fix: keep widgets_values_named coherent with a widget write (A23)

[christian-byrne]

Summary

A22 taught set_widget to keep the duplicate-only widgets_values_ordered passthrough field in step with the identity-keyed widgets map. The frontend serializes a second passthrough field beside it — name-keyed widgets_values_named — which this package emitted verbatim and never maintained. A set_widget therefore published the new value in widgets_values and widgets_values_ordered while leaving the pre-op value in widgets_values_named, so a consumer that restores values by name reverted the write on reload.

Unique widget names are the larger half of this and have nothing to do with duplicates. Every set_widget against an ordinary single-name widget was reverted the same way. Measured before the change, on main at e8b06d6:

Register after one set_widget	unique name	final occurrence of a repeated name	earlier occurrence
widgets_values	new ✅	new ✅	new ✅
widgets_values_ordered	—	new ✅	new ✅
widgets_values_named	stale ❌	stale ❌	stale (correctly — not its slot)

Proven end to end rather than inferred: cmp's literal projected output was fed back through the frontend's LGraphNode.configure, and the agent's write disappeared. The cross-repo measurement and the frontend half live in the in-app-agent workspace at reports/jobs/op343-fe19717-currentrepair.md; this PR is the cmp-side repair it recommended.

What changed

updateNamedWidgetValue runs on the same three set_widget paths that already maintain the ordered field — top-level, interior (subgraph-scoped), and the promoted host write (case "named" only; the positional case writes the opaque array, where a name register means nothing).

The name register is keyed by name alone, and a serializer writing it in widget order leaves the final same-named widget's value in it. So the update is gated on the addressed pair being that final occurrence, evaluated against the layout after the write — so a dynamic-combo selector write that changed the order cannot make apply and projection disagree. An earlier occurrence deliberately leaves the register untouched: one slot cannot hold two values, and writing it there would replace the final occurrence's value with an earlier one's, which is a corrupt read rather than a stale one.

Three gates, the first two mirroring the ordered field's "update, never invent":

1. the register must already be stored as a name-keyed object — a foreign producer's array is left alone rather than reshaped (Object.hasOwn(["x"], "0") is true, so the name gate alone would let that through);
2. it must already carry this name — no entry is invented for a name the producer omitted;
3. the pair must be the final occurrence. Finality answers false whenever the layout cannot be resolved — no catalog, an uncatalogued class, or a legal write to an unselected option's sub-widget — because a node whose layout this package cannot resolve has no projected position to be final at, and project() cannot turn it back into positional values either.

No wire change, no new field, no reserved key, and SCHEMA_VERSION is unchanged at v5: a v5 document written before this amendment is still a legal v5 document, merely one carrying a stale register.

Deliberately out of scope

The §8.3 autogrow inputcount bump writes the widgets map directly and maintains neither passthrough field, so both go stale on a grow connect. Measured on this branch:

after a grow connect with inputcount {widget: "count", value: 1}
  widgets_values          [1]
  widgets_values_ordered  [{name: "count", occurrence: 0, value: 0}]   ← stale
  widgets_values_named    {count: 0}                                   ← stale

That is pre-existing and includes the ordered field, i.e. it is a gap in A22's own contract as much as this one's. Fixing named there without ordered would be incoherent, so this PR leaves the autogrow path alone and the boundary is clean: widgets_values_named now has exact parity with widgets_values_ordered — no more, no less. Noted in the A23 amendment text and worth its own issue.

Verification

Node 22.23.2 (CI's version — see note below), npm ci.

• npm run build
• npm run check:purity — runtime dependency roots exactly {yjs}
• npm run check:imports — 24 modules, 77 dependencies, 0 violations
• npm run check:pins — 257 tracked files, 19 citation sites, 6 pins
• npm run check:profile-claims — 62 presence + 11 absence claims hold
• npm run check:coderabbit
• npm run verify:corpus — 11 files
• npm test — 117 files, 1694 passed, 2 skipped
• npm run lint, npm run typecheck

Red → green. The new suite is 8 failed / 7 passed on parent e8b06d6 and 15/15 on this head. The seven that pass at the parent are the negative cases (register absent, name absent, no catalog, unselected sub-widget, array-shaped register, earlier occurrence, middle-of-three) and they pass vacuously there, which is what the mutation battery below is for.

Hand mutation battery — each mutation applied to this branch's source, then widget-named-register-coherence, widget-occurrence-identity, promoted-host-writes, applier and project re-run, source restored after each:

	Mutation	Result
M1	drop the finality gate (write for every occurrence)	killed (3)
M2	invert the finality gate	killed (10)
M3	drop the already-carries-this-name gate	killed (1)
M4	drop the object-shape gate	killed (19)
M5	treat a missing catalog as proof of finality	killed (1)
M6	drop the occurrence + 1 half of finality	killed (1)
M7	store the value by reference instead of cloning	killed (1)
M8	assign the key instead of defining it	survived — equivalent mutant
M9	remove the call from the top-level path	killed (5)
M10	remove the call from the interior path	killed (1)
M11	remove the call from the promoted host path	killed (1)
M12	finality → "not the first, or the name is unique"	killed (1) — see below

M8 survives by design, not for want of coverage, and the code comment now says so instead of overclaiming: with gate 2 in place the register already owns __proto__ as a data property, which shadows Object.prototype's accessor, so assignment and computed-key definition are indistinguishable here. The computed key stays so the hazard cannot reappear if gate 2 is ever relaxed.

