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@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
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-2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.zh.md: 6ebc7840e6097f30e565d06f4fb1ef10bf6ff1e5
+2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.md: fbe5b1587400a3f4181ec4d6a8062ec65d128719
+2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.zh.md: f57c33133824ee6bd51e093a897cef998a9ea82f
diff --git a/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.md b/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.md
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--- a/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.md
+++ b/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The reap poll also handles a host event loop BLOCKED past both timers. If a sync
 
 ### RLIMIT clamps against the inherited soft limit, not only the hard
 
-In [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/bootstrap.py) `_clamped` bounded a requested `(soft, hard)` rlimit pair by the inherited HARD limit alone. A deployment that inherited a soft limit below the requested one — say inherited `(100, 200)`, requested `(150, 160)` — got back `(150, 160)`, RAISING the effective soft from 100 to 150: for `RLIMIT_AS` that loosens the memory ceiling, for `RLIMIT_CPU` it defers SIGXCPU, both violating "strictest of configured and inherited". `_clamped` now clamps each side against its own inherited counterpart (`RLIM_INFINITY` imposing no ceiling), then pins soft under hard so `setrlimit` never sees an inverted pair. The settlement-time CPU recheck (`die_if_cpu_exhausted`) follows the same rule: it compares spent CPU against the EFFECTIVE clamped `cpu_soft`, not the configured `cpuSeconds`, so a program that traps SIGXCPU and burns past a stricter inherited soft before returning is reported as a timeout rather than a false success. The SIGXCPU diagnostic no longer names the configured `cpuSeconds` as the effective budget — under a stricter inherited soft that number is wrong — and instead reports that CPU time was exhausted at "at most the configured N seconds", which holds whichever limit fired.
+In [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/bootstrap.py) `_clamped` bounded a requested `(soft, hard)` rlimit pair by the inherited HARD limit alone. A deployment that inherited a soft limit below the requested one — say inherited `(100, 200)`, requested `(150, 160)` — got back `(150, 160)`, RAISING the effective soft from 100 to 150: for `RLIMIT_AS` that loosens the memory ceiling, for `RLIMIT_CPU` it defers SIGXCPU, both violating "strictest of configured and inherited". `_clamped` now clamps each side against its own inherited counterpart (`RLIM_INFINITY` imposing no ceiling), then pins soft under hard so `setrlimit` never sees an inverted pair. The settlement-time CPU recheck (`die_if_cpu_exhausted`) follows the same rule: it compares spent CPU against the EFFECTIVE clamped `cpu_soft`, not the configured `cpuSeconds`, so a program that traps SIGXCPU and burns past a stricter inherited soft before returning is reported as a timeout rather than a false success. The recheck restores SIG_DFL BEFORE unblocking a program-masked SIGXCPU (`pthread_sigmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, ...)`, captured at import): a program that installed a custom handler AND masked the signal would otherwise have that pending handler run at the unblock — in model code, able to re-mask or raise — so the disposition must already be SIG_DFL when the signal is released; with SIG_DFL first the pending signal kills inside the kernel with no bytecode window, and the `kill` re-raise is the fallback for the never-pending case. The SIGXCPU diagnostic no longer names the configured `cpuSeconds` as the effective budget — under a stricter inherited soft that number is wrong — and instead reports that CPU time was exhausted at "at most the configured N seconds", which holds whichever limit fired.
 
 ### Concurrent binding replies are paced against fd 3
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ One residual write-path copy is fixed alongside, independent of the config gate:
 
 ### The completion value and error are pre-encoded at their validation point
 
-In [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/bootstrap.py), `_done_with_value` now returns the whole terminal frame as a PRE-ENCODED JSON string on the success path: the admitted value is serialized once here, at the validation point inside `_run`'s `try`, as `'{"type": "done", "value": ' + _encode_json_plain(value) + "}"`. The program can keep mutating a returned list/dict from a daemon thread or signal handler after it returns, so a second traversal held at a later point would be a TOCTOU — a concurrent mutation into a non-JSON type would let that later encode throw outside the settlement handler and downgrade a settled run host-side to `worker-exit`. Serializing once, inside the `try` that wraps this call, closes the window: if a concurrent mutation makes the encode throw, the exception handler classifies it as an `exception`, and once the string is produced the frame is written verbatim with no further touching of the live value. `_run` binds the `_done_with_value` ENTRY NAME into a local (`done_with_value_bound`) before the program runs, and `_done_with_value` itself binds `_check_done_value` and `_encode_json_plain` as DEF-TIME default arguments — so a `__main__` rebind of the entry name or those two names after model execution cannot rewrite a legitimate success into an `exception`. A rebind of a transitive dep the encoder reaches (e.g. `_dump_scalar`/`_dump_string`/`json`/`io` — a non-exhaustive set) can still, which is registered as an accepted residual in the package README.
+In [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/bootstrap.py), `_done_with_value` now returns the whole terminal frame as a PRE-ENCODED JSON string on the success path: the admitted value is serialized once here, at the validation point inside `_run`'s `try`, as `'{"type": "done", "value": ' + _encode_json_plain(value) + "}"`. The program can keep mutating a returned list/dict from a daemon thread or signal handler after it returns, so a second traversal held at a later point would be a TOCTOU — a concurrent mutation into a non-JSON type would let that later encode throw outside the settlement handler and downgrade a settled run host-side to `worker-exit`. Serializing once, inside the `try` that wraps this call, closes the window: if a concurrent mutation makes the encode throw, the exception handler classifies it as an `exception`, and once the string is produced the frame is written verbatim with no further touching of the live value. `_run` binds the `_done_with_value` ENTRY NAME into a local (`done_with_value_bound`) before the program runs, and `_done_with_value` itself binds `_check_done_value` and `_encode_json_plain` as DEF-TIME default arguments — so a `__main__` rebind of the entry name or those two names after model execution cannot rewrite a legitimate success into an `exception`. The log ledgers (host `logBudget` and child `_remaining`) start ONE byte below the budget, reserving the serialized outer-array envelope (two brackets and n-1 commas over n entries' separators), so a result that exactly exhausts the ledger still serializes within the configured cap; the truncation marker remains envelope, not payload. The constructor rejects a `maxLogBytes` below 62 (the smallest budget that can serialize its own marker plus the envelope); `maxValueBytes` keeps only the positive-integer requirement, since a completion can be a single byte and the done-frame envelope is seam protocol cost. A rebind of a transitive dep the encoder reaches (e.g. `_dump_scalar`/`_dump_string`/`json`/`io` — a non-exhaustive set) can still, which is registered as an accepted residual in the package README.
 
 `send_done` (a local function inside `_run`) writes the pre-encoded string through a BOUND `channel.write_encoded`, and encodes a dict error frame through a bound `_encode_json_plain` before writing it — it never calls `channel.send_sync`, whose body re-resolves `self.write_encoded` and the module-level `_encode_json_plain` at call time. `_encode_json_plain` and `channel.write_encoded` are bound into locals before the program runs, for the same reason `flush_out`/`flush_err`/`safe_model_traceback` are: the program runs as `__main__`, so `import __main__; __main__.ProtocolChannel.send_sync = boom` or `__main__._encode_json_plain = boom` would otherwise re-resolve the send/encode to a rebranded callable at call time and, when that replacement raises, skip the `done` frame and downgrade a settled verdict to a host-side `worker-exit`.
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ In [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/
 
 - `tests/boot-write-failure.spec.ts` mocks `spawn` so the fd-3 pipe throws on the boot write — the one path a real subprocess cannot be coerced into — and asserts `run()` resolves a `worker-exit` rather than rejecting. A sibling case makes the mocked `spawn` throw SYNCHRONOUSLY and asserts `run()` still resolves a `worker-exit` and removes its staging directory, keyed off the exact bootstrap path the mocked `spawn` received in its argv so a sibling worker's concurrent staging cannot flake it. Both are isolated in this spec so the real-subprocess suite is untouched.
 - `tests/residual-detach.spec.ts` unit-tests `detachResidual`: the carried copy equals the residual, owns a backing store sized to its own length (fixture kept above Node's Buffer pool threshold), and does not share the source frame's `ArrayBuffer`.
