capability host. CLI and MCP
+reuse the same provider/service factories and application workflows, while
+keeping their respective argument translation and lifetime.
+
+## Resource lifetime
+
+`CapabilityScope` registers a module's actual close capability when its instance
+is composed. There is no independent server provider-close list to update.
+Concurrent shutdown calls join the same cleanup attempt. A successful peer is
+removed from pending cleanup; failed peers remain owned and are retried on the
+next close. Synchronous throws and rejections without a reason remain failures,
+and cannot prevent other peers from attempting cleanup. Shutdown seals further
+ownership registration.
+
+The host distinguishes these lifetimes:
+
+- Host-owned service instances are released by that host.
+- Caller-owned optional observations remain borrowed by SDK server instances;
+  their process-level owner closes them, including discarded discovery probes.
+- CLI invocations use their existing finalizers to join cleanup and preserve the
+  original observation, cancellation and cleanup errors.
+- Binary engines, bundle readers and investigation records retain their existing
+  owners. The `BinarySession` transition/drain barrier still coordinates target
+  changes, reset and disposal. A module refactor must not create independent
+  barriers that allow late work to repopulate reset records.
+
+An application workflow may borrow a shared resource scope, such as byte entropy
+using the host's artifact scope. Its wrapper does not acquire a second ownership
+claim over the borrowed scope.
+
+## Availability and registration
+
+Module bindings provide host support, selected configuration and precisely typed
+live availability probes through `CapabilityAvailabilityFacts`. Constructors do
+not run these probes or launch engines. Session discovery invokes the existing
+provider-owned probes only for advertised families; live failures remain fresh
+observations. Caller policy, selected environments and injected providers retain
+their existing precedence.
+
+MCP registration remains in the MCP adapter. It consumes composed services,
+record ports, admission and logging; it must not add fallback constructors that
+can escape the host owner. Named contracts bind handlers and schemas. The complete
+tool-family registrar map is checked by TypeScript, and catalog order never
+selects a handler or schema.
+
+## Extending a capability
+
+1. Add or reuse the domain contract and application workflow, with explicit
+   Evidence provenance, coverage, unknowns and caller choices.
+2. Put concrete construction in `src/composition/` and keep its default factory
+   lazy. Reference adapter-owned pure identity metadata from both the provider
+   and its static capability declaration.
+3. Add the runtime binding if a host-owned service is needed. Bind cleanup and
+   availability/probes there, preserving borrowed versus owned resources.
+4. Add the CLI/MCP argument adapters and their named registrations. A one-shot
+   command uses the shared selected factory and existing finalization helpers.
+5. Run source-boundary, discovery, SDK-schema and relevant public workflow checks.
+   Exercise partial cleanup, retry, cancellation and caller-owned peers at the
+   applicable production seam; use actual applications/providers for routing and
+   complete Evidence verification. Recording ports do not prove real providers.
+
+The constructor boundary guard covers the centralized Frida, Cutter, GDB and
+Rizin constructors without rejecting legitimate type-only injected interfaces.
+Other settled pure/provider boundaries continue checking type imports too. The
+shared parser records module-edge erasure once. Whole-declaration type imports
+are erased; inline type bindings retain their runtime module edge under
+`verbatimModuleSyntax`. Static dynamic imports remain runtime edges too.
+Tests belong with their semantic owner and must be
+found exactly once; provider roots need the corresponding adapter discovery lane.
+
+This is an internal composition contract. External plugin distribution, automatic
+provider installation and a universal provider interface are separate concerns.
+
+The [initial verification report](verification/capability-composition-2026-11-01.md)
+records the executed public workflows, cleanup boundaries, resource measurements
+and remaining provider qualification gaps for this composition increment.
@@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ cancellation can still prevent upload.
 that analysis was complete. A successful operation can retain partial analysis,
 unknowns, and limitations. Exit zero is not a security verdict, proof of complete
 coverage, or a policy gate for those findings. Inspect the saved Evidence and
-coverage before making such a decision. See [output and exit status](cli.md#output-and-exit-status).
+coverage before making such a decision. See [output and exit status](getting-started/cli.md#output-and-exit-status).

 A nonzero exit can represent invalid input, unavailable tooling, an unsupported
 host/capability, or another operation failure. Keep the original JSON error (when
 emitted), stderr, and exit code, and use their category/message to diagnose it.
 An early startup failure may leave `analysis.json` empty; do not parse that as
 successful analysis. Select a supported operation or explicitly provision its
-[documented prerequisites](installation.md); do not silently switch providers,
+[documented prerequisites](getting-started/installation.md); do not silently switch providers,
 execute the artifact, or ignore the failure to obtain a green job.

 To exercise the failure path, temporarily set `ARTIFACT_PATH` to
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Deno compile executables
+
+`inspect-artifact` inventories a `deno compile` executable. `extract-artifact` writes the embedded virtual files through the existing safe output tree. Neither operation runs the executable or the Deno runtime.
+
+```sh
+rea inspect-artifact ./app --json
+rea extract-artifact ./app --json
+```
+
+In MCP, open the executable with `open_binary`, then call `inspect_artifact`. Use `detail: "summary"` for a large virtual filesystem and `inspect_analysis_view` to page retained Evidence.
+
+The recognized carriers are a Mach-O `__SUI` section named `d3n0l4nd`, an Intel Mach-O `<~sui-data~>` trailer, an ELF `PT_NOTE` or `SHT_NOTE` owned by `SUI` with type `0x53554901` and descriptor name `d3n0l4nd`, and a PE `RT_RCDATA` resource named `D3N0L4ND`. These are structural layouts. The metadata JSON has no Deno version field, so the compiler version stays unknown unless another record establishes it. Other layouts, including older eszip trailers, are unsupported.
+
+Root metadata reports the carrier, entry point, argv, V8 flags, permission options, unstable configuration, application name, self-extracting marker, virtual-filesystem case sensitivity, and the npm snapshot byte length. The npm snapshot is not decoded. Each virtual file is one occurrence with its logical path, size, and SHA-256. Transpiled output, CJS export analysis, and source maps are separate occurrences beside that file. Each has the same `index` as the file and its own `role`. A region normally has the logical path of the file plus a `.deno-*` suffix. When that path belongs to another stored file, the region moves to an indexed path such as `deno-vfs/0.vfs-transpiled`, so read the reported `logical_path` instead of building it from the file name. They are not linked by `parent_occurrence_id`, which follows directories and expanded containers. Symlink targets stay recorded path parts and are never followed.
+
+`Metadata.env_vars_from_env_file` holds values from a compile-time `--env-file`, and `ca_data` holds certificate bytes. Inventory retains the variable names and values, certificate bytes, counts, and byte lengths in local Evidence, so sharing that Evidence shares them. Extraction does not write them as files.
+
+A virtual filesystem that cannot be listed reports `vfs_listing` as `unsupported` and leaves inventory and extraction coverage unknown, because its files are not examined.
+
+Remote modules, redirects, and specifiers contribute counts and logical paths when their stored form is unambiguous. When it is not, they stay present with a byte length and an `unsupported` member listing. A module whose specifier is missing uses an indexed `deno-remote/<index>` path, which still exposes its stored bytes, and modules with resolved specifiers keep their paths. Colons, backslashes, and control characters in a specifier are percent-encoded in the logical path, so `http://localhost:8000/mod.ts` becomes `deno-remote/localhost%3A8000/mod.ts`. Percent escapes in a logical path use uppercase hex, and a specifier that reaches a path already taken uses an indexed path. `source_path` keeps the original specifier. A remote specifier is indexed the same way when a path component exceeds 255 UTF-8 bytes or the logical path exceeds 512 UTF-8 bytes, counting the `.deno-*` suffix of its stored regions. Unsafe, deep, or over-long virtual names use `deno-vfs/<index>` under the same rule and retain the original spelling when it fits the name allowance. A descendant does not present its own name as a complete source path when an ancestor spelling was dropped.
+
+A length that overruns the section, or a closing marker that does not match, is malformed. An opening marker that is absent is unsupported. A confirmed section that cannot be parsed fails closed and does not fall through to a plain native inventory. An Intel Mach-O sentinel inside a confirmed trailer payload is data of that payload, so an Intel Deno executable stored as a virtual file does not replace the app that stores it. Trailers side by side with different bytes fail closed. A file is confirmed only by its carrier name, so an unrelated native file with malformed tables keeps its native inventory. That inventory does not establish that the file holds no Deno section.
+
+See [limits and recovery](design/limits-and-recovery.md) for the named allowances. Synthetic tests cover the carriers and malformed declarations. Run `npm run verify:deno:standalone` for a local Deno compile of the host and, when the compiler can produce them, Linux, Windows, and Intel macOS targets. Deno is a fixture producer only and is not installed by REA. The produced executable is not run.
+
+Layout reference: Deno `cli/lib/standalone/binary.rs` and `cli/lib/standalone/virtual_fs.rs` at 2.9.8, with libsui 0.16.4 section placement.
@@ -1,45 +1,145 @@
-# Admission limits and recovery
+# Analysis settings, limits, and recovery

-How to add a REA-owned admission ceiling, budget, or deadline, and what a caller
-does when one is hit. This is a design rule, not an inventory. Ceilings that
-should become settings are tracked in
+This guide explains the runtime settings design for maintainers and developers:
+who owns each value, when an update takes effect, how providers enforce it, and
+how to extend the system. The public tool contract is in
+[MCP contracts](../reference/mcp-contracts.md#editable-analysis-settings); recorded runtime
+checks and their limitations are in the
+[verification report](../verification/runtime-analysis-settings.md).
+
+## Problem and design boundary
+
+A valid workload can exceed a conservative default. An oversized ASAR header
+may prevent analysis of the entire archive; a slow Ghidra function may exceed
+its decompile deadline. Requiring a new REA process to change either budget
+interrupts the investigation and can discard reusable provider state.
+
+REA exposes a curated set of analysis defaults through MCP so callers can
+adjust a reported limit and retry the same workload in the running runtime.
+Each setting has a typed value, resource bounds, an enforcement owner, and a
+defined application point. The design applies across archive admission,
+provider startup, operation deadlines, and worker memory requests.
+
+The setter changes in-memory defaults. It does not edit arbitrary environment
+variables, configuration files, MCP registrations, or provider installations.
+Those mechanisms have different owners and lifetimes. It also cannot change a
+client deadline, extend accepted work, release retained resources, or remove a
+fixed representation limit. Exposing a setting requires a working enforcement
+path, not just an entry in the tool schema.
+
+Further ceilings that should become settings are tracked in
 [#6176](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/6176). Naming honesty for limit
 errors is [#5910](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/5910).

+## Ownership and data flow
+
+| Owner                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Responsibility                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Domain definitions](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/domain/analysisSettingDefinitions.ts) and [types](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/domain/analysisSettings.ts)                            | Exact setting IDs, value types, shared bounds/defaults, units, provider/operation associations, application points, and structured limit metadata. Numeric constants stay with their domain owner. |
+| [Launch parser](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config/analysisSettings.ts)                                                                                                                                | Parse selected launch values once, preserving an invalid value as a typed configuration failure rather than substituting a default.                                                                |
+| [AnalysisSettings](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/application/AnalysisSettings.ts)                                                                                                                        | Own one runtime's launch baseline, immutable override revisions, atomic updates, inspection, and accepted-operation snapshots. It does not own provider lifecycle or cleanup.                      |
+| [Composition](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/main/eagerRuntime.ts) and [typed configuration views](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config/runtimeAnalysisSettings.ts)                        | Inject the same settings reader into providers and workflows; translate overrides into the configuration each consumer understands.                                                                |
+| Provider or resource owner                                                                                                                                                                                              | Resolve the effective budget, enforce it at the applicable boundary, and attach the actual value and known source to failures.                                                                     |
+| [MCP registration boundary](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/server/EvidenceMcpServerCore.ts)                                                                                                               | Enter the operation's settings scope before invoking its handler.                                                                                                                                  |
+| [Settings contracts](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/contracts/analysisSettingsContracts.ts) and [tool registration](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/server/registerAnalysisSettingsTools.ts) | Validate named requests and deliver inspection/update results without requiring an open target or healthy analysis provider.                                                                       |
+
+The normal path is: composition creates the store, an MCP handler captures its
+current revision, and providers read that snapshot when resolving budgets.
+If an owner rejects work, it reports the effective limit through the shared
+error projection. A subsequent settings update publishes a new revision for
+later handlers. It does not reach into the failed operation or retry it.
+
+### Accepted-operation snapshots
+
+`AnalysisSettings.run()` installs the current immutable snapshot in
+`AsyncLocalStorage`. Its `read` function returns that snapshot inside the
+operation and the latest revision outside it. Providers depend on the reader
+contract rather than on the mutable store or an ambient environment lookup.
+
+Acceptance here is entry into the registered handler's settings scope, not
+arrival of bytes at the MCP transport. Work queued or awaited within that scope
+keeps its snapshot. Deferred server initialization must still dispatch through
+the canonical scoped handler.
+
+| Event                                                     | Revision used                       |
+| --------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
+| Operation A enters its handler, then waits for a provider | Current revision 0                  |
+| A settings update publishes revision 1                    | Future handlers can read revision 1 |
+| Operation A resumes and starts its worker                 | Its accepted revision 0             |
+| Operation B enters its handler                            | Revision 1                          |
+
+This gives each operation stable budget semantics even if another connection
+updates settings while it waits. `next_worker` and `next_startup` describe where
+an accepted value is applied; they do not cause workers or startups belonging
+to an older operation to adopt a newer revision.
+
+Inspection deliberately reads the store's current defaults, rather than the
+calling operation's snapshot. It reports `active_values.status: "not_observed"`:
+an inspection result cannot establish the budget or remaining time of an
+already-running worker.
+
+### Composition and embedding
+
+The MCP runtime creates one store and supplies its reader to provider factories.
+`createServer` uses a supplied store or creates one, and wires its default
+providers to that store. An embedder supplying a custom binary session or other
+provider must also inject the same reader into that provider's composition and
+pass the store to `createServer`. Merely exposing the settings tools cannot
+make a custom provider consume updates.
+
+Keep default factories, explicitly supplied providers, transport composition,
+and deferred handler dispatch covered separately where their wiring differs.
+Resolve settings at the operation boundary; copying a runtime value into a
+provider constructor would freeze it at launch. For entrypoints outside the
+MCP wrapper, an embedder needing the same snapshot guarantee must establish
+the operation scope with `AnalysisSettings.run()`.
+
 ## Name a default, then a setting when operators need headroom

 Put the number in a named constant with a unit. Do not leave it as a magic
 number at the call site.

 When a workload may need more room, add a setting whose unset value is that
-constant. One module under
-[`src/config/`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config) owns the
-default, any floor, the maximum, the schema, the parser, and the recovery
-text. Register that schema on `environmentSchema` in
-[`environment.ts`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config/environment.ts).
-`parseConfig` calls `parseEnvironment`. Doctor uses that same parser through
-`nativeAnalysisConfigurationError`, so startup and `rea doctor` accept the
-same values. Add the name to `SELECTED_REGISTRATION_SETTINGS` so `rea setup`
-copies it into the client registration. Unset keeps today's behavior. An
-invalid value is a `ConfigurationError` and projects as `configuration_invalid`.
-Do not fall back to the default.
+constant. Pure numeric contracts live in `src/domain/analysisResourceLimits.ts`
+or their existing domain owner. `analysisSettingDefinitions.ts` binds the
+curated runtime IDs to those same bounds, defaults and application points.
+Environment parsers and recovery text stay under `src/config/`; register launch
+schemas on `environmentSchema` so startup and doctor agree. Add launch settings
+to `SELECTED_REGISTRATION_SETTINGS` when setup should forward them. Unset keeps
+today's behavior. An invalid launch value remains a configuration failure,
+never a silent fallback; its validation boundary determines whether MCP can
+start (see [invalid launch configuration](#invalid-launch-configuration)). An
+invalid runtime write is `invalid_request` and changes nothing.

-[`REA_REGEX_MATCHING_DEADLINE_MS`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config/regexMatchingDeadline.ts)
-([#6267](https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/6267)) is the reference. Default
-5000 ms, floor 1 ms, maximum 2147483647 ms, because Node schedules a longer
-`setTimeout` delay as 1 ms. Setup copies the setting. A hit says:
-
-> The effective REA_REGEX_MATCHING_DEADLINE_MS value is 5000 ms (source default; default 5000 ms, floor 1 ms, maximum 2147483647 ms). Set REA_REGEX_MATCHING_DEADLINE_MS in the environment that starts REA to a positive decimal integer from 1 to 2147483647, then restart REA. The worker old-generation heap does not raise this deadline.
+For example, `regex.matching_deadline_ms` and its launch seed
+`REA_REGEX_MATCHING_DEADLINE_MS` share a 5000 ms default, 1 ms floor and
+2147483647 ms maximum. Node schedules a longer `setTimeout` delay as 1 ms.
+Changing the runtime setting affects the next accepted search; changing the
+launch environment affects the next REA process.

 [`REA_MCP_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config/mcpResponseBudget.ts)
 is the byte-budget shape: a decimal safe integer with a 10 MiB floor
 (`MINIMUM_RESPONSE_BYTES`), the same shared schema, and no silent fallback. A
 change needs a REA restart and a matching client receive buffer. It does not
-raise REA's reserved string limit or Node's string ceiling. The setup
-allowlist does not copy this setting. A new headroom setting should, following
-the regex deadline.
+raise REA's reserved string limit or Node's string ceiling. Like the regex
+deadline, it is in `SELECTED_REGISTRATION_SETTINGS`, so setup forwards an
+explicit selection into the client registration.

-A per-call budget is not an environment setting. JavaScript `max_heap_mb`
+Windows ChangeTime admission waits out a fresh timestamp before recording a
+baseline. `REA_WINDOWS_CHANGE_TIME_DRIFT_MS` (default 2000 ms, floor 1 ms,
+maximum 60000 ms), `REA_WINDOWS_CHANGE_TIME_SETTLE_POLL_MS` (default 25 ms,
+floor 1 ms, maximum 1000 ms), and `REA_WINDOWS_CHANGE_TIME_SETTLE_MAX_POLLS`
+(default 40, floor 1, maximum 1000) are launch settings. Unset keeps those
+defaults. An invalid value is a configuration error: it names the setting, the
+rejected value, source `setting`, the default, the floor, and the maximum, and
+says to set a positive decimal integer in the environment that starts REA and
+then restart REA. There is no runtime override. Setup forwards an explicit
+selection. When the poll budget runs out, admission keeps the last observation
+instead of failing the readable file. Raising a setting only changes how long
+that wait can last. It does not change Windows ChangeTime itself.
+
+A per-call budget can have a runtime default without having an environment
+setting. JavaScript `max_heap_mb`
 (CLI `--max-heap-mb`) is an integer from 128 to 16384 MiB, default 1024. It
 applies on the next analysis, which starts a new worker, and does not restart
 REA. It does not raise the parent result budget, transfer ceilings, or fixed
@@ -51,8 +151,189 @@ does: its recovery says to set `NODE_OPTIONS` (for example
 `--max-old-space-size=<MiB>`) on the process that starts REA, then restart
 that process. `max_heap_mb` does not raise it.

+## Runtime settings through MCP
+
+`inspect_analysis_settings` lists the curated settings, their current and launch
+values, source, bounds, application point and relevant operation names. Filters
+by exact setting IDs, provider or operation intersect. Active worker values are explicitly `not_observed`; a configured default is
+not a measurement of active work. Inspection also separates known server limits from unknown client deadlines and receive buffers.
+
+`update_analysis_settings` accepts an atomic `changes` array. Each entry names
+an exact `setting` and either `action: "set"` with a schema-validated `value`, or
+`action: "reset"`. Reset restores the launch value. `expected_revision` is an
+optional compare-and-set guard; conflicts and duplicate keys change nothing.
+An unchanged write does not advance the revision.
+
+The revision tracks override state, not only effective numeric values. Setting
+an explicit override equal to the launch value still changes its source to
+`runtime` and advances the revision. Reset removes that override, even if the
+effective number stays the same. Validation, revision checks, and duplicate-key
+checks all happen before publishing the replacement snapshot; a rejected batch
+cannot partially apply. Clients coordinating writes can supply
+`expected_revision`; without it, valid updates apply to the current state.
+
+| Runtime setting                                                                                                 | Application point                                                               |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `asar.max_header_bytes`                                                                                         | Next archive operation, including full JavaScript application analysis          |
+| `asar.max_listing_bytes`                                                                                        | Next expanded ASAR listing, independently of packed header bytes                |
+| `ghidra.startup_timeout_ms`, `hopper.startup_timeout_ms`                                                        | Next provider startup attempt                                                   |
+| `ghidra.decompile_timeout_seconds`                                                                              | Next operation on the existing Ghidra Program; `null` means unbounded           |
+| `ghidra.decompile_max_payload_mib`                                                                              | Next native decompile; `null` preserves the selected provider's payload default |
+| `ghidra.value_flow_max_operations`, `ghidra.value_flow_max_inputs_per_operation`, `ghidra.value_flow_max_edges` | Next function value-flow projection on the existing Program                     |
+| `jadx.operation_timeout_ms`                                                                                     | Next JADX operation                                                             |
+| `regex.matching_deadline_ms`, `regex.worker_heap_request_mib`                                                   | Next search / new regex worker                                                  |
+| `capture.decoder_old_generation_mib`                                                                            | Next owned capture decoder                                                      |
+| `javascript.analysis_timeout_ms`, `javascript.max_heap_mb`                                                      | Next source analysis / new JavaScript worker                                    |
+| `wasm.command_timeout_ms`                                                                                       | Next WABT operation                                                             |
+| `native.matching_representation_bytes`                                                                          | Next `match_native_functions` request                                           |
+
+### Precedence and lifetime
+
+Where a setting supports an explicit per-call argument, precedence is:
+
+1. The caller's explicit argument.
+2. The accepted operation's runtime override.
+3. Valid launch configuration, where that setting has an environment seed.
+4. The built-in default when launch configuration is absent.
+
+An invalid launch value does not fall through to the built-in default. Preserve
+omitted caller arguments in Evidence: resolving an internal default must not
+rewrite the request as though the caller supplied it. `null` is the explicit
+unbounded value for `ghidra.decompile_timeout_seconds`; it is not a substitute
+for an unknown or omitted value elsewhere.
+
+A write does not extend active work, relaunch a provider, clear retained
+cleanup, or invalidate successful Evidence.
+
+Expanded ASAR listing admission defaults to 64 MiB and has its own launch seed,
+`REA_ASAR_MAX_LISTING_BYTES`. Raising `asar.max_header_bytes` alone cannot admit
+expanded paths and entries that exceed this separate budget. The listing bound
+uses exact safe-integer byte accounting; the host heap and transport constraints
+remain independent. A lower runtime value is enforced on the next listing even
+when the archive header was already examined.
+
+Ghidra value-flow controls default to 3,000 operations, 64 inputs per operation,
+and 12,000 edges. They accept positive Java integer counts and use the respective
+`REA_GHIDRA_VALUE_FLOW_MAX_OPERATIONS`,
+`REA_GHIDRA_VALUE_FLOW_MAX_INPUTS_PER_OPERATION`, and
+`REA_GHIDRA_VALUE_FLOW_MAX_EDGES` launch seeds. Truncation names the exhausted
+control. Completed Evidence remains accessible, but a new function dossier is
+observed with the accepted controls instead of replaying an earlier projection.
+
+The native decompiler payload control is separate from those projections and
+from decompile time. Its launch seed is
+`REA_GHIDRA_DECOMPILE_MAX_PAYLOAD_MIB`. Accepted explicit values are 1..2047 MiB:
+the supported Ghidra implementation shifts that value into a signed integer byte
+capacity. Omission or runtime `null` keeps the provider's own default; REA does
+not guess that default from a different provider version. Changing payload
+options takes effect before the next native decompile.
+
+### Per-call resource policies and selection
+
+An agent can also use controls declared directly by an operation. These do not
+require a runtime setter or restart. Keep omitted fields omitted in Evidence;
+report the resolved policy separately where needed. See the owning guides for
+[Apktool string pages](../guides/android/apktool-resource-analysis.md),
+[source maps](../guides/web/web-source-location.md),
+[historical captures](../guides/web/web-network-captures.md),
+[JavaScript precision](../guides/javascript/javascript-application-graph.md),
+[managed inspection](../guides/managed/managed-code-analysis.md), and
+[Frida capture](../guides/runtime/frida-instrumentation.md).
+
+The same accepted policy must reach acquisition, parsing, worker requests,
+serialization, cached-result admission and generated consumers where those
+stages exist. Desktop state views and emitted AgentEnv Python share one policy;
+delivery pagination never substitutes for producer selection. Capture limits
+must be selected before an experiment: another experiment cannot recover bytes
+that were dropped from a previous live observation.
+
+Overrides belong to one REA runtime, survive target close/open, and disappear
+when REA exits. Connections sharing that runtime share its overrides. No files,
+ambient environment, registrations or upstream software are edited. Overrides
+are runtime-wide, not scoped to a target or an individual connection.
+
+### Failure and retry
+
+An ASAR admission error supplies `details.limit` with the exact setting,
+effective value, units, bounds, scope, application point, restart requirement
+and, when known, required bytes and value source. The agent can immediately call:
+
+```json
+{
+  "changes": [
+    { "setting": "asar.max_header_bytes", "action": "set", "value": 33554432 }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Then retry the same full-archive request once work and cleanup have settled.
+No preliminary inspection or source subset is required. The setter does not
+retry automatically. If an explicit per-call value caused the failure, correct
+that argument; raising a runtime default cannot override it.
+
+The resource owner constructs `details.limit` from the registry plus the budget
+it actually enforced. Metadata includes `agent_editable: true`,
+`scope: "rea-runtime"`, and `rea_restart_required: false`. Optional
+`required_value`, `source`, and `parameter` fields are supplied only where known
+or applicable. Do not infer a source because a value happens to equal a default.
+Error copying, attribution, redaction, and delivery must preserve these facts.
+Human-readable remediation explains the same failure; clients should not need
+to parse that sentence to identify an editable setting.
+
+`scope` and `applies_at` describe a continuing caller, such as an MCP
+connection. A one-shot invocation, such as a CLI command, has released its
+provider session and exited its runtime before its caller reads the failure,
+so its adapter projects with an explicit `"invocation"` caller lifetime.
+`details.limit` then keeps every other field and reports
+`scope: "rea-invocation"`, `applies_at: "next_invocation"` and the launch
+`environment` seed when one exists. `agent_editable: true` still holds, because
+the caller chooses that environment value or per-call `parameter` for the new
+invocation; `rea_restart_required: false` means no running REA process needs a
+restart. A producer keeps guidance that holds only while its caller retains the
+session, such as "the Ghidra session remains usable" or a same-session runtime
+update, in `continuingCallerGuidance`; the shared presentation adds it only for
+a continuing caller. The producer's own message and remediation must stay true
+after the session is released. A composed error records each embedded child
+failure through `childFailureDiagnostics`, which snapshots it at composition
+for both lifetimes when they differ, so cleanup history keeps its state and
+the final projection selects the caller's form. Failures retained inside
+Evidence keep the continuing form, so CLI and MCP Evidence stay identical.
+
+Cache policy is part of enforcement. Successful reusable analysis can survive
+a budget update. Transient Ghidra decompile failures remain uncached so a raised
+deadline can recover on the same Program. Admission checks still apply to reused
+data: lowering an ASAR limit must reject a cached oversized header. Neither
+raising a limit nor clearing a transient analysis failure authorizes skipping
+cleanup or changing the identity of the provider session.
+
+### Invalid launch configuration
+
+Launch validation has two relevant boundaries. Settings validated by global
+configuration parsing can prevent REA from starting; an MCP setter cannot
+repair a server that is not running. Correct the launch environment or
+registration, use `rea doctor` for its configuration checks, and start REA again.
+
+Provider-local validation can leave MCP available. For example, an invalid
+`REA_JADX_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS` is inspectable with `source: "invalid"`, a
+`configuration_error`, and omitted `value` and `launch_value`. A valid runtime
+override repairs the effective JADX timeout without editing that launch seed.
+Inspection then reports the runtime value while retaining the launch error.
+Reset exposes the invalid launch state again; it does not repair or replace it
+with the built-in default. Provider availability and execution must resolve the
+same effective setting so readiness changes along with repair and reset.
+`REA_NATIVE_MATCHING_REPRESENTATION_BYTES` is validated the same way, by
+`match_native_functions` alone.
+
 ## Keep a fixed ceiling honest

+Inspection's separate
+[constraints](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/server/analysisSettingsConstraints.ts)
+describe operator-owned, external, and fixed controls. REA can report its
+configured response budget and parent heap limit; client deadlines and receive
+buffers remain explicitly unknown. These are not entries accepted by the
+runtime setter. Raising a worker heap request cannot raise the parent heap,
+and raising a provider deadline cannot make the client wait longer.
+
 If the ceiling must stay fixed, say so in the failure. Name the limit and the
 effective value, say this release has no runtime override, and name what does
 not raise it. Do not invent a setting.
@@ -68,20 +349,24 @@ The string the caller sees includes:

 - the limit or setting name
 - the effective value and unit
- the source (`default` or `setting`)
+- the source when known (`default`, `setting`, `runtime`, or `request`)
 - the default, the maximum, and the floor when the setting has one
 - the next action, including where to set it ("in the environment that starts REA")
 - whether a restart is required
 - what the change does not raise

-Invalid settings never take this path. They are `configuration_invalid`.
-Doctor reports `runtime-configuration:<setting>` and says to correct it in the
-shell or the MCP registration, then rerun.
+Distinguish an invalid configuration from a valid budget exhausted by work.
+Preserve the configuration failure and its setting identity; apply the
+[launch validation boundary](#invalid-launch-configuration) when describing
+whether live repair is possible.

