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Fixes a runtime segfault when a double-quotes string was passed as an LLM function prompt instead of a backtick string, caused by the parser accepting the double-quotes string and later phases of the compiler silently failing due to expecting a backtick string. We now correctly handle both.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for quoted string literals in LLM prompts alongside backtick prompts.
    • Quoted prompts treat interpolation markers as literal text and provide warnings when ${...} appears.
    • Added cryptographic standard-library support for SHA-256, AES-GCM-SIV, ChaCha20-Poly1305, and XChaCha20-Poly1305.
    • Added authenticated encryption, decryption-failure reporting, and secure random key generation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved prompt source highlighting and unresolved client diagnostics.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for prompt formats and cryptographic operations.

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The compiler now supports quoted and backtick LLM prompts through LlmPromptLiteral. The runtime adds AES-GCM-SIV, ChaCha20-Poly1305, XChaCha20-Poly1305, and SHA-256 builtins with public interfaces and tests. Test sweeps now report only HIR type error-channel results.

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Prompt lowering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prompt literal extraction and diagnostics
baml_language/crates/baml_compiler_syntax/src/ast.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lower_cst.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lowering_diagnostic.rs
Prompt fields expose quoted strings. Lowering represents quoted and backtick prompts with LlmPromptLiteral and reports quoted ${ markers.
Prompt specification synthesis
baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lower_cst.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lower_expr_body.rs
Backtick prompts retain interpolation. Quoted prompts become one decoded text segment.
Prompt behavior regression coverage
baml_language/crates/baml_tests/projects/compiles/llm_quoted_prompt/main.baml
The fixture covers quoted escapes, literal interpolation markers, backtick interpolation, and escaped markers.

Crypto runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Crypto interfaces and declarations
baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/*, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/src/lib.rs
The standard library defines crypto interfaces, decryption errors, AEAD ciphers, and Sha256, then registers them in the crypto namespace.
Crypto VM implementation
baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/mod.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/Cargo.toml, baml_language/Cargo.toml
The VM implements AEAD construction, encryption, decryption error classification, key and nonce validation, and resettable SHA-256 state.
Crypto validation coverage
baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_crypto/*
Tests cover vectors, round trips, malformed inputs, authentication failures, nonce behavior, random keys, interface dispatch, and hasher reuse.

Test harness updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Type specification sweep
baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/type_spec/sweep.rs
The sweep removes typed-node census reporting and retains HIR error-channel reporting.
Unresolved client diagnostic
baml_language/crates/baml_lsp2_actions_tests/test_files/syntax/functions_v2/invalid2.baml
The fixture records E0003 for unresolved bar in the Foo3 client expression.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 89411

The PR makes double-quoted LLM prompts compile through later compiler phases, preventing the reported runtime crash. A bounded follow-up remains for three new crypto documentation examples that may need an explicit Rng upcast; validate or update those examples before merge.

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A rabbit guards the cipher gate,
While quoted prompts translate.
Backticks let expressions hop,
Hashers reset when messages stop.
AEAD seals each byte with care,
And warnings mark interpolation there.

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baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lower_cst.rs (1)

380-393: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unused InvalidLlmToolsField diagnostic.

Quoted prompts with tools are accepted. No code constructs this diagnostic, so its backtick-specific text is unreachable.

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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lower_cst.rs` around lines 380 -
393, Remove the unused InvalidLlmToolsField diagnostic definition and any
associated unreachable backtick-specific text, while leaving the quoted-prompt
tools handling and existing diagnostics unchanged.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/lower_cst.rs`:
- Around line 380-393: Remove the unused InvalidLlmToolsField diagnostic
definition and any associated unreachable backtick-specific text, while leaving
the quoted-prompt tools handling and existing diagnostics unchanged.

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- `baml.crypto.Aead` interface (symmetric authenticated encryption with
additional data)
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* **New Features**
* Added SHA-256 hashing with incremental updates and reusable digest
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* Added authenticated encryption using AES-GCM-SIV, ChaCha20-Poly1305,
and XChaCha20-Poly1305.
* Added secure random key generation and validation for cryptographic
inputs.
  * Added clear decryption failure reporting for authentication errors.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage for standard vectors, round trips, invalid inputs,
nonce handling, authentication failures, and key generation.
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baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/aes_gcm_siv.baml (1)

84-91: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Track the Self.Key projection limitation.