-- `tests/runtime.spec.ts` — the output-cap case asserts the `ceiling - envelope` bound (268435392) and its message. A daemon-thread case drives four threads emitting unterminated writes through settlement's flush. A native-write case writes 200 KiB with no newline via `os.write` under a raised `maxLogBytes` and asserts it reads back as EXACTLY one log entry (proving stray output is aggregated by line, not split at pipe-chunk boundaries); a companion writes `b"one\ntwo\nthree"` and asserts three entries (proving real newlines still delimit). A newline-free-flood case writes 2 MiB under a 4 KiB `maxLogBytes` and asserts the capture ends at the truncation marker and stays under budget (proving the residual is bounded by the ledger, not buffered whole); a NUL-flood companion writes 4000 newline-free NULs under the same budget and asserts truncation (proving the residual is charged by SERIALIZED cost, ~6× raw, measured without allocating the escaped copy); an illegal-UTF-8 case paces single-byte `\xff` writes under a 3072-byte budget with `Buffer.concat` wrapped to measure the peak merged buffer, asserting it stays under 2048 (charged at the U+FFFD width 3 the residual flushes near 1024 raw bytes; a raw-byte undercount would let it reach ~3072, so the bound discriminates); a CESU-8/overlong case paces the structurally-well-formed but illegal `ED A0 80` one byte at a time and asserts the same peak bound (charged at the true 9 per sequence it flushes early; charging the structural width 3 triples the peak, so reverting the per-lead range check turns it red); a broken-multibyte case writes a 3-byte lead then a fresh ASCII byte in separate chunks and asserts both a captured `A` and a U+FFFD (exercising `accrueStrayCost`'s cross-chunk broken-sequence branch); a post-truncation case writes a 108-byte payload (under the smallest PIPE_BUF, so one atomic write) whose first line exhausts a 64-byte budget and asserts the second line is dropped (exercising the post-truncation admit no-op in one `data` callback, no v8-ignore); a short-escape case writes a line mixing a tab, quote, backslash, a `\uXXXX` control, a multibyte character, and ASCII, asserting it round-trips verbatim (exercising every branch of `jsonStringCostUpTo`); a reassembly case writes a payload spanning every valid multibyte lead class (E0-range, plain 3-byte, F0, and F4) past the pipe buffer and asserts it round-trips with no U+FFFD (exercising `accrueStrayCost`'s per-lead ranges and cross-chunk reassembly); a lone-surrogate case forges an fd-3 `log` frame flooding 1000 `\ud800` escapes under a 4 KiB budget and asserts truncation (the count sits in the window where charging 3 bytes would admit and 6 bytes truncates, proving the surrogate is charged its full escaped width); a stray-sealing case paces 60000 single-byte newline-free `os.write(1, …)` calls under a raised budget with `Buffer.concat` wrapped to measure copy volume, asserting the trickle coalesces to one entry and the cumulative copy stays under a measured 256 KiB threshold (the sealed shape copies ~120 KB, the re-merge shape ~538 KB, so reverting the seal to a re-merge turns the assertion red — proving the fragment list seals into blocks past `MAX_PENDING_CHUNKS`). A closeDeadline-flush case has the leader write a newline-free diagnostic then spawn a `setsid` orphan holding the pipes open, and asserts the diagnostic survives in `logs` (proving the residual is flushed before the deadline destroys the streams). The same-group reap case spawns a SIGTERM-ignoring same-group descendant that releases the pipes and bumps a heartbeat file; the test asserts the heartbeat STOPS after the grace-window SIGKILL — an assertion robust whether the killed descendant is reaped or lingers as a zombie, so it holds where PID 1 does not wait() orphans. A dispose-after-resolve case asserts `dispose()` of a completed run with a same-group survivor returns only after the survivor stops executing (proving the run stays in `live` until its group is reaped), with an `expect(afterDispose).toBeGreaterThan(0)` guard so the frozen-heartbeat assertion cannot pass vacuously when the file was never written. A deadline case busy-blocks the event loop past both timers and asserts the survivor's heartbeat freezes (proving the poll's deadline arm sends SIGKILL itself rather than cancelling the unfired escalation). The cross-loop case runs a binding from a worker thread's own `asyncio.run` loop while the main coroutine yields with `await asyncio.sleep`, asserting the reply round-trips instead of timing out; a companion case abandons a thread's call so its loop closes, then answers it before a later binding — asserting the pump survives the closed-loop `call_soon_threadsafe` (host-gated ordering makes it deterministic, fail-before hangs the later binding to the wall clock). The inherited-soft-limit case runs the interpreter through a `ulimit -S -t` wrapper that sets a CPU soft limit below `cpuSeconds` and asserts the applied `RLIMIT_CPU` soft is the inherited value, not the configured one (CPU rather than address space, since macOS ignores `ulimit -v`); a companion inherits a 1 s CPU soft, has the program trap SIGXCPU and busy-loop past it, and asserts the settlement recheck reports a timeout — proving the recheck uses the effective soft, not the configured `cpuSeconds`. A control-heavy-diagnostic case raises a NUL-flood exception under a small `maxValueBytes` and asserts the serialized frame fits (proving the diagnostic is metered by serialized cost). A tail-copy case (`maxLogBytes: 256`, `addressSpaceMb: 384`) has the program build a tail in a variable and write `"\n" + tail` where `tail` is 150 MiB — construction peaks at ~2× (~300 MiB, within the address space, so the model's own allocation succeeds and any OOM belongs to the defect path), and the pre-fix whole-tail re-buffer added a third ~150 MiB copy past 384 MiB; the sliced prefix lets the run truncate and complete (Linux-only RLIMIT_AS repro, macOS happy path — the fixture's own construction must fit the address space, a general rule for these RLIMIT_AS cases). An output-budget/address-space case asserts a `maxLogBytes` of 50 MB AND a `maxValueBytes` of 50 MB each reject at load against a 256 MiB `addressSpaceMb` (past the room left after the interpreter baseline when multiplied by the worst-case 12) while the default caps against 512 MiB load, gating both budgets symmetrically; a discriminating case asserts a 48 MiB `maxLogBytes` against a 512 MiB `addressSpaceMb` rejects — 48×8 = 384 MiB fits the 448 MiB budgetable (the old 8× multiple wrongly admitted it) but 48×12 = 576 MiB does not. The ~12× peak the multiple covers is the NEWLINE path's single near-budget write — the caller's own string, the line slice, and the encode copy live at once; the settlement flush is no longer the binding case, because `flush_line` drops the pending chunks before its push and so holds two copies rather than three. An inherited-RLIMIT_AS case runs the interpreter through a `ulimit -v 131072` wrapper with a 32 MiB `maxLogBytes` the configured 512 MiB `addressSpaceMb` admits, and asserts the boot re-check rejects it as an `exception` whose message names the inherited RLIMIT_AS (the 128 MiB inherited limit leaves too little after the baseline; Linux-only, macOS ignores `ulimit -v` and the run proceeds). A non-integer-budget case asserts a fractional `maxLogBytes`/`maxValueBytes` rejects at load. A combined-peak case (`maxLogBytes: 32 MiB`, `maxValueBytes: 32 MiB`, `addressSpaceMb: 512` — each budget admitted alone at 12×) writes ~33M newline-free astral characters (buffered, unflushed) then returns ~33M astral characters, and asserts the run settles as `output-limit` (the value is itself over its 32 MiB budget); pre-fix the unflushed log pending plus the value's build-and-encode peak added past the 512 MiB address space and OOM'd, so flushing the logs before framing the value is what lets the value check complete (Linux-only RLIMIT_AS repro; on macOS the over-budget value reports output-limit under both orders). A wide-value case (`maxValueBytes: 20 MiB`, `addressSpaceMb: 384`) returns `[0] * 6_000_000` — ~12 MB of JSON, under the 20 MiB budget, so it must round-trip; pre-fix the O(width) walk allocated ~400 MB of per-element traversal tuples and encoder stack entries (~28× the serialized size, past the 12× the gate reserves) and OOM'd on a value the meter admitted, while the O(depth) cursor keeps the only width-proportional allocation the output string itself (Linux-only RLIMIT_AS repro; the fixture stays within the address space so it is honest on macOS too). A wide-BINDING-ARGUMENT case (`addressSpaceMb: 384`) calls a binding with `[0] * 6_000_000` and asserts the length echoes back: `_lossless_json_violation` runs on model-built arguments