 ## What agents do

-Follow `remediation.action`. Change a request field or a `REA_*` setting only
-when that text recommends the change. Restart only when it says the value is
+Use `details.limit` for a direct runtime update when it names an editable
+setting with `scope: "rea-runtime"`. For `scope: "rea-invocation"`, set its
+`environment` or `parameter` for a new invocation instead.
+Follow `remediation.action` for per-call, fixed and external controls.
+Inspect settings only when bounds or application details are missing. Restart only when it says the value is
 read at startup. A sentence that a control does not raise the limit is not a
 request to change it.

@@ -103,22 +388,183 @@ request to change it.
 - `resource_constraint` for capacity, when `retryable` is true: wait for the
  active admission to finish, then retry within the reported limits. Do not
  restart REA to free the slot.
- `configuration_invalid`: correct the named setting in the environment that
-  starts REA, then start REA again. Run `rea doctor` for the
+- `configuration_invalid`: when MCP remains available and the failure belongs
+  to a curated provider-local setting, inspect and set a valid runtime override.
+  Otherwise correct the named setting in the environment that starts REA, then
+  start REA again. Run `rea doctor` for the
  `runtime-configuration:` check. Re-run `rea setup` for that client when the
  setting is on the registration allowlist, then reconnect so the new process
  sees it.
- `invalid_request`: correct the reported fields from the current schema or
-  CLI help. Do not repeat the unchanged call.
+- `invalid_request`: follow the specific recovery and reported issue. Inspect
+  the schema or CLI help when the input violates the contract or the response
+  asks for `inspect_input_contract`. A valid selector can instead require a
+  different choice, such as selecting a reported address; an inventory miss
+  does not establish that the target lacks the item. Do not repeat the
+  unchanged call when the response says it cannot succeed unchanged.

-A restart is required for an environment setting and for a client still
-running the previous registration. It is not the first step for a transient
+A restart is required to adopt a changed launch environment or registration.
+The curated runtime settings above require no REA restart. It is not the first step for a transient
 MCP drop, a capacity wait, or retained cleanup.