The BUG: comment records that a concrete-site associated projection lowers to an error type, so the return type is spelled uint8array. The same workaround appears three more times in chacha20poly1305.baml. Do you want me to open an issue that tracks restoring Self.Key at all four impl sites?

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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/aes_gcm_siv.baml`
around lines 84 - 91, Track the concrete-site associated projection limitation
by opening an issue covering the four affected implementation sites, including
random_key in aes_gcm_siv.baml and the three matching occurrences in
chacha20poly1305.baml, with the goal of restoring Self.Key once projection
resolution is supported.
baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs (2)

1-11: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Documentation predates the ChaCha20-Poly1305 classes. Both doc blocks describe the module as AES-GCM-SIV plus SHA-256, but the module also implements BamlClassCryptoChaCha20Poly1305 and BamlClassCryptoXChaCha20Poly1305.

  • baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs#L1-L11: name the chacha20poly1305 crate alongside aes-gcm-siv and sha2, and add chacha20poly1305::ChaCha20Poly1305 to the list of fully-qualified crate types at lines 9-11.
  • baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/mod.rs#L6-L6: list BamlClassCryptoChaCha20Poly1305, BamlClassCryptoXChaCha20Poly1305, and BamlClassCryptoSha256 in the module index.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs` around lines 1 - 11,
Update the documentation in
baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs lines 1-11 to mention the
chacha20poly1305 crate alongside aes-gcm-siv and sha2, and include
chacha20poly1305::ChaCha20Poly1305 among the fully qualified crate types. Update
the module index in baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/mod.rs line 6
to list BamlClassCryptoChaCha20Poly1305, BamlClassCryptoXChaCha20Poly1305, and
BamlClassCryptoSha256.

122-149: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider Rust unit tests for the pure helper logic.

build_cipher, nonce_array, and open contain boundary logic that does not need the VM: the tag-length floor at line 212, the max_ciphertext saturating bound at line 217, and the Invalid vs Rejected split. The BAML corpus covers the happy paths and the message text, but it cannot reach the size caps, because a 2^36-byte input is not testable there. A #[cfg(test)] module in this file would pin the classification and the bound arithmetic directly.

As per coding guidelines: "Prefer writing Rust unit tests over integration tests where possible".

Also applies to: 199-240

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In `@baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs` around lines 122 -
149, Add a #[cfg(test)] unit-test module in crypto.rs covering build_cipher and
nonce_array validation, plus open’s tag-length floor, saturating max_ciphertext
calculation, and Invalid versus Rejected classification. Exercise boundary
values directly without relying on VM or BAML corpus inputs, including the
untestably large 2^36-byte size cases, and assert the resulting classifications
and bound arithmetic.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Inline comments:
In
`@baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/aes_gcm_siv.baml`:
- Around line 13-21: Update the examples in
baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/aes_gcm_siv.baml:13-21,
baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/chacha20poly1305.baml:10-18,
and
baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/chacha20poly1305.baml:120-128
so each rng binding upcasts SystemRandom.get() to baml.random.Rng before passing
it to random_key; all three sites require the same direct documentation change.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_crypto/aes_gcm_siv.baml`:
- Around line 84-91: Track the concrete-site associated projection limitation by
opening an issue covering the four affected implementation sites, including
random_key in aes_gcm_siv.baml and the three matching occurrences in
chacha20poly1305.baml, with the goal of restoring Self.Key once projection
resolution is supported.

In `@baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs`:
- Around line 1-11: Update the documentation in
baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/crypto.rs lines 1-11 to mention the
chacha20poly1305 crate alongside aes-gcm-siv and sha2, and include
chacha20poly1305::ChaCha20Poly1305 among the fully qualified crate types. Update
the module index in baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/mod.rs line 6
to list BamlClassCryptoChaCha20Poly1305, BamlClassCryptoXChaCha20Poly1305, and
BamlClassCryptoSha256.
- Around line 122-149: Add a #[cfg(test)] unit-test module in crypto.rs covering
build_cipher and nonce_array validation, plus open’s tag-length floor,
saturating max_ciphertext calculation, and Invalid versus Rejected
classification. Exercise boundary values directly without relying on VM or BAML
corpus inputs, including the untestably large 2^36-byte size cases, and assert
the resulting classifications and bound arithmetic.
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## Summary

