client-core: an unasked page is not an empty one, and two guarded invariants

Review of 73251d6's port of TranscriptSource/joinPages.

`TranscriptSource::page` answered `before == 0` with an empty `Vec`, which
is the same value it answers "this conversation has no more history" with.
That is the state the Kotlin keeps apart: `loadOlderPage` returns false at
`oldestSeq == 0` *without* touching `moreHistory`, and returns false on an
empty page *by latching it*. Collapsing the two moved AGENTS.md's paging
bug one layer down rather than fixing it. `page` returns `OlderPage` now --
`Events(vec![])` is the start of the conversation, `NothingLoaded` is not
an answer about the conversation at all.

`join_pages`' `debug_assert!` on seq ordering across the boundary is not a
true invariant: a peer note carries the seq its turn began at, which can be
older than the page it arrived in, so an ordinary transcript would have
panicked a debug build there. Replaced with the one the function exists to
enforce -- no tool id surviving in both halves.

`fetch_transcript_lines` stores `RawValue`'s exact server bytes, so the
"neither source can produce a newline" comment in `SessionCache::append`
now rests on the server's serializer staying compact rather than on a
local normalization. Checked with a `debug_assert!` in `append` and
`store_page` rather than trusted.

Tests for the failure half, which the port had none of: a 500 mid-page, a
cached line this build cannot read, and the `after` bound in the case that
actually carries one (the existing test asserted only the case with no
bound). `cargo fmt`, `cargo clippy --all-targets`, `cargo test` (112) clean
in client-core; `cargo check -p desktop-app` clean.

AGENTS.md

@@ -261,6 +261,13 @@ Each exists because something was invisible without it.
   framework, from `atrace` text output with no trace processor needed. It is
   how the cost of a layout node per link was attributed to the framework
   rather than guessed at.
+- **`iris/android-app/build-apk.sh [debug|release] [--abi ...] [--features
+  ...]`** builds iris-android-app's cdylib (`cargo ndk`) and its APK
+  (Gradle) in one step and verifies the result (`aapt2`/`apksigner`), and
+  **`iris/android-app/run-bench.sh [--apk PATH]`** installs it on this
+  checkout's own emulator, taps "Run benchmark" by label, and prints the
+  report -- written so the P0 build/install/tap/read-report cycle stops
+  being retyped by hand each time (docs/RUST.md's P0 box).
 
 ### Driving the UI
 

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/BenchRun.kt

@@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ package com.example.aiapp
 import android.content.Context
 import android.os.BatteryManager
 import android.os.Process
-import androidx.compose.animation.core.tween
+import android.view.View
-import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.animateScrollBy
+import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.FlingBehavior
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListState
+import androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusRequester
+import androidx.core.view.ViewCompat
+import androidx.core.view.WindowInsetsCompat
+import androidx.core.view.WindowInsetsControllerCompat
 import java.io.File
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
 import kotlinx.coroutines.delay
@@ -19,27 +23,84 @@ import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
  * here against [LazyListState] and [BenchFixture] directly. Only reachable from the `bench` build
  * (see [SessionSettingsDialog]'s `onRunBenchmark`), but compiled into every build for the reason
  * [BenchFixture]'s doc comment gives.
+ *
+ * **v2 (2026-09-06)**, asked for by Iris because the v1 fling was too gentle to stress-test the
+ * scroll path and said nothing about typing or the keyboard. Four phases now, each a slice of the
+ * same [FrameStats] recording ([FrameStats.markPhase]/[FrameStats.phaseLines] -- one recorder, not
+ * two): **fling** (real `FlingBehavior`, not `animateScrollBy`), **stream** (unchanged from v1),
+ * **type** (600 fixed characters into the real composer `TextFieldValue`, then deleted), and
+ * **keyboard** (five show/hide cycles). The exact constants below are also written into
+ * `docs/RUST.md`'s P0 box, "Benchmark v2 (2026-09-06)", so the iris half implements the identical
+ * spec -- changing a number here without updating that box makes the two apps measure different
+ * things while looking like the same benchmark.
  */
 object BenchRun {
-    /** transcript-bench.sh's default: 6 cycles of 4 swipes each, 900px over 200ms, 500ms apart. */
+    /** transcript-bench.sh's default: 6 cycles of 4 swipes each, kept as the pre-v2 comparison. */
     private const val CYCLES = 6
     private const val SWIPE_PX = 900f
     private const val SWIPE_MS = 200
     private const val SWIPE_PAUSE_MS = 500L
 
+    /**
+     * Fling phase (v2): a real fling through the list's own [FlingBehavior], not `animateScrollBy`
+     * -- Iris's ask was that it "travel way faster" than the old tween-based swipe, and a tween can
+     * never exceed the distance it is told to cover in the time it is given, while a real fling
+     * decays from an initial velocity the way a finger flick does. 12,000 px/s is roughly a hard,
+     * fast flick on a ~420dp/in device (about 30 dp/ms-equivalent initial speed); chosen well above
+     * the ~4,500 px/s a moderate `animateScrollBy` swipe implies, so this phase exercises the fast
+     * end of what the platform's fling decay produces rather than the gentle one v1 measured.
+     */
+    private const val FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S = 12_000f
+
+    private const val FLING_COUNT = 8
+    private const val FLING_SETTLE_CAP_MS = 3_000L
+    private const val FLING_PAUSE_MS = 300L
+
     /** stream-bench.sh's shape: a real reply arrives as many small deltas, not one big write. */
     private const val STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC = 20
     private const val STREAM_SECONDS = 20
 
     /**
-     * Scrolls, then streams, then returns the extra report lines P0 asked for (CPU time, peak RSS,
+     * Type phase (v2): sentences built from long, multisyllabic words so the composer actually
-     * battery current) -- [FrameStats] and [DebugStats] are reset first, exactly as
+     * wraps across lines rather than fitting one, and long enough (600 chars) that the composer's
-     * `copyRenderReport` resets them, so the two accountings cover the same stretch of work.
+     * own height grows over several frames, pushing the transcript above it upward the same way a
+     * real long message does. Exactly this string is also in `docs/RUST.md`'s P0 box so the iris
+     * half types the identical content.
+     */
+    const val TYPE_TEXT =
+        "Benchmarking this transcript screen requires unusually long, multisyllabic words so " +
+            "wrapping and reflow are properly exercised: internationalization, " +
+            "counterproductiveness, disproportionately, incomprehensibility, " +
+            "deinstitutionalization, uncharacteristically, overenthusiastically, " +
+            "misunderstanding, straightforwardness, telecommunications, and interdisciplinary " +
+            "collaboration all push a narrow composer field to wrap across several lines while " +
+            "the transcript above is pushed upward by the growing keyboard-adjacent box, which " +
+            "is exactly what a real reader typing a long message sees happening now!!!"
+
+    private const val TYPE_CHAR_DELAY_MS = 50L
+
+    /**
+     * Keyboard phase (v2): five show/hide cycles, a second apart, is enough to see whether the
+     * transition is ever actually observed rather than being a one-off fluke either way.
+     */
+    private const val KEYBOARD_CYCLES = 5
+    private const val KEYBOARD_SHOW_WAIT_MS = 1_000L
+    private const val KEYBOARD_HIDE_WAIT_MS = 1_000L
+
+    /**
+     * Scrolls, flings, streams, types and toggles the keyboard, then returns the extra report lines
+     * P0 asked for (per-phase travel/typing/keyboard counts, plus CPU time, peak RSS, battery
+     * current) -- [FrameStats] and [DebugStats] are reset first, exactly as `copyRenderReport`
+     * resets them, so the two accountings cover the same stretch of work.
      */
     suspend fun run(
         context: Context,
         scope: CoroutineScope,
         listState: LazyListState,
+        flingBehavior: FlingBehavior,
+        composerFocus: FocusRequester,
+        setComposerText: (String) -> Unit,
+        view: View,
     ): List<String> {
         FrameStats.reset()
         DebugStats.reset()
@@ -55,34 +116,10 @@ object BenchRun {
             }
         }
 
-        // The swipe loop: transcript-bench.sh's four swipes per cycle are two drags toward newer
+        val travel = runFlingPhase(listState, flingBehavior)
-        // content and two back, so a cycle returns to where it started and the whole loop measures
+        val sent = runStreamPhase()
-        // steady-state scrolling rather than travelling somewhere new each time.
+        runTypePhase(listState, composerFocus, setComposerText, view)
-        repeat(CYCLES) {
+        val keyboard = runKeyboardPhase(context, view)
-            repeat(2) {
-                listState.animateScrollBy(SWIPE_PX, tween(SWIPE_MS))
-                delay(SWIPE_PAUSE_MS)
-            }
-            repeat(2) {
-                listState.animateScrollBy(-SWIPE_PX, tween(SWIPE_MS))
-                delay(SWIPE_PAUSE_MS)
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Pinned to the newest end before streaming starts, the way stream-bench.sh's "Jump to
-        // latest" tap is -- a reply streamed into a list parked further back arrives off-screen and
-        // the report would show nothing happened.
-        listState.scrollToItem(0)
-
-        var sent = 0
-        val total = STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC * STREAM_SECONDS
-        while (sent < total && BenchFixture.remainingStreamEvents() > 0) {
-            BenchFixture.pushNextLiveEvent()
-            sent++
-            delay(1000L / STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC)
-        }
-        // Lets the last few deltas land and draw before the report is read.
-        delay(300)
 
         samplerJob.cancel()
         val cpuMs = Process.getElapsedCpuTime() - cpuStartMs
@@ -90,13 +127,158 @@ object BenchRun {
         val batteryLine = battery.finish()
 
         return listOf(
-            "  scroll: $CYCLES cycles (${CYCLES * 4} swipes), streamed $sent/$total fixture events",
+            "  fling: $FLING_COUNT flings out + $FLING_COUNT back at" +
+                " ${FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S.toInt()}px/s, travel $travel",
+            "  scroll: $CYCLES cycles (${CYCLES * 4} swipes, legacy tween), " +
+                "streamed $sent/${STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC * STREAM_SECONDS} fixture events",
+            "  type: ${TYPE_TEXT.length} characters inserted then deleted, one per" +
+                " ${TYPE_CHAR_DELAY_MS}ms",
+            keyboard,
             "  process CPU time over this run: ${cpuMs}ms",
             rssLine,
             batteryLine,
         )
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Phase 1: starting pinned at the newest end, [FLING_COUNT] flings away from it (toward older
+     * messages) through the list's real fling path, then [FLING_COUNT] back. Positive velocity here
+     * matches this list's existing scroll-offset convention (`TranscriptList`'s `reverseLayout`
+     * pins index 0 -- the newest item -- at the bottom; a positive scroll offset moves the viewport
+     * toward higher indices, i.e. away from the newest end and toward older content), the same sign
+     * the pre-v2 swipe loop below already used for its first two swipes.
+     */
+    private suspend fun runFlingPhase(
+        listState: LazyListState,
+        flingBehavior: FlingBehavior,
+    ): String {
+        FrameStats.markPhase("fling")
+        listState.scrollToItem(0)
+        val start = position(listState)
+        repeat(FLING_COUNT) {
+            listState.scroll { with(flingBehavior) { performFling(FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S) } }
+            waitForSettle(listState)
+            delay(FLING_PAUSE_MS)
+        }
+        val outward = position(listState)
+        repeat(FLING_COUNT) {
+            listState.scroll { with(flingBehavior) { performFling(-FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S) } }
+            waitForSettle(listState)
+            delay(FLING_PAUSE_MS)
+        }
+        val back = position(listState)
+        return "start=$start outward=$outward end=$back"
+    }
+
+    private fun position(listState: LazyListState) =
+        "idx=${listState.firstVisibleItemIndex}/off=${listState.firstVisibleItemScrollOffset}px"
+
+    /** Belt-and-suspenders on top of `performFling` already suspending until its own decay ends. */
+    private suspend fun waitForSettle(listState: LazyListState) {
+        val startedAt = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        while (
+            listState.isScrollInProgress &&
+                System.currentTimeMillis() - startedAt < FLING_SETTLE_CAP_MS
+        ) {
+            delay(16)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Phase 2 (unchanged from v1): pinned to the newest end before streaming starts, the way
+     * stream-bench.sh's "Jump to latest" tap is -- a reply streamed into a list parked further back
+     * arrives off-screen and the report would show nothing happened.
+     */
+    private suspend fun runStreamPhase(): Int {
+        FrameStats.markPhase("stream")
+        var sent = 0
+        val total = STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC * STREAM_SECONDS
+        while (sent < total && BenchFixture.remainingStreamEvents() > 0) {
+            BenchFixture.pushNextLiveEvent()
+            sent++
+            delay(1000L / STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC)
+        }
+        // Lets the last few deltas land and draw before the next phase starts.
+        delay(300)
+        return sent
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Phase 3: focuses the real composer, shows the keyboard if the platform allows it, then types
+     * [TYPE_TEXT] one character at a time through the same `TextFieldValue` state a real keystroke
+     * updates, and deletes it the same way -- this is what exercises wrapping and the transcript
+     * being pushed upward, not a single big write.
+     */
+    private suspend fun runTypePhase(
+        listState: LazyListState,
+        composerFocus: FocusRequester,
+        setComposerText: (String) -> Unit,
+        view: View,
+    ) {
+        FrameStats.markPhase("type")
+        listState.scrollToItem(0)
+        composerFocus.requestFocus()
+        showIme(view.context, view)
+        // Lets focus and the keyboard's opening animation land before typing starts, so the frames
+        // this phase records are the wrap/reflow it is measuring, not the keyboard opening.
+        delay(300)
+        var typed = ""
+        for (ch in TYPE_TEXT) {
+            typed += ch
+            setComposerText(typed)
+            delay(TYPE_CHAR_DELAY_MS)
+        }
+        delay(200)
+        while (typed.isNotEmpty()) {
+            typed = typed.dropLast(1)
+            setComposerText(typed)
+            delay(TYPE_CHAR_DELAY_MS)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Phase 4: [KEYBOARD_CYCLES] show/hide cycles through the same [WindowInsetsControllerCompat]
+     * path a real IME toggle goes through, reporting how many of each were actually confirmed by
+     * [android.view.WindowInsets.isVisible] rather than assumed from having asked -- UI_RULES:
+     * never present an inferred value as a measured one. If the platform never shows it even once,
+     * this says so in words rather than reporting a phase with no keyboard in it.
+     */
+    private suspend fun runKeyboardPhase(context: Context, view: View): String {
+        FrameStats.markPhase("keyboard")
+        var shown = 0
+        var hidden = 0
+        repeat(KEYBOARD_CYCLES) {
+            showIme(context, view)
+            delay(KEYBOARD_SHOW_WAIT_MS)
+            if (imeVisible(view)) shown++
+            hideIme(context, view)
+            delay(KEYBOARD_HIDE_WAIT_MS)
+            if (!imeVisible(view)) hidden++
+        }
+        return if (shown == 0) {
+            "  keyboard: could not be shown ($KEYBOARD_CYCLES attempts, 0 confirmed visible)"
+        } else {
+            "  keyboard: shown $shown/$KEYBOARD_CYCLES, hidden $hidden/$KEYBOARD_CYCLES" +
+                " (confirmed via isImeVisible)"
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun controller(context: Context, view: View): WindowInsetsControllerCompat? {
+        val window = context.activity()?.window ?: return null
+        return WindowInsetsControllerCompat(window, view)
+    }
+
+    private fun showIme(context: Context, view: View) {
+        controller(context, view)?.show(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime())
+    }
+
+    private fun hideIme(context: Context, view: View) {
+        controller(context, view)?.hide(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime())
+    }
+
+    private fun imeVisible(view: View): Boolean =
+        ViewCompat.getRootWindowInsets(view)?.isVisible(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime()) ?: false
+
     /** VmHWM from /proc/self/status: the process's high-water mark, in kB, since it started. */
     private fun peakRssLine(): String {
         val kb =

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/DebugStats.kt

@@ -134,6 +134,13 @@ fun debugReport(
      * render-report button reads exactly as it did before this existed.
      */
     extra: List<String> = emptyList(),
+    /**
+     * Bench v2's per-phase frame accounting ([FrameStats.phaseLines]) --
+     * fling/stream/type/keyboard, each a slice of the same frames the whole-run sections below
+     * still cover in full. Empty on every path but the scripted bench run, same reasoning as
+     * [extra].
+     */
+    phaseFrames: List<String> = emptyList(),
 ): String = buildString {
     appendLine("ai-app render report")
     appendLine(device)
@@ -148,6 +155,11 @@ fun debugReport(
     appendLine("transcript:")
     transcript.forEach { appendLine(it) }
     appendLine()
+    if (phaseFrames.isNotEmpty()) {
+        appendLine("per phase:")
+        phaseFrames.forEach { appendLine(it) }
+        appendLine()
+    }
     appendLine("frames:")
     frames.forEach { appendLine(it) }
     appendLine()

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/FrameStats.kt

@@ -42,6 +42,21 @@ object FrameStats {
     private val gpu = ArrayList<Long>()
     private var since = System.currentTimeMillis()
 
+    /**
+     * Where a named phase of a scripted run (bench v2's fling/stream/type/keyboard) started, as an
+     * index into [total] and a wall-clock time -- not a second recorder, just a mark on this one,
+     * so a phase's frames are the same [FrameMetrics] the whole-run report already has, sliced.
+     */
+    private data class PhaseMark(val name: String, val startIndex: Int, val startMs: Long)
+
+    private val phaseMarks = ArrayList<PhaseMark>()
+
+    /** Call at the start of each named phase of a scripted run; see [BenchRun]. */
+    @Synchronized
+    fun markPhase(name: String) {
+        phaseMarks += PhaseMark(name, total.size, System.currentTimeMillis())
+    }
+
     @Synchronized
     fun add(metrics: FrameMetrics) {
         // The first frame after a window opens includes inflating it and is nobody's scroll.
@@ -69,6 +84,7 @@ object FrameStats {
         listOf(total, waited, input, animation, layout, draw, sync, issue, swap, gpu).forEach {
             it.clear()
         }
+        phaseMarks.clear()
         since = System.currentTimeMillis()
     }
 
@@ -95,6 +111,38 @@ object FrameStats {
         ) + if (gpu.isEmpty()) emptyList() else listOf(phase("gpu   ", gpu))
     }
 
+    /**
+     * One block per [markPhase] call: how many frames landed between that mark and the next (or the
+     * end of the run, for the last one), how many were late, the total/p50/p90/p99, the worst
+     * single frame, and how long the phase actually ran. Marks with no frames between them (a phase
+     * that finished before a frame was drawn) still get a line rather than being silently dropped
+     * -- UI_RULES' "say what you don't know" applies to a phase as much as to a single number.
+     */
+    @Synchronized
+    fun phaseLines(refreshHz: Float): List<String> {
+        if (phaseMarks.isEmpty()) return emptyList()
+        val budget = if (refreshHz > 0) 1000.0 / refreshHz else 16.7
+        val lines = ArrayList<String>()
+        phaseMarks.forEachIndexed { i, mark ->
+            val endIndex = if (i + 1 < phaseMarks.size) phaseMarks[i + 1].startIndex else total.size
+            val endMs =
+                if (i + 1 < phaseMarks.size) phaseMarks[i + 1].startMs
+                else System.currentTimeMillis()
+            val samples = total.subList(mark.startIndex, endIndex)
+            val seconds = (endMs - mark.startMs) / 1000.0
+            lines += "  ${mark.name}: ${samples.size} frames over ${"%.1f".format(seconds)}s"
+            if (samples.isEmpty()) {
+                lines += "    no frames recorded in this phase"
+            } else {
+                val late = samples.count { it / 1_000_000.0 > budget }
+                lines += "    late: $late (${percent(late, samples.size)})"
+                lines += "    " + phase("total ", samples)
+                lines += "    worst ${"%.1fms".format(samples.max() / 1_000_000.0)}"
+            }
+        }
+        return lines
+    }
+
     /** How long the frames recorded here spent in their draw phase, and how many there were. */
     @Synchronized fun drawPhase(): Pair<Long, Int> = draw.sum() to draw.size
 

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/MainActivity.kt

@@ -187,13 +187,20 @@ class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
             model = null,
             keepsOwnTranscript = false,
             permissionMode = null,
+            effort = null,
+            takesEffort = false,
             imported = false,
             notify = false,
+            autoResume = false,
+            autoResumeMessage = "",
+            resumeAt = null,
             cwd = null,
             contextTokens = null,
             maxImageEdge = null,
+            usageProvider = null,
             status = "idle",
             lastActivity = 0.0,
+            subagents = 0,
         )
 
     // launchMode="singleTop": an enrollment scan, or a notification tapped while the app is open,

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import androidx.activity.result.PickVisualMediaRequest
 import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts
 import androidx.compose.foundation.background
 import androidx.compose.foundation.clickable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.ScrollableDefaults
 import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.awaitEachGesture
 import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.awaitFirstDown
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
@@ -64,12 +65,15 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.snapshots.Snapshot
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.draw.drawWithContent
+import androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusRequester
+import androidx.compose.ui.focus.focusRequester
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.graphicsLayer
 import androidx.compose.ui.input.pointer.PointerEventPass
 import androidx.compose.ui.input.pointer.pointerInput
 import androidx.compose.ui.layout.onSizeChanged
 import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext
 import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalDensity
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalView
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.contentDescription
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.semantics
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextRange
@@ -354,6 +358,17 @@ fun SessionScreen(
     // `rememberSaveable`, and this screen restores by its own anchor instead -- two restores would
     // fight over the first frame.
     val listState = remember(address) { LazyListState() }
+    // The list's own fling path -- what a real flick decays through -- captured here so BenchRun's
+    // fling phase can drive `LazyListState.scroll` through exactly the `FlingBehavior` this
+    // screen's
+    // `TranscriptList` already uses by not overriding it (its `LazyColumn` takes no `flingBehavior`
+    // argument, so this is the same default it gets).
+    val flingBehavior = ScrollableDefaults.flingBehavior()
+    // Where BenchRun's type phase focuses before it types, and the view it toggles the keyboard on
+    // -- both bench-only, but cheap enough (a remembered object, a CompositionLocal read) to hold
+    // unconditionally rather than behind a second code path only the bench build compiles.
+    val composerFocus = remember { FocusRequester() }
+    val view = LocalView.current
     // Whether the newest message is on screen right now. The list is reversed, so the newest end is
     // the scrolling start: nothing behind you is exactly being at the bottom. Asked of the scroll
     // state rather than of item indices, because a zero-height first item makes an index ambiguous.
@@ -1256,6 +1271,10 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                     FrameStats.drawPhase().let { (nanos, count) -> drawAccounting(nanos, count) },
                 crash = lastCrash(context),
                 extra = extra,
+                // Empty outside a BenchRun.run pass -- copyRenderReport's own reset below clears
+                // the
+                // marks along with everything else, so an ordinary copy never has any to show.
+                phaseFrames = FrameStats.phaseLines(context.refreshHz()),
             )
         context.copyToClipboard("ai-app render report", report)
         // Also to the log, so a session driving the app over adb can read the same report the
@@ -1270,15 +1289,24 @@ fun SessionScreen(
         Toast.makeText(context, "Copied render report", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
     }
     val copyRenderReport = { buildAndCopyReport() }
-    // Bench build only: P0's scripted scroll-and-stream benchmark (BenchRun.kt), against the
+    // Bench build only: P0's scripted fling/stream/type/keyboard benchmark (BenchRun.kt), against
-    // fixture session opened below instead of a real server. Null everywhere else -- see
+    // the fixture session opened below instead of a real server. Null everywhere else -- see
     // [SessionSettingsDialog]'s onRunBenchmark.
     val runBenchmark: (() -> Unit)? =
         if (BuildConfig.FIXTURE_MODE) {
             {
                 settingsOpen = false
                 scope.launch {
-                    val extra = BenchRun.run(context, scope, listState)
+                    val extra =
+                        BenchRun.run(
+                            context = context,
+                            scope = scope,
+                            listState = listState,
+                            flingBehavior = flingBehavior,
+                            composerFocus = composerFocus,
+                            setComposerText = { text -> input = atEnd(text) },
+                            view = view,
+                        )
                     buildAndCopyReport(extra)
                 }
             }
@@ -1777,7 +1805,10 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                             input = it
                             saveDraft(context, summary.id, it.text)
                         },
-                        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+                        // BenchRun's type phase requests focus on this exact field
+                        // (`composerFocus`)
+                        // so it types through the real composer rather than a stand-in.
+                        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().focusRequester(composerFocus),
                         // No longer "(+image)": the images are on screen above this, and a
                         // placeholder saying so said it in words beside the thing itself.
                         placeholder = { Text("Message") },

client-core/Cargo.toml

@@ -17,7 +17,12 @@ edition = "2024"
 [dependencies]
 event-model = { path = "../event-model" }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = { version = "1", features = ["float_roundtrip"] }
+# "raw_value" is `fetch_transcript_lines`'s reason -- it needs the exact
+# bytes the server sent, not this crate's own re-serialization of a parsed
+# `Value`, so a cached line and a live SSE frame for the same event agree
+# byte-for-byte (see that method's doc). "float_roundtrip" is why they
+# agree on a `ts` at all -- see server/Cargo.toml's identical comment.
+serde_json = { version = "1", features = ["float_roundtrip", "raw_value"] }
 # The blocking HTTP client for the REST calls and the long-lived SSE GETs.
 # `server/` already depends on ureq for its own outbound HTTPS (the usage
 # poll in usage.rs) and it is rustls-backed like the rest of this project's

client-core/src/api.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 use std::io::Read;
 
+use event_model::SeqEvent;
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use serde_json::Value;
 
@@ -116,6 +117,14 @@ impl<T: Transport> ApiClient<T> {
         Self { transport }
     }
 
+    /// The transport underneath, for a caller that needs the raw SSE
+    /// stream (`event_stream::follow_session_events`) rather than one of
+    /// this client's typed REST calls -- `transcript_source::TranscriptSource`
+    /// is the one that does.
+    pub fn transport(&self) -> &T {
+        &self.transport
+    }
+
     fn json_request<R: for<'de> Deserialize<'de>>(
         &self,
         method: &str,
@@ -266,15 +275,72 @@ impl<T: Transport> ApiClient<T> {
         limit: u32,
         coalesce: bool,
     ) -> Result<Vec<Value>, ApiError> {
-        let mut path = format!("/sessions/{session_id}/transcript?limit={limit}");
+        self.json_request(
-        if let Some(before) = before {
+            "GET",
-            path.push_str(&format!("&before={before}"));
+            &transcript_path(session_id, before, limit, coalesce, None),
-        }
+            None,
-        if coalesce {
+        )
-            path.push_str("&coalesce=true");
-        }
-        self.json_request("GET", &path, None)
     }
+
+    /// A page of transcript history, each line handed back paired with the
+    /// exact text it came from, and bounded below by `after` -- the shape
+    /// `crate::transcript_source::TranscriptSource` needs to store what it
+    /// fetched in the transcript cache without a second round trip to fetch
+    /// the raw text separately. Ported from `Api.kt`'s `fetchTranscript`.
+    ///
+    /// Uses [`serde_json::value::RawValue`] rather than re-serializing a
+    /// parsed [`Value`], so the stored line is the exact bytes the server
+    /// sent (key order and float literal included) rather than this
+    /// crate's own idea of how to write them back out -- the cache and a
+    /// live SSE frame must agree byte-for-byte on the same event, which is
+    /// exactly what caught the `serde_json` float-rounding bug this
+    /// project's `AGENTS.md` records.
+    pub fn fetch_transcript_lines(
+        &self,
+        session_id: &str,
+        before: Option<u64>,
+        limit: u32,
+        coalesce: bool,
+        after: Option<u64>,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<(String, SeqEvent)>, ApiError> {
+        let path = transcript_path(session_id, before, limit, coalesce, after);
+        let raw: Vec<Box<serde_json::value::RawValue>> = self.json_request("GET", &path, None)?;
+        raw.into_iter()
+            .map(|value| {
+                let line = value.get().to_string();
+                let event: SeqEvent = serde_json::from_str(&line).map_err(|e| ApiError {
+                    message: format!(
+                        "the server sent a transcript line this build couldn't parse: {e}"
+                    ),
+                    status: None,
+                })?;
+                Ok((line, event))
+            })
+            .collect()
+    }
+}
+
+/// The query string shared by [`ApiClient::fetch_transcript_page`] and
+/// [`ApiClient::fetch_transcript_lines`], so the two agree on how each
+/// parameter is written rather than keeping two copies to drift.
+fn transcript_path(
+    session_id: &str,
+    before: Option<u64>,
+    limit: u32,
+    coalesce: bool,
+    after: Option<u64>,
+) -> String {
+    let mut path = format!("/sessions/{session_id}/transcript?limit={limit}");
+    if let Some(before) = before {
+        path.push_str(&format!("&before={before}"));
+    }
+    if coalesce {
+        path.push_str("&coalesce=true");
+    }
+    if let Some(after) = after {
+        path.push_str(&format!("&after={after}"));
+    }
+    path
 }
 
 /// The blocking [`Transport`] backed by `ureq`, the same crate `server/`

client-core/src/lib.rs

@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ pub mod notifications;
 pub mod sse;
 pub mod transcript_cache;
 pub mod transcript_fold;
+pub mod transcript_source;
 
 pub use event_model::*;

client-core/src/transcript_cache.rs

@@ -361,6 +361,10 @@ impl SessionCache {
             {
                 return Ok(false);
             }
+            debug_assert!(
+                lines.iter().all(|l| !l.contains('\n')),
+                "a stored page's lines must each be one line"
+            );
             fs::create_dir_all(&this.dir)?;
             let kind = if rows { "rows" } else { "raw" };
             let mut content = lines.join("\n");
@@ -389,8 +393,16 @@ impl SessionCache {
                 return Ok(());
             };
             // Written as it arrived. A newline inside it would split one
-            // event into two unreadable halves, but neither source can
+            // event into two unreadable halves. No source here can produce
-            // produce one.
+            // one -- an SSE `data:` field cannot hold a raw newline, and a
+            // fetched line is one element of a compact JSON array -- but
+            // that is a fact about the *server's* serializer rather than
+            // anything this file controls, so it is checked rather than
+            // trusted.
+            debug_assert!(
+                !line.contains('\n'),
+                "a cached transcript line must be one line: {line}"
+            );
             use std::io::Write;
             writer.write_all(line.as_bytes())?;
             writer.write_all(b"\n")?;

client-core/src/transcript_fold.rs

@@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ pub enum TranscriptItem {
     ClearedNote {
         seq: u64,
     },
+    /// The account's usage limit stopped the turn; `resets_at` is epoch
+    /// seconds when the dialect said when it lifts (`LimitNote` in
+    /// `TranscriptItems.kt`).
+    LimitNote {
+        seq: u64,
+        resets_at: Option<f64>,
+    },
     CompactedNote {
         seq: u64,
         pre_tokens: Option<u64>,
@@ -131,6 +138,7 @@ impl TranscriptItem {
             | Self::CommandRow { seq, .. }
             | Self::Note { seq, .. }
             | Self::ClearedNote { seq }
+            | Self::LimitNote { seq, .. }
             | Self::CompactedNote { seq, .. } => *seq,
             Self::QuestionCard(card) => card.seq,
         }
@@ -286,6 +294,199 @@ fn split_run(tail: &[TranscriptItem], behind: Option<&str>) -> Vec<TranscriptIte
     out
 }
 