-## Tests
+## Adding a runtime setting

-Lock the unset default, one accepted override, rejected floor, maximum, and
-syntax, and the recovery sentence through `parseEnvironment` and `parseConfig`.
+1. Identify the enforcing owner and the real resource constraint. Decide whether
+   callers need a per-call argument, a runtime default, a launch-only control,
+   or a fixed limit. A registry entry must not advertise authority REA lacks.
+2. Define the value type and named numeric bounds with the domain owner. Add the
+   ID and metadata to `analysisSettings.ts` and `analysisSettingDefinitions.ts`.
+   Reuse those bounds in runtime validation, launch parsing, and error metadata.
+   Choose the application point and provider/operation associations from actual
+   consumers; a shared control need not apply to every provider.
+3. If there is a launch seed, add its parser and appropriate configuration/doctor
+   validation. Decide whether an invalid value blocks the runtime or only the
+   provider. Add it to setup's `SELECTED_REGISTRATION_SETTINGS` when it should
+   be forwarded; runtime editability does not automatically propagate it.
+4. Thread the shared reader through every applicable composition path. Resolve
+   the effective value within the accepted operation, honor explicit arguments,
+   and preserve their omission in Evidence. Keep availability checks consistent
+   with execution. A worker heap request must not be described as a measured
+   process memory limit.
+5. Enforce the value at its resource boundary and construct structured limit
+   facts there. Preserve those facts through shared error projection and copies.
+   Check cache reuse, lowered admission, transient failures, and retained cleanup
+   against the same ownership rules.
+6. Update the public contracts and affected guides, then regenerate catalogs
+   and packaged skill metadata using the repository commands. Keep externally
+   owned and fixed controls in the separate inspection constraints, not in the
+   editable registry. Validate both store semantics and a public recovery path.
+
+## Tests and verification
+
+Cover the unset default, accepted overrides, rejected floor/maximum values,
+and invalid syntax through the owning parser and configuration boundary.
 [`regexMatchingDeadline.test.ts`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/src/config/regexMatchingDeadline.test.ts)
-is the pattern. Project the failure and assert `configuration_invalid` for a
-bad value and the recovery wording for a hit.
+is one example. Assert error codes, setting IDs, values, units, provenance,
+application points, and resulting behavior. Check that adapters deliver the
+canonical recovery guidance, with independent assertions for its underlying
+facts. Avoid freezing prose or deriving all expected values from the same
+registry used by the implementation; either can hide the wrong failure.
+See [test design](../development/testing.md#test-design-and-pruning) for the assertion policy.
+
+Runtime checks cover atomic validation, stale writes, reset, runtime isolation,
+accepted-operation snapshots, and explicit argument precedence. Public MCP
+acceptance must reject an oversized ASAR, raise admission, and successfully
+retry the same complete archive on the same connection. Lowering admission must
+also refuse previously cached headers. The real Ghidra timeout verifier checks
+recovery after a live update without replacing its session. Also cover invalid
+provider-local launch configuration, repair/reset availability, default and
+custom composition paths, and preservation of structured limits through error
+copies. Gates used to overlap work and updates need bounded acknowledgements
+and release/join in `finally`.
+
+The [verification report](../verification/runtime-analysis-settings.md) separates
+public MCP checks, simulated provider coverage, real Ghidra execution, and
+measured task costs. It does not establish real-provider behavior for every
+editable setting or active worker telemetry.
+
+## Bun standalone module graphs
+
+`inspect_artifact` and `extract_artifact` accept per-call `artifact_limits`.
+The `bun` group defaults to 100,000 modules, independent 256 MiB payload,
+retained-representation and physical metadata-read allowances, 256 path parts
+and 250,000 logical path nodes. Recognition separately admits a 1 MiB ELF
+section table and 16 MiB Mach-O load commands. Exhausted recognition remains
+unknown rather than proving the carrier has no Bun graph. Inventory preserves
+native-root facts or another confirmed pack and reports the exact unexamined
+alternative inline; it does not assert Bun presence. ELF section names
+are examined with exact bounded reads, including names beyond the former
+prefix window.
+
+For example, keep the same complete carrier and retry a reported recognition
+limitation with `{"artifact_limits":{"bun":{"recognition_table_bytes":2097152}}}`.
+The CLI spelling is `--artifact-limits '{"bun":{"recognition_table_bytes":2097152}}'`.
+No REA restart is needed. A smaller later selection is re-admitted; previously
+parsed facts cannot bypass it. The 256 KiB / 1,024-entry exact-range cache
+avoids full-page amplification and remains an internal optimization, not an agent
+resource setting. Shared logical path prefixes count once before nodes are added.
+
+## Artifact reader admission
+
+The same request provides `dotnet_bundle`, `node_sea` and `godot` groups. Their
+controls apply when recognition or inventory encounters that format; supplying
+a policy does not assert the format is present. Unsupported keys are rejected.
+Each group follows one domain-owned default policy. See [.NET bundles](../dotnet-bundles.md),
+[Node SEA](../node-sea.md), [Godot PCK](../godot-pck.md) and
+[Bun standalone](../bun-standalone.md) for format semantics.
+
+`artifact_limits.expanded_bytes` selects aggregate plaintext work for ZIP, Bun,
+SEA and PCK readers, including repeated readable logical occurrences. Omission
+retains each archive's encoded-size-derived default. The .NET bundle group's
+own `expanded_bytes` controls its independently enforced bundle expansion.
+
+Failures preserve `details.reader_limit` with the exact parameter, effective
+value, units, supported range, required value when known, next-call scope and
+`can_increase`. When `can_increase` is true, raise that field and retry the same
+complete artifact. At the supported maximum, or when the required representation
+exceeds it, the failure is not retryable by increasing that budget; inspect the
+declared dimensions and input validity, or explicitly choose a suitable reader.
+Summary, pagination and
+selected extraction do not bypass producing admission. Intrinsic format,
+safe-integer, path validity and runtime representation constraints remain fixed.
+
+Evidence parameters retain the exact selected object, including omission or
+`{}`. When an object was selected, inventory and extraction report the resolved
+`effective_limits`; summaries preserve those facts. These are accepted policies,
+not process-memory telemetry or a claim that every format reader ran. Complete
+source identities and graph manifests remain content-addressed independently
+of delivery selection. No partial extraction is claimed on admission failure.
+
+## Deno compile sections
+
+`MAX_DENO_METADATA_JSON_BYTES` admits at most 8 MiB of metadata JSON.
+`MAX_DENO_VFS_HEADER_JSON_BYTES` admits at most 32 MiB of virtual-filesystem
+header JSON. Specifier, redirect, and remote tables each admit at most 100,000
+records. Specifier text admits at most 8 MiB, and remote module bodies admit at
+most 256 MiB. The virtual filesystem admits at most 100,000 directory, file,
+and symlink records and at most 512 nested levels (`MAX_DENO_VFS_DEPTH`). A
+name longer than 4,096 UTF-16 code units is indexed and is not retained.
+`MAX_DENO_VFS_RETAINED_UNITS` admits at most 32 million UTF-16 code units across
+the source path built for every entry, directories included, and retained
+symlink parts. A logical path deeper than 256 parts, a name that is not a safe
+relative path, a path component longer than 255 UTF-8 bytes
+(`MAX_DENO_PATH_COMPONENT_BYTES`, POSIX `NAME_MAX`), or a logical path longer
+than 512 UTF-8 bytes (`MAX_DENO_LOGICAL_PATH_BYTES`, half of the Darwin
+`PATH_MAX`) uses an indexed path and keeps the original spelling when that
+spelling is within the name allowance. Component and path lengths include the
+`.deno-*` suffix of the stored regions a member has. A descendant has no source
+path when an ancestor spelling was not retained. Cancellation is checked before
+the virtual-filesystem walk. The walk does not yield, so it does not observe a
+cancellation that arrives while it is running; the retained allowance bounds its
+work. The combined logical path tree admits at most 250,000 distinct prefixes.
+`MAX_DENO_RETAINED_BYTES` admits at most 256 MiB of retained header and entry
+metadata. The shared artifact expansion budget also bounds the sum of referenced
+member lengths, with a 256 MiB floor.
+
+Carrier location claims a file only after it confirms the carrier name: a
+Mach-O `__SUI` segment, a `SUI` ELF note descriptor named `d3n0l4nd`, a PE
+`D3N0L4ND` resource, or an Intel trailer opening with `d3n0l4nd`. Before that,
+malformed tables and exhausted search budgets leave the file with native
+inventory, and that inventory makes no claim that the file holds no Deno
+section. ELF location reads ELF and note headers, not the whole image, and does
+not hash note descriptors. An ELF larger than 512 MiB is still located when
+those headers fit. Program and section tables are read at their canonical record
+size, so the 16-bit header count bounds each read at 65,535 records. A table
+that cannot be read, or that uses extended program numbering, is skipped and
+another table can still hold the note. At most 256 notes are examined
+(`MAX_INSPECT_ELF_NOTE_ENTRIES`). A damaged table or the note ceiling is a
+refusal only when a `SUI` note was also confirmed. Intel Mach-O trailer search
+reads each scanned byte at most once and examines at most 64 `<~sui-data~>`
+sentinels (`MAX_DENO_INTEL_TRAILER_SENTINELS`). The search continues past a
+confirmed trailer, because an enclosing trailer can hold it as a stored file, so
+reaching that allowance after a confirmation is a refusal. PE location walks the resource directories to the named payload and
+does not read the image whole, so a PE of any size is located when the
+`D3N0L4ND` payload is within the 512 MiB resource reader ceiling. A larger
+payload, or a confirmed resource that cannot be resolved, is a named refusal.
+Refusals name the boundary. There is no runtime override; additional host memory
+or `NODE_OPTIONS` does not raise these ceilings. Duplicate-section verification
+rejects unequal lengths before hashing, stops at the first digest mismatch,
+and reads at most the carrier file size in aggregate
+payload bytes. Overlapping copies that exceed that allowance are refused.
+Environment-file values and CA certificate bytes are retained in local Evidence
+with their counts and byte lengths. The npm snapshot length is retained and its
+bytes are not decoded.
@@ -0,0 +1,445 @@
+# Desktop application capture
+
+`rea capture-desktop-application` launches an installed Linux desktop
+application, watches it while a person or a driver uses it, and records what
+it is, which windows it opened and how the files under the home directory
+changed. The result is the starting point for turning the application into an
+agent environment: the inventory says how to install and launch it, the windows
+say how to recognise it, and the checkpoints hold the state it read and wrote.
+
+The application runs with the current user's permissions, in the current
+desktop session, against the user's real files. This is not a sandbox. The
+capture folder keeps copies of real files from the home directory, so treat it
+as private data and keep it local.
+
+## Host support
+
+Capture runs on Linux with an X11 display: `DISPLAY` must be set, and `xprop`
+(from `x11-utils`) must be installed, or `REA_XPROP_COMMAND` must name it.
+The window manager must support the EWMH client list (`_NET_CLIENT_LIST`,
+listed in `_NET_SUPPORTED`), as xfwm4, Mutter, KWin and Openbox do; without it
+the capture is refused, because no window could be seen. A supported list that
+is unset, as xfwm4 leaves it while no window is open, means no windows. Applications that run under XWayland are visible;
+native Wayland windows are not. Other hosts are refused before anything is
+launched.
+
+## Capture an application
+
+Name the application by its desktop entry id, the entry's absolute path, or an
+executable:
+
+```sh
+rea capture-desktop-application --desktop-entry org.xfce.mousepad --output ./mousepad-capture
+rea capture-desktop-application --executable gnucash --argument /home/ada/books.gnucash --output ./gnucash-capture
+```
+
+Desktop entries are looked up in `$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications` and then each
+`$XDG_DATA_DIRS` directory; an entry installed as a symbolic link, as flatpak
+and Nix do, is followed to its file. The entry's `Exec` line is expanded with no files;
+`--argument` values are appended in its place, and the application runs in the
+entry's `Path` or the home directory. When the line starts with
+`env NAME=value`, the program is found on the `PATH` those assignments set,
+with an empty or relative entry read from the folder the application runs
+in, and their XDG folders name the state directories. Otherwise the program is
+looked up on the host's `PATH` in the order the launch searches it, and one
+found only through a relative or empty entry is refused, since the exported
+computer would not have that entry. An `--executable` runs from
+the current directory, as it would from a shell, and a relative path to it is
+resolved there.
+
+A nested desktop file uses a dashed ID: `vendor/app.desktop` has ID
+`vendor-app`. REA checks path spellings that can encode that ID within each
+XDG root before trying the next root. Unrelated directories do not affect
+selection. If an applicable path cannot be examined or the bounded search
+cannot establish absence, capture reports an incomplete desktop-entry search
+rather than selecting a different application from a later root.
+
+Desktop-entry string values retain literal trailing spaces. For example,
+`Path=/tmp/workspace ` and `Path=/tmp/workspace\s` name the same directory
+ending in a space. Use the escaped spelling to make such a suffix visible.
+
+Before writing anything the command refuses to start if a window of the
+application is already open, or if the window list cannot be read. A launch
+beside a running instance can hand off to it, and that instance's unsaved
+state would be missing from the baseline. It then records the starting state,
+launches the application in its own process group with a run token in its
+environment, and reads commands from stdin, one per line. The application gets
+REA's environment without the `AGENTENV_*` variables an agent environment sets,
+such as its control token: an app the exported computer launches never has
+them, and an app captured inside a computer must not hold a credential to it.
+It also gets `LIBC_FATAL_STDERR_=1`, so glibc writes a fatal error, such as
+an abort's reason, to the app's stderr rather than its terminal, and an app
+that exits at launch reports it.
+
+| Line                                        | Effect                                                      |
+| ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
+| empty, `checkpoint`, or `checkpoint <name>` | Record the current state as a checkpoint                    |
+| any other text except `stop`                | Record a checkpoint named by that text                      |
+| `stop`, or the end of stdin                 | Record a final checkpoint, close the application and finish |
+
+An unnamed checkpoint is named `checkpoint-<ms>` after its time in the
+session. A name that repeats an earlier checkpoint, or is one of the capture's
+own names (`baseline`, `stop`, `time-limit`, `exit`), is refused with a
+progress line on stderr; no checkpoint is taken and the session continues.
+
+Name the checkpoints a later step reads by what they mark. The
+[export](desktop-application-export.md) seeds the bundle from the baseline
+unless `--seed-checkpoint` names another, and a
+[task](desktop-application-tasks.md) is checked against the last checkpoint
+unless `--end-checkpoint` names another. So one capture can build a seed and
+then the change: launch the app, create and save the document, send
+`checkpoint seed`, make the edit and save it, send `checkpoint end`, then
+`stop`.
+
+The session also finishes when the launched process has exited and the
+application's processes and windows are all gone in two consecutive samples,
+or when `--max-duration-seconds` passes. Before deciding the processes are
+gone, the capture looks for any process still carrying the run token, so a
+worker whose launcher exited before it was sampled keeps the session open. A
+sample whose window list could not be read is not taken as an empty one; the
+limitations say how many there were. One queued line is handled between
+samples, and reading stdin pauses while 16 lines wait.
+
+Progress lines on stderr are JSON, `{"rea_progress": {"phase":
+"desktop_capture", "message": ...}}`. Those a driver waits on also carry an
+`event`: `{"kind": "window_open"}` once the window opens; `{"kind":
+"checkpoint", "name", "trigger", "at_ms", "entries", "changes",
+"retained_files", "retained_bytes", "changed_files", "more_changed_files"}`
+once a checkpoint has been taken, the baseline, `stop` and `exit` included,
+with the paths walked, the paths changed since the checkpoint before, the
+files retained, and up to ten of the files (not folders) that changed,
+home-relative: those under a `--state-path` or absolute `--argument` first,
+then those the application held open, then those in its state directories,
+then the rest, and last caches (a folder whose name ends in `cache`, such as
+`~/.cache`) and WebKit or Chromium storage, each by path, with a count of the
+rest. An application can rewrite dozens of cache files on a save, and KDE's
+holds its service cache open, so the saved document would otherwise fall past
+the ten;
+and `{"kind": "checkpoint_refused", "name", "reason"}` for a requested name it
+refused. A driver that sends `checkpoint <name>` waits for the event naming it
+rather than for a fixed time.
+
+When the session ends the capture sends SIGTERM to the launched process, its
+process group and every process that carries the run token, waits up to five
+seconds for them to exit, and then removes every process that still carries
+the token, whether or not it stayed in the process group. If that cleanup
+cannot be verified after a second attempt, the capture is still written, and
+the command then fails, naming the run token and process group that may
+remain. Interrupting the command (Ctrl-C) ends the session the same way
+without a further checkpoint; the capture is still written with end reason
+`cancelled`, and the command exits with status 130. Interrupted before the
+application is launched, the command writes no capture and removes the
+content it had retained. If cancellation arrives during publication or final
+cleanup, the already-written capture can instead retain its earlier end
+reason. Inspect `capture.json` and the error's `details.partial_observation`
+for the retained capture Evidence. Cleanup failures also report resources
+that could not be released.
+
+If the capture fails for any other reason before `capture.json` is written,
+the application is closed the same way and the content already retained is
+removed from the capture folder. The error names any process or file that
+could not be removed.
+
+A person types these lines in the terminal. An agent can drive the
+application with a tool such as `xdotool` and write the lines to a FIFO that
+it passes as stdin. Because the end of stdin stops the session, the driver
+must keep the FIFO open for writing between checkpoints, for example with
+`exec 3>capture.fifo` in a shell, rather than open and close it for each
+line.
+
+| Option                   | Default | Meaning                                                                                   |
+| ------------------------ | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `--state-path`           | none    | File or directory whose starting content is retained too (repeatable)                     |
+| `--exclude`              | none    | Path left out of every checkpoint walk (repeatable); the output folder is always left out |
+| `--max-duration-seconds` | 3600    | Stop the session after this long                                                          |
+| `--max-entries`          | 250,000 | Paths recorded per checkpoint walk, its roots included                                    |
+| `--max-file-bytes`       | 64 MiB  | Largest file whose content is retained                                                    |
+| `--max-content-bytes`    | 1 GiB   | Total retained content                                                                    |
+| `--package-file`         | none    | The `.deb` file the application was installed from; its facts are recorded, not the file  |
+
+`--state-path`, `--exclude` and `--output` refuse an empty value, which
+would otherwise name the current directory.
+
+## The capture folder
+
+The output folder must be new, or empty and owned by the current user; the
+command makes it private (mode 0700). It holds:
+
+- `capture.json`: the Evidence record, also printed on stdout.
+- `content/<sha256>`: the bytes of each retained file, stored once per
+  distinct content.
+
+The Evidence operation is `capture_desktop_application` and its predicate type
+is `rea.desktop-application-capture`. Its `host` names the platform,
+architecture, display and home directory, and the host's name (`hostname`)
+and the user's (`user`), which captured state can hold, as in a mail
+template's `ada@e81232be457d`; the export removes them from the bundle. A
+capture written before they were recorded has neither, and one is left out
+when the system cannot say, as for a user with no passwd entry. The rest of
+the result has four parts.
+
+**Application.** The desktop entry (id, path, name, `Exec`, icon,
+`StartupWMClass`, categories, MIME types), the launch command and working
+directory, the executable as found on `PATH` and after resolving links, and the
+package that installed it. A Debian package records its name, version,
+architecture and the apt sources that list the installed version, with the
+origin (`o=`) apt reports for each source in `source_origins`, such as `Ubuntu`
+for the Ubuntu archive and its mirrors or `LP-PPA-<name>` for a PPA; an empty
+source list means the version came from a local `.deb` or the package lists
+are missing, which `package_lists_present` tells apart. apt's lists folder,
+and the trusted keys below, are where `apt-config` resolves
+`Dir::State::Lists`, `Dir::Etc::TrustedParts` and `Dir::Etc::Trusted` under
+`Dir`, so an `APT_CONFIG` file that moves them is followed: on a computer
+without lists, an ordinary user can run `apt-get update` with an `APT_CONFIG`
+naming writable `Dir::State::Lists` and `Dir::Cache` folders and capture with
+the same `APT_CONFIG`. Without `apt-config`, or when it fails, they are
+`/var/lib/apt/lists`, `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d` and `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg`.
+
+The Debian package is the one `dpkg-query -S` names as the owner of the
+desktop entry the capture launched, or else of the executable, since the
+entry's package is what installs the application: LibreOffice Writer's entry
+belongs to `libreoffice-writer`, while the `/usr/bin/libreoffice` it runs
+belongs to `libreoffice-common`, which does not bring Writer with it. When the
+two differ, `executable_package` names the executable's package, which the
+export installs beside the entry's, since the entry's package need not depend
+on it (`vim-common` owns Vim's entry but does not depend on `vim`).
+`executable_package_reason` says why the computer could not install it by
+name, by the rule for library packages below: neither the Ubuntu 24.04 archive
+nor a vendor repository the export declares offers it, or `apt-cache policy`
+did not say. When a package owns the entry but none owns its program, such as
+a `~/.local/bin/<name>` found first on `PATH`, the entry's package is recorded
+without `executable_package`, and `executable_package_reason` says no package
+owns the program, so the export refuses rather than install a package that
+does not bring it. A program link that dpkg does not own counts as owned when
+dpkg owns the file it resolves to, as an alternatives link does. An
+`--executable` launch, or an entry no package owns, such as
+one in `~/.local/share/applications`, records the executable's package. When
+`dpkg-query` does not finish or exits with an error for the executable or the
+entry, the package is `unknown` and the limitations say which path, since a
+failed lookup is not proof that no package owns it. The sources, vendor
+repositories and `--package-file` match below are the recorded package's; the
+library walk still reads the executable.
+
+Each source whose origin is not `Ubuntu` is also recorded in
+`apt_repositories`. `apt-get indextargets` names the sources file entry apt
+read it from and its release, so flat repositories match too, whether their
+suite is `./` (Typora's `deb https://downloads.typora.io/linux ./`) or `/`
+(pkgs.k8s.io's). The record holds that entry (`sources_file`, `uri`, `suite`,
+`components`, none for a flat repository, and `architectures`, the entry's
+`arch=` or `Architectures:` restriction, empty when it has none), `release`,
+the release's Suite (apt's `a=`) or else its Codename, and the key that signs
+it. A user name or password in an entry's URI (`https://user:password@host/…`)
+is never recorded: REA removes it from every URI it reads, in the sources file
+and in `apt-get indextargets` and `apt-cache policy` output alike, so entries
+match whether or not apt prints it, and sets `uri_credentials_removed` on a repository whose URI held
+one (a capture written before this was recorded omits the field). The key is
+found by verification, not by name: the candidates are the
+entry's `signed-by` keyrings, or else every `.gpg` and `.asc` key in apt's trusted
+parts folder and its trusted keyring, and each is checked with
+`gpgv` against the release's `InRelease` (or `Release` with `Release.gpg`)
+beside its index in apt's lists folder. A deb822 entry whose `Signed-By` field
+holds the armored key itself, as `add-apt-repository ppa:<owner>/<name>`
+writes it on Ubuntu 24.04, has that key as its only candidate, as apt trusts
+no other for it: REA reads the field's continuation lines as deb822 writes
+them, a `.` line standing for an empty one, from the key block's `BEGIN` line
+to its last `END` line, and records the key's path as the entry's sources
+file. A key counts when gpgv reports a valid signature by it and no bad,
+expired, revoked or unverifiable signature by it, whatever gpgv's exit status:
+a release also signed by a key the host lacks makes gpgv fail. Each candidate
+is copied, an armored key decoded to a binary keyring, into a private
+temporary folder that is removed afterwards; a folder REA cannot remove
+fails the capture with the folder as its cleanup resource. The key that
+verifies is recorded in `signing_key` with its path,
+SHA-256, format (`binary` or `armored`) and primary fingerprint, and its bytes
+are retained under `content/`. A key file holding one key is retained as it
+is; from one holding several, such as a legacy `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg`, only
+the transferable key with the verifying fingerprint is retained, in binary, so
+the bundle trusts no other key. When no candidate verifies, `gpgv` is
+missing, apt holds no signed release, no sources entry matches, the key the
+entry's `Signed-By` holds does not verify the release, or the key is larger
+than `--max-file-bytes` or the content budget, `signing_key` is null and
+`signing_key_reason` says why. Ubuntu Pro's ESM repositories (origins such as
+`UbuntuESMApps`, host `esm.ubuntu.com`) are not checked: apt reaches them only
+with the host's Ubuntu Pro credentials, which a computer does not have.
+
+Unless the installed version comes from the Ubuntu 24.04 archive, so for a
+vendor repository's package and for a local install that no apt source lists,
+`library_packages` lists the packages that own the shared libraries the
+executable loads at start; the walk runs beside the repository check, and not
+at all for an archive package, whose export does not use it. REA reads
+DT_NEEDED from the resolved executable and from each library it finds, and
+looks each soname up as ld.so does: in the RPATH of the needing image and of
+each image up its chain of loaders to the executable when the needing image
+has no RUNPATH, then in its RUNPATH (with `$ORIGIN` expanded and paths
+normalized), and then in the `ldconfig -p` cache entries for the executable's
+machine. It asks `dpkg-query -S` for each library's package. Libraries in the
+executable's own folder belong to the application: they are walked but not
+listed, and neither is the application's own package. One batched
+`apt-cache policy` then keeps only the packages the Ubuntu 24.04 archive or a
+recorded vendor repository with a verified key offers, in any component its
+sources entry lists, since the export declares them all; the rest, such as
+packages from a PPA or a local `.deb`, are listed in
+`uninstallable_library_packages`. The same query checks `executable_package`.
+Each recorded repository's `supplies` lists the kept packages, and the
+executable's package, that the archive does not offer and its package files
+list, so the export can leave out those only a repository it does not declare
+supplies, such as one whose key the content budget later dropped. Sonames
+found nowhere are listed in
+`missing_libraries`, and libraries no package owns in `unpackaged_libraries`.
+`library_packages_reason` says why the lists are incomplete: the executable is
+not an ELF image (a launcher script, for example), `ldconfig`, `dpkg-query` or
+`apt-cache` is missing, `dpkg-query -S` could not tell which package owns a
+library (it exits 2 rather than 1, which only says no package owns the paths
+it did not name), a library could not be read or exceeds the selected dependency
+inventory budget, or the walk reached that budget. A failed owner query does
+not list the libraries it covered in `unpackaged_libraries`, since a lookup
+that could not finish is not proof that no package owns them. Completed batches
+retain their package and unowned-library facts. Paths containing package-query
+pattern characters stay unknown unless another candidate identifies an owner.
+
+A sources file, key or library whose handle REA cannot close fails the capture
+with the file as its cleanup resource. When the repository check and the
+library walk both fail, the capture reports both failures and every folder or
+file either could not release.
+
+An application installed from a `.deb` file you downloaded, such as VariCAD
+from varicad.com, has no apt source a computer could install it from. Name
+that file with `--package-file` so the export can have the computer download
+it instead. REA reads the file's control fields with
+`dpkg-deb --field FILE Package Version Architecture Depends Pre-Depends`, and
+when its Package, Version and Architecture are the installed package's, it
+reads the file once more for its SHA-256 and size and records `package_file`:
+the file's `name` without its folder, `sha256`, `size`, `package`, `version`,
+`architecture`, and the `depends` and `pre_depends` entries as the file
+declares them. Otherwise `package_file_reason` says why, for example that
+`dpkg-deb` is not installed, that the file holds another version than the
+installed one, or that the file changed between the two reads (its device,
+inode, size and times are compared), since its fields and its hash could then
+describe different files. The capture never copies the file: it is the vendor's, and only
+these facts are kept.
+
+Snaps, flatpaks and
+AppImages are recognised from their paths, and flatpaks also from a
+`flatpak run` launch, whose application id is the first operand after
+flatpak's options and their values. Electron applications are marked by
+the fuse sentinel in their binary or a `resources/app.asar` beside it. State
+directories are the XDG config, data, state and cache folders and the
+dot-folder named after the package, the executable, the desktop entry's full
+id and its last part, and the entry's name, with whether each existed at the
+start. A folder in those places whose name is one of these in another letter
+case joins them, such as GIMP's `~/.config/GIMP` for the `gimp` package; only
+the whole name is compared, so `~/.config/GIMPshop` does not. A file under a
+folder the application creates during the capture beside one of them, with
+the same name in another letter case or with a version added (`-3.1` or
+`3`), as TreeLine's `~/.treeline-3.1`, is its state too. Dotfiles in the
+home named after the application (`.<name>rc`, or
+`.<name>` followed by `-`, `.` or `_`, for a name of three or more characters)
+that exist at the start join them, since an application may only read such a
+file during the capture. So does KDE's settings file in the config folder,
+`<name>rc` such as Tellico's `~/.config/tellicorc`, for each such name of three
+or more characters, whether or not it exists yet. A `flatpak run` launch is named after its application
+id rather than the `flatpak` launcher, and adds `~/.var/app/<id>`.
+
+**Session.** When it started, how long it ran and why it ended; the launched
+process's exit status; every process seen in the application's tree; every
+client window with its class pair, titles, owner pid and type, marked when it
+belongs to the application. Titles and class names decode xprop's quoted
+delimiters, newline and tab escapes, and three-digit octal byte escapes;
+unsupported escape spellings leave that string unknown rather than inventing
+text. The session also records when the first application window appeared; the
+most common class pair of the application's windows, for matching its window
+later; files the application's processes held open under the walked roots; the last
+8 KiB of the launched process's stderr, where a failing app's last words are,
+with `stderr_truncated` when earlier output was dropped; and whether cleanup was verified. Each
+process records whether the capture started it: the launched process, a
+process carrying the capture's run token, or a descendant of one, even when
+its environment cannot be read, as for a zombie or a sandboxed renderer.
+Processes are told apart by their start time, so a pid reused by another
+process is not counted as the application's.
+
+A window belongs to the application when its owner pid is one of the
+application's live processes or its class matches the desktop entry's
+`StartupWMClass`, the executable's name, the entry's full id or its last part,
+or a flatpak's application id. A flatpak's windows report pids from its
+sandbox, so they are matched by class only.
+Ownership is checked again at every sample, because a window can appear before
+the process that owns it is found. A matching window's pid joins the
+application's processes, so a launch handed to a process the capture did not
+start, such as a D-Bus activated service, is still followed. That process does
+not carry the run token, so the capture never signals it and leaves it
+running.
+
+**State.** The walked roots (the home directory plus any content root
+outside it), the content roots (state directories, `--state-path` values and
+absolute `--argument` values, except `/` or a directory that contains the home
+directory, which are named in the limitations instead; a selected path that is
+not a directory brings the `-wal` and `-journal` paths beside it, so a database
+selected on its own is captured with its logs), the state directories
+as walked (their physical spelling, which differs from the inventory's when one
+is a symlink), the selected paths (each `--state-path` and content-root
+`--argument` as named, absolute, beside the physical path walked, so a
+symlinked settings folder keeps what its name means), the paths every walk left out (the output folder and
+`--exclude` values), and the checkpoints in order: `baseline` before
+launch, each requested checkpoint, `stop` or `time-limit`, and `exit` after the
+application has gone. Each checkpoint records how many paths its walk saw,
+whether it was truncated, how many paths it could not read or directories on
+another device it did not enter (`unchecked_paths`), which paths were created, modified, deleted or
+changed type since the previous checkpoint, and which files it retained. A
+path counts as created or deleted only where the walk listed its nearest
+existing directory completely; differences under a directory that could not be
+listed, or that a truncated walk did not reach, are counted as unconfirmed
+instead. A walk does not enter a directory on another filesystem than its
+root, such as an NFS, sshfs or other FUSE mount under the home directory; the
+limitations list each such mount point. The
+baseline retains every file under the content roots; later checkpoints retain
+every changed file. A change records the file's type, size, mode,
+modification time and, when known, the SHA-256 of its content before and
+after, plus whether it lies in a state directory and whether the application
+held it open. A file is retained only if it is still the version the walk
+recorded and does not change while it is read. A file larger than the
+remaining content budget is not read, unless stored content of the same size
+could make it a duplicate. Files that could not be
+retained are listed with the reason: too large, over the content budget,
+changed since the walk, changed during the read, or unreadable.
+The baseline also records the paths and types of non-file entries it observed,
+including symlinks, without following them. This is required to distinguish an
+unreadable SQLite sidecar from an absent one. Captures made before this field
+was added must be made again before state inspection, task drafting or export.
+Directories the application held files open in, but whose starting content was
+not retained, are listed so a second capture can pass them with
+`--state-path`, or `state_paths` on a build computer's `start_build_capture`,
+and a limitation names them, spelled from `~/` under the home. A lock file
+the application held open, such as Poedit's `~/poedit.lock` or Lucene's
+`write.lock`, makes no folder such a directory, since it holds nothing to
+retain.
+
+**Limitations.** What the capture could not establish, such as a truncated
+walk or a missing window.
+
+## What the capture does not establish
+
+Changes are found by comparing walks, using each path's size, modification
+time, inode and mode, so a change undone between two checkpoints is not seen
+and a rewrite that keeps all four is missed. A change is not attributed to the
+process that made it: other desktop services write under the home directory
+too, such as the dconf database, the window manager's settings and GTK's
+recently used list. The markers for state directories and open files are
+evidence for attribution, not proof.
+
+Clicks and keystrokes are not recorded. Window titles are sampled every half
+second, so short-lived titles can be missed.
+
+Dependency inventory headroom is selected for each capture with
+`--library-policy '{"libraries":1024,"string_bytes":8192}'`. Unset fields retain
+their defaults: `libraries: 512` bounds both the closure walk and distinct
+DT_NEEDED offsets in each ELF image; `search_path_entries: 16` bounds distinct
+DT_RUNPATH and DT_RPATH offsets per kind; `string_bytes: 4096` includes the NUL
+terminator of each decoded string; `table_bytes: 1048576` bounds each program
+header or dynamic table. Values must be positive safe integers. A budget refusal
+names the field that needs headroom; partial package facts and unresolved
+coverage remain visible. The policy applies during this capture's admission,
+without restarting REA, and explicit selections are retained in Evidence. Raising
+content retention or a worker heap does not raise these inventory budgets.
+Choosing a new capture still launches the selected application; changing these
+read budgets does not add execution authority or recover an earlier capture's
+omitted inventory.
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+# Desktop application export
+
+`rea export-desktop-application <capture-folder> <directory>` turns a folder
+written by [desktop application capture](desktop-application-capture.md) into an
+agentenv bundle holding one computer app environment: the real application,
+installed from the distribution archive, its vendor's apt repository or the
+`.deb` file it was installed from on the `ubuntu-24.04` computer base, launched
+at boot, seeded with the user's state and serving that state through agentenv's
+data operations.
+
+```sh
+rea export-desktop-application ./mousepad-capture ./mousepad-bundle
+agent-env run ./mousepad-bundle --dry-run
+```
+
+The export reads the capture and its [state view](desktop-application-state.md);
+it does not run the application. `--name` sets the environment name; otherwise
+it comes from the desktop entry id or the program: a reverse-DNS id's last
+part (`org.xfce.mousepad` gives `mousepad`), or else the whole id without a
+trailing version (`glabels-3.0` gives `glabels`), with an `app-` prefix when
+that name would not be a portable bundle name (for example all digits). The
+output directory must be new or empty. `--task` adds a task an agent wrote for
+the capture, once REA has validated it against the capture; repeat it for
+several tasks, each checked at its own end checkpoint, which
+`--task-end NAME=CHECKPOINT` names; see
+[desktop application tasks](desktop-application-tasks.md#several-tasks). `--package-url`
+says where the computer downloads the package of an application installed from
+a `.deb` file; see [Applications from a .deb file](#applications-from-a-deb-file).
+`--download-install FILE` says which AppImage or tarball a build computer
+unpacked the application from; see
+[Applications from an AppImage or tarball](#applications-from-an-appimage-or-tarball).
+`--extra-package NAME`, repeatable, installs another Ubuntu 24.04 archive
+package beside the application, such as a runtime piece its package does not
+install; a [build computer](desktop-build-witness.md) passes its request's
+`extra_packages`, or a `.deb` request's `dependencies`, this way. A name that
+is not a Debian package name is refused (`extra_package`). Names the bundle
+installs anyway, the application's own package and the dependencies it names
+for a package installed from its `.deb` file, are not repeated; the rest are
+listed in the limitations and the README. A package the captured `.deb` lists
+as one alternative, such as `openjdk-17-jre | java-runtime`, is kept when apt
+installs the application by name, since apt may satisfy it with another.
+`--seed-checkpoint` names the checkpoint whose state seeds the bundle, the
+baseline by default, and `--end-checkpoint` the one a task must pass on, the
+capture's last by default; see [The seed checkpoint](#the-seed-checkpoint).
+`--synthetic-seed` says the seed was made for the task, as a build agent makes
+it in a [build computer](desktop-build-witness.md), rather than taken from the
+user's own data; see [A seed made for the task](#a-seed-made-for-the-task).
+
+The command returns Evidence with operation `export_desktop_application` and
+predicate type `rea.desktop-application-export`, listing the environment name,
+the seed and end `checkpoints`, owned paths, seed files, the seeds it
+rewrote to remove the capture host's name and user (`scrubbed_files`), the
+gzip seeds it compressed again only to clear their headers
+(`recompressed_files`), the bundle files that still hold them
+(`unscrubbed_files`), and written files, the last four by their path in the
+bundle. A failed export, cancellation
+included, removes the bundle it had not yet published, so no partial copy of the
+user's data remains. If the bundle was published but its output handles could
+not be closed, the command reports a cleanup error that carries the export
+Evidence; the bundle itself is complete.
+
+## The bundle
+
+| Path                              | Contents                                                                                           |
+| --------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `envs/<name>/env.toml`            | `type = "computer_app"`, the module and class, `computer = "ubuntu-24.04"`, `driver = "reference"` |
+| `envs/<name>/<file>.py`           | The `ComputerAppEnvironment` class                                                                 |
+| `envs/<name>/SKILL.md`            | What the app is, its window class and where its files live                                         |
+| `envs/<name>/seed/`               | The application's files at the seed checkpoint, by home-relative path                              |
+| `envs/<name>/apt-keys/`           | The signing key of each vendor apt repository the app installs from                                |
+| `envs/<name>/install-package.sh`  | With `--package-url`: the run script that installs the downloaded package with dpkg                |
+| `envs/<name>/install-download.sh` | With `--download-install`: the run script that unpacks the downloaded AppImage or tarball          |
+| `envs/<name>/applications/`       | With a tarball's `--download-install`: the desktop entry REA wrote for its program                 |
+| `tasks/smoke.json`                | A task that deploys the app                                                                        |
+| `tasks/<task>.json`               | With `--task`: each of the agent's tasks, its verifier in `artifacts/` and the eval in `evals/`    |
+| `README.md`                       | What was exported, from which capture, and what to keep in mind                                    |
+
+The class file is `<name>_app.py` with hyphens as underscores, for example
+`mousepad_app.py`: agentenv imports it under its stem, so a plain `<name>.py`
+could shadow a standard library module such as `calendar`. A class name that
+would collide with a name the module imports or defines, such as `Path`, takes
+an `App` suffix.
+
+The class declares:
+
+- `Packages(apt=[...])` with the package the capture found, then the
+  `--extra-package` names. A vendor package is named `<package>/<release>`,
+  its repository's release (the Suite apt reports as `a=`, or else its
+  Codename), so apt takes it from that repository
+  even when the Ubuntu archive offers a higher version or epoch, as noble's
+  transitional `firefox` does over packages.mozilla.org's; it is named alone
+  when the release names neither, or when the capture was written before
+  releases were recorded. Its library packages follow, so a package that
+  leaves out dependencies on the libraries it loads, as Typora's Electron
+  package does, still starts; library packages the capture found neither the
+  Ubuntu 24.04 archive nor a declared repository offers are left out, with a
+  limitation, and so are those only repositories the export leaves out supply
+  (a repository's `supplies`), such as one whose key the capture could not
+  retain. An archive package's declared dependencies are trusted as they
+  are. When the desktop entry's package is not the one that owns the program
+  it runs, as `vim-common`'s entry runs `vim`'s program, the program's package
+  (`executable_package`) follows the app's by name, since the entry's package
+  need not depend on it; a capture that found no archive or declared
+  repository offering it records why, and the export refuses it with that
+  reason, as it does when only repositories it leaves out supply it, or when
+  no package owns the program at all (`executable_package_reason` without
+  `executable_package`). The package must come from the Ubuntu 24.04 archive
+  or a mirror of it,
+  or from a vendor apt repository whose signing key the capture verified and
+  retained. A source counts as the archive when apt reports its origin as
+  `Ubuntu` for a noble suite; a capture made before origins were recorded
+  counts only Canonical's own archive hosts.
+- For a vendor repository, `sources=[AptSource(apt=..., suite=...,
+  components=[...], key="apt-keys/<name>.gpg")]`, with the retained key copied
+  to that path (`.asc` when it is armored, which agentenv tells by its
+  content). A PPA added with `add-apt-repository`, whose sources entry holds its
+  key in `Signed-By`, exports that key as `apt-keys/<name>.asc`. apt takes one
+  key per URI and suite, so sources that share them, such as one repository
+  listed for two architectures, are declared once, with their components
+  merged; one with a different key is left out. A repository
+  whose key the capture did not verify, an Ubuntu Pro (ESM) repository, one
+  whose sources entry's URI held a user name or password (which the capture
+  did not record and the export never writes; the reason names neither them
+  nor the URI), one not reached over http or https, or one whose `arch=`
+  restriction leaves out the capture host's architecture is refused with its
+  reason (a capture
+  written before restrictions were recorded counts as unrestricted); when
+  another usable repository lists the same version it is left out instead,
+  with a limitation. The export also refuses snaps, flatpaks, an AppImage or
+  tarball not named with `--download-install`, and a
+  package no recorded repository lists unless it was installed from a `.deb`
+  file the capture recorded and `--package-url` is given, since the computer
+  could not install them by name, and a capture written before credentials
+  were removed whose repository URI still holds them, since it counted that
+  repository's libraries as installable; capture it again.
+- `@computer_app(supports=...)` with both `amd64` and `arm64` for an archive
+  package, which the archive serves for both, and only the capture host's
+  architecture for a vendor package, since its repository may serve no other.
+  A vendor package captured on any other architecture is refused. A package
+  installed from its `.deb` file supports only that file's architecture.
+- A launch at boot with the captured command, ready when a window of the
+  captured class appears and one of them is listed in the taskbar and is not
+  typed as a splash: a splash screen or a dialog of the class skips the
+  taskbar or says it is a splash, and an app whose splash shows first would
+  otherwise count as ready before its own window opens. Arguments that are the captured home or under it, and
+  `<option>=<path>` values under it, are respelled under the computer user's
+  `$HOME`. agentenv starts the app in its own folder, where an open or save
+  dialog would show the framework's files, so the command first changes to the
+  captured working directory (`"$HOME"` when that was the home, as for a
+  desktop entry without `Path`), which a relative argument or program path
+  such as `./app` also needs, and still starts if that folder is missing. The
+  export refuses a capture that saw no application window.
+- The seed's document, opened at launch, so the app shows it rather than its
+  start screen: when the seed holds exactly one file the state view gives the
+  `document` role, and the desktop entry's `Exec` takes files (a `%f`, `%F`,
+  `%u` or `%U` field code), its path under `$HOME` is appended to the command.
+  A command that already names a document, absolute or from its working
+  directory, as one captured with `--argument <file>` does, is kept as it is;
+  a settings path under the home does not count. A seed with no document launches
+  as captured. With several, no desktop entry or an `Exec` that takes no file,
+  the app launches as captured and the README and the result's limitations say
+  why. A reset
+  relaunches the app, so it opens the document again.
+- For an Electron application (the capture found its fuse sentinel or a
+  `resources/app.asar`), `--no-sandbox` right after the program unless the
+  command already has it: Chromium's sandbox needs user namespaces the
+  computer's container does not grant, and Electron exits without them. The
+  README and the result's limitations say the sandbox is off.
+- `paths`: the state directories holding the application's state files and the
+  folders holding its documents, nested folders collapsed. A folder beside a
+  state directory whose name differs from it only in letter case, or that
+  adds a version, as TreeLine's `~/.treeline-3.1` beside `~/.treeline`, is owned
+  whole in the files' spelling, so a `~/.config/GIMP` profile GIMP created
+  during the capture beside the candidate `~/.config/gimp` is owned as
+  `.config/GIMP`, not as the folder of its first file. The home itself and
+  the shared `.config`, `.local`, `.local/share`, `.local/state` and `.cache`
+  folders are never owned whole: a file directly in one is owned as itself.
+  Files the capture recorded under a symlinked state directory's physical
+  spelling are mapped back to the innermost such directory's home spelling,
+  unless that spelling is outside the captured home, as when the home itself is
+  a symbolic link. When a selected link names an application state directory,
+  the bundle seeds the application's state path and restores the selected
+  alias at boot. Targets recorded as directories are created even when the seed
+  has no files there; file targets and targets of unknown kind are not turned
+  into directories. Selections nested under that alias are seeded under the same
+  state path. An existing incompatible alias stops setup without replacing it. When two files map to one home path, the export uses the one present
+  before the capture, else the first by path, and a limitation names the other.