- add comprehensive release notes for the independent `baml_language`
0.17.0 release line
- separate user-facing features, breaking and compatibility changes,
fixes, performance work, and internal changes
- synchronize the canary version, SDK packages, bridge runtime
identities, generated Node loader guards, and VS Code extension to
`0.17.0`

## Verified comparison range

- previous release: `baml-language-0.16.0` at
`2e021b3429db8769656e9b8646657c1863789169`
- reviewed product target:
`baml-language-source-c0153b20108bc428b77a53128b9a59ddeb4e2b42` at
`c0153b20108bc428b77a53128b9a59ddeb4e2b42`
- the reviewed product target was also `origin/canary` when the updated
notes were prepared
- full product comparison:
BoundaryML/baml@baml-language-0.16.0...baml-language-source-c0153b20108bc428b77a53128b9a59ddeb4e2b42

The product range contains 43 monorepo commits. The notes cover every
merged PR in the range that touched `baml_language/`, plus the
baml_language-specific macOS test suppression and binary-size baseline
workflow update. The post-BoundaryML#4424 review added BoundaryML#4427, BoundaryML#4431, BoundaryML#4432, BoundaryML#4433,
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## Validation

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- `scripts/baml-language-version check`
- `scripts/baml-language-version show` → `0.17.0`
- `scripts/baml-language-version compute --channel canary` → `0.17.0`
- `python3 -m unittest scripts.tests.test_baml_language_version
scripts.tests.test_release_pipeline_contract` — 39 passed
- `cargo test --manifest-path baml_language/Cargo.toml -p baml_version`
- `mise run validate-markdown` from `baml_language/`
- changed-file `prek` hooks, including Cargo formatting, Clippy, C++
formatting, TOML checks, and Markdown validation
- `git diff --check`


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- **New Features**
- Added system and filesystem capabilities, cryptography utilities, time
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pinning, and LSP code actions.
  - Added stable merge sorting for array helpers.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved language behavior, diagnostics, CLI evaluation, playground
workflows, and language-server synchronization.

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- Updated string APIs, function field requirements, prompt syntax, and
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# BEP-066: Evaluation, type construction, and reflection

## Summary

This PR implements BEP-066 across the language, compiler, VM, package
format, and host SDK boundary. BAML programs can inspect values and
types, construct runtime types, compile and mount runtime packages,
invoke reflected callables, and isolate dynamic work in sessions without
weakening the static type system.

The resulting model has four properties:

- Reflection uses one sealed, canonical type algebra for all nine public
reflection kinds. Equivalent types normalize to the same representation
and stable digest.
- Runtime generic arguments retain ordered static/runtime provenance
through HIR, MIR, bytecode, serialization, and invocation. Runtime
occurrences never become unconstrained solver variables.
- Compiled and mounted packages preserve declaration identity, interface
metadata, bounds, associated defaults, `requires` clauses,
implementations, and callable targets without fabricated source
locations.
- Dynamic type information is lexically scoped. It can guide checking
and execution inside its owning body, but values escaping that scope are
erased back to their static occurrence type.

## BEP-066 scenarios

| Scenario | Delivered behavior | Primary evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Runtime enums through an LLM | An enum obtained at runtime can be
supplied to an `ai`/provider call and reflected back with the correct
definition identity. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/reflect_call_any.rs` |
| 2. Saved forms become runtime classes | Stored rows can be converted
into runtime class definitions; returned objects retain those
definitions for extraction and field lookup. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_classes_and_composites.rs`
|
| 3. Runtime tool unions | Runtime class definitions can be composed
into a tool union, passed through model/tool dispatch, and recovered
without losing member identity. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_classes_and_composites.rs`
|
| 4a. Bounded generics over runtime classes | Runtime class witnesses
participate in generic bounds and interface dispatch using the same
conformance rules as static types. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_interface_witnesses.rs` |
| 4b. Package views over runtime definitions | Runtime package
reflection exposes local declarations and their relationships with
package-local identity. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_type_bindings.rs`,
`runtime_package_api_consistency.rs` |
| 5. Model-written schema compilation | A schema produced as data can be
compiled into a package, inspected, mounted, and used for typed
extraction. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_package_compile.rs` |
| 6. Current and packed package lookup | `Package.current`, package
enumeration, and `get_function` work for live and packed programs with
loc-free callable targets. |
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_package_compile.rs`,
`baml_cli/tests/pack_e2e.rs` |
| 7. Session isolation | Sessions provide isolated runtime definitions
and calls while preserving the lexical lifetime and escape-erasure
rules. | `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_session.rs` |

