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@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Not a decisions log; delete it when the extraction is done.
 
 ## Read this first
 
-**Pull request #11 was reviewed on 2026-09-13 and the review has not been read.**
-The session that got it was asked to write this document and stop rather than
-spend context on it. So the first thing to do is read it:
+**Pull request #11 has been reviewed four times; the fourth is answered in
+`29d390d` and the fifth has not arrived.** Check for one before doing anything
+else:
 
 ```sh
 TOKEN=$(cat ~/.config/gitea/token)
@@ -19,10 +19,18 @@ curl -s -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
   https://git.arirex.me/api/v1/repos/iris/iris/issues/11/comments
 ```
 
-Three rounds of review had already landed on #11 before this one, so check the
-newest `submitted_at` rather than assuming the first result is current. My
-replies to the earlier rounds are ordinary issue comments on the same PR and
-say what each change was for.
+Check the newest `submitted_at` rather than assuming the first result is
+current. My replies are ordinary issue comments on the same PR and say what
+each change was for.
+
+**Agree a design before sending another variation of it.** The owner stopped
+the fourth round with *"we should probably agree on the design here rather
+than you keep submitting variations that I review"*. When a review comes back
+about the shape of something rather than a defect in it, put the options and a
+recommendation in front of her and implement what she picks. She chose the
+per-image bind group for textures on 2026-09-13; the alternatives were
+packing images into arrays like atlas pages, and a bindless `binding_array`
+(ruled out by Android support).
 
 ## Stop point
 
@@ -31,8 +39,8 @@ say what each change was for.
 - Agent fork: `git@git.arirex.me:iris-ai/iris.git`. The bot cannot push
   canonical; work in the fork and open PRs into `iris/iris:main`.
 - **#11** `split/11-texture-bindings`, worktree `/home/bob/repos/iris-pr11`,
-  head `7b318e3`, eight commits on top of `0f6a28b`. Reviewed four times;
-  the fourth is unread.
+  head `29d390d`, nine commits on top of `0f6a28b`. Reviewed four times, all
+  answered.
 - **#12** `split/12-pointer-routing`, worktree `/home/bob/repos/iris-pr12`,
   head `028521b`. A scroll falling through a hovered button. Not reviewed as
   of the last check. Independent of #11 and can merge in either order.
@@ -40,31 +48,36 @@ say what each change was for.
 
 ## What #11 became
 
-It started as "draw the glyph atlas as an array texture" and the review turned
-it into a rework of how primitives are drawn. Worth knowing before reading the
-new review, because the earlier rounds are what produced this shape:
+It started as "draw the glyph atlas as an array texture" and four rounds of
+review turned it into a rework of how primitives are drawn. Worth knowing
+before reading a new review, because the earlier rounds are what produced this
+shape:
 
 - **Atlas pages are their own thing.** `GlyphAtlas` owns its page images and
   emits dirty rectangles; `GpuPages` owns the array texture they upload to.
   `Textures` holds standalone images only.
-- **Every primitive is a registration.** `PrimitiveRegistry::register::<P>`
-  takes the primitive's WGSL and what it samples, and returns a
-  `PrimitiveKind<P>`. Its list, free list, buffers, bind group layout and
-  pipeline all follow from that. Rect, glyph and texture are registered the
-  same way at startup, so a caller registering their own primitive with their
-  own shader takes the identical path. That is deliberate — the owner wants
-  custom user shaders later.
+- **A primitive registers itself by being drawn.** The type carries its own
+  WGSL and `PrimitiveRegistry` keys ids by `TypeId`, so the kind comes from the
+  type and there are no `RECT`/`GLYPH`/`TEXTURE` constants. Built-ins are
+  seeded up front only so first-draw order cannot shuffle them.
 - **Nothing dispatches dynamically.** Push, free, renumber, upload and draw are
   identical for every primitive; only the entry size and the pipeline differ,
   and those are data. `InstanceList` carries a runtime stride and its data as
   bytes. Measured: 0.2ns per write over a statically typed list, against 1.6ns
   for a trait object.
+- **The shared group is what every pipeline gets**: window, masks, the glyph
+  atlas array, and the one sampler. A mask texture would go here too. A
+  primitive that samples an image of its own declares `Primitive::TEXTURE`,
+  which gives it an image bind group, a draw call per instance, and the slot
+  recorded at write time; no other pipeline mentions textures at all.
 - **`shader.wgsl` became `shader/prelude.wgsl` plus one file per primitive**,
   because one module cannot declare two types at the same binding. The prelude
-  carries the window, masks, sampled texture, vertex shader and `masked()`.
-- **Within a layer, types draw in registration order** — rect under glyph under
-  texture. Order within a layer was never meaningful (freeing an instance
-  swaps another into its place), and layers are the compositing mechanism.
+  carries the window, masks, atlas, sampler, vertex shader and `masked()`, and
+  is the one place binding numbers are written down.
+- **Order within a layer means nothing** and nothing claims otherwise -- but
+  the widgets do rely on it today, since a `Text` over a `Rect` in one layer
+  only works because glyph registers after rect. Open question, raised on the
+  PR: text may need a layer of its own.
 
 ## Standing instructions from the owner