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+# client-core
+
+`client-core/` is the app's pure logic held once instead of twice, per
+RUST.md's recommendation item 1. It is a plain Rust library crate with no UI
+framework dependency of any kind, so it can outlive whichever one the app
+ends up drawing with (Masonry, iris, or something else -- see RUST.md).
+`event-model/` is its sibling: the wire shape both this crate and `server/`
+share, extracted from `server/src/session/driver.rs` and
+`session/transcript.rs` on 2026-09-04.
+
+Neither crate is wired into anything yet. `server/` re-exports `event-model`
+so its own behaviour is unchanged (`./run-tests.sh` covers it); `client-core`
+has no caller -- it exists for whichever experiment in RUST.md picks it up
+next (a Masonry or iris transcript screen, most likely).
+
+## What's here, and what Kotlin file it replaces
+
+| `client-core/src/…`                     | Kotlin original                          | Status |
+|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|--------|
+| `event-model/src/lib.rs` (shared crate)   | `Events.kt` (the enum mirror)             | Done   |
+| `ansi.rs`                                 | `Ansi.kt`                                 | Done, ported test-for-test |
+| `highlight/mod.rs`, `languages.rs`        | `Highlighter.kt`, `Languages.kt`          | Done, ported test-for-test |
+| `highlight/markdown.rs`                   | `MarkdownSyntax.kt`                       | Done, ported test-for-test |
+| `transcript_cache.rs`                     | `TranscriptCache.kt`                      | Done, ported test-for-test |
+| `sse.rs`                                  | `Sse.kt` (the framing half)               | Done, new tests (Kotlin had none of its own beyond integration) |
+| `api.rs`                                  | `Api.kt`                                  | Partial -- see below |
+| `event_stream.rs`                         | `EventStream.kt`                          | Done |
+| `transcript_fold.rs`                      | `TranscriptItems.kt`, `ToolRows.kt`       | Partial -- see below |
+| *(not started)*                           | `TranscriptSource.kt`                     | Not started |
+| *(not ported, and may never be)*          | `TranscriptUnits.kt`                      | Out of scope -- see below |
+
+Every file above whose Kotlin counterpart had a JVM unit test (`AnsiTest`,
+`HighlighterTest`, `TranscriptCacheTest`) has had every one of those test
+cases ported alongside it, plus new tests for the pieces that had none
+(`sse.rs`, `api.rs`, `event_stream.rs`, `transcript_fold.rs`). Test count by
+crate as of this writing: **85 in `client-core`**, 0 in `event-model` (its
+types carry no logic of their own to test -- `server/`'s own tests exercise
+them via `session::transcript`'s round-trip coverage).
+
+## Correspondence notes worth knowing before touching either side
+
+- **`ansi.rs`'s `StyledText`/`Style`/`Rgb`** stand in for Compose's
+  `AnnotatedString`/`SpanStyle`/`Color`, since this crate has no Compose.
+  `StyledText` is plain text plus a `Vec<(Range<usize>, Style)>` of
+  non-overlapping spans. Whatever UI framework ends up consuming this
+  crate maps `Style` onto its own text-styling type; nothing here should
+  change to accommodate a particular one.
+- **`highlight`'s `Span`/`Kind`** use **char indices, not byte offsets**
+  (`Vec<char>` internally), mirroring the Kotlin original's `Char`-indexed
+  strings. `highlight::span_text` turns a `Span` back into text for a
+  caller working the same way; a caller that wants byte offsets into a
+  `&str` has to convert.
+- **`transcript_cache.rs`'s `SessionCache::guard`** found a real
+  translation bug while it was being written: an early draft let a
+  *damaged* chunk (one file unreadable, discard just this session) and a
+  genuine I/O failure (disk gone, disable the whole cache) both surface as
+  the same `Err` from one closure, which would have disabled every
+  session's cache over a single corrupt chunk. Fixed by checking a
+  thread-local "was this damage" flag before deciding which failure mode
+  it was -- see the comment on `guard` and the commit message for
+  `transcript_cache.rs`.
+
+## What `api.rs` covers, and what it does not yet
+
+`ApiClient` wraps a `Transport` trait (network I/O kept out from behind, so
+`ApiClient` and `event_stream::follow_session_events` are tested with a
+fake transport and no server). `UreqTransport` is the only real
+implementation, backed by `ureq` -- see its Cargo.toml comment for why
+(blocking, already a project dependency, no extra TLS crate needed since
+`ureq::tls::Certificate::from_pem` reads the pinned CA directly).