## Consistency and audit hardening

The implementation closes the consistency gaps found while auditing the
end-to-end feature:

- Constructor lookup has one behavior across parser, checker, and
runtime: reserved words are rejected as constructor names, enum
constructors retain their precise kind, and removed reader spellings
resolve as ordinary missing names. See
`baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/constructor_consistency.rs`.
- Runtime rendering keys definitions by semantic identity, not display
name. Non-equivalent same-name definitions fail before rendering with
E0162; equivalent and recursive definitions remain renderable. See
`runtime_render_identity.rs`.
- Runtime and static failures share diagnostic codes and messages for
bare generics, failed bounds, and duplicate serialized keys.
Runtime-only diagnostics are structured and carry null spans instead of
fake locations. See `runtime_diagnostic_consistency.rs`.
- Package reflection includes `get_enum`, `get_interface`, kind-precise
enumeration, null for wrong-kind or missing lookups, package-local
identity, and distinct identity across packages. See
`runtime_package_api_consistency.rs`.
- Every declaration in a compiled package shares one identity across
direct lookup, enumeration, and reflected function signatures. See
`compiled_package_identity.rs`.
- Runtime definition builders validate atomically, support recursive
groups, and produce definitions identical to map-based construction. See
`builder_witness_parity.rs` and `to_baml_witness_roundtrip.rs`.

## Canary reconciliations

- [BoundaryML#4301](BoundaryML#4301) made `hir_ty`
the production inference engine, removed TIR, and established
`TYPE_SYSTEM.md` as the semantic authority. BEP-066 now lowers, checks,
and reports diagnostics through that path only.
- [BoundaryML#4352](BoundaryML#4352) reorganized the
LLM surface around `ai`, provider namespaces, `@spec`, and agents.
Reflection and model-call coverage targets that current surface rather
than the superseded stdlib layout.
- [BoundaryML#4367](BoundaryML#4367) removed Jinja
prompt interpolation. BEP-066 prompts and fixtures use backtick strings
and `${...}` interpolation, and obsolete Jinja metadata is not carried
into runtime packages.

## `hir_ty` port contract

The `hir_ty` implementation preserves the following invariants from
syntax to execution:

- Each explicit type-argument occurrence is recorded in source order as
either a static type or a runtime operand. Static occurrences are solved
normally; runtime occurrences are checked against their static
occurrence type and never enter the solver as unknown variables.
- The authoritative call metadata carries the resolved callable target,
ordered type-argument slots, realized bindings, deferred dependent
checks, and runtime definition identity through MIR and bytecode. Free
functions, methods, and interface calls use symbolic,
source-location-free targets.
- Only checks that depend on runtime definitions are deferred. Static
arity, ordinary argument types, and independent bounds remain
compile-time errors.
- Runtime type refinements live in an overlay keyed by body owner and
statement identity, respect lexical shadowing, and are erased at scope
escape.
- Mounted package metadata is sufficient for normal generic realization
and interface selection: bounds, associated defaults, `requires`,
implementation registrations, and method resolution are not
reconstructed heuristically at runtime.
- `_` remains an exact contextual hole. Let annotations and constructors
solve permitted holes; declaration signatures and explicit call/upcast
type arguments reject them with E0147. A top-level `throws T | _` is
open and exposes `T` plus inferred throws to callers; plain `throws T`
is closed.

Intentional differences from the retired TIR behavior are part of the
contract:

- Multiple generic bounds are conjunctive end to end. Runtime and static
checking require every bound; the prior single-bound asymmetry is not
preserved.
- Existential interface dispatch permits exactly one `Self` witness.
Ambiguous multi-`Self` shapes are rejected instead of being guessed.
- Associated defaults, `Self` substitution, and `requires` realization
follow the current spec and `hir_ty` rules where TIR behavior differed.
- Current diagnostic codes and normalized types are authoritative;
ignored TIR tests and legacy wording do not override them.

The legacy root `engine/` is not an authority for this work.