+- Data hooks, because declaring any hook switches off agentenv's default data
+  plane: the class seeds the home once per boot and keeps it as the initial
+  state with `keep_initial`, `data/add` and `data/reset` call agentenv's `add`
+  and `reset`, and `data/get` returns the files under `paths` plus a data part
+  with a typed JSON view of each, read in a worker thread. An application with
+  no observed state declares no paths and no hooks.
+
+A file under the owned paths whose bytes at the seed the capture did not
+retain is not seeded: one in the state view without retained content at that
+checkpoint, or one the capture omitted (for example too large or past the
+content budget). The result lists them in `unseeded_files` and the README
+names them. When the application held files open in folders whose starting
+content the capture did not retain, a limitation names those folders, spelled
+from `~/` under the home: a file there is seeded only when the capture
+retained it, as it does one written during the capture, and the limitation
+names the seed files there or says there are none. The desktop Trash,
+`~/.local/share/Trash`, is never the application's, so a file the user moved
+there is neither owned nor seeded, even when a window title names it; a
+limitation lists the files the Trash held at the seed.
+
+Files that changed during the capture outside the owned paths are neither
+owned nor seeded, so the app starts without what it saved there: MuseScore
+keeps its settings in `~/.config/MuseScore`, which its name rules miss, and
+showed its first-run wizard on every boot. A limitation and the README name
+those folders, leaving out desktop services' files, each collapsed to its
+folder in `~/.config`, `~/.local/share`, `~/.local/state` or `~/.local`, the
+hidden folder of the home it lies in, or else its own folder, up to eight and
+a count of the rest. Capture again naming them with `--state-path`, or
+`state_paths` on a build computer, to own them.
+
+Lock files the app holds while it runs are left out of the seed: a copied one
+makes the app find its profile or document in use, and a LibreOffice Calc
+bundle whose seed held its profile's `.lock` showed no window at boot. They
+are `lockfile`, `lock`, `.lock`, `.parentlock`, `parent.lock`,
+`SingletonLock` and Lucene's index lock `write.lock` anywhere, as Poedit's
+translation memory holds, LibreOffice's document lock `.~lock.<name>#`, a
+`<file>.lck`, `.<file>.lock`, `.<file>.lck` or `<file>.<ext>.lock` beside a
+file the capture recorded in the same folder, such as GnuCash's
+`household.gnucash.LCK`, Grisbi's empty `.household.gsb.lock`, which made it
+refuse every save, and VYM's `plan.vym.lock` (a project's `Gemfile.lock`
+beside its `Gemfile` has no extension to its file, so it is seeded), and
+`*.lock` or `*.lck` directly in the home, as wxWidgets' single-instance
+`~/poedit.lock`, or directly in one of the application's state directories;
+a lone `notes.lck` or `.notes.lock` elsewhere is seeded. A lock
+never makes a path the application's own, so `~/poedit.lock` is neither owned
+nor named among the folders the bundle does not own.
+Elsewhere such a file may be a project's own, such as `Cargo.lock` or
+`yarn.lock`, which pin dependencies, and is seeded, even under a folder whose
+name starts with a dot. A file the state view makes a document, or one named
+itself by `--state-path` or an absolute `--argument`, is never left out,
+whatever its name. A limitation and the README list them, up to
+eight and a count, after "Left out of the seed". They stay under the owned
+paths, so `data/get` returns the lock the running app holds, and `data/reset`
+restores the seed without them.
+
+A seed file keeps the permission bits it had at the seed when the capture saw
+it change, such as a `0600` file an app checks: the class module lists those
+other than `0644` in `SEED_MODES`, and the first boot sets them when it copies
+the seed. A file the capture never saw change has no recorded mode and is
+written `0644`.
+
+Files in app state are retained regardless of a `.log` extension or `log.<n>`
+name. They can hold conversation history or database writes as well as
+diagnostics. The normal host-identity scrub applies to retained text; filenames
+alone do not identify disposable diagnostics. Locks beside these files follow
+the lock rules above.
+
+Other seed files the app keeps for its own
+running are seeded as captured and named, collapsed to the folder that holds
+them: WebKit or Chromium storage (such as `hsts-storage.sqlite`, `storage/`,
+`mediakeys/`, `Local Storage/`, `IndexedDB/`, `Cookies`, `Visited Links`,
+`Platform Notifications/`, and a whole `QtWebEngine/`
+profile), which may hold the app's own data, and caches (a folder whose name ends in `cache`); a stale one
+can change how the app starts. A seeded LibreOffice profile's
+`registrymodifications.xcu` ships without its `RecoveryList` items, which
+LibreOffice writes for the documents it has open and which would start the
+bundle into document recovery instead of its window; a limitation and the
+README name the file. REA finds the items with its XML parser, as `item`
+elements whose `oor:path` is `/org.openoffice.Office.Recovery/RecoveryList`
+however the tags are spelled, and cuts exactly those elements, so text in a
+comment or CDATA and every other byte stay as captured. A registry that is
+not well-formed XML ships unchanged.
+
+The application's dconf keys at the seed, if any, are written once when the
+app first starts, also for an application that owns no files, and the class adds
+`dconf-cli` to its apt packages for that. The server starts before the
+desktop's D-Bus session, so the class does not use `dconf load`: it dumps any
+existing user database through a `file-db:` profile, then runs `dconf compile`
+on that dump and the captured keys, in that name order so the captured keys
+win, and replaces `~/.config/dconf/user`. If that fails, the server prints a
+one-line warning and the app starts without the captured keys. `data/reset` does
+not restore them. No file of the bundle holds them, so `data/get` does not
+return them and no task check reads them; a draft whose only change between
+its checkpoints is to the application's dconf keys says so with
+`uncheckable_changes`, and one whose dconf database changed but could not be
+read says so with `unreadable_changes`. When a dconf database changed by the
+seed checkpoint but its version there could not be read, as without
+`dconf-cli`, the export seeds no keys from it and a limitation names it with
+the read error.
+
+## The seed checkpoint
+
+By default the seed is the state before the capture, its `baseline`, and a
+task's end state is the capture's last checkpoint. `--seed-checkpoint` and
+`--end-checkpoint` name others, so one capture can make a seed and then a
+change: the user creates and saves a document and takes `checkpoint seed`,
+then edits and saves it and takes `checkpoint end`. Exported with
+`--seed-checkpoint seed --end-checkpoint end`, the bundle seeds the document
+as it was saved at `seed`, owned paths, dconf keys and unseeded files
+included, and a task must fail on that seed and pass on the state at `end`.
+A file's state at a checkpoint is its last version recorded at or before it.
+The export refuses a name the capture does not hold exactly once, and an end
+checkpoint taken before the seed checkpoint; `inspect-desktop-application-state`
+lists the names in `capture.checkpoints`.
+
+## A seed made for the task
+
+By default the seed is the user's real data: the README and the result's
+limitations say to keep the bundle local and not publish it. With
+`--synthetic-seed` they say instead that the seed was made for the task, and
+to read `envs/<name>/seed/` before publishing the bundle; the export cannot
+tell the two apart, so the flag is the caller's word. `export_build_environment`
+passes it, since the building agent makes the seed in the build computer. The
+Evidence records it as `synthetic_seed`.
+
+## Withheld sign-in state
+
+`--withhold-from <checkpoint> --withhold-to <checkpoint>` withholds every file
+under the owned paths that changed after the first checkpoint up to the
+second, as the capture recorded its changes; `--withhold-path <file>` adds a
+home-relative file, such as one written at first launch. The draft
+(`describe-desktop-application-task`) takes the same options, leaves those
+files out and lists them as `withheld_files`; the export refuses a check that
+names one. Each withheld file present at the seed is left out of
+`envs/<name>/seed/` and becomes a secret setting:
+
+- the class declares `Settings` with a `SecretStr` field per file, and
+  `WITHHELD`, each field's home path;
+- `env.toml` sets each field to `env:REA_<APP>_<FILE>`, so agentenv refuses
+  the deploy, naming the variable, until it is set;
+- at first boot, before keeping the initial state, the class writes each file
+  from its setting, the file's bytes in base64, mode `0600`, so `data/reset`
+  restores it, and `data/get` serves it neither as a part nor in the views;
+- the README names each variable, with
+  `export REA_<APP>_<FILE>="$(base64 -w0 < ~/<file>)"` from the receiver's
+  own signed-in copy of the app.
+
+A withheld file larger than 48 KiB is refused, since its base64 must fit one
+environment variable. `--withheld-copy <folder>` copies the withheld files,
+as captured, into a new or empty folder outside the bundle. The result lists
+them as `withheld_files`, each with its `setting`, `variable` and `handle`.
+
+`--consent <file>` ships the person's consents, a `consent.json` that
+`record_build_consent` records, as the bundle's own `consent.json`.
+`--seed-withheld` seeds the withheld files after all, refused unless that
+file holds a `seed_sign_in` consent; the result lists them as
+`consented_files`, and the README says they are there with consent.
+
+## Host name and user
+
+A seed can hold the capture host's name and the user's: Geany saved its mail
+template as `pref_template_mail=ada@e81232be457d`, the user `ada` on a
+container named `e81232be457d`, and many files hold the home path
+`/home/ada`. The capture records `host.hostname` and `host.user`, and the
+export removes them from what the bundle ships:
+
+- In seeded text files (text, JSON, key files and XML in the state view), in
+  UTF-16 files that start with a byte-order mark (keeping the mark, byte order
+  and a following U+FEFF content character), and in the dconf keys,
+  `user@host` becomes `user@localhost`, the
+  host name standing alone becomes `localhost`, and the captured home becomes
+  `/home/user` wherever it is followed by `/`, the end of the text, or a
+  character that cannot continue a file name. The host name counts only as a
+  whole name: not inside a longer word, before a `-`, or as a label of a
+  domain such as `e81232be457d.local`, so a host named `ubuntu` leaves
+  `ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports` alone. A host named `localhost` is left
+  alone, but its `user@localhost` still takes the computer's user. The user
+  name alone is never replaced, since a short one such as `ada` or `user` is
+  also ordinary text. A rewritten seed is written with its own SHA-256, and
+  `scrubbed_files` and the README list it.
+- JSON and XML keep their syntax. In JSON only string values change, each
+  read as its decoded value, so `\u0065` escapes cannot hide the host, and is
+  written back as JSON only when it changed; numbers and `true`, `false` and
+  `null` stay as they are even for a host named `true`. Member names are never
+  rewritten, since `{"ubuntu": 1, "localhost": 2}` on a host named `ubuntu`
+  would get two `localhost` keys and lose a setting; a file whose names hold
+  the host is listed in `unscrubbed_files` instead. In XML only character
+  data, attribute values, comments and CDATA change, character references
+  decoded the same way; element and attribute names and processing
+  instructions stay. A UTF-16 file is scrubbed by the format its text would
+  have in UTF-8, so JSON or XML in UTF-16 follows these rules too.
+- In the dconf keys only GVariant strings change, each read as its decoded
+  value and written back in its own quotes only when it changed. Group names,
+  keys, dictionary keys, bytestrings and everything outside quotes stay, so a
+  host named `true` leaves `wrap=true` alone. A value whose string does not
+  parse, or that holds an object path or signature, ships as captured.
+- `SEED_HOME` in the class is `/home/user`, the home the seed spells, which
+  the class respells to the computer's own home when it seeds the home at
+  boot, as it did the captured home before. The replacements read as the
+  computer's own: its user is `user`, with its home in `/home/user`, and
+  `localhost` is the name every host has for itself.
+- A gzip-compressed seed, such as a Gnumeric workbook, is decompressed, up to
+  256 MiB, scrubbed as the format the state view read its document as, and
+  compressed again whether or not its document changed, so no file name,
+  comment or time its header held ships: with no file name, comment or extra
+  field, modification time 0 and the operating system unknown, so the same
+  document gives the same bytes on every host. It is deflated at the fastest
+  level, or stored when deflating would make it expand more than the 100 times
+  a view reads, so a seed that read still reads. It is listed in
+  `scrubbed_files` when its document changed, and otherwise in
+  `recompressed_files`, which the README counts rather than lists, so the
+  example and template files an app copies on first run do not bury the
+  document scrubbed; one already in that form ships as captured. The class copies it at
+  boot as it is, so the home it holds stays `/home/user`. One that does not
+  decompress within the scrub limit ships as captured, its bytes searched.
+  A document the state view did not read can still be decompressed and
+  recompressed under the separate 256 MiB scrub limit; its content is searched
+  even when its format cannot be scrubbed. One whose document needs no edit but a member of
+  which has an extra field, where BGZF (`.vcf.gz`, `.bam`) and dictzip
+  (`.dict.dz`) files index their blocks, also ships as captured, its bytes
+  searched, so its blocks stay where its index says; one whose document
+  changed is still compressed again as one member, losing them, as the
+  export's limitation says.
+- Binary files, SQLite databases among them, and text files over 256 MiB are
+  copied as captured. Then every file the bundle ships, the class module with
+  its dconf keys and the README included, is searched by a looser rule than
+  the replacement's: the host name and `user@host` anywhere, as in
+  `e81232be457d.local` or a seed named `e81232be457d-notes.txt`, and the
+  captured home as a whole path, in its path and its content, JSON and dconf
+  strings and XML references decoded and the replacements themselves set
+  aside. Each one found is listed in `unscrubbed_files`, and in the README
+  unless it is the README, to check before sharing the bundle. Bytes that are not text are
+  searched as they are, so a binary file that holds the host in another
+  encoding is not listed.
+- A task check whose values name `user@host` or the host name anywhere, by
+  that rule, is refused, as one naming the captured home is: the bundle does
+  not hold them. Its field names, kind and id are not values, so a host named
+  `file` or `kind` refuses no check. A task's checks must fail on the seed as
+  the bundle ships it, scrubbed, so a check the scrub itself satisfies, such
+  as a mail setting the user changed from `ada@e81232be457d` to
+  `user@localhost`, does not count as failing there.
+
+A capture written before the host's name and user were recorded has only its
+home removed, with a limitation saying so; capture again to remove the rest.
+
+## Applications from a .deb file
+
+A closed-source application you installed from a `.deb` file you downloaded,
+such as VariCAD from varicad.com, is not in any apt repository the computer can
+use. Capture it with `--package-file` naming that file (see
+[desktop application capture](desktop-application-capture.md)), then pass
+`--package-url` to the export with an `http://` or `https://` URL the computer
+can download that same file from:
+
+```sh
+rea capture-desktop-application --executable varicad --package-file ~/Downloads/varicad2026-en_2.03_amd64.deb --output ./varicad-capture
+rea export-desktop-application ./varicad-capture ./varicad-bundle --package-url https://files.example.com/varicad2026-en_2.03_amd64.deb
+```
+
+The class then declares, beside `Packages`:
+
+- `downloads=[Download(url=..., sha256=..., to="vendor/<file>", arch=...)]`
+  with the captured file's SHA-256. agentenv downloads the URL once, when the
+  bundle is put, and refuses the file unless its SHA-256 matches, so the
+  computer installs exactly the captured version. The bundle does not contain
+  the package.
+- `Packages(apt=[...])` with the first alternative of each of the file's
+  Depends and Pre-Depends entries, without version constraints or `:any`
+  qualifiers, then the library packages the capture found, since a vendor's
+  binary may load libraries its Depends leaves out.
+- `run=[RunScript(script="install-package.sh")]`, a script the export writes
+  into the environment folder. agentenv runs it as root from the app's folder
+  once the apt packages are installed and the download is in place, with the
+  network off: it runs `dpkg -i` on the download and then removes it.
+
+The bundle supports only the file's architecture. Vendor sites often refuse
+automated downloads, as varicad.com does, so the URL may need to point at a
+copy you keep, such as a private mirror; you must be allowed to use that copy,
+and the package's licence, such as a 30-day trial's terms, is yours to check.
+The README and the result's limitations say so.
+
+The export refuses a package no recorded repository lists when `--package-url`
+is missing, saying to capture with `--package-file` if the capture lacks it. It
+also refuses `--package-url` when the capture recorded no package file, giving
+the capture's `package_file_reason` when there is one; when the archive or a
+declared vendor repository installs the package already; when the URL is not
+written as `http://` or `https://` or holds a user name or password; and when
+the file is built for an architecture other than `amd64`, `arm64` or `all`.
+
+## Applications from an AppImage or tarball
+
+A [build computer](desktop-build-computer.md) can install an application from
+its project's AppImage or tarball, pinned by URL and SHA-256, under
+`/opt/rea-apps/<desktop entry>`. Neither holds a Debian package, so the
+capture records the package as `unknown`, and the export takes the install
+from `--download-install`, a JSON file the build computer writes from its
+request:
+
+```json
+{
+  "kind": "appimage",
+  "desktop_entry": "org.freecad.FreeCAD",
+  "url": "https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/download/1.1.4/FreeCAD_1.1.4-Linux-aarch64-py311.AppImage",
+  "sha256": "675d1a4295b2183e0e1d816a4b5557dcb63aeced4e60aaa28d6c3686f4c71dc9",
+  "architecture": "arm64"
+}
+```
+
+A tarball's adds `program`, its path inside the archive, and optionally
+`name`. The class then declares
+`downloads=[Download(url=..., sha256=..., to="vendor/app.AppImage", arch=...)]`
+(`vendor/app.tar` for a tarball) and `run=[RunScript(script="install-download.sh")]`,
+the same script the build computer ran, with no apt package for the app. The
+bundle does not contain the application and supports only the download's
+architecture; the URL must keep serving those bytes, and the application's
+licence is the operator's to check.
+
+The export refuses the file (`download_install`) unless it names an
+`appimage` or `tarball` with an `http://` or `https://` URL and a SHA-256,
+the capture launched its `desktop_entry`, the captured program lies under its
+folder in `/opt/rea-apps`, and the capture ran on its architecture; it
+refuses `--package-url` beside it.
+
+## Grading once the app has saved
+
+A task's verifier, `artifacts/<task>-check/verify.py`, grades the app's files
+only once they have settled, because an app can save on its own timer after the
+last change. Gnote saves a note 4 s after the last key, so a read taken as
+soon as the agent stops finds the text on screen but not yet in the file. The
+verifier reads the app's `data/get` every 0.5 s. It compares each file's bytes
+between reads by their SHA-256, as `data/get` returns them, and grades once
+every file has held for 3 s. The 3 s count from when a read returned the
+current bytes, not when it began, so a slow read that brings a change late
+does not count its own run as quiet. 15 s after the first read began, the
+bound, the verifier grades the last completed read: no read starts at or
+after the bound, and a read still running then is cut. Each result records
+whether the files settled in `settled`, and whether the bound cut a read in
+`read_cut`.
+
+The window has a cost and a limit:
+
+- An app whose files do not change during the check, such as one that saved
+  at once, is graded 3 s after the first read returns.
+- A save that lands more than 3 s after the first read returns is still
+  missed. An app that saves 4 s after the last key is caught only when the
+  agent stops at least a second after that key.
+- Files the app rewrites more often than every 3 s, such as a log, never
+  settle, so every check waits until the bound.
+- The bound counts the reads too, so a slow `data/get` ends the check at
+  15 s. Only the first read, which every grade needs, runs to its own
+  timeout.
+
+The bound and window are `SETTLE_BOUND_S` and `SETTLE_WINDOW_S` in the
+verifier. `check_build_task` waits the same way before it grades each
+witness stage; see [witnessing](desktop-build-witness.md#witness).
+
+## Typed views
+
+The views follow the [state view](desktop-application-state.md)'s formats and
+shapes: SQLite tables (at most 64 ordinary tables, `tables_truncated` past
+that, and per table `columns`, `primary_key`, at most 500 `rows` and
+`truncated`, with blobs, unsafe integers and text that is not UTF-8 tagged as
+REA tags them), JSON, XML as `{root, truncated}` with REA's node, depth and
+whitespace rules and its `doctype` when the document declares one, key file
+groups, text as
+`{lines, line_count, truncated}` split on `\n` and `\r\n`, and zip archives
+as their entries, read with Python's `zipfile` from the file in place, with
+REA's entry, size, compression ratio and archive limits and its wording for an
+entry it does not read. The module reads the central directory itself, as REA
+does, and shows `zipfile` only the records it lists, reading each entry in
+bounded chunks no further than a byte past its declared size. A gzip file is
+the view of the document inside it, with `"compression": "gzip"` beside its
+format, decompressed with Python's `zlib` within the same entry size and ratio
+limits, its members joined as REA joins them. A JSON file
+holding a number JavaScript cannot read exactly, such as an integer above 2^53,
+or whose retained value nests more than 500 levels deep, gets an `error` instead of a view, as in
+REA. Duplicate keys keep their last value before the depth check. Text that is not one JSON
+document, such as JSON Lines, stays text. Format detection follows REA's
+rules. Files larger than 64 MiB get an `error` instead of a view
+and are not read. The selected `file_bytes` also applies to scrubbed seed task
+views before admission, independently of how much seed data the export can
+copy. SQLite table views have a shared `sqlite_view_bytes` allowance, default
+16 MiB of compact UTF-8 JSON per table, checked before retaining each row.
+An oversized table keeps its error while other tables remain readable. Raising
+this view allowance does not raise the independent 16 MiB native SQLite
+value/record limit or REA worker reply limit; worker facts include additional
+schema and typed-cell metadata and may be refused earlier. The TypeScript
+and exported Python readers count their respective native compact JSON encodings;
+float and exponent spelling can make their exact byte thresholds differ even
+when they report equal numeric facts. The Python byte counter quotes large
+strings in bounded chunks before retention.
+Exported SQLite readers require Python 3.11 or later for the native connection limits; the
+AgentEnv compatibility workflow uses Python 3.12.
+XML is read with Python's `expat` twice: with namespace
+processing, which refuses what REA's parser refuses, such as an undeclared
+prefix, then without it, so element and attribute names keep the prefixes the
+document spells and namespace declarations stay attributes, as in REA's view;
+text splits into nodes where REA's splits it, at CDATA sections, comments and
+processing instructions. Both passes read a DOCTYPE as REA does: with
+parameter entity parsing off, so the DTD it names is never read, and handlers
+that refuse an internal subset, an external entity and an entity expat would
+skip; the first pass also checks each start tag for a reference to an
+undeclared entity, which expat drops from an attribute value without a word
+when a DOCTYPE names a DTD. Known differences remain:
+
+- dconf databases are reported as binary, since REA reads them with `dconf`;
+  inside an archive, one is `dconf` with an error, as in REA.
+- Zip entry names: a name in an Info-ZIP Unicode Path extra field is used only
+  where Python's `zipfile` reads it (3.12 and later), and an entry whose local
+  header names it differently from the central directory is damaged rather
+  than read.
+- SQLite databases are read in place, read-only, rather than from a staged copy;
+  a write lock the running app holds is waited out for a quarter of a second
+  and then gives the file an `error`, and so does a table or column name that
+  is not UTF-8.
+
+Unless it was [made for the task](#a-seed-made-for-the-task), the seed is the
+user's real data. Keep the bundle local and do not publish it.
+The class targets agentenv-framework 0.9.1485.
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+# Desktop application state
+
+`rea inspect-desktop-application-state <capture-folder>` reads a folder written
+by [desktop application capture](desktop-application-capture.md) and describes
+the application's state: which observed files are the application's, what each
+retained version contains as typed JSON, and how each file changed between
+checkpoints. It reads only the capture folder; the application is not run
+again.
+
+```sh
+rea inspect-desktop-application-state ./mousepad-capture --format json
+```
+
+Views use bounded defaults. When a view reports truncation or a byte-budget
+refusal, retry the same capture with `--view-policy` JSON overrides:
+
+```bash
+rea inspect-desktop-application-state ./mousepad-capture \
+  --state-path /home/ada/Documents/notes.txt \
+  --view-policy '{"text_lines":10000,"file_bytes":134217728}' --format json
+```
+
+`--state-path` selects an exact original captured path and can be repeated.
+Omitting it examines every captured path. Selection preserves the captured
+checkpoint and digest; it does not substitute the file's current contents.
+A path absent from the capture is an input error.
+
+`--view-policy` accepts positive safe-integer overrides for `file_bytes`,
+`sqlite_tables`, `sqlite_rows`, `sqlite_view_bytes`, `text_lines`, `xml_nodes`, `xml_depth`,
+`parsed_bytes`, `json_depth`, `zip_entries`, `zip_entry_bytes`, `zip_bytes`,
+and `zip_ratio`. Unspecified controls keep the defaults described below.
+`xml_depth` admits at most 494 and `json_depth` at most 991: these bounds
+follow the fixed Evidence JSON nesting limit, including the captured-version
+and ZIP-member wrappers and XML's element/children representation. A request
+above either bound is rejected before reading the capture.
+Evidence parameters retain only the supplied `view_policy` overrides; omission
+and an explicitly empty selection remain distinct. State inspection and task
+drafts report the resolved policy separately as
+`normalized_result.effective_view_policy`. Changes apply on this call, without
+a restart. File and ZIP byte counts refer to retained file bytes or uncompressed
+ZIP member bytes, not transport size. Gzip document views share `zip_entry_bytes`
+and `zip_ratio` with ZIP entry views; `zip_bytes` bounds a ZIP archive, not a
+gzip stream. These selections also apply to the decompressed document's format
+view. `sqlite_view_bytes` instead bounds each
+projected table's compact UTF-8 JSON, including column names, primary keys,
+rows and truncation metadata; it defaults to 16 MiB. Rows are charged before
+retention. A table that exceeds this allowance keeps an actionable `error`,
+while other tables remain readable. Increase this control and retry the same
+capture for a projected-view refusal. It does not raise the SQLite worker's
+separate fixed value/record or complete-reply limits, which may refuse earlier.
+Each reader counts its native compact JSON encoding. Float spelling can differ:
+Python emits `16.0` where JavaScript emits `16`, and exponent spelling also
+varies. Identical numeric facts can therefore cross this byte threshold at
+different settings. This is not a common transport-byte guarantee.
+
+The same option is available on `describe-desktop-application-task` and
+`export-desktop-application`. Export uses the accepted policy for task
+validation and emits it into the Python readers used by the environment's
+`data/get`; re-export with another policy to change those reader budgets.
+Task checks apply `file_bytes` to the actual scrubbed seed bytes, including any
+growth from replacing the capture home with `/home/user`. A seed over that
+view allowance may still be exported under the independent acquisition limit,
+but its unreadable view cannot establish a known task failure.
+The TypeScript and exported Python readers share the policy's defaults.
+These desktop capture workflows remain CLI-only.
+
+Raising a view budget cannot recover content the capture never retained,
+change numeric exactness, enable encrypted or unsupported archive formats,
+or raise SQLite worker, Evidence nesting, process-memory or transport limits.
+Keep increases specific to the exhausted budget. Truncation and incomplete
+comparison coverage remain visible until the requested facts were examined.
+
+The result is Evidence with operation `inspect_desktop_application_state` and
+predicate type `rea.desktop-application-state`. Its confidence is `inferred`,
+because roles come from heuristics; the views themselves are read from the
+retained bytes, which are checked against their SHA-256 before use.
+
+## Paths and roles
+
+The view covers every file retained at the baseline and every file that
+changed later. Each path records the evidence the capture holds about it:
+
+| Reason                   | Meaning                                                                   |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `state_directory`        | It lies in one of the application's state directories, in either spelling |
+| `opened_by_application`  | An application process held it open during a sample                       |
+| `named_in_window_title`  | An application window title spelled its name, `~/` or absolute path whole |
+| `selected_path`          | It lies under a `--state-path` or absolute `--argument` of the capture    |
+| `dconf_application_keys` | It is a dconf database holding groups whose path names the application    |
+| `desktop_service`        | It lies where desktop services and toolkits keep shared files, or caches  |
+| `desktop_trash`          | It lies in the desktop Trash, `~/.local/share/Trash`                      |
+
+A folder beside a state directory whose name differs from it only in letter
+case counts as that state directory, so a profile the application first
+creates during the capture, such as GIMP's `~/.config/GIMP` beside the
+candidate `~/.config/gimp`, is its state too.
+
+The role follows from the reasons, in this order: `shared_desktop` for a file
+in the desktop Trash, which the user deleted, whatever else names it;
+`application_state` for application keys in dconf, or a state directory outside shared desktop
+locations; `document` for a file named in a window title or selected by the
+caller, even if the application holds it open, except that a selected file
+under a hidden folder of the home, such as `~/.config/MuseScore`, a dotfile
+there, or a lock an application holds, such as LibreOffice's `.~lock.<name>#`
+beside a document, is `application_state`, judged by the path as the caller
+named it, so a file reached through `~/.config/MuseScore` stays the application's
+when that folder is a link to `~/settings/MuseScore`; the innermost selected
+path holding a file decides, so a score selected itself inside the link's
+target keeps its own name and is a document (a capture written before it
+recorded selected paths is judged by their physical spelling);
+`application_state` for another
+open file outside shared locations; `shared_desktop` for other files in shared
+locations; `unrelated` otherwise. A window title names a file only when no
+other file name character adjoins the name, so `day.txt` does not match
+`today.txt - Notes`, and never by a folder of a path the title shows: in
+CherryTree's `home-notebook.ctd - /home/user/Documents - CherryTree 1.1.2`,
+`user` names no file. A name without an extension, such as `Makefile`, must
+also stand on its own rather than end a longer path, as in
+`Makefile - Editor`. A file under `~/.cache` or `~/.config/dconf` is never
+named by a title. The capture's checkpoint acknowledgements rank files by the
+same rule.
+
+Application names, which select dconf groups, come from the package, the
+executable, the desktop entry's id and `StartupWMClass`, and the window match.
+The entry's display name is left out, since a generic name such as `Settings`
+would claim other applications' groups.
+
+## Versions and views
+
+Each path lists its versions: the baseline, then its state after each
+checkpoint where it, or a database's `-wal` or `-journal` file, changed. A
+checkpoint that leaves an absent file absent adds no version. A file's state
+at any checkpoint is its last version recorded at or before it, which is how
+the [export](desktop-application-export.md#the-seed-checkpoint) and the
+[task draft](desktop-application-tasks.md) read it at the seed and end
+checkpoints they are given; `capture.checkpoints` lists the names in order.
+Views hold the captured bytes as they are, the capture host's name and user
+included; the export removes those from the bundle. A version records
+whether the file was present, the SHA-256 of its retained bytes, and a view:
+
+| Format    | Detected by                                                            | View                                                                                   |
+| --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `sqlite`  | The `SQLite format 3` header                                           | Every ordinary table's columns, primary key and up to 500 rows                         |
+| `dconf`   | The `GVariant` header                                                  | Groups whose path names the application, plus the names of the other groups            |
+| `zip`     | A zip local file header, `PK\x03\x04`, whatever the name               | Its file entries in archive order, each with its own format and view                   |
+| `json`    | A `.json` name or a leading `{` or `[` that parses                     | The parsed value, from files up to 4 MiB nested up to 500 levels                       |
+| `xml`     | An XML name, a declaration or a leading element that parses            | An element tree (`name`, `attributes`, `children`); text kept exactly, DTDs never read |
+| `keyfile` | Only `[group]`, `key=value` and comment lines, with at least one group | Groups of `key` → string value, from files up to 4 MiB                                 |
+| `text`    | Other UTF-8 text                                                       | Lines, up to 5,000                                                                     |
+| `binary`  | NUL bytes or invalid UTF-8                                             | None                                                                                   |
+
+A gzip file is read as the document inside it; see
+[compressed documents](#compressed-documents).
+
+Text that opens with an element, such as a Freeplane map's
+`<map version="freeplane 1.7.0">` with no declaration, or with a DOCTYPE that
+has no internal subset and then an element, such as a KmPlot plot's
+`<!DOCTYPE kmpdoc>` before `<kmpdoc version="4">`, is XML when the whole text
+is well formed, whatever the file is called, a `.txt` file included;
+otherwise it stays text. The exported verifier makes the same choice.
+
+A JSON value holding a number JavaScript would round, such as an integer above
+2^53, is not read rather than shown rounded.
+
+An XML view names elements and attributes as the document spells them, prefix
+included: a saved Inkscape drawing's root is `svg`, in its default namespace,
+with `sodipodi:docname` and the declarations `xmlns` and `xmlns:sodipodi`
+among its attributes, and a Writer paragraph is `text:p`. An element's
+`children` hold its elements and text in order, text split where a CDATA
+section, comment or processing instruction falls. Whitespace-only text between
+child elements is formatting, and dropped, in an element that holds no other
+text, unless `xml:space="preserve"` applies; in mixed content, an element with
+text of its own beside its children such as a paragraph split into runs, it is
+kept, so `<p>Meet on <s>Sunday</s> <s>evening</s></p>` keeps the space between
+the runs. Whitespace here is XML's: space, tab, carriage return and line feed;
+a no-break space is text. The view keeps up to 5,000 nodes, comments and
+processing instructions counted, nested up to 64 levels, and sets `truncated`
+when it leaves some out.
+
+A document that begins with a DOCTYPE naming its DTD, as AbiWord's `.abw`
+does, reads as the same element tree, and the view records the declaration
+beside `root`, its public identifier normalized as XML matches it:
+
+```json
+{
+  "doctype": {
+    "name": "abiword",
+    "public_id": "-//ABISOURCE//DTD AWML 1.0 Strict//EN",
+    "system_id": "http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd"
+  },
+  "root": { "name": "abiword", "attributes": {}, "children": [] },
+  "truncated": false
+}
+```
+
+An identifier the DOCTYPE leaves out is `null`, and a document without one
+has no `doctype`. The DTD is never fetched or read, so it adds no default
+attributes and declares no entities. A DOCTYPE with an internal subset
+(`<!DOCTYPE a [ … ]>`), which could declare entities, is not read as XML, nor is
+a document that refers to any entity but XML's five (`&amp;`, `&lt;`, `&gt;`,
+`&apos;`, `&quot;`); such a file is text.
+
+Exported XML views use REA's same formatting-whitespace classification, so
+retained XML text and the task checks that address it stay aligned.
+
+SQLite databases are read through REA's SQLite worker from a private copy,
+with any retained `-wal` or `-journal` file staged beside it; the worker
+accepts an inactive rollback journal and refuses a hot one. A version is not
+read when its `-wal` or `-journal` file existed but was not retained, or when
+the capture did not record whether either existed, since the database alone
+could misstate its committed rows. The capture records them under its content
+roots, which include both beside a database selected on its own, when its
+baseline walk listed every directory, read every path, entered no other
+device, did not stop early and recorded what it left out, and wherever they change; an excluded log, and any elsewhere, is
+unknown, since an unchanged file and a missing one look alike. After an
+incomplete checkpoint, a database or sidecar without an explicit
+later change remains unconfirmed even if a later walk completes. REA does not
+combine that older file with a newly recorded member of the SQLite set. The
+historical versions remain listed; the affected SQLite view has a `view_error`.
+A baseline non-file at a sidecar path, or a non-directory ancestor, cannot
+establish an absent file. Captures without the required baseline non-file
+inventory must be made again before inspection.
+A table
+that cannot be read keeps its `error` in place of its rows, and changes to that
+database are marked incomplete. dconf
+databases are read with `dconf dump /` against a private file profile, so the
+live database and the dconf service are not touched; this needs `dconf-cli`, or
+`REA_DCONF_COMMAND`.
+
+A version has a `view_error` when its bytes were not retained, are over the 64
+MiB read limit, are missing or no longer match their digest, exceed a format's
+limit above, or its reader failed.
+
+## Archives
+
+Many applications save a document as a zip archive of XML and other files:
+FreeCAD's `.FCStd` and `.FCBak`, OpenDocument (`.odt`, `.ods`, whose
+`content.xml` is the document), Office Open XML, EPUB and JAR. Such a file is
+`zip`, and its view lists its file entries in archive order, leaving out
+directories: an entry whose name ends in `/`, or whose attributes mark a Unix
+directory or, from an MS-DOS host, the directory attribute:
+
+```json
+{
+  "entries": [
+    {
+      "name": "Document.xml",
+      "size": 11923,
+      "sha256": "…",
+      "format": "xml",
+      "view": {
+        "root": { "name": "Document", "attributes": {}, "children": [] },
+        "truncated": false
+      },
+      "view_error": null
+    }
+  ],
+  "entry_count": 15,
+  "truncated": false
+}
+```
+
+Each entry's bytes are read from the archive's verified bytes in memory,
+checked against its CRC-32 and declared size, and given a `format` and `view`
+by the rules and limits above, with the entry's name in place of a file name.
+Nothing is extracted to disk. An entry has a `view_error`, with `sha256`,
+`format` and `view` null, when it is encrypted, compressed other than stored or
+deflated, larger than 16 MiB, more than 100 times its compressed size, past the
+64 MiB read from one archive, or its data is damaged. A SQLite or dconf
+database, or an archive, inside an archive keeps its format and `sha256` and
+has a `view_error` instead of a view: it is not read. The view lists at most
+1,000 entries; `entry_count` counts them all, and `truncated` is true when some
+are not listed. REA reads the central directory itself, a record at a time,
+through the Zip64 end record whenever a Zip64 locator precedes the end record,
+as Python's `zipfile` does, and hands the zip reader only the records it lists,
+so an archive of hundreds of thousands of entries costs no more to read
+than one of a thousand. An archive whose central directory cannot be read has a
+`view_error` of its own.
+
+## Compressed documents
+
+Gnumeric's `.gnumeric`, Dia's `.dia`, Xournal++'s `.xopp`, GnuCash's default
+book and Inkscape's `.svgz` are XML compressed with gzip. A file that starts
+with gzip's magic bytes, `1f 8b 08`, whatever its name, is read as the
+document inside it: its members joined, then given a format and view by the
+rules above under the file's own name, so a pointer or check into it is
+written exactly as for the same document uncompressed, and the task draft is
+the same. The version records the compression beside the format:
+
+```json
+{
+  "format": "xml",
+  "compression": "gzip",
+  "view": {
+    "root": { "name": "gnm:Workbook", "attributes": {}, "children": [] },
+    "truncated": false
+  },
+  "view_error": null
+}
+```
+
+The document is read only when it is at most 16 MiB and at most 100 times the
+file's size, an archive entry's limits, so decompressing stops there; past
+them, or when the stream is damaged or cut short, the version has `format`
+null and a `view_error`, and a check into it is undecided. A SQLite or dconf
+database inside keeps its format and has a `view_error`, an archive inside is
+read as an archive, and another gzip stream inside is binary. A gzip file
+inside an archive reads as binary. Other compression, such as xz, Zstandard
+or bzip2, is not read: such a file is binary.
+
+## Kinds of change
+
+Between consecutive versions a change is `created`, `deleted`, or a
+format-specific kind with what was added, removed and changed (up to 100 of
+each, with counts):
+
+- `lines` for text: lines added and removed, as a multiset.
+- `values` for JSON and XML: JSON pointers to values, containers included, so
+  an array that becomes an object with the same members is changed. A pointer
+  longer than 4096 characters is counted but not listed.
+- `values` for zip archives too, with array members named by
+  [selectors](desktop-application-tasks.md#pointers-and-selectors) rather than
+  positions wherever a selector names one member in both versions: entries by
+  name, as `/entries/[name=Document.xml]`, and XML elements by tag and an
+  attribute, as `/view/root/children/[name=Object][@name=Hole]`, so an object
+  inserted before another does not shift it. A comparison is incomplete when
+  either view leaves out entries, or an entry's view is missing or truncated.
+- `keys` for key files and dconf: `group/key`, with `~` and `/` in the key
+  written `~0` and `~1` as in a JSON pointer, so `[a/b]` `c` and `[a]` `b/c`
+  stay apart.
+- `rows` for SQLite: `table:` and the row's primary key, or the whole row when
+  the table has none.
+- `content` for binary files, and `unreadable` when either version has no
+  view.
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+# Desktop application tasks
+
+A [desktop application export](desktop-application-export.md) can carry one
+task: a prompt for a computer-use agent and checks that grade what the agent
+left in the application's files. An agent, not REA, writes the prompt and the
+checks from the change the capture recorded. For file checks, REA validates
+the task against the capture and keeps it only when its checks fail on the
+seed and all pass on the captured end state. The checks are declarative;
+optional [readers](#readers) run commands to interpret files, and
+[screen judges](#screen-judges) use a model when no file shows the change.
+The exported verifier uses the same checks and reader runner as REA.
+
+```sh
+rea describe-desktop-application-task ./mousepad-capture --format json > draft.json
+# edit the draft's task into task.json: a name, the user's request, the checks
+rea export-desktop-application ./mousepad-capture ./mousepad-bundle --task task.json
+agent-env run ./mousepad-bundle --task add-milk --agent claude-code
+```
+
+## Describe the change
+
+`rea describe-desktop-application-task <capture-folder>` reads the capture and
+its [state view](desktop-application-state.md) and returns Evidence with
+operation `describe_desktop_application_task` and predicate type
+`rea.desktop-application-task-draft`:
+
+- `application`: the environment name the export would use, the title and the
+  window class.
+- `owned_paths`: the paths the export owns, the only ones whose files the
+  app's `data/get` serves and checks can read.
+- `checkpoints`: the two checkpoints compared, `baseline` for the seed and
+  `final` for the end. They are the capture's first and last unless
+  `--seed-checkpoint` and `--end-checkpoint` name others, as for the
+  [export](desktop-application-export.md#the-seed-checkpoint), which takes
+  the same options; a name the capture does not hold, or an end before the
+  seed, is refused.
+- `files`: each file under them whose state differs between those
+  checkpoints, with its home path, role, its versions at both (`baseline` and
+  `final`, the last recorded at or before each) and the net change between them, from the state view's own diff (`lines`, `values`,
+  `keys` or `rows` with what was added, removed and changed, or `created`,
+  `deleted`, `format`, `content`, `unreadable`; `content` also when the
+  views hold only part of a file and match while the file changed). A
+  database is compared by its rows, since its hash leaves out the `-wal`
+  file. Text changes list each line
+  once and add `line_counts`, the lines found at both ends whose number of
+  occurrences changed. An XML file's change names its members by the
+  [selectors](#pointers-and-selectors) checks use, as an archive's already
+  does, and by position only where nothing names a member or where only the
+  members' order changed. Views appear only for the files the suggestions
+  cover, with arrays past 200 items and strings past 2,000 characters cut
+  (`view_cut`).
+- `values`, in each of those files: the values its change added, changed and
+  removed, each with the `pointer` a check names it by, its `kind` (`added`,
+  `changed` or `removed`), and `before` and `after`: the scalar, an element as
+  compact XML with the text the XML reader kept, spaces between runs included,
+  or a JSON value as compact JSON, cut at 600 characters, and null at the end
+  that lacks it. A file created or deleted lists what its one end holds,
+  `added` or `removed`: an archive's entries, an XML file's root element, a
+  JSON file's members or a key file's keys, each whole once. A value only
+  position reaches has `note: "by_position"`, and its pointer cannot go into a
+  check; noise an app writes as it saves has `view_state`, `renumbered`,
+  `volatile`, `timestamp`, `upkeep` or `layout` (see `task`). A record of
+  text fields added to a list of its kind, as GnuCash's
+  `<gnc:transaction>`, is listed field by field, and a field that lists
+  records, as its `<trn:splits>`, record by record, so the cut never hides
+  one. `refers_to` names up to
+  five other elements a value equals the `key` or `id` (`xmi:id` among them)
+  of, outside a view the app keeps of the document, as Umbrello's
+  `listview` mirroring its model by id, with the
+  `attribute` holding it, as HomeBank's `category="44"` names
+  `<cat key="44" name="Groceries"/>`, or the id a child element holds, as a
+  GnuCash split's `<split:account>` names the account whose `<act:id>` it
+  is, shown with its name, `<gnc:account …><act:name>Groceries</act:name>…`;
+  an element added whole lists those of the records of attributes it nests
+  too, as a KMyMoney transaction's splits name their `<ACCOUNT>` and
+  `<PAYEE>`, each once. Where several elements share that key, the one
+  whose tag shares the attribute's stem, as `payee` and `<pay>`, and of
+  those the one named for the attribute, as `account` an `<ACCOUNT>` before
+  an `<ACCOUNTID>`. A plain number names an element only through an
+  attribute so named or ending in `id`, `ref` or `key`, so a list's
+  `count="5"` names no `<FIXVERSION id="5"/>`. A value that changed lists,
+  in `alternatives`, its pointer naming the element by each other identifier
+  or name-like attribute it holds alone among its tag's members, up to
+  three, as an Inkscape text's `[@inkscape:label=Headline]` beside its
+  `[@id=text12]`, for a check to name it by instead; an element its tag
+  alone names inside the first one a condition names, as an EPUB chapter's
+  `h1`, by its `[@id=chapter-two]`. What a check can
+  name comes first, text an edit changed before the rest, so no cut drops
+  the edit, then what only position reaches, then noise. A file lists
+  at most 20 values and 8 KB, the draft 24 KB, and `values_cut` says when a
+  limit left some out. Values cover XML, archives, JSON and key files; a text
+  or SQLite file's change and suggestions already carry its lines and rows.
+- `task`: a draft with the name `change`, a placeholder prompt the export
+  refuses, and suggested checks derived from the net change of the files with
+  role `document`, or of the app's own state files when no document changed,
+  excluding locks the export leaves out of the seed. App state files ending
+  in `.log` remain eligible for checks.
+  A text file gains `lines_present` for its new lines and `lines_absent` for
+  lines it lost (when either is at most ten), and `line_count` for each line
+  holding a letter whose count changed; a new line holding an XML attribute
+  REA recognizes as generated, such as a named epoch time or `ID_329023692`, gets a
+  `line_count` of the lines `contains` its text up to that value, as
+  `<node TEXT="Water filter" ID="`, at the end's number, where both views
+  hold the whole file, instead of a `lines_present` another save would
+  fail, or a `volatile_lines` note when no text comes before it. UUID-shaped
+  text stays exact because its shape alone does not show that it was generated;
+  JSON and key files gain
+  `value_equals` and `value_absent` by pointer, a JSON array's records named
+  by an id field each holds alone at both ends (`id`, `uid`, `uuid`, `guid`,
+  `key` or a name ending in `_id` or `Id`), as `/lists/[id=chores]`,
+  whatever order the app saves them in; where the app generated that id, a
+  record both ends hold is named by its kind field and its first name-like
+  string field (a key ending in `name`, `title`, `label` or `caption`),
+  nearest first and up to three keys deep, that holds the same string at
+  both ends and names it alone at each, as TreeLine's category by
+  `/nodes/[format=CATEGORY][>data~1NAME=Science]`, and by its id where none
+  does, as `/nodes/[uid=7584d494d9f511f1a873edd4f1920549]` once its name
+  changed; and a record only one end holds is named by such a field that
+  names it alone at its end and nothing at the other, as TreeLine's new book by
+  `/nodes/[format=BOOK][>data~1Title=The Silk Roads]`, its other fields
+  checked through that selector and the fields the selector reads not, nor
+  a field holding what every like record (one of its kind) at the end holds
+  there, as the empty `children` of every book; and
+  by position only where nothing names a record, as a new book whose title
+  another book holds, with a `by_position` note listing those checks;
+  never a value that is a uid the app generates (a
+  GUID, or 32 hex digits as TreeLine's uuid1), nor a check the seed already
+  passes, as a new record's `format` where another record of that kind held
+  its place; a removed record is checked gone by its own pointer, as
