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 For cross-chapter work, read [the backport queue and validation record](../docs/chapter-backports.md).
 It owns pending reproductions and a condensed completion record; these notes
 capture reusable lessons. Detailed superseded validation history remains in Git.
+For shared viewer work, read [the graph viewer notes](graph-viewer-codex-notes.md).
 
 ## Collaboration preferences
 
+- Build with Make alone; Maven must never be required. Cliff prefers few tests:
+  avoid tests for every small viewer edit or rapidly changing display experiment.
+  Use focused existing tests and disposable probes when they answer a real risk.
+- Prefer concrete ArrayList to List, common base classes to unnecessary
+  interfaces, and short names (`pred`, `proj`, `def`, `use`). Avoid redundant
+  Objects.requireNonNull. Prefer int[]/AryInt to List<Integer>; avoid large boxed
+  ID collections (use arrays/BitSet or NBHML as appropriate). Node ID 0 means null.
 - Cliff often debugs the same failure in parallel. If asked to work in a side
   repository, update `tmp/` and do not edit the live files he is debugging.
 - Stop and discuss before changing a central lattice, constructor, memory, or
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+# Shared graph viewer: restart notes
+
+Updated 2026-09-25. Read graph/README.md for the current design and protocol.
+These are AI-facing continuity notes, not a new task list or authority to change
+compiler semantics. Cliff reports the peephole animations, inlining display, and
+TypeCheck diagnostics committed and working well as of 2026-09-25.
+
+## Working tree and latest change
+
+Preserve existing dirty files. This checkout still reports earlier viewer changes
+and untracked peep.js despite Cliff's report of commits; do not reconcile or
+commit those files merely on the basis of these notes.
+
+Latest request: Left/Right arrow keys perform the same actions as the Previous/Next
+buttons, including animation stages. Added outside inputs/editable content with
+no modifiers; slider and source-editing keys keep their existing behavior.
+Source cursor updates preserve focus so repeated playback keys keep working.
+Disposable headless check build/check-viewer-keys.py passed forward/back mouse
+equivalence, input/modifier exclusions, slider navigation, and the first-frame
+boundary. These changes need only a browser refresh.
+
+Previous request: run TypeCheck after optimization and end playback on a visible
+diagnostic. Implemented in chapters 10-25 (the chapters with a TypeCheck pass):
+
+- Chapters 10-17: SimpleGraphObserver calls STOP.typeCheck() after Iter; the
+  previously package-private method is now public. Chapters 18-25 call
+  CodeGen.parse().opto().typeCheck(). Earlier chapters remain unchanged.
+- GraphObserver.error(node,msg) is an optional callback. Existing compiler type
+  checking reports the node it diagnoses, rather than the viewer repeating the
+  check or trying to infer the node from text. Chapter 25 retains its originating
+  error selection. Compiler behavior without an observer still throws normally.
+- GraphEvent has ERROR and optional msg. Node ID 0 handles a diagnostic without
+  a node, such as an unresolved struct name. GraphCapture emits a final snapshot
+  before detach and catches an already-reported exception in its viewer run,
+  avoiding a duplicate global error response. Success emits TypeCheck PHASE.
+- The browser treats ERROR as a stable terminal frame. Next/Last/frame jumps
+  reveal folded ancestors locally, center the bad node at readable scale, and
+  show a red outline plus the message on the event line and in node details.
+  Persistent fold choices and earlier history remain available. A new compile
+  clears the diagnostic. Node-free errors show the message without centering.
+- Restart make view for Java changes; refreshing is enough for JS-only changes.
+
+Validation on 2026-09-25: all 25 chapters built with Make. Headless browser checks
+passed for real TypeCheck errors in chapters 10, 17, 18, 25, including final Next,
+folded error nodes, backward playback, direct jump, and a subsequent valid compile.
+Dead erroneous code was removed before TypeCheck. Existing JUnit checks passed:
+chapter10 Chapter10Test (27), chapter18 Chapter13Test + Chapter18Test (39),
+chapter25 Chapter13Test (16). This was NOT an all-chapter full test-suite run.
+
+## Durable design and owner preferences
+
+- Shared Java capture/model and browser code live in graph/. Each chapter keeps
+  a small SimpleGraphAdapter and SimpleGraphObserver, plus compiler callbacks.
+  No Maven requirement. DOT compiler/viewer support is gone; existing docs GV/SVG
+  assets and documentation regeneration rules remain. Keep the backport docs.
+- Node inputs describe USE -> DEF: containing node is the use, edge idx is its
+  input slot, def is the target ID. 0 means no node. Output lists are reverse
+  caches, not semantic edge descriptors. Phi control comes from input 0's Region.
+- Renderer uses kind through color/shape, not a printed KIND row. IDs follow names
+  in small font; projections use #id/index. Multi and projections share a box.
+- Parser-held temporaries are low with Parser links. Active Scope is low; pending
+  scopes sit near their control, and Scope edges leave the top. Parser retention
+  and nested peep temporaries must not be confused.
+- Functions/loops/SESE diamonds can fold. Folded edge bundles are thick, with
+  control color winning over memory, then data. Floating-node ownership can be
+  nominated by all inputs or all outputs in one region; exclude only when both
+  sides nominate DIFFERENT regions. RPO is off the layout task list.