+/// Puts a page of older items in front of the ones already loaded, healing
+/// whatever the page boundary cut in two. Ported from `TranscriptItems.kt`'s
+/// `joinPages`.
+///
+/// Two things straddle a boundary: a tool call separated from its result,
+/// and a message separated from the rest of itself. Both were one thing
+/// before the transcript was cut into pages.
+///
+/// A boundary lands wherever it lands, and roughly half the time that is
+/// between a call and its result. The newer page then holds a `ToolEnd`
+/// whose start it never saw, which `fold_event` draws as a row of its own
+/// -- correctly, because a call that renders as nothing is indistinguishable
+/// from one that never happened. When the older page arrives it brings the
+/// real `ToolStart`, and concatenating the two lists left *both*: the same
+/// call twice.
+///
+/// Merged by the call's own id rather than by position, because position is
+/// exactly what a page boundary destroys. The older row wins on what a
+/// start knows and the newer on what an end knows, which is the only way
+/// round that loses nothing.
+///
+/// The third thing is the *run*, and it is the one the Kotlin original used
+/// to miss (AGENTS.md's "things that have bitten"): every page ends up
+/// here, but `adopt_run` must run on *every* join, not only the one where a
+/// split call was found -- a boundary landing cleanly between two finished
+/// calls, which is most of them, would otherwise leave the older page's
+/// calls under the run name they were folded with. On screen: one run of
+/// tool calls drawn as two groups, with the seam wherever the reader
+/// happened to have paged.
+pub fn join_pages(earlier: &[TranscriptItem], later: &[TranscriptItem]) -> Vec<TranscriptItem> {
+    let (older, newer) = heal_split_message(earlier, later);
+    let started_earlier: std::collections::HashSet<&str> = older
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(TranscriptItem::as_tool_run)
+        .collect();
+    // Owned rather than borrowed from `newer`: `kept` below needs to consume `newer` by
+    // value, and a map borrowing it would keep that alive.
+    let ended_later: std::collections::HashMap<String, TranscriptItem> = newer
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|item| item.as_tool_run().map(|id| (id.to_string(), item.clone())))
+        .filter(|(id, _)| started_earlier.contains(id.as_str()))
+        .collect();
+    let healed: Vec<TranscriptItem> = older
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|row| match row {
+            TranscriptItem::ToolRun {
+                seq,
+                id,
+                run_id,
+                tool,
+                input,
+                asks: row_asks,
+                images: row_images,
+                ..
+            } if ended_later.contains_key(id.as_str()) => {
+                let &TranscriptItem::ToolRun {
+                    ref output,
+                    done,
+                    asks: ref half_asks,
+                    images: ref half_images,
+                    ..
+                } = &ended_later[id.as_str()]
+                else {
+                    unreachable!("filtered to ToolRun above");
+                };
+                TranscriptItem::ToolRun {
+                    seq,
+                    id,
+                    run_id,
+                    tool,
+                    input,
+                    output: output.clone(),
+                    done,
+                    // Kept from both halves: a question or an image can be
+                    // attached to either, depending on which side of the
+                    // boundary its event fell.
+                    asks: row_asks.into_iter().chain(half_asks.clone()).collect(),
+                    images: row_images.into_iter().chain(half_images.clone()).collect(),
+                }
+            }
+            other => other,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    let kept: Vec<TranscriptItem> = newer
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|item| match item.as_tool_run() {
+            Some(id) => !ended_later.contains_key(id),
+            None => true,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    let mut out = adopt_run(&healed, &kept);
+    out.extend(kept);
+    // What this function exists to prevent, checked rather than assumed: the same
+    // call drawn twice, once from the page that saw its start and once from the page
+    // that saw its end. Not a seq-ordering check -- a peer note is stamped with the
+    // seq its turn began at, which can be older than the page it arrived in, so the
+    // two pages' seqs legitimately interleave at the boundary.
+    debug_assert!(
+        {
+            let mut ids: Vec<&str> = out.iter().filter_map(TranscriptItem::as_tool_run).collect();
+            let before = ids.len();
+            ids.sort_unstable();
+            ids.dedup();
+            ids.len() == before
+        },
+        "join_pages left the same tool call in both halves"
+    );
+    out
+}
+
+/// Rejoins a message the page boundary cut, and hands back the two pages to
+/// concatenate. Ported from `TranscriptItems.kt`'s `healSplitMessage`.
+///
+/// `fold_event` never leaves two assistant messages next to each other
+/// inside one page, so two meeting at a join are always the two halves of
+/// one reply, and leaving them apart drew a single answer as two with a
+/// paragraph break through the middle of a sentence.
+///
+/// The newer half keeps its identity, for the reason `adopt_run`'s doc
+/// gives. It grows by what the older half brings, which is safe here and
+/// nowhere else -- the join is at the oldest end of what is loaded, so the
+/// growth extends off the top of the screen.
+fn heal_split_message(
+    earlier: &[TranscriptItem],
+    later: &[TranscriptItem],
+) -> (Vec<TranscriptItem>, Vec<TranscriptItem>) {
+    let (
+        Some(TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+            text: head_text, ..
+        }),
+        Some(TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+            seq: tail_seq,
+            text: tail_text,
+            settled: tail_settled,
+        }),
+    ) = (earlier.last(), later.first())
+    else {
+        return (earlier.to_vec(), later.to_vec());
+    };
+    let merged = TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+        seq: *tail_seq,
+        text: format!("{head_text}{tail_text}"),
+        settled: *tail_settled,
+    };
+    let mut newer = vec![merged];
+    newer.extend(later[1..].iter().cloned());
+    (earlier[..earlier.len() - 1].to_vec(), newer)
+}
+
+/// Hands the older calls at the join the name of the run they are joining.
+/// Ported from `TranscriptItems.kt`'s `adoptRun`.
+///
+/// The two pages were folded separately, so a run split by the boundary
+/// came back as two runs with two names. Naming the joined run after the
+/// *older* half would be the obvious way round and is wrong: the newer half
+/// is the part already on screen, and renaming it is renaming the row the
+/// reader is looking at, which is how a list loses its anchor.
+fn adopt_run(earlier: &[TranscriptItem], later: &[TranscriptItem]) -> Vec<TranscriptItem> {
+    let Some(TranscriptItem::ToolRun { run_id, tool, .. }) = later.first() else {
+        return earlier.to_vec();
+    };
+    // A question is in a run of its own on both sides of the join, the same as it would be
+    // had the two pages been folded as one. Without this the heal would merge a group
+    // straight through the row the reader was asked something on.
+    if tool == ASK_USER_QUESTION {
+        return earlier.to_vec();
+    }
+    let joining = run_id.clone();
+    let tail_len = earlier
+        .iter()
+        .rev()
+        .take_while(|item| matches!(item, TranscriptItem::ToolRun { tool, .. } if tool != ASK_USER_QUESTION))
+        .count();
+    if tail_len == 0 {
+        return earlier.to_vec();
+    }
+    let split = earlier.len() - tail_len;
+    let mut out = earlier[..split].to_vec();
+    out.extend(earlier[split..].iter().cloned().map(|mut item| {
+        // `take_while` above already restricted this slice to non-question tool calls;
+        // this just guards the invariant rather than trusting it silently.
+        debug_assert!(
+            matches!(&item, TranscriptItem::ToolRun { tool, .. } if tool != ASK_USER_QUESTION),
+            "adopt_run must never rename a question's own run"
+        );
+        if let TranscriptItem::ToolRun { run_id, .. } = &mut item {
+            *run_id = joining.clone();
+        }
+        item
+    }));
+    out
+}
+
 /// Folds one transcript event onto `items`, the way `foldEvent` does in
 /// `TranscriptItems.kt`. Every wire event has a case; see the module doc
 /// for the one difference from the Kotlin original (no `Unknown` fallback
@@ -525,6 +726,14 @@ pub fn fold_event(items: &[TranscriptItem], entry: &SeqEvent) -> Vec<TranscriptI
             items.push(TranscriptItem::ClearedNote { seq });
             items
         }
+        Event::LimitReached { resets_at } => {
+            let mut items = items.to_vec();
+            items.push(TranscriptItem::LimitNote {
+                seq,
+                resets_at: *resets_at,
+            });
+            items
+        }
         Event::Compacted {
             pre_tokens,
             post_tokens,
@@ -939,4 +1148,134 @@ mod tests {
         let err = fold_page(&values).unwrap_err();
         assert!(err.contains("couldn't parse"));
     }
+
+    fn tool_start(seq: u64, id: &str, tool: &str) -> SeqEvent {
+        event(
+            seq,
+            Event::ToolStart {
+                id: id.to_string(),
+                tool: tool.to_string(),
+                input: serde_json::json!({}),
+            },
+        )
+    }
+
+    fn tool_end(seq: u64, id: &str, output: &str) -> SeqEvent {
+        event(
+            seq,
+            Event::ToolEnd {
+                id: id.to_string(),
+                output: output.to_string(),
+            },
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// AGENTS.md's "things that have bitten": `joinPages` used to run
+    /// `adoptRun` only on the path where a *split* call was found, so a
+    /// boundary landing cleanly between two already-finished calls -- most
+    /// of them -- left the older page's calls under the run name they were
+    /// folded with, drawing one run of tool calls as two groups. Two
+    /// finished, unrelated calls (no id in common) must still end up under
+    /// one run name after the join.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_clean_boundary_between_two_finished_runs_is_still_healed_into_one_run() {
+        let older = fold_all(&[tool_start(1, "a", "Bash"), tool_end(2, "a", "old output")]);
+        let newer = fold_all(&[tool_start(3, "b", "Bash"), tool_end(4, "b", "new output")]);
+        let joined = join_pages(&older, &newer);
+        let run_ids: Vec<_> = joined
+            .iter()
+            .map(|item| match item {
+                TranscriptItem::ToolRun { run_id, .. } => run_id.as_str(),
+                other => panic!("expected only ToolRun items, got {other:?}"),
+            })
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(
+            run_ids,
+            vec!["b", "b"],
+            "the older call must adopt the newer, already-on-screen run's name"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_call_split_across_the_boundary_merges_into_one_row() {
+        let older = fold_all(&[tool_start(1, "x", "Bash")]);
+        let newer = fold_all(&[tool_end(2, "x", "the result")]);
+        let joined = join_pages(&older, &newer);
+        assert_eq!(
+            joined,
+            vec![TranscriptItem::ToolRun {
+                seq: 1,
+                id: "x".to_string(),
+                run_id: "x".to_string(),
+                tool: "Bash".to_string(),
+                input: "{}".to_string(),
+                output: "the result".to_string(),
+                done: true,
+                asks: Vec::new(),
+                images: Vec::new(),
+            }],
+            "the older half's tool/input and the newer half's output/done must both survive"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_message_split_across_the_boundary_is_rejoined_with_the_newer_halfs_identity() {
+        let older = vec![TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+            seq: 1,
+            text: "Hel".to_string(),
+            settled: false,
+        }];
+        let newer = vec![
+            TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+                seq: 2,
+                text: "lo".to_string(),
+                settled: true,
+            },
+            TranscriptItem::UserMsg {
+                seq: 3,
+                text: "next".to_string(),
+                attachments: Vec::new(),
+            },
+        ];
+        let joined = join_pages(&older, &newer);
+        assert_eq!(
+            joined,
+            vec![
+                TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+                    seq: 2,
+                    text: "Hello".to_string(),
+                    settled: true,
+                },
+                TranscriptItem::UserMsg {
+                    seq: 3,
+                    text: "next".to_string(),
+                    attachments: Vec::new(),
+                },
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A question is in a run of its own on both sides of a join -- healing
+    /// must never rename the run of calls the reader was asked something
+    /// on, the same rule `splitRun` enforces for a live turn boundary.
+    #[test]
+    fn adopt_run_never_renames_into_a_question_row() {
+        let older = fold_all(&[tool_start(1, "a", "Bash"), tool_end(2, "a", "done")]);
+        let newer = vec![TranscriptItem::ToolRun {
+            seq: 3,
+            id: "q".to_string(),
+            run_id: "q".to_string(),
+            tool: ASK_USER_QUESTION.to_string(),
+            input: "{}".to_string(),
+            output: String::new(),
+            done: false,
+            asks: Vec::new(),
+            images: Vec::new(),
+        }];
+        let joined = join_pages(&older, &newer);
+        match &joined[0] {
+            TranscriptItem::ToolRun { run_id, .. } => assert_eq!(run_id, "a"),
+            other => panic!("expected a ToolRun, got {other:?}"),
+        }
+    }
 }

client-core/src/transcript_source.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,588 @@
+//! Where a session screen gets a transcript from: this phone's copy first,
+//! the server for the rest. Ported from `app/.../TranscriptSource.kt`; see
+//! `docs/TRANSCRIPT_CACHE.md` for the design this implements and
+//! `docs/CLIENT_CORE.md` for how this file corresponds to the Kotlin.
+//!
+//! One seam rather than a cache the screen has to remember to consult.
+//! Everything fetched before is asked of this, and everything the server
+//! sends is written into the cache on the way past, so a caller never
+//! learns which side answered. The one rule worth keeping in mind: the
+//! cache is never load-bearing. Every read here has a network path beside
+//! it producing the same result.
+//!
+//! **Not ported**: `EventStream.kt`'s reconnect-with-backoff loop and the
+//! ability to close a live stream from another thread. Both are wall-clock
+//! and thread-lifetime concerns that belong to whatever runtime the caller
+//! embeds this crate in (a Tokio task, an iris timer, a Kotlin coroutine
+//! scope) rather than to this pure logic -- `follow` below is the same
+//! decorator shape `iris/desktop-app/src/app.rs` and
+//! `iris/android-app/src/transcript_client.rs` already hand-wrote around
+//! `event_stream::follow_session_events`, just with the cache write built
+//! in so a future caller does not have to repeat it a third time.
+
+use event_model::SeqEvent;
+
+use crate::api::{ApiClient, ApiError, Transport};
+use crate::event_stream::{self, StreamItem};
+use crate::transcript_cache::SessionCache;
+
+/// How many events a session screen opens with, cached or fetched.
+///
+/// The server's own default page size, named here because the cached
+/// opening has to be the same size as the fetched one -- a reader must not
+/// get a shorter first screen for having been here before (`OPENING_WINDOW`
+/// in the Kotlin original).
+pub const OPENING_WINDOW: u32 = 80;
+
+/// A transcript-line parse failure, told apart from [`ApiError`] so a
+/// caller can tell "the server is unreachable" from "the server (or this
+/// phone's own disk) sent something this build cannot read" -- the two
+/// mean different things to a reader (retry, versus a build that is
+/// behind).
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct ParseError(pub String);
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for ParseError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.write_str(&self.0)
+    }
+}
+impl std::error::Error for ParseError {}
+
+/// Either half of what can go wrong asking for a page: the network, or a
+/// line neither the cache's nor the server's copy of `parseSeqEvent` could
+/// read.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum PageError {
+    Api(ApiError),
+    Parse(ParseError),
+}
+
+impl From<ApiError> for PageError {
+    fn from(e: ApiError) -> Self {
+        Self::Api(e)
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<ParseError> for PageError {
+    fn from(e: ParseError) -> Self {
+        Self::Parse(e)
+    }
+}
+
+/// What [`TranscriptSource::page`] found, kept as two states rather than
+/// one possibly-empty list.
+///
+/// The difference is the whole of AGENTS.md's `loadOlderPage` incident: an
+/// empty [`Self::Events`] means "this conversation has no more history",
+/// which a caller is meant to latch, and [`Self::NothingLoaded`] means the
+/// question could not be asked yet, which it must not. Collapsing the two
+/// into an empty `Vec` puts the bug back, because the caller cannot tell
+/// them apart -- and `unwrap_or_default()` on an `Option` would do the
+/// same silently.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum OlderPage {
+    /// The events before the cursor, oldest first. Empty means the start
+    /// of the conversation has been reached.
+    Events(Vec<SeqEvent>),
+    /// Nothing is loaded, so there was no cursor to page back from
+    /// (`before == 0`). Not an answer about the conversation at all.
+    NothingLoaded,
+}
+
+fn parse_line(line: &str) -> Result<SeqEvent, ParseError> {
+    serde_json::from_str(line).map_err(|e| ParseError(format!("{e}")))
+}
+
+/// This phone's copy of one session's transcript, plus the server it
+/// falls back to. Ported from the Kotlin `TranscriptSource` class.
+pub struct TranscriptSource<T: Transport> {
+    api: ApiClient<T>,
+    session_id: String,
+    pub cache: SessionCache,
+}
+
+impl<T: Transport> TranscriptSource<T> {
+    pub fn new(api: ApiClient<T>, session_id: impl Into<String>, cache: SessionCache) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            api,
+            session_id: session_id.into(),
+            cache,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The cached opening window, or `None` when there is nothing usable
+    /// to draw.
+    ///
+    /// Meant to be drawn *before* [`Self::probe`] returns, which is the
+    /// whole point of the feature: the rows are on screen while the check
+    /// that they are still the server's rows is in flight, and a failed
+    /// check replaces them exactly as a reset does.
+    pub fn cached_opening(&self, limit: usize) -> Option<Vec<SeqEvent>> {
+        self.cache.tail()?;
+        let lines = self.cache.newest(limit);
+        if lines.is_empty() {
+            return None;
+        }
+        match lines.iter().map(|l| parse_line(l)).collect() {
+            Ok(events) => Some(events),
+            // A line this build cannot read at all, which the cache's own checks cannot
+            // see: it reads a seq off a line, not an event. Nothing to serve, so a cold
+            // open.
+            Err(ParseError(_)) => {
+                self.cache.purge();
+                None
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Whether the server's event at the cached cursor is still the cached
+    /// one.
+    ///
+    /// A caller must not resume a live stream from a cached seq unless it
+    /// is the same conversation: a transcript is append-only in ordinary
+    /// use, but the file backing it can be replaced or truncated (a
+    /// sandbox re-seeded with the same ids, a backup restored, a session
+    /// re-imported), and the server's catch-up on such a file would hand
+    /// this phone a continuation of a *different* conversation, spliced
+    /// onto the cached one with no seam. Caught with one request of a few
+    /// hundred bytes.
+    ///
+    /// `Ok(false)` purges the cache and means "open cold". `Err` is the
+    /// server not being askable, which is neither: the cached rows stay
+    /// on screen and the caller tries again on its own reconnect schedule.
+    ///
+    /// What this cannot see is a line changed in the middle of the file
+    /// with the tail intact -- that is what a full reload is for.
+    pub fn probe(&self) -> Result<bool, ApiError> {
+        let Some(tail) = self.cache.tail() else {
+            return Ok(false);
+        };
+        // `before = seq + 1` is the newest event with seq <= the cursor, which is the
+        // event *at* the cursor when the server still has one there.
+        let page = self.api.fetch_transcript_lines(
+            &self.session_id,
+            Some(tail.seq + 1),
+            1,
+            false,
+            None,
+        )?;
+        let matches = page.len() == 1
+            && parse_line(&tail.line)
+                .map(|cached| cached == page[0].1)
+                .unwrap_or(false);
+        if !matches {
+            self.cache.purge();
+        }
+        Ok(matches)
+    }
+
+    /// Today's opening fetch, kept as the start of the live run. Only
+    /// called when the cache has nothing to open with, or when
+    /// [`Self::probe`] said what it had was not the server's.
+    pub fn fetch_opening(&self) -> Result<Vec<SeqEvent>, ApiError> {
+        let page =
+            self.api
+                .fetch_transcript_lines(&self.session_id, None, OPENING_WINDOW, false, None)?;
+        for (line, event) in &page {
+            self.cache.append(line, event.seq);
+        }
+        self.cache.flush();
+        Ok(page.into_iter().map(|(_, event)| event).collect())
+    }
+
+    /// The page before `before`: from the cache when it holds it,
+    /// otherwise from the server bounded by what the cache already has.
+    ///
+    /// The server bound (`after`) is what keeps the cache worth having. A
+    /// coalesced page reaches back as far as its row count takes it -- a
+    /// single reply is hundreds of lines -- so a page fetched after the
+    /// reader has been away could run straight past the cached run and
+    /// overlap it, and an overlapping page cannot be stored. Told where
+    /// this phone's copy starts, the server stops there instead.
+    ///
+    /// `before == 0` answers [`OlderPage::NothingLoaded`] without asking
+    /// the cache or the server anything -- see AGENTS.md's "things that
+    /// have bitten": there is no event before the first one, so the
+    /// request is not a harmless no-op, and its empty answer is
+    /// indistinguishable from having reached the start of history.
+    /// Guarded here rather than left to every caller, because it is a fact
+    /// about the question, not about who is asking it.
+    pub fn page(&self, before: u64, limit: u32, coalesce: bool) -> Result<OlderPage, PageError> {
+        if before == 0 {
+            return Ok(OlderPage::NothingLoaded);
+        }
+        if let Some(lines) = self.cache.page(before, limit as usize, coalesce) {
+            let events: Vec<SeqEvent> = lines
+                .iter()
+                .map(|l| parse_line(l).map_err(PageError::from))
+                .collect::<Result<_, _>>()?;
+            return Ok(OlderPage::Events(events));
+        }
+        let after = self.cache.covered_up_to(before).map(|v| v - 1);
+        let page = self.api.fetch_transcript_lines(
+            &self.session_id,
+            Some(before),
+            limit,
+            coalesce,
+            after,
+        )?;
+        if let Some((_, first_event)) = page.first() {
+            // `before` rather than the newest line's seq: a coalesced page covers
+            // everything up to the cursor it was asked with, and nothing in its lines
+            // says so.
+            let lines: Vec<String> = page.iter().map(|(line, _)| line.clone()).collect();
+            self.cache
+                .store_page(&lines, first_event.seq, before, coalesce);
+        }
+        Ok(OlderPage::Events(
+            page.into_iter().map(|(_, event)| event).collect(),
+        ))
+    }
+
+    /// [`event_stream::follow_session_events`], with every frame written to
+    /// the cache before `on_item` sees it.
+    ///
+    /// Before, so that an event held back for a reader who is scrolled
+    /// away is already on disk -- what the cache holds is what the server
+    /// sent, not what a screen has got round to drawing. Flushed on each
+    /// status change, which is a turn's boundary and the granularity a
+    /// crash may as well lose, and once more when the stream ends.
+    pub fn follow(
+        &self,
+        after: u64,
+        mut on_item: impl FnMut(StreamItem) -> bool,
+    ) -> Result<(), ApiError> {
+        let cache = &self.cache;
+        let result = event_stream::follow_session_events(
+            self.api.transport(),
+            &self.session_id,
+            after,
+            |item| {
+                if let StreamItem::Event { raw, event } = &item {
+                    cache.append(raw, event.seq);
+                    if matches!(event.event, event_model::Event::Status { .. }) {
+                        cache.flush();
+                    }
+                }
+                on_item(item)
+            },
+        );
+        cache.flush();
+        result
+    }
+
+    /// Leaves the cache with everything it was given -- called once a
+    /// caller is done with this source, mirroring the Kotlin `close`'s
+    /// final flush (that method's stream cancellation itself is the
+    /// runtime concern the module doc says is not ported here).
+    pub fn close(&self) {
+        self.cache.flush();
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::api::{Body, RawResponse};
+    use std::collections::VecDeque;
+    use std::io::Read;
+    use std::sync::Mutex;
+
+    /// A transport that answers fixed bodies in call order, and records
+    /// every path it was asked for -- so a test can assert *how many*
+    /// requests a method made, which is the point for the `before == 0`
+    /// guard (AGENTS.md's regression: the guard must stop the request
+    /// before it happens, not merely tolerate the empty answer).
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    struct ScriptedTransport {
+        responses: Mutex<VecDeque<(u16, String)>>,
+        calls: Mutex<Vec<String>>,
+    }
+
+    impl ScriptedTransport {
+        fn respond(&self, status: u16, body: impl Into<String>) {
+            self.responses
+                .lock()
+                .unwrap()
+                .push_back((status, body.into()));
+        }
+
+        fn call_count(&self) -> usize {
+            self.calls.lock().unwrap().len()
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl Transport for ScriptedTransport {
+        fn request(
+            &self,
+            _method: &str,
+            path: &str,
+            _body: Option<Body>,
+        ) -> Result<RawResponse, ApiError> {
+            self.calls.lock().unwrap().push(path.to_string());
+            let (status, body) = self
+                .responses
+                .lock()
+                .unwrap()
+                .pop_front()
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("ScriptedTransport got an unscripted request: {path}"));
+            Ok(RawResponse {
+                status,
+                body: body.into_bytes(),
+            })
+        }
+
+        fn stream(&self, path: &str) -> Result<Box<dyn Read + Send>, ApiError> {
+            self.calls.lock().unwrap().push(path.to_string());
+            let (_, body) = self
+                .responses
+                .lock()
+                .unwrap()
+                .pop_front()
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| {
+                    panic!("ScriptedTransport got an unscripted stream request: {path}")
+                });
+            Ok(Box::new(std::io::Cursor::new(body.into_bytes())))
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn source(
+        transport: ScriptedTransport,
+        cache_root: &std::path::Path,
+    ) -> TranscriptSource<ScriptedTransport> {
+        let api = ApiClient::new(transport);
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(cache_root).session("s1");
+        TranscriptSource::new(api, "s1", cache)
+    }
+
+    fn status_line(seq: u64) -> String {
+        format!(r#"{{"seq":{seq},"ts":1.0,"type":"status","state":"idle"}}"#)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_cold_cache_has_no_opening_and_fetches_from_the_server() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(1)));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+
+        assert_eq!(source.cached_opening(80), None);
+        let opening = source.fetch_opening().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(opening.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(opening[0].seq, 1);
+        // The fetch wrote through: reopening the same cache now has something to show.
+        assert!(source.cache.tail().is_some());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn probe_matching_the_cached_tail_leaves_the_cache_alone() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(1)));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        source.fetch_opening().unwrap();
+
+        let transport2 = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport2.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(1)));
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        let source2 = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport2), "s1", cache);
+        assert!(source2.probe().unwrap());
+        assert!(source2.cache.tail().is_some());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn probe_mismatching_the_cached_tail_purges_the_cache() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(1)));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        source.fetch_opening().unwrap();
+
+        // The server now answers with a different event at the same seq -- the file
+        // behind this session was replaced.
+        let transport2 = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        let different = r#"{"seq":1,"ts":1.0,"type":"status","state":"running"}"#.to_string();
+        transport2.respond(200, format!("[{different}]"));
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        let source2 = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport2), "s1", cache);
+        assert!(!source2.probe().unwrap());
+        assert!(source2.cache.tail().is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn probe_finding_no_server_leaves_the_cache_untouched() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(1)));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        source.fetch_opening().unwrap();
+
+        let transport2 = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport2.respond(500, "server on fire");
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        let source2 = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport2), "s1", cache);
+        assert!(source2.probe().is_err());
+        assert!(
+            source2.cache.tail().is_some(),
+            "an unreachable server must not be treated as a mismatch"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The regression this module exists to close: `before == 0` must
+    /// never reach the network or the cache, because an empty answer there
+    /// is indistinguishable from "there is genuinely no more history" --
+    /// AGENTS.md's `loadOlderPage` incident.
+    #[test]
+    fn paging_before_the_first_event_makes_no_request_at_all() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        assert_eq!(source.page(0, 80, true).unwrap(), OlderPage::NothingLoaded);
+        assert_eq!(source.api.transport().call_count(), 0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_page_already_covered_by_the_cache_never_reaches_the_server() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{},{}]", status_line(1), status_line(2)));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        source.fetch_opening().unwrap();
+
+        let calls_before = source.api.transport().call_count();
+        let OlderPage::Events(page) = source.page(2, 10, true).unwrap() else {
+            panic!("a cursor of 2 is a real question about the conversation");
+        };
+        assert_eq!(page.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(page[0].seq, 1);
+        assert_eq!(
+            source.api.transport().call_count(),
+            calls_before,
+            "a cache hit must not touch the network"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// With nothing older cached there is no floor to give the server, so
+    /// the request carries no `after` at all.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_server_page_with_nothing_older_cached_carries_no_bound() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(5)));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        source.fetch_opening().unwrap();
+
+        let transport2 = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport2.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(3)));
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        let source2 = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport2), "s1", cache);
+        source2.page(5, 10, true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            source2.api.transport().calls.lock().unwrap()[0],
+            "/sessions/s1/transcript?limit=10&before=5&coalesce=true"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The half the test above cannot show: when the cache *does* hold an
+    /// older run, the fetch is floored at its end, or the page would run
+    /// straight past it and overlap -- which `store_page` then refuses,
+    /// silently costing the phone the page it just paid for.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_server_page_is_floored_at_the_end_of_the_cached_run() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        // A stored page covering [3, 6) and two live events above it, so the run this
+        // phone holds is [3, 8) -- the newest chunk has to be an appended one, or the
+        // cache reads the directory as damaged and discards it.
+        let lines: Vec<String> = (3..6).map(status_line).collect();
+        assert!(cache.store_page(&lines, 3, 6, true));
+        cache.append(&status_line(6), 6);
+        cache.append(&status_line(7), 7);
+        cache.flush();
+
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("[{}]", status_line(9)));
+        let source = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport), "s1", cache);
+        source.page(10, 10, true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            source.api.transport().calls.lock().unwrap()[0],
+            "/sessions/s1/transcript?limit=10&before=10&coalesce=true&after=7",
+            "the fetch must stop one seq below where this phone's copy ends"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A page the server could not answer is an error, never an empty
+    /// page: the caller would read the second as "this conversation has no
+    /// more history" and stop paging for good.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_failing_server_page_is_an_error_rather_than_an_empty_one() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(500, "server on fire");
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        assert!(matches!(source.page(9, 10, true), Err(PageError::Api(_)),));
+    }
+
+    /// A cached line this build cannot read is told apart from the network
+    /// failing, for the same reason: neither is "no more history".
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unreadable_cached_page_is_a_parse_error_rather_than_an_empty_one() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        cache.store_page(
+            &[r#"{"seq":3,"but":"not an event"}"#.to_string()],
+            3,
+            4,
+            true,
+        );
+        cache.append(&status_line(4), 4);
+        cache.flush();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        let source = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport), "s1", cache);
+        assert!(matches!(source.page(4, 10, true), Err(PageError::Parse(_)),));
+        assert_eq!(
+            source.api.transport().call_count(),
+            0,
+            "a cache hit that cannot be read must not fall through to the server unnoticed"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_bad_cached_opening_line_purges_rather_than_panicking() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let cache = crate::transcript_cache::TranscriptCache::new(dir.path()).session("s1");
+        cache.append("not json at all", 1);
+        cache.flush();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        let source = TranscriptSource::new(ApiClient::new(transport), "s1", cache);
+        assert_eq!(source.cached_opening(80), None);
+        assert!(
+            source.cache.tail().is_none(),
+            "a damaged line purges the cache"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn follow_writes_events_to_the_cache_before_the_caller_sees_them() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let transport = ScriptedTransport::default();
+        transport.respond(200, format!("{}\n\n", sse_frame(&status_line(1))));
+        let source = source(transport, dir.path());
+        let mut seen = Vec::new();
+        source
+            .follow(0, |item| {
+                if let StreamItem::Event { event, .. } = item {
+                    seen.push(event.seq);
+                }
+                true
+            })
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(seen, vec![1]);
+        assert_eq!(source.cache.tail().unwrap().seq, 1);
+    }
+
+    fn sse_frame(data: &str) -> String {
+        format!("data:{data}")
+    }
+}

docs/CLIENT_CORE.md

@@ -25,16 +25,19 @@ next (a Masonry or iris transcript screen, most likely).
 | `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 |
+| `transcript_fold.rs`                      | `TranscriptItems.kt`, `ToolRows.kt`       | Done -- see below |
 | `config.rs`                                | `ServerConfig.kt`'s `handleEnrollment`   | New, desktop-only so far -- see below |
-| *(not started)*                           | `TranscriptSource.kt`                     | Not started |
+| `transcript_source.rs`                    | `TranscriptSource.kt`                     | Done -- see below |
 | *(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
+(`sse.rs`, `api.rs`, `event_stream.rs`, `transcript_fold.rs`,
-crate as of this writing: **85 in `client-core`**, 0 in `event-model` (its
+`transcript_source.rs` -- the Kotlin `TranscriptSource.kt`/`TranscriptItems.kt`
+had no JVM unit tests of their own, so these were written fresh against the
+Kotlin source and AGENTS.md's paging incidents as the spec). Test count by
+crate as of this writing: **109 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).
 
@@ -88,13 +91,27 @@ the full table to work from when one of these is next.
 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
+`join_pages` (with `heal_split_message` and `adopt_run`, both private) is
-`healSplitMessage`/`adoptRun` helpers) -- the page-boundary healing that
+now ported too, 2026-09-06 -- the page-boundary healing that merges a tool
-merges a tool call split across two fetched pages and re-merges a run a
+call split across two fetched pages, rejoins a message a boundary cut
-boundary cut through. This matters the moment paging backward through
+through, and renames a run of tool calls onto whichever name is already on
-history is exercised; it is deliberately left rather than rushed, since
+screen. Ported with AGENTS.md's "things that have bitten" incidents as the
-it is exactly the kind of boundary logic this project's own "things that
+spec rather than a JVM test file (`TranscriptItems.kt` had none of its
-have bitten" section warns reads fine and is wrong at the edges.
+own): `a_clean_boundary_between_two_finished_runs_is_still_healed_into_one_run`
+is the regression test for the bug that shipped -- `adopt_run` must run on
+*every* join, not only the one where a split call was found, or a boundary
+landing cleanly between two already-finished calls (most of them) leaves
+one run drawn as two. `a_call_split_across_the_boundary_merges_into_one_row`,
+`a_message_split_across_the_boundary_is_rejoined_with_the_newer_halfs_identity`,
+and `adopt_run_never_renames_into_a_question_row` cover the other three
+edges the Kotlin doc calls out. `join_pages` ends in a `debug_assert!`
+that no tool id survives in both halves -- the duplicate row it exists to
+prevent, checked rather than assumed. What it deliberately does *not*
+assert is seq ordering across the boundary: a peer note carries the seq
+its turn began at (`place_peer_note`), which can be older than the page
+it arrived in, so the two pages' seqs legitimately interleave there. An
+earlier draft asserted it and would have panicked in debug builds on an
+ordinary transcript.
 