+  `/lists/[id=chores]`, and only where the end holds nothing there, so a
+  record only position reached, whose place another took, is left to the
+  count; `member_count` checks of the
+  arrays whose members were added or removed, of the members' kind where
+  records share a `type`, `kind`, `format` or `category` field, as `/nodes`
+  matching `[format=BOOK]`, and a count guard of the innermost array an edit
+  went through, as for XML; SQLite tables gain rows added,
+  changed and removed, by primary key, and their new row count. An XML file,
+  and the JSON, key file and XML views of a zip archive's entries, gain checks
+  by [selectors](#pointers-and-selectors) and never through an element by
+  position: in XML, first [`text_equals`](#whole-text) for each element whose
+  text changed, then elements added or removed whole, then values changed,
+  added and removed, an entry or a JSON value added whole through its
+  members, and an empty array or object as it is.
+  - A selector names a member by its tag, then by its identifiers (`name`,
+    `id`, `xid`, `xml:id`), then by one other attribute, a name-like key such
+    as Scribus's `ANNAME` or `inkscape:label`, a worded value or an integer of
+    up to five digits first, then by two such attributes together, as
+    Gnumeric's cells by `[@Col=3][@Row=2]`, then by a coordinate, a long
+    number, a length with its unit, as `svg:height="2.629cm"`, an `xml:id`
+    or `draw:id` of the form `id2` that LibreOffice numbers anew as it saves,
+    so a Draw shape is named by its `draw:name`, or a token,
+    such as `XPOS` or `ItemID`, or an id of random case, as Umbrello's
+    `ubcgF2AWfBmHh` (`u` and twelve letters and digits), an automatic style name an app numbers as it
+    saves and renumbers on reload, as LibreOffice's
+    `presentation:style-name="pr1"` (`P1`, `T1`, `MT1`, `L2` on a
+    `*:style-name`), so a slide's frames are named by `presentation:class`,
+    or an attribute naming
+    view state, such as which layer is `selected`, and last by a child
+    element's text, `[>CHILD=VALUE]`, a name-like tag first, as Osmo's
+    record by `[>first_name=Delphine]`, MuseScore's `<Text>` by
+    `[>style=Title]`, a spreadsheet row by its label cell, or GnuCash's
+    transaction by `[>trn:description=Greenleaf Market]`: text of at most 64
+    characters, never a time or a token or id a program generates; then by
+    an identifier a child carries, `[>CHILD@ATTR=VALUE]`, as a GtkBuilder
+    `<child>` by `[>object@id=submit_button]`, never one an app generates or
+    numbers anew as it saves; and then by text a child joins from elements
+    of its own, as Glade's `[>packing=TrueTrue1]` from a widget's packing
+    properties, which moving the widget changes. A pair
+    counts every member holding both its values, whichever attributes that
+    member ranks first. An element with identifiers is named by those alone;
+    an id the app generates, as Freeplane's `ID_329023692`, or a GUID in
+    any attribute, braced or not, as VYM's `uuid="{18eadb5d-…}"`, ranks
+    last, after a child's text, so a new node is named by its `TEXT` and a
+    new VYM branch by `[>heading=Sunset boat tour]`, while a member
+    both versions hold pairs by such an id first, so records that keep their
+    UUIDs and swap titles read as two title edits. A value that stands for
+    none, as Grisbi's `Id="(null)"` on every transaction, names nothing, so a
+    new transaction is named by its `Nb`. A child's text is
+    counted on every sibling, one an identifier names included, so a title
+    two records share names neither. The selector must name the
+    member alone at both ends, with the same values; a child's text names a
+    member that is in one version only when the list's length changed, so a
+    row whose one cell an edit changed stays that row. An element whose one
+    identifier changed, at its place among its tag's members, with every
+    other attribute and its children alike, is that element renamed, as a
+    MyPaint layer renamed from `Layer` to `Sun`: it is paired by its first
+    other attribute naming it alone at both ends, as
+    `[@src=data/sun.png]`, so the rename reads as its `name` changed, and
+    the old name gets a check that it names nothing, unless its change is
+    noise, as an id the app renumbered. Where that attribute's values number
+    the members in document order, as MyPaint 2 writes `src` as
+    `data/layer-00.png`, `data/layer-01.png` and on along the stack and
+    renumbers them when a layer moves, each version is named by its own
+    value of the renamed identifier instead, `[@name=Sun]` and
+    `[@name=Layer]`.
+  - A child of the document's root that its tag alone names, and that holds
+    a list (two or more elements of one tag and no text of its own) and has
+    an identifier, also gets a condition that keeps it named if the app adds
+    a sibling of its tag, as Dia adds an empty `Background` layer each time
+    it reopens and saves a diagram: an id other than `name` both ends hold,
+    as Inkscape's `[name=g][@id=layer1]`, which a new sibling would not
+    share; else the text of a child both ends hold, as Dia's
+    `[name=dia:layer][>dia:object=#Receive order#]`, which an empty sibling
+    lacks; else its `name`, which a new one may repeat. Deeper, a member of
+    a list named for its tag, as Gnumeric's `gnm:Sheet` in `gnm:Sheets`,
+    holding elements and its tag alone naming it, gets an id, else a
+    name-like child's text, `[name=gnm:Sheet][>gnm:Name=Budget]`, else its
+    `name`. Other steps, and elements with neither, stay as they are.
+    An identifier the app numbers by position names nothing: where the
+    members of a tag hold it as 1..N (or 0..N-1) in document order at both
+    ends, members were inserted or removed, and every member another
+    attribute names alone at both ends kept its number or moved it the way
+    the count did, one at least, as Planner's task `id` after a task is
+    inserted, members are paired by their other attributes, so an insertion
+    reads as one task added. A value two members swap, or an id appended at
+    the end, as Tellico's next `<entry id="4">`, leaves the ids identity. An
+    identifier numbering the members 0..N-1 in document order at both ends,
+    where members came or went, as Parley numbers its `<entry id="6">` by
+    where it saves it, ranks after a child's text where a member has one, so
+    a new entry is `[>translation=library]` and its kept neighbours are named
+    alike; Tellico's ids, which count from 1, Tiled's and Rosegarden's,
+    whose members hold no text, stay identity. An element a change added that
+    holds nothing but the id of a record it added elsewhere, as Parley's
+    lesson membership `<entry id="6"/>`, is `upkeep`, listed with `refers_to`
+    on that record, never a check or a count.
+  - The text check names the paragraph rather than a run inside it: it goes up
+    from an element sitting in its parent's text, and from one named by its
+    tag or position alone to the nearest ancestor named by an attribute, as
+    AbiWord's `p` by its `xid`, unless it is a field its tag names in a
+    record of two or more fields holding text, as QElectroTech's `<text>`
+    beside `<info_name>` in a `<dynamic_elmt_text>`, or KmPlot's
+    `<equation-0>` beside `<arg-min>`, which is checked itself rather than
+    the record whose text joins its fields; one line of text the app lays
+    out between line breaks, as KmPlot's formula before the next element, is
+    checked, and its siblings guarded, with `normalize_whitespace: true`,
+    and text whose whitespace alone changed, as a formula the app moved to
+    an indented line of its own, gets no check; where no attribute names one, to the nearest
+    ancestor within three levels its tag names with no step by position, as
+    MuseScore's `VBox` around untitled `<Text>` elements; and where only
+    position reaches the element, to the ancestor above the outermost step by
+    position, by an attribute of its own that names it alone where one does,
+    as an ODS sheet's `table:table[@table:name=Q1 Sales]` above its rows. The
+    text nodes and runs inside it get no other check, but an element holding
+    no text that is added or removed there, such as an image or a line break,
+    keeps its own, since the text check never reads it. A decimal that is an
+    element's only text, such as a spreadsheet cell's, is checked by its
+    number instead. Free text that gains a line, such as a shopping list,
+    uses `text_equals` on the whole text: the current XML checks cannot
+    compare an unstructured line as a whole item. This can reject a correct
+    edit that puts the item elsewhere or changes spacing. Text an app keeps in an attribute, one element per run, as Scribus's
+    `<StoryText><ITEXT CH="Spring "/><ITEXT CH="Fair"/>`, gets a `text_equals`
+    with `text_attribute` on the nearest ancestor an attribute names, as
+    `[name=PAGEOBJECT][@ANNAME=Headline]` with `"text_attribute": "CH"`, where
+    that ancestor holds no text nodes and the attribute's holders are runs,
+    none inside another and none carrying an identifier or a name-like
+    attribute beside it, as Umbrello's `<ownedAttribute xmi:id="…"
+    name="email" visibility="private"/>`, a record whose attributes are
+    checked one by one, two or more or one holding words with a space: an
+    element's own attribute, as a Freeplane node's `TEXT` beside the nodes in
+    it, or a lone value, as `<Bool value="false"/>`, is checked where it is.
+    The check covers that attribute and the runs holding it; another change
+    in the frame, as a run's `FONT`, keeps its own check. A record added
+    or removed whole, an element holding only elements, its fields, such as
+    Tellico's `<entry>` or a record of repeated `<field>` elements, never
+    makes the list holding records of its kind a check, whose text would hold
+    the records the edit left alone, except a record removed whole that only
+    position names, whose absence only the list's text shows. Text made of
+    runs is no record: an element whose tag names a paragraph or a piece of
+    text (`p`, Writer's `text:p` and `text:h`, `h1` to `h6`, `li`, `para`,
+    SVG's `text` and `tspan`, a `span` or an `a`), one inside such an
+    element, as Word's `<w:r>` run in its `<w:p>`, one whose elements are all
+    inline formatting (`b`, `i`, `u`, `em`, `strong`, `bold`, `italic`, a
+    `span`, `a`, `code`, `sub`, `sup` and the like, Gnote's `size:` and
+    `link:` runs), as `<list-item><bold>olive oil</bold></list-item>`, or
+    whose runs split a sentence at a space, as `Meet ` and a linked
+    `Monday`. Nor does an element holding a date the app stamps in parts
+    take a text check.
+
+  - An element added to a list, where another element of its tag is at either
+    end, gets a `value_equals` for each of its attributes, best ranked first,
+    at most six, leaving out its selector's attributes, identifiers, times,
+    volatile values, view state and values standing for none, as HomeBank's
+    new `<ope>` gets its `amount`, `category` and `payee`; a value two or
+    more like siblings all hold, as Grisbi's `Cu="1"`, comes after those
+    that vary, as its `Pa`, `Ca`, `Dt` and `Am`. Records of attributes
+    alone that it nests, as a KMyMoney `<TRANSACTION>` its `<SPLITS>` of
+    `<SPLIT>`, get a `value_equals` of each attribute whose values vary among
+    the like records, its own and those under its like siblings, at most
+    three a record and six in all, as each split's `value` and `payee`, but
+    not one every split holds alike, as `price="1/1"`, nor one each holds
+    equal to an earlier one, as `shares` repeats `value`. Each record is
+    named by an identifier that the app neither generates nor numbers anew
+    in every record holding such a list, as KMyMoney's `S0001` in every
+    transaction, else by its best ranked attribute short of a coordinate or
+    an amount, as `[name=SPLIT][@account=A000001]`. An element whose other attributes, two
+    or more, a like sibling holds every one of, as a new Planner task copies
+    its neighbour's defaults, and any other element added whole, get a check
+    that it exists; of those copied, an attribute naming an element the seed
+    holds by an id that is no plain number, as an Umbrello attribute's
+    `type` its data type, is the user's choice and keeps its check. A record added to a list that a selector names, as
+    Tellico's `<entry id="4">` or Osmo's `<record>` by its first name, gets
+    a `text_equals` for each field, at most five, each by its selector among
+    the record's fields, as `[name=title]`, leaving out a field repeating the
+    record's identifier, the field its selector names it by unless it is
+    the only one left, as a new VYM branch's `<heading>`, a value every
+    like record holds in that field, as Osmo's `<group>None</group>`, noise,
+    a field holding ids of its own, a date the app stamps in parts, and blank
+    text or times; a field that lists records, as GnuCash's `<trn:splits>`,
+    gets its records' fields instead, each record by its own selector. An
+    attribute every like record holds alike, as GnuCash's `version`, is the
+    format's and gets no check. A record only position names also gets a
+    `text_contains` for each new field of three or more characters, at most
+    five, at the nearest ancestor a check can name, each absent from that
+    ancestor's text at the seed.
+  - Where members of a list were added or removed, a `member_count` of the
+    list's members of their tag, and of their kind where they share one
+    (`type`, `kind` or `shape`, as `[name=dia:object][@type=Flowchart - Box]`),
+    unless every member of the tag holds a value of its own, as Tiled's
+    objects a free-form `type` (`well`, `door`, `gate`), which labels each
+    rather than grouping them,
+    equal to the end's number, which differs from the seed's: at most two a
+    file, the shallowest lists first, after the other checks. None for a
+    list of one member at both ends, as a style an app adds for a run, for
+    members of an element a text check reads, which are runs of its text,
+    for an element in mixed content, or for noise.
+  - A decimal written as text, such as `146.83`, is suggested as a number
+    with `tolerance: 0.001`, unless the seed's value, read as the evaluator
+    reads a number (`10` and `1e1` included), is that close too. A
+    `value_equals` that would pass on the seed's value is not suggested.
+  - An element placed by its own position, holding numeric `x` and `y` as a
+    like sibling does, as Xournal++ places each `<text>` note on a layer, is
+    an item of its own, never a run of the others' text: one added whole
+    gets a `member_count` matching its whole text with whitespace collapsed,
+    which passes wherever it is placed, and that list's `member_count`.
+  - Noise leaves the suggestions when the file's change holds anything
+    else, a change only position reaches included: view state, which a tag
+    or attribute on the way names (the cursor, a selection, as VYM's
+    `<select>`, the layer, frame,
+    view or colour the app has current, as Pencil2D's `currentLayer`,
+    scrolling, zoom, the viewport, windows, splitters, a list or tree view
+    mirroring the document, as Umbrello's `listview`, Inkscape's `namedview`, view and
+    configuration settings, the printer, a save's history, edit time,
+    editing duration and cycles, last-saved time, the generator and
+    document statistics, and a preview or thumbnail the app renders, as
+    Xournal++'s `<preview>`), or the value of a name-like attribute or `key` on
+    the way, when it is one token of several words, as LibreOffice's
+    `config:config-item[@config:name=CursorPositionX]` inside
+    `[@config:name=ooo:view-settings]`, or a settings path ending in how a
+    panel shows (`visible`, `hidden`, `expanded`, `geometry`, `size` and the
+    like), as VYM's `<setting key="/treeeditor/visible">`; an identifier the
+    app numbers by position. An `Id` suffix alone does not show that an
+    attribute is generated, so relationship fields such as `accountId` are
+    retained; other save-generated IDs may need manual review; volatile
+    values, UUIDs and epoch times, binary data encoded as base64 (a PNG's
+    `iVBORw0KGgo`, or 256 or more base64 characters mixing cases and
+    digits), an id counter (`uniqueid`, `nextobjectid`), a value equal to an
+    id the change gave a new element where a counter or that element holds
+    it, as Umbrello's `lastobject` holds the new attribute's `xmi:id`, but
+    never a reference on an element both ends hold, as a KMyMoney split
+    moved to a new account, and durations and counts under a document's metadata; times the app stamps, also as a date written in
+    parts whose tag, or one it sits in, names when the app made, changed or
+    saved something, as Tellico's `<cdate>` of `<year>`, `<month>` and
+    `<day>` (`cdate`, `mdate`, `created`, `modified`, `saved`, `updated`,
+    `entered`), or written whole under such a tag, as GnuCash's
+    `<trn:date-entered><ts:date>2026-11-06 08:53:08 +0000`,
+    which no check ever reads, while a date a user enters in parts, as a
+    birthday, is an edit like any other; an id the app assigns, an `id`
+    element with `type="guid"`, as GnuCash's `<trn:id>`, and text of control
+    characters, as its unset options hold; `upkeep`, a change inside an
+    app's `slots`, as GnuCash's `book:slots`, which it adds to and fills on
+    reopening a book, a count an app keeps of its members, an attribute
+    whose key ends in `count` or an element whose tag names a count, whose
+    integer changed and at each end equals how many elements of one tag it,
+    or the element holding the text, holds there, the counter left out, as
+    VYM's root `branchCount`, KMyMoney's `<TRANSACTIONS count="5">` or
+    GnuCash's `<gnc:count-data>`, or, for a counter the change added, how
+    many of one tag, more than one, it holds as children, as FreeCAD's
+    `<ObjectDeps Count="2">`, while a count a user enters, as an item's
+    `<count>`, is an edit, and the `loext:tab-stop-distance` attributes
+    LibreOffice fills in `styles.xml` while another entry holds the edit,
+    and, while a change outside them is the edit, any
+    change in `styles.xml`, in a document's style containers or its master,
+    handout and notes pages, or to an attribute naming an automatic style
+    (`P1`, `MT1`) at both ends, as Impress after a reload wraps its master pages' fields in a new `MT1` style and
+    rewrites list style `L2`, and a text showing another field that changed
+    alike, its element beside a field naming that one's key, as
+    QElectroTech's `<dynamic_elmt_text>` shows a component's label in its
+    `<text>` beside `<info_name>label</info_name>`; and `layout`, attributes holding a list of
+    numbers, as Dia's `obj_bb` `6.3225,6.15;12.5775,8.15`, or a number a
+    name on its way calls layout (a position, point, box, corner, width,
+    height, side or offset, as `elem_width`), that changed in an element up
+    to three levels below one whose text changed, below the root's own
+    children, while their own element's text did not, as Dia moves and
+    resizes a box around its new text, or below an element whose tag names a
+    diagram, widget, canvas or scene while the model change is elsewhere, as
+    Umbrello grows a class's `classwidget` `height` when an attribute is
+    added; an order's `<amount value="12"/>` beside its new description is
+    content. Geometry that changed with
+    no text beside it, as a CAD sketch's, is content. However much noise
+    comes first, it never takes a check's place. When the change holds
+    nothing else, the checks stay and a note flags them: up to three in a
+    document, and as many as fit in the app's own state, where a view
+    setting may be the task.
+  - Whitespace an app lays out between elements is not checked, and values
+    that look like a time the app stamps, in ISO 8601, as C's `asctime`
+    writes it (`Thu Nov  5 09:20:31 2026`) or as a time of day to the
+    second (`05:16:21.675302540`), are left out; noise never makes its
+    ancestor's whole text a check.
+- `guards`: checks an author may add to show the edit left the rest alone,
+  kept out of `task.checks`, with ids `guard-1` and on: for each suggested
+  `value_equals` or `text_equals` on a member of an XML list, or a
+  `value_equals` through a JSON record added whole, as TreeLine's new book's
+  `data/Author` gives
+  `/nodes/[format=BOOK][>data~1Title=Small Engines of Life]/data/Author`
+  (its like records are those of its kind, named as both ends pair them,
+  and it reads only the check's own field), a field on up to
+  two like siblings, those sharing most of the attributes its selector
+  names it by and its type, as a cell's `Row` or `Col` and `ValueType`,
+  then the nearest first, at its seed value, which the end holds
+  too, trying at most the 16 nearest, so a guard costs the same among
+  thousands of siblings; for a member named as a field, by a name-like attribute alone, as
+  QElectroTech's `elementInformation[@name=label]`, the like siblings of
+  the nearest record out that hold that field too come first, so the other
+  components' labels guard a component's label rather than its other
+  fields: the check's own field where like siblings hold different values in
+  it, and otherwise one that varies among them, as Planner's `work` rather
+  than the `type="normal"` every task shares, but not one numbering the
+  members in order, as MyPaint's `src`; never through a sibling only
+  position pairs. A guard never selects its sibling by
+  what it reads: a sibling its selector names by the attribute the guard
+  checks, or by a value that is or holds the text it reads, as Glade's
+  `[>object=CancelTrueTrueTrue]` for a button's `Cancel` label, is named by
+  another identifier, name-like attribute or child's text it holds alone
+  at both ends instead, as Tiled's objects by `[@id=2]` rather than the
+  `name` the guard reads, or Glade's button by `[>packing=TrueTrue0]`, or
+  else the guard reads another field, or there is none. A `text_equals` with `text_attribute`
+  reads its siblings the same way. A text file gets a `lines_present` of the
+  nearest two unchanged lines of its first new line's kind, list items with the same
+  marker, as Zim's other `[ ]` action items, or lines the same command
+  opens, as the other headings after LyX's `\begin_layout Section`, or lines
+  of the same keyword or `key:` in other records, as a gettext catalogue's
+  other `msgstr` lines rather than the edited entry's own `msgid`, or else
+  its nearest lines with words in them; each text both ends hold once, never
+  a line with no text of its own, a command such as `\end_layout`, tags
+  alone such as `<fonts>` or `</node>`, or a key alone such as a RedNotebook
+  day's `24:`, nor a line that repeats; an item placed by its own position
+  that an edit added, a `member_count` matching each of up to four kept items'
+  text, nearest first. Where members were only edited, a
+  `member_count` of the innermost list holding the edited element that an
+  edit goes through by a member with like siblings, a record rather than a
+  field of one (a member named by a name-like attribute alone that the
+  record's like siblings hold too), of the edited member's tag and kind, at
+  the seed's number, as Dia's boxes in their layer, MyPaint's layers in
+  their stack or Glade's buttons in their button box: no member of the kind
+  added or removed; never of runs in an element a text check reads, and
+  only where the end holds the same number. A guard of a coordinate comes
+  after those of text. At most four a file besides the count guard, which
+  sits outside that cap, so sibling guards never squeeze it out. They pass
+  on the seed, which the export allows, since one check failing there is enough.
+- `notes`: why `files` is empty, or why a file's suggestions are thin. Each
+  note has a `code` and a `message`. For a draft with no files: `no_change`
+  when no file under the home changed between the two checkpoints and nor
+  did the application's dconf keys; `unowned_changes` when files changed but
+  none under the owned paths, with up to five of them in `files`, each with
+  its home path and role (desktop services' files last), and how many more
+  in `more`; `uncheckable_changes` when the application's keys in a dconf
+  database changed, with the database in `files`: no check reads dconf, and
+  the export only writes the keys as they were at the seed checkpoint, so
+  make the task's change one the app saves in a file; `unreadable_changes`
+  when a dconf database changed but REA could not read it, with the read
+  failure in `error` (install `dconf-cli` or set `REA_DCONF_COMMAND` when it
+  is missing), since whose keys changed is then unknown; and `no_document`
+  when no file has the document role, as when no window title shows the
+  file's name. A capture again with `--state-path` naming the file, or
+  `state_paths` on a build computer's `start_build_capture`, makes it the
+  app's. For a drafted file, named in `file`: `by_position` when
+  changes reach their element only by position, the tags no attribute names
+  alone in `elements`, or when only the elements' order changed;
+  `view_state_only` when every change is noise, the checks kept in
+  `pointers`; `long_text` when an element's text changed past the 2,000
+  characters a text check compares, the elements in `pointers`; `cut_view`
+  when the views hold only part of the file; `unreadable_view` when no
+  check can read it, as a document REA reads as binary;
+  `volatile_lines` when a text file gained lines holding a value the app
+  generates with no text before it to count them by; `generated_reference`
+  when an array references a newly generated record ID that cannot be checked
+  exactly across runs, with up to five affected `pointers`; and `read_as_text`
+  when a text file opens like XML, with a declaration, a DOCTYPE or an
+  element, but reads as text because its DOCTYPE has an internal subset or
+  it is not well formed, so its checks compare lines that hold attributes in
+  the order the app wrote them.
+
+The suggestions are a starting point. Keep the ones that say what the user
+did; drop the ones that only follow from how the app saves its file. Read
+`values` for what changed and its pointers, and `refers_to` for what a number
+stands for, before writing the prompt and any check of your own. A LibreCAD
+capture that added four holes to a drawing rewrote it from DXF R12 to DXF 2007,
+so most of its lines changed; the draft suggests counts of `SECTION`, `ENDSEC`
+and `CIRCLE`, and only `CIRCLE` going from 5 to 9 is the user's change.
+
+## The task file
+
+```json
+{
+  "name": "add-milk",
+  "prompt": "In Mousepad, add buy milk to my to-do list and save it.",
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "id": "milk",
+      "kind": "lines_present",
+      "file": "Documents/todo.txt",
+      "lines": ["buy milk"]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+`name` is a portable bundle name other than `smoke` (lowercase letters, digits
+and hyphens); `prompt` is what the user asks for, naming the app, since a
+solving agent's own shell cannot see the computer's files and the app's name
+sends it to the screen; `checks` holds 1 to 32
+checks. Each file check has a `kind`, a `file` given as a path under the home such as
+`Documents/todo.txt`, and an optional `id` (`check-1`, `check-2` and so on by
+position otherwise). A check reads the typed view `data/get` returns for that
+file, in the shapes of the state view.
+
+| Kind            | Fields                                                                | Passes when                                                                                        |
+| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `file_present`  |                                                                       | The file exists                                                                                    |
+| `file_absent`   |                                                                       | The file does not exist                                                                            |
+| `lines_present` | `lines`                                                               | Every listed line is a whole line of the text view                                                 |
+| `lines_absent`  | `lines`                                                               | None of the listed lines is                                                                        |
+| `line_count`    | `exact` or `contains`; `equals`, `at_least` or `at_most`              | The number of lines equal to `exact`, or holding `contains`, compares so                           |
+| `value_equals`  | `pointer`, `value`; optional `tolerance`                              | The pointer names a value equal to `value`, or within `tolerance` of it                            |
+| `value_absent`  | `pointer`                                                             | The pointer names no value                                                                         |
+| `text_equals`   | `pointer`, `value`; optional `normalize_whitespace`, `text_attribute` | The XML element's [whole text](#whole-text) equals `value`                                         |
+| `text_contains` | `pointer`, `value`; optional `normalize_whitespace`, `text_attribute` | The XML element's whole text holds `value`                                                         |
+| `member_count`  | `pointer`; optional `matching`; `equals`, `at_least` or `at_most`     | The number of [members of the array](#counting-members), or of those `matching` names, compares so |
+| `row_present`   | `table`, `where`                                                      | A row of the SQLite table has every column in `where` equal                                        |
+| `row_absent`    | `table`, `where`                                                      | No row does                                                                                        |
+| `row_count`     | `table`; optional `where`; `equals`, `at_least` or `at_most`          | The number of rows, or of rows matching `where`, compares so                                       |
+
+The rules both evaluators follow:
+
+- An absent file reads as empty: no lines, values or rows. So `lines_absent`,
+  `value_absent` and `row_absent` pass on it and a count of lines or rows is
+  0; `member_count` fails, since its pointer names no array.
+- A file that has no view (binary, over the read limit, or unreadable) fails
+  every check but `file_present` and `file_absent`. Line checks need a text
+  view, row checks a SQLite view and text checks an XML view, in a file or an
+  archive entry; another format fails.
+- Equality is JSON equality: numbers by value, never a boolean for a number,
+  objects by their keys whatever their order, arrays in order.
+- Pointers follow RFC 6901 (`~1` for `/`, `~0` for `~`) and must start with
+  `/`; on an array a segment may be a selector, below. Key files read as
+  `{"groups": {"GROUP": {"KEY": "VALUE"}}}`, so a setting is
+  `/groups/GROUP/KEY`; XML as `{"root": {"name", "attributes", "children"}}`;
+  SQLite as `{"tables": {"TABLE": {"columns", "rows"}}}`; a zip archive as
+  `{"entries": [{"name", "format", "view", …}]}`; a gzip file, such as a
+  Gnumeric `.gnumeric`, as the document inside it, so its pointers are those
+  of the same document uncompressed.
+- With `tolerance`, a non-negative number, `value` must be a number, and the
+  value found passes when it is a number, or a string that is a decimal
+  numeral such as `"5.0000000000000000"`, at most `tolerance` from `value`.
+  `tolerance: 0` compares numerically, so `"1.2500"` equals `1.25`. Anything
+  else fails as not a number.
+- `contains` matches a line that holds it anywhere, case and all. Checks take
+  no regular expressions: a pattern run on what the agent wrote could stall
+  the verifier, and JavaScript and Python read some patterns differently.
+- A check decided by what a view leaves out (`lines_absent`, `value_absent`,
+  `row_absent`, the counts, `value_equals` of a whole object or array, and
+  the text checks of an element) fails when that view is truncated; a check
+  satisfied by what the view holds is decided on it. An element's text is not:
+  the reader may have dropped text from between the runs it kept, so
+  `text_contains` fails on a truncated view even where the kept runs hold its
+  value. A text node or attribute value is whole, and decided.
+
+The export refuses, naming the check, a file outside the owned paths, a file
+spelled with a leading slash, `.` or `..`, a pointer into a file that is text
+at the seed, as the bundle ships it, or at the end checkpoint, the empty
+pointer (the whole file) except in `member_count`, a `matching` that is no
+selector, a value that names the captured home, or the
+capture host's name or `user@host` anywhere (which the
+[export removes from the seed](desktop-application-export.md#host-name-and-user)), a
+`tolerance` with a value that is not a number, an empty `text_contains`
+value, or one of only whitespace with `normalize_whitespace`, an empty
+`text_attribute`, a count without exactly one of `equals`, `at_least` and
+`at_most`, and a value that looks like a date and time, in ISO 8601 or
+`asctime`'s form. Other volatile
+content, such as a
+counter the app bumps on every save, is for the author to leave out.
+
+## Readers
+
+For a file REA cannot interpret itself, such as an app's binary document,
+the task can define `readers`: 1 to 8 commands using the app's own reading
+capability. Each reader has a unique `id` of lowercase letters, digits and
+hyphens, a home-relative `file`, an `argv` array and `output`, either `json`
+or `lines`. Its `argv`, or optional `stdin` text, must contain `{file}`;
+the runner replaces it with the path of a private copy of that file.
+The command must be installed where the export runs and in the exported
+computer where the task will be graded.
+
+The command prints its answer in lines starting with `REA `; other stdout
+is ignored. With `output: "json"`, those marked lines join into one JSON
+value for `value_equals`, `value_absent` and `member_count`. With
+`output: "lines"`, they supply the lines for `lines_present`, `lines_absent`
+and `line_count`. A check selects a reader with `"reader": "READER-ID"`
+and must give that reader's file as its `file`. Every reader must be used by
+at least one check.
+
+Readers execute commands, including any code in `argv` or `stdin`; review
+them before exporting or running a task. The runner uses a private copy, a
+fresh home, no session bus or computer control token, and no display unless
+the reader requests `display: true`. This is execution isolation from the
+running app's normal profile, not a filesystem sandbox. `timeout_s` defaults
+to 60 seconds and accepts 1 to 300. A failed command, timeout, malformed
+answer or missing marked output reports a reader error; it does not establish
+that the document lacks the expected value. Correct the command or its output and retry; increase
+`timeout_s` within its accepted range when the reader needs longer.
+
+A source inspection failure, such as an inaccessible parent or a symlink loop,
+also reports a reader error and leaves affected checks undecided. Only a missing
+source or a source that is not a regular file is reported as absent.
+
+Export runs readers on both retained ends, using the seed bytes as the bundle
+actually ships them. The witness and exported verifier run them in the
+computer after the app's files settle. Cleanup failures retain the reader's
+reported resources: retry the check or close the build computer to retry
+cleanup; when the command's outcome is unknown, confirm it stopped before
+removing its folder.
+
+## Screen judges
+
+A task whose result exists only on screen can use `screen_judge` checks:
+
+```json
+{
+  "name": "show-list",
+  "prompt": "In Notes, show the shopping list.",
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "id": "shown",
+      "kind": "screen_judge",
+      "question": "Does the window show the shopping list?"
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Each question must be a nonempty yes-or-no question of at most 2,000
+characters, false on the seed and true when the task is done. A screen task
+contains only screen checks and takes no readers. Export refuses it when an
+owned file's readable change could be checked instead, or when the build
+computer's seed or end screenshot is missing or exceeds 2 MiB. Capture those
+checkpoints in a build computer before exporting.
+
+Export ships the two screenshots as labelled failing and passing examples;
+it does not call the judge or establish that the questions distinguish them.
+The [build witness](desktop-build-witness.md) runs the exported judge on a
+fresh screenshot at each stage. The verifier takes a screenshot after the
+solving agent stops. For each question, the judge sees both examples and
+votes three times; a majority of yes answers passes the check.
+
+The judge uses `[model.roles] judge` in the runner's
+`.agentenv/config.toml`, then `[model] default`, then
+`anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5`. Configure its endpoint with
+`LITELLM_BASE_URL` and `LITELLM_API_KEY`, or `[model] base_url` and `api_key`.
+`agent-env run --judge-model` does not reach this verifier. Without an
+endpoint, grading raises and the run fails rather than scoring the agent;
+configure the endpoint and rerun the witness or task.
+
+## Pointers and selectors
+
+An app that rewrites a document moves things: FreeCAD 1.0 records more
+properties than 0.21, so a hole's radius sits at another position among its
+siblings, and a plate's entry moves once a hole is added before it. A pointer
+segment applied to an array may therefore name a member by what it holds
+rather than by its position:
+
+- `[KEY=VALUE]` names the member whose string field `KEY` is `VALUE`, such as
+  a zip entry by `[name=Document.xml]` or an XML element by its tag,
+  `[name=Object]`.
+- `[@KEY=VALUE]` names the member whose `attributes` hold `KEY="VALUE"`, as
+  the XML view keeps an element's attributes.
+- `[>PATH=VALUE]` names the member that holds `VALUE` at a path of one to
+  three `/`-separated steps inside it. `>` reads XML and JSON differently:
+
+  For XML, `[>text()=VALUE]` compares the member's own whole text, with
+  whitespace collapsed, to `VALUE`. In JSON, `text()` remains a field name.
+
+  | Form                                   | In an XML element                                                                                                                               | In a JSON record                                    |
+  | -------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
+  | `[>CHILD=VALUE]`                       | a child element `CHILD` whose text, every text node in it with each run of whitespace collapsed to one space and none at either end, is `VALUE` | the string field `CHILD`, compared whole            |
+  | `[>A/B=VALUE]`, up to `[>A/B/C=VALUE]` | a child `A` with a child `B` of that text                                                                                                       | the string at `member.A.B`, compared whole          |
+  | `[>A@ATTR=VALUE]`, `[>A/B@ATTR=VALUE]` | a child `A` (or its child `B`) whose attribute `ATTR` is `VALUE`                                                                                | the field named `A@ATTR`: `@` is part of a JSON key |
+
+  Records that keep their fields as elements are named by a child's text:
+  Osmo's `<contact><first_name>Delphine</first_name>…` is
+  `[name=contact][>first_name=Delphine]`. A GtkBuilder `<child>` is named by
+  the id its widget carries, `[name=child][>object@id=submit_button]`, and a
+  TreeLine node by a field of its `data`,
+  `[format=BOOK][>data/Title=The Silk Roads]`. Any element on the way will
+  do; a path with more than three steps, or an empty one, is no selector;
+  and a missing step, or a value at its end that is not a string, matches
+  nothing.
+
+- Conditions can follow one another, `[name=Object][@name=Hole]`, and all must
+  hold. They compare strings only, the selector is escaped like any pointer
+  segment, so a path's `/` is `~1` inside a pointer,
+  `/nodes/[format=BOOK][>data~1Title=The Silk Roads]`, and a `/` in a key
+  cannot be a step; a value cannot hold `][`. A JSON field whose key begins
+  with `@` or `>` is selected through a path, `[>@type=Book]`.
+
+A selector must name exactly one member. When several match, or none does
+before the last segment, the check fails and says which selector matched what.
+When the last segment's selector matches none, the pointer names no value:
+`value_absent` passes, which is how a check says an element was removed, and
+`value_equals` fails. On an object, a bracketed segment is an ordinary key.
+
+A FreeCAD task that checks the user cut a 10 mm hole through the plate, in
+FreeCAD 0.21 and 1.0 alike:
+
+```json
+{
+  "name": "cut-hole",
+  "prompt": "In FreeCAD, cut a 10 mm hole through the middle of the plate and save it.",
+  "checks": [
+    {
+      "id": "cut",
+      "kind": "value_equals",
+      "file": "Documents/plate.FCStd",
+      "pointer": "/entries/[name=Document.xml]/view/root/children/[name=Objects]/children/[name=Object][@type=Part::Cut]/attributes/type",
+      "value": "Part::Cut"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "radius",
+      "kind": "value_equals",
+      "file": "Documents/plate.FCStd",
+      "pointer": "/entries/[name=Document.xml]/view/root/children/[name=ObjectData]/children/[name=Object][@name=Hole]/children/[name=Properties]/children/[name=Property][@name=Radius]/children/[name=Float]/attributes/value",
+      "value": 5,
+      "tolerance": 0.01
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Before the edit the archive has no `Part::Cut` and no `Hole`, so both checks
+fail on the seed; after it, `Radius` is `"5.0000000000000000"` and both pass.
+A check decided by what a view leaves out depends, in an archive, on the entry
+its pointer goes into: it fails when that entry's view is missing or
+truncated, or when the entry is not listed and the listing is truncated. A
+selector must see every member to know it names one, so a check whose pointer
+searches an array the view may hold only part of fails as undecided: any array
+of a truncated XML view, of a truncated entry's view, or the listing when it
+is cut. A position is decided on what the view holds. Like a file, an entry
+that has no view (binary, not read, or a database or archive inside the
+archive) fails every check into its `view`; its `null` there is no value, while
+an entry holding the JSON document `null` reads as `null`. Checks on its `name`,
+`size`, `sha256` and `format` still read.
+
+XML that uses namespaces is named as the document spells it, in both
+evaluators: an element or attribute by its prefixed name, such as `text:p`
+or `inkscape:label`, an element in a default namespace by its bare name, such
+as `svg`, and namespace declarations as the attributes `xmlns` and
+`xmlns:PREFIX`. Text is a string among an element's `children`. These checks
+hold a poster's headline in an Inkscape SVG and a date in a LibreOffice Writer
+document:
+
+```json
+[
+  {
+    "id": "headline",
+    "kind": "value_equals",
+    "file": "Pictures/poster.svg",
+    "pointer": "/root/children/[name=g][@inkscape:label=Layer 1]/children/[name=text][@id=headline]/children/[name=tspan]/children/0",
+    "value": "Summer Bake Sale"
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "date",
+    "kind": "value_equals",
+    "file": "Documents/flyer.odt",
+    "pointer": "/entries/[name=content.xml]/view/root/children/[name=office:body]/children/[name=office:text]/children/[name=text:p][@text:style-name=Subtitle]/children/0",
+    "value": "Monday 24 November"
+  }
+]
+```
+
+Inkscape writes a line of text as a `tspan` inside its `text` element, and
+Writer keeps a paragraph's style in `text:style-name`. A prefix is the one the
+document uses, so a check names the prefixes the app writes.
+
+## Whole text
+
+A text node is only the stretch of text between two pieces of markup, and
+apps split a paragraph into runs as they save it. AbiWord wraps text typed
+into a reopened document in `c` elements, so changing a time to `3:30` saves
+`<p>The team meeting starts at <c>3</c>:<c>30</c> in room 4.</p>`; Writer,
+which records revision IDs by default, writes text typed in one session as
+`text:span` runs. A `value_equals` on the paragraph's `children/0` then reads
+`"The team meeting starts at "` and fails. `text_equals` and `text_contains`
+read the element's whole text instead:
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "time",
+  "kind": "text_equals",
+  "file": "Documents/meeting.abw",
+  "pointer": "/root/children/[name=section]/children/[name=p][@xid=3]",
+  "value": "The team meeting starts at 3:30 in room 4."
+}
+```
+
+- The pointer names an element of an XML view, in a file or in an archive
+  entry's `view`, or a text node or attribute value in one, whose text is its
+  value. Another format, a pointer into an archive outside an XML entry's
+  view, or any other value fails, an element's `name` and the `doctype`'s
+  fields included: they are strings of the view, not text of the document.
+- An element's text is XPath's `string()` of what the view keeps: every text
+  node in it and in its descendants, CDATA included, in document order, with
+  nothing between them. The view drops whitespace-only text between child
+  elements only in an element that holds no other text, outside
+  `xml:space="preserve"`, so the space between two runs of a paragraph is
+  part of its text. Elements that stand for characters, such as Writer's
+  `text:s`, `text:tab` and `text:line-break`, add none.
+- `text_equals` passes when the text equals `value` exactly, case and all;
+  `text_contains` when it holds `value`, as a time within a sentence, so the
+  check holds whatever the rest of the sentence says.
+- `normalize_whitespace: true` collapses each run of XML whitespace (space,
+  tab, carriage return, line feed) in both the text and `value` to one space
+  and trims both ends before comparing, as XPath's `normalize-space()` does,
+  for an app that reflows text or a value written across lines. A no-break
+  space is not whitespace there.
+- `text_attribute` reads text an app keeps in an attribute: the element's
+  text is then that attribute's values on it and its descendants, joined in
+  document order, and its text nodes are left out. Scribus keeps a text
+  frame's text as `<StoryText><ITEXT CH="Spring "/><ITEXT CH="Fair"/></StoryText>`,
+  one `ITEXT` per run of formatting, so the check below reads `Spring Fair`
+  however the runs are split. The pointer must name an element; a text node
+  or attribute value fails.
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "headline",
+  "kind": "text_equals",
+  "file": "Documents/flyer.sla",
+  "pointer": "/root/children/[name=DOCUMENT]/children/[name=PAGEOBJECT][@ANNAME=Headline]",
+  "value": "Spring Fair",
+  "text_attribute": "CH"
+}
+```
+
+## Counting members
+
+`member_count` counts the members of the array its pointer names: a JSON
+array, or an XML element's `children`. `matching`, a selector of one or more
+conditions as [above](#pointers-and-selectors), `[>PATH=VALUE]` included,
+counts only the members it matches, however many; without it every member
+counts. An element's children hold its text nodes too, so give `matching`
+for XML, such as `[name=entry]`. A Tellico task that adds one book to a
+collection of 12:
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "one-more-book",
+  "kind": "member_count",
+  "file": "Documents/books.tc",
+  "pointer": "/entries/[name=tellico.xml]/view/root/children/[name=collection]/children",
+  "matching": "[name=entry]",
+  "equals": 13
+}
+```
+
+It takes exactly one of `equals`, `at_least` and `at_most`. The empty
+pointer `""` names the whole file, for a JSON file whose top level is an
+array. A pointer that names no array, an absent file's included, fails and
+says what it found there. Like the other counts, it is undecided on a view
+that may hold only part of the array.
+
+## Validation and export
+
+`rea export-desktop-application <capture> <directory> --task <task.json>`
+evaluates file checks on the capture's state view: on each file as it was at
+the seed checkpoint, which is the seed, as the bundle ships it with the
+capture host's name and user removed, and at the end checkpoint, the
+captured end state. Those are the capture's first and last checkpoints unless
+`--seed-checkpoint` and `--end-checkpoint` name others.
+It refuses a task whose every check passes on the seed, and a check that fails
+on the end state, with that check's reason. Only a failure on what the seed's
+view shows counts: a task whose checks fail on the seed only because a view
+could not be read or may have left out what they look for, such as a line past
+the 5,000 a text view keeps, is refused, naming each failure. A refused task
+writes no bundle.
+
+The bundle then holds, besides the app and `tasks/smoke.json`:
+
+| Path                               | Contents                                                                                                               |
+| ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `tasks/<name>.json`                | Deploy the app, deploy the agent and its skills, record the screen, prompt the agent, run the verifier, stop recording |
+| `artifacts/<name>-check/verify.py` | Reads the app's `data/get` through the computer and evaluates the checks, one result per check                         |
+| `evals/<env>.toml`                 | Every task, so a run of the bundle runs them all; the smoke task runs with `--task smoke`                              |
+
+The verifier finds the app among the computer's child environments, calls its
+`data/get` under the run's grant of the computer's control token, and reads
+the `state` data part. It reads again until the app's files settle, as
+[grading once the app has saved](desktop-application-export.md#grading-once-the-app-has-saved)
+describes, and each result's `settled` says whether they did, and `read_cut`
+whether the bound cut a read still running. It raises when the app cannot be reached, so the run
+fails rather than scoring the agent. The README lists each task, its prompt, its
+checks and the recipe below.
+
+### Several tasks
+
+One capture can yield several tasks: repeat `--task`, one file per task, each
+with its own name. Do each task's change on top of the last one in the same
+capture and take a checkpoint once it is saved; the first task's end is the
+end checkpoint, and `--task-end NAME=CHECKPOINT`, repeatable, names another
+task's. Each task is checked at its own end, so a task whose check fails there
+is refused, naming the task and the checkpoint, even when it passes at the
+last one; its checks should not read what a later task changes. A checkpoint
+named `near-NAME`, when the capture took one, is that task's near miss: a
+plausible wrong edit on top of its change, such as a typo. The export refuses
+the task unless one of its checks fails on what the near miss's views show.
+
+```sh
+rea export-desktop-application ./notes-capture ./notes-bundle \
+  --seed-checkpoint seed --end-checkpoint end \
+  --task add-eggs.json --task add-bread.json --task-end add-bread=end-add-bread
+```
+
+Two tasks of one name, a `--task-end` naming none of the tasks or not in
+`NAME=CHECKPOINT` form, and a checkpoint the capture did not take once at or
+after the seed are refused. The result's `tasks` lists each task: its name,
+its number of checks, its end checkpoint, those that fail on what the seed
+shows, and its near miss's checkpoint, or null, with those that fail there.
+`describe-desktop-application-task` drafts a later task from the end before
+it: `--seed-checkpoint end --end-checkpoint end-add-bread`.
+
+A task's readers run at the seed as the bundle ships it, at its own end and
+at its near miss. A screen-judged task ships the seed's screenshot and its own
+end's as the judge's examples, and is refused when a file shows its change
+since the end before it, or the seed for the first; its near miss is left to
+the witness, so its `near_checkpoint` is null.
+
+## Solve rate
+
+REA's CLI runs no agent. On a build host, the MCP tool `measure_build_task`
+measures a bundle's task for a model, records it in the bundle's
+`difficulty.json`, and keeps the task in the band when it passes 1 to 3 of 5;
+see [measuring a task](desktop-build-witness.md#measure). By hand, run the task
+k times, three by default, and count the runs whose summary line says
+`passed`:
+
+```sh
+for run in 1 2 3; do
+  agent-env run ./mousepad-bundle --task add-milk --agent claude-code --model MODEL
+done
+```
+
+The agent defaults to Claude Code and the model is the caller's choice (Claude
+Sonnet 5.5 is a reasonable reference). The agent calls a model endpoint, and
+agentenv refuses the run without one: set `LITELLM_BASE_URL` and
+`LITELLM_API_KEY` where the runs start, or `base_url` and `api_key` under
+`[model]` in `.agentenv/config.toml`. A run reported as `scored below 1`
+failed the checks and counts as a miss; one reported as `failed` did not finish,
+as when the computer or the app could not be reached, and is run again rather
+than counted. Each run's instance keeps the verifier's results per check under
+`verifications`.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Every collection supports `fields`, `offset` and `limit`; its stable row ID is
 always included. Selection changes delivery, not source inspection. Pages keep
 source coverage and parent Evidence links. Page exhaustion does not establish
 absence in a partial source. Complete Evidence remains accessible through
-`get_evidence` and Evidence bundle export.
+`get_evidence_bundle` and Evidence bundle export.

