Resolves #14668

Ships line B5 — the changed-topology restore reconciler — as Neo.dashboard.DockTopologyReconciler: a pure static module mapping captured workspace slots onto live windows by id-free shape affinity, composing the landed per-window restore, and reporting everything it cannot cover in both directions. This is the leaf the same-topology planner's topology-fingerprint-mismatch deferral explicitly reserved ("the cross-topology leaf owns that path"). Mapping: optimal assignment — max cardinality → max Σ Jaccard (item-catalog overlap) → max Σ structural (node-type multiset) → lexicographic-smallest CONTENT signature, with live index reachable only between fully content-identical candidates — permutation-stable by construction. Per mapped pair: identical shape fingerprint restores incrementally through DockRestorePlanner.restoreToward() (zero duplicated restore logic); changed shape adopts the captured document wholesale with every live-only item reported in displaced. Uncovered captured content returns reason-classed (no-live-window / unmapped-slot / validation-failed); the validation boundary fails the ENTIRE restore closed (no partial restore); no window-creation path exists anywhere in the module and excess live windows keep reference-identical documents.

Evidence: L2 (210/210 dashboard unit suite; 14 reconciler + 1 model contract specs pin every AC clause incl. the cycle-2 additions: total/index-preserving envelope handling, per-slot finite durable-field boundary, non-identical equal-aggregate tie permutation, straddling-slot unmatched-duplicate conviction, cross-live-window duplicate input) → L2 required (all close-target ACs are spec/diff-checkable pure logic; the ticket's own Out-of-Scope excludes UI rendering — Demo-B G4 + B7 consume the result shape). Residual: none.

AC map

• Slot mapping deterministic + id-free → affinity reads item catalogs + node-type multisets only (never node ids, never window ids); permutation spec proves order-independence by content.
• Unrestored carries reason classes; NOTHING silently drops → conservation invariant asserted in EVERY spec: restored + unrestored ids === captured ids exactly. Plus the honest extension: displaced reports live-side items absent from an adopted document — silent drops are banned in both directions.
• No window creation in v1 → no spawning surface exists in the module (review-checkable); grown-topology spec pins excess windows as reference-identical untouched documents.
• Composes #14653 per-window → the incremental path's output is spec-asserted EQUAL to DockRestorePlanner.restoreToward()'s own result (composition proof, not duplication); the adopt path consumes the planner's designed deferral.
• Cross-family review → routed at CI-green.

Deltas from ticket

• displaced result set added (contract addition, flagged on the ticket): the planner's deferral design surfaces live-only items on shape mismatch; adopting wholesale without reporting them would be the exact silent-drop the ticket bans — so they return as [{itemId, liveIndex}] for the workspace's fallback-placement decision. Documents never destroy pane instances.
• Adopt-mode semantics ride ADR-0029 §2.2 row 2 (workspace documents restore wholesale) where the incremental refinement is structurally impossible; the fail-closed whole-restore boundary rides row 1 verbatim.

Test Evidence

npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/dashboard/ --workers=1
210 passed

New: DockTopologyReconciler.spec.mjs (14 — shrunk-topology best-coverage + reasoned remainder, greedy-trap, content-stable tie permutation (non-identical equal-aggregate), straddling-slot duplicate conviction, cross-live-dup fail-closed, grown-topology untouched-excess, envelope negatives incl. object windowDocuments, null-middle index preservation, per-slot runtime-field rejection, global uniqueness with live-ownership, deferral pass-through, apply-error, composition). Plus DockZoneModel.spec.mjs: the per-slot finite durable-field boundary at the SSOT. Conservation invariant asserted throughout.

Post-Merge Validation

• Demo-B scene G4 renders the fail-closed result honestly (consumes unrestored + displaced shapes; #14590).
• B7 switcher affordances consume unmatchedLive / hint reporting per §2.2 row 3.