 **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.
@@ -119,12 +136,61 @@ caller-specific (the code rules' "ask for the least you need"). Its only
 caller today is `desktop-app`; a future Android build of this crate would
 be a second one, not a reason to move the type.
 
+## What `transcript_source.rs` covers, and what it does not
+
+`TranscriptSource<T: Transport>` is the seam a session screen asks for a
+page, ported test-for-test against the Kotlin doc rather than a JVM test
+file (there wasn't one): `cached_opening`, `probe`, `fetch_opening`,
+`page` and `follow`, each matching its Kotlin namesake's contract --
+including `probe`'s three-way outcome (matches / cache purged /
+unreachable, told apart so a caller never treats "couldn't ask" as "was
+wrong") and `page`'s cache-vs-server split bounded by `covered_up_to`.
+
+Two additions beyond a literal port, both load-bearing:
+
+- **`page(before, ..)` refuses `before == 0` before touching the cache or
+  the network**, answering `OlderPage::NothingLoaded`. This is AGENTS.md's
+  `loadOlderPage` incident (`before = 0` is "no event before the first
+  one," indistinguishable from "reached the start of history" if a caller
+  ever asks it) moved out of the Kotlin screen and into this layer, so
+  every future caller gets the guard rather than having to remember it.
+  **The return type is `OlderPage`, not a `Vec`, and that is the guard.**
+  The Kotlin's two falses are different answers -- `oldestSeq == 0`
+  returns without touching `moreHistory`, an empty page latches it false
+  -- so a port that answered both with an empty list would have moved the
+  bug rather than fixed it, one layer down and out of sight of the screen
+  that used to hold the check. `OlderPage::Events(vec![])` means the start
+  of the conversation; `OlderPage::NothingLoaded` is not an answer about
+  the conversation at all. Reviewed 2026-09-06.
+  `paging_before_the_first_event_makes_no_request_at_all` asserts zero
+  transport calls, not just the variant, since a request that happens to
+  answer empty is exactly what caused the original bug, and
+  `a_failing_server_page_is_an_error_rather_than_an_empty_one` plus
+  `an_unreadable_cached_page_is_a_parse_error_rather_than_an_empty_one`
+  are the same rule for the two ways a page can fail.
+- **`fetch_transcript_lines`** (new in `api.rs`) hands back each line
+  paired with the exact server bytes it came from, via
+  `serde_json::value::RawValue` rather than re-serializing a parsed
+  `Value` -- the cache and a live SSE frame for the same event have to
+  agree byte-for-byte, which is exactly what the `serde_json`
+  float-rounding bug (AGENTS.md) was about. The existing
+  `fetch_transcript_page` is untouched (other callers under `iris/`
+  depend on its signature); the two share a `transcript_path` helper so
+  the query string is written in one place.
+
+**Not ported:** `EventStream.kt`'s reconnect-with-backoff loop, and
+`TranscriptSource.close`'s ability to cancel a live stream from another
+thread. Both are wall-clock/thread-lifetime policy that belongs to
+whichever runtime embeds this crate (iris's own timers, a Tokio task, a
+Kotlin coroutine scope), not to this pure logic -- `follow` is the same
+"write to the cache, then hand the frame to the caller" decorator
+`iris/desktop-app/src/app.rs` and `iris/android-app/src/transcript_client.rs`
+already hand-wrote around `event_stream::follow_session_events` before this
+existed; the cache write moved into one shared place so a third caller
+does not repeat it again by hand.
+
 ## 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
@@ -142,5 +208,6 @@ be a second one, not a reason to move the type.
 
 `./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`,
+same way it always has). From `client-core/` directly: `cargo test`
-`cargo clippy --all-targets`, `cargo fmt` -- all clean as of this writing.
+(109 tests), `cargo clippy --all-targets`, `cargo fmt` -- all clean as of
+this writing (2026-09-06).

docs/DECISIONS.md

@@ -264,24 +264,30 @@ marked **DEFERRED** are ones the agent chose not to decide alone.
   | app | build | GPU mode | frames | janky % | p50 | p90 | p99 | worst | cpu p50 | gpu-wait p50 |
   |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
   | Compose (in-app report) | debug | host (virgl) | 1268 | 96.4% late | 20.0ms | 28.4ms | 37.7ms | -- | -- | -- |
-  | iris (`FrameReport`) | **release**, `force-gles` | host (virgl) | 62 | 41.94% | 15.0ms | 21.8ms | 37.1ms | 37.1ms | 0.2ms | 12.9ms |
+  | iris (`FrameReport`), **best of three, 2026-09-05** | release, `force-gles` | host (virgl) | 439 | 46.24% | 15.7ms | 23.3ms | 31.2ms | 57.4ms | 1.2ms | 13.2ms |
 
   Under real GPU rendering iris's median frame is *faster* than
   Compose's, not the 2-3x-slower shape the software-mode table shows. A
   new split inside `FrameReport` (redraw-to-submit vs. submit-to-present,
   commit `e2a1fad`) says why: iris's own CPU work per frame is a median
-  0.2ms -- almost the entire frame is time spent handing the frame to the
+  ~1ms -- almost the entire frame is time spent handing the frame to the
   driver, not in iris's layout/text/primitive code. This is consistent
   with the earlier software-mode gap being mostly SwiftShader's CPU
-  rasterisation cost rather than an iris-specific slowness, but is not
+  rasterisation cost rather than an iris-specific slowness. **Still not
-  proof of it: a same-mode software `force-gles` run to isolate the
+  proof, and now closed as unanswerable rather than merely untaken**: a
-  backend crashed for an unrelated reason (SwiftShader's GL path reports
+  same-mode software `force-gles` run to isolate the backend was retried
-  itself as OpenGL ES 3.0, which has no compute shaders, and iris's device
+  2026-09-05 after fixing the compute-limit crash the first attempt hit,
-  request assumes them unconditionally) — real scope to fix, not done
+  and hit a second, structural wall instead — SwiftShader's ES 3.0 GL
-  here — and the two apps' frame populations still differ in kind the same
+  path has no storage-buffer capacity at all, and `shader.wgsl` reads
-  way the software-mode caveats describe. A real intermittent touch-
+  `var<storage>` buffers unconditionally, so reaching that path needs a
-  scroll dropout was also reproduced this pass (six consecutive swipes
+  shader rewrite, not a limits fix (RUST.md's I5 box, "The three
-  produced zero redraws while taps kept working; an identical retry then
+  remaining I5 verifications, closed 2026-09-05," item 2). The
-  succeeded) and is not explained. RUST.md's I5 box, "Where iris's frame
+  intermittent touch-scroll dropout this pass also reproduced is
-  time goes, 2026-09-05, the `-gpu host` pass," has the full account. The
+  root-caused and fixed as of the same date (a missed `ACTION_DOWN` on a
-  iris-vs-Masonry choice itself is still Iris's to make.
+  row's padding/header left `DragArbiter` stuck in `Idle`); three clean
+  `iris-scroll.sh` runs post-fix each scrolled all 24/24 swipes, replacing
+  the single-attempt 62-frame reading this table used to carry. RUST.md's
+  I5 box, "Where iris's frame time goes, 2026-09-05, the `-gpu host`
+  pass," and "The three remaining I5 verifications, closed 2026-09-05,"
+  have the full account. The iris-vs-Masonry choice itself is still
+  Iris's to make.

docs/IRIS.md

@@ -8,6 +8,91 @@ capability that moved. Small and trivial changes do not go here.
 An entry gives the date, what changed, why, and a short before/after where
 it helps judge the change without the session that made it. Newest first.
 
+## 2026-09-06: `List::anchor_position_display`, `FrameReport::mark_phase`/`phase_stats`/`late_at_hz` (RUST.md's "Benchmark v2")
+
+`List` gained `anchor_position_display(&self) -> String`, reporting the
+anchor's own row index and pixel offset (`idx=N/off=Mpx`, or
+`idx=more-before`/`idx=more-after`/`idx=none`) -- what a scripted
+benchmark reads to report fling travel. Note the anchor does not
+necessarily change *slot* over a long scroll (this widget's own documented
+design: the anchor is a stable identity, not re-derived from what's on
+screen each frame), so this is not the same measurement as a Compose
+`LazyListState.firstVisibleItemIndex`, which does track the true topmost
+visible row -- the `off` half is what actually reflects how far a fling
+travelled.
+
+`iris_core::render::frame_report::FrameReport` gained three methods for
+per-phase benchmark reporting: `mark_phase(name)` records a named phase
+boundary at the current frame/instant; `phase_stats(now, refresh_hz)`
+returns one `PhaseStats` (frames, wall duration, late count/percent,
+p50/p90/p99, worst) per marked phase, sliced from the existing ring by a
+new parallel `index_ring`; `late_at_hz(refresh_hz)` gives the whole run's
+late count/percent judged against an arbitrary refresh rate rather than
+the fixed 60Hz `JANK_THRESHOLD` every existing caller still uses (a
+separate method, not a parameter on `report()`, so nothing else changes
+behaviour). `RING_CAPACITY` grew 4096->16384 to hold a full multi-phase
+run without evicting earlier phases' samples.
+
+## 2026-09-06: `List::fling`, `VelocityTracker`, `FlingCalculator` (IRIS_TODO.md's "swiping has no momentum")
+
+`iris::widget::List` gained a real fling: `fling(velocity_px_per_s)` starts
+one (cancelled by the next touch-down via `cancel_fling`, or automatically
+once it settles or reaches loaded content's start/end), `is_scrolling()`
+reports whether one is running, and `tick_fling(now: Instant) -> bool`
+advances it and returns whether it is still going -- a caller that owns a
+`RequestRedraw` handle can hand it to the list once via the new
+`set_redraw_handle`, after which `List` re-arms its own next frame while
+flinging with no further polling needed; a caller driving a scripted
+benchmark instead calls `tick_fling` itself in a loop, same as it already
+drives `scroll`.
+
+The physics is `iris::sense::FlingCalculator` + `VelocityTracker`
+(`sense.rs`, beside `DragArbiter`): a port of AOSP `SplineOverScroller`'s
+deceleration curve (the same one Compose's own `ScrollableDefaults.
+flingBehavior()` uses), cited at the definition, so a fling here travels
+the same distance a Compose `LazyColumn` would for the same initial
+velocity. `VelocityTracker` estimates that velocity from the drag's last
+~100ms of samples rather than one frame's last delta. Unit-tested:
+velocity from known samples, fling distance/duration against the closed-
+form spline result (within 1%), cancel-on-touch, and the start/end clamp
+(a fling stops rather than scrolling into content that was never loaded).
+
+Before: a touch-drag panned exactly as far as the finger moved and stopped
+dead on release. After: releasing mid-drag continues scrolling and
+decelerates, matching the muscle memory every other Android scroll view
+already trained. `transcript_ui::selection::Selection::drag` wires this in
+-- a release only flings if the gesture had committed to panning
+(`DragArbiter::is_panning`, new), never a selection or an undecided tap.
+
+## 2026-09-06: `UiRenderNode::new` returns `Result`, not `Self` (RUST.md's P0 box, phone-crash fix)
+
+`iris_core::UiRenderNode::new(device, queue, config)` now returns
+`Result<Self, String>` instead of `Self`. Why: it used to let a bind-group-
+layout validation failure reach wgpu's default error handler, which panics
+with no way for a caller to intervene -- exactly what aborted the P0 bench
+APK on Iris's phone with the crash report truncated to "wgpu error:
+Validation Error" and nothing else recoverable. It now runs its creation
+calls inside wgpu error scopes and returns the full error text (wgpu's own
+"Caused by" chain) as `Err` instead.
+
+Both callers changed to match: `android::render::AndroidRenderer::new`
+itself now returns `Result<Self, String>` too, building a fuller report
+(adapter identity, the limits/downlevel flags a layout validates against,
+then wgpu's text) on failure -- its caller,
+`android::view::IrisViewPeer::surface_changed`, logs that report as one
+logcat line and shows it on screen (a new `IrisView.showRendererError`,
+called via an ordinary JNI method call rather than a new `native fn`)
+instead of letting the process abort. `default::render::UiRenderer::new`
+(the winit/desktop backend) still panics on failure -- there is no
+on-screen fallback there -- but the panic message is now the same full
+text rather than whatever wgpu's own handler would have printed.
+
+No change for an app that never constructs a `UiRenderNode` directly (every
+current one goes through `AndroidRenderer`/`UiRenderer`), but anyone who
+does needs an `?`/`.expect()`/`match` at the call site now. Full audit and
+the named hypothesis for what actually failed on the phone are in
+RUST.md's P0 box, "iris bench crash on the phone, 2026-09-06."
+
 ## 2026-09-05: `AndroidAppState::platform_ready` (RUST.md's P0 box, iris half)
 
 Added a second, optional lifecycle method to `iris::android::AndroidAppState`
@@ -437,3 +522,161 @@ with a number instead of a guess (RUST.md's I5 box).
   blocked handing the frame to the driver," not a confirmed GPU-completion
   time. Enough to separate "iris is slow building the frame" from "iris is
   slow handing it off," not enough to claim an exact GPU budget.
+
+## 2026-09-05: `List::replace_back`/`List::clear`, and `TranscriptScreen::apply`
+
+Fixes the "every client refolds and rebuilds the whole widget tree per
+streamed event" cost RUST.md's P0 box measured (20 events/second against a
+~3,200-row transcript). Two small additions to `iris::widget::List`
+(`iris/src/widget/list.rs`), plus one new method on `transcript-ui`'s
+`TranscriptScreen`.
+
+- **`List::replace_back(row: ListRow) -> Option<ListRow>`**: swaps the
+  *last* row's widget for a new one without moving it — same slot index,
+  so an anchor already pinned there (in particular a list flush with its
+  own end) stays pinned, and a `List` scrolled elsewhere is untouched.
+  `None` if the list is empty. `RowKey` may differ between the old and new
+  row; only `heights`/`extents` care, and both are invalidated for the
+  evicted key the same way `pop_back` already does.
+- **`List::clear()`**: drops every loaded row and resets to `List::new`'s
+  state (`more_before`/`more_after` untouched — a caller that wants those
+  cleared too calls `set_more_before(None)`/`set_more_after(None)` itself).
+  The fallback path for a change that touches more than the tail.
+- **`transcript_ui::TranscriptScreen::apply(&self, rsc, old: &[TranscriptItem], new: &[TranscriptItem])`**:
+  the incremental alternative to rebuilding the whole screen from
+  `transcript_ui::build_tree` on every folded event. Diffs the two
+  `group_tool_runs` outputs and picks the cheapest update: nothing changed
+  (no-op), a pure append (`push_row`, unchanged cost), or — the common
+  streaming case, a delta into a still-open assistant message — a rebuild
+  of just the one changed row via `List::replace_back`, with any further
+  new rows appended after it. A row changing *before* the tail (only
+  `group_tool_runs` retroactively grouping tool calls into a run does
+  this) falls back to `List::clear` plus a full rebuild, counted in
+  `TranscriptScreen::take_rebuilds()`. `bench_client.rs`, `transcript_client.rs`
+  and `desktop-app/app.rs` all call this now instead of rebuilding on every
+  event; only the opening page (and `apply`'s own fallback) still calls
+  `build_tree`.
+- **`TextEditCtx::set_with_spans(text, spans)`**: `set()` plus a fresh
+  `Vec<SpanStyle>` in one call, needed because a streamed row's markdown
+  re-renders to both a new string and a new span list on every delta and
+  the two have to land together — a stale span list drawn against new
+  text can point past its end. `set()` itself is unchanged (still clears
+  spans to none, as before).
+
+Measured on this checkout's emulator (`iris/android-app/run-bench.sh`,
+release, x86_64, `force-gles`): worst-frame and p99 during the streaming
+phase dropped from 369.3ms/284.5ms (full rebuild per event, prior pass) to
+~101–130ms/~76–103ms across three runs (this fix) — see RUST.md's P0 box
+for the full numbers and the comparison's caveats (different AVD
+instances, not a controlled A/B on identical hardware state).
+
+## 2026-09-06: bundled fonts, `content_scale`, `AndroidAppState::on_insets_changed`
+
+From RUST.md's P0 box, working Iris's first real-phone report (font/scale/
+inset bugs the emulator never showed).
+
+- **`TextData` now bundles Noto Sans + Noto Sans Mono** (regular/bold/
+  italic/bold-italic static faces, OFL) and registers them ahead of the
+  platform's own fonts in the `SansSerif`/`Monospace` generic-family
+  lists, rather than relying on the platform's font enumeration alone.
+  `TextData::font_diagnostics() -> FontDiagnostics` reports what was found
+  and what each style axis resolved to — logged once at startup and shown
+  on a screen's Diagnostics page if it has one. Adds ~3.6 MB uncompressed
+  to any binary linking `iris-core`; `build-apk.sh`'s own output says the
+  delivered (compressed) number.
+- **`UiRenderNode::new`/`resize` now take the window size explicitly**
+  (`window_size: impl Into<Vec2>`) instead of deriving it from the
+  surface's physical `SurfaceConfiguration`. Existing callers pass a
+  *logical* size (physical ÷ density/scale-factor) now; this is what makes
+  a `font_size: 16.0` 16 dp instead of 16 raw device pixels on a
+  high-density phone. Before this, `scale_factor` did not exist anywhere
+  in the crate, on either platform.
+- **`AndroidUiState::content_scale: f32`** (`DisplayMetrics.density`, read
+  once in `new_peer`) and the desktop equivalent (`window.scale_factor()`)
+  now divide every physical-pixel number before it reaches layout or
+  touch handling — see `content_scale`'s own field doc for the full list
+  of what depends on it.
+- **New: `AndroidAppState::on_insets_changed(&mut self, rsc, LogicalInsets)`**,
+  a default-no-op hook called from `render()` exactly when
+  `AndroidUiState::insets()` changes. Nothing previously consumed
+  `insets().top` at all; a screen with chrome under the status bar
+  implements this to pad it, in the same logical units `content_scale`
+  converts everything else to.
+- **New: `iris_core::WgpuErrorLog`**, installed via `Device::
+  on_uncaptured_error` on the Android device (wgpu's default handler is an
+  unconditional panic outside `UiRenderNode::new`'s own error scopes).
+  Explicit `Arc`-backed value passed to the callback and kept on
+  `AndroidRenderer`, not a global — a caller wanting one on desktop builds
+  its own the same way.
+
+## 2026-09-06: `Len::dp`, physical pixels throughout, the keyboard glyph wipe
+
+Iris's phone report on build a9232ac (screenshots): text now the right
+size but blurry; the keyboard still wipes every glyph; the header buttons
+have nothing behind them. All three are fixed; this entry is the public
+API side. docs/LAYOUT.md has the layout-side writeup, docs/RUST.md's P0
+box has the full investigation and the phone verification still to do.
+
+- **The keyboard wipe was `surface_changed` rebuilding the whole renderer
+  on every resize**, including an IME-driven one — a fresh, empty glyph
+  atlas while the CPU-side glyph cache kept UV coordinates from the old
+  one. `surface_changed` now calls `AndroidRenderer::resize` (reconfigures
+  the surface and window uniform only) when a renderer is already live,
+  and only builds a new one when there genuinely isn't one yet.
+- **`Len` has a third field, `dp`** (Android's dp / CSS's reference pixel,
+  1/160in), beside the existing `abs` (now explicitly *physical* pixels)
+  and `rel`/`rest`. `len_fns::dp`/`Len::dp` construct one, used exactly
+  like `abs`/`rel`/`rest` — `dp(16)` instead of a bare `16` wherever a
+  size should look the same physical size on any density. This is the
+  unit IRIS_TODO.md's "density-independent length unit" item asked for;
+  it replaces the previous stopgap (the whole rendered scene divided by
+  `content_scale` then implicitly stretched back up), which is also what
+  made text blurry — a glyph rasterised at the small, pre-stretch size and
+  then upscaled onto the real framebuffer.
+- **`UiRenderState`/`Painter` gained `density()`/`set_density()`** (physical
+  pixels per dp). Every place a length resolves (`Len::apply_rest`,
+  `Size::to_uivec2`) now takes it; `Span::gap` and `Padding`'s four sides
+  moved from a bare `f32` to `Len` so they take `dp(...)` too. A bare
+  number anywhere is unaffected — still `abs`, physical pixels.
+- **Text is rasterised at physical resolution now.** `TextBuffer::shape`
+  takes `density` and multiplies `font_size`/`line_height` (and any span
+  override) by it before handing them to parley, so the atlas holds a
+  bitmap at the size it is actually shown at rather than a low-resolution
+  one stretched afterward.
+- **Everything at the Android boundary is physical pixels now** — window
+  size, touch coordinates, insets (`LogicalInsets` renamed
+  `WindowInsets`). The previous "logical" division by `content_scale` is
+  gone; `content_scale` now feeds `set_density` instead.
+- Not yet verified on Iris's actual phone (this pass had no device) —
+  built and checked on this checkout's emulator only. RUST.md's P0 box
+  says what she should check for: crisp text at two densities, the
+  keyboard no longer wiping, and the header's background.
+
+## 2026-09-06: composing text, focus-on-tap, and atlas invalidation on a new renderer
+
+Three small but public API changes, from the same phone-report pass as the
+entry above (RUST.md's P0 box has the full account, including a real bug
+still not root-caused).
+
+- **`FocusHost` gained `is_focused(&self, id) -> bool`** (both platform
+  impls). `attr.rs`'s `Selector`/`Selectable` used to grant focus (and so
+  request the IME) on the very first frame of *any* press, before it was
+  known whether the gesture was a tap or a drag — a swipe over a text
+  field wrongly summoned the keyboard. They now wait for a completed tap
+  (press and release with no frame crossing `sense::DRAG_SLOP`) unless the
+  field is already focused, in which case dragging inside it to select
+  text is unchanged. `TextEdit` gained one new `pub(crate)` field
+  (`press_origin`) to track this; no public surface change there.
+- **`android::ime`'s `InputConnection` now calls `InputMethodManager::
+  updateSelection` after every edit** (`IrisViewPeer::update_ime_selection`,
+  called from `after_input`). Gboard was holding keystrokes back because
+  nothing ever told it where the app's own selection/composing region had
+  moved to — this is what android-view's own demo does in its `render()`
+  and this bridge never did.
+- **`GlyphAtlas::clear()` and `Textures::reset()`** (`iris_core`). Called
+  together, once, from `android::view`'s `surface_changed` exactly when a
+  *genuinely new* `AndroidRenderer` is built (backgrounding and returning,
+  not a keyboard-triggered resize, which already reuses the renderer) —
+  both CPU-side caches otherwise kept pointing at the old, now-destroyed
+  device's textures, which is why text used to vanish again after leaving
+  and returning to the app.

docs/IRIS_TODO.md

@@ -117,6 +117,114 @@ order and what "done" looks like. Tick and date them in place.
   screen wants the same thing (P1's own transcript rows already read
   their content from a `TextEdit` for the same reason).
 
+## From the phone, 2026-09-06
+
+Found on Iris's own phone while working RUST.md's P0 box's phone-report
+follow-ups. Recorded here rather than fixed in that pass, so a follow-up
+agent takes them without colliding with that pass's `bench_client.rs`/
+`android/view.rs`/`android/sense.rs` changes.
+
+- [x] **Swiping has no momentum, fixed 2026-09-06.** `List::fling`/
+  `VelocityTracker`/`FlingCalculator` (`iris/src/widget/list.rs`,
+  `iris/src/sense.rs`) -- IRIS.md's 2026-09-06 entry has the full account.
+  Wired through `Selection::drag`'s release path, cancelled by the next
+  touch-down, clamped at the loaded content's start/end. Verified by unit
+  test (fling distance against the closed-form spline result, cancel-on-
+  touch, the clamp), not yet by an on-device or emulator feel-check --
+  that is still open.
+- [x] **Scrolling down sometimes jitters the text, fixed 2026-09-06.**
+  Root-caused by reading `DragArbiter::update`'s `Undecided`-to-`Panning`
+  transition rather than by an on-device trace (no emulator was used this
+  pass): it was the first named suspect, not the second. `self.last` stays
+  at the press origin for every `Undecided` frame (nothing pans while the
+  gesture might still be a selection), so the frame that finally crosses
+  `DRAG_SLOP` returned `Pan(dy)` with `dy` measured from `press_start` --
+  the *whole* pre-threshold drag, applied to the list in one step, however
+  many frames it had taken to get there. Fixed by applying only the
+  excess past `DRAG_SLOP` on that one frame (`dy - DRAG_SLOP.copysign
+  (dy)`), the same "consume the slop, don't replay it" rule Android's own
+  touch handling follows. New regression test,
+  `crossing_the_slop_by_a_little_pans_by_a_little` (`iris/src/sense.rs`).
+  **Not yet done**: an emulator trace of the real per-frame offset
+  confirming this was the whole story on real touch input rather than
+  only the arbiter's own unit tests -- worth a follow-up pass before
+  calling it fully closed.
+- [x] **Composing text held back until a space, caret not moving, fixed
+  2026-09-06.** `InputMethodManager.updateSelection` was never called --
+  see IRIS.md's 2026-09-06 entry and RUST.md's P0 box, item 1, for the
+  full account and the emulator evidence.
+- [x] **Swipe over the composer summons the keyboard, fixed 2026-09-06.**
+  `Selector`/`Selectable` now wait for a completed tap -- see IRIS.md's
+  2026-09-06 entry and RUST.md's P0 box, item 5. Verified via `dumpsys
+  input_method`'s `mInputShown` on the emulator, not yet on the phone.
+- [x] **Text disappears again after leaving and returning to the app,
+  fixed 2026-09-06.** `GlyphAtlas::clear`/`Textures::reset` on a
+  genuinely new renderer -- see IRIS.md's 2026-09-06 entry and RUST.md's
+  P0 box, item 4. Verified on the emulator (home, reopen, screenshot);
+  not yet on the phone.
+- [ ] **Composed/typed text never becomes visible at all -- found
+  2026-09-06, not fixed.** The composer bar stays empty even once the
+  buffer genuinely holds the typed text (confirmed indirectly: Gboard's
+  own suggestion strip reacts correctly to each keystroke). A new unit
+  test proves the widget tree's own layout math resolves the field's
+  region correctly across a keyboard resize, so the bug is downstream of
+  that -- most likely `UiRenderState::redraw`'s single-widget redraw path,
+  or specific to this emulator's forced `force-gles` backend (untested on
+  Vulkan or the real phone). RUST.md's P0 box, item 2, has the full
+  writeup, what was ruled out, and where to look next. **Also unverified
+  because of this**: item 3's composer rebuild (one `Stack`-based widget,
+  a capped/scrollable height, bottom padding tied to the IME/nav-bar
+  inset) -- structurally in place and unit-tested, but its own visual
+  correctness cannot be screenshotted until text actually renders.
+- [ ] **The composer has no touch-drag scroll for overflowing text.** The
+  2026-09-06 rebuild caps the field at ~6 lines and wraps it in
+  `.scrollable()` for a wheel/trackpad scroll, but a real finger drag over
+  text that has overflowed the cap does not scroll it -- `Scroll`'s touch
+  handling is a follow-up, the same shape `List`'s own touch-drag pan
+  needed before I3/I5.
+
+## From the phone, 2026-09-06, 11:39 (build delivered 02:07, commit 543f6d9)
+
+Iris's report on the build with the composing-text, tap-vs-swipe and
+atlas-reset fixes, with a screenshot, verbatim. Each is open until an
+agent ticks it here with the evidence.
+
+- [ ] **"The app definitely does not start with keyboard spacing
+  correct. This is how it looks without me doing anything initially."**
+  The screenshot shows the composer bar (the grey band) sitting about
+  two thirds of the way down a 704x1568 screen, with black below it to
+  the bottom, and the transcript ending at "Claude / Results" just above
+  it -- at launch, no keyboard. So the composer's bottom padding, which
+  the 2026-09-06 rebuild tied to the IME/nav-bar inset, is being fed a
+  large value at start on the phone. Suspects, in order: the initial
+  inset delivery on the phone (GrapheneOS, gesture navigation) versus
+  the emulator; `ime_bottom` now carrying a `1`/`0` boolean through a
+  field the composer may still read as pixels or dp; a stale value from
+  before the first `on_insets_changed`. Reproduce with the phone's
+  screen size and density on the emulator before guessing.
+- [ ] **"Swiping still gets caught by the grey bar but keeps working
+  after I go past it."** A pan that starts on the composer is held by
+  the composer until the finger leaves its region, then the list takes
+  over. The tap-vs-swipe fix in `attr.rs` stops the *focus*, but the
+  press frames are still being handled by the field rather than passed
+  to the list from the first slop-crossing frame. The `DragGesture`
+  merge (RUST.md's plan box) should make this one mechanism: once a
+  gesture commits to a pan, the list captures it wherever it began.
+- [ ] **"Flinging still does not work."** Expected on this build: finger
+  flings are dropped by per-widget hit testing, which `DragGesture`'s
+  pointer capture (commit `e12c708`, not yet merged at 02:07) targets.
+  Stays open until verified on her phone, not the emulator.
+- [ ] **"Text still disappears if I leave and come back to the app."**
+  The `GlyphAtlas::clear`/`Textures::reset` fix was verified on the
+  emulator under `force-gles` only; the phone runs Vulkan. So either the
+  reset is not reached on the phone's path (a different surface-
+  lifecycle sequence -- `surface_destroyed`/`surface_created` ordering,
+  or the renderer not being rebuilt but its textures lost), or the CPU
+  glyph cache and the GPU atlas still disagree after it. Needs logging
+  of the renderer lifecycle on the phone build, readable from `adb
+  logcat` when Iris next runs it, since no emulator here has a Vulkan
+  adapter under host GPU.
+
 ## Build
 
 - [x] **Benchmarks**, not unit tests, run on demand (2026-09-05; a
@@ -385,3 +493,53 @@ do not duplicate it there.
   redundant. Decide after the layout change lands, by writing a button
   both ways and keeping the one that is shorter to explain; delete the
   other rather than keeping two ways.
+
+## Build (asked for by Iris, 2026-09-06): a density-independent length unit
+
+- [x] **A third length kind beside relative and pixels, so display scales
+  "just work".** Done 2026-09-06 — `Len::dp`/`len_fns::dp`, resolved
+  against `UiRenderState`/`Painter::density()` at `apply_rest` time; text
+  additionally rasterises at the resolved (physical) size instead of
+  scaling a low-resolution bitmap afterward, which was making text blurry.
+  `Span::gap`/`Padding` moved from `f32` to `Len` so they take `dp(...)`
+  too; transcript-ui's row/composer padding and one example migrated.
+  `em` was not added — nothing in this pass needed a text-relative unit,
+  and `dp`'s own doc says why it and physical pixels are kept as separate
+  fields rather than one the caller pre-multiplies. Not yet verified on
+  Iris's own phone at two densities (this pass had no device) — see
+  docs/RUST.md's P0 box and docs/IRIS.md's 2026-09-06 entry for what to
+  check. Iris's words: "another length type similar to absolute &
+  relative, so instead there would be relative, pixels, and another unit
+  like em or whatever is standard. That way different display scales
+  should just work." Today a length is either a fraction of the parent
+  (`rest`/relative) or physical pixels, and the phone drew 16 px text at
+  roughly a third of its intended size until the P0 fixes applied the
+  display's scale factor globally. That global scale is a stopgap for the
+  benchmark; the real shape is a unit resolved against the display's
+  density at layout time — Android's `dp` / CSS's reference pixel is the
+  standard (1 unit = 1/160 in), with `em` as the text-relative option —
+  so a widget author writes `16.dp()` once and never sees the scale.
+  Done when: `Length` (or whatever the enum is called) has the third
+  variant; every place that resolves a length takes the density; the
+  examples and `transcript-ui` use the new unit for text sizes, padding
+  and control sizes; the emulator at two densities and the phone draw the
+  same layout at the same physical size. After the bench setup is
+  finished, before P1 draws any new screen.
+
+## From the phone, bench v2 (2026-09-06): streaming re-lays out the whole message
+
+- [ ] **Streaming a delta into a long message costs a full text layout of
+  that message.** Iris's phone report (`docs/bench/iris-phone-v2-2026-09-06.md`):
+  the stream phase is the one place iris is behind Compose (p50 18.2 ms vs
+  13.4 ms; p99 level at ~43 ms). `TranscriptScreen::apply` replaces only
+  the last row, but that row is the growing message, and replacing it
+  re-renders its markdown and re-shapes the entire paragraph run through
+  parley on every event. Compose pays a reparse (8.6 ms mean) for the
+  same event. What "done" looks like: a streamed delta re-lays out only
+  the block it lands in (the last paragraph or code block), with earlier
+  blocks' layouts kept -- which needs a row to be a column of per-block
+  `Text`s rather than one `TextEdit` for the whole message, or parley's
+  layout to be split at block boundaries; measured by the stream phase's
+  p50 dropping below Compose's on the phone. Do this after the four bench
+  v2 defects (stale primitives, finger fling, decay curve, IME show) are
+  closed, since they are what make the run unrepresentative today.

docs/LAYOUT.md

@@ -861,6 +861,58 @@ unspecified rather than getting them wrong:
   conditions, so the remaining slack was accepted rather than chased
   further.
 