 The summary's `probe_issues` counts files with reported issues and their retained
 issue entries. It previews at most two such files, including stable `file_id`,
@@ -110,6 +110,15 @@ not establish full metadata validity or correspondence to a native binary;
 version 24 inspection still applies only to supported header layouts. See
 [IL2CPP metadata](il2cpp-metadata.md).

+In a managed directory with a Unity Mono witness, `Assembly-CSharp.dll` and
+`Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll` get an `inspect_managed_members` probe listed
+first; project-named asmdef assemblies keep only the ordinary managed probes.
+The same probe is offered for those names in `Managed/` of a
+`<Product>_BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame` folder (or when that
+folder is the root); whether its IL matches the shipped IL2CPP code is unknown.
+Point the scan at the game folder: a root that is the `<Product>_Data` or
+`Managed` folder itself has no Mono witness path and gets no member probe.
+
 Candidates are derived or inferred from these facts and do not prove loading or
 execution. BepInEx, MelonLoader, Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye labels identify
 path conventions only; runtime presence stays unknown. No bypass is provided.
@@ -135,11 +144,13 @@ observations, not an atomic directory snapshot. Unread bytes remain unknown.
 ## Resource bounds and reuse

 Defaults are 20,000 examined entries and 8 MiB of total probe reads. Callers may
-select up to 100,000 entries and 64 MiB. A separate 32 MiB conservative
-representation budget bounds retained paths and facts before growth. Limits
-and failed probes produce partial coverage. Traversal and reads are serial.
-Each reader admits one inspection at a time; overlapping requests receive a
-retryable capacity refusal without cancelling the admitted caller.
+select up to 100,000 entries and 64 MiB. A separate 32 MiB representation
+budget bounds retained rows, paths and facts before growth. Each retained path
+is charged at the larger of its UTF-16 heap size and its escaped JSON size, so
+typical macOS bundle paths fit about 20,000 rows, and control-character paths
+fewer. Limits and failed probes produce partial coverage. Traversal and reads
+are serial. Each reader admits one inspection at a time; overlapping requests
+receive a retryable capacity refusal without cancelling the admitted caller.