that no child-side budget bounds first, and its per-member tuples measured 459.1 MiB against 0.0 MiB for the cursor. A backtracking case returns a 4 MiB string from a binding and asserts it round-trips: the old scalar regex retained engine state proportional to the string's width (146 MiB at 1 MiB, 557.8 MiB at 4 MiB, past the default 512 MiB), which raised MemoryError inside `_pump_replies` and stranded the call to the wall clock. A control-heavy metering case returns 8M NULs under a 16 MiB `maxValueBytes` and asserts `output-limit`, not `exception`: charging by counting instead of materializing the escaped form measured 19.1 MiB against 228.9 MiB for an identical byte count. An addressSpaceMb-baseline case asserts 64 MiB and 32 MiB reject at load with a message naming `addressSpaceMb`, rather than the budget loop's negative admissible limit. A process-identity case asserts the leader's start time reads stably on Linux and reports undefined on Darwin, the guard that keeps a recycled pgid from receiving this run's SIGTERM. A paced-replies case resolves eight 4 MiB values in one `asyncio.gather` round and asserts the frames round-trip; the peak the fix removes (32.0 MiB buffered → 0.0 MiB) lives in the host's fd-3 writable buffer, invisible through the seam, so this case pins the round-trip and the no-regression match but is measured for its peak only out-of-tree. A late-drop case settles the run on `maxWallMs` and resolves the pending binding afterwards, asserting a `timeout` result, an undefined value, and that the late path actually ran — the three assertions all hold pre-fix because `sendReply` already dropped after-settlement values, just later, so the case pins the ordering, not a seam-observable behavior. A binding-all-names case (`rebinds every name the failure path uses`) asserts a real `ValueError` survives send-done binding — a tested fix pinned by a case that rebinds `__main__.ProtocolChannel.send_sync`, `__main__.ProtocolChannel.write_encoded`, and `__main__._encode_json_plain` — the three names the shipped `send_done` would resolve late if it looked them up at call time — and pins the `done` frame against that call-time look-up skipping it; the done-value TOCTOU pre-encoding, the stray-UTF-8 budget-flush retention, and the late-rejection settled guard are counted among the ten no-fail-before fixes (reasons in the Problem section), not pinned by a fail-before test. A fragment-cap drip case writes 200 000 single-character newline-free `sys.stdout.write` calls and asserts the run completes with a truncation marker rather than a MemoryError (no-fail-before: the 25 M-scale OOM is not deterministically constructible in CI). A dual-limit CPU case runs the interpreter through a `ulimit -t 2` wrapper and busy-loops past it, asserting a `timeout` (the soft limit is lowered to 1 so SIGXCPU fires, not a `worker-exit`). A transitive-name rebind case rebinds `__main__._dump_scalar`, `__main__.os`, `__main__._os_write`, `__main__._memoryview`, and `__main__._FALLBACK_DONE_FRAME` and asserts a done frame still lands as an `exception`, not a `worker-exit` (the real message is replaced by the fixed fallback literal). A BaseException-rebind case rebinds `__main__.BaseException` to `RuntimeError` and raises `ValueError`, asserting the run still reports an `exception`, not a `worker-exit` (the catch uses a pre-program local exception class). A RuntimeError-rebind closed-loop case rebinds `__main__.RuntimeError` to `ValueError` as the first program statement and drives the closed-loop worker pattern, asserting the pump survives the dead-loop reply and delivers the later binding (the pump's `_RuntimeError` is a def-time default argument, so it captures the original before the rebind). A `_done_with_value`-rebind case rebinds `__main__._done_with_value` to a raising function and returns a legitimate value, asserting the run still reports the success (the entry name is a `_run` local bound before the program runs).
+- `tests/runtime.spec.ts` — the output-cap case asserts the `ceiling - envelope` bound (268435392) and its message. A daemon-thread case drives four threads emitting unterminated writes through settlement's flush. A native-write case writes 200 KiB with no newline via `os.write` under a raised `maxLogBytes` and asserts it reads back as EXACTLY one log entry (proving stray output is aggregated by line, not split at pipe-chunk boundaries); a companion writes `b"one\ntwo\nthree"` and asserts three entries (proving real newlines still delimit). A newline-free-flood case writes 2 MiB under a 4 KiB `maxLogBytes` and asserts the capture ends at the truncation marker and stays under budget (proving the residual is bounded by the ledger, not buffered whole); a NUL-flood companion writes 4000 newline-free NULs under the same budget and asserts truncation (proving the residual is charged by SERIALIZED cost, ~6× raw, measured without allocating the escaped copy); an illegal-UTF-8 case paces single-byte `\xff` writes under a 3072-byte budget with `Buffer.concat` wrapped to measure the peak merged buffer, asserting it stays under 2048 (charged at the U+FFFD width 3 the residual flushes near 1024 raw bytes; a raw-byte undercount would let it reach ~3072, so the bound discriminates); a CESU-8/overlong case paces the structurally-well-formed but illegal `ED A0 80` one byte at a time and asserts the same peak bound (charged at the true 9 per sequence it flushes early; charging the structural width 3 triples the peak, so reverting the per-lead range check turns it red); a broken-multibyte case writes a 3-byte lead then a fresh ASCII byte in separate chunks and asserts both a captured `A` and a U+FFFD (exercising `accrueStrayCost`'s cross-chunk broken-sequence branch); a post-truncation case writes a 108-byte payload (under the smallest PIPE_BUF, so one atomic write) whose first line exhausts a 64-byte budget and asserts the second line is dropped (exercising the post-truncation admit no-op in one `data` callback, no v8-ignore); a short-escape case writes a line mixing a tab, quote, backslash, a `\uXXXX` control, a multibyte character, and ASCII, asserting it round-trips verbatim (exercising every branch of `jsonStringCostUpTo`); a reassembly case writes a payload spanning every valid multibyte lead class (E0-range, plain 3-byte, F0, and F4) past the pipe buffer and asserts it round-trips with no U+FFFD (exercising `accrueStrayCost`'s per-lead ranges and cross-chunk reassembly); a lone-surrogate case forges an fd-3 `log` frame flooding 1000 `\ud800` escapes under a 4 KiB budget and asserts truncation (the count sits in the window where charging 3 bytes would admit and 6 bytes truncates, proving the surrogate is charged its full escaped width); a stray-sealing case paces 60000 single-byte newline-free `os.write(1, …)` calls under a raised budget with `Buffer.concat` wrapped to measure copy volume, asserting the trickle coalesces to one entry and the cumulative copy stays under a measured 256 KiB threshold (the sealed shape copies ~120 KB, the re-merge shape ~538 KB, so reverting the seal to a re-merge turns the assertion red — proving the fragment list seals into blocks past `MAX_PENDING_CHUNKS`). A closeDeadline-flush case has the leader write a newline-free diagnostic then spawn a `setsid` orphan holding the pipes open, and asserts the diagnostic survives in `logs` (proving the residual is flushed before the deadline destroys the streams). The same-group reap case spawns a SIGTERM-ignoring same-group descendant that releases the pipes and bumps a heartbeat file; the test asserts the heartbeat STOPS after the grace-window SIGKILL — an assertion robust whether the killed descendant is reaped or lingers as a zombie, so it holds where PID 1 does not wait() orphans. A dispose-after-resolve case asserts `dispose()` of a completed run with a same-group survivor returns only after the survivor stops executing (proving the run stays in `live` until its group is reaped), with an `expect(afterDispose).toBeGreaterThan(0)` guard so the frozen-heartbeat assertion cannot pass vacuously when the file was never written. A deadline case busy-blocks the event loop past both timers and asserts the survivor's heartbeat freezes (proving the poll's deadline arm sends SIGKILL itself rather than cancelling the unfired escalation). The cross-loop case runs a binding from a worker thread's own `asyncio.run` loop while the main coroutine yields with `await asyncio.sleep`, asserting the reply round-trips instead of timing out; a companion case abandons a thread's call so its loop closes, then answers it before a later binding — asserting the pump survives the closed-loop `call_soon_threadsafe` (host-gated ordering makes it deterministic, fail-before hangs the later binding to the wall clock). The