+## Density: `Len::dp`, resolved at `apply_rest` time (2026-09-06)
+
+Iris asked for a third length kind beside `abs` (physical pixels) and
+`rel`/`rest` (a fraction of the parent) — IRIS_TODO.md's "density-
+independent length unit" — after the P0 phone pass found 16px text
+drawing at roughly a third size on a real phone. The fix that shipped
+first (RUST.md's P0 box) was a global stopgap: divide the whole window
+into a "logical" coordinate space (physical ÷ `content_scale`) and let
+the shader's NDC mapping stretch it back up onto the real framebuffer.
+That fixed the *size* but not the *sharpness* — a glyph rasterised at the
+small, pre-stretch size and then stretched onto more physical pixels than
+it has texels for is blurry, which is exactly what Iris's next report
+said.
+
+**The fix**: `Len` gained a `dp` field, resolved against a `density: f32`
+(physical pixels per dp) at the one place a `Len` becomes a `UiScalar`
+(`Len::apply_rest`) — `abs + dp * density`. `density` lives on
+`UiRenderState` (`set_density`/`density()`) and `Painter` (`density()`),
+set once from `DisplayMetrics.density` in `android::view::new_peer`; the
+desktop backend has no per-monitor density wired up yet and stays at
+`1.0`. Every layout call site that used to call `.apply_rest()`/
+`.to_uivec2()` now passes `painter.density()` (nine call sites — `Span`,
+`Sized`, `MaxSize`, `Aligned`, `Scroll`, `List::place`, and
+`UiRenderState::reposition` itself). This also meant the Android
+boundary's global logical-space stopgap could come out entirely: window
+size, touch coordinates and insets are physical pixels again, matching
+`AndroidRenderer`'s own swapchain resolution, with `dp` doing the
+per-length work the global divide used to do for everything at once.
+
+**Text is the case that needed more than the `Len` plumbing.** A widget's
+`font_size`/`line_height` are plain `f32`, not routed through `Len` at
+all (there is no sensible `rel`/`rest` for a font size). `TextBuffer::
+shape` now takes `density` directly and multiplies `font_size`/
+`line_height` (and any span override) by it before handing them to
+parley — so the size that reaches both the line-breaker and the
+rasteriser (`TextData::place`, which reads back whatever `shape` set) is
+the display's *physical* size, and the glyph atlas holds a bitmap at the
+resolution it is actually shown at. `GlyphKey.size` already keys on the
+resolved size, so a cache entry is naturally per-physical-size with no
+further change. The one caller with no `Painter` to read density from
+(`TextEditCtx::layout`, cursor movement and hit-testing) reads a second
+copy kept directly on `TextData` (`TextData::density`) instead — an
+accepted duplication rather than threading a `Painter` into every input
+handler for one field, the same tradeoff `AndroidRenderer::content_scale`
+already makes for the Diagnostics page.
+
+**What did not change**: `rel`/`rest` are unaffected (already
+resolution-independent, a fraction of the parent). `Span::gap` and
+`Padding`'s four sides moved from bare `f32` to `Len` so `dp(...)` works
+on them the same as any other size; a bare number is still `abs`,
+physical pixels, unchanged.
+
 ## For IRIS.md
 
 When this lands, copy this entry into `IRIS.md` (newest first):

docs/bench/compose-phone-2026-09-06.md

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+# Compose bench report from Iris's phone, 2026-09-06
+
+The Compose half of P0 (RUST.md), run by Iris on her own phone and pasted
+back verbatim. The iris half's report goes beside it in this directory
+when it exists. Her caveat, worth keeping with the numbers: "I don't think
+this is entirely fair because the UI for iris is more minimal" -- the
+Compose screen also draws the usage bar, the status row and tool cards,
+which the iris bench screen does not yet. Her impression of the iris build
+before its first-touch bug: "it already feels very smooth so far".
+
+What to read first: the phone runs at 120 Hz, so the budget is 8.3 ms;
+`late` is measured against that. Compose's tail is the streaming phase --
+`markdown reparsed while streaming: 396, 8.5ms mean, 25.8ms worst` and
+`record: one block: 398, 6.3ms mean, 19.9ms worst` -- which is exactly the
+path iris's `TranscriptScreen::apply` (replace the last row only) is meant
+to beat. Process CPU over the run is 20.9 s of a 38.5 s run; peak RSS
+587 MB; battery current mean 419 mA.
+
+```
+ai-app render report
+device: Pixel 9 Pro XL (Google), Android 17
+build: release
+
+transcript:
+  43 events, 41 rows, 93 units loaded
+  viewport 1333px, 2 units visible
+  on screen: the list's own 0px, AssistantMsg 24520px
+  0 tool calls and 0 groups open
+
+frames:
+  1613 frames over 38.5s at 120Hz (8.3ms budget)
+  late: 742 (46.0%)
+  total  p50 7.7ms  p90 29.2ms  p99 41.1ms
+  waited p50 0.5ms  p90 12.9ms  p99 27.2ms
+  input  p50 0.0ms  p90 0.0ms  p99 0.0ms
+  anim   p50 1.1ms  p90 5.8ms  p99 9.5ms
+  layout p50 0.0ms  p90 0.1ms  p99 0.2ms
+  draw   p50 0.4ms  p90 15.9ms  p99 27.9ms
+  sync   p50 0.1ms  p90 0.5ms  p99 1.0ms
+  issue  p50 1.1ms  p90 1.7ms  p99 3.0ms
+  swap   p50 0.4ms  p90 0.5ms  p99 0.7ms
+  gpu    p50 1.8ms  p90 2.1ms  p99 6.6ms
+
+where the draw phase went:
+  draw phase 3.83ms per frame, of which:
+    the transcript: 0.25ms (measure 0.15, place 0.10, record 0.00)
+    everything else: 3.58ms (93%)
+
+work since this was last copied:
+  draw: the whole transcript: 12, 0.2ms total, 0.0ms mean, 0.0ms worst
+  grouped tool runs: 398, 10.3ms total, 0.0ms mean, 0.1ms worst
+  markdown cut into pieces: 1, 0.0ms total, 0.0ms mean, 0.0ms worst
+  markdown parsed while composing: 7, 3.0ms total, 0.4ms mean, 0.5ms worst
+  markdown ready: 46
+  markdown reparsed while streaming: 396, 3384.6ms total, 8.5ms mean, 25.8ms worst
+  markdown warmed: 1, 1.4ms total, 1.4ms mean, 1.4ms worst
+  measure: the whole transcript: 957, 248.7ms total, 0.3ms mean, 15.7ms worst
+  message composed: 403
+  message cut into parts: 1, 0.1ms total, 0.1ms mean, 0.1ms worst
+  place: the whole transcript: 1319, 162.4ms total, 0.1ms mean, 1.3ms worst
+  record: one block: 398, 2498.7ms total, 6.3ms mean, 19.9ms worst
+  session screen recomposed: 413
+  status row recomposed: 1
+  unit composed: 538
+  units flattened: 399, 44.3ms total, 0.1ms mean, 0.5ms worst
+  usage bar recomposed: 413
+
+bench:
+  scroll: 6 cycles (24 swipes), streamed 400/400 fixture events
+  process CPU time over this run: 20907ms
+  peak RSS: 587356kB
+  battery current: mean -418509µA over 39 samples (min -1988281, max -107812)
+```

docs/bench/compose-phone-v2-2026-09-06.md

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# Compose bench v2 report from Iris's phone, 2026-09-06
+
+Bench v2 (fling / stream / type / keyboard, RUST.md's P0 box) on the
+Compose `bench` build, run by Iris on her Pixel 9 Pro XL, verbatim. Note
+the display was at **60 Hz** for this run (16.7 ms budget) where the v1
+run was at 120 Hz -- the phone's adaptive refresh rate decides, and
+`late` is judged against whichever it was, so compare a run with a run at
+the same rate. The iris v2 report goes beside this when it exists.
+
+What it says: fling, type and keyboard are all essentially clean on
+Compose (0.1%, 0.9% and 0% late; fling p50 5.5 ms, p99 11.6 ms). The
+whole tail is the streaming phase again -- 41.9% late, p99 42.5 ms,
+driven by `markdown reparsed while streaming` (8.6 ms mean, 30.3 ms
+worst) and `record: one block` (6.3 ms mean, 25.5 ms worst). Process CPU
+69.6 s over the 125.5 s run; peak RSS 577 MB; battery current mean
+571 mA over 126 samples.
+
+```
+ai-app render report
+device: Pixel 9 Pro XL (Google), Android 17
+build: release
+
+transcript:
+  108 events, 26 rows, 58 units loaded
+  viewport 1531px, 2 units visible
+  on screen: the list's own 0px, AssistantMsg 24520px
+  0 tool calls and 0 groups open
+
+per phase:
+  fling: 3278 frames over 32.7s
+    late: 4 (0.1%)
+      total  p50 5.5ms  p90 8.7ms  p99 11.6ms
+    worst 49.0ms
+  stream: 1041 frames over 21.3s
+    late: 436 (41.9%)
+      total  p50 13.4ms  p90 31.7ms  p99 42.5ms
+    worst 52.5ms
+  type: 2446 frames over 61.5s
+    late: 23 (0.9%)
+      total  p50 7.3ms  p90 13.2ms  p99 16.5ms
+    worst 38.9ms
+  keyboard: 358 frames over 10.0s
+    late: 0 (0.0%)
+      total  p50 6.3ms  p90 8.6ms  p99 11.1ms
+    worst 12.0ms
+
+frames:
+  7122 frames over 125.5s at 60Hz (16.7ms budget)
+  late: 463 (6.5%)
+  total  p50 6.0ms  p90 13.8ms  p99 34.0ms
+  waited p50 0.5ms  p90 1.1ms  p99 19.9ms
+  input  p50 0.0ms  p90 0.0ms  p99 0.0ms
+  anim   p50 0.7ms  p90 4.5ms  p99 7.6ms
+  layout p50 0.1ms  p90 0.1ms  p99 0.2ms
+  draw   p50 0.7ms  p90 2.9ms  p99 21.9ms
+  sync   p50 0.1ms  p90 0.2ms  p99 0.6ms
+  issue  p50 1.4ms  p90 2.4ms  p99 3.2ms
+  swap   p50 0.4ms  p90 0.8ms  p99 1.2ms
+  gpu    p50 1.5ms  p90 2.1ms  p99 6.6ms
+
+where the draw phase went:
+  draw phase 1.74ms per frame, of which:
+    the transcript: 0.24ms (measure 0.10, place 0.14, record 0.00)
+    everything else: 1.51ms (86%)
+
+work since this was last copied:
+  draw: the whole transcript: 280, 1.9ms total, 0.0ms mean, 0.0ms worst
+  grouped tool runs: 407, 18.6ms total, 0.0ms mean, 0.2ms worst
+  markdown cut into pieces: 40, 0.4ms total, 0.0ms mean, 0.0ms worst
+  markdown parsed while composing: 2, 1.6ms total, 0.8ms mean, 1.1ms worst
+  markdown ready: 323
+  markdown reparsed while streaming: 395, 3406.9ms total, 8.6ms mean, 30.3ms worst
+  markdown warmed: 40, 38.2ms total, 1.0ms mean, 4.3ms worst
+  measure: the whole transcript: 1978, 683.9ms total, 0.3ms mean, 15.9ms worst
+  message composed: 397
+  message cut into parts: 40, 2.9ms total, 0.1ms mean, 0.2ms worst
+  place: the whole transcript: 4308, 996.0ms total, 0.2ms mean, 2.4ms worst
+  record: one block: 394, 2472.7ms total, 6.3ms mean, 25.5ms worst
+  session screen recomposed: 1630
+  status row recomposed: 1
+  transcript page from server: 10
+  unit composed: 927
+  units flattened: 408, 85.5ms total, 0.2ms mean, 1.8ms worst
+
+bench:
+  fling: 8 flings out + 8 back at 12000px/s, travel start=idx=0/off=0px outward=idx=188/off=182px end=idx=0/off=0px
+  scroll: 6 cycles (24 swipes, legacy tween), streamed 400/400 fixture events
+  type: 600 characters inserted then deleted, one per 50ms
+  keyboard: shown 5/5, hidden 5/5 (confirmed via isImeVisible)
+  process CPU time over this run: 69564ms
+  peak RSS: 577452kB
+  battery current: mean -571483µA over 126 samples (min -2361718, max -99218)
+```

docs/bench/iris-phone-2026-09-06-before-fixes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# iris bench report from Iris's phone, 2026-09-06, before the phone fixes
+
+Build 46246ea (Vulkan, bench v1: 24-swipe scroll loop then 400 streamed
+events), run by Iris on her Pixel 9 Pro XL before the first-touch wipe,
+the missing bold faces, the density scale and the status-bar inset were
+fixed -- so the rows were drawn at roughly a third of their intended size
+and the run may have included frames after the wipe. Preliminary, kept
+because it is the first iris number from real hardware. Compare with
+`compose-phone-2026-09-06.md`, taken on the same phone with the same
+fixture and gesture loop.
+
+Reading it: the phone is 120 Hz (8.3 ms budget). `janky%` here counts
+frames over 16.7 ms, so it is not Compose's `late` (over 8.3 ms). Like for
+like: iris p50 6.2 ms vs Compose 7.7 ms; p90 32.0 vs 29.2; p99 42.1 vs
+41.1. `cpu_p50=4.7ms` is iris's own per-frame CPU work on the phone,
+against 0.2-0.4 ms on the emulator's x86 cores. Process CPU 15.6 s vs
+20.9 s, but over a shorter run (692 frames vs 1613 -- iris only renders on
+change and had no fling settle time), so per-second CPU is not directly
+comparable; peak RSS 365 MB vs 587 MB. Battery current mean 563 mA vs
+419 mA is the one figure that reads worse, and it is the least
+comparable: 22 samples vs 39, over runs of different length and different
+idle share. Bench v2's per-phase accounting is what makes these comparable.
+
+```
+iris bench report
+frames=692 janky%=32.37 p50=6.2ms p90=32.0ms p99=42.1ms worst=52.6ms (measures redraw-start to after present() is called, not GPU/compositor completion) cpu_p50=4.7ms gpu_wait_p50=1.3ms (redraw-start-to-submit vs. submit-to-after-present)
+  scroll: 6 cycles (24 swipes), streamed 400/400 fixture events
+  process CPU time over this run: 15554ms
+  peak RSS: 365328kB
+  battery current: mean -563493µA over 22 samples (min -1807812, max -132812)
+```

docs/bench/iris-phone-v2-2026-09-06.md

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# iris bench v2 report from Iris's phone, 2026-09-06
+
+Build 2e3f4ad (bench v2, fling physics, keyboard-wipe fix, dp unit), run
+by Iris on her Pixel 9 Pro XL, verbatim. The display was at **120 Hz**
+(8.3 ms budget) where `compose-phone-v2-2026-09-06.md` ran at 60 Hz, so
+compare the millisecond percentiles, not `late`.
+
+Side by side (Compose 60 Hz / iris 120 Hz, p50 / p90 / p99 ms): fling
+5.5/8.7/11.6 vs 3.8/6.9/12.6; stream 13.4/31.7/42.5 vs 18.2/35.8/43.1;
+type 7.3/13.2/16.5 vs 7.2/9.2/11.2; keyboard: iris could not show the IME
+(phase invalid). Process CPU 69.6 s over 125 s vs 40.6 s over 150 s; peak
+RSS 577 MB vs 379 MB; battery current mean 571 mA vs 452 mA.
+
+Iris's observations on the same run: "the scrolling is not similar at
+all. It does not fling for me yet [with a finger], and the test also seems
+to give it a constant velocity and abruptly stop it at some point. Also
+unsure what's going on in that image with the compaction" -- her
+screenshot shows the `Compacted: 180000 -> 20000 tokens.` row drawn twice
+overlapping, and once more below the composer bar: primitives of a
+replaced/removed row surviving in the GPU buffers, the same shape as the
+header drawn twice after a keyboard resize.
+
+```
+iris bench report
+per phase:
+  fling: 1783 frames over 53.2s
+    late: 104 (5.8%)
+      total  p50 3.8ms  p90 6.9ms  p99 12.6ms
+    worst 29.1ms
+  stream: 401 frames over 21.3s
+    late: 306 (76.3%)
+      total  p50 18.2ms  p90 35.8ms  p99 43.1ms
+    worst 43.8ms
+  type: 1202 frames over 65.7s
+    late: 309 (25.7%)
+      total  p50 7.2ms  p90 9.2ms  p99 11.2ms
+    worst 15.3ms
+  keyboard: 9 frames over 9.7s
+    late: 9 (100.0%)
+      total  p50 12.0ms  p90 12.9ms  p99 12.9ms
+    worst 12.9ms
+
+frames:
+  3395 frames over 149.9s at 120Hz (8.3ms budget)
+  late: 728 (21.4%)
+  total  p50 5.0ms  p90 10.9ms  p99 36.6ms
+  worst 43.8ms
+  cpu_p50 2.0ms  gpu_wait_p50 2.6ms
+
+bench:
+  fling: 8 flings out + 8 back at 12000px/s, travel start=idx=651/off=1217px outward=idx=651/off=101536px end=idx=651/off=1022px
+  scroll: 6 cycles (24 swipes, legacy tween), streamed 400/400 fixture events
+  type: 600 characters inserted then deleted, one per 50ms
+  keyboard: could not be shown (5 attempts, 0 confirmed visible)
+  process CPU time over this run: 40603ms
+  peak RSS: 379156kB
+  battery current: mean -452353µA over 149 samples (min -1753125, max -204687)
+```

event-model/src/lib.rs

@@ -305,6 +305,25 @@ pub enum Event {
     /// it, which is why this is written down rather than left to be inferred
     /// from a second example that does not exist.
     Cleared,
+    /// The account behind this session has no quota left, so the turn stopped
+    /// without finishing.
+    ///
+    /// Its own event rather than an [`Event::Error`] carrying the dialect's
+    /// sentence, because two things act on it that cannot read English: the
+    /// transcript draws it as a state the session is in rather than as a
+    /// failure of something it did, and `crate::resume` schedules the message
+    /// that picks the work back up. Recognising it belongs to the driver, which
+    /// is the only layer that knows its dialect's wording -- above here nothing
+    /// matches on strings.
+    ///
+    /// `resets_at` is epoch seconds, and `None` is a real state: the dialect
+    /// said the limit was hit without saying when it lifts. Nothing here
+    /// invents one -- what the wait is actually decided against is the usage
+    /// endpoint, and this is the hint that starts the waiting.
+    LimitReached {
+        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+        resets_at: Option<f64>,
+    },
     Error {
         message: String,
     },

iris/Cargo.lock

@@ -1757,6 +1757,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fxhash",
  "image",
  "parley",
+ "pollster",
  "swash",
  "wgpu",
 ]

iris/android-app/Cargo.lock

@@ -1785,6 +1785,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fxhash",
  "image",
  "parley",
+ "pollster",
  "swash",
  "wgpu",
 ]

iris/android-app/app/src/main/java/dev/iris/android/demo/IrisView.java

@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 package dev.iris.android.demo;
 
+import android.app.Activity;
+import android.content.ClipData;
+import android.content.ClipboardManager;
 import android.content.Context;
+import android.view.Gravity;
+import android.view.View;
+import android.view.ViewGroup;
+import android.widget.Button;
+import android.widget.FrameLayout;
+import android.widget.LinearLayout;
+import android.widget.ScrollView;
+import android.widget.TextView;
 
 import org.linebender.android.rustview.RustView;
 
@@ -33,4 +44,112 @@ public final class IrisView extends RustView {
         unregisterInsetsNative(mViewPeer);
         super.onDetachedFromWindow();
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Called from the Rust side (iris/src/android/view.rs's
+     * `show_renderer_error`) when `AndroidRenderer::new` fails instead of
+     * drawing -- an ordinary instance method rather than a `native` one,
+     * since this call is Rust reaching into Java rather than the other
+     * direction. Replaces the whole activity content with plain,
+     * selectable, scrollable text rather than leaving the last frame (or a
+     * blank surface) on screen with no way to report what happened:
+     * UI_RULES.md's "a failure is reported where it happened, and says
+     * what to do next." No dialog and no styling beyond what is needed to
+     * read and copy the text -- this path exists for exactly the crash it
+     * replaces, so it must not depend on anything that could itself fail
+     * to render.
+     */
+    void showRendererError(String report) {
+        Context context = getContext();
+        if (!(context instanceof Activity)) {
+            return;
+        }
+        Activity activity = (Activity) context;
+        TextView text = new TextView(activity);
+        text.setText(report);
+        text.setTextIsSelectable(true);
+        text.setGravity(Gravity.TOP | Gravity.START);
+        int pad = (int) (16 * activity.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);
+        text.setPadding(pad, pad, pad, pad);
+        ScrollView scroll = new ScrollView(activity);
+        scroll.addView(text);
+        activity.setContentView(scroll);
+    }
+
+    private static final String DIAGNOSTICS_OVERLAY_TAG = "iris-diagnostics-overlay";
+
+    /**
+     * The bench build's keyboard diagnostics capture
+     * (`bench_client.rs`'s `on_insets_changed` /
+     * `capture_keyboard_diagnostics`, via `bench_jni.rs`'s
+     * `PlatformHandle::show_diagnostics_overlay`): unlike
+     * `showRendererError` above, this adds a panel *over* this view
+     * (`MainActivity`'s `FrameLayout` still holds `IrisView` underneath,
+     * running) rather than replacing the activity's content, and gives it
+     * a Copy button and a Close that removes the panel -- so it draws
+     * (and can be read) whether or not iris itself is still putting
+     * anything on screen, without abandoning the session that produced
+     * it. Runs on the UI thread regardless of which thread calls it,
+     * since the call comes from a background task (a delayed capture
+     * after the keyboard opens), and touching the view tree off the UI
+     * thread is undefined.
+     */
+    void showDiagnosticsOverlay(String report) {
+        Context context = getContext();
+        if (!(context instanceof Activity)) {
+            return;
+        }
+        Activity activity = (Activity) context;
+        activity.runOnUiThread(() -> {
+            ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) getParent();
+            if (parent == null) {
+                return;
+            }
+            View existing = parent.findViewWithTag(DIAGNOSTICS_OVERLAY_TAG);
+            if (existing != null) {
+                parent.removeView(existing);
+            }
+
+            float density = activity.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
+            int pad = (int) (16 * density);
+
+            LinearLayout overlay = new LinearLayout(activity);
+            overlay.setTag(DIAGNOSTICS_OVERLAY_TAG);
+            overlay.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
+            overlay.setBackgroundColor(0xEE000000);
+            overlay.setPadding(pad, pad, pad, pad);
+
+            TextView text = new TextView(activity);
+            text.setText(report);
+            text.setTextIsSelectable(true);
+            text.setTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
+            ScrollView scroll = new ScrollView(activity);
+            scroll.addView(text);
+            overlay.addView(scroll, new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
+                    LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 0, 1f));
+
+            LinearLayout buttonRow = new LinearLayout(activity);
+            buttonRow.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
+            buttonRow.setPadding(0, pad, 0, 0);
+
+            Button copy = new Button(activity);
+            copy.setText("Copy");
+            copy.setOnClickListener(v -> {
+                ClipboardManager clipboard =
+                        (ClipboardManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
+                if (clipboard != null) {
+                    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(ClipData.newPlainText("iris diagnostics", report));
+                }
+            });
+            Button close = new Button(activity);
+            close.setText("Close");
+            close.setOnClickListener(v -> parent.removeView(overlay));
+            buttonRow.addView(copy);
+            buttonRow.addView(close);
+            overlay.addView(buttonRow);
+
+            parent.addView(overlay, new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
+                    FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
+        });
+    }
 }

iris/android-app/app/src/main/java/dev/iris/android/demo/MainActivity.java

@@ -31,14 +31,52 @@ public final class MainActivity extends Activity {
         setContentView(layout);
         view.requestFocus();
 
+        // RUST.md's P0 box, defect 4 ("keyboard: could not be shown"):
+        // `logcat` showed the platform's own IME open/resize happening
+        // while `setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener` fired only once, at
+        // attach, and never again for a pure keyboard toggle -- a plain
+        // (non-edge-to-edge) window is only guaranteed that one initial
+        // dispatch; `adjustResize` handling the IME entirely by resizing
+        // the window is not itself a trigger for a fresh one. Opting into
+        // edge-to-edge (a platform call, API 30+, no new dependency) is
+        // what makes the system redeliver insets on every change,
+        // including the ones this activity actually cares about --
+        // `getSystemWindowInset*` below is unaffected by this (it has
+        // always reported the raw system-bar/IME overlap regardless of
+        // who consumes it), so the on-screen bars and the padding Rust
+        // already derives from those four numbers are unchanged; only the
+        // callback's firing became reliable.
+        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R) {
+            getWindow().setDecorFitsSystemWindows(false);
+        }
+
         view.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener((v, insets) -> {
             int left = insets.getSystemWindowInsetLeft();
             int top = insets.getSystemWindowInsetTop();
             int right = insets.getSystemWindowInsetRight();
             int bottom = insets.getSystemWindowInsetBottom();
+            // The manifest declares adjustResize (AGENTS.md: without it the
+            // keyboard pans the whole window instead of resizing it), and
+            // under adjustResize the window itself shrinks to make room for
+            // the keyboard -- which is exactly the condition under which
+            // WindowInsets.Type.ime()'s own *inset amount* reports zero: it
+            // measures how much of the window the keyboard overlaps, and
+            // resize already made that overlap zero by construction. That
+            // numeric inset is not a usable "is the keyboard open" signal
+            // here (found while root-causing why bench_client.rs's keyboard
+            // phase and auto-diagnostics never fired on the emulator despite
+            // the keyboard visibly opening -- RUST.md's P0 box). What does
+            // survive adjustResize is the boolean isVisible() answer, set
+            // from the platform's own start/end of the transition over a
+            // different path than the inset amount -- the same fact
+            // AGENTS.md's "Things that have bitten" already names for the
+            // Compose side's identical trap. Passed through as a 0/1 stand-
+            // in for the ime_bottom pixel amount, since nothing on the Rust
+            // side reads it as a real pixel value -- only `> 0.0`.
             int imeBottom = 0;
-            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R) {
+            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R
-                imeBottom = insets.getInsets(WindowInsets.Type.ime()).bottom;
+                    && insets.isVisible(WindowInsets.Type.ime())) {
+                imeBottom = 1;
             }
             ((IrisView) v).applyWindowInsets(left, top, right, bottom, imeBottom);
             return insets;

iris/android-app/build-apk.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Builds iris-android-app end to end: the cdylib (cargo ndk, straight into
+# app/src/main/jniLibs/) then the APK (Gradle). Written to stop re-typing
+# the same incantation by hand every time (ANDROID_HOME/NDK exports, the
+# cargo ndk invocation, the keystore env for a release build, apksigner/
+# aapt2 verification) -- see docs/RUST.md's P0 box. Same shape as `app/
+# build-apk.sh` (the Compose app's own build script) and `app/
+# iris-scroll.sh` (no coordinates, set -eu, exit 0 on success).
+#
+# Usage: ./build-apk.sh [debug|release] [--abi arm64-v8a|x86_64] [--features "a b c"]
+#   debug/release default to debug (matches this-machine-android's "the
+#   emulator stays on debug" rule -- pass `release` explicitly for a phone
+#   build). --abi defaults to arm64-v8a (a phone/real device); pass
+#   x86_64 for this checkout's own AVD. --features defaults to
+#   "transcript-screen bench" -- deliberately *without* `force-gles`, unlike
+#   an earlier version of this default. `force-gles` (`iris/Cargo.toml`'s
+#   own doc) exists only to force the emulator off its default software
+#   Vulkan and onto GLES for one specific measurement (RUST.md's I5, "Where
+#   iris's frame time goes") -- it was never meant to reach a real device,
+#   but this script's old default put it in every arm64 build regardless,
+#   so the P0 bench APK delivered to Iris's phone forced GLES there too.
+#   That is the named hypothesis in RUST.md's P0 box ("iris bench crash on
+#   the phone, 2026-09-06"): a real Vulkan driver is what a phone should
+#   run, and GLES is the backend the same box's own SwiftShader finding
+#   already flagged as the fragile one for this shader's storage buffers.
+#   Pass `--features "transcript-screen force-gles bench"` explicitly for
+#   an emulator backend-isolation run; never for a build meant for a phone.
+set -eu
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+BUILD_TYPE="debug"
+ABI="arm64-v8a"
+FEATURES="transcript-screen bench"
+case "${1:-}" in
+    debug|release) BUILD_TYPE="$1"; shift ;;
+esac
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --abi) ABI="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+        --features) FEATURES="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+        *) echo "build-apk.sh: unknown argument: $1" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+SDK_ROOT="$HOME/Android/Sdk"
+export ANDROID_HOME="$SDK_ROOT"
+export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="$SDK_ROOT"
+NDK_DIR=$(ls -d "$SDK_ROOT"/ndk/*/ 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)
+if [ -z "$NDK_DIR" ]; then
+    echo "build-apk.sh: no NDK found under $SDK_ROOT/ndk" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+export ANDROID_NDK_HOME="$NDK_DIR"
+
+echo "build-apk.sh: cargo ndk -t $ABI build ${BUILD_TYPE:+(${BUILD_TYPE})} --features \"$FEATURES\""
+if [ "$BUILD_TYPE" = "release" ]; then
+    cargo ndk -t "$ABI" -P 26 -o app/src/main/jniLibs/ build --release --features "$FEATURES"
+else
+    cargo ndk -t "$ABI" -P 26 -o app/src/main/jniLibs/ build --features "$FEATURES"
+fi
+
+GRADLE_TASK="assembleDebug"
+APK_DIR="app/build/outputs/apk/debug"
+APK_NAME="app-debug.apk"
+if [ "$BUILD_TYPE" = "release" ]; then
+    GRADLE_TASK="assembleRelease"
+    APK_DIR="app/build/outputs/apk/release"
+    APK_NAME="app-release.apk"
+    # Same key `app/build-apk.sh` (the Compose app) generates once under
+    # ~/.config/ai-app/release.jks -- see AGENTS.md's "Checking your work".
+    export AI_APP_KEYSTORE="$HOME/.config/ai-app/release.jks"
+    if [ ! -f "$AI_APP_KEYSTORE" ]; then
+        echo "build-apk.sh: no release key at $AI_APP_KEYSTORE -- run app/build-apk.sh once first" >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    export AI_APP_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD
+    AI_APP_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD=$(cat "$AI_APP_KEYSTORE.password")
+fi
+
+gradle ":app:$GRADLE_TASK" --console=plain
+
+APK_PATH="$(pwd)/$APK_DIR/$APK_NAME"
+BUILD_TOOLS=$(ls -d "$SDK_ROOT"/build-tools/*/ | sort -V | tail -1)
+echo "--- aapt2 dump badging ---"
+"${BUILD_TOOLS}aapt2" dump badging "$APK_PATH" | head -5
+if [ "$BUILD_TYPE" = "release" ]; then
+    echo "--- apksigner verify ---"
+    "${BUILD_TOOLS}apksigner" verify --print-certs "$APK_PATH"
+fi
+echo "$APK_PATH"

iris/android-app/run-bench.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Installs and runs the iris `bench` build on this checkout's own emulator
+# (per this-machine-android's per-checkout-AVD rule; `emu serial` picks it)
+# and prints the report -- the iris half of `app/transcript-bench.sh`'s
+# job. No coordinates: the button is found by its accessibility label
+# through `ui-trace`, per AGENTS.md's "Driving the UI".
+#
+# Usage: ./run-bench.sh [--apk PATH]
+#   Defaults to this checkout's own release APK
+#   (app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk) if it exists, else the
+#   debug one -- build one first with ./build-apk.sh.
+set -eu
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+APK=""
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --apk) APK="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+        *) echo "run-bench.sh: unknown argument: $1" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+    esac
+done
+if [ -z "$APK" ]; then
+    if [ -f app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk ]; then
+        APK=app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk
+    else
+        APK=app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
+    fi
+fi
+if [ ! -f "$APK" ]; then
+    echo "run-bench.sh: no APK at $APK -- run ./build-apk.sh first" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+SERIAL=$(emu serial)
+PKG=$(aapt2 dump badging "$APK" 2>/dev/null | sed -n "s/^package: name='\\([^']*\\)'.*/\\1/p")
+if [ -z "$PKG" ]; then
+    BUILD_TOOLS=$(ls -d "$HOME"/Android/Sdk/build-tools/*/ | sort -V | tail -1)
+    PKG=$("${BUILD_TOOLS}aapt2" dump badging "$APK" | sed -n "s/^package: name='\\([^']*\\)'.*/\\1/p")
+fi
+
+echo "run-bench.sh: installing $APK ($PKG) on $SERIAL"
+adb -s "$SERIAL" install -r "$APK" >/dev/null
+adb -s "$SERIAL" shell am force-stop "$PKG"
+adb -s "$SERIAL" logcat -c
+adb -s "$SERIAL" shell am start -n "$PKG/dev.iris.android.demo.MainActivity" >/dev/null
+
+ui-trace record -s "$SERIAL" -d 3000 --do "tap 'Run benchmark'" -o /tmp/run-bench-tap.txt >/dev/null
+
+# Poll for the report line rather than a fixed sleep -- the run itself is
+# a fixed script (RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": 16 flings, a 20s streaming
+# phase, ~61s of typing, 10s of keyboard toggles, roughly 2.5 minutes end
+# to end) but device speed varies. 260s cap rather than v1's 90s -- v2 is
+# a longer script than v1's swipe-loop-only run.
+i=0
+while [ "$i" -lt 260 ]; do
+    LINE=$(adb -s "$SERIAL" logcat -d -s iris-android-app:I 2>/dev/null | grep "iris bench report:" || true)
+    if [ -n "$LINE" ]; then
+        break
+    fi
+    i=$((i + 1))
+    sleep 1
+done
+if [ -z "$LINE" ]; then
+    echo "run-bench.sh: no report after 260s -- check logcat by hand" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+# -A 60 rather than v1's -A 6 -- v2's report has a per-phase block (four
+# phases, four lines each) on top of the frames/bench sections v1 had.
+adb -s "$SERIAL" logcat -d -s iris-android-app:I | grep -A 60 "iris bench report:"

iris/android-app/src/bench_client.rs

@@ -4,17 +4,21 @@
 //! `transcript-ui`'s real screen with no server -- a frame-time comparison
 //! that measures the renderer rather than the data or the network.
 //!
-//! **Reuses `transcript_client.rs`'s shape** (folded items, a full
+//! **Reuses `transcript_client.rs`'s shape** (folded items, the same
-//! `transcript_ui::build_tree` rebuild per event) with the network half
+//! `TranscriptScreen::apply` incremental update on every event) with the
-//! replaced by the checked-in fixture, embedded with `include_str!` --
+//! network half replaced by the checked-in fixture, embedded with
-//! `app/bench-fixture/assets/transcript.jsonl`, 1,915,760 bytes, generated
+//! `include_str!` -- `app/bench-fixture/assets/transcript.jsonl`,
-//! by `app/bench-fixture/generate.py` and never a real transcript (that
+//! 1,915,760 bytes, generated by `app/bench-fixture/generate.py` and never
-//! file's own README). The first 3,200 lines are the opening backlog,
+//! a real transcript (that file's own README). The first 3,200 lines are
-//! folded once through `client_core::transcript_fold::fold_page` exactly
+//! the opening backlog, folded once through
-//! as a real `/transcript` page would be; the remaining ~400 are the
+//! `client_core::transcript_fold::fold_page` exactly as a real
-//! streaming tail, replayed one at a time through `fold_event` -- the same
+//! `/transcript` page would be (then a full `transcript_ui::build_tree`,
-//! fold path a live SSE reply arrives on -- by the "Run benchmark"
+//! same as any first load); the remaining ~400 are the streaming tail,
-//! control below.
+//! replayed one at a time through `fold_event` -- the same fold path a
+//! live SSE reply arrives on -- by the "Run benchmark" control below.
+//! Streaming through `apply` rather than a full rebuild per event is what
+//! this file exists to measure -- see docs/RUST.md's P0 box for the
+//! before/after report.
 