+- CallEnd cross-function links use clickable shortcut nodes. Loop/Phi backedges
+  route around the right of the loop region. Edge clicks hop use/def under the
+  stationary mouse with eased pan; preserve this behavior during display edits.
+- Prefer concrete types and short names, avoid boxed high-count IDs and redundant
+  requireNonNull. Do not add permanent tests for each volatile UI experiment.
+- Do not open visible test tabs or use the user's live WebSocket port 12345.
+  NoScript once blocked 127.0.0.1; a connecting tab is not always a compiler bug.
+
+## Peephole animation invariants
+
+Stable -> gather -> rewrite -> release (stable). Gather/rewrite are intermediate
+views; slider/frame jumps/first/last skip them. Backward clicks reverse the stages.
+Type-only and genuinely unchanged results take one click without gathering.
+
+- Pair enclosing BEFORE with matching RETURN/APPLY, using peep/up IDs. Nested
+  captures are available in the stream but not stable stops. A recursively built
+  constant must not appear before its enclosing rewrite. Raw nested frame jumps
+  map to the enclosing BEFORE. Capture numbers remain unchanged and can skip.
+- Neighborhood: all changed nodes, original root, replacement (even an unchanged
+  existing GVN result), plus their one-hop defs from both snapshots. Exclude Start
+  anchors for constants. Do NOT use scheduling dependency lists as membership.
+- Keep Multi/projection boxes intact. A gathered Phi brings its Region; gathering
+  the Region must NOT recursively bring all sibling Phis.
+- Gathered pre/post geometry shares positions and reserves room for new nodes.
+  Exactly-one-hop outside neighbors stay more visible than the distant graph.
+  Folds temporarily open for the edit, but persistent fold choices survive release.
+- Java capture temps IDs distinguish nested peep-created nodes from Parser-held
+  expression values. An unattached new replacement must not acquire a premature
+  Parser arrow.
+- Chapters 18-25 mark Call/CallEnd/Fun/Return mid-inlining with folding:true.
+  The browser adds a small FOLDING tag and pink fill; this is unrelated to UI folds.
+  Read flags without calling transiently unsafe/mutating accessors (e.g. cend()).
+
+RETURN can precede caller attachment. GraphPeep.attached and viewer.resultEnd
+conservatively extend to the next BEFORE/PHASE only if its changes are exactly
+root->replacement rewires and deletion of the root/unused input nodes. No new
+nodes or unrelated changes may slip in. The next BEFORE serves as both the
+previous result and the next starting point. Preserve the original peep event
+using editEvent; don't label it as the next peep. Streaming waits for that next
+capture. Identical results without an attachment stay one-click, not empty zooms.
+
+Reproducer (chapter18):
+
+```simple
+val _add1 = { int x -> return x+1; };
+val _mul2 = { int y -> return y*2; };
+return _mul2(1+_add1(2))+3;
+```
+
+Frame 111 BEFORE Phi_$mem#12 and 112 RETURN#67 had identical nodes; the caller's
+ret.setDef happened in frame113. Playback now animates 111->113, showing Return#14
+memory input changing 12->67 and Phi12 disappearing. Likewise 113->115 for Phi13
+and 115->117 for Region11. No compiler peephole fix was needed.
+
+## Local verification tools (disposable, ignored)
+
+Windows workspace: C:/Users/cliffc/Desktop/Simple. Python is py -3.13. Playwright
+is installed under build/graph-tools; headless Chromium channel='msedge' works.
+Use an ephemeral HTTP port and intercepted browser WebSocket, or an isolated Java
+capture server on an ephemeral port. Scratch helpers may disappear after cleanup.
+
+- build/build-graph-chapters.py: Make builds all chapters through Cygwin bash.
+- build/check-viewer-errors.py: captures and checks latest TypeCheck feature;
+  build/error-chapterXX.json and build/viewer-error.png are outputs.
+- build/check-peep-attach.py and check-peep-nav.py: attachment, streaming, reverse
+  navigation; build/peep111.json is the 174-frame capture above before TypeCheck.
+- build/check-peep-gvn.py, check-peep-phis.py, check-peep-order.py: GVN endpoints,
+  sibling-Phi exclusion, nested replacement ordering. Some older scratch scripts
+  assumed adjacent capture frames and are stale after atomic peep playback.
+- build/check-folding-state.py: inlining FOLDING labels; folding-frames.json is a
+  349-frame chapter25 capture predating the added final TypeCheck frame.
+- build/check-graph-finish.py defines capture(ch) before its chapter05 invocation;
+  helpers reuse that prefix. build/FinishFrames.java (build/graph-finish classes)
+  calls GraphCapture.run on an ephemeral socket without launching a browser.
+- graph/test_browser.py and graph/test_transport.py are existing smoke tools.
+
+## Deferred work, not authorization to start
+
+Cliff considers incomplete/exit-loop grouping adequate as is. Bounded history can
+wait longer: mid-sized compiles slow the viewer, but it remains fine for demos.
+Full graph snapshots currently remain cached. Stable whole-graph placement has no
+agreed approach; compilation-unit containers remain deferred.
+Dead-field cleanup/interprocedural reverse
+liveness is explicitly deferred; do not revive the rejected whole-graph store
+sweep. Private-field syntax decisions belong in the parser, not optimization.