inherited-soft-limit case runs the interpreter through a `ulimit -S -t` wrapper that sets a CPU soft limit below `cpuSeconds` and asserts the applied `RLIMIT_CPU` soft is the inherited value, not the configured one (CPU rather than address space, since macOS ignores `ulimit -v`); a companion inherits a 1 s CPU soft, has the program trap SIGXCPU and busy-loop past it, and asserts the settlement recheck reports a timeout — proving the recheck uses the effective soft, not the configured `cpuSeconds`. A control-heavy-diagnostic case raises a NUL-flood exception under a small `maxValueBytes` and asserts the serialized frame fits (proving the diagnostic is metered by serialized cost). A tail-copy case (`maxLogBytes: 256`, `addressSpaceMb: 384`) has the program build a tail in a variable and write `"\n" + tail` where `tail` is 150 MiB — construction peaks at ~2× (~300 MiB, within the address space, so the model's own allocation succeeds and any OOM belongs to the defect path), and the pre-fix whole-tail re-buffer added a third ~150 MiB copy past 384 MiB; the sliced prefix lets the run truncate and complete (Linux-only RLIMIT_AS repro, macOS happy path — the fixture's own construction must fit the address space, a general rule for these RLIMIT_AS cases). An output-budget/address-space case asserts a `maxLogBytes` of 50 MB AND a `maxValueBytes` of 50 MB each reject at load against a 256 MiB `addressSpaceMb` (past the room left after the interpreter baseline when multiplied by the worst-case 12) while the default caps against 512 MiB load, gating both budgets symmetrically; a discriminating case asserts a 48 MiB `maxLogBytes` against a 512 MiB `addressSpaceMb` rejects — 48×8 = 384 MiB fits the 448 MiB budgetable (the old 8× multiple wrongly admitted it) but 48×12 = 576 MiB does not. The ~12× peak the multiple covers is the NEWLINE path's single near-budget write — the caller's own string, the line slice, and the encode copy live at once; the settlement flush is no longer the binding case, because `flush_line` drops the pending chunks before its push and so holds two copies rather than three. An inherited-RLIMIT_AS case runs the interpreter through a `ulimit -v 131072` wrapper with a 32 MiB `maxLogBytes` the configured 512 MiB `addressSpaceMb` admits, and asserts the boot re-check rejects it as an `exception` whose message names the inherited RLIMIT_AS (the 128 MiB inherited limit leaves too little after the baseline; Linux-only, macOS ignores `ulimit -v` and the run proceeds). A non-integer-budget case asserts a fractional `maxLogBytes`/`maxValueBytes` rejects at load. A combined-peak case (`maxLogBytes: 32 MiB`, `maxValueBytes: 32 MiB`, `addressSpaceMb: 512` — each budget admitted alone at 12×) writes ~33M newline-free astral characters (buffered, unflushed) then returns ~33M astral characters, and asserts the run settles as `output-limit` (the value is itself over its 32 MiB budget); pre-fix the unflushed log pending plus the value's build-and-encode peak added past the 512 MiB address space and OOM'd, so flushing the logs before framing the value is what lets the value check complete (Linux-only RLIMIT_AS repro; on macOS the over-budget value reports output-limit under both orders). A wide-value case (`maxValueBytes: 20 MiB`, `addressSpaceMb: 384`) returns `[0] * 6_000_000` — ~12 MB of JSON, under the 20 MiB budget, so it must round-trip; pre-fix the O(width) walk allocated ~400 MB of per-element traversal tuples and encoder stack entries (~28× the serialized size, past the 12× the gate reserves) and OOM'd on a value the meter admitted, while the O(depth) cursor keeps the only width-proportional allocation the output string itself (Linux-only RLIMIT_AS repro; the fixture stays within the address space so it is honest on macOS too). A wide-BINDING-ARGUMENT case (`addressSpaceMb: 384`) calls a binding with `[0] * 6_000_000` and asserts the length echoes back: `_lossless_json_violation` runs on model-built arguments that no child-side budget bounds first, and its per-member tuples measured 459.1 MiB against 0.0 MiB for the cursor. A backtracking case returns a 4 MiB string from a binding and asserts it round-trips: the old scalar regex retained engine state proportional to the string's width (146 MiB at 1 MiB, 557.8 MiB at 4 MiB, past the default 512 MiB), which raised MemoryError inside `_pump_replies` and stranded the call to the wall clock. A control-heavy metering case returns 8M NULs under a 16 MiB `maxValueBytes` and asserts `output-limit`, not `exception`: charging by counting instead of materializing the escaped form measured 19.1 MiB against 228.9 MiB for an identical byte count. An addressSpaceMb-baseline case asserts 64 MiB and 32 MiB reject at load with a message naming `addressSpaceMb`, rather than the budget loop's negative admissible limit. A process-identity case asserts the leader's start time reads stably on Linux and reports undefined on Darwin, the guard that keeps a recycled pgid from receiving this run's SIGTERM. A paced-replies case resolves eight 4 MiB values in one `asyncio.gather` round and asserts the frames round-trip; the peak the fix removes (32.0 MiB buffered → 0.0 MiB) lives in the host's fd-3 writable buffer, invisible through the seam, so this case pins the round-trip and the no-regression match but is measured for its peak only out-of-tree. A late-drop case settles the run on `maxWallMs` and resolves the pending binding afterwards, asserting a `timeout` result, an undefined value, and that the late path actually ran — the three assertions all hold pre-fix because `sendReply` already dropped after-settlement values, just later, so the case pins the ordering, not a seam-observable behavior. A binding-all-names case (`rebinds every name the failure path uses`) asserts a real `ValueError` survives send-done binding — a tested fix pinned by a case that rebinds `__main__.ProtocolChannel.send_sync`, `__main__.ProtocolChannel.write_encoded`, and `__main__._encode_json_plain` — the three names the shipped `send_done` would resolve late if it looked them up at call time — and pins the `done` frame against that call-time look-up skipping it; the done-value TOCTOU pre-encoding, the stray-UTF-8 budget-flush retention, and the late-rejection settled guard are counted among the ten no-fail-before fixes (reasons in the Problem section), not pinned by a fail-before test. A fragment-cap drip case writes 200 000 single-character newline-free `sys.stdout.write` calls and asserts the run completes with a truncation marker rather than a MemoryError (no-fail-before: the 25 M-scale OOM is not deterministically constructible in CI). A dual-limit CPU case runs the interpreter through a `ulimit -t 2` wrapper and busy-loops past it, asserting a `timeout` (the soft limit is lowered to 1 so SIGXCPU fires, not a `worker-exit`). A transitive-name rebind case rebinds `__main__._dump_scalar`, `__main__.os`, `__main__._os_write`, `__main__._memoryview`, and `__main__._FALLBACK_DONE_FRAME` and asserts a done frame still lands as an `exception`, not a `worker-exit` (the real message is replaced by the fixed fallback literal). A BaseException-rebind case rebinds `__main__.BaseException` to `RuntimeError` and raises `ValueError`, asserting the run still reports an `exception`, not a `worker-exit` (the catch uses a pre-program local exception class). A RuntimeError-rebind closed-loop case rebinds `__main__.RuntimeError` to `ValueError` as the first program statement and drives the closed-loop worker pattern, asserting the pump survives the dead-loop reply and delivers the later binding (the pump's `_RuntimeError` is a def-time default argument, so it captures the original before the rebind). A `_done_with_value`-rebind case rebinds `__main__._done_with_value` to a raising function and returns a legitimate value, asserting the run still reports the success (the entry name is a `_run` local bound before the program runs). An exact-limit case (`maxLogBytes: 64`) writes a 60-character line (62-byte JSON + 1 separator = 63 = the reserved ledger) and a 61-character line (64 > 63), asserting the first is admitted and the second truncates to the marker — the outer-array envelope reservation, pinned at the exact boundary; a companion case asserts `maxLogBytes: 61` rejects at construction. A syntax-label case asserts a parse-time syntax error carries `File "<model>"` (ast.parse passes the same source label as compile and the runtime traceback filter). A SIGXCPU-mask case masks SIGXCPU (`pthread_sigmask`), burns past the soft limit, and returns, asserting a `timeout` (the recheck unblocks before re-raising); a trap+mask companion installs a custom handler that re-masks and asserts the same `timeout` (SIG_DFL is restored before the unblock, so the pending signal kills inside the kernel).