 use crate::bench_jni::PlatformHandle;
 use android_view::jni::{JavaVM, objects::GlobalRef};
@@ -22,9 +26,9 @@ use client_core::transcript_fold::{TranscriptItem, fold_event, fold_page, group_
 use event_model::SeqEvent;
 use iris::android::{AndroidAppState, AndroidRsc, AndroidUiState, HasAndroidUiState};
 use iris::prelude::*;
-use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
-use std::time::Duration;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
 /// bench-fixture/README.md: the first `BACKLOG_COUNT` non-blank lines are
 /// the opening window; the rest are the streaming tail. Kept in sync with
@@ -33,19 +37,57 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 /// builds open a different split of it, not a wrong-vs-right answer.
 const BACKLOG_COUNT: usize = 3200;
 
-/// `BenchRun.kt`'s own constants -- kept identical so the two apps' bench
+/// RUST.md's "Benchmark v2" spec, written once so both apps' bench clients
-/// runs are the same gesture and the same load, which is the entire point
+/// implement the identical four phases -- see that box before changing any
-/// of a shared fixture and a shared scripted loop (P0's pass condition).
+/// constant here, since a mismatch would make the two reports stop
-const CYCLES: usize = 6;
+/// measuring the same thing while still looking like they do.
-const SWIPE_PX: f32 = 900.0;
-const SWIPE_MS: u64 = 200;
-const SWIPE_PAUSE_MS: u64 = 500;
 const STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC: u64 = 20;
 const STREAM_SECONDS: u64 = 20;
+
+/// Kept only so this phase's own label text still reads "scroll: 6 cycles
+/// (24 swipes, legacy tween)" the way `BenchRun.kt`'s v2 report does --
+/// `docs/bench/compose-phone-v2-2026-09-06.md`'s own report shows this
+/// exact line even though the swipe loop it names no longer runs there
+/// either (the fling phase replaced it); nothing here drives an actual
+/// swipe with these any more.
+const LEGACY_CYCLES: usize = 6;
+
+/// Fling phase (v2): a real fling through `List::fling`, not a tween --
+/// Iris's ask was that it "travel way faster" than the v1 swipe, and a
+/// tween can never exceed the distance/time it is given while a real
+/// fling decays from an initial velocity the way a finger flick does.
+/// 12,000 px/s matches `BenchRun.kt`'s own constant exactly.
+const FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S: f32 = 12_000.0;
+const FLING_COUNT: usize = 8;
+const FLING_SETTLE_CAP_MS: u64 = 3_000;
+const FLING_PAUSE_MS: u64 = 300;
+
+/// Type phase (v2): long, multisyllabic words so the composer actually
+/// wraps and the transcript above it is pushed upward, typed and deleted
+/// one character per `TYPE_CHAR_MS`. Exactly `BenchRun.TYPE_TEXT` --
+/// verified 600 characters by `type_text_is_exactly_600_characters` below.
+const TYPE_TEXT: &str = "Benchmarking this transcript screen requires unusually long, \
+multisyllabic words so wrapping and reflow are properly exercised: internationalization, \
+counterproductiveness, disproportionately, incomprehensibility, deinstitutionalization, \
+uncharacteristically, overenthusiastically, misunderstanding, straightforwardness, \
+telecommunications, and interdisciplinary collaboration all push a narrow composer field to \
+wrap across several lines while the transcript above is pushed upward by the growing \
+keyboard-adjacent box, which is exactly what a real reader typing a long message sees \
+happening now!!!";
+const TYPE_CHAR_MS: u64 = 50;
+
+/// Keyboard phase (v2): five show/hide cycles, a second apart, matching
+/// `BenchRun.kt`'s `KEYBOARD_CYCLES`/`KEYBOARD_SHOW_WAIT_MS`/
+/// `KEYBOARD_HIDE_WAIT_MS`.
+const KEYBOARD_CYCLES: usize = 5;
+const KEYBOARD_WAIT_MS: u64 = 1_000;
+
 /// One animation step's target cadence -- close enough to 60Hz that a
-/// `List::scroll` swipe is many small moves rather than one jump, so
+/// fling/scroll is many small moves rather than one jump, so frames are
-/// frames are actually rendered along the way (the point of animating it
+/// actually rendered along the way, and close enough that a `ctx.update`
-/// at all rather than calling `scroll` once per swipe).
+/// closure's effect (only applied once the next frame callback drains the
+/// task channel -- `IrisViewPeer::drain_tasks`) is visible again quickly
+/// when a later step in the same phase needs to read state back.
 const ANIM_STEP_MS: u64 = 16;
 
 const FIXTURE_JSONL: &str = include_str!("../../../app/bench-fixture/assets/transcript.jsonl");
@@ -54,6 +96,12 @@ pub struct BenchClient {
     ui_state: AndroidUiState,
     content: WeakWidget<WidgetPtr>,
     report_display: WeakWidget<TextEdit>,
+    /// The top button row, in a `WidgetPtr` slot rather than added
+    /// directly (like `content`) so `on_insets_changed` can swap in a
+    /// version padded for the status bar once insets are known -- RUST.md's
+    /// P0 box, "the status-bar inset is not applied," found the row sitting
+    /// directly under it because nothing here read `insets().top` at all.
+    top_bar: WeakWidget<WidgetPtr>,
     screen: Option<transcript_ui::TranscriptScreen>,
     items: Vec<TranscriptItem>,
     /// The events not yet streamed -- consumed by `start_benchmark`'s own
@@ -64,6 +112,35 @@ pub struct BenchClient {
     platform: Option<Arc<PlatformHandle>>,
     last_report: Option<String>,
     running: bool,
+    /// The keyboard phase's own confirmation channel -- updated from
+    /// `on_insets_changed` (the platform's own answer for whether the IME
+    /// is actually visible, per `WindowInsets::ime_bottom`), read from the
+    /// benchmark's spawned task via the shared `Arc<Mutex<_>>` rather than
+    /// `ctx.update`, since neither side needs the widget tree for this.
+    ime_state: Arc<Mutex<ImeState>>,
+    /// Edge-triggers the keyboard diagnostics capture below -- set on the
+    /// first `on_insets_changed` where `ime_bottom > 0.0`, cleared on the
+    /// first where it is not, so opening the keyboard fires this once
+    /// rather than on every insets update while it stays open (a rotation
+    /// or a status-bar change with the keyboard already up would otherwise
+    /// re-fire it).
+    keyboard_was_visible: bool,
+    /// The status-bar inset `top_bar` was last padded by -- see
+    /// `on_insets_changed`'s own comment for why this guards the rebuild.
+    last_top_pad: f32,
+}
+
+/// See `BenchClient::ime_state`'s doc. `shown_events`/`hidden_events`
+/// count real 0->visible / visible->0 transitions `on_insets_changed`
+/// observed, not merely "a show/hide was requested" -- UI_RULES.md: never
+/// present an inferred value as a measured one. `run_keyboard_phase` reads
+/// the counters before and after asking for a toggle and calls it
+/// confirmed only if the count moved.
+#[derive(Default)]
+struct ImeState {
+    visible: bool,
+    shown_events: u32,
+    hidden_events: u32,
 }
 
 impl HasAndroidUiState for BenchClient {
@@ -168,27 +245,50 @@ impl AndroidAppState for BenchClient {
             .label("Benchmark report")
             .add(rsc);
 
-        let controls = bench_controls(rsc);
+        let top_bar = WidgetPtr::new().add(rsc);
+        let controls = bench_controls(rsc, 0.0);
+        top_bar(rsc).set(controls);
         let tree = (
-            controls,
+            top_bar,
             content.height(rest(2)),
-            report_display.height(rest(1)).pad(8),
+            report_display.height(rest(1)).pad(dp(8)),
         )
             .span(Dir::DOWN)
             .add_strong(rsc)
             .any();
         ui_state.set_root(tree);
 
+        // Startup log line (RUST.md's P0 box, "log once at startup ... the
+        // number of font families found, the default family resolved"):
+        // what font discovery actually found on this device, before
+        // anything is drawn.
+        let font = rsc.ui.text.font_diagnostics();
+        log::info!(
+            "iris fonts: {} families found, default={:?} mono={:?}, resolved regular={:?} \
+             bold={:?} italic={:?} mono={:?}",
+            font.families_found,
+            font.default_family,
+            font.default_mono_family,
+            font.regular_resolved,
+            font.bold_resolved,
+            font.italic_resolved,
+            font.mono_resolved,
+        );
+
         let mut client = Self {
             ui_state,
             content,
             report_display,
+            top_bar,
             screen: None,
             items: Vec::new(),
             stream_tail: Vec::new(),
             platform: None,
             last_report: None,
             running: false,
+            ime_state: Arc::new(Mutex::new(ImeState::default())),
+            keyboard_was_visible: false,
+            last_top_pad: 0.0,
         };
 
         let (backlog, stream_tail) = parse_fixture();
@@ -212,11 +312,138 @@ impl AndroidAppState for BenchClient {
     fn back_pressed(&mut self, _rsc: &mut AndroidRsc<Self>, _render: &mut UiRenderState) -> bool {
         false
     }
+
+    /// Pads the top button row by the status-bar inset -- see `top_bar`'s
+    /// field comment. Rebuilds the row rather than mutating a stored
+    /// `Padding` in place, since nothing here holds a handle to one --
+    /// but **only when `insets.top` actually changed**: this callback
+    /// also fires on every `ime_bottom` change (the keyboard sliding
+    /// in/out fires several intermediate insets updates), which has
+    /// nothing to do with the status bar, and rebuilding on every one of
+    /// those was the root cause of a real bug (found on Iris's phone,
+    /// RUST.md's P0 box): each rebuild drops the old `top_bar` content
+    /// and marks the *widget itself* dirty (`Widgets::get_dyn_mut`'s
+    /// `needs_redraw.insert`), which redraws it in place at its last
+    /// known slot -- independently of the *parent* `Span`'s own
+    /// resize-triggered redraw, which redraws the whole row again from
+    /// its two-phase placement (`Span::draw`'s doc: a provisional
+    /// full-region draw, then a real one). A `.set()` landing between
+    /// those two phases left one dirty-widget redraw's primitives
+    /// un-freed while the `Span`-driven redraw drew its own copy,
+    /// producing two live copies of the same three buttons in one frame
+    /// -- one at the header's real slot, one wherever `Span`'s
+    /// provisional phase happened to leave it (visibly inside the
+    /// transcript area), each still holding its own working `on(click)`
+    /// handlers, so a tap meant for whatever was under the stray copy
+    /// hit "Run benchmark" instead. Skipping the rebuild when nothing it
+    /// depends on changed removes the repeated `.set()` calls entirely
+    /// -- confirmed fixed by reproducing the exact repro (tap the
+    /// composer, wait for the keyboard) and checking a `ui-trace`
+    /// element listing for exactly one "Run benchmark" afterward.
+    ///
+    /// Also two things downstream of the same `ime_bottom` transition:
+    /// **the keyboard phase's own confirmation signal** (`ime_state`'s
+    /// doc -- the platform's own answer for whether the IME actually
+    /// opened or closed, rather than assumed from having called
+    /// `show_ime`/`hide_ime`), and **the trigger for the keyboard
+    /// diagnostics capture** (RUST.md's P0 box): the IME resizing the
+    /// surface is exactly the case a previous commit found wiped text,
+    /// and Iris needs a way to get a report off the phone even if that
+    /// (or some other keyboard-triggered regression) is still happening
+    /// on the build she is holding -- `capture_keyboard_diagnostics`
+    /// below fires ~500ms after the keyboard becomes visible, once per
+    /// keyboard opening, and shows its report in a plain overlay view
+    /// that draws independently of whatever iris itself is doing.
+    fn on_insets_changed(
+        &mut self,
+        rsc: &mut AndroidRsc<Self>,
+        insets: iris::android::WindowInsets,
+    ) {
+        if insets.top != self.last_top_pad {
+            self.last_top_pad = insets.top;
+            let controls = bench_controls(rsc, insets.top);
+            (self.top_bar)(rsc).set(controls);
+        }
+
+        // The composer bar sits directly on whichever of the IME or the
+        // navigation bar is currently the bottom of usable space -- see
+        // `transcript_ui::composer::Composer::set_bottom_inset`'s doc.
+        // `ime_bottom` already exceeds the plain nav-bar inset whenever the
+        // keyboard covers it, so the larger of the two is always the right
+        // answer without needing to know which is currently showing.
+        if let Some(screen) = &self.screen {
+            screen
+                .composer
+                .set_bottom_inset(rsc, insets.bottom.max(insets.ime_bottom));
+        }
+
+        let ime_visible = insets.ime_bottom > 0.0;
+
+        let mut ime = self.ime_state.lock().unwrap();
+        if ime_visible && !ime.visible {
+            ime.shown_events += 1;
+        }
+        if !ime_visible && ime.visible {
+            ime.hidden_events += 1;
+        }
+        ime.visible = ime_visible;
+        drop(ime);
+
+        if ime_visible && !self.keyboard_was_visible {
+            self.keyboard_was_visible = true;
+            let redraw = rsc.tasks.redraw_handle();
+            rsc.spawn_task(async move |mut ctx| {
+                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(KEYBOARD_DIAGNOSTICS_DELAY_MS)).await;
+                ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+                    state.capture_keyboard_diagnostics(rsc);
+                });
+                redraw.request_redraw();
+            });
+        } else if !ime_visible {
+            self.keyboard_was_visible = false;
+        }
+    }
 }
 
+/// How long to wait after the keyboard becomes visible before capturing
+/// diagnostics -- long enough that the resize, the reported wipe (if it is
+/// still happening) and a couple of frames have all had time to land, per
+/// AGENTS.md's "so that operations that finish in milliseconds have states
+/// on the way that nothing can observe" reasoning applied the other way:
+/// this wants to observe the state *after* the transition settles, not
+/// mid-flight.
+const KEYBOARD_DIAGNOSTICS_DELAY_MS: u64 = 500;
+
 type Rsc = AndroidRsc<BenchClient>;
 
-fn bench_controls(rsc: &mut Rsc) -> WeakWidget {
+/// The header row's own backdrop -- see `bench_controls`'s doc comment on
+/// why it needs one at all. A dark neutral rather than pure black
+/// (`android::render::CLEAR_COLOR`) so the row reads as a distinct panel
+/// instead of a hole in the background the buttons happen to float in.
+const HEADER_SURFACE: UiColor = UiColor::new(28, 28, 34, 255);
+
+/// `top_pad` is the status-bar inset in physical pixels (0.0 until
+/// `on_insets_changed` has run once) -- folded in here, rather than
+/// exposing the unadded builder for a caller to `.pad()` itself, because
+/// naming that builder's type at each call site is more machinery than a
+/// top-of-screen padding number is worth.
+///
+/// **Backed by an opaque rect the full size of the row, not just the three
+/// buttons.** Iris's phone report (docs/RUST.md's P0 box, screenshots on
+/// build a9232ac): "the header buttons have nothing behind them and
+/// overlap the transcript text" -- before this, only each button's own
+/// `rect(...)` painted anything, so the gaps between and around them (and
+/// the status-bar strip above them) showed whatever was one layer back
+/// (`CLEAR_COLOR`, black), and the row's true height was three
+/// physical-pixel-sized (`abs`, not `dp`) button boxes rather than the
+/// density-correct size the transcript below was already using post-P0 --
+/// exactly what reads as "overlap" once the two disagree. Fixed two ways
+/// together: a `HEADER_SURFACE` rect stacked behind the whole row (this
+/// function), and every size below moved from a bare number (physical
+/// pixels) to `dp(...)` (IRIS_TODO.md's density-independent length unit),
+/// so the row's reserved height in the outer `Span::DOWN`
+/// (`AndroidAppState::new`) matches what is actually painted.
+fn bench_controls(rsc: &mut Rsc, top_pad: f32) -> StrongWidget {
     let run_rect = rect(Color::rgb(40, 70, 40))
         .on(
             CursorSense::click(),
@@ -230,7 +457,7 @@ fn bench_controls(rsc: &mut Rsc) -> WeakWidget {
         wtext("Run benchmark").size(18).text_align(Align::CENTER),
     )
         .stack()
-        .pad(8)
+        .pad(dp(8))
         .add(rsc);
 
     let copy_rect = rect(Color::rgb(50, 50, 60))
@@ -246,10 +473,33 @@ fn bench_controls(rsc: &mut Rsc) -> WeakWidget {
         wtext("Copy report").size(18).text_align(Align::CENTER),
     )
         .stack()
-        .pad(8)
+        .pad(dp(8))
         .add(rsc);
 
-    (run, copy).span(Dir::RIGHT).height(56).add(rsc)
+    let diag_rect = rect(Color::rgb(60, 45, 70))
+        .on(
+            CursorSense::click(),
+            |ctx: EventIdCtx<'_, Rsc, _, _>, rsc: &mut Rsc| {
+                ctx.state.show_diagnostics(rsc);
+            },
+        )
+        .label("Diagnostics");
+    let diagnostics = (
+        diag_rect,
+        wtext("Diagnostics").size(18).text_align(Align::CENTER),
+    )
+        .stack()
+        .pad(dp(8))
+        .add(rsc);
+
+    let buttons = (run, copy, diagnostics).span(Dir::RIGHT).add(rsc);
+
+    (rect(HEADER_SURFACE), buttons)
+        .stack()
+        .height(dp(56))
+        .pad(Padding::top(top_pad))
+        .add_strong(rsc)
+        .any()
 }
 
 impl BenchClient {
@@ -266,6 +516,56 @@ impl BenchClient {
         self.screen = Some(screen);
     }
 
+    /// RUST.md's P0 box: "a named `Diagnostics` control ... with 'copy this
+    /// and send it to Iris'." Fills `report_display` (the same TextEdit the
+    /// benchmark report uses) rather than a separate widget, so the
+    /// existing "Copy report" button and clipboard path work on whichever
+    /// text is currently shown -- `last_report` is what `copy_report` reads,
+    /// so it's set here too rather than adding a second copy path.
+    fn show_diagnostics(&mut self, rsc: &mut Rsc) {
+        let font = rsc.ui.text.font_diagnostics();
+        let frame_report = match self.android_state().frame_report.report() {
+            Some(stats) => format!("{stats}"),
+            None => "no frames recorded yet".to_string(),
+        };
+        let report = match &self.android_state().renderer {
+            Some(renderer) => renderer.diagnostics_report(&font, &frame_report),
+            None => "iris diagnostics: no renderer yet (no surface)".to_string(),
+        };
+        self.report_display.edit(rsc).set(&report);
+        self.last_report = Some(report);
+    }
+
+    /// The keyboard's own diagnostics capture -- see `on_insets_changed`'s
+    /// doc comment. Reuses `show_diagnostics`'s exact report (so it is the
+    /// same text the on-screen `Diagnostics` button produces, plus the
+    /// per-frame log `FrameReport` already keeps around the resize --
+    /// `frame_report.report()` above covers "the frames around the
+    /// resize" without a second accounting mechanism), then does three
+    /// things the button does not: logs it (so a `logcat` pull gets it
+    /// even if nothing on screen does), copies it to the clipboard
+    /// unprompted, and shows it in the shell's plain overlay view, which
+    /// draws independently of iris's own renderer -- the whole point,
+    /// since the renderer is exactly what might be in the wiped state
+    /// this exists to report on.
+    fn capture_keyboard_diagnostics(&mut self, rsc: &mut Rsc) {
+        self.show_diagnostics(rsc);
+        let Some(report) = self.last_report.clone() else {
+            return;
+        };
+        log::info!("iris keyboard diagnostics:\n{report}");
+        let Some(platform) = &self.platform else {
+            log::info!("iris keyboard diagnostics: no platform handle, can't reach the shell");
+            return;
+        };
+        if platform.copy_to_clipboard("iris keyboard diagnostics", &report) {
+            log::info!("iris keyboard diagnostics: copied to clipboard");
+        } else {
+            log::info!("iris keyboard diagnostics: clipboard copy failed");
+        }
+        platform.show_diagnostics_overlay(&report);
+    }
+
     fn copy_report(&mut self) {
         let Some(report) = &self.last_report else {
             log::info!("iris bench report: nothing to copy -- run the benchmark first");
@@ -282,10 +582,10 @@ impl BenchClient {
         }
     }
 
-    /// P0's scripted run: `BenchRun.kt`'s scroll loop, then its streaming
+    /// RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": fling, then stream (unchanged from v1),
-    /// phase, then the report -- run in-process for the same reason that
+    /// then type, then keyboard, then the report -- run in-process for the
-    /// file's own doc gives (no usable system tracing on a real phone, no
+    /// same reason `BenchRun.kt`'s own doc gives (no usable system tracing
-    /// agent that can drive one).
+    /// on a real phone, no agent that can drive one).
     fn start_benchmark(&mut self, rsc: &mut Rsc) {
         if self.running {
             log::info!("iris bench report: already running");
@@ -298,35 +598,21 @@ impl BenchClient {
         let redraw = rsc.tasks.redraw_handle();
         let platform = self.platform.clone();
         let stream_tail = self.stream_tail.clone();
+        let ime_state = self.ime_state.clone();
+        let refresh_hz = platform
+            .as_ref()
+            .and_then(|p| p.refresh_rate_hz())
+            .unwrap_or(60.0);
         let cpu_start = process_cpu_ms();
+        let run_started_at = Instant::now();
 
         rsc.spawn_task(async move |mut ctx| {
-            // The swipe loop: two drags toward newer content, two back --
+            // The battery sampler runs for the whole run, once a second,
-            // a cycle returns to where it started, so the whole loop
+            // the same cadence `BatterySampler` uses on the Compose side
-            // measures steady-state scrolling. `BenchRun.kt`'s own
+            // -- via its own JNI-attached thread, not `ctx.update`, since
-            // comment on this shape.
+            // a sample needs no widget-tree access.
-            for _ in 0..CYCLES {
-                for delta in [SWIPE_PX, SWIPE_PX, -SWIPE_PX, -SWIPE_PX] {
-                    animate_scroll(&mut ctx, &redraw, delta, SWIPE_MS).await;
-                    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(SWIPE_PAUSE_MS)).await;
-                }
-            }
-
-            // Pinned to the newest end before streaming starts, matching
-            // `stream-bench.sh`'s "Jump to latest" tap.
-            ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
-                if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
-                    (screen.list)(rsc).jump_to_end();
-                }
-            });
-            redraw.request_redraw();
-
-            // The battery sampler runs concurrently with the streaming
-            // phase, once a second, the same cadence `BatterySampler` uses
-            // on the Compose side -- via its own JNI-attached thread, not
-            // `ctx.update`, since a sample needs no widget-tree access.
             let sampler_done = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
-            let samples = Arc::new(std::sync::Mutex::new(Vec::<i32>::new()));
+            let samples = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<i32>::new()));
             let sampler = platform.clone().map(|platform| {
                 let done = sampler_done.clone();
                 let samples = samples.clone();
@@ -340,20 +626,10 @@ impl BenchClient {
                 })
             });
 
-            let total = (STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC * STREAM_SECONDS) as usize;
+            let travel = run_fling_phase(&mut ctx, &redraw).await;
-            let mut sent = 0usize;
+            let (sent, total) = run_stream_phase(&mut ctx, &redraw, stream_tail).await;
-            for event in stream_tail.into_iter().take(total) {
+            run_type_phase(&mut ctx, &redraw, &platform).await;
-                ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+            let keyboard = run_keyboard_phase(&mut ctx, &platform, &ime_state).await;
-                    state.items = fold_event(&state.items, &event);
-                    state.rebuild_transcript(rsc);
-                });
-                redraw.request_redraw();
-                sent += 1;
-                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1000 / STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC)).await;
-            }
-            // Lets the last few deltas land and draw before the report is
-            // read -- `BenchRun.kt`'s own closing delay.
-            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300)).await;
 
             sampler_done.store(true, Ordering::Relaxed);
             if let Some(sampler) = sampler {
@@ -362,7 +638,10 @@ impl BenchClient {
             let battery = battery_line(&samples.lock().unwrap());
             let cpu_line = match (cpu_start, process_cpu_ms()) {
                 (Some(start), Some(end)) => {
-                    format!("  process CPU time over this run: {}ms", end.saturating_sub(start))
+                    format!(
+                        "  process CPU time over this run: {}ms",
+                        end.saturating_sub(start)
+                    )
                 }
                 _ => "  process CPU time over this run: unavailable".to_string(),
             };
@@ -370,19 +649,61 @@ impl BenchClient {
                 Some(kb) => format!("  peak RSS: {kb}kB"),
                 None => "  peak RSS: unavailable (/proc/self/status unreadable)".to_string(),
             };
+            let total_seconds = run_started_at.elapsed().as_secs_f64();
 
             ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
                 state.running = false;
-                let scroll_line = format!(
+                let now = Instant::now();
-                    "  scroll: {CYCLES} cycles ({} swipes), streamed {sent}/{total} fixture events",
+                let phase_lines: String = state
-                    CYCLES * 4
+                    .android_state()
-                );
+                    .frame_report
-                let frames_line = match state.android_state().frame_report.report() {
+                    .phase_stats(now, refresh_hz)
-                    Some(stats) => format!("{stats}"),
+                    .iter()
-                    None => "no frames recorded".to_string(),
+                    .map(|p| format!("{p}\n"))
+                    .collect();
+                let per_phase = if phase_lines.is_empty() {
+                    String::new()
+                } else {
+                    format!("per phase:\n{phase_lines}\n")
                 };
+                let frames_block = match state.android_state().frame_report.report() {
+                    Some(stats) => {
+                        let (late, late_pct) =
+                            state.android_state().frame_report.late_at_hz(refresh_hz);
+                        format!(
+                            "frames:\n  {} frames over {:.1}s at {:.0}Hz ({:.1}ms budget)\n  \
+                             late: {late} ({late_pct:.1}%)\n  total  p50 {:.1}ms  p90 {:.1}ms  \
+                             p99 {:.1}ms\n  worst {:.1}ms\n  cpu_p50 {:.1}ms  gpu_wait_p50 {:.1}ms",
+                            stats.total_frames,
+                            total_seconds,
+                            refresh_hz,
+                            1000.0 / refresh_hz as f64,
+                            stats.p50.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+                            stats.p90.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+                            stats.p99.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+                            stats.worst.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+                            stats.cpu_p50.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+                            stats.gpu_wait_p50.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+                        )
+                    }
+                    None => "frames:\n  no frames recorded".to_string(),
+                };
+                let scroll_line = format!(
+                    "  scroll: {LEGACY_CYCLES} cycles ({} swipes, legacy tween), streamed \
+                     {sent}/{total} fixture events",
+                    LEGACY_CYCLES * 4
+                );
+                let fling_line = format!(
+                    "  fling: {FLING_COUNT} flings out + {FLING_COUNT} back at \
+                     {FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S}px/s, travel {travel}"
+                );
+                let type_line = format!(
+                    "  type: {} characters inserted then deleted, one per {TYPE_CHAR_MS}ms",
+                    TYPE_TEXT.chars().count()
+                );
                 let report = format!(
-                    "iris bench report\n{frames_line}\n{scroll_line}\n{cpu_line}\n{rss_line}\n{battery}"
+                    "iris bench report\n{per_phase}{frames_block}\n\nbench:\n{fling_line}\n\
+                     {scroll_line}\n{type_line}\n{keyboard}\n{cpu_line}\n{rss_line}\n{battery}"
                 );
                 log::info!("iris bench report: {report}");
                 state.report_display.edit(rsc).set(&report);
@@ -393,26 +714,287 @@ impl BenchClient {
     }
 }
 
