diff --git a/.claude/hooks/session-start.sh b/.claude/hooks/session-start.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# SessionStart hook for libdedx.
+#
+# Prepares a fresh Claude Code on the web container so that builds, tests,
+# linters and the Python bindings work immediately in-session:
+#   - configures + builds the debug preset (produces compile_commands.json for
+#     clang-tidy and build/src/libdedx.so for the Python ctypes binding)
+#   - installs the Python package in editable mode with dev dependencies
+#   - exports LIBDEDX_SO so `pytest` under python/ can find the shared library
+#
+# Safe to run multiple times. Only runs in the remote (web) environment.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Only set up the toolchain in Claude Code on the web; local checkouts are
+# assumed to already have a working dev environment.
+if [ "${CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE:-}" != "true" ]; then
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+cd "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$(pwd)}"
+
+echo "[session-start] Configuring debug preset..."
+cmake --preset debug
+
+echo "[session-start] Building debug preset..."
+cmake --build --preset debug --parallel
+
+# Editable install of the ctypes binding plus dev tools (ruff, pytest).
+# Ubuntu's system Python is externally managed (PEP 668); fall back to
+# --break-system-packages when a normal editable install is refused.
+echo "[session-start] Installing Python package (editable, with dev deps)..."
+python3 -m pip install -e "python[dev]" \
+    || python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages -e "python[dev]"
+
+# Point the Python test suite at the freshly built shared library so that
+# `pytest` works without any manual setup.
+LIBDEDX_SO="${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$(pwd)}/build/src/libdedx.so"
+export LIBDEDX_SO
+# Idempotent: only append once, so repeated hook runs don't clutter the env file.
+if [ -n "${CLAUDE_ENV_FILE:-}" ] \
+    && ! grep -qs '^export LIBDEDX_SO=' "$CLAUDE_ENV_FILE"; then
+    echo "export LIBDEDX_SO=\"${LIBDEDX_SO}\"" >> "$CLAUDE_ENV_FILE"
+fi
+
+echo "[session-start] Done. Build, tests (ctest), clang-tidy and pytest are ready."
diff --git a/.claude/settings.json b/.claude/settings.json
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+{
+  "hooks": {
+    "SessionStart": [
+      {
+        "hooks": [
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/session-start.sh"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "permissions": {
+    "allow": [
+      "Bash(cmake --preset:*)",
+      "Bash(cmake --build:*)",
+      "Bash(cmake -S:*)",
+      "Bash(ctest:*)",
+      "Bash(cmake --install:*)",
+      "Bash(clang-format:*)",
+      "Bash(clang-tidy:*)",
+      "Bash(ruff check:*)",
+      "Bash(ruff format:*)",
+      "Bash(python -m pytest:*)",
+      "Bash(python3 -m pytest:*)",
+      "Bash(pytest:*)",
+      "Bash(valgrind:*)",
+      "Bash(python3 tools/dat2c.py:*)",
+      "Bash(python3 tools/pdf2dat.py:*)",
+      "Bash(git status:*)",
+      "Bash(git diff:*)",
+      "Bash(git log:*)"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
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+# AGENTS.md
+
+Project brief for AI coding agents (Claude Code, opencode, Qwen Code, Codex, …).
+This is the single source of truth; `CLAUDE.md` imports it. Keep it current when
+build commands, conventions or architecture change.
+
+## What this project is
+
+`libdedx` is a C11 library for charged-particle **stopping power** (dE/dx)
+calculations — the energy loss of a charged particle per unit length of a
+material. All tabulated stopping-power data is **embedded into the library**;
+no external `.bin` files are needed at runtime. A `ctypes`-based Python binding
+lives in `python/`.
+
+## Build, test, lint — the inner loop
+
+C library (CMake 3.21+, C11 compiler):
+
+```bash
+cmake --preset debug                      # configure (also writes compile_commands.json)
+cmake --build --preset debug --parallel   # build into ./build
+ctest --preset debug                      # run the C test suite
+```
+
+Other presets: `release` (-> `build-release/`), `coverage` (-> `build-coverage/`).
+
+Static analysis / formatting (both run in CI with warnings-as-errors):
+
+```bash
+clang-format -i <files>                   # style is enforced; see .clang-format
+clang-tidy -p build <file.c>              # config in .clang-tidy, WarningsAsErrors: '*'
+```
+
+Memory checks (CI runs valgrind on the bethe test; do the same for memory-touching changes):
+
+```bash
+valgrind --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes --error-exitcode=1 ./build/tests/test_bethe_ext00
+```
+
+Python binding (`python/`):
+
+```bash
+pip install -e "python[dev]"              # editable install + ruff + pytest
+export LIBDEDX_SO="$PWD/build/src/libdedx.so"   # point ctypes at the built .so
+ruff check python                         # lint (line-length 120, rules E/F/W)
+cd python && python3 -m pytest -q          # tests (use `-m pytest`, as CI does)
+```
+
+In Claude Code on the web, `.claude/hooks/session-start.sh` performs the
+configure+build, the editable Python install, and exports `LIBDEDX_SO`
+automatically, so the loop above is ready at session start.