## Test evidence map

| Contract surface | Evidence |
| --- | --- |
| Canonical reflection algebra and stable identity | `baml_type`
normalization/type-kind unit tests; type-spec tables for reflection
kinds and canonicalization |
| Syntax, formatting, AST, and HIR preservation | lexer/parser/formatter
tests; HIR tests for ordered static/runtime type-argument occurrences |
| Wildcard and open-throws semantics |
`wildcard_hole_in_let_annotation.baml`,
`wildcard_hole_in_constructor_generic_arg.baml`,
`partial_throws_clause.baml`, `wildcard_type_inference.rs`,
`wildcard_expression_holes.rs` |
| Mounted-package and source-package parity |
`hir_ty_package_interface`, `mounted_package_calls`,
`mounted_package_parity` |
| Runtime reflection scenarios | `reflect_call_any.rs`,
`runtime_classes_and_composites.rs`, `runtime_interface_witnesses.rs`,
`runtime_type_bindings.rs`, `runtime_package_compile.rs`,
`runtime_session.rs` |
| Identity, diagnostics, and API consistency |
`compiled_package_identity.rs`, `constructor_consistency.rs`,
`runtime_diagnostic_consistency.rs`,
`runtime_package_api_consistency.rs`, `runtime_render_identity.rs` |
| Builder and round-trip parity | `builder_witness_parity.rs`,
`to_baml_witness_roundtrip.rs` |
| Host and packed-program boundary | host reflection SDK fixtures and
`baml_cli/tests/pack_e2e.rs` |

## Verification state

- Full pinned gate on the gated head (`rustup run 1.93.0 cargo insta
test --test-runner nextest -p baml_tests -p baml_cli -p
baml_lsp2_actions -p baml_lsp2_actions_tests -p baml_surface
--all-features --unreferenced=reject`): **3,265 passed, 0 failed** (23
skipped), all doctests passed or were intentionally ignored, no
unreferenced snapshots, and no pending `.snap.new`.
- Whole-stdlib type census: 121 files, **62,910 typed nodes, 0
error-channel entries, 0 panics**.
- Session soak: the 500-evaluation pin runs with flat latency (eval BoundaryML#10:
3.32s → eval BoundaryML#500: 2.39s) and 0 KiB measured RSS growth.
- The head commit additionally absorbs a final 4-commit canary drift
(BoundaryML#4431 crypto, BoundaryML#3975 connection pooling, BoundaryML#4432 quote prompts, BoundaryML#4433
string standardization) verified by focused validation (targeted
runtime/stdlib/compiler suites + no-update snapshot replays); the
authoritative final signal is this PR's CI on the head commit.

## Handoff notes (for the next agent or human working on this)

**State:** everything above is on the head commit. No temporary port
constructs remain in the tree — the Phase-A stub
(`E_BEP066_PORT_IN_PROGRESS`), fixture exclusions, and port-era test
ignores are all gone (verified by grep).

**Authoritative documents:**
- `CONTRACTS.md` (repo root, this branch) — the binding data-model
contracts (runtime type slots / `CallPlan`, loc-free
`SymbolicCallableTarget`, scoped generic overlay) plus the 35-fact
acceptance checklist with per-fact conditions.
- TIR→hir_ty migration guide: branch `antoniosarosi/hir-ty-research`
(`TIR_HIRTY_MIGRATION_GUIDE.md`) — the architecture map, worked
examples, and risk register the port followed.
- Wildcard adjudication table: branch
`antoniosarosi/wildcard-adjudication` (`WILDCARD_VERDICTS.md`) —
per-test rulings for the formerly ignored B-230/B-247 cases.
- The full port audit trail (per-slice log with every checkpoint,
decision, and accepted snapshot delta) is posted as a comment on this
PR.

**Deep review findings (resolved):** the adversarial review of the six
port commits (`462dad20b..3c22664`) is complete — [full report in this
comment](BoundaryML#4325 (comment)).
All four ratified blockers landed in `f239a032f` and passed the widened
pinned gate:

1. **Union interface dispatch (report finding 1):** virtual dispatch now
requires every union member to resolve to the same declaring-interface
view; heterogeneous unions take the guarded per-member switch, with
executable coverage.
2. **Written union member order (finding 2):** static call slots retain
a canonical checking type and a written emission type, preserving
runtime coercion order. The audited snapshots restore `audio | image`
and the other written forms.
3. **Deferred runtime bounds (finding 3):** bound registration
substitutes the call frame and defers checks that depend on active
scoped runtime bindings, including no-value-argument calls.
4. **Session top-level-let cycles (finding 5):** inference has an error
cycle seed plus RAII in-flight ownership; resolution order preserves
functions, exported values, and reserved package roots, and recursive
lets diagnose without poisoning the Session.