-/// Moves `List::scroll` by `total_px` over `duration_ms`, in ~60Hz steps,
+/// Runs `f` against the real `BenchClient`/`Rsc` on the main thread (the
-/// so the swipe is many rendered frames rather than one jump -- the same
+/// same `ctx.update` every other mutation here goes through) and returns
-/// shape `animateScrollBy(SWIPE_PX, tween(SWIPE_MS))` gives on the Compose
+/// its result to the caller's async task -- `ctx.update` alone has no way
-/// side, in the one place the two backends have to differ (iris's `List`
+/// to hand a value back, since the closure only actually runs once the
-/// has no built-in tween, so this drives it by hand).
+/// next frame callback drains `IrisViewPeer`'s task channel
-async fn animate_scroll(
+/// (`drain_tasks`). **Must call `redraw.request_redraw()` itself, right
+/// after enqueueing** -- `ctx.update` only ever pushes onto a channel;
+/// nothing drains it until something schedules the frame callback that
+/// calls `drain_tasks`, and a caller relying on some *earlier*,
+/// already-in-flight `request_redraw()` to cover a *later* `ctx.update`
+/// deadlocks the moment that earlier callback has already fired and
+/// drained everything queued before this call existed. Cost a real hang
+/// in this file's first version of the fling phase: every loop iteration
+/// after the first sat forever with nothing scheduled to drain it.
+/// Polls rather than assuming one `ANIM_STEP_MS` sleep is enough, since a
+/// slow device's frame callback can lag further than that.
+async fn read_from_state<T, F>(
     ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
-    redraw: &Arc<dyn iris::task::RequestRedraw>,
+    redraw: &Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>,
-    total_px: f32,
+    f: F,
-    duration_ms: u64,
+) -> T
-) {
+where
-    let steps = (duration_ms / ANIM_STEP_MS).max(1);
+    T: Send + 'static,
-    let step_px = total_px / steps as f32;
+    F: FnOnce(&mut BenchClient, &mut Rsc) -> T + Send + 'static,
-    for _ in 0..steps {
+{
-        ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+    let (tx, rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
-            if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+    ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
-                (screen.list)(rsc).scroll(step_px);
+        let _ = tx.send(f(state, rsc));
-            }
+    });
-        });
+    redraw.request_redraw();
-        redraw.request_redraw();
+    loop {
+        if let Ok(value) = rx.try_recv() {
+            return value;
+        }
         tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(ANIM_STEP_MS)).await;
     }
 }
+
+/// Phase 1: starting pinned at the newest end, `FLING_COUNT` flings away
+/// from it (toward older messages) through `List::fling`, then
+/// `FLING_COUNT` back. Outward is *negative* in this list's `scroll`
+/// convention (`List::scroll`'s own doc: positive moves *later* content
+/// into view) -- the opposite sign `BenchRun.kt`'s `runFlingPhase` uses,
+/// since `TranscriptList`'s `LazyColumn` and this list define "positive"
+/// the other way around; the two apps' *travel* is still directly
+/// comparable because both report it as a row index + pixel offset, not a
+/// signed distance.
+async fn run_fling_phase(
+    ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
+    redraw: &Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>,
+) -> String {
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, _rsc| {
+        state.android_state_mut().frame_report.mark_phase("fling");
+    });
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+        if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+            (screen.list)(rsc).jump_to_end();
+        }
+    });
+    redraw.request_redraw();
+    // Lets the next frame's `repair_anchor` resolve `jump_to_end`'s
+    // `anchor = None` into a real slot before `start` is read.
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(ANIM_STEP_MS * 2)).await;
+    let start = read_anchor_position(ctx, redraw).await;
+
+    for _ in 0..FLING_COUNT {
+        ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+            if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+                (screen.list)(rsc).fling(-FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S);
+            }
+        });
+        redraw.request_redraw();
+        wait_for_fling_settle(ctx, redraw).await;
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(FLING_PAUSE_MS)).await;
+    }
+    let outward = read_anchor_position(ctx, redraw).await;
+
+    for _ in 0..FLING_COUNT {
+        ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+            if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+                (screen.list)(rsc).fling(FLING_VELOCITY_PX_S);
+            }
+        });
+        redraw.request_redraw();
+        wait_for_fling_settle(ctx, redraw).await;
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(FLING_PAUSE_MS)).await;
+    }
+    let end = read_anchor_position(ctx, redraw).await;
+
+    format!("start={start} outward={outward} end={end}")
+}
+
+async fn read_anchor_position(
+    ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
+    redraw: &Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>,
+) -> String {
+    read_from_state(ctx, redraw, |state, rsc| match &state.screen {
+        Some(screen) => (screen.list)(rsc).anchor_position_display(),
+        None => "idx=none".to_string(),
+    })
+    .await
+}
+
+/// Ticks the fling forward in ~60Hz steps (the same shape
+/// `run_stream_phase`'s per-event loop and the old `animate_scroll` used)
+/// until it settles or `FLING_SETTLE_CAP_MS` passes -- belt-and-suspenders
+/// the same way `BenchRun.kt`'s own `waitForSettle` is, since a fling's
+/// own spline-decided `duration()` already caps how long it can run.
+async fn wait_for_fling_settle(
+    ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
+    redraw: &Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>,
+) {
+    let cap = Duration::from_millis(FLING_SETTLE_CAP_MS);
+    let started = Instant::now();
+    while started.elapsed() < cap {
+        let still_scrolling = read_from_state(ctx, redraw, |state, rsc| match &state.screen {
+            Some(screen) => (screen.list)(rsc).tick_fling(Instant::now()),
+            None => false,
+        })
+        .await;
+        if !still_scrolling {
+            return;
+        }
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(ANIM_STEP_MS)).await;
+    }
+}
+
+/// Phase 2, unchanged from v1: pinned to the newest end before streaming
+/// starts (matching `stream-bench.sh`'s "Jump to latest" tap), then
+/// `STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC * STREAM_SECONDS` fixture events replayed
+/// through the real `fold_event`/`TranscriptScreen::apply` path. Returns
+/// `(sent, total)`.
+async fn run_stream_phase(
+    ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
+    redraw: &Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>,
+    stream_tail: Vec<SeqEvent>,
+) -> (usize, usize) {
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, _rsc| {
+        state.android_state_mut().frame_report.mark_phase("stream");
+    });
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+        if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+            (screen.list)(rsc).jump_to_end();
+        }
+    });
+    redraw.request_redraw();
+
+    let total = (STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC * STREAM_SECONDS) as usize;
+    let mut sent = 0usize;
+    for event in stream_tail.into_iter().take(total) {
+        ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+            let old_items = state.items.clone();
+            state.items = fold_event(&state.items, &event);
+            match &state.screen {
+                Some(screen) => screen.apply(rsc, &old_items, &state.items),
+                None => state.rebuild_transcript(rsc),
+            }
+        });
+        redraw.request_redraw();
+        sent += 1;
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1000 / STREAM_EVENTS_PER_SEC)).await;
+    }
+    // Lets the last few deltas land and draw before the next phase starts
+    // -- `BenchRun.kt`'s own closing delay.
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300)).await;
+    (sent, total)
+}
+
+/// Phase 3: focuses the real composer, shows the keyboard, then types
+/// `TYPE_TEXT` one character at a time through the composer `TextEdit`'s
+/// real edit path (`set`, the same call a real keystroke's `onValueChange`
+/// makes -- `Composer::build_composer`'s `field`), and deletes it the same
+/// way.
+async fn run_type_phase(
+    ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
+    redraw: &Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>,
+    platform: &Option<Arc<PlatformHandle>>,
+) {
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, _rsc| {
+        state.android_state_mut().frame_report.mark_phase("type");
+    });
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+        if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+            (screen.list)(rsc).jump_to_end();
+            state.set_focus(Some(screen.composer.field));
+        }
+    });
+    redraw.request_redraw();
+    if let Some(p) = platform {
+        p.show_ime();
+    }
+    // Lets focus and the keyboard's opening animation land before typing
+    // starts, so the frames this phase records are the wrap/reflow it is
+    // measuring, not the keyboard opening -- `BenchRun.kt`'s own delay.
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300)).await;
+
+    let mut typed = String::new();
+    for ch in TYPE_TEXT.chars() {
+        typed.push(ch);
+        let text = typed.clone();
+        ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+            if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+                screen.composer.field.edit(rsc).set(&text);
+            }
+        });
+        redraw.request_redraw();
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(TYPE_CHAR_MS)).await;
+    }
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(200)).await;
+    while !typed.is_empty() {
+        typed.pop();
+        let text = typed.clone();
+        ctx.update(move |state: &mut BenchClient, rsc| {
+            if let Some(screen) = &state.screen {
+                screen.composer.field.edit(rsc).set(&text);
+            }
+        });
+        redraw.request_redraw();
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(TYPE_CHAR_MS)).await;
+    }
+}
+
+/// Phase 4: `KEYBOARD_CYCLES` show/hide cycles through the shell's own
+/// `InputMethodManager` (`bench_jni.rs`'s `show_ime`/`hide_ime`), each
+/// confirmed by `on_insets_changed`'s real `ime_bottom` transition rather
+/// than assumed from the JNI call having returned -- `ImeState`'s doc.
+/// "keyboard: could not be shown" if the platform never confirms it even
+/// once, per UI_RULES.md ("design the unknown/failed state before the
+/// answer's").
+async fn run_keyboard_phase(
+    ctx: &mut iris::task::TaskCtx<Rsc>,
+    platform: &Option<Arc<PlatformHandle>>,
+    ime_state: &Arc<Mutex<ImeState>>,
+) -> String {
+    ctx.update(|state: &mut BenchClient, _rsc| {
+        state
+            .android_state_mut()
+            .frame_report
+            .mark_phase("keyboard");
+    });
+    let mut shown = 0;
+    let mut hidden = 0;
+    for _ in 0..KEYBOARD_CYCLES {
+        let before_shown = ime_state.lock().unwrap().shown_events;
+        if let Some(p) = platform {
+            p.show_ime();
+        }
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(KEYBOARD_WAIT_MS)).await;
+        if ime_state.lock().unwrap().shown_events > before_shown {
+            shown += 1;
+        }
+
+        let before_hidden = ime_state.lock().unwrap().hidden_events;
+        if let Some(p) = platform {
+            p.hide_ime();
+        }
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(KEYBOARD_WAIT_MS)).await;
+        if ime_state.lock().unwrap().hidden_events > before_hidden {
+            hidden += 1;
+        }
+    }
+    if shown == 0 {
+        format!("  keyboard: could not be shown ({KEYBOARD_CYCLES} attempts, 0 confirmed visible)")
+    } else {
+        format!(
+            "  keyboard: shown {shown}/{KEYBOARD_CYCLES}, hidden {hidden}/{KEYBOARD_CYCLES} \
+             (confirmed via on_insets_changed)"
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::TYPE_TEXT;
+
+    /// `BenchRun.kt`'s own `TYPE_TEXT` is verified `.length == 600`; this
+    /// is the same string, so it has to match exactly or the two apps'
+    /// type phases stop typing the same content -- RUST.md's "Benchmark
+    /// v2" spec is one shared string for both.
+    #[test]
+    fn type_text_is_exactly_600_characters() {
+        assert_eq!(TYPE_TEXT.chars().count(), 600);
+    }
+}

iris/android-app/src/bench_jni.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 //! JNI calls the `bench` feature needs that go through the shell's own
 //! Java side rather than anything `iris`/`android-view` already wraps:
 //! `BatteryManager.getIntProperty(BATTERY_PROPERTY_CURRENT_NOW)` for the
-//! per-second battery sample, and `ClipboardManager.setPrimaryClip` for
+//! per-second battery sample, `ClipboardManager.setPrimaryClip` for the
-//! the "Copy report" control (P0's iris half, docs/RUST.md). Neither is
+//! "Copy report" control (P0's iris half, docs/RUST.md), and -- added for
-//! part of `android_view::context`'s own `Context`/`Resources` wrappers
+//! RUST.md's "Benchmark v2" -- `Display.getRefreshRate()` for the phase
-//! (that file's own `// TODO: more methods?`), so this calls them
+//! report's real late-frame budget and `InputMethodManager.
-//! directly rather than growing that crate's wrapper for two one-off
+//! showSoftInput`/`hideSoftInputFromWindow` for the keyboard phase. None
+//! of these are part of `android_view::context`'s own `Context`/
+//! `Resources` wrappers (that file's own `// TODO: more methods?`), so
+//! this calls them directly rather than growing that crate's wrapper for
 //! calls this crate alone needs.
 //!
 //! Holds its own `JavaVM` + `GlobalRef` to the view (handed in through
@@ -131,4 +134,119 @@ impl PlatformHandle {
         .ok()?;
         Some(())
     }
+
+    /// The display's own refresh rate in Hz (`View::getDisplay()` ->
+    /// `Display::getRefreshRate()`), for RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": late
+    /// frames are judged against *this* device's real budget, not an
+    /// assumed 60Hz -- a 90Hz or 120Hz phone would otherwise call frames
+    /// "late" that met their own faster deadline. `None` if the view is
+    /// not yet attached to a window (`getDisplay` returns `null`) or the
+    /// platform reports a non-positive rate, which is not a real answer
+    /// either.
+    pub fn refresh_rate_hz(&self) -> Option<f32> {
+        let mut guard = self.vm.attach_current_thread().ok()?;
+        let env: &mut JNIEnv = &mut guard;
+        let display = env
+            .call_method(
+                self.view.as_obj(),
+                "getDisplay",
+                "()Landroid/view/Display;",
+                &[],
+            )
+            .ok()?
+            .l()
+            .ok()?;
+        if display.is_null() {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let rate = env
+            .call_method(&display, "getRefreshRate", "()F", &[])
+            .ok()?
+            .f()
+            .ok()?;
+        if rate > 0.0 { Some(rate) } else { None }
+    }
+
+    /// `InputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, 0)` -- the keyboard phase's
+    /// own show, called directly rather than through the focus-driven
+    /// `pending_show_keyboard` path `android/view.rs` uses for a real tap,
+    /// since RUST.md's "Benchmark v2" spec asks for this "through the
+    /// shell's InputMethodManager" independent of focus state. `true` only
+    /// if the platform itself reports the request succeeded -- whether the
+    /// IME actually became visible is confirmed separately, from
+    /// `on_insets_changed`, per UI_RULES.md ("never present an inferred
+    /// value as a measured one").
+    pub fn show_ime(&self) -> bool {
+        self.try_toggle_ime(true).unwrap_or(false)
+    }
+
+    /// `InputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)`.
+    pub fn hide_ime(&self) -> bool {
+        self.try_toggle_ime(false).unwrap_or(false)
+    }
+
+    fn try_toggle_ime(&self, show: bool) -> Option<bool> {
+        let mut guard = self.vm.attach_current_thread().ok()?;
+        let env: &mut JNIEnv = &mut guard;
+        let context = self.context(env)?;
+        let imm = self.system_service(env, &context, "input_method")?;
+        if show {
+            env.call_method(
+                &imm,
+                "showSoftInput",
+                "(Landroid/view/View;I)Z",
+                &[JValue::Object(self.view.as_obj()), JValue::Int(0)],
+            )
+            .ok()?
+            .z()
+            .ok()
+        } else {
+            let token = env
+                .call_method(
+                    self.view.as_obj(),
+                    "getWindowToken",
+                    "()Landroid/os/IBinder;",
+                    &[],
+                )
+                .ok()?
+                .l()
+                .ok()?;
+            env.call_method(
+                &imm,
+                "hideSoftInputFromWindow",
+                "(Landroid/os/IBinder;I)Z",
+                &[JValue::Object(&token), JValue::Int(0)],
+            )
+            .ok()?
+            .z()
+            .ok()
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Shows `report` in the shell's plain-view diagnostics overlay
+    /// (`IrisView.showDiagnosticsOverlay`) -- a real `TextView` plus Copy
+    /// and Close controls, added over whatever iris itself is drawing
+    /// rather than replacing it (unlike `android::view::show_renderer_error`,
+    /// which exists for the case the renderer can never recover from and
+    /// intentionally never returns). Called from a background task after
+    /// the keyboard-open delay (`bench_client.rs`'s `on_insets_changed`),
+    /// so the Java side hops onto the UI thread itself before touching the
+    /// view tree -- see that method's own comment.
+    pub fn show_diagnostics_overlay(&self, report: &str) -> bool {
+        self.try_show_diagnostics_overlay(report).is_some()
+    }
+
+    fn try_show_diagnostics_overlay(&self, report: &str) -> Option<()> {
+        let mut guard = self.vm.attach_current_thread().ok()?;
+        let env: &mut JNIEnv = &mut guard;
+        let jreport = env.new_string(report).ok()?;
+        env.call_method(
+            self.view.as_obj(),
+            "showDiagnosticsOverlay",
+            "(Ljava/lang/String;)V",
+            &[JValue::Object(jreport.as_ref())],
+        )
+        .ok()?;
+        Some(())
+    }
 }

iris/android-app/src/transcript_client.rs

@@ -20,14 +20,22 @@
 //! **Reuses `iris/desktop-app`'s `app.rs` shape almost exactly** --
 //! `fold_event`/`group_tool_runs`/`fold_page`/`raw_seq` from
 //! `client_core::transcript_fold`, a `generation` counter guarding against
-//! a stale background response, and a full rebuild of the widget tree on
+//! a stale background response. What differs is only the redraw
-//! every event (same tradeoff, same reason: `push_row` cannot update a row
+//! mechanism: android-view has no `winit::EventLoopProxy`, so this uses
-//! already on screen, and this rig's conversations are small). What
+//! `iris::task::Tasks::redraw_handle` (new, added alongside this box) to
-//! differs is only the redraw mechanism: android-view has no
+//! request a frame after each `TaskCtx::update` instead of relying on
-//! `winit::EventLoopProxy`, so this uses `iris::task::Tasks::redraw_handle`
+//! `Tasks::spawn`'s single end-of-future redraw -- see that method's own
-//! (new, added alongside this box) to request a frame after each
+//! doc for why.
-//! `TaskCtx::update` instead of relying on `Tasks::spawn`'s single
+//!
-//! end-of-future redraw -- see that method's own doc for why.
+//! **Streaming no longer costs a full rebuild** (fixed after the P0 gate
+//! showed why it mattered -- 20 events/second means 20 rebuilds/second of
+//! a ~3,200-row transcript otherwise): `apply_event` calls
+//! `transcript_ui::TranscriptScreen::apply` with the item list before and
+//! after `fold_event`, which updates only the row(s) that actually
+//! changed (almost always just the one open assistant message) instead of
+//! refolding and rebuilding every row. `rebuild_transcript` still runs
+//! the whole widget tree once, for the opening page and for `apply`'s own
+//! rare regroup fallback.
 
 use client_core::api::{ApiClient, UreqTransport};
 use client_core::event_stream::{StreamItem, follow_session_events};
@@ -360,8 +368,17 @@ impl TranscriptClient {
     }
 
     fn apply_event(&mut self, rsc: &mut AndroidRsc<Self>, event: &SeqEvent) {
+        let old_items = self.items.clone();
         self.items = fold_event(&self.items, event);
-        self.rebuild_transcript(rsc);
+        match &self.screen {
+            // The common path: update only the row(s) that actually
+            // changed instead of refolding and rebuilding all ~3,200 of
+            // them per event (RUST.md's P0 streaming-phase fix).
+            Some(screen) => screen.apply(rsc, &old_items, &self.items),
+            // No screen yet (the opening page hasn't landed) -- build one
+            // the ordinary way once it has.
+            None => self.rebuild_transcript(rsc),
+        }
     }
 
     fn send_message(&mut self, session_id: String, text: String) {

iris/core/Cargo.toml

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ edition.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 wgpu = { workspace = true }
+# Only for `UiRenderNode::new`'s `push_error_scope`/`pop_error_scope` pair
+# (renderer-creation error reporting, RUST.md's P0 phone-crash box) --
+# `block_on` turns that one async pop into the same synchronous call shape
+# `device_limits()`'s two callers already use for `request_adapter`/
+# `request_device`, rather than making this crate's one entry point async.
+pollster = { workspace = true }
 bytemuck ={ workspace = true }
 image = { workspace = true }
 parley = { workspace = true }

iris/core/assets/fonts/OFL.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+                                 Apache License
+                           Version 2.0, January 2004
+                        http://www.apache.org/licenses/
+
+   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION
+
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+
+      "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction,
+      and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document.
+
+      "Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by
+      the copyright owner that is granting the License.
+
+      "Legal Entity" shall mean the union of the acting entity and all
+      other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common
+      control with that entity. For the purposes of this definition,
+      "control" means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the
+      direction or management of such entity, whether by contract or
+      otherwise, or (ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the
+      outstanding shares, or (iii) beneficial ownership of such entity.
+
+      "You" (or "Your") shall mean an individual or Legal Entity
+      exercising permissions granted by this License.
+
+      "Source" form shall mean the preferred form for making modifications,
+      including but not limited to software source code, documentation
+      source, and configuration files.
+
+      "Object" form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical
+      transformation or translation of a Source form, including but
+      not limited to compiled object code, generated documentation,
+      and conversions to other media types.
+
+      "Work" shall mean the work of authorship, whether in Source or
+      Object form, made available under the License, as indicated by a
+      copyright notice that is included in or attached to the work
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iris/core/src/orientation/len.rs

@@ -9,7 +9,31 @@ pub struct Size {
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
 pub struct Len {
+    /// Physical pixels -- a raw device pixel, unaffected by the display's
+    /// density. Rare to want directly (a hairline border is the usual
+    /// case); most sizes should be `dp` instead. See `dp`'s own doc for why
+    /// the two are kept separate rather than one field a caller has to
+    /// remember to pre-multiply.
     pub abs: f32,
+    /// Density-independent pixels -- Android's `dp` / CSS's reference pixel
+    /// (1 unit = 1/160in), resolved against the display's density at
+    /// layout time (`apply_rest`'s `density` parameter) rather than at the
+    /// point a widget is built, since density is a property of the device
+    /// this ends up running on, not of the widget tree. This is the unit
+    /// IRIS_TODO.md's "a density-independent length unit" item asked for,
+    /// 2026-09-06: before it existed, every size in the tree was `abs`
+    /// (physical pixels), and the only way to make a 16px design draw at
+    /// the right *size* on a denser display was a single global multiply
+    /// applied to the whole rendered scene after layout -- which is also
+    /// what made text blurry (RUST.md's P0 box, "blurry ... glyphs drawn
+    /// at logical size and stretched by the scale"): a glyph rasterised at
+    /// 16 physical px and then stretched 3x by that global multiply is a
+    /// 48px area sampled from a 16px bitmap. Resolving `dp` per-length at
+    /// layout time instead means the font size handed to the text shaper
+    /// is already the physical size (`16.0.dp() * 3.0`), so the glyph
+    /// atlas rasterises at the display's real resolution and nothing
+    /// downstream needs to stretch anything.
+    pub dp: f32,
     pub rel: f32,
     pub rest: f32,
 }
@@ -67,10 +91,10 @@ impl Size {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn to_uivec2(self) -> UiVec2 {
+    pub fn to_uivec2(self, density: f32) -> UiVec2 {
         UiVec2 {
-            x: self.x.apply_rest(),
+            x: self.x.apply_rest(density),
-            y: self.y.apply_rest(),
+            y: self.y.apply_rest(density),
         }
     }
 
@@ -98,26 +122,43 @@ impl Size {
 impl Len {
     pub const ZERO: Self = Self {
         abs: 0.0,
+        dp: 0.0,
         rel: 0.0,
         rest: 0.0,
     };
 
     pub const REST: Self = Self {
         abs: 0.0,
+        dp: 0.0,
         rel: 0.0,
         rest: 1.0,
     };
 
-    pub fn apply_rest(&self) -> UiScalar {
+    /// Resolves to a `UiScalar`, folding `dp` into `abs` pixels against
+    /// `density` (physical pixels per dp -- 1.0 on a desktop or an
+    /// unscaled display, `content_scale` on Android; see `dp`'s field
+    /// doc). Every other component of `Len` is already resolution-
+    /// independent (`rel` is a fraction of the parent; `rest` becomes a
+    /// fraction too, below), so `density` only ever touches this one term.
+    pub fn apply_rest(&self, density: f32) -> UiScalar {
         UiScalar {
             rel: self.rel + if self.rest > 0.0 { 1.0 } else { 0.0 },
-            abs: self.abs,
+            abs: self.abs + self.dp * density,
         }
     }
 
     pub fn abs(abs: impl UiNum) -> Self {
         Self {
             abs: abs.to_f32(),
+            dp: 0.0,
+            rel: 0.0,
+            rest: 0.0,
+        }
+    }
+    pub fn dp(dp: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            abs: 0.0,
+            dp: dp.to_f32(),
             rel: 0.0,
             rest: 0.0,
         }
@@ -125,6 +166,7 @@ impl Len {
     pub fn rel(rel: impl UiNum) -> Self {
         Self {
             abs: 0.0,
+            dp: 0.0,
             rel: rel.to_f32(),
             rest: 0.0,
         }
@@ -132,6 +174,7 @@ impl Len {
     pub fn rest(ratio: impl UiNum) -> Self {
         Self {
             abs: 0.0,
+            dp: 0.0,
             rel: 0.0,
             rest: ratio.to_f32(),
         }
@@ -144,6 +187,15 @@ pub mod len_fns {
     pub fn abs(abs: impl UiNum) -> Len {
         Len {
             abs: abs.to_f32(),
+            dp: 0.0,
+            rel: 0.0,
+            rest: 0.0,
+        }
+    }
+    pub fn dp(dp: impl UiNum) -> Len {
+        Len {
+            abs: 0.0,
+            dp: dp.to_f32(),
             rel: 0.0,
             rest: 0.0,
         }
@@ -151,6 +203,7 @@ pub mod len_fns {
     pub fn rel(rel: impl UiNum) -> Len {
         Len {
             abs: 0.0,
+            dp: 0.0,
             rel: rel.to_f32(),
             rest: 0.0,
         }
@@ -158,14 +211,15 @@ pub mod len_fns {
     pub fn rest(ratio: impl UiNum) -> Len {
         Len {
             abs: 0.0,
+            dp: 0.0,
             rel: 0.0,
             rest: ratio.to_f32(),
         }
     }
 }
 
-impl_op!(Len Add add; abs rel rest);
+impl_op!(Len Add add; abs dp rel rest);
-impl_op!(Len Sub sub; abs rel rest);
+impl_op!(Len Sub sub; abs dp rel rest);
 
 impl_op!(Size Add add; x y);
 impl_op!(Size Sub sub; x y);
@@ -187,6 +241,9 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for Len {
         if self.abs != 0.0 {
             write!(f, "{} abs;", self.abs)?;
         }
+        if self.dp != 0.0 {
+            write!(f, "{} dp;", self.dp)?;
+        }
         if self.rel != 0.0 {
             write!(f, "{} rel;", self.rel)?;
         }

iris/core/src/primitive/text.rs

@@ -2,14 +2,63 @@ use crate::{Align, GlyphAtlas, GlyphKey, PlacedGlyph, RegionAlign, Textures, UiC
 use parley::{
     Alignment, AlignmentOptions, FontContext, FontFamily, FontFamilyName, FontStyle, FontWeight,
     GenericFamily, Layout, LayoutContext, LineHeight, PositionedLayoutItem, StyleProperty,
+    fontique::{Blob, FamilyId},
 };
 use std::ops::Range;
+use std::sync::Arc;
 use swash::{
     FontRef,
     scale::{Render, ScaleContext, Source, StrikeWith},
     zeno::{Format, Vector},
 };
 
+/// Bundled fonts, registered over the system collection rather than relied
+/// on alone -- see `TextData::register_bundled_fonts`'s doc comment for
+/// why. Static weight/style cuts, not a variable font: parley/fontique
+/// resolve a variable font's weight axis by picking normalized coordinates
+/// on whatever single face registers for the family, and a phone whose
+/// system "Roboto" is actually the variable "Roboto Flex" is exactly the
+/// device class this sidesteps, rather than depends on working correctly.
+/// Noto Sans, OFL-licensed (`assets/fonts/OFL.txt`), chosen for coverage
+/// breadth (a transcript's content is not known in advance) over a
+/// smaller-footprint alternative -- see the doc comment for the size this
+/// added.
+const NOTO_SANS_REGULAR: &[u8] = include_bytes!("../../assets/fonts/NotoSans-Regular.ttf");
+const NOTO_SANS_BOLD: &[u8] = include_bytes!("../../assets/fonts/NotoSans-Bold.ttf");
+const NOTO_SANS_ITALIC: &[u8] = include_bytes!("../../assets/fonts/NotoSans-Italic.ttf");
+const NOTO_SANS_BOLD_ITALIC: &[u8] = include_bytes!("../../assets/fonts/NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf");
+const NOTO_SANS_MONO_REGULAR: &[u8] = include_bytes!("../../assets/fonts/NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf");
+const NOTO_SANS_MONO_BOLD: &[u8] = include_bytes!("../../assets/fonts/NotoSansMono-Bold.ttf");
+
+/// What starting up found about text rendering, for the on-screen
+/// Diagnostics page and the one startup log line (RUST.md's P0 box, "log
+/// once at startup ... the number of font families found, the default
+/// family resolved"). Built once by `TextData::font_diagnostics` --
+/// `Default::default` still exists for callers (tests, examples) that
+/// don't need the report.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct FontDiagnostics {
+    /// `Collection::family_names().count()` after registering the bundled
+    /// fonts -- system families plus the two bundled ones.
+    pub families_found: usize,
+    /// The family `GenericFamily::SansSerif` resolves to first -- the
+    /// bundled "Noto Sans" unless registration itself failed.
+    pub default_family: Option<String>,
+    /// The family `GenericFamily::Monospace` resolves to first.
+    pub default_mono_family: Option<String>,
+    /// One resolved family name per style axis this crate actually uses
+    /// (`SpanStyle::bold`/`italic`), so a report can say plainly whether a
+    /// bold/italic request is landing on a real face rather than being
+    /// silently absorbed by whatever the sans-serif default resolves to
+    /// for every weight (RUST.md's P0 box, "bold words render as blank
+    /// gaps" -- a family that resolves but has no distinct bold face is
+    /// exactly what produced that).
+    pub regular_resolved: Option<String>,
+    pub bold_resolved: Option<String>,
+    pub italic_resolved: Option<String>,
+    pub mono_resolved: Option<String>,
+}
+
 /// Everything text needs that outlives one string: the font collection, the
 /// layout scratch space, the glyph rasteriser and the atlas they fill.
 pub struct TextData {
@@ -17,15 +66,182 @@ pub struct TextData {
     pub layout_cx: LayoutContext<UiColor>,
     scale_cx: ScaleContext,
     pub atlas: GlyphAtlas,
+    /// Physical pixels per dp -- a second copy of
+    /// `UiRenderState::density`, kept here too because `TextEditCtx::layout`
+    /// (cursor movement and hit-testing, `widget/text/edit.rs`) shapes text
+    /// from an event callback that has a `TextData` but no `Painter`, so it
+    /// has nowhere else to read the display's density from. Both copies are
+    /// set together, from the one place either backend learns the real
+    /// value (`android::view::new_peer`); this is the same accepted
+    /// duplication as `AndroidRenderer::content_scale`; a single source of
+    /// truth would mean carrying a `Painter` (or output size) into every
+    /// input handler for the sake of one field.
+    pub density: f32,
 }
 
 impl Default for TextData {
     fn default() -> Self {
-        Self {
+        let mut data = Self {
             font_cx: FontContext::new(),
             layout_cx: LayoutContext::new(),
             scale_cx: ScaleContext::new(),
             atlas: GlyphAtlas::default(),
+            density: 1.0,
+        };
+        data.register_bundled_fonts();
+        data
+    }
+}
+
+impl TextData {
+    /// Registers Noto Sans (regular/bold/italic/bold-italic) and Noto Sans
+    /// Mono (regular/bold) as static faces, and puts them **first** in the
+    /// `SansSerif`/`Monospace` generic-family fallback lists -- ahead of,
+    /// not instead of, whatever the platform already found, so a script
+    /// Noto Sans lacks (CJK, emoji, ...) still falls through to the system
+    /// font the same as before this existed.
+    ///
+    /// Exists because text rendering must not depend on the platform's own
+    /// font enumeration succeeding or resolving weight/style the way this
+    /// crate assumes: RUST.md's P0 box found bold spans on a real phone
+    /// rendering as blank gaps of the correct advance width (the glyph
+    /// simply wasn't rasterised -- `TextData::place`'s `None` arm), while
+    /// the emulator's system fonts happened to resolve every style. A
+    /// bundled, static-per-style family removes fontique's Android font
+    /// scan (`fontique::backend::android::SystemFonts::new`, which parses
+    /// `/system/fonts` and `/system/etc/fonts.xml`) from the path a glyph
+    /// has to survive to reach the screen at all.
+    ///
+    /// Cost: six static `.ttf`s, ~3.6 MB uncompressed
+    /// (`iris/core/assets/fonts/`), landing in the APK compressed --
+    /// `build-apk.sh`'s own output is what says the delivered number, not
+    /// this comment.
+    fn register_bundled_fonts(&mut self) {
+        fn register(cx: &mut FontContext, bytes: &'static [u8]) -> Option<FamilyId> {
+            let blob = Blob::new(Arc::new(bytes));
+            cx.collection
+                .register_fonts(blob, None)
+                .into_iter()
+                .map(|(id, _)| id)
+                .next()
+        }
+        let sans_id = register(&mut self.font_cx, NOTO_SANS_REGULAR);
+        register(&mut self.font_cx, NOTO_SANS_BOLD);
+        register(&mut self.font_cx, NOTO_SANS_ITALIC);
+        register(&mut self.font_cx, NOTO_SANS_BOLD_ITALIC);
+        let mono_id = register(&mut self.font_cx, NOTO_SANS_MONO_REGULAR);
+        register(&mut self.font_cx, NOTO_SANS_MONO_BOLD);
+
+        if let Some(sans_id) = sans_id {
+            let existing: Vec<_> = self
+                .font_cx
+                .collection
+                .generic_families(GenericFamily::SansSerif)
+                .collect();
+            self.font_cx.collection.set_generic_families(
+                GenericFamily::SansSerif,
+                std::iter::once(sans_id).chain(existing),
+            );
+            let existing: Vec<_> = self
+                .font_cx
+                .collection
+                .generic_families(GenericFamily::SystemUi)
+                .collect();
+            self.font_cx.collection.set_generic_families(
+                GenericFamily::SystemUi,
+                std::iter::once(sans_id).chain(existing),
+            );
+        }
+        if let Some(mono_id) = mono_id {
+            let existing: Vec<_> = self
+                .font_cx
+                .collection
+                .generic_families(GenericFamily::Monospace)
+                .collect();
+            self.font_cx.collection.set_generic_families(
+                GenericFamily::Monospace,
+                std::iter::once(mono_id).chain(existing),
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Builds the startup report -- see `FontDiagnostics`. Queries the
+    /// collection directly (`fontique::Query`) rather than shaping a real
+    /// string, since all that's needed is which family each axis lands on.
+    pub fn font_diagnostics(&mut self) -> FontDiagnostics {
+        use parley::fontique::{Attributes, FontWidth, QueryStatus};
+        let families_found = self.font_cx.collection.family_names().count();
+        let default_family_id = self
+            .font_cx
+            .collection
+            .generic_families(GenericFamily::SansSerif)
+            .next();
+        let default_family = default_family_id
+            .and_then(|id| self.font_cx.collection.family_name(id).map(str::to_string));
+        let default_mono_family_id = self
+            .font_cx
+            .collection
+            .generic_families(GenericFamily::Monospace)
+            .next();
+        let default_mono_family = default_mono_family_id
+            .and_then(|id| self.font_cx.collection.family_name(id).map(str::to_string));
+
+        // Resolves the family a (generic family, weight, style) query lands
+        // on, without holding the `Query`'s borrow of `collection` across
+        // the `family_name` lookup that needs it back -- the `FamilyId` is
+        // captured out of the closure first, then looked up once `query`
+        // (and its borrow) has been dropped.
+        let mut resolve_family =
+            |generic: GenericFamily, weight: FontWeight, style: FontStyle| -> Option<String> {
+                let mut family_id = None;
+                {
+                    let mut query = self
+                        .font_cx
+                        .collection
+                        .query(&mut self.font_cx.source_cache);
+                    query.set_families([generic]);
+                    query.set_attributes(Attributes {
+                        width: FontWidth::NORMAL,
+                        style,
+                        weight,
+                    });
+                    query.matches_with(|font| {
+                        family_id = Some(font.family.0);
+                        QueryStatus::Stop
+                    });
+                }
+                family_id.and_then(|id| self.font_cx.collection.family_name(id).map(str::to_string))
+            };
+
+        let regular_resolved = resolve_family(
+            GenericFamily::SansSerif,
+            FontWeight::NORMAL,
+            FontStyle::Normal,
+        );
+        let bold_resolved = resolve_family(
+            GenericFamily::SansSerif,
+            FontWeight::BOLD,
+            FontStyle::Normal,
+        );
+        let italic_resolved = resolve_family(
+            GenericFamily::SansSerif,
+            FontWeight::NORMAL,
+            FontStyle::Italic,
+        );
+        let mono_resolved = resolve_family(
+            GenericFamily::Monospace,
+            FontWeight::NORMAL,
+            FontStyle::Normal,
+        );
+
+        FontDiagnostics {
+            families_found,
+            default_family,
+            default_mono_family,
+            regular_resolved,
+            bold_resolved,
+            italic_resolved,
+            mono_resolved,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -159,7 +375,7 @@ pub struct TextBuffer {
     /// `set_spans` forces `shaped` to `None` directly, the same way `edit`
     /// does, since spans change far less often than a naive equality check
     /// on the whole `Vec` would cost to compute every frame.
-    shaped: Option<(TextAttrs, Option<f32>)>,
+    shaped: Option<(TextAttrs, Option<f32>, f32)>,
 }
 
 impl TextBuffer {
@@ -215,19 +431,42 @@ impl TextBuffer {
         Vec2::new(self.layout.width(), self.layout.height())
     }
 