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
diff --git a/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.zh.md b/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.zh.md
index 6ebc7840e6..f57c331338 100644
--- a/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.zh.md
+++ b/.agents/notes/implemented/bug-fix/2026-07-31-code-runtime-python-settlement-fixes.zh.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 ### RLIMIT clamps against the inherited soft limit, not only the hard
 
-在 [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/bootstrap.py) 中，`_clamped` 仅用继承而来的 HARD 限制来约束一个请求的 `(soft, hard)` rlimit 对。一个继承了低于请求值的软限制的部署——比如继承 `(100, 200)`、请求 `(150, 160)`——会拿回 `(150, 160)`，把有效软限制从 100 抬高到 150：对 `RLIMIT_AS` 而言这放松了内存上限，对 `RLIMIT_CPU` 而言它推迟了 SIGXCPU，两者都违反了"取配置值与继承值中最严格者"。现在 `_clamped` 用每一侧各自继承而来的对应值来约束该侧（`RLIM_INFINITY` 不施加任何上限），随后把 soft 钉在 hard 之下，因此 `setrlimit` 绝不会看到一个倒置的对。结算时的 CPU 复查（`die_if_cpu_exhausted`）遵循同一规则：它把已消耗的 CPU 与实际生效的、被夹紧的 `cpu_soft` 比较，而不是与配置的 `cpuSeconds` 比较，因此一个捕获 SIGXCPU、在返回前消耗超过更严格的继承软限制的程序会被报告为 timeout，而非误判为成功。SIGXCPU 诊断不再把配置的 `cpuSeconds` 说成实际生效的预算——在一个更严格的继承软限制之下那个数字是错的——而是报告 CPU 时间是在"至多配置的 N 秒"处被耗尽，这一表述无论哪个限制先触发都成立。
+在 [`py/bootstrap.py`](../../../../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-python/py/bootstrap.py) 中，`_clamped` 仅用继承而来的 HARD 限制来约束一个请求的 `(soft, hard)` rlimit 对。一个继承了低于请求值的软限制的部署——比如继承 `(100, 200)`、请求 `(150, 160)`——会拿回 `(150, 160)`，把有效软限制从 100 抬高到 150：对 `RLIMIT_AS` 而言这放松了内存上限，对 `RLIMIT_CPU` 而言它推迟了 SIGXCPU，两者都违反了"取配置值与继承值中最严格者"。现在 `_clamped` 用每一侧各自继承而来的对应值来约束该侧（`RLIM_INFINITY` 不施加任何上限），随后把 soft 钉在 hard 之下，因此 `setrlimit` 绝不会看到一个倒置的对。结算时的 CPU 复查（`die_if_cpu_exhausted`）遵循同一规则：它把已消耗的 CPU 与实际生效的、被夹紧的 `cpu_soft` 比较，而不是与配置的 `cpuSeconds` 比较，因此一个捕获 SIGXCPU、在返回前消耗超过更严格的继承软限制的程序会被报告为 timeout，而非误判为成功。 复查会在解除程序屏蔽的 SIGXCPU（`pthread_sigmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, ...)`，import 期捕获）之前先恢复 SIG_DFL：一个既安装自定义 handler 又屏蔽信号的程序，否则会在 unblock 的瞬间让那个挂起的 handler 以模型代码身份运行（可重新屏蔽或抛出），所以信号被释放时处置必须已是 SIG_DFL；SIG_DFL 在前时，挂起的信号在内核内直接致死、无字节码窗口，而 `kill` 重投递是给从未挂起情形的兜底。SIGXCPU 诊断不再把配置的 `cpuSeconds` 说成实际生效的预算——在一个更严格的继承软限制之下那个数字是错的——而是报告 CPU 时间是在"至多配置的 N 秒"处被耗尽，这一表述无论哪个限制先触发都成立。
 
 ### 并发 binding 回复对 fd 3 做节流
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 - `tests/boot-write-failure.spec.ts` 对 `spawn` 做 mock，使 fd-3 管道在引导写入时抛出异常（这是真实子进程无法被迫进入的唯一路径），并断言 `run()` resolve 出一个 `worker-exit` 而非 reject。一个同级用例让被 mock 的 `spawn` 同步抛出，并断言 `run()` 仍然 resolve 出一个 `worker-exit`，且会移除它的暂存目录——以被 mock 的 `spawn` 在其 argv 中收到的确切引导路径为准，因此一个同级 worker 的并发暂存不会让它变得不稳定。两者都被隔离在这个 spec 中，因此真实子进程测试套件不受影响。
 - `tests/residual-detach.spec.ts` 对 `detachResidual` 做单元测试：向前传递的副本与残余数据相等、拥有一个大小与其自身长度一致的底层存储（fixture 保持在 Node 的 Buffer 池阈值之上），并且不与源帧的 `ArrayBuffer` 共享。
-- `tests/runtime.spec.ts`：output-cap 用例断言 `ceiling - envelope` 上界（268435392）及其消息。一个 daemon 线程用例驱动四个线程穿过结算的 flush 发出未结束的写入。一个 native-write 用例在抬高后的 `maxLogBytes` 之下，通过 `os.write` 写入 200 KiB 且不含换行符，断言它回读时恰好是一条日志条目（证明散逸输出是按行聚合的，而不是在管道分片边界处被切开）；一个配套用例写入 `b"one\ntwo\nthree"`，断言得到三条条目（证明真正的换行符仍然起分隔作用）。一个 newline-free-flood 用例在一个 4 KiB 的 `maxLogBytes` 之下写入 2 MiB，断言捕获终止于截断标记且保持在预算之内（证明残余数据受账本约束，而不是被整体缓冲）；一个 NUL-flood 配套用例在同一预算之下写入 4000 个不含换行符的 NUL，断言发生截断（证明残余数据是按序列化开销计费的，约为原始的 6 倍，且在度量时不分配转义后的副本）；一个 illegal-UTF-8 用例在一个 3072 字节的预算之下控速发出单字节 `\xff` 写入，并对 `Buffer.concat` 做包装以度量峰值合并缓冲区，断言它保持在 2048 之下（按 U+FFFD 宽度 3 计费时残余数据在约 1024 原始字节处冲刷；一次原始字节的少计会让它达到约 3072，因此该界限具有区分力）；一个 CESU-8/overlong 用例把结构良构但非法的 `ED A0 80` 一次一个字节地控速发出，断言同样的峰值界限（按每序列真实的 9 计费时它提前冲刷；按结构宽度 3 计费会使峰值增至三倍，因此把逐前导字节范围检查回退会使它变红）；一个 broken-multibyte 用例在分开的分片里先写入一个 3 字节的前导字节、再写入一个新的 ASCII 字节，断言同时捕获到一个 `A` 和一个 U+FFFD（覆盖 `accrueStrayCost` 的跨分片断裂序列分支）；一个 post-truncation 用例写入一个 108 字节的载荷（小于最小的 PIPE_BUF，因此是一次原子写入），其首行耗尽一个 64 字节的预算，断言第二行被丢弃（覆盖单次 `data` 回调中的截断后准入空操作，无需 v8-ignore）；一个 short-escape 用例写入一行混合了制表符、引号、反斜杠、一个 `\uXXXX` 控制字符、一个多字节字符和 ASCII 的内容，断言它原样完成往返（覆盖 `jsonStringCostUpTo` 的每一条分支）；一个 reassembly 用例写入一个跨越每个合法多字节前导字节类别（E0 范围、普通 3 字节、F0 和 F4）、越过管道缓冲区的载荷，断言它原样完成往返且不含 U+FFFD（覆盖 `accrueStrayCost` 的逐前导字节范围与跨分片重组）；一个 lone-surrogate 用例在一个 4 KiB 预算之下伪造一个以 1000 个 `\ud800` 转义洪泛的 fd-3 `log` 帧，断言发生截断（该计数正落在计 3 字节会放行、计 6 字节则截断的窗口内，证明该代理项是按其完整转义宽度计费的）；一个 stray-sealing 用例在抬高后的预算之下控速发出 60000 次单字节、不含换行符的 `os.write(1, …)` 调用，并对 `Buffer.concat` 做包装以度量复制量，断言这股细流合并为一条条目、且累积复制量保持在一个实测的 256 KiB 阈值之下（封存后的形态复制约 120 KB，重新合并的形态复制约 538 KB，因此把封存回退成重新合并会使该断言变红——证明分片列表在越过 `MAX_PENDING_CHUNKS` 后封存为块）。