Canary integration and audited follow-ups are recorded in `55f6318f5`,
`957d4514b`, `4fef90eff`, and `8de2d10bb`. Report findings 4, 6, and 8
remain agreed fast-follow work; finding 9 remains explicitly
pre-existing. The report's clean-area conclusions remain valid.

**CI playbook for this branch:**
- darwin cargo-test: Blacksmith runner evictions ("No active SSH
sessions") are infra flakes; cancelled jobs display as failures — check
each job's `.conclusion`, then `gh run rerun <run-id> --failed` (up to 2
attempts).
- tsweb-macos: same infra treatment. Its one real failure mode (vitest
5s default timeout on the worker `Package.compile` test) is already
fixed with an explicit 30s timeout.
- Size Gate: if it fails with the absolute cap **below** the reported
baseline, the ceiling is stale — re-bake and bump the pinned literal in
`baml_language/crates/tools_size_gate/src/config.rs` to baseline×1.03 as
a single-file commit.
- Local CI mirror (all three matter: toolchain, features, package set):
`rustup run 1.93.0 cargo insta test --test-runner nextest -p baml_tests
-p baml_cli -p baml_lsp2_actions -p baml_lsp2_actions_tests -p
baml_surface --all-features --unreferenced=reject`

**Agreed follow-up PRs (deliberately not in this PR):**
1. Add a nextest serialization group for `sdk_test_typescript_web`
(`max-threads = 1`) — prevents concurrent ~8 GiB transient workerd
import peaks from stacking (measured; this OOM'd a dev machine).
2. Investigate the 82.4 MB `bridge_web_core_bg.wasm` (wasm-opt is
currently disabled in its package metadata); consider splitting
compiler-only code out of the runtime web bridge.
3. Build-time precompiled-stdlib artifact + an `emit_units` variant that
accepts it, so `Package.compile`'s first call skips the ~4–5 s full
90-file stdlib recompile (measured; a lazy in-process cache is not
sufficient for the first-call cost).
4. Address report findings 4, 6, and 8 in focused follow-ups; triage the
pre-existing items under finding 9 separately.

**Coordination items:**
- The two schema decisions living in hir_ty's crate
(`SymbolicCallableTarget` in `callable.rs`; the `PackageInterface` Borsh
expansion) should get a review from the hir_ty owner — they were frozen
unilaterally under time pressure and intentionally invalidate cached
package-interface bytes per compiler build.
- GC: BEP-066's runtime-constructed type declarations live in the moving
heap; the ty-heapptr line of work assumes GC-inert type heads. Alignment
needed before that lands (`visit_heads` hook is reserved for this).

**Semantic authority:** `TYPE_SYSTEM.md` + current hir_ty behavior. Do
not "fix" anything back toward TIR-era snapshots or ignored TIR-era test
expectations — several behavior deltas (conjunctive bounds, one-`Self`
existential dispatch, hole/E0147 handling) are intentional and
contract-pinned.

## Reviewer entry points

- Public language and stdlib surface: `baml_language/TYPE_SYSTEM.md`,
the BEP-066 specification, and
`baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_reflect/`.
- Shared type algebra: `baml_language/crates/baml_type/src/type_kind.rs`
and `normalize.rs`.
- Syntax and HIR preservation: AST/HIR type-argument reference
definitions and lowering in `baml_compiler2_hir` and
`baml_compiler2_hir_ty`.
- Inference and mounted metadata:
`baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs`,
`callable.rs`, `package_interface.rs`, `impls.rs`, and interface method
resolution.
- MIR and bytecode handoff: the runtime type-argument lowering/provider
code in `baml_compiler2_mir` and its bytecode emitter.
- Runtime identity, reflection, and builders: the
reflection/runtime-definition modules in `baml_language/crates/bex_vm`.
- Behavioral review: start with the seven scenario tests above, then the
audit-hardening tests, then the host SDK and pack coverage.
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