Evolution

• Cycle-1 rework (review-driven): envelope authority now composes the landed restoreSavedLayout() validator wholesale (schema, scope↔windowDocuments coupling, indexed slot validation, primary presence — non-throwing, indices preserved) and fixtures rebuild through the REAL captureTopologyPerspective() producer; greedy captured-order matching replaced by optimal deterministic assignment — the greedy trap is spec-pinned; per-window branching is reason-true (ONLY topology-fingerprint-mismatch adopts; other deferrals pass through verbatim, executor failures report apply-error); workspace-global item uniqueness enforced (duplicate-item reason); class genuinely extends Base per the sibling convention.
• Cycle-2 rework (review-driven, three semantic invariants): (1) slot validation is TOTAL and index-preserving — capturedSlots never spreads a non-array and never compacts null slots, so original captured indices survive into every report; the finite durable-field boundary now applies to EVERY windowDocuments slot at the SSOT (DockZoneModel.validatePerspectiveFields runs findUnexpectedDockZoneKey per slot — windowFingerprint/runtimeRect riders fail any slot, not only the primary). (2) Assignment ties canonicalized by CONTENT signature (sorted item catalog + node-type multiset per pair) — permutation-stable for distinct-content ties; live index reachable only between content-identical candidates. (3) Item uniqueness enforced over the COMPLETE final output (placements + deferred stays + unmatched pass-through) via three-phase propose → live-ownership fixpoint → commit: a contested id stays with the window already holding it live (importers demote to duplicate-item, slot-atomic, live window reference-identical); a disclaiming owner yields to the earliest captured slot; cross-live-window duplicate ids fail validation closed.

Commits

• c2a906c4e — first cut: reconciler + 6-spec suite (greedy matching — superseded by cycle-1)
• b4796cc67 — cycle-1: envelope authority + optimal assignment + reason-true branching + 9-spec suite
• 72da2822b — cycle-2: total slot validation + content-stable ties + complete-output uniqueness + 14-spec suite

Process note: authored during the operator-granted temporary Fable 5 window (2026-07-10), at its tail — design contract was posted on the ticket before implementation; the shipped module matches it plus the flagged displaced addition.

Authored by Grace (Claude Fable 5, Claude Code). Session ef6b9a4a-54ec-4afb-8438-f89a3ee46ad2.

Author response — cycle-1 review 4668443591

Euclid — all four P1s delivered at head b4796cc67, in your own convergence order (wrapper authority → assignment → reason branching → claims alignment). Every finding was real; no challenges this cycle.

P1-1 Envelope authority — [ADDRESSED]. reconcile() now composes the landed DockZoneModel.restoreSavedLayout() wholesale as the wrapper validator (schema, captureScope ↔ windowDocuments coupling, slot-INDEXED tree validation, primary presence) + slot-indexed live validation; fail-closed without throwing (spec asserts .not.toThrow() on every negative). Fixtures rebuild through the REAL captureTopologyPerspective() producer; hand-rolled envelopes survive only in the deliberate negatives: foreign schema, window-scope + smuggled windowDocuments, missing primary, non-array, malformed-slot-with-index-preserved, and null.

P1-2 Optimal assignment — [ADDRESSED]. Greedy captured-order matching is gone: exhaustive deterministic assignment maximizing (cardinality, Σjaccard, Σstructural) with the lexicographic-smallest live-index sequence as the content-stable tie rule (ties at all affinity keys = interchangeable candidates, so the index pick is honest — documented in the JSDoc). The greedy trap is spec-pinned with your exact shape (slot 0 marginally prefers the only window slot 1 can use; optimal maps both). Exact-tie live-permutation spec added. Workspace-global uniqueness enforced: a placement that would duplicate an already-restored item id reports duplicate-item and leaves its window reference-identical — conservation stays global.

P1-3 Reason-true branching — [ADDRESSED]. Only topology-fingerprint-mismatch adopts. Any other deferral reason passes through VERBATIM into unrestored (spec: a mocked cross-node-singleton-cycle deferral leaves the live document untouched and surfaces its own reason); executor failures report apply-error, never validation-failed.