 Unity reference decoding stops after a witness in each `Data/Managed` directory;
 other assemblies' references remain unexamined, while their headers are still
@@ -0,0 +1,361 @@
+# Desktop build computer
+
+A build computer is a local agentenv computer that an agent drives while it
+builds a desktop app environment. Claude Code cannot attach a new MCP server
+in the middle of a session, so REA keeps the computer up and forwards the
+agent's computer-use actions to it through three MCP tools:
+
+| Tool                    | What it does                                                                               |
+| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `start_build_computer`  | Starts a computer from a request or a bundle folder; returns its id and a first screenshot |
+| `act_on_build_computer` | Sends one action to the computer's driver and returns the driver's answer, images included |
+| `close_build_computer`  | Tears the computer down, by agentenv's teardown or by removing its sandbox's containers    |
+
+The tools are MCP-only, like the debugger sessions: the computer lives as long
+as the REA MCP server that started it, or until it is closed. Capturing the
+app, exporting its bundle and witnessing the task on such a computer are in
+[Building and witnessing an environment](desktop-build-witness.md), and REA's
+skill for doing all of it from a request is
+[desktop builds](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/references/desktop-build.md).
+
+## Set up a build host
+
+On a Linux host with Node.js and Docker, from a REA
+[checkout](getting-started/installation.md#run-rea-from-a-checkout):
+
+```bash
+rea setup --client claude_code --desktop-build --install-agentenv
+rea doctor --provider desktop_build --client claude_code
+```
+
+Setup shows its plan and asks before it changes anything; `--dry-run` only
+prints it and `--yes` approves it. It packs REA's runtime archive into
+`~/.cache/rea/build-computer/rea-<version>.tar.xz` (under `$XDG_CACHE_HOME`
+when set, `~/Library/Caches` on macOS), and packs again once REA's version
+changes; an archive `REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE` already names is
+recorded instead. It records `REA_AGENT_ENV_COMMAND`, `REA_DOCKER_COMMAND` and
+`REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE` as absolute paths in that client's REA
+registration, keeping a value the registration already has other than an
+archive setup packed for an earlier REA version, and refreshes the skill.
+`--install-agentenv` runs `uv tool install agentenv-framework==0.9.1485`
+when `uv` is on `PATH`, and otherwise prints the command. Setup never
+installs Docker or Node.js and never runs `sudo`. Restart the client
+afterwards.
+
+Doctor is read-only and checks, in order: a Linux amd64 or arm64 host,
+Node.js, procps `ps`, the Docker CLI, a Docker daemon reachable without
+`sudo`, 20 GB free where Docker keeps images, agentenv-framework 0.9.1485,
+the runtime archive of this REA version, the build settings in the
+registration or the environment, and the skill. Each failure names its fix.
+It also reports, without counting them against `healthy`, whether a model
+endpoint for solver runs is configured and which agentenv containers
+earlier builds left. Pass `--json` for the full report.
+
+When a setting is unset where the server starts, REA uses `agent-env` and
+`docker` on `PATH` and the archive setup packed for this REA version. The
+rest of this page is the same setup by hand.
+
+## Requirements
+
+- A Linux host on amd64 or arm64 with about 20 GB of free disk for the
+  images agentenv builds and pulls. amd64 and arm64 hosts both build
+  natively; a host builds only its own architecture.
+- Node.js at the version in `.nvmrc`, installed with
+  [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm) or from
+  [nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/en/download), and REA
+  [run from a checkout](getting-started/installation.md#run-rea-from-a-checkout).
+- [Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/) and its
+  [post-install steps](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/):
+  add yourself to the `docker` group, then log in again.
+- agentenv-framework 0.9.1485, the version bundles target. Install
+  [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) first, then
+  run `uv tool install agentenv-framework==0.9.1485`. Set
+  `REA_AGENT_ENV_COMMAND` to the absolute path of the resulting `agent-env`
+  program, normally `$HOME/.local/bin/agent-env`; `command -v agent-env`
+  shows the path when its install directory is on your `PATH`. Installing it
+  with pip into a virtual environment instead needs `python3.12-venv` on
+  stock Ubuntu. REA runs its
+  helper, `bridge/agentenv/computer.py`, with that runner's Python: the
+  interpreter on the program's `#!` line, or the `python3` beside it in its
+  virtual environment.
+- `REA_DOCKER_COMMAND`, the absolute path of the Docker CLI, lets REA remove a
+  computer whose agentenv teardown was not confirmed. Without it, REA names the
+  command to run instead.
+- For a request, `REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE`: the absolute path of a tar
+  archive of a runnable REA, with its production dependencies, whose one top
+  folder holds `scripts/rea.mjs`. The computer runs REA from it. From a
+  checkout, `npm run pack:build-computer-runtime -- /path/to/rea-prod.tar.xz`
+  writes one: `npm pack`, its package folder as
+  `rea-prod` with the lockfile, `npm ci --omit=dev --omit=optional`, then
+  `rea-prod` as `.tar.xz`. The archive is a copy of the checkout: pack it
+  again after `git pull` and a rebuild.
+
+Set these where the MCP server starts; a shell export does not reach a server
+that is already running.
+
+## Claude Code
+
+Without `--desktop-build`, `rea setup --client claude_code` registers REA
+without these variables. Either
+export them in the shell that starts `claude`, which starts REA's server with
+its environment:
+
+```bash
+export REA_AGENT_ENV_COMMAND="$HOME/.local/bin/agent-env"
+export REA_DOCKER_COMMAND="$(command -v docker)"
+export REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE="$HOME/rea-runtime/rea-prod.tar.xz"
+claude
+```
+
+or set them, as absolute paths, in the `env` of the `mcpServers.rea` entry
+setup wrote, such as in `~/.claude.json`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "rea": {
+      "command": "/absolute/path/to/node",
+      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/rea/scripts/rea.mjs", "mcp"],
+      "env": {
+        "REA_AGENT_ENV_COMMAND": "/home/ada/.local/bin/agent-env",
+        "REA_DOCKER_COMMAND": "/usr/bin/docker",
+        "REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE": "/home/ada/rea-runtime/rea-prod.tar.xz"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`measure_build_task` runs solves through agentenv, which refuses them without
+a model endpoint: export `LITELLM_BASE_URL` and `LITELLM_API_KEY` in the shell
+that starts `claude`, whose REA server inherits them, or set `base_url` and
+`api_key` under `[model]` in `.agentenv/config.toml`. REA passes them on to
+agentenv and never reads the key.
+
+Claude Code asks before each MCP tool call its permission settings do not
+allow, and a build makes dozens of `act_on_build_computer` calls. You can
+allow REA's tools in those settings' `permissions.allow` list:
+`mcp__rea__act_on_build_computer` allows that tool, and `mcp__rea` allows all
+of REA's.
+
+A headless run, `claude -p`, ends when the skill asks its upfront questions,
+and refuses the tool calls its permission settings do not allow. Put the
+answers in the request: the install source when the app is not in the Ubuntu
+archive, a synthetic seed or the file to start from, whether to review the
+task before it is measured, and the model and budget to measure it with, or
+none:
+
+```bash
+claude -p 'Build me a Gnote environment where the agent adds olive oil to the
+shopping list note. Make a synthetic note. Then measure it with <model>,
+at most $4 in all, without a review first.'
+```
+
+## Start a computer
+
+From a request, REA renders a bundle in a private temporary folder: a computer
+app on the `ubuntu-24.04` base with the `reference` driver that installs the
+app, opens it on demand with `gtk-launch <desktop entry>` from the computer
+user's home, so its open and save dialogs start there rather than in the
+framework's folder for the app, and keeps no seed and no data hooks. The app is not open when the computer starts:
+`start_build_capture` opens it under REA's capture. When no capture is under
+way, open it from the desktop's Applications menu, where agentenv lists it
+under Other by the environment's name, such as `mousepad`; that entry launches
+it through the app's server. The name is the desktop entry's last part when it
+is reverse-DNS (`com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp` gives `xournalpp`), or else
+the whole entry without a trailing version (`glabels-3.0` gives `glabels`).
+
+When the app is Electron, set `electron` to true. The install rewrites that
+desktop entry's command with the same policy an export uses: `--no-sandbox`
+immediately after the program, unless the command already has it. The
+computer's container does not grant the user namespaces Chromium's sandbox
+needs, and Electron exits without the flag. With the rewritten command, the
+Applications menu entry can open the app.
+
+```json
+{
+  "source": {
+    "kind": "request",
+    "desktop_entry": "org.xfce.mousepad",
+    "window_class": "Mousepad",
+    "install": { "kind": "archive", "package": "mousepad" }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`install` takes one of:
+
+| `kind`           | Installs                                                                                                   |
+| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `archive`        | `package` from the Ubuntu 24.04 archive, on amd64 and arm64, with its optional `extra_packages` beside it  |
+| `apt_repository` | `package` from the repository at `uri` with `suite` and `components`, trusting the key file `key_file`     |
+| `package_file`   | The `.deb` at `url`, checked against `sha256`, for one `architecture`, after its apt `dependencies` are in |
+| `appimage`       | The AppImage at `url`, checked against `sha256`, for one `architecture`, extracted with its own entry      |
+| `tarball`        | The archive at `url`, checked against `sha256`, for one `architecture`, with an entry running `program`    |
+
+Build steps run with the network off, so a `.deb`'s dependencies must be
+listed.
+
+An AppImage or a tarball is downloaded by agentenv when the bundle is put,
+refused unless its SHA-256 is the one named, and unpacked by a root build
+step, `install-download.sh`, under `/opt/rea-apps/<desktop_entry>`; the
+export writes the same step. An AppImage is extracted with its own
+`--appimage-extract`, so no FUSE is needed, and the step installs the image's
+own `<desktop_entry>.desktop` under `/usr/local/share/applications` with
+each `Exec` program replaced by the image's `AppRun`, after any `env` prefix
+and its assignments, without `TryExec`, and its icon; an image without that entry fails the build, naming the entries it
+has. A tarball is read with Python's `tarfile`, since the computer has no
+`xz` program, so gzip, bzip2 and xz archives work. Its `data` filter refuses
+links that point outside the folder, absolute ones included, and special
+files, so such an archive fails the build. Its `program` is a path
+inside the archive, and REA writes the entry: `name` in the menu, or the
+entry's last part, and `program` with the files it opens (`%F`). An
+Electron app's command is rewritten after this step, on the entry it
+installed. An image or tarball holds no Debian package, so the capture
+records its package as `unknown`; the export checks instead that the
+captured program lies under the folder the download unpacks to. The
+downloaded file stays in the image's layer under the app's folder beside
+what it unpacks, so a 721 MB AppImage that unpacks to 3.0 GB adds both. `extra_packages` names up to 16 more archive packages, by the same
+name rules as `package`, for a runtime piece the app needs that its package
+does not install: apt here skips Recommends, so MyPaint 2.0.1 exits at launch
+without `librsvg2-common`, GTK's SVG icon loader, and Freeplane 1.7.10 needs
+`openjdk-17-jre`, since its launcher refuses noble's default Java 21. The
+export installs them beside the app too, as it does a `.deb`'s
+`dependencies` when apt offers the `.deb`'s package; see
+[build and witness](desktop-build-witness.md).
+
+The bundle adds REA in a build-only layer: Node.js
+24.22.1, downloaded per architecture and checked against its release checksum,
+and REA from `REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE`, both unpacked into `/opt/rea` by
+a root build step, with `node` and `rea` on `PATH`. It also installs
+`libgtk-3-bin`, for `gtk-launch`, and `dconf-cli`, so the capture reads the
+app's settings in dconf, such as GnuCash's "Show tips at startup", and the
+seed keeps them. An exported bundle carries none of it but `dconf-cli`, which
+it installs when it loads the app's dconf keys.
+
+From a bundle folder, such as one `export-desktop-application` wrote, REA
+starts that bundle's `tasks/smoke.json` as it is:
+
+```json
+{ "source": { "kind": "bundle", "path": "/home/ada/mousepad-bundle" } }
+```
+
+REA runs its helper with `PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1`, which agentenv's own
+import of the bundle's app class inherits, so a start leaves no `__pycache__`
+in the folder and its files stay as they were shared.
+
+REA runs the deploy with `run_bundle(keep=True, emulate=False)` on the local
+sandbox provider, so only the host's own architecture is built. The first start
+of a bundle builds its image and can take minutes; later starts reuse it.
+agentenv makes a start wait while another agentenv run on this host writes its
+bundle's ids, so starts at the same time wait for each other, several minutes
+when a few run together; the progress line then says it is waiting for another
+agent-env run to finish writing this bundle's ids.
+While it waits, REA sends an MCP progress notification every five seconds with
+agentenv's latest line, so a client that resets its request timeout on
+progress keeps waiting. REA then waits until the computer's readiness checks
+pass and opens one MCP session to its driver. Readiness can pass before the
+desktop has drawn, so REA takes a whole-screen PNG screenshot every 500 ms
+while it is one colour throughout. The retries share 10 s, each given only
+what is left of it, and when that runs out REA returns the latest frame;
+progress notifications continue meanwhile. Given `screenshot` with a
+`region`, `format` or `quality`, REA then takes one with them, a `region`
+cropping that frame rather than capturing the screen again. The result holds
+`computer_id`, agentenv's `sandbox_id`, the environment name or bundle folder,
+`extra_packages`, what the request named beside the app for the export to
+install too (an archive install's `extra_packages` or a `.deb`'s
+`dependencies`, empty otherwise), and the screenshot's frame as structured
+content beside its image.
+
+A failed start returns the last 16 KiB of the helper's stderr, where a failing
+build prints its error, and its exit status; a cancelled one stops the helper,
+which tears down whatever agentenv brought up. When that teardown is not
+confirmed, the error's `computer_id` names what REA keeps for
+`close_build_computer` to retry. Closing the server cancels starts still in
+progress and waits for them before closing every computer.
+
+## Act
+
+`act_on_build_computer` takes `computer_id`, an `action` and the driver's own
+arguments for `computer_<action>`, which REA passes through:
+
+| `action`     | Arguments                                                               |
+| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `screenshot` | `region`, `format` (`png` or `jpeg`), `quality`                         |
+| `click`      | `x`, `y`, `button`, `count` (2 double-clicks), `modifiers`              |
+| `drag`       | `path` of 2 to 50 `[x, y]` points, `button`, `duration_ms`, `modifiers` |
+| `scroll`     | `direction`, `x`, `y`, `amount`, `modifiers`                            |
+| `type`       | `text`, where `\n` presses Enter and `\t` Tab                           |
+| `key`        | `keys`, one chord pressed in order, and `repeat`                        |
+| `wait`       | `ms`                                                                    |
+| `reset`      | `screenshot`                                                            |
+
+`reset` is not a driver tool: REA calls the app's `data/reset`, which restores
+the bundle's seed and relaunches the app, then waits until the computer's
+readiness checks pass again, sending an MCP progress notification every five
+seconds while it waits. With `screenshot: true` it then takes a screenshot; if
+that fails, the reset still counts as applied and its result has no `frame`
+but a `screenshot_error` with the computer's message. A computer started from
+a request has no data operations, so it refuses a reset.
+
+Pointer actions also take `frame_id`, `space` and `norm_scale`, and every
+action but `screenshot` takes `screenshot: true` for an image afterwards. That
+image is taken at once, so after an action that opens a menu or a window, ask
+for it with a `wait` of a few hundred milliseconds instead.
+Points are pixels of the latest frame, so take a screenshot first; with
+`space: "norm"` they are on a `0..norm_scale` grid over it. Keys are W3C names
+or one character; REA translates model spellings such as `ctrl+s`, `Return`,
+`esc` and `cmd` and leaves other names for the driver to judge. An argument the
+action does not take is refused before anything is sent.
+
+The result carries the driver's content unchanged, its text and images, after
+REA's own JSON: `action_index` and the driver's structured result. A refusal,
+such as a stale frame, is an error carrying the computer's message. A response
+larger than the MCP budget is refused with how to ask for a smaller image: a
+`region`, or `jpeg` with a lower `quality`. A screenshot with `region` does not
+capture the screen again; it crops the latest frame, so take a full
+screenshot, or a `wait` with `screenshot: true`, first. That error keeps REA's own result,
+`computer_id` included, as `details.result`, since the action or start has
+happened.
+
+Actions, the capture steps and the task checks on one computer run one at a
+time, in the order REA receives them; one that has to wait for the call
+before it sends an MCP progress notification every five seconds meanwhile.
+Different computers run side by side.
+
+Every action is logged on the computer in order with the arguments sent, its
+start and end and whether it was applied, refused or failed. The log keeps the
+latest 256 actions within 256 KiB of JSON, dropping the oldest first. Each
+string argument, such as `type`'s `text`, is kept to its first 1 KiB and each
+list, such as `drag`'s `path`, to its first 64 items; an entry names the
+arguments it cut in `truncated_arguments`, and the driver gets them whole. The
+log counts every action, so it says how many it dropped, and keeps the index of
+the last applied action of each kind for rules over the whole session. The log
+and the computer's recording hooks (`computer-recording/v1` start and end under
+REA's own request id, and the segments fetched through the driver's `data/get`
+one at a time, each read within its manifest size and checked against it) are
+what the witness records; they are not tools of their own. A recording larger
+than a quarter of the V8 heap is refused before any segment is read.
+
+## Close
+
+`close_build_computer` ends REA's MCP session and closes the helper's stdin,
+on which the helper runs agentenv's teardown. When agentenv confirms nothing is
+left, the result says `teardown: "agentenv"`. Otherwise REA removes the
+containers of that exact sandbox: agentenv runs a computer as
+`agent-<sandbox id>` without a label and labels its other containers
+`agentenv.sandbox=<sandbox id>`, so REA lists both with `docker ps -aq
+--filter`, removes them with `docker rm -f`, and says
+`teardown: "container_label"`. When neither confirms it, the error names what
+is left and the computer stays listed, so closing it again retries. A close
+cancels the call in progress on the computer, refuses the calls waiting for
+it, and tears down once that call has ended. Closing the
+MCP server closes every computer the same way, and a helper whose REA server
+exits sees its stdin close and tears down.
+
+The control token that guards the computer's framework-only routes stays in
+REA: no result, error or log carries it. Code running in the computer as its
+user can still read it, which is acceptable for a local build.
+
+See the [specification](specs/desktop-app-environments/build-computer/spec.md)
+for scope and verification.
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+# Building and witnessing an environment
+
+An agent such as Claude Code builds a desktop app environment from a request
+on a [build computer](desktop-build-computer.md): it makes the seed through
+the app, makes the change the task asks for, exports the bundle with the task
+it writes, and then witnesses the task in a fresh computer of that bundle.
+REA runs its own capture, task draft and export inside the build computer and
+grades the witness with the same checks the exported verifier runs.
+
+| Tool                       | What it does                                                                                                             |
+| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `start_build_capture`      | Downloads the package lists as the computer's user and launches the app under REA's capture                              |
+| `mark_build_checkpoint`    | Takes a named checkpoint and returns the capture's counts and the files that changed                                     |
+| `stop_build_capture`       | Stops the capture and returns its checkpoints and the task drafts, from `seed` to `end` and on to each `end-<task name>` |
+| `export_build_environment` | Exports the bundle with the agent's tasks inside the computer and copies it to a folder here                             |
+| `check_build_task`         | Grades a task against the app's live state; with a `stage`, files the check in the witness                               |
+| `measure_build_task`       | Runs a bundle's task in fresh computers for a model and records how hard it is in the bundle                             |
+
+Like the computer tools, these are MCP-only and act on a `computer_id` from
+`start_build_computer`.
+
+REA's skill walks an agent from a request such as "build me an Inkscape
+environment where the agent changes a poster's headline" to a witnessed
+bundle with these tools: the questions it asks first, when it stops for the
+person, the install, the seed, the task, the witness and its final report.
+See [desktop builds](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/references/desktop-build.md).
+
+## Build
+
+1. `start_build_computer` from a request. REA is installed in the computer.
+2. `start_build_capture`. REA first checks the installed runtime's export
+   schema for synthetic-seed support. If the archive is too old, repack a
+   current REA, update `REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE`, restart the REA MCP
+   server and start a new build computer. REA then writes an apt configuration under
+   `~/.rea-build/apt` and runs `apt-get update` as the computer's user, so the
+   capture finds the package's sources (`package_lists` counts the lists,
+   and `package_lists_error` gives apt's exit status and last lines when the
+   download failed; a later start runs the update again until one succeeds). It then starts `rea capture-desktop-application
+   --desktop-entry <entry>`
+   in the computer, leaving `~/.rea-build` out of every checkpoint, and returns
+   once the app's window is open, with a screenshot. For an app installed
+   from a `.deb` file, the build layer keeps that file at
+   `/opt/rea/package.deb` and the capture records it with `--package-file`. Do not open the app from
+   the menu first: the capture refuses an app whose window is already open.
+   When the capture ends before the window opens, REA reads its output. An app
+   that exits at launch, such as one missing a runtime, is reported with its
+   program, exit code, run time and the last lines of its stderr, at most 8
+   lines and 800 characters of the last 8 KiB the capture keeps, and
+   `details.diagnostics` keeps the capture's record of the session. A capture
+   that failed, such as one refusing to start, gives its own message and
+   remediation, with the whole failure in `details.diagnostics.command_failure`
+   and, when its cleanup is incomplete, the run tokens and paths it left in
+   `details.resources`. A checkpoint or stop that finds the capture ended
+   reads its output the same way.
+
+   `state_paths` names files or folders in the computer's home that hold the
+   app's state, relative to the home, after `~/` or absolute under it, at
+   most 16; each becomes a `--state-path` of the capture, so it is retained
+   from the start and its files count as the app's even before they exist.
+   REA counts a file as a document only when an app window's title shows its
+   name or `~/` path, so name the file the app will save when its title shows
+   something else, as MuseScore's shows a score's title: a file outside
+   hidden folders, other than a lock such as LibreOffice's `.~lock.<name>#`,
+   becomes a document, which the bundle owns, seeds and opens
+   at launch, and one under a hidden folder such as `~/.config/MuseScore` the
+   app's own state, also when that folder is a link elsewhere in the home. A
+   path with `..`, or naming the home itself, is refused before the computer
+   is asked; the computer refuses an absolute path outside its home, one in
+   `~/.rea-build`, and one a link leads out of the home or into
+   `~/.rea-build`, resolving a path that does not exist yet through its
+   nearest existing folder, and starts nothing.
+
+3. Make the seed through the app with `act_on_build_computer`, saving it
+   where the user keeps such files, such as `~/Documents`, then
+   `mark_build_checkpoint` `seed`.
+4. Make the change the task will ask for, save it, and
+   `mark_build_checkpoint` `end`.
+5. `stop_build_capture`. The app is closed and the capture finishes. The
+   result lists the checkpoints with their counts, the package and the
+   sources the capture found, its limitations and the draft: each file under
+   the paths the export owns that changed between `seed` and `end`, with its
+   net change and, for XML files, archives, JSON and key files, its `values`,
+   the values the change added, changed and removed with what each was and
+   became, at the pointer a check names it by; suggested checks with a
+   placeholder prompt; and `guards`, optional checks that the rest kept its
+   seed values: like siblings' fields, each line kept beside new text, and
+   the count of a list whose members were only edited. The draft's
+   [task section](desktop-application-tasks.md#describe-the-change) describes
+   each. `notes`, each with a `code` and a `message`, say why a draft has no
+   files: `no_change` when no file under the home changed between them and
+   nor did the app's dconf keys; `unowned_changes` when files changed but
+   none under the owned paths, listing up to five in `files` with their
+   roles, desktop files last, and counting the rest in `more`;
+   `uncheckable_changes` when the app's keys in dconf were read and changed,
+   listing the database in `files`, since no check reads dconf (a version
+   the capture kept no copy of, as it keeps none of the database at the
+   start, is `unreadable_changes`, not an empty key list);
+   `unreadable_changes` when a dconf database changed but REA could not read
+   it, such as without `dconf-cli` or when a present version's bytes were
+   not retained, with the read `error`, so whose keys changed is unknown;
+   and `no_document` when no file has the document role.
+   `unowned_changes` and `no_document` point at `state_paths`. They also say,
+   for a drafted `file`, why its suggestions are thin: `by_position`,
+   `view_state_only`, `long_text`, `cut_view`, `unreadable_view`,
+   `volatile_lines`, `generated_reference` or `read_as_text`.
+6. Write the task: its name, the prompt in the user's own words naming the
+   app (a solving agent's own shell cannot see the computer's files, and the
+   export's limitations say when a prompt names neither the app's title,
+   environment nor package), and checks
+   that hold after the change and not on the seed, from the suggestions,
+   `values` and any `guards` worth keeping.
+7. `export_build_environment` with the tasks and a new or empty `directory`.
+   Each task is `{"task", "end_checkpoint"}`, its end `end` by default; a
+   later task's change made on top of the last, and marked `end-<task name>`,
+   is checked there, and `stop_build_capture`'s `later_drafts` drafts it from
+   the end before it. A checkpoint `near-<task name>` taken after a near miss
+   of that task's change must fail one of its checks. An end the capture did
+   not take is refused before anything runs.
+   The export runs inside the computer with `--seed-checkpoint seed
+   --end-checkpoint end` and each task's `--task-end`, so it seeds what was
+   saved at `seed`, scrubs the
+   computer's host name and user from it, and refuses a task whose checks
+   all pass on the seed. It also passes `--synthetic-seed`, since the agent
+   made the seed for the task, so the README does not call it the user's real
+   data. When the seed holds exactly one document and the app's desktop entry
+   takes files, the bundle's app opens that document at launch. A file moved
+   to the desktop Trash is not seeded, and the export's limitations name what
+   the Trash held at `seed`. The limitations and the README also name the
+   folders where files changed during the capture that the bundle neither
+   owns nor seeds, such as settings that keep a first-run wizard away, up to
+   eight collapsed to their top folder, such as `~/.config/MuseScore`, and a
+   count of the rest; capture again with them in `state_paths` to own them.
+   Lock files the app holds while it runs, such as LibreOffice's profile
+   `.lock` and its document lock `.~lock.<name>#`, GnuCash's
+   `<book>.LCK` or Grisbi's `.<file>.lock` beside its file, are left out of
+   the seed, since a copied one can keep the app from starting or saving. The
+   limitations and README list them after "Left out of the seed". A project's
+   `Cargo.lock` or `yarn.lock`, a document or a path in `state_paths`, and app
+   logs that are not locks are seeded. The limitations name seeded
+   WebKit or Chromium storage and caches too, which the app keeps for its
+   own running. When the application held files open in a folder whose
+   starting content the capture did not retain, a limitation names the
+   folder and the seed files in it. For a
+   `.deb` app that no apt source the capture found offers, the export takes
+   the request's URL with `--package-url`; one apt offers installs from apt.
+   Either way the request's `dependencies` reach the export as
+   `--extra-package`, as an archive request's `extra_packages` do, so a
+   runtime piece the agent named, such as MyPaint's `librsvg2-common`, is
+   installed beside the app; the limitations and the README list them,
+   except the app itself and dependencies the bundle already names for a
+   `.deb` it installs from the file. REA lists the bundle's files
+   with their sizes and SHA-256 in the computer, into a file beside the
+   bundle that it reads through `data/get`, since a large bundle's list
+   outgrows a command's output; it then brings the files back through the
+   driver's `data/get` in answers of at most 8 MiB, and checks and writes
+   each answer into the folder before asking for the next, so one answer at
+   a time is held; a failure leaves no partial folder.
+8. `close_build_computer`.
+
+A checkpoint name is lowercase letters, digits, dot, dash and underscore; the
+capture's own `baseline`, `stop`, `time-limit` and `exit` are refused, and so
+is a name already taken. The acknowledgement comes from the capture after it
+has walked the home and retained what changed: `entries` walked, `changes`
+since the checkpoint before, `retained_files` and `retained_bytes`, and up to
+ten `changed_files`, home-relative, with `more_changed_files` counting the
+rest. Folders are left out. Files an app window's title has named so far
+come first, as a document saved and no longer held open is in Gnumeric, LyX
+or Tiled; then files named themselves in `state_paths`; then those the app
+holds open, those under a selected folder and those in its state
+directories; then the rest; and caches and WebKit, Chromium or QtWebEngine
+storage last, even under a selected folder such as `.config/libreoffice`
+with its icon cache, each by path. So a save's document leads the list.
+When the computer's REA is older than these lists,
+as when `REA_BUILD_COMPUTER_REA_ARCHIVE` still names an earlier build, the
+checkpoint is still taken and both are `null`: which files changed is
+unknown. Pack the current REA into the archive to get them back.
+
+Each step can be asked again after its answer was lost:
+
+- A start whose answer is lost, or whose window never opened, stops the
+  capture it may have left running. Until the computer confirms that stop,
+  REA keeps the capture and the next `start_build_capture` retries the stop
+  before starting another.
+- A checkpoint the capture took whose acknowledgement was lost comes back
+  from the capture's own log when the same name is marked again.
+- A stop whose summary or draft was not read finishes when stop is asked
+  again, and a finished stop repeats its result. The draft and the export
+  trust the checkpoints the capture's own Evidence records.
+- A step that saved something, such as an export's bundle or the witness's
+  record, returns it even when its call is cancelled or the computer closes
+  as the save finishes. `start_build_capture` saves nothing, so a close or
+  cancellation during its screenshot of the opened app cancels it.
+
+The capture, the draft and the export run as the computer's user in its home,
+without any `AGENTENV_*` variable, so neither REA nor the app holds the
+computer's control token. REA sends each command through agentenv's
+`computer-exec/v1` route with that token, which stays in REA, and reads larger
+outputs, such as the draft, the export's Evidence and the bundle's file
+list, from files under `~/.rea-build` through `data/get`, since a command's
+output is capped at 1 MiB. In a command's Evidence or failure read this way,
+as in its own output, REA replaces the token in every string, after checking
+the Evidence's digest; the bundle's files arrive as they are.
+
+Calls on one computer run one at a time, in the order REA receives them:
+an action, a capture step, a check or a close waits until the call before
+it on that computer has answered, and sends progress notifications while
+it waits. So a check reads the app with no action half done, and a witness
+stage is admitted, read and filed before anything else on that computer
+runs. Calls on different computers run side by side. Closing a computer
+cancels the call in progress on it and refuses the calls still waiting.
+
+## Witness
+
+Start a fresh computer from the exported folder with `start_build_computer`
+and `{"kind": "bundle", "path": ...}`; agentenv boots the app with the seed,
+on the seed's document when the export opens one. When the computer never
+gets ready and the bundle's seed holds lock files, the start's error names
+them: delete them from the bundle, or export again, which leaves them out.
+A bundle records no state directories, so the error names only files by a
+profile lock's name and LibreOffice's document locks.
+Then, with the task exactly as exported:
+
+| `stage`       | Before it                                                         | Its checks must              |
+| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
+| `seed`        | nothing; give `directory`, a new or empty folder for the record   | fail at least once           |
+| `after_edit`  | the task done through the app from its prompt alone               | all pass                     |
+| `near_miss`   | a change that is almost right, such as a misspelled line          | fail at least once           |
+| `after_reset` | `act_on_build_computer` with `action: "reset"` as the last change | each come out as on the seed |
+
+`check_build_task` reads the app's `data/get`, takes the views it returns
+beside the files and evaluates each check with REA's evaluator, the one the
+export validates tasks with and the exported verifier mirrors, one result per
+check. Once the files settle it runs the task's
+[readers](specs/desktop-app-environments/file-readers/spec.md) in the computer through
+`computer-exec/v1`, as the verifier does, and a check through a reader reads
+that reader's view. A task of [screen judges](specs/desktop-app-environments/screen-judge/spec.md)
+reads no files: REA takes a screenshot and runs the bundle's own judge on it
+with the agentenv runner's Python and model endpoint. Like the verifier, it grades only once the app's files settle, since an
+app such as Gnote saves a few seconds after the last key. It reads `data/get`
+every 0.5 s and grades once every file's bytes have held for 3 s, counted
+from the read that returned them. 15 s after the first read began, it grades
+the last completed read: no read starts then, and one still running is cut.
+It sends progress notifications while it waits. The result's `settled` says
+whether the files settled, and `read_cut` whether the bound cut a read; each
+stage in the record keeps both. Every check therefore costs at least 3 s,
+and a save that lands more than 3 s after the first read returns is still
+missed; see
+[grading once the app has saved](desktop-application-export.md#grading-once-the-app-has-saved).
+Without `stage` it only grades. The `seed` stage begins a recording
+of the display under REA's own request id, one per computer; a seed check
+that fails after it, such as on a failed read of the app's state or a lost
+reply to the recording's start, can be asked again, and asks for the
+recording under the same id, which the computer answers with the recording
+it already began. The stages come in order. The edit and the near miss each
+need an applied click, drag, scroll, type, typed secret or key since the stage before, with
+no reset after the last of them, since a reset puts the seed back rather than
+changing the app; `after_reset` needs the reset as the last change, and a
+reset that leaves any check unlike on the seed fails the witness, its
+stage's `remediation` naming those checks. On a computer started from a
+bundle folder, the seed refuses a task whose `tasks/<name>.json` or verifier
+in the bundle differs from what the export writes for it. A reset
+relaunches the app, and REA waits until the computer is ready again before
+answering, sending progress notifications while it waits.
+
+Only a check that fails on what the app's view shows counts as a failure. A
+check that fails because its file or table could not be read, such as an
+SQLite file locked past the reader's wait, or because what it looks for may
+lie in what its view cut, is `undecided` in its result: it shows nothing
+about the task. That covers a line `lines_present` misses in a text view cut
+at 5,000 lines, a row `row_present` misses in a table whose view keeps only
+its first rows, a `value_equals` or text check pointer that names nothing
+in a truncated view or past a cut zip listing, the absence checks and counts
+on a cut view, and `text_equals` or `text_contains` of an element on one,
+even where the element's kept text holds the value, since the cut may have
+dropped text from between its runs. Any other check that passes on what the
+view kept stays decided, and so does a value found there that differs from
+the one expected.
+The result's `passed` and description are the exported verifier's, which has
+no undecided results. A stage that only undecided checks would settle, such
+as a near miss whose one failing check could not read its file, files nothing
+and is refused; check it again once the files read whole.
+
+A stage whose checks do not show what it must ends the witness, and so does
+`after_reset`. REA then ends the recording, fetches its segments through
+`data/get`, each checked against the recording's manifest, and writes into
+`directory`:
+
+- `recording/NNNN.mp4`, the recording's segments;
+- `witness.json`, REA Evidence (`rea.desktop-build-witness`) holding the
+  verdict, the stage that failed if one did, the task's name and SHA-256,
+  each stage's results with how many logged actions came before it and
+  whether the app's files had settled (`settled`), the
+  computer's [action log](desktop-build-computer.md#act) as it keeps it, each
+  action with its arguments, timing and outcome, with `actions_dropped`
+  counting the earliest actions it no longer keeps, and the recording's
+  segments with their sizes and SHA-256. The record's limitations say when
+  the log dropped actions or cut arguments, which each entry names in
+  `truncated_arguments`, and which stages graded files that had not settled.
+
+The stages' rules read the log's count of actions and the last applied
+action of each kind, which it keeps for the whole session, so they hold
+however many entries it dropped. The result returns the same record. When writing it fails, such as for a
+folder something else wrote into, the witness keeps its stages: check the
+stage that ended it again, with the same task, and REA writes the record
+without checking again. Once it is saved, the same check returns the saved
+record again, so a record saved as its call was cancelled is not lost. A
+computer is witnessed once; witness again from a fresh computer. A bundle of
+several tasks is witnessed one task per fresh computer: the seed stage
+refuses a task whose steps and verifier differ from the bundle's for that
+task's name, so each task's record shows that task alone from the seed.
+
+## Measure
+
+`measure_build_task` takes a bundle folder, a task's name, a `model`, an
+`agent` (`claude-code` by default) and `budget_usd`. It runs the task through
+REA's helper, `bridge/agentenv/solve.py`, with the agentenv runner's Python on
+this host, one solve at a time, each in a fresh computer the run tears down:
+the bundle's own steps, with the agent deployed as the solver on the model.
+The model endpoint is the one agentenv reads where REA starts,
+`LITELLM_BASE_URL` and `LITELLM_API_KEY` or `[model]` in
+`.agentenv/config.toml`; REA holds no model client and never reads the key.
+
+Each solve uses a private agentenv sandbox root. If the helper stops before
+reporting cleanup, REA terminates each sandbox agentenv lists under that root
+(`local_sandbox_ids`), including one killed while it recorded its ports, and
+keeps the root when cleanup fails. agentenv keeps a sandbox's folder until its
+teardown is confirmed, so once that root is empty the solve's cleanup is
+verified, report or not. On macOS, REA cannot verify host processes left by a
+recovered sandbox.
+
+| Solves finished | Passes    | Band       | Next          |
+| --------------- | --------- | ---------- | ------------- |
+| 3               | 0         | `too_hard` | stop          |
+| 3               | 3         | `too_easy` | stop          |
+| 3               | 1 or 2    |            | 2 more solves |
+| 5               | 1, 2 or 3 | `in_band`  | stop          |
+| 5               | 4         | `too_easy` | stop          |
+
+A solve agentenv reports `failed`, `unscored` or `cancelled` did not finish:
+it is run again, at most twice, and not counted, though its cost is. Before
+each solve the measure stops, `stopped: "budget"`, when the largest cost so
+far would take the total past `budget_usd`; a solve's cost is known only when
+it ends, from Claude Code's last trajectory record, so the first solve always
+runs and a solve that reports no cost stops the measure. A solve whose helper
+is stopped before it reports, by the solve's deadline or killed from outside,
+counts as `failed` with no known cost, so the measure records it and stops. A
+solve that could not run at all, such as for want of a model endpoint, ends the measure with
+its error and records nothing.
+
+The result and `difficulty.json`, at the bundle's root, keep per task: the
+model, agent and time; the band and why it stopped; `k`, the finished solves,
+the passes and unfinished solves; the cost in all and the budget; each
+finished solve's turns; `failures_per_check`, how many finished solves failed
+each check; each solve's outcome, turns, cost, seconds, failed checks,
+instance id and the error agentenv reported for it; `task_sha256`, the
+SHA-256 of the task's steps file followed by its verifier, so a record whose
+task changed since shows it is stale; and
+REA's and agentenv's versions. Measuring a task again replaces its record and
+keeps the others. A `difficulty.json` or README REA cannot read or parse is refused
+before any solve and left as it is, and measures of one bundle write one at a
+time, so neither loses the other's record. The README gets a Measured difficulty section with one
+line per task, which agentenv ignores like the file.
+
+See the [specification](specs/desktop-app-environments/build-witness/spec.md)
+for scope and verification.
@@ -1,11 +1,26 @@
 # Client and agent verification