-    /// Lay the text out, unless it is already laid out for these attributes and
+    /// Lay the text out, unless it is already laid out for these
-    /// this width.
+    /// attributes, this width and this density.
-    pub fn shape(&mut self, data: &mut TextData, attrs: &TextAttrs, width: Option<f32>) {
+    ///
-        if self.shaped.as_ref() == Some(&(attrs.clone(), width)) {
+    /// **`attrs.font_size`/`line_height` and every span's own `font_size`
+    /// are density-independent (dp) units, multiplied by `density` here --
+    /// the one place text crosses from the widget tree's dp sizes into the
+    /// physical pixels the shaper and rasteriser (`TextData::place`) both
+    /// then work in.** This is what makes glyphs sharp on a dense display:
+    /// before this existed, `font_size` was already a physical-pixel value
+    /// (RUST.md's P0 box's global-scale stopgap resolved density by
+    /// stretching the whole rendered frame afterward instead), so a glyph
+    /// was rasterised small and then upscaled by whatever the display's
+    /// scale factor was -- exactly the blur Iris's report described.
+    /// Multiplying here instead means the font size hitting `ScaleContext`
+    /// in `place` below is already the display's real physical size, so
+    /// the atlas holds a bitmap at the resolution it is actually shown at.
+    /// `GlyphKey.size` already keys on that resolved `font_size`
+    /// (`(font_size * 16.0).round()`), so a cache entry is naturally per
+    /// physical size with no change needed there.
+    pub fn shape(
+        &mut self,
+        data: &mut TextData,
+        attrs: &TextAttrs,
+        width: Option<f32>,
+        density: f32,
+    ) {
+        if self.shaped.as_ref() == Some(&(attrs.clone(), width, density)) {
             return;
         }
         let mut builder = data
             .layout_cx
             .ranged_builder(&mut data.font_cx, &self.text, 1.0, true);
         builder.push_default(StyleProperty::FontFamily(attrs.family.family()));
-        builder.push_default(StyleProperty::FontSize(attrs.font_size));
+        builder.push_default(StyleProperty::FontSize(attrs.font_size * density));
         builder.push_default(StyleProperty::LineHeight(LineHeight::Absolute(
-            attrs.line_height,
+            attrs.line_height * density,
         )));
         builder.push_default(StyleProperty::Brush(attrs.color));
         for span in &self.spans {
@@ -239,7 +478,7 @@ impl TextBuffer {
                 builder.push(StyleProperty::FontFamily(family.family()), range.clone());
             }
             if let Some(size) = span.font_size {
-                builder.push(StyleProperty::FontSize(size), range.clone());
+                builder.push(StyleProperty::FontSize(size * density), range.clone());
             }
             if span.bold {
                 builder.push(StyleProperty::FontWeight(FontWeight::BOLD), range.clone());
@@ -255,7 +494,7 @@ impl TextBuffer {
         self.layout.break_all_lines(width);
         self.layout
             .align(Alignment::Start, AlignmentOptions::default());
-        self.shaped = Some((attrs.clone(), width));
+        self.shaped = Some((attrs.clone(), width, density));
     }
 }
 
@@ -372,8 +611,9 @@ impl TextData {
         attrs: &TextAttrs,
         width: Option<f32>,
         textures: &mut Textures,
+        density: f32,
     ) -> RenderedText {
-        buffer.shape(self, attrs, width);
+        buffer.shape(self, attrs, width, density);
         let glyphs = self.place(buffer, textures);
         RenderedText {
             glyphs: std::sync::Arc::new(glyphs),

iris/core/src/primitive/texture.rs

@@ -141,6 +141,27 @@ impl Textures {
         self.updates.push(Update::Patch(handle.slot, rect));
     }
 
+    /// Forget every image, page and pending update -- what a genuinely new
+    /// GPU device needs alongside [`crate::render::atlas::GlyphAtlas::
+    /// clear`], which this module's own doc references: every slot number
+    /// and every queued [`Update`] here describes the *old* device's
+    /// textures (an `Update::Push`/`Update::Patch` already drained into a
+    /// renderer that no longer exists is gone for good, and a fresh
+    /// `UiRenderNode`'s own texture manager starts with none of them
+    /// applied), so nothing is lost by starting this bookkeeping over too.
+    /// Any `TextureHandle` a caller still holds across the reset (none in
+    /// the transcript screen this reset is wired up for today -- confirmed
+    /// by grep, the only standalone (non-atlas) image anywhere in this
+    /// workspace is `iris/widget/image.rs`'s `Image`, used by the separate
+    /// `tabs-ui` example) is left pointing at a slot this instance no
+    /// longer recognises and needs reinserting via `add`/`add_page` again
+    /// -- the same pre-existing gap a renderer restart already left for
+    /// such a handle before this method existed, just named rather than
+    /// silent now.
+    pub fn reset(&mut self) {
+        *self = Self::new();
+    }
+
     pub fn free(&mut self) {
         for (kind, idx) in self.recv.try_iter() {
             self.images[idx as usize] = None;

iris/core/src/render/atlas.rs

@@ -173,6 +173,25 @@ impl GlyphAtlas {
     pub fn glyph_count(&self) -> usize {
         self.entries.len()
     }
+
+    /// Forget every page and every rasterised entry -- what a genuinely new
+    /// GPU device needs (`android::view::IrisViewPeer::surface_changed`'s
+    /// "not already live" branch, e.g. after backgrounding): the pages this
+    /// atlas remembers are `TextureHandle`s into the *old* device's
+    /// textures, which no longer exist, and every `GlyphEntry`'s `uv_min`/
+    /// `uv_max`/`layer` point into them. Without this, a glyph already
+    /// cached here is treated as "already placed" and never re-inserted
+    /// into the fresh (empty) atlas the new renderer actually has --
+    /// exactly the "rectangles stay, glyphs disappear" bug the resize path
+    /// (`AndroidRenderer::resize`) was built to avoid for the reuse case;
+    /// this is its counterpart for the case where the renderer really is
+    /// new. Dropping `pages` also drops its `TextureHandle`s, which send a
+    /// free message back through their `Textures`; see `Textures::reset`'s
+    /// doc for why that is harmless here.
+    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
+        self.pages.clear();
+        self.entries.clear();
+    }
 }
 
 fn fits(page: &Page, need_w: u32, need_h: u32) -> bool {

iris/core/src/render/frame_report.rs

@@ -1,15 +1,87 @@
-use std::time::Duration;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
 /// The frame budget `dumpsys gfxinfo` also uses to call a frame "janky": the
 /// 60Hz vsync period. Kept as the same threshold so a percentage from this
-/// report and a percentage from `gfxinfo` mean the same thing.
+/// report and a percentage from `gfxinfo` mean the same thing. Only a
+/// fallback now that a caller can read the display's real refresh rate
+/// (`report_at_hz`/`mark_phase`'s callers) -- most devices are 60Hz, but a
+/// 90Hz or 120Hz phone judged against this constant would call every frame
+/// "late" that merely met its own, faster budget.
 pub const JANK_THRESHOLD: Duration = Duration::from_nanos(16_666_667);
 
 /// Enough frames for several minutes of scrolling before the oldest ones
 /// start being overwritten -- the same "diagnostic, not a log" sizing
 /// `FrameStats.kt`'s `CAP` uses on the Compose side, chosen independently
 /// here since a `Duration` is smaller than the six `Long` arrays it keeps.
-const RING_CAPACITY: usize = 4096;
+/// Bumped from 4096 for RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": a fling+stream+type+
+/// keyboard run is ~6,500+ frames on the Compose side, comfortably under
+/// this so `phase_stats` never has to report a phase as partially evicted.
+const RING_CAPACITY: usize = 16384;
+
+/// One `mark_phase` call: the wall-clock instant and the (0-based,
+/// never-reset-by-`reset`-except-at-`reset`-time) absolute frame index at
+/// which a phase began -- `phase_stats` slices `index_ring` against this to
+/// find which recorded samples belong to which phase, since the ring
+/// itself only keeps the most recent `RING_CAPACITY` samples' *values*,
+/// not which phase they were in.
+struct PhaseMark {
+    name: String,
+    start_index: u64,
+    start_at: Instant,
+}
+
+/// One phase's own slice of a report -- RUST.md's "Benchmark v2" spec's
+/// "per-phase blocks in `FrameReport`... frames, late count/percent...
+/// p50/p90/p99, worst, duration". `Display` matches the shape
+/// `docs/bench/compose-phone-v2-2026-09-06.md`'s report already uses, so
+/// the two apps' reports read the same way side by side.
+pub struct PhaseStats {
+    pub name: String,
+    /// How many frames were recorded during this phase in total -- may
+    /// exceed `late + (samples counted)` if some of this phase's frames
+    /// have since been evicted from the ring by a very long run; that
+    /// case is named in the `Display` rather than silently under-counted.
+    pub frames: u64,
+    pub duration: Duration,
+    pub late: u64,
+    pub late_percent: f64,
+    pub p50: Duration,
+    pub p90: Duration,
+    pub p99: Duration,
+    pub worst: Duration,
+    /// `false` if this phase's frame count exceeds how many samples of it
+    /// are still in the ring -- the percentiles above are then computed
+    /// over whatever survived, not the whole phase. UI_RULES.md: this is
+    /// the "we don't fully know" state, named rather than folded silently
+    /// into a number that looks exact.
+    pub complete: bool,
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for PhaseStats {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        writeln!(
+            f,
+            "  {}: {} frames over {:.1}s{}",
+            self.name,
+            self.frames,
+            self.duration.as_secs_f64(),
+            if self.complete {
+                ""
+            } else {
+                " (ring evicted some of this phase)"
+            },
+        )?;
+        writeln!(f, "    late: {} ({:.1}%)", self.late, self.late_percent)?;
+        writeln!(
+            f,
+            "      total  p50 {:.1}ms  p90 {:.1}ms  p99 {:.1}ms",
+            self.p50.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+            self.p90.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+            self.p99.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0,
+        )?;
+        write!(f, "    worst {:.1}ms", self.worst.as_secs_f64() * 1000.0)
+    }
+}
 
 /// A per-frame wall-time report iris keeps of itself, because `dumpsys
 /// gfxinfo` cannot see a `SurfaceView`'s own GPU-drawn frames at all
@@ -41,6 +113,11 @@ pub struct FrameReport {
     /// "Where iris's frame time goes" CPU/GPU split, added 2026-09-05).
     /// `ring[i] - submit_ring[i]` is that frame's `redraw_to_submit` half.
     submit_ring: Box<[Duration; RING_CAPACITY]>,
+    /// The absolute (0-based, since the last `reset`) frame index each
+    /// `ring`/`submit_ring` slot's sample belongs to -- what `phase_stats`
+    /// slices against `PhaseMark::start_index` to tell which recorded
+    /// frames fall in which phase.
+    index_ring: Box<[u64; RING_CAPACITY]>,
     /// How many of `ring`'s slots hold a real sample -- saturates at
     /// `RING_CAPACITY`, unlike `total_frames` below which keeps counting.
     len: usize,
@@ -50,6 +127,12 @@ pub struct FrameReport {
     /// correct even once the ring itself only holds the most recent frames.
     total_frames: u64,
     janky_frames: u64,
+    /// `mark_phase` calls since the last `reset`, oldest first -- see
+    /// `phase_stats`. Empty on an ordinary run that never calls
+    /// `mark_phase`, so `phase_stats` returns an empty `Vec` and a caller
+    /// prints no "per phase:" section at all, matching RUST.md's "empty/
+    /// absent on an ordinary 'Copy' press, which never marks a phase."
+    phases: Vec<PhaseMark>,
 }
 
 /// One resolved reading. `Display` is the log line both the "Frame report"
@@ -107,10 +190,12 @@ impl FrameReport {
         Self {
             ring: Box::new([Duration::ZERO; RING_CAPACITY]),
             submit_ring: Box::new([Duration::ZERO; RING_CAPACITY]),
+            index_ring: Box::new([0; RING_CAPACITY]),
             len: 0,
             pos: 0,
             total_frames: 0,
             janky_frames: 0,
+            phases: Vec::new(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -131,6 +216,7 @@ impl FrameReport {
     pub fn record_split(&mut self, total: Duration, submit_to_present: Duration) {
         self.ring[self.pos] = total;
         self.submit_ring[self.pos] = submit_to_present;
+        self.index_ring[self.pos] = self.total_frames;
         self.pos = (self.pos + 1) % RING_CAPACITY;
         self.len = (self.len + 1).min(RING_CAPACITY);
         self.total_frames += 1;
@@ -142,12 +228,89 @@ impl FrameReport {
     /// Clears every counter and every sample -- what the "Reset frame
     /// report" control calls, so a report covers only what was scrolled
     /// after the button was pressed (the same reason `FrameStats.kt`'s
-    /// `reset()` exists on the Compose side).
+    /// `reset()` exists on the Compose side). Also clears every phase
+    /// mark, so a fresh run starts with no "per phase:" section until it
+    /// marks one of its own.
     pub fn reset(&mut self) {
         self.len = 0;
         self.pos = 0;
         self.total_frames = 0;
         self.janky_frames = 0;
+        self.phases.clear();
+    }
+
+    /// Marks the start of a named phase at the current moment -- every
+    /// frame recorded from here until the next `mark_phase` (or `reset`)
+    /// belongs to it. RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": a scripted bench run calls
+    /// this once per phase (fling/stream/type/keyboard) so `phase_stats`
+    /// can slice one whole run's frames by what was happening during each.
+    pub fn mark_phase(&mut self, name: &str) {
+        self.phases.push(PhaseMark {
+            name: name.to_string(),
+            start_index: self.total_frames,
+            start_at: Instant::now(),
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// One [`PhaseStats`] per `mark_phase` call since the last `reset`,
+    /// oldest first. `now` closes the last phase's wall-clock span (there
+    /// is no "next phase" instant to use for it); `refresh_hz` is what
+    /// each phase's own `late`/`late_percent` is judged against, read from
+    /// the display rather than assumed -- RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": "late
+    /// count/% against the display's refresh rate."
+    pub fn phase_stats(&self, now: Instant, refresh_hz: f32) -> Vec<PhaseStats> {
+        if self.phases.is_empty() || refresh_hz <= 0.0 {
+            return Vec::new();
+        }
+        let budget = Duration::from_secs_f64(1.0 / refresh_hz as f64);
+        self.phases
+            .iter()
+            .enumerate()
+            .map(|(i, phase)| {
+                let (end_index, end_at) = match self.phases.get(i + 1) {
+                    Some(next) => (next.start_index, next.start_at),
+                    None => (self.total_frames, now),
+                };
+                let frames = end_index.saturating_sub(phase.start_index);
+                let mut samples: Vec<Duration> = (0..self.len)
+                    .filter(|&j| {
+                        let idx = self.index_ring[j];
+                        idx >= phase.start_index && idx < end_index
+                    })
+                    .map(|j| self.ring[j])
+                    .collect();
+                let complete = samples.len() as u64 >= frames;
+                if samples.is_empty() {
+                    return PhaseStats {
+                        name: phase.name.clone(),
+                        frames,
+                        duration: end_at.saturating_duration_since(phase.start_at),
+                        late: 0,
+                        late_percent: 0.0,
+                        p50: Duration::ZERO,
+                        p90: Duration::ZERO,
+                        p99: Duration::ZERO,
+                        worst: Duration::ZERO,
+                        complete,
+                    };
+                }
+                samples.sort_unstable();
+                let pct = |p: usize| samples[(samples.len() * p / 100).min(samples.len() - 1)];
+                let late = samples.iter().filter(|&&d| d > budget).count() as u64;
+                PhaseStats {
+                    name: phase.name.clone(),
+                    frames,
+                    duration: end_at.saturating_duration_since(phase.start_at),
+                    late,
+                    late_percent: 100.0 * late as f64 / samples.len() as f64,
+                    p50: pct(50),
+                    p90: pct(90),
+                    p99: pct(99),
+                    worst: *samples.last().expect("checked not empty above"),
+                    complete,
+                }
+            })
+            .collect()
     }
 
     /// `None` if nothing has been recorded since the last reset -- the
@@ -186,6 +349,28 @@ impl FrameReport {
             gpu_wait_p50: median(submit_samples),
         })
     }
+
+    /// `(late count, late percent)` over every sample still in the ring,
+    /// judged against `refresh_hz`'s own frame budget rather than the
+    /// fixed 60Hz `JANK_THRESHOLD` -- RUST.md's "Benchmark v2": "late
+    /// count/% against the display's refresh rate... print 'at N Hz (X ms
+    /// budget)' like Compose does." A separate method from `report()`
+    /// rather than a parameter on it, so `report()`'s own `janky_percent`
+    /// (and the exact-boundary test pinned to `JANK_THRESHOLD`) is
+    /// unaffected for every existing caller that never measured a real
+    /// refresh rate. `(0, 0.0)` with nothing recorded or a non-positive
+    /// `refresh_hz`.
+    pub fn late_at_hz(&self, refresh_hz: f32) -> (u64, f64) {
+        if self.len == 0 || refresh_hz <= 0.0 {
+            return (0, 0.0);
+        }
+        let budget = Duration::from_secs_f64(1.0 / refresh_hz as f64);
+        let late = self.ring[..self.len]
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|&&d| d > budget)
+            .count() as u64;
+        (late, 100.0 * late as f64 / self.len as f64)
+    }
 }
 
 impl Default for FrameReport {
@@ -296,4 +481,68 @@ mod tests {
         // same pattern here.
         assert!(stats.worst <= Duration::from_millis(5));
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn no_marks_means_no_phases() {
+        let mut r = FrameReport::new();
+        r.record(Duration::from_millis(5));
+        assert!(r.phase_stats(Instant::now(), 60.0).is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn phases_slice_frames_by_when_they_were_marked() {
+        let mut r = FrameReport::new();
+        r.mark_phase("a");
+        for _ in 0..5 {
+            r.record(Duration::from_millis(10)); // 10ms: late at 60Hz (16.7ms budget)... no, 10<16.7, not late
+        }
+        r.mark_phase("b");
+        for _ in 0..3 {
+            r.record(Duration::from_millis(20)); // 20ms: late at 60Hz
+        }
+        let now = Instant::now();
+        let phases = r.phase_stats(now, 60.0);
+        assert_eq!(phases.len(), 2);
+        assert_eq!(phases[0].name, "a");
+        assert_eq!(phases[0].frames, 5);
+        assert_eq!(phases[0].late, 0);
+        assert_eq!(phases[0].worst, Duration::from_millis(10));
+        assert_eq!(phases[1].name, "b");
+        assert_eq!(phases[1].frames, 3);
+        assert_eq!(phases[1].late, 3);
+        assert_eq!(phases[1].late_percent, 100.0);
+        assert_eq!(phases[1].worst, Duration::from_millis(20));
+        assert!(phases[0].complete);
+        assert!(phases[1].complete);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_last_phase_runs_until_now() {
+        let mut r = FrameReport::new();
+        r.mark_phase("only");
+        r.record(Duration::from_millis(1));
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));
+        let now = Instant::now();
+        let phases = r.phase_stats(now, 60.0);
+        assert_eq!(phases.len(), 1);
+        assert!(phases[0].duration >= Duration::from_millis(20));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn reset_clears_phase_marks() {
+        let mut r = FrameReport::new();
+        r.mark_phase("a");
+        r.record(Duration::from_millis(1));
+        r.reset();
+        assert!(r.phase_stats(Instant::now(), 60.0).is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn late_at_hz_uses_the_given_refresh_rate_not_the_fixed_60hz_constant() {
+        let mut r = FrameReport::new();
+        // 10ms is under 60Hz's 16.7ms budget but over 120Hz's 8.3ms one.
+        r.record(Duration::from_millis(10));
+        assert_eq!(r.late_at_hz(60.0), (0, 0.0));
+        assert_eq!(r.late_at_hz(120.0), (1, 100.0));
+    }
 }

iris/core/src/render/mod.rs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use crate::{
     util::{HashMap, Vec2},
 };
 use data::WindowUniform;
+use pollster::FutureExt;
 use wgpu::{
     util::{BufferInitDescriptor, DeviceExt},
     *,
@@ -65,6 +66,57 @@ pub fn device_limits() -> Limits {
     }
 }
 
+/// A capped log of wgpu's *uncaptured* errors -- everything that reaches
+/// `Device::on_uncaptured_error` rather than one of `UiRenderNode::new`'s
+/// own error scopes, i.e. every wgpu error raised outside device/pipeline
+/// creation: a validation failure during an ordinary frame's `update`/
+/// `draw`, for instance. wgpu's default handler for these is `panic!` with
+/// no caller able to intervene -- exactly what aborted the P0 bench APK
+/// once already (this file's `UiRenderNode::new` doc comment) -- so both
+/// platform backends install a handler here instead of leaving the default
+/// in place, per RUST.md's P0 box ("every wgpu uncaptured error ... it
+/// must never panic in release").
+///
+/// Cheap to `Clone` (an `Arc` around the real storage) rather than a
+/// process-wide static, so a caller builds one alongside its `Device`,
+/// hands one clone to `on_uncaptured_error`'s closure and keeps the other
+/// for the Diagnostics page to read -- context passed explicitly, per
+/// AGENTS.md/CODE_RULES.md's "no globals" rather than reached for through a
+/// `OnceLock`.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct WgpuErrorLog {
+    errors: std::sync::Arc<std::sync::Mutex<std::collections::VecDeque<String>>>,
+}
+
+/// How many uncaptured errors the log keeps -- old ones drop off the front
+/// rather than being trimmed on read, so a build spraying errors every
+/// frame doesn't grow this without bound.
+const WGPU_ERROR_LOG_CAP: usize = 20;
+
+impl Default for WgpuErrorLog {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            errors: std::sync::Arc::new(std::sync::Mutex::new(std::collections::VecDeque::new())),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl WgpuErrorLog {
+    pub fn record(&self, error: impl std::fmt::Display) {
+        let mut errors = self.errors.lock().unwrap();
+        if errors.len() >= WGPU_ERROR_LOG_CAP {
+            errors.pop_front();
+        }
+        errors.push_back(error.to_string());
+    }
+
+    /// A snapshot for the Diagnostics page -- cloned rather than held,
+    /// since the lock must not outlive one call.
+    pub fn snapshot(&self) -> Vec<String> {
+        self.errors.lock().unwrap().iter().cloned().collect()
+    }
+}
+
 pub struct UiRenderNode {
     uniform_group: BindGroup,
     primitive_layout: BindGroupLayout,
@@ -152,7 +204,7 @@ impl UiRenderNode {
         queue: &Queue,
         ui: &mut UiData,
         ui_render: &mut UiRenderState,
-    ) {
+    ) -> FrameUpdateStats {
         self.active.clear();
         for (i, primitives) in ui_render.layers.iter_mut() {
             self.active.push(i);
@@ -236,6 +288,10 @@ impl UiRenderNode {
         if rebuild_main {
             self.rsc_group = Self::rsc_group(device, &self.rsc_layout, &self.textures);
         }
+        FrameUpdateStats {
+            masks_resized,
+            moves_resized,
+        }
     }
 
     /// Takes a size rather than a window type: this is the only thing the
@@ -251,26 +307,69 @@ impl UiRenderNode {
         queue.write_buffer(&self.window_buffer, 0, bytemuck::cast_slice(slice));
     }
 
-    pub fn new(device: &Device, queue: &Queue, config: &SurfaceConfiguration) -> Self {
+    /// Builds every bind group layout, the pipeline, and the two storage
+    /// buffers this needs -- fallibly, since this is exactly the call that
+    /// aborted the process on Iris's phone in a release build with no
+    /// message beyond "wgpu error: Validation Error" (RUST.md's P0 box,
+    /// "iris bench crash on the phone, 2026-09-06"). wgpu's own default
+    /// behaviour for an uncaptured error is `panic!` with no caller able to
+    /// intervene, so every `create_bind_group_layout`/`create_render_pipeline`
+    /// call below runs inside three nested error scopes (one per
+    /// `ErrorFilter`) instead: whichever scope catches something, its
+    /// `wgpu::Error`'s `Display` is wgpu-core's own `format_error` output
+    /// (`"Validation Error\n\nCaused by:\n  ..."`, the same text the panic
+    /// would have printed before Android's crash reporter truncated it) and
+    /// becomes this function's `Err`. Both callers
+    /// (`android::render::AndroidRenderer::new`, `default::render::
+    /// UiRenderer::new`) already call `Device`-creation with
+    /// `pollster::block_on`, so returning a plain `Result` here rather than
+    /// making this `async fn` keeps that same synchronous shape.
+    pub fn new(
+        device: &Device,
+        queue: &Queue,
+        config: &SurfaceConfiguration,
+        window_size: impl Into<Vec2>,
+    ) -> Result<Self, String> {
+        // Popped in reverse of this order, once every creation call below
+        // has run -- `Device::push_error_scope`'s own contract.
+        let oom_scope = device.push_error_scope(ErrorFilter::OutOfMemory);
+        let validation_scope = device.push_error_scope(ErrorFilter::Validation);
+        let internal_scope = device.push_error_scope(ErrorFilter::Internal);
+
         let shader = device.create_shader_module(ShaderModuleDescriptor {
             label: Some("UI Shape Shader"),
             source: ShaderSource::Wgsl(SHAPE_SHADER.into()),
         });
 
-        // Seeded from the surface's own size, not `WindowUniform::default()`
+        // Seeded from the caller's own reported size, not
-        // (0, 0): the vertex shader divides by `window.dim` to reach clip
+        // `WindowUniform::default()` (0, 0): the vertex shader divides by
-        // space, so a window this buffer disagrees with means every
+        // `window.dim` to reach clip space, so a window this buffer
-        // primitive's position is NaN/Inf and is dropped before
+        // disagrees with means every primitive's position is NaN/Inf and is
-        // rasterization -- the clear colour still reaches the screen (the
+        // dropped before rasterization -- the clear colour still reaches
-        // pass runs regardless) while nothing drawn on top of it ever does.
+        // the screen (the pass runs regardless) while nothing drawn on top
-        // winit's backend gets away with the old default because winit
+        // of it ever does. winit's backend gets away with the old default
-        // fires an initial `WindowEvent::Resized` that calls `resize()`
+        // because winit fires an initial `WindowEvent::Resized` that calls
-        // before the first frame; android-view has no such automatic
+        // `resize()` before the first frame; android-view has no such
-        // event, so `AndroidRenderer::new` built a node whose window buffer
+        // automatic event, so `AndroidRenderer::new` built a node whose
-        // was never corrected -- this is I2's "nothing draws" bug (RUST.md).
+        // window buffer was never corrected -- this is I2's "nothing draws"
-        let window_uniform = WindowUniform {
+        // bug (RUST.md).
-            width: config.width as f32,
+        //
-            height: config.height as f32,
+        // **Deliberately not `config.width`/`config.height`**: those are
+        // the surface's *physical* pixel size, which the swapchain needs,
+        // but everything downstream of this uniform (layout, hit-testing,
+        // glyph/rect positions) works in the caller's own units -- on
+        // Android that's *logical* (physical / density) since RUST.md's P0
+        // box ("text is far too small"), on desktop it's whatever
+        // `default::render::UiRenderer::new` already divides by
+        // `window.scale_factor()`. Passing it in explicitly, rather than
+        // deriving it from `config` here, is what keeps this crate from
+        // needing to know either platform's notion of density at all.
+        let window_uniform = {
+            let size = window_size.into();
+            WindowUniform {
+                width: size.x,
+                height: size.y,
+            }
         };
         let window_buffer = device.create_buffer_init(&BufferInitDescriptor {
             label: Some("window"),
@@ -373,7 +472,18 @@ impl UiRenderNode {
             cache: None,
         });
 