M12 is a finding against my own first draft of the tests, from the .agents/checks/vacuity.md P11 cardinality dimension (0, 1, 2, 3). With exactly two same-named widgets, "the final occurrence" and "anything but the first" select the same widget, so no case in the first draft could tell the implemented predicate from that weaker one — a degenerate fixture on the dimension the property quantifies over. Three same-named widgets is where the two disagree, because the middle occurrence is neither first nor last. The second commit adds that fixture, and mutating finality to occurrence >= 1 || the name is unique now turns exactly one of the fifteen cases red:

× leaves the register alone for the MIDDLE of three occurrences
  Tests  1 failed | 14 passed (15)

Before that commit the same mutant was green across the whole suite.

npm run test:mutation was not usable for this, and that is a finding rather than an excuse. Stryker's mutant runs execute zero tests in this environment and report every mutant as Survived rather than erroring, so a scoped run yields a silently flattering 0%. Chasing it also surfaced that the full suite cannot run inside a Stryker sandbox in either direction: with disableTypeChecks on, the sandbox copy of test/types/invalid-states.negative.ts loses all 17 @ts-expect-error directives and gains @ts-nocheck, so test/type-negatives.test.ts's census reads 0 of 17; with it off, tsc sees the instrumentation of src/applier.ts and reports TS2630. test/purity.test.ts (npm ls → every hoisted dev dependency extraneous) and test/invariant-ids.test.ts (citation scan finds 0 files) fail in the sandbox too. The committed config only avoids all of this because vitest.related happens to select a subset that excludes them — and when that resolution finds nothing, as it does for a single-file scope, the result is the false-survivor run above. Separately, --logLevel debug crashes the runner outright (vitest-test-runner.js:95, circular JSON of the vitest config), so the standard diagnostic path is closed. Worth its own issue; it is not in this PR's scope.

Node version, for anyone reproducing: on Node 25.x, test/check-import-graph.test.ts fails 8 of 16 unrelated to any change — dependency-cruiser declares node: ^22||^24||>=26 and refuses 25.x. On Node 22 (what CI uses) the suite is fully green. This repo has no .nvmrc, which is how that hour gets spent.

Invariants

• KA-4 (deterministic + idempotent) — affected and preserved. The write is a whole-value mset of a cloned object, so a duplicate op_id stays a true no-op with byte-identical encodeStateAsUpdate, and both arrival orders of two competing writes converge. Asserted directly in the new suite's last case; the ≤12 Y-mutations-per-op budget and the five golden session replays still hold with the one added mset.
• KA-12 (catalog pinned at mint) — unchanged in policy. Finality reads the pinned catalog at apply time exactly as validateWidgetName already does, and is conservative when it cannot resolve the layout.
• KA-11 (schema-version discipline on read) — deliberately not engaged. No field, reserved key, or layout is added; the register already existed in v5 as a passthrough, and an older reader now sees a coherent value where it previously saw a stale one. SCHEMA_VERSION stays v5.
• KA-3 / KA-13 (purity, no state outside the document) — no new imports, no module state; check:purity and check:imports green.
• FC-4 — not engaged: this replaces one node field's value, not the document.

Observable adequacy (P10), stated rather than assumed. The coherence cases assert on project() output rather than on Y.encodeStateAsUpdate. That is the canonical observable for this property, not the convenient one: the defect is defined by what a consumer restores, and a consumer reads the projected workflow JSON, where this field is emitted verbatim. The one property here that is about document bytes — idempotent replay — is asserted on Y.encodeStateAsUpdate directly. Smallest violation the projection could hide: none for this field, since it has no projection-time transform; a stamp or __applied regression would be invisible to it, which is why the replay case does not use it.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Updating a widget now also keeps its existing named value in sync when the widget is the final occurrence of that name. Earlier occurrences remain unchanged, and named values are not added when missing or when the widget layout cannot be resolved.
  • This applies to widget updates in subgraphs and promoted-host nodes as well as standard nodes. The schema version and wire format are unchanged.

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Widget writes now update an existing widgets_values_named entry when the written widget is the final same-named occurrence in a resolved layout. The change covers top-level, interior, and promoted-host writes. Documentation and tests describe and exercise the conditions.

Changes

Named widget register coherence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define named-register update conditions src/applier.ts, docs/multiplayer-schema.md	The applier checks whether a write targets the final occurrence of a name in a resolved layout. It updates only an existing own-name entry in a non-array register. The documentation states that schema v5 and the wire format do not change.
Apply and validate named-register updates src/applier.ts, test/widget-named-register-coherence.test.ts	Top-level, interior, and promoted-host writes invoke the named-register update. Tests cover eligible and ineligible writes, register shapes, subgraph writes, replay, and convergence.

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