+
+Covered: session list/read, message send, unqueue, answer, interrupt,
+stop, start, rename, cwd, model, permission-mode, notify, command,
+compact, delete, and one transcript page.
+
+**Not covered, and each is real work rather than a stub to fill in:**
+setups (`/setups*`, machine and provider discovery), the file explorer
+(`/setups/{id}/dir|file`), usage (`/usage`), models
+(`/models*`, HuggingFace browsing and downloads), attachments
+(`/sessions/{id}/attachments`), importing (`/setups/{id}/importable*`),
+and the `/notifications` stream. `server/src/routes.rs`'s module doc is
+the full table to work from when one of these is next.
+
+## What `transcript_fold.rs` covers, and what it does not yet
+
+`fold_event` covers every `Event` variant server/ can produce today,
+including tool-call/question/image attachment and peer-message placement.
+`group_tool_runs` groups adjacent calls into `TranscriptRow::Tools`.
+
+**Not ported:** `TranscriptItems.kt`'s `joinPages` (and its
+`healSplitMessage`/`adoptRun` helpers) -- the page-boundary healing that
+merges a tool call split across two fetched pages and re-merges a run a
+boundary cut through. This matters the moment paging backward through
+history is exercised; it is deliberately left rather than rushed, since
+it is exactly the kind of boundary logic this project's own "things that
+have bitten" section warns reads fine and is wrong at the edges.
+
+**Known gap, and a decision for whoever closes it:** `event_model::Event`
+has no `Unknown`/catch-all variant, unlike `Events.kt`'s hand-kept mirror.
+A server newer than this build that adds an event type will fail to parse
+that line rather than degrading to a placeholder row. Closing this means
+deciding how `event_model` itself represents "a shape I don't recognise"
+-- a shared-model decision affecting `server/` too, not a `client-core`-only
+fix, so it is recorded here rather than silently worked around.
+
+## What is not started at all
+
+- **`TranscriptSource.kt`** -- the layer that decides whether a page comes
+  from the transcript cache or the server, and stitches the two. Needs
+  `transcript_cache.rs` and `api.rs`'s transcript-page method, both of
+  which exist now, so this is unblocked whenever picked up.
+- **The markdown *block* model beyond syntax spans** -- `highlight/markdown.rs`
+  colours a `.md` file or fence for the highlighter, but does not build the
+  block tree (headings, lists, tables, fences as distinct nodes) that a
+  renderer walks to lay out prose versus code versus a table.
+  `CodeFence.kt`'s use of `org.intellij.markdown` for that full CommonMark
+  AST is Compose rendering plumbing, not something to port as-is; a Rust
+  UI layer will want its own block parser or a crate for it, decided
+  alongside the framework choice in RUST.md.
+- **`TranscriptUnits.kt`** (see above) -- deliberately out of scope, since
+  it flattens a row into bounded units for a *specific* lazy-list
+  framework's composition cost, which is a fact about that framework
+  rather than about the transcript.
+
+## Verifying
+
+`./run-tests.sh` from the repo root now runs `event-model`, `client-core`
+and `server` in that order (each `cargo test`, forwarding arguments the
+same way it always has). From `client-core/` directly: `cargo test`,
+`cargo clippy --all-targets`, `cargo fmt` -- all clean as of this writing.
diff --git a/run-tests.sh b/run-tests.sh
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 #!/bin/sh
-# Runs this repo's tests. Extra arguments are forwarded to `cargo test`,
-# e.g. `./run-tests.sh transcript` to run just the transcript tests.
+# Runs this repo's tests. Extra arguments are forwarded to each `cargo test`,
+# e.g. `./run-tests.sh transcript` to run just the transcript tests in all
+# three crates.
 #
-# Only `server/` has tests: it holds all the logic worth testing (event
-# normalization, transcript cursors, config persistence, token auth), while
-# the Android app is UI over its HTTP API. Verifying the app means running
-# it -- see AGENTS.md.
+# server/ holds the backend's own logic (event normalization, transcript
+# cursors, config persistence, token auth); event-model is the wire shape
+# server/ and client-core share; client-core is the app's pure logic held
+# once instead of twice (see CLIENT_CORE.md) -- the syntax highlighter, the
+# ANSI parser, the transcript cache and fold, the REST and SSE clients. It
+# is not wired into the Android app yet (RUST.md), which still carries its
+# own Kotlin copies and has no tests of its own to run here; verifying it
+# means running it -- see AGENTS.md.
 set -eu
-cd "$(dirname "$0")/server"
-exec cargo test "$@"
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+for crate in event-model client-core server; do
+  (cd "$crate" && cargo test "$@")
+done