+
+## Repository map
+
+| Path | What lives here |
+|------|-----------------|
+| `include/` | **Public API** headers (`dedx.h`, `dedx_error.h`, `dedx_tools.h`, `dedx_wrappers.h`, `dedx_elements.h`). The contract. |
+| `src/` | Library implementation. Core engine in `dedx.c`; per-program models (`dedx_bethe.c`, `dedx_mstar.c`, `dedx_mpaul.c`); interpolation in `dedx_spline.c`; lookup/data access in `dedx_data_access.c`. |
+| `src/data/embedded/` | **Generated** headers compiled into the library. Do not hand-edit. |
+| `data/raw/` | Raw source tables + metadata, the regeneration inputs. |
+| `tools/` | `dat2c.py` (raw tables -> embedded C headers) and `pdf2dat.py` (ICRU90 PDFs -> `.dat`). |
+| `tests/` | CTest suite, one file per program/area (`test_pstar.c`, `test_bethe_ext00.c`, …). |
+| `examples/` | Runnable usage samples; CI executes several of them. |
+| `python/libdedx/` | ctypes binding (`_api.py`, typed stubs `__init__.pyi`, `py.typed`). |
+| `docs/` | Sphinx + Doxygen sources; published to GitHub Pages. |
+
+## API model (orient before editing)
+
+- One-call convenience: `dedx_get_simple_stp(ion, target, energy, &err)`.
+- Full path: allocate a `dedx_workspace`, fill a `dedx_config` (`program`, `ion`,
+  `target`), `dedx_load_config()`, then `dedx_get_stp()`; free both.
+- A result is selected by a `(program, ion, target)` triple. Programs include
+  `DEDX_PSTAR`, `DEDX_ASTAR`, `DEDX_MSTAR`, `DEDX_ICRU49`, `DEDX_ICRU73`,
+  `DEDX_ICRU73_OLD`, `DEDX_BETHE_EXT00`, and `DEDX_ICRU` (auto-selects the
+  newest embedded ICRU data).
+- Energies are in **MeV/nucl** throughout, including the generated data grids.
+
+## Conventions (enforced — see CONTRIBUTING.md)
+
+- **Naming/linkage:** public API `dedx_*`; shared internal helpers
+  `dedx_internal_*`; file-local helpers `static` with short unprefixed names.
+  Do **not** introduce new `_dedx_*` identifiers (leading underscore).
+- **Declarations at top of block**, before any statements (Linux-kernel style).
+  Inner-block declarations are fine when genuinely local to that scope.
+- Formatting and clang-tidy are CI gates with warnings-as-errors — run them
+  before claiming a change is done.
+
+## Gotchas an agent will otherwise get wrong
+
+- **Embedded data is generated, not authored.** To change tabulated values,
+  edit `data/raw/` and regenerate, never edit `src/data/embedded/*` directly:
+  ```bash
+  python3 tools/pdf2dat.py        # refresh ICRU90 *.dat in data/raw/
+  python3 tools/dat2c.py all      # regenerate src/data/embedded/ headers
+  ```
+- **Not thread-safe.** There is no synchronization around workspace mutation in
+  `dedx_load_config()` / dataset loading. Never share a `dedx_workspace` across
+  threads without external locking. Don't assume re-entrancy.
+- **Compound fallback semantics.** For compound targets, some programs
+  (`DEDX_PSTAR`, `DEDX_ASTAR`, `DEDX_MSTAR`) fall back to Bragg/stoichiometric
+  weighting when the upstream database lacks that compound. A value returned
+  under a program label is therefore not always a direct upstream value. Preserve
+  this behavior and its caveats; don't "fix" it into looking like native coverage.
+- **`ASTAR` vs `ICRU_ASTAR`** are distinct datasets (same grid/targets, slightly
+  different values) — not duplicates. See `data/README.md`.
+
+## Definition of done
+
+1. `cmake --build --preset debug` is clean.
+2. `ctest --preset debug` passes.
+3. `clang-format` clean and `clang-tidy -p build` reports nothing (warnings = errors).
+4. For memory-touching changes, valgrind is clean.
+5. If Python is affected: `ruff check python` clean and `pytest` passes.
+
+## Using a self-hosted Qwen (or other local model) via opencode
+
+This repo is model-agnostic: Claude Code reads `CLAUDE.md` (which imports this
+file); opencode and Qwen Code read this `AGENTS.md` directly. To drive the repo
+with your own Qwen endpoint on custom hardware, add a custom provider to
+opencode (`opencode.json` at the repo root or `~/.config/opencode/`). Point it at
+your OpenAI-compatible server (vLLM / SGLang / Ollama / LM Studio) — model ids are
+passed through unchanged, so they must match what your server exposes:
+
+```jsonc
+{
+  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
+  "provider": {
+    "my-qwen": {
+      "npm": "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible",
+      "options": { "baseURL": "http://<your-host>:<port>/v1" },
+      "models": { "qwen3-coder": {} }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Then select `my-qwen/qwen3-coder` via `/models`. (opencode defaults Qwen to
+temperature 0.55 when unset.) This file is intentionally **not** committed so the
+endpoint stays your local choice; the build/test/lint commands above are all the
+context any agent needs regardless of the model behind it.
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
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+# CLAUDE.md
+
+Project guidance for Claude Code lives in the shared, tool-agnostic brief so
+that Claude, opencode, Qwen Code and other agents all read the same thing.
+
+@AGENTS.md