一个 closeDeadline-flush 用例让 leader 写入一段不含换行符的诊断，随后 spawn 一个持有管道不放的 `setsid` 孤儿进程，断言该诊断在 `logs` 中存留下来（证明残余数据在截止时间销毁流之前被冲刷）。same-group 回收用例 spawn 一个忽略 SIGTERM 的同进程组后代，它释放管道并递增一个心跳文件；该测试断言在宽限窗口的 SIGKILL 之后心跳停止：无论被杀死的后代是被回收还是作为僵尸进程滞留，这个断言都成立，因此它在 PID 1 不 wait() 孤儿进程的环境下同样成立。一个 dispose-after-resolve 用例断言，对一个已完成、且存在同进程组存活者的运行调用 `dispose()`，只有在该存活者停止执行之后才返回（证明该运行会一直留在 `live` 中，直到它的进程组被回收），并带有一个 `expect(afterDispose).toBeGreaterThan(0)` 守卫，使得当心跳文件从未被写入时，冻结心跳的断言不会被空洞地通过。一个 deadline 用例忙阻塞事件循环越过两个定时器，断言该存活者的心跳冻结（证明轮询的截止时间分支自身发送 SIGKILL，而不是取消尚未触发的升级）。cross-loop 用例在主协程通过 `await asyncio.sleep` 让出时，从一个工作线程自己的 `asyncio.run` 事件循环运行一个绑定，断言该回复完成往返而不是超时；一个配套用例放弃某个线程的调用，使其事件循环关闭，随后在一个后续绑定之前回答它——断言 pump 在关闭事件循环上的 `call_soon_threadsafe` 之后仍然存活（由宿主门控的顺序使其具有确定性，未修复时会把后续绑定拖到墙钟上挂起）。inherited-soft-limit 用例通过一个 `ulimit -S -t` 包装脚本运行解释器，将 CPU 软限制设为低于 `cpuSeconds`，并断言实际应用的 `RLIMIT_CPU` 软限制是继承来的值，而不是配置的值（用 CPU 而非地址空间，因为 macOS 忽略 `ulimit -v`）。一个配套用例继承 1 秒的 CPU 软限制，让程序捕获 SIGXCPU 并忙循环越过它，断言结算复查报告 timeout——证明复查用的是实际生效的软限制，而不是配置的 `cpuSeconds`。一个 control-heavy-diagnostic 用例在一个较小的 `maxValueBytes` 之下抛出一个 NUL 洪泛异常，断言序列化后的帧能放得下（证明该诊断是按序列化开销计量的）。一个 tail-copy 用例（`maxLogBytes: 256`、`addressSpaceMb: 384`）让程序在一个变量里构建一个尾部并写入 `"\n" + tail`，其中 `tail` 为 150 MiB——构建峰值约 2 倍（约 300 MiB，落在地址空间之内，因此模型自身的分配会成功，任何 OOM 都属于缺陷路径），而修复前的整尾重新缓冲会加上第三份约 150 MiB 的副本、越过 384 MiB；切片后的前缀让该次运行得以截断并完成（仅 Linux 的 RLIMIT_AS 复现，macOS 走顺利路径——fixture 自身的构建必须放进地址空间，这是这些 RLIMIT_AS 用例的一条通用规则）。一个 output-budget/address-space 用例断言一个 50 MB 的 `maxLogBytes` 和一个 50 MB 的 `maxValueBytes` 各自对照一个 256 MiB 的 `addressSpaceMb` 在加载期被拒绝（乘以最坏情况的 12 之后超过解释器基线之后剩下的余量），而默认的各项上限对照 512 MiB 则加载成功，对两项预算对称地门控；一个具区分力的用例断言一个 48 MiB 的 `maxLogBytes` 对照一个 512 MiB 的 `addressSpaceMb` 被拒绝——48×8 = 384 MiB 放得进 448 MiB 的可预算余量（旧的 8× 倍数会错误放行），但 48×12 = 576 MiB 放不进。该倍数覆盖的约 12× 峰值来自换行路径上一次接近预算的写入——调用方自己的字符串、行切片与 encode 副本同时存活；结算期 flush 已不再是承重者，因为 `flush_line` 在 push 之前就丢弃了 pending 分块，因此只持有两份副本而非三份。一个 inherited-RLIMIT_AS 用例通过一个 `ulimit -v 131072` 包装层运行解释器，配以一个配置的 512 MiB `addressSpaceMb` 所允许的 32 MiB `maxLogBytes`，断言引导期的重新检查把它作为 `exception` 拒绝、且其消息点名了继承的 RLIMIT_AS（128 MiB 的继承限制在基线之后剩下的太少；仅 Linux，macOS 忽略 `ulimit -v`，该次运行会继续）。一个 non-integer-budget 用例断言一个小数的 `maxLogBytes`／`maxValueBytes` 在加载期被拒绝。一个 combined-peak 用例（`maxLogBytes: 32 MiB`、`maxValueBytes: 32 MiB`、`addressSpaceMb: 512`——每项预算单独都被 12× 门放行）写入约 33M 个不含换行符的星芒面字符（缓冲、未冲刷）后返回约 33M 个星芒面字符，断言该次运行以 `output-limit` 结算（该值本身就超过它 32 MiB 的预算）；修复前未冲刷的日志 pending 加上值的构建加编码峰值会一起越过 512 MiB 地址空间而 OOM，因此在分帧值之前先冲刷日志正是让值检查得以完成的原因（仅 Linux 的 RLIMIT_AS 复现；在 macOS 上超预算的值在两种顺序下都报 output-limit）。一个宽完成值用例（`maxValueBytes: 20 MiB`、`addressSpaceMb: 384`）返回 `[0] * 6_000_000`——JSON 约 12 MB、低于预算，因此必须成功往返；修复前 O(width) 的遍历为每个元素分配遍历元组与编码器栈项（约为序列化尺寸的 28×，超出门保留的 12×），在一个计量器已放行的值上 OOM，而 O(depth) 游标使唯一按宽度分配的只剩输出字符串本身。一个宽 binding 实参用例（`addressSpaceMb: 384`）以 `[0] * 6_000_000` 调用 binding 并断言长度回传：`_lossless_json_violation` 运行在模型构造的实参上，子进程侧没有任何字节预算先行约束，其逐元素元组实测 459.1 MiB，而游标为 0.0 MiB。一个回溯用例从 binding 返回一个 4 MiB 字符串并断言其成功往返：旧的标量正则保留的引擎状态与字符串宽度成正比（1 MiB 时 146 MiB，4 MiB 时 557.8 MiB，超过默认的 512 MiB），会在 `_pump_replies` 内抛出 MemoryError 并把该次调用搁置到墙钟。一个 control-heavy 计费用例在 16 MiB 的 `maxValueBytes` 之下返回 8M 个 NUL，断言得到 `output-limit` 而非 `exception`：以计数替代物化转义形式来计费，在字节数完全相同的前提下实测 19.1 MiB 对 228.9 MiB。一个 addressSpaceMb 下界用例断言 64 MiB 与 32 MiB 在加载期被拒绝，且消息点名 `addressSpaceMb`，而不是预算循环给出的负数上限。一个进程身份用例断言 leader 的启动时刻在 Linux 上可稳定读取、在 Darwin 上报告 undefined，这正是使被复用的 pgid 不会收到本次运行 SIGTERM 的那道守卫。一个 paced-replies 用例在一轮 `asyncio.gather` 中 resolve 八条 4 MiB 的值，断言这些帧能够往返；本修复移除的峰值（32.0 MiB 缓冲 → 0.0 MiB）位于宿主 fd-3 可写缓冲内部、透过 seam 不可见，因此该用例钉住的是往返与无回归匹配，其峰值只能在树外度量。一个 late-drop 用例让该次运行在 `maxWallMs` 上结算，随后才 resolve 那个 pending 的 binding，断言得到一个 `timeout` 结果、一个 undefined 值、且迟到路径确实被执行过——这三条断言在修复前也全部成立，因为 `sendReply` 本就丢弃结算之后的值、只是更晚，因此该用例钉住的是顺序，而非一个透过 seam 可观测的行为。