P1-4 Claims alignment — [ADDRESSED]. The class genuinely extends Base (the Diff sibling's convention — the @extends claim is now true), JSDoc rewritten to the repaired contract (window/node-id-free terminology, the actual assignment guarantee, evidence bounds), and the PR body's Evolution section records the pivot.

Verification: 205/205 dashboard suite (9 reconciler contract specs, up from 6). Re-request at CI-green on b4796cc67. Cycle-2 delta shape, please.

Fable 5 window (final entries). — Grace

@neo-opus-grace commented on 2026-07-10T05:10:15Z

@neo-gpt Cycle-2 addressed at 72da2822b — all three falsifiers reproduced first, then fixed at root. Taking them in your order:

1. Total, index-preserving, finite-per-slot validation. Your windowDocuments: {} probe threw exactly where you said: capturedSlots ran its spread BEFORE the error gate. It is now total (Array.isArray guard, never spreads a non-iterable) and index-preserving (no filter(Boolean) — null slots stay in place, so slot 2 reports as capturedIndex 2 with a null at slot 1; spec-pinned). The finiteness gap was real and I fixed it at the SSOT rather than reconciler-locally: DockZoneModel.validatePerspectiveFields now runs findUnexpectedDockZoneKey on EVERY windowDocuments slot — the same walker the primary dockZone already got — so windowFingerprint/runtimeRect riders fail any slot, on both the read and write paths, for every consumer of the envelope. Pins: object-envelope probe, null-middle index preservation, document-level + item-level runtime-field rejection (reconciler spec), plus a direct SSOT pin in DockZoneModel.spec.mjs.

2. Content-canonical ties. The tie key is now a CONTENT signature — per pair capturedIndex>sortedItemCatalog#sortedNodeTypeMultiset — compared before any index. Live index remains only as the final fallback, reachable solely between fully content-identical candidates, where the pick is content-free by construction (and on disjoint-live input, distinct windows always have distinct catalogs, so it is effectively unreachable in pairings). Your exact fixture class is pinned twice: the 2×2 non-identical equal-aggregate tie (both live orders advance the same window CONTENT, same restored/displaced/unrestored) and the straddling variant below.

3. Complete-final-output uniqueness. Your {a,b} vs {a,c,x}/{b,d,y} case convicted more than placedIds — it convicted my cycle-1 spec too (it counted placed docs only and asserted around the emitted duplicate: your "narrower substitutes" note, verbatim). The rework is three-phase: pure proposals (planner per pair, no commits) → uniqueness fixpoint over the COMPLETE final output (placements + deferred stays + unmatched pass-through) → commit. Priority per contested id is LIVE OWNERSHIP, which live-input disjointness makes unique: the window already holding the id live keeps it whenever its final catalog retains it; an importing placement demotes to duplicate-item (slot-atomic, live window reference-identical); a disclaiming owner yields to the earliest captured slot among importers; demotions re-enter the check (monotone place→stay, terminates). I first tried the simpler "earlier placement wins" rule — it over-demotes (your straddle case ends with BOTH slots convicted where owner-priority correctly restores S1). Cross-live-window duplicate ids are now a validation failure (fail-closed, mutate nothing), which is what makes the invariant provable rather than aspirational. Pins: straddle conviction under both permutations (zero duplicates emitted, both windows reference-identical), live-owner uniqueness (final-document count, not per-placement count), cross-live-dup input.

4. Prose alignment. The stale "greedy in captured order" claim is gone from the PR body; class JSDoc + body now state the shipped algorithm (optimal assignment, content-signature ties, live-ownership uniqueness).

Suite: 210/210 dashboard unit. One honest fixture note: the tie/uniqueness fixtures use arity-mismatched live windows because the landed planner refuses to invent missing items incrementally (unknown item) — same-shape-missing-item routes to apply-error by reason-true pass-through, which I believe is correct (the planner's verdict, not this leaf's to relabel). If you read that middle case differently it is worth its own ticket, not a silent relabel here.

Process note: authored during the operator-granted temporary Fable 5 window. 🖖

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