+FreeBuff MCP loading and personal skill discovery are currently unverified with
+an installed native client/version. Its temporary-filesystem coverage verifies
+REA's configuration and applicability boundaries only; it does not establish
+that FreeBuff consumes the written registration or skill.
+
 Use these optional lanes to verify an installed client or evaluate an agent's
 REA workflow. [Testing REA](testing.md) provides the normal development commands
 and provider lanes. Each record below states its host, client version, model
 fixture, and remaining coverage; a native-client run with a loopback model does
 not establish live model-service acceptance.

+## Launch environment verification
+
+`rea mcp doctor --json` starts the production MCP adapter with the current runtime
+executable and environment. A healthy result establishes that adapter's
+initialization, discovery and target-free request flow; it does not verify a
+client's configured launcher or its inherited environment. Test the generated
+registration through the actual client, including a reduced `PATH` when checking
+desktop or service startup. Record the client version and launch environment
+separately from terminal doctor results. See [launcher troubleshooting](../getting-started/client-configuration.md#launchers-and-path).
+
 ## Published Pi code-mode renderer limit

 A separate probe of the published `@earendil-works/pi-codemode` 1.1.0 and 1.2.0
@@ -18,7 +33,7 @@ shared form would leave later fields unknown instead. The existing
 its character limit by advertising reduced nested validation structure, while
 REA continues to validate calls against the complete canonical input schema.
 Compact is the default for the server's advertised inputs; an explicit `full`
-choice is preserved. See the [compact input schema profile](mcp-contracts.md#compact-input-schema-profile)
+choice is preserved. See the [compact input schema profile](../reference/mcp-contracts.md#compact-input-schema-profile)
 for details of its reduced forms.

 Custom renderer hosts can raise `inputMaxChars` through `renderToolSignature` or
@@ -28,6 +43,30 @@ does not establish broader Pi compatibility. See the pinned upstream
 [`declarations.ts`](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/b45e0ebcc5ae2fc42a6f2f23104d10e656e6bedb/packages/codemode/src/declarations.ts)
 and [renderer usage notes](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/b45e0ebcc5ae2fc42a6f2f23104d10e656e6bedb/packages/codemode/README.md#declarations-for-the-model).

+<a id="llamacpp"></a>
+
+## llama.cpp
+
+The [manual stdio connection](../getting-started/client-configuration.md#llamacpp) was checked on
+macOS arm64 with Node.js 24.18.0, llama-server b11715 (`9d1878a43`), and the
+published `[email protected]` package. `GET /tools` exposed 207 REA tools without
+enabling llama.cpp's built-in tools. With the source checkout at `9e372c6`, all
+207 forwarded names, descriptions and input schemas matched a direct MCP client.
+
+Calls through `POST /tools` returned session metadata and JavaScript analysis
+Evidence for a fixture at a Unicode path. A missing target returned REA's input
+error, and a subsequent session call still succeeded. The owned llama-server
+process exited successfully after the checks. No native analysis engine or
+Windows host was exercised.
+
+A local Qwen3-1.7B Q8_0 run selected the JavaScript analysis tool and received its
+Evidence, but its follow-up answer reached the output-token limit. Other small
+Qwen3 attempts returned proposed calls as ordinary JSON text rather than tool
+calls. These runs do not establish dependable model-driven investigations.
+A request with the full catalog and task history exceeded a 16,384-token context;
+select tools for the task instead of assuming that discovery implies model fit.
+The checks exercised HTTP and stdio, not browser interaction with the Web UI.
+
 ## End-to-end, integration and golden evidence

 The optional `verify:qwen-client`, `verify:pi-client`, and `verify:hermes-client`
@@ -48,6 +87,14 @@ skill setting; Hermes discovers it through the selected `HERMES_HOME`.
 Set `REA_VERIFY_HERMES_STICKY_PROFILE=1` to exercise native Hermes selection of
 a named sticky profile with `HERMES_HOME` still pointing to its root.

+For Qwen on POSIX, set `REA_VERIFY_QWEN_REDUCED_PATH=1` and select its JavaScript
+entry point with `REA_VERIFY_QWEN_COMMAND` to test a restricted client environment.
+Setup retains the caller's `PATH`; the native Qwen `chat` or `call` run then uses
+an isolated `PATH` containing only Bash for the shell-tool fixture. The lane
+checks that `node`, `npm` and `npx` cannot be found and uses the generated REA
+registration unchanged. Its receipt records `reducedPath`, `clientPath` and
+`registrationCommand`; the option alone does not establish a passing native run.
+
 The Qwen lane also supports native Windows (verified with Qwen Code 0.25.1 and
 Node 24.19.0 for both `chat` and `call`). With Node 24.18.0, the same `call`
 journey reached full Evidence readback but the client aborted during exit with
@@ -439,7 +486,7 @@ existing static JavaScript analysis through CLI and stdio MCP, including
 manifest readback, competing query variants, and resolved relative imports.
 It uses an installed browser and accepts an optional installed REA entrypoint.
 The complete `verify:browser` lane also exercises passive script export through
-both public adapters. See [website script export](website-script-export.md).
+both public adapters. See [website script export](../guides/web/website-script-export.md).

 `verify:browser:modules` compares CLI and stdio MCP traces against an independent
 real Chromium module-loading fixture: import-map scopes, package prefixes,
@@ -447,7 +494,7 @@ null/backtracking rejection, query/fragment identities, repeated module instance
 lazy and computed unknowns, exact source/map identities and no implicit refetch.
 Set `REA_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE`; the optional script argument selects an installed
 package entrypoint. The complete `verify:browser` lane and existing conditional
-Chrome CI include this verifier. See [module relationships](website-module-trace.md).
+Chrome CI include this verifier. See [module relationships](../guides/web/website-module-trace.md).

 ## Agent evaluation and conformance records

@@ -596,3 +643,65 @@ npm run evidence:check

 The records preserve unsupported and unverified coverage as explicit unknowns.
 Run the matching real-tool prerequisites described in this guide.
+
+### Focused tool-description trials
+
+For a wording or discoverability question, begin with one representative case
+per affected workflow boundary and its nearest valid alternative. Repeat a
+concrete failure or ambiguous result after repair. Add repetitions when the
+requested confidence or comparison needs them; a large matrix is not the default.
+Use the user's selected model and budget, and verify the actual client and Node
+executables used by the trial rather than assuming the development shell's
+versions apply.
+
+Reuse the existing optional lane and source-owned scenarios where they fit:
+
+```bash
+REA_AGENT_EVAL_SCENARIOS=javascript-module-view npm run verify:agent
+```
+
+Select the account-supported model with `REA_AGENT_EVAL_MODEL`. Read the selected
+prompt and rubric before interpreting the gate: closed factual scenarios request
+complete producer Evidence, while `javascript-module-view` exercises retained
+views with heuristic scoring. Neither gate alone proves correct selection or
+fully supported prose for a different task. Extend the narrow scenario or grader
+in the existing evaluation tooling when necessary; reusable runners and fixtures
+belong there, not in skills or copied temporary harnesses.
+
+Capture the actual `initialize` and `tools/list` surface. Compact presentation may
+remove parameter descriptions or nested selector shapes, so a concise exact call
+example can remain necessary. Verify the producer-to-consumer handoff before
+removing its visible syntax. For a wording comparison, hold prompts, schemas,
+tool order, fixtures, permissions and host settings fixed; change one surface at
+a time. Use fresh agent context without the audit's answers. Record later source,
+fixture or runtime changes separately rather than claiming a controlled delta.
+
+Score these outcomes separately:
+
+- Tool selection, accepting other valid routes.
+- Canonical argument validity and the exact requested paths, IDs, selectors,
+  fields, units and delivery. Structurally valid arguments can select the wrong
+  input; fixtures should refuse that selection instead of returning the expected
+  answer anyway.
+- Recovery and cleanup. A valid unresolved lookup is not a malformed request;
+  normal status reads and cleanup-only retries are not automatically mistakes.
+  Do not infer that work stopped from a host-only timeout.
+- Final claims against returned facts and coverage. Correct text does not erase
+  malformed-call loops, and valid calls do not prove every claim. A failed name
+  lookup is not a negative reference search; an exhausted partial page does not
+  establish absence in unexamined source. Generic responses without state facts
+  cannot establish that a session is closed.
+
+Retain prompts, condition/catalog hashes, actual calls/results, failures, final
+answers, model/client/runtime versions and cleanup outcomes. Report whole-task
+input, cached input, output and elapsed time when available, and label unmeasured
+CPU or process-family memory. Fewer description bytes do not establish fewer
+task tokens or faster execution. Remove copied authentication after owned
+processes settle and review retained artifacts before sharing them.
+
+Controlled errors can test agent recovery without target effects. Label them as
+simulated and verify applicable workflows separately through the production
+adapter and real provider boundaries. State tool-subset versus full/progressive
+catalog scope and remaining provider/host coverage. Small one-shot trials are
+smoke checks, not statistical success rates or evidence that newer models need
+less guidance in general.
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Documentation ownership and authoring
+
+Use the [documentation directory](../README.md) to find existing material before
+adding another guide. Preserve one canonical owner for each contract or workflow;
+link to that owner instead of copying its claims into several guides.
+
+## Choose a destination
+
+| Document                                                 | Destination                            |
+| -------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
+| Installation, client setup and first CLI/MCP steps       | `docs/getting-started/`                |
+| Analyst workflows and evidence interpretation            | `docs/guides/<domain>/`                |
+| Analysis-engine configuration and format prerequisites   | `docs/providers/`                      |
+| Shared runtime contracts and evidence semantics          | `docs/reference/`                      |
+| Development, testing, release and authoring instructions | `docs/development/`                    |
+| Composition diagrams                                     | `docs/architecture/`                   |
+| Compatibility changes for a released version             | `docs/migrations/`                     |
+| One feature specification, plan and tasks                | `docs/specs/<domain>/<feature-slug>/`  |
+| One architectural decision                               | `docs/adr/<domain>/<decision-slug>.md` |
+
+Use meaningful, lowercase domain and feature slugs. Global numeric prefixes are
+unnecessary: different domains can add features independently, and branches do
+not compete for the next sequence number. Check the existing domain directory
+and linked issues before creating a feature with the same slug.
+
+Guides describe existing behavior and limitations. Specs define one proposed
+feature or domain change; an existing guide does not become a specification by
+moving it into `specs/`.
+
+## Feature lifecycle
+
+Create the specification before implementation. Each feature directory contains:
+
+- `spec.md`: problem, desired behavior, requirements, acceptance and non-goals.
+- `plan.md`: the single implementation plan, contracts and architectural choices.
+- `tasks.md`: incremental, testable steps linked to requirements and verification.
+
+Split independent domains or separately reviewable features before writing their
+specs. A broad `ROADMAP.md`, when useful, only lists child specifications, order
+and dependencies; requirements and implementation tasks belong to each child.
+Cross-repository contracts have one producer-owned specification. Consumers link
+to that contract instead of maintaining competing copies.
+
+Record an isolated architectural decision separately in
+`docs/adr/<domain>/<decision-slug>.md`, with **Status**, **Context**,
+**Decision** and **Consequences**. Link the ADR from affected specifications.
+Do not create decision records for routine file moves or invent past decisions.
+
+Specs do not replace the contribution-scope decision required for a new provider
+or expanded execution authority. Follow
+[contribution scope](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#contribution-scope).
+
+## Links and public routes
+
+Use relative links to physical Markdown files so GitHub readers can follow them.
+Link repository files outside `docs/` with their full GitHub URLs. Preserve
+existing heading anchors when moving a guide.
+
+[`documentation.ts`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/main/docs/.vitepress/documentation.ts)
+owns categorized site navigation and the existing guides' stable public routes.
+Update it when adding or moving a guide. VitePress rewrites categorized sources
+to the existing public paths; its Markdown hook resolves repository links from
+the physical source and renders them against those public routes. Keep basenames
+and route assignments unique. Edit links use the physical source file.
+
+For a move, search for both the basename and its old full path. Update README
+translations, authored skills, verification instructions, documentation-fact
+readers and release configuration when they consume that path. Preserve
+historical release records and references bound to earlier commits or tags.
+
+## Generated ownership and checks
+
+The [documentation directory](../README.md#machine-owned-documentation) identifies
+the machine-owned outputs and their producers. Their existing paths are retained
+because scripts, package consumers and release history depend on them. Change
+canonical sources and regenerate; do not fix a generated projection by hand.
+
+Run `npm run docs:check` for documentation facts and generated consistency, and
+`npm run verify:docs:routes` to build the complete production site and check local
+links, anchors and physical edit targets.
+When a physical path moves, also run the tests that read it. Follow
+[development checks](testing.md#developer-commands) before requesting review.
@@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ creation or retry mutations. An internal GraphQL error does not establish API
 quota exhaustion or prove that query size caused the failure. Publication
 continues through the pinned release-please action.

+A nonzero manifest version must resolve to a GitHub release or tag before
+proposal history is collected. If publication has not created that boundary
+yet, preparation stops before opening or updating a PR; wait for publication
+before retrying. Missing manifest versions and `0.0.0` still allow an initial
+release. This prevents historical `Release-As` directives from being replayed
+as unreleased changes.
+
 When upgrading release-please, review the upstream manifest implementation,
 refresh the versioned patch and run the release proposal and workflow boundary
 tests. Version mismatch or a patch that neither applies cleanly nor matches an
@@ -174,7 +181,8 @@ When choosing the manual path, leave the automatic main release PR unmerged.
 Select the application commit from main, create the frozen branch, and prepare
 its own release PR using the steps below. Merging the main release PR starts
 automatic publication instead. Close the superseded main PR after the manual
-release has published and its metadata has been synchronized back to main.
+release has published, before merging the metadata synchronization PR back
+to main.

 `release/VERSION` also sets the expected version for the workflow. Use an exact
 SemVer such as `release/6.1.0` or `release/6.1.0-rc.1`, without build metadata.
@@ -185,7 +193,7 @@ registry metadata or changelog disagrees with that version before creating a tag

 Before publishing a candidate, review its changelog's breaking changes and the
 migration notes for the release being prepared. The
-[6.1 to 6.2 migration guide](migration-6.2.md) records that release's changes;
+[6.1 to 6.2 migration guide](../migrations/migration-6.2.md) records that release's changes;
 it is a historical reference, not the compatibility checklist for later releases.

 REA uses Release Please's `always-bump-minor` strategy: every release increments
@@ -342,7 +350,10 @@ tag remains in main's ancestry. Keep the released tag unchanged.

 The synchronization must include `.release-please-manifest.json`,
 `package.json`, both root versions in `package-lock.json`, `CHANGELOG.md`,
-`server.json`, and the versioned documentation examples. Run
+`server.json`, both plugin manifests (`.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and
+`.codex-plugin/plugin.json`), the Codex server declaration (`.codex-plugin/mcp.json`), both
+marketplaces (`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` and
+`.agents/plugins/marketplace.json`), and the versioned documentation examples. Run
 `npm run docs:generate`, `npm run docs:check`, and the release configuration
 tests against the combined tree. After the merge, verify that the released
 tag is an ancestor of main:
@@ -376,3 +387,18 @@ tag. Do not dispatch a fresh publish phase to repair an already-created
 release: Release Please will not create the same release again. Do not move
 the tag, delete the release, or unpublish npm as a retry. A defective public
 package requires a reviewed correction and a new version.
+
+### Plugin artifact metadata
+
+Package verification selects files with npm, then packs an owned staging directory.
+The release manifest omits development dependencies and development-only overrides;
+its generated `npm-shrinkwrap.json` preserves the runtime dependency resolutions
+and integrity values from `package-lock.json`. Runtime or unresolved overrides
+fail packaging rather than being dropped. Source metadata is never rewritten.
+The archive bundles production dependencies because Codex fetches npm plugins
+without installing dependencies. The producer includes all locked PTY platform
+archives after checking their integrity, without re-resolving the runtime tree.
+Optional Frida stays outside the bundle so ordinary npm installation can retain
+its host-specific installer. This also lets Claude install locked dependencies under its plugin policy while
+retaining development security overrides. Both plugin marketplaces select the
+same qualified npm artifact, which the release workflow publishes unchanged.
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ The [platform tracker](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/32),
 [browser tracker](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/39) track capability and
 verification work. Available tools and setup are documented in the
 [investigation guides](https://rea.tools/guides/),
-[installation guide](installation.md), and
-[generated catalog](mcp-contracts.md#generated-catalog).
+[installation guide](../getting-started/installation.md), and
+[generated catalog](../reference/mcp-contracts.md#generated-catalog).

 ## Priorities

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ fixture servers; custom orchestration needs a demonstrated requirement.
 Provider and platform claims require their corresponding
 [real verification lanes](testing.md#real-toolchain-verification-lanes).
 See [tool design](tool-design.md) for choosing a tool boundary and
-[Ghidra semantics](ghidra-provider.md) for the existing deep-provider contract.
+[Ghidra semantics](../providers/ghidra-provider.md) for the existing deep-provider contract.

 Setup remains additive, reuses existing tools, and requires approval for disclosed
 configuration and Hopper installation changes. Additional installer choices need