一个"绑定全部用名"用例（`rebinds every name the failure path uses`）断言一个真实的 `ValueError` 在 send-done 绑定之后仍然存活——这是一个有测修复，由一个逐名重绑 `__main__.ProtocolChannel.send_sync`、`__main__.ProtocolChannel.write_encoded` 与 `__main__._encode_json_plain` 的用例钉住——这三个名字正是 shipped 的 `send_done` 若做调用时刻查找时会迟解析的那三个——并钉住 `done` 帧不被一次调用时刻的查找跳过；而完成值的 TOCTOU 预编码、stray UTF-8 预算冲刷的扣留与结算后到达的迟到拒绝的 settled 先查，都被计入那十处无 fail-before 修复（理由见 Problem 段），不由 fail-before 测试钉住。 一个 fragment-cap 滴灌用例写入 200 000 次单字符无换行的 `sys.stdout.write` 调用，断言该次运行以截断标记完成而非 MemoryError（no-fail-before：25 M 规模的 OOM 无法在 CI 中确定性构造）。一个 dual-limit CPU 用例通过一个 `ulimit -t 2` 包装脚本运行解释器并忙循环越过它，断言得到 `timeout`（软限制被降到 1，因此 SIGXCPU 触发，而非 `worker-exit`）。一个传递名重绑用例重绑 `__main__._dump_scalar`、`__main__.os`、`__main__._os_write`、`__main__._memoryview` 与 `__main__._FALLBACK_DONE_FRAME`，断言仍有一帧 done 以 `exception` 落地，而非 `worker-exit`（真实消息被固定兜底字面量替换）。 一个 BaseException 重绑用例把 `__main__.BaseException` 重绑为 `RuntimeError` 并抛出 `ValueError`，断言该次运行仍报告 `exception`，而非 `worker-exit`（catch 用的是程序运行前的局部异常类）。一个 RuntimeError 重绑闭环用例把 `__main__.RuntimeError` 重绑为 `ValueError` 作为程序首条语句，并驱动闭环 worker 模式，断言泵存活于死循环回复、投递后续 binding（泵的 `_RuntimeError` 是 def 期默认参数，因此在重绑前捕获原始值）。 一个 `_done_with_value` 重绑用例把 `__main__._done_with_value` 重绑为一个抛出函数并返回合法值，断言该次运行仍报告成功（入口名是程序运行前绑定的 `_run` 局部）。
+- `tests/runtime.spec.ts`：output-cap 用例断言 `ceiling - envelope` 上界（268435392）及其消息。一个 daemon 线程用例驱动四个线程穿过结算的 flush 发出未结束的写入。一个 native-write 用例在抬高后的 `maxLogBytes` 之下，通过 `os.write` 写入 200 KiB 且不含换行符，断言它回读时恰好是一条日志条目（证明散逸输出是按行聚合的，而不是在管道分片边界处被切开）；一个配套用例写入 `b"one\ntwo\nthree"`，断言得到三条条目（证明真正的换行符仍然起分隔作用）。一个 newline-free-flood 用例在一个 4 KiB 的 `maxLogBytes` 之下写入 2 MiB，断言捕获终止于截断标记且保持在预算之内（证明残余数据受账本约束，而不是被整体缓冲）；一个 NUL-flood 配套用例在同一预算之下写入 4000 个不含换行符的 NUL，断言发生截断（证明残余数据是按序列化开销计费的，约为原始的 6 倍，且在度量时不分配转义后的副本）；一个 illegal-UTF-8 用例在一个 3072 字节的预算之下控速发出单字节 `\xff` 写入，并对 `Buffer.concat` 做包装以度量峰值合并缓冲区，断言它保持在 2048 之下（按 U+FFFD 宽度 3 计费时残余数据在约 1024 原始字节处冲刷；一次原始字节的少计会让它达到约 3072，因此该界限具有区分力）；一个 CESU-8/overlong 用例把结构良构但非法的 `ED A0 80` 一次一个字节地控速发出，断言同样的峰值界限（按每序列真实的 9 计费时它提前冲刷；按结构宽度 3 计费会使峰值增至三倍，因此把逐前导字节范围检查回退会使它变红）；一个 broken-multibyte 用例在分开的分片里先写入一个 3 字节的前导字节、再写入一个新的 ASCII 字节，断言同时捕获到一个 `A` 和一个 U+FFFD（覆盖 `accrueStrayCost` 的跨分片断裂序列分支）；一个 post-truncation 用例写入一个 108 字节的载荷（小于最小的 PIPE_BUF，因此是一次原子写入），其首行耗尽一个 64 字节的预算，断言第二行被丢弃（覆盖单次 `data` 回调中的截断后准入空操作，无需 v8-ignore）；一个 short-escape 用例写入一行混合了制表符、引号、反斜杠、一个 `\uXXXX` 控制字符、一个多字节字符和 ASCII 的内容，断言它原样完成往返（覆盖 `jsonStringCostUpTo` 的每一条分支）；一个 reassembly 用例写入一个跨越每个合法多字节前导字节类别（E0 范围、普通 3 字节、F0 和 F4）、越过管道缓冲区的载荷，断言它原样完成往返且不含 U+FFFD（覆盖 `accrueStrayCost` 的逐前导字节范围与跨分片重组）；一个 lone-surrogate 用例在一个 4 KiB 预算之下伪造一个以 1000 个 `\ud800` 转义洪泛的 fd-3 `log` 帧，断言发生截断（该计数正落在计 3 字节会放行、计 6 字节则截断的窗口内，证明该代理项是按其完整转义宽度计费的）；一个 stray-sealing 用例在抬高后的预算之下控速发出 60000 次单字节、不含换行符的 `os.write(1, …)` 调用，并对 `Buffer.concat` 做包装以度量复制量，断言这股细流合并为一条条目、且累积复制量保持在一个实测的 256 KiB 阈值之下（封存后的形态复制约 120 KB，重新合并的形态复制约 538 KB，因此把封存回退成重新合并会使该断言变红——证明分片列表在越过 `MAX_PENDING_CHUNKS` 后封存为块）。一个 closeDeadline-flush 用例让 leader 写入一段不含换行符的诊断，随后 spawn 一个持有管道不放的 `setsid` 孤儿进程，断言该诊断在 `logs` 中存留下来（证明残余数据在截止时间销毁流之前被冲刷）。same-group 回收用例 spawn 一个忽略 SIGTERM 的同进程组后代，它释放管道并递增一个心跳文件；该测试断言在宽限窗口的 SIGKILL 之后心跳停止：无论被杀死的后代是被回收还是作为僵尸进程滞留，这个断言都成立，因此它在 PID 1 不 wait() 孤儿进程的环境下同样成立。一个 dispose-after-resolve 用例断言，对一个已完成、且存在同进程组存活者的运行调用 `dispose()`，只有在该存活者停止执行之后才返回（证明该运行会一直留在 `live` 中，直到它的进程组被回收），并带有一个 `expect(afterDispose).toBeGreaterThan(0)` 守卫，使得当心跳文件从未被写入时，冻结心跳的断言不会被空洞地通过。一个 deadline 用例忙阻塞事件循环越过两个定时器，断言该存活者的心跳冻结（证明轮询的截止时间分支自身发送 SIGKILL，而不是取消尚未触发的升级）。cross-loop 用例在主协程通过 `await asyncio.sleep` 让出时，从一个工作线程自己的 `asyncio.run` 事件循环运行一个绑定，断言该回复完成往返而不是超时；一个配套用例放弃某个线程的调用，使其事件循环关闭，随后在一个后续绑定之前回答它——断言 pump 在关闭事件循环上的 `call_soon_threadsafe` 之后仍然存活（由宿主门控的顺序使其具有确定性，未修复时会把后续绑定拖到墙钟上挂起）。inherited-soft-limit 用例通过一个 `ulimit -S -t` 包装脚本运行解释器，将 CPU 软限制设为低于 `cpuSeconds`，并断言实际应用的 `RLIMIT_CPU` 软限制是继承来的值，而不是配置的值（用 CPU 而非地址空间，因为 macOS 忽略 `ulimit -v`）。一个配套用例继承 1 秒的 CPU 软限制，让程序捕获 SIGXCPU 并忙循环越过它，断言结算复查报告 timeout——证明复查用的是实际生效的软限制，而不是配置的 `cpuSeconds`。一个 control-heavy-diagnostic 用例在一个较小的 `maxValueBytes` 之下抛出一个 NUL 洪泛异常，断言序列化后的帧能放得下（证明该诊断是按序列化开销计量的）。一个 tail-copy 用例（`maxLogBytes: 256`、`addressSpaceMb: 384`）让程序在一个变量里构建一个尾部并写入 `"\n" + tail`，其中 `tail` 为 150 MiB——构建峰值约 2 倍（约 300 MiB，落在地址空间之内，因此模型自身的分配会成功，任何 OOM 都属于缺陷路径），而修复前的整尾重新缓冲会加上第三份约 150 MiB 的副本、越过 384 MiB；切片后的前缀让该次运行得以截断并完成（仅 Linux 的 RLIMIT_AS 复现，macOS 走顺利路径——fixture 自身的构建必须放进地址空间，这是这些 RLIMIT_AS 用例的一条通用规则）。一个 output-budget/address-space 用例断言一个 50 MB 的 `maxLogBytes` 和一个 50 MB 的 `maxValueBytes` 各自对照一个 256 MiB 的 `addressSpaceMb` 在加载期被拒绝（乘以最坏情况的 12 之后超过解释器基线之后剩下的余量），而默认的各项上限对照 512 MiB 则加载成功，对两项预算对称地门控；一个具区分力的用例断言一个 48 MiB 的 `maxLogBytes` 对照一个 512 MiB 的 `addressSpaceMb` 被拒绝——48×8 = 384 MiB 放得进 448 MiB 的可预算余量（旧的 8× 倍数会错误放行），但 48×12 = 576 MiB 放不进。该倍数覆盖的约 12× 峰值来自换行路径上一次接近预算的写入——调用方自己的字符串、行切片与 encode 副本同时存活；结算期 flush 已不再是承重者，因为 `flush_line` 在 push 之前就丢弃了 pending 分块，因此只持有两份副本而非三份。一个 inherited-RLIMIT_AS 用例通过一个 `ulimit -v 131072` 包装层运行解释器，配以一个配置的 512 MiB `addressSpaceMb` 所允许的 32 MiB `maxLogBytes`，断言引导期的重新检查把它作为 `exception` 拒绝、且其消息点名了继承的 RLIMIT_AS（128 MiB 的继承限制在基线之后剩下的太少；仅 Linux，macOS 忽略 `ulimit -v`，该次运行会继续）。一个 non-integer-budget 用例断言一个小数的 `maxLogBytes`／`maxValueBytes` 在加载期被拒绝。一个 combined-peak 用例（`maxLogBytes: 32 MiB`、`maxValueBytes: 32 MiB`、`addressSpaceMb: 512`——每项预算单独都被 12× 门放行）写入约 33M 个不含换行符的星芒面字符（缓冲、未冲刷）后返回约 33M 个星芒面字符，断言该次运行以 `output-limit` 结算（该值本身就超过它 32 MiB 的预算）；修复前未冲刷的日志 pending 加上值的构建加编码峰值会一起越过 512 MiB 地址空间而 OOM，因此在分帧值之前先冲刷日志正是让值检查得以完成的原因（仅 Linux 的 RLIMIT_AS 复现；在 macOS 上超预算的值在两种顺序下都报 output-limit）。一个宽完成值用例（`maxValueBytes: 20 MiB`、`addressSpaceMb: 384`）返回 `[0] * 6_000_000`——JSON 约 12 MB、低于预算，因此必须成功往返；修复前 O(width) 的遍历为每个元素分配遍历元组与编码器栈项（约为序列化尺寸的 28×，超出门保留的 12×），在一个计量器已放行的值上 OOM，而 O(depth) 游标使唯一按宽度分配的只剩输出字符串本身。一个宽 binding 实参用例（`addressSpaceMb: 384`）以 `[0] * 6_000_000` 调用 binding 并断言长度回传：`_lossless_json_violation` 运行在模型构造的实参上，子进程侧没有任何字节预算先行约束，其逐元素元组实测 459.1 MiB，而游标为 0.0 MiB。一个回溯用例从 binding 返回一个 4 MiB 字符串并断言其成功往返：旧的标量正则保留的引擎状态与字符串宽度成正比（1 MiB 时 146 MiB，4 MiB 时 557.8 MiB，超过默认的 512 MiB），会在 `_pump_replies` 内抛出 MemoryError 并把该次调用搁置到墙钟。一个 control-heavy 计费用例在 16 MiB 的 `maxValueBytes` 之下返回 8M 个 NUL，断言得到 `output-limit` 而非 `exception`：以计数替代物化转义形式来计费，在字节数完全相同的前提下实测 19.1 MiB 对 228.9 MiB。一个 addressSpaceMb 下界用例断言 64 MiB 与 32 MiB 在加载期被拒绝，且消息点名 `addressSpaceMb`，而不是预算循环给出的负数上限。一个进程身份用例断言 leader 的启动时刻在 Linux 上可稳定读取、在 Darwin 上报告 undefined，这正是使被复用的 pgid 不会收到本次运行 SIGTERM 的那道守卫。一个 paced-replies 用例在一轮 `asyncio.gather` 中 resolve 八条 4 MiB 的值，断言这些帧能够往返；本修复移除的峰值（32.0 MiB 缓冲 → 0.0 MiB）位于宿主 fd-3 可写缓冲内部、透过 seam 不可见，因此该用例钉住的是往返与无回归匹配，其峰值只能在树外度量。一个 late-drop 用例让该次运行在 `maxWallMs` 上结算，随后才 resolve 那个 pending 的 binding，断言得到一个 `timeout` 结果、一个 undefined 值、且迟到路径确实被执行过——这三条断言在修复前也全部成立，因为 `sendReply` 本就丢弃结算之后的值、只是更晚，因此该用例钉住的是顺序，而非一个透过 seam 可观测的行为。一个"绑定全部用名"用例（`rebinds every name the failure path uses`）断言一个真实的 `ValueError` 在 send-done 绑定之后仍然存活——这是一个有测修复，由一个逐名重绑 `__main__.ProtocolChannel.send_sync`、`__main__.ProtocolChannel.write_encoded` 与 `__main__._encode_json_plain` 的用例钉住——这三个名字正是 shipped 的 `send_done` 若做调用时刻查找时会迟解析的那三个——并钉住 `done` 帧不被一次调用时刻的查找跳过；而完成值的 TOCTOU 预编码、stray UTF-8 预算冲刷的扣留与结算后到达的迟到拒绝的 settled 先查，都被计入那十处无 fail-before 修复（理由见 Problem 段），不由 fail-before 测试钉住。 一个 fragment-cap 滴灌用例写入 200 000 次单字符无换行的 `sys.stdout.write` 调用，断言该次运行以截断标记完成而非 MemoryError（no-fail-before：25 M 规模的 OOM 无法在 CI 中确定性构造）。一个 dual-limit CPU 用例通过一个 `ulimit -t 2` 包装脚本运行解释器并忙循环越过它，断言得到 `timeout`（软限制被降到 1，因此 SIGXCPU 触发，而非 `worker-exit`）。一个传递名重绑用例重绑 `__main__._dump_scalar`、`__main__.os`、`__main__._os_write`、`__main__._memoryview` 与 `__main__._FALLBACK_DONE_FRAME`，断言仍有一帧 done 以 `exception` 落地，而非 `worker-exit`（真实消息被固定兜底字面量替换）。 一个 BaseException 重绑用例把 `__main__.BaseException` 重绑为 `RuntimeError` 并抛出 `ValueError`，断言该次运行仍报告 `exception`，而非 `worker-exit`（catch 用的是程序运行前的局部异常类）。一个 RuntimeError 重绑闭环用例把 `__main__.RuntimeError` 重绑为 `ValueError` 作为程序首条语句，并驱动闭环 worker 模式，断言泵存活于死循环回复、投递后续 binding（泵的 `_RuntimeError` 是 def 期默认参数，因此在重绑前捕获原始值）。 一个 `_done_with_value` 重绑用例把 `__main__._done_with_value` 重绑为一个抛出函数并返回合法值，断言该次运行仍报告成功（入口名是程序运行前绑定的 `_run` 局部）。 一个 exact-limit 用例（`maxLogBytes: 64`）写入一个 60 字符行（62 字节 JSON + 1 分隔符 = 63 = 预留后的账本）与一个 61 字符行（64 > 63），断言前者放行、后者截断为仅标记——钉住外层数组外壳预留的精确边界；一个配套用例断言 `maxLogBytes: 61` 在构造期被拒绝。一个语法标签用例断言解析期语法错误携带 `File "<model>"`（`ast.parse` 与 compile 及运行期 traceback 过滤使用同一来源标签）。一个 SIGXCPU 屏蔽用例屏蔽 SIGXCPU（`pthread_sigmask`）、越过软限并返回，断言得到 `timeout`（复查在重投递前解除屏蔽）；一个 trap+mask 配套用例安装一个重新屏蔽的自定义 handler 并断言同样的 `timeout`（SIG_DFL 在 unblock 前恢复，因此挂起信号在内核内致死）。
 
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