-        Self {
+        // Reverse of the push order above. Only one of these should ever be
+        // `Some` in practice -- three separate scopes exist to name *which*
+        // kind of error it was, not because more than one is expected at
+        // once.
+        let internal_err = internal_scope.pop().block_on();
+        let validation_err = validation_scope.pop().block_on();
+        let oom_err = oom_scope.pop().block_on();
+        if let Some(err) = validation_err.or(oom_err).or(internal_err) {
+            return Err(err.to_string());
+        }
+
+        Ok(Self {
             uniform_group,
             primitive_layout,
             rsc_layout,
@@ -387,7 +497,7 @@ impl UiRenderNode {
             move_offsets,
             masks_layout,
             masks_group,
-        }
+        })
     }
 
     fn bind_group_0(
@@ -554,4 +664,26 @@ impl UiRenderNode {
     pub fn take_image_bind_group_creates(&mut self) -> u64 {
         self.textures.take_bind_group_creates()
     }
+
+    /// Atlas-array `grow_array` calls since the last call -- same calling
+    /// convention as `take_image_bind_group_creates` (call once per frame,
+    /// before `update()`, to read exactly the previous frame's tally). Part
+    /// of the Diagnostics page's per-frame report (RUST.md's P0 box, "the
+    /// first input frame" investigation): if a report ever shows a grow
+    /// landing on the same frame the glyphs vanished, that is the
+    /// coincidence to chase first.
+    pub fn take_atlas_pages_grown(&mut self) -> u64 {
+        self.textures.take_pages_grown()
+    }
+}
+
+/// What `UiRenderNode::update` changed this frame that a caller building a
+/// per-frame diagnostic report cares about -- see `take_image_bind_group_creates`/
+/// `take_atlas_pages_grown` for the two counters this doesn't carry (they
+/// use the existing "call before update()" convention instead, so as not
+/// to disturb `bench_images`' documented counts).
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default)]
+pub struct FrameUpdateStats {
+    pub masks_resized: bool,
+    pub moves_resized: bool,
 }

iris/core/src/render/texture.rs

@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ pub struct GpuTextures {
     /// unchanging image list is zero, the same way `UiRenderState`'s
     /// `draw_count`/`region_mut_count` prove the layout side.
     bind_group_creates: u64,
+    /// `grow_array` calls since the last `take_pages_grown` -- the
+    /// Diagnostics page's per-frame report (RUST.md's P0 box, "the first
+    /// input frame" investigation) reads this alongside `bind_group_creates`
+    /// to say whether *this* frame's glyph disappearance, if any, coincided
+    /// with the atlas array being recreated.
+    pages_grown: u64,
 }
 
 impl GpuTextures {
@@ -226,6 +232,7 @@ impl GpuTextures {
     /// array's view, which invalidates every bind group that referenced it,
     /// so this also rebuilds all of them before returning.
     fn grow_array(&mut self, rsc_layout: &BindGroupLayout) {
+        self.pages_grown += 1;
         let new_capacity = self.array_capacity * 2;
         let new_texture = Self::create_array_texture(&self.device, new_capacity);
         if self.page_count > 0 {
@@ -392,6 +399,7 @@ impl GpuTextures {
             sampler,
             null_view,
             bind_group_creates: 0,
+            pages_grown: 0,
         }
     }
 
@@ -402,6 +410,12 @@ impl GpuTextures {
         std::mem::take(&mut self.bind_group_creates)
     }
 
+    /// Reads and zeroes the atlas-array-grow counter -- see `pages_grown`'s
+    /// field comment.
+    pub fn take_pages_grown(&mut self) -> u64 {
+        std::mem::take(&mut self.pages_grown)
+    }
+
     pub fn array_view(&self) -> &TextureView {
         &self.array_view
     }

iris/core/src/ui/painter.rs

@@ -165,8 +165,10 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         attrs: &TextAttrs,
         width: Option<f32>,
     ) -> RenderedText {
+        let density = self.state.density;
         let ui = self.rsc.ui_mut();
-        ui.text.render(buffer, attrs, width, &mut ui.textures)
+        ui.text
+            .render(buffer, attrs, width, &mut ui.textures, density)
     }
 
     /// Draw a laid-out string: one quad per glyph, all sampling the atlas.
@@ -210,6 +212,12 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         self.state.output_size
     }
 
+    /// Physical pixels per `dp` -- see `UiRenderState::density`'s field
+    /// doc. What `Len::dp`'s `apply_rest` call resolves against.
+    pub fn density(&self) -> f32 {
+        self.state.density
+    }
+
     pub fn px_size(&mut self) -> Vec2 {
         self.region.size().to_abs(self.state.output_size)
     }

iris/core/src/ui/render_state.rs

@@ -9,11 +9,32 @@ pub struct UiRenderState {
     pub active: HashMap<WidgetId, ActiveData>,
     pub layers: PrimitiveLayers,
     pub(super) output_size: Vec2,
+    /// Physical pixels per `dp` -- see `Len::dp`'s field doc. `1.0` (an
+    /// unscaled display) until a backend that knows its own density calls
+    /// `set_density` (Android's `content_scale`, read at `surface_changed`
+    /// time); the winit backend has no analogous per-monitor value wired up
+    /// yet and stays at the default.
+    pub(super) density: f32,
 
     old_root: Option<WidgetId>,
     resized: bool,
     draw_started: HashSet<WidgetId>,
 
+    /// The widget currently holding exclusive pointer input, if any --
+    /// `iris::sense::SensorUi::run_sensors` reads and clears this every
+    /// call. Interior mutability (a `Mutex`, not a bare `Cell`, since a
+    /// `CursorData` reaching this through an async `task_on` handler needs
+    /// `Send`/`Sync`) because `run_sensors` takes `&self` (widgets are
+    /// dispatched to, not owned, at that layer) and this render state is
+    /// the one structure both backends (winit, android-view) already hold
+    /// across frames, the same way `old_root`/`resized` are -- see
+    /// `iris::sense`'s pointer-capture doc for why a drag needs this: once
+    /// a gesture has committed to panning or selecting, every later sample
+    /// of it must reach the same widget even if the finger has moved off
+    /// whatever hit region first noticed the press. Never held across an
+    /// await or another lock -- every access here is a single get/set.
+    captured: std::sync::Mutex<Option<WidgetId>>,
+
     /// `Widget::draw` calls and `Primitives::region_mut` rewrites since the
     /// last `take_counters`. LAYOUT.md section 8's pass conditions are
     /// stated in terms of these two: an unchanged frame must cost 0 of
@@ -35,9 +56,11 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             active: Default::default(),
             layers: Default::default(),
             output_size: Vec2::ZERO,
+            density: 1.0,
             old_root: None,
             resized: false,
             draw_started: Default::default(),
+            captured: Default::default(),
             draw_count: 0,
             region_mut_count: 0,
             mov_count: 0,
@@ -60,6 +83,20 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         self.resized = true;
     }
 
+    /// Sets the physical-pixels-per-dp ratio every `Len::dp` in the tree
+    /// resolves against from the next layout pass on -- see `density`'s
+    /// field doc. Not folded into `resize` because the two change on
+    /// different triggers (a surface resize on every rotation or keyboard
+    /// open; a density change only if the app follows the display to a
+    /// different screen, which Android surfaces separately).
+    pub fn set_density(&mut self, density: f32) {
+        self.density = density;
+    }
+
+    pub fn density(&self) -> f32 {
+        self.density
+    }
+
     pub fn update<'a>(&mut self, root: impl Into<Option<&'a StrongWidget>>, rsc: &mut dyn UiRsc) {
         // safety mechanism for memory leaks; might wanna return a result instead so user can
         // decide whether to panic or not
@@ -311,7 +348,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         };
         let from = active
             .size
-            .to_uivec2()
+            .to_uivec2(self.density)
             .align(RegionAlign::TOP_LEFT)
             .within(&active.region);
         let slot = active.move_slot;
@@ -336,6 +373,13 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             active.textures.clear();
             rsc.ui_mut().textures.free();
             if undraw {
+                // A captured widget that goes away mid-gesture (List's
+                // virtualisation retiring a row, a rebuild) must not leave
+                // the pointer permanently captured by an id nothing will
+                // ever draw again -- `captured`'s own path out.
+                if *self.captured.lock().unwrap() == Some(id) {
+                    *self.captured.lock().unwrap() = None;
+                }
                 // Permanent removal: retire this widget's own move slot
                 // (the self-ownership ref taken when it was allocated) and
                 // the up-link ref it held on its parent's slot -- read from
@@ -408,6 +452,27 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         self.active.len()
     }
 
+    /// Give `id` exclusive pointer input from the next `run_sensors` call
+    /// on -- see `captured`'s field doc. Overwrites any previous capture
+    /// (a gesture that starts a new one has already decided the old one
+    /// is over).
+    pub fn capture_pointer(&self, id: WidgetId) {
+        *self.captured.lock().unwrap() = Some(id);
+    }
+
+    /// Release exclusive pointer input, if any is held -- called once
+    /// `run_sensors` has delivered the terminal `Drop` to the capturing
+    /// widget, or by that widget itself if it decides the gesture is over
+    /// some other way.
+    pub fn release_pointer(&self) {
+        *self.captured.lock().unwrap() = None;
+    }
+
+    /// The widget currently holding exclusive pointer input, if any.
+    pub fn captured_pointer(&self) -> Option<WidgetId> {
+        *self.captured.lock().unwrap()
+    }
+
     pub fn debug(&self, widgets: &Widgets, label: &str) -> impl Iterator<Item = &ActiveData> {
         self.active.iter().filter_map(move |(&id, inst)| {
             let l = widgets.label(id);

iris/desktop-app/src/app.rs

@@ -15,23 +15,19 @@
 //! +-----------+--------------------------------------+
 //! ```
 //!
-//! **Deliberately left simple, and why**: every incoming SSE event refolds
+//! **Incoming SSE events go through `TranscriptScreen::apply`**, not a
-//! the *entire* transcript (`client_core::transcript_fold::fold_event` is
+//! full rebuild: `client_core::transcript_fold::fold_event` folds the new
-//! already `O(items)` and a desktop session's conversation is small) and
+//! item list as before, then `apply` updates only the row(s) that actually
-//! rebuilds the whole right-hand widget tree from scratch, rather than
+//! changed (almost always the one still-open assistant message a delta
-//! reaching for `TranscriptScreen::push_row`'s incremental append.
+//! landed in) instead of rebuilding the whole right-hand widget tree from
-//! `push_row` cannot update a row already on screen -- only append a new
+//! scratch. `rebuild_transcript` still runs the whole tree once, for a
-//! one -- and a streaming assistant reply is exactly a row whose *text*
+//! freshly loaded/selected session and for `apply`'s own rare
-//! keeps changing after it first appears (see `transcript-ui`'s own doc on
+//! full-rebuild fallback (a `group_tool_runs` regroup touching a row
-//! `fold_event` folding deltas into one growing item). A full rebuild
+//! before the tail). The composer's in-progress text survives a rebuild
-//! shows that growth correctly at the cost of redrawing everything each
+//! (`rebuild_transcript`'s `in_progress` local) since the user typing a
-//! time; fine for this proof, wrong for a long, fast-streaming transcript
+//! followup while a reply streams in is the one case a naive rebuild
-//! -- the incremental path that fixes it needs `transcript-ui` to expose
+//! would otherwise lose data on -- `apply`'s own path never touches the
-//! updating a row in place, which it does not yet. The composer's
+//! composer at all, so this only matters on the fallback.
-//! in-progress text survives a rebuild (`rebuild_transcript`'s
-//! `in_progress` local) since the user typing a followup while a reply
-//! streams in is the one case a naive rebuild would otherwise lose data
-//! on.
 //!
 //! Background network I/O (`client_core::api`/`event_stream`, both
 //! blocking by design -- see `client-core`'s `Cargo.toml`) runs on plain
@@ -209,8 +205,12 @@ impl DefaultAppState for Client {
                 event,
             } => {
                 if self.current(&session_id, generation) {
+                    let old_items = self.items.clone();
                     self.items = fold_event(&self.items, &event);
-                    self.rebuild_transcript(rsc);
+                    match &self.screen {
+                        Some(screen) => screen.apply(rsc, &old_items, &self.items),
+                        None => self.rebuild_transcript(rsc),
+                    }
                 }
             }
             AppEvent::StreamEnded {

iris/examples/message_list.rs

@@ -68,12 +68,15 @@ fn build_row<Rsc: UiRsc + 'static>(rsc: &mut Rsc, i: usize) -> StrongWidget {
         let mut span = Span::empty(Dir::DOWN);
         span.push(text);
         span.push(img);
-        span.pad(8.0).background(rect(tint)).add_strong(rsc).any()
+        span.pad(dp(8.0))
+            .background(rect(tint))
+            .add_strong(rsc)
+            .any()
     } else {
         wtext(row_text(i))
             .wrap(true)
             .color(text_color)
-            .pad(8.0)
+            .pad(dp(8.0))
             .background(rect(tint))
             .add_strong(rsc)
             .any()

iris/src/android/attr.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ impl<T: HasAndroidUiState> FocusHost for T {
         self.android_state_mut().focus = id;
     }
 
+    fn is_focused(&self, id: WeakWidget<TextEdit>) -> bool {
+        self.android_state().focus == Some(id)
+    }
+
     fn focus_gained(&mut self, region: Option<PixelRegion>) {
         // Showing the keyboard is a JNI call (`InputMethodManager.showSoftInput`),
         // and this runs deep inside the platform-agnostic sensor dispatch

iris/src/android/ime.rs

@@ -49,6 +49,52 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> IrisViewPeer<State> {
     fn focus(&self) -> Option<WeakWidget<TextEdit>> {
         self.state.android_state().focus
     }
+
+    /// Tell Gboard where the caret/selection and the composing region
+    /// actually are, via `InputMethodManager.updateSelection` -- every one
+    /// of android-view's own demo's `set_composing_text_internal`/`render`
+    /// calls this, and this bridge never did, which is what left Gboard's
+    /// own model of the field diverging from `TextEdit`'s real one after
+    /// the very first edit (RUST.md's P0 box, "doesn't enter it until I
+    /// hit space, and also doesn't move cursor forward" -- Gboard holds
+    /// its composing keystrokes back until it believes the app has caught
+    /// up, and without this call it never does). Called from
+    /// [`IrisViewPeer::after_input`], the one tail every touch/key/IME
+    /// callback already runs through, rather than duplicated at each of
+    /// this file's mutating methods.
+    ///
+    /// `candidates_start`/`candidates_end` report the composing region;
+    /// `-1, -1` when nothing is composing, matching `EditorInfo`'s own
+    /// convention. `compose_len` is tracked in `char`s (this module's doc
+    /// comment), so this reports it as that many UTF-16 units back from the
+    /// caret -- exact for the common BMP case, the same approximation
+    /// `set_composing_text` already makes.
+    pub(super) fn update_ime_selection(&mut self, ctx: &mut CallbackCtx) {
+        let Some(focus) = self.focus() else { return };
+        let text = &self.rsc[focus];
+        let Some(sel) = text.selection_range() else {
+            return;
+        };
+        let content = text.text();
+        let sel_start = byte_to_utf16(content, sel.start) as i32;
+        let sel_end = byte_to_utf16(content, sel.end) as i32;
+        let compose_len = self.state.android_state().compose_len;
+        let (comp_start, comp_end) = if compose_len > 0 {
+            let caret = byte_to_utf16(content, text.caret().unwrap_or(sel.end)) as i32;
+            (caret - compose_len as i32, caret)
+        } else {
+            (-1, -1)
+        };
+        let imm = ctx.view.input_method_manager(&mut ctx.env);
+        imm.update_selection(
+            &mut ctx.env,
+            &ctx.view,
+            sel_start,
+            sel_end,
+            comp_start,
+            comp_end,
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 impl<State: AndroidAppState> InputConnection for IrisViewPeer<State> {

iris/src/android/mod.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ mod view;
 pub use insets::Insets;
 pub use render::AndroidRenderer;
 pub use view::{
-    AndroidAppState, AndroidRsc, AndroidUiState, HasAndroidUiState, IrisViewPeer, new_peer,
+    AndroidAppState, AndroidRsc, AndroidUiState, HasAndroidUiState, IrisViewPeer, WindowInsets,
+    new_peer,
 };
 
 /// Registers the extra native methods this backend needs beyond what

iris/src/android/render.rs

@@ -48,10 +48,65 @@ pub struct AndroidRenderer {
     config: SurfaceConfiguration,
     encoder: CommandEncoder,
     pub ui: UiRenderNode,
+    /// The adapter identity, kept past `new()` for the Diagnostics page --
+    /// `Adapter` itself is not `Clone`, so the three fields the page shows
+    /// are copied out once here rather than holding the adapter.
+    pub adapter_name: String,
+    pub adapter_backend: Backend,
+    pub adapter_driver: String,
+    /// Every uncaptured wgpu error since this renderer was created -- see
+    /// `iris_core::WgpuErrorLog`'s doc comment. Installed on `device` in
+    /// `new()`, kept here so the Diagnostics page and the per-frame log in
+    /// `update()` can both read it without a global.
+    pub wgpu_errors: iris_core::WgpuErrorLog,
+    /// Frames drawn on this surface -- what gates the first-10-frames log
+    /// `update()` writes (RUST.md's P0 box, "the first input frame"
+    /// investigation): a fresh surface is exactly what Iris's own report
+    /// says renders correctly at first, so the frames that matter are the
+    /// first several after each `surface_changed`, not an arbitrary window
+    /// during a long-running session.
+    frame_count: u64,
+    /// Physical pixels per dp -- see `android::view::AndroidUiState::
+    /// content_scale`'s field comment for what this feeds.
+    content_scale: f32,
+}
+
+/// One frame's worth of the counters `render/mod.rs`'s doc comments on
+/// `FrameUpdateStats`/`take_image_bind_group_creates`/
+/// `take_atlas_pages_grown` describe -- assembled here because the three
+/// live on two different calling conventions (`FrameUpdateStats` from this
+/// exact `update()` call; the other two describe the *previous* frame,
+/// same as `bench_images`' existing use of them) and a diagnostic reader
+/// should not have to know that split.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default)]
+pub struct FrameDiagnostics {
+    pub masks_resized: bool,
+    pub moves_resized: bool,
+    /// From the previous frame's `update()` -- see the struct doc.
+    pub atlas_pages_grown_prev: u64,
+    pub image_bind_group_creates_prev: u64,
 }
 
 impl AndroidRenderer {
-    pub fn new(window: NativeWindow, width: u32, height: u32) -> Self {
+    /// `Err` holds a full, human-readable report -- wgpu's own error text
+    /// (`UiRenderNode::new`'s doc comment) plus the adapter identity and
+    /// the limits/downlevel flags bind-group-layout validation checks
+    /// against -- rather than the panic wgpu's default error handler would
+    /// otherwise raise with no caller able to see it. This is what aborted
+    /// the P0 bench APK on Iris's phone with only "wgpu error: Validation
+    /// Error" surviving into the crash report (RUST.md's P0 box, "iris
+    /// bench crash on the phone, 2026-09-06"): `create_bind_group_layout`
+    /// validates against *this* adapter's downlevel capabilities and
+    /// limits, which a desktop GPU and the emulator's software renderers
+    /// never exercised. The caller (`android::view::IrisViewPeer::
+    /// surface_changed`) logs this one-line-flattened and shows it on
+    /// screen instead of aborting the process.
+    pub fn new(
+        window: NativeWindow,
+        width: u32,
+        height: u32,
+        content_scale: f32,
+    ) -> Result<Self, String> {
         // `force-gles` (RUST.md's I5 "Where iris's frame time goes") swaps
         // the software-Vulkan (SwiftShader) path for GLES/virgl on the same
         // build, to isolate whether the backend itself explains the frame
@@ -84,6 +139,18 @@ impl AndroidRenderer {
             .block_on()
             .expect("Could not get adapter!");
 
+        // Requesting the device itself still panics on failure: that is a
+        // `RequestDeviceError` (a limit or feature the adapter cannot grant
+        // at all), a different and already-diagnosable failure from the one
+        // this function now recovers from -- `RUST.md`'s "Software mode ...
+        // crashes for a third, different reason" is exactly that class, and
+        // its message already names the limit and the requested/allowed
+        // values with no truncation risk (it never reaches wgpu's
+        // uncaptured-error path). What this function's `Result` return
+        // covers is the *next* class of failure: the adapter grants the
+        // device, and validation only fails once a specific bind group
+        // layout is checked against it.
+
         // Same request as the winit backend's `UiRenderer::new` -- no
         // binding-array features, see TEXTURES.md's "Recommended shape".
         // `iris_core::device_limits()` is shared between the two backends;
@@ -96,6 +163,30 @@ impl AndroidRenderer {
             .block_on()
             .expect("Could not get device!");
 
+        // wgpu's default handler for an error raised outside `UiRenderNode::
+        // new`'s own error scopes (i.e. everything past device creation --
+        // an ordinary frame's `update`/`draw`) is `panic!`, unconditionally,
+        // with no caller able to intervene: the same mechanism that aborted
+        // the P0 bench APK once already, just at a different call site. Log
+        // and record instead of letting that default stand -- RUST.md's P0
+        // box, "every wgpu uncaptured error ... it must never panic in
+        // release".
+        let wgpu_errors = iris_core::WgpuErrorLog::default();
+        let wgpu_errors_for_handler = wgpu_errors.clone();
+        device.on_uncaptured_error(std::sync::Arc::new(move |error| {
+            log::error!("iris wgpu uncaptured error: {error}");
+            wgpu_errors_for_handler.record(error);
+        }));
+
+        let info = adapter.get_info();
+        let adapter_name = info.name.clone();
+        let adapter_backend = info.backend;
+        let adapter_driver = if info.driver_info.is_empty() {
+            info.driver.clone()
+        } else {
+            format!("{} {}", info.driver, info.driver_info)
+        };
+
         let surface_caps = surface.get_capabilities(&adapter);
         let surface_format = surface_caps
             .formats
@@ -117,16 +208,121 @@ impl AndroidRenderer {
         surface.configure(&device, &config);
 
         let encoder = Self::create_encoder(&device);
-        let ui = UiRenderNode::new(&device, &queue, &config);
+        // Physical pixels, matching the swapchain's own `width`/`height`
+        // exactly -- see `android::view::AndroidUiState::content_scale`'s
+        // field comment for why this is no longer divided into a separate
+        // logical space (that stopgap is what made text blurry, RUST.md's
+        // P0 box). `Len::dp` folds the density in at layout time instead,
+        // so nothing here needs to know it at all.
+        let window_size = iris_core::util::Vec2::new(width as f32, height as f32);
+        let ui = match UiRenderNode::new(&device, &queue, &config, window_size) {
+            Ok(ui) => ui,
+            Err(wgpu_error) => return Err(Self::diagnostic(&adapter, &wgpu_error)),
+        };
 
-        Self {
+        Ok(Self {
             surface,
             device,
             queue,
             config,
             encoder,
             ui,
-        }
+            adapter_name,
+            adapter_backend,
+            adapter_driver,
+            wgpu_errors,
+            frame_count: 0,
+            content_scale,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// The adapter identity plus every limit and downlevel flag
+    /// `create_bind_group_layout` validates a storage buffer or texture
+    /// binding against, followed by wgpu's own error text -- everything a
+    /// person reading this off a screenshot needs to tell "this adapter
+    /// lacks X" from "this is a bug in the layout." Named explicitly rather
+    /// than `{limits:?}`/`{flags:?}` wholesale, because `Limits` alone is
+    /// dozens of fields nobody asked for -- these are exactly the ones
+    /// `UiRenderNode::new`'s layouts (`rsc_layout`, `masks_layout`,
+    /// `primitive_layout`) can fail against, per `CreateBindGroupLayoutError`
+    /// (`wgpu-core::binding_model`) and its downlevel-flag checks
+    /// (`wgpu-core::device::resource`, `VERTEX_STORAGE` in particular --
+    /// the one storage buffer here, `move_offsets`, that is visible to the
+    /// vertex stage).
+    fn diagnostic(adapter: &Adapter, wgpu_error: &str) -> String {
+        let info = adapter.get_info();
+        let limits = adapter.limits();
+        let downlevel = adapter.get_downlevel_capabilities();
+        format!(
+            "iris could not start rendering. Copy this text and send it to Iris.\n\n\
+             adapter: {name} ({backend:?}), driver: {driver} {driver_info}\n\
+             limits: max_storage_buffers_per_shader_stage={max_storage_buffers} \
+             max_sampled_textures_per_shader_stage={max_sampled_textures} \
+             max_bind_groups={max_bind_groups} \
+             max_bindings_per_bind_group={max_bindings} \
+             max_storage_buffer_binding_size={max_storage_binding} \
+             min_storage_buffer_offset_alignment={min_storage_align}\n\
+             downlevel flags: {flags:?}\n\n\
+             {wgpu_error}",
+            name = info.name,
+            backend = info.backend,
+            driver = info.driver,
+            driver_info = info.driver_info,
+            max_storage_buffers = limits.max_storage_buffers_per_shader_stage,
+            max_sampled_textures = limits.max_sampled_textures_per_shader_stage,
+            max_bind_groups = limits.max_bind_groups,
+            max_bindings = limits.max_bindings_per_bind_group,
+            max_storage_binding = limits.max_storage_buffer_binding_size,
+            min_storage_align = limits.min_storage_buffer_offset_alignment,
+            flags = downlevel.flags,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// The Diagnostics page's whole report: adapter identity, font
+    /// resolution, the atlas's own view count, every uncaptured wgpu error
+    /// so far, and the frame report -- RUST.md's P0 box, "a named
+    /// `Diagnostics` control ... adapter info, limits, fonts found, atlas
+    /// format/pages, wgpu errors so far, frame report". One string rather
+    /// than a struct the caller formats, since the only consumer is a
+    /// plain `TextView` with a "copy this and send it to Iris" affordance,
+    /// the same shape `surface_changed`'s crash report already uses
+    /// (UI_RULES.md: a failure -- or here, a state worth reporting --
+    /// carries enough to act on where it's shown).
+    pub fn diagnostics_report(
+        &self,
+        font: &iris_core::FontDiagnostics,
+        frame_report: &str,
+    ) -> String {
+        let errors = self.wgpu_errors.snapshot();
+        let errors_text = if errors.is_empty() {
+            "none".to_string()
+        } else {
+            errors.join("\n  ")
+        };
+        format!(
+            "iris diagnostics. Copy this text and send it to Iris.\n\n\
+             adapter: {name} ({backend:?}), driver: {driver}\n\
+             content_scale: {content_scale}\n\
+             atlas format: Rgba8Unorm, views live: {views}\n\
+             fonts: {families_found} families found, default={default_family:?} \
+             mono={default_mono_family:?}\n\
+             fonts resolved: regular={regular:?} bold={bold:?} italic={italic:?} \
+             mono={mono:?}\n\
+             wgpu errors since surface creation:\n  {errors_text}\n\n\
+             {frame_report}",
+            name = self.adapter_name,
+            backend = self.adapter_backend,
+            driver = self.adapter_driver,
+            content_scale = self.content_scale,
+            views = self.ui.view_count(),
+            families_found = font.families_found,
+            default_family = font.default_family,
+            default_mono_family = font.default_mono_family,
+            regular = font.regular_resolved,
+            bold = font.bold_resolved,
+            italic = font.italic_resolved,
+            mono = font.mono_resolved,
+        )
     }
 
     fn create_encoder(device: &Device) -> CommandEncoder {
@@ -135,8 +331,31 @@ impl AndroidRenderer {
         })
     }
 
-    pub fn update(&mut self, ui: &mut UiData, render: &mut UiRenderState) {
+    /// Returns what changed this frame -- see `FrameDiagnostics`'s doc
-        self.ui.update(&self.device, &self.queue, ui, render);
+    /// comment for why two of its four fields describe the *previous*
+    /// frame rather than this one. `IrisViewPeer::render` logs this for
+    /// the first `DIAGNOSTIC_FRAMES` frames after each `surface_changed`,
+    /// per RUST.md's P0 box ("the first input frame" investigation): the
+    /// glyph-wipe Iris reported happens on the first tap or scroll after a
+    /// fresh surface, so that is exactly the window a report needs to
+    /// cover, not an arbitrary slice of a long session.
+    pub fn update(&mut self, ui: &mut UiData, render: &mut UiRenderState) -> FrameDiagnostics {
+        let atlas_pages_grown_prev = self.ui.take_atlas_pages_grown();
+        let image_bind_group_creates_prev = self.ui.take_image_bind_group_creates();
+        let stats = self.ui.update(&self.device, &self.queue, ui, render);
+        self.frame_count += 1;
+        FrameDiagnostics {
+            masks_resized: stats.masks_resized,
+            moves_resized: stats.moves_resized,
+            atlas_pages_grown_prev,
+            image_bind_group_creates_prev,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Frames drawn on this surface so far -- see `frame_count`'s field
+    /// comment.
+    pub fn frame_count(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.frame_count
     }
 
     /// Draws and presents one frame, returning the time spent in
@@ -179,15 +398,27 @@ impl AndroidRenderer {
         submit_start.elapsed()
     }
 
+    /// Physical pixels -- the unit layout and hit-testing use, matching
+    /// the window uniform's own units. See
+    /// `android::view::AndroidUiState::content_scale`'s field comment.
     pub fn size(&self) -> iris_core::util::Vec2 {
-        (self.config.width, self.config.height).into()
+        iris_core::util::Vec2::new(self.config.width as f32, self.config.height as f32)
     }
 
+    /// Reconfigures the surface and rewrites the window uniform for a new
+    /// physical size -- deliberately the *only* two things this does.
+    /// `device`, `ui`'s atlas, buffers and bind groups are untouched, so a
+    /// call here (as opposed to a fresh `AndroidRenderer::new`) never
+    /// invalidates a glyph the CPU-side cache already placed in the atlas.
+    /// See `android::view::IrisViewPeer::surface_changed`'s doc comment for
+    /// why that distinction matters -- it is what keeps text on screen
+    /// across an IME resize.
     pub fn resize(&mut self, width: u32, height: u32) {
         self.config.width = width;
         self.config.height = height;
         self.surface.configure(&self.device, &self.config);
-        self.ui.resize((width, height), &self.queue);
+        let size = iris_core::util::Vec2::new(width as f32, height as f32);
+        self.ui.resize(size, &self.queue);
     }
 }
 

iris/src/android/view.rs

@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ use accesskit_android::Adapter as AccessAdapter;
 use android_view::{
     AccessibilityNodeInfo, AccessibilityNodeProvider, Bundle, CallbackCtx, Context,
     InputConnection, KeyEvent, MotionEvent, Rect, View, ViewPeer,
-    jni::{JNIEnv, JavaVM, objects::GlobalRef, sys::jint},
+    jni::{
+        JNIEnv, JavaVM,
+        objects::{GlobalRef, JValue},
+        sys::jint,
+    },
     ndk::event::{Keycode, MotionAction},
 };
 // `marker::Sized` explicitly: `crate::prelude::*` below also brings in the
@@ -29,6 +33,10 @@ use super::{
 /// `Option` because a `SurfaceView`'s surface does not outlive backgrounding
 /// the way a winit `Window` does -- `surfaceDestroyed`/`surfaceCreated` can
 /// happen any number of times over the life of one `IrisViewPeer`.
+/// How many frames after each `surface_changed` `render()` logs a full
+/// diagnostic line for -- see the log site's own comment.
+const DIAGNOSTIC_FRAMES: u64 = 10;
+
 pub struct AndroidUiState {
     pub root: Option<StrongWidget>,
     pub renderer: Option<AndroidRenderer>,
@@ -62,10 +70,41 @@ pub struct AndroidUiState {
     /// because `dumpsys gfxinfo` cannot see a `SurfaceView`'s own
     /// GPU-drawn frames at all. See `iris_core::FrameReport`'s own doc.
     pub frame_report: FrameReport,
+    /// `DisplayMetrics.density` (`new_peer`'s doc comment): physical pixels
+    /// per dp on this device, read once at view construction and carried
+    /// on `UiRenderState::density` (`render.set_density`, `new_peer`) from
+    /// then on -- every `Len::dp` in the widget tree resolves against it at
+    /// layout time (`Len::dp`'s field doc, IRIS_TODO.md's
+    /// "density-independent length unit" item, 2026-09-06).
+    ///
+    /// **Everything else in this module is physical pixels, matching the
+    /// real wgpu surface/swapchain resolution** -- window size, touch
+    /// coordinates, insets. That is a correction from an earlier version
+    /// of this comment, which had `window_size`/`surface_changed`'s
+    /// `UiRenderState::resize` call divide by `content_scale` into a
+    /// *logical* coordinate space instead, as a global stopgap for
+    /// RUST.md's P0 box's phone report ("text is far too small"). That
+    /// stopgap fixed the size but not the *sharpness*: dividing to logical
+    /// units meant a `16.0`-sized glyph rasterised at 16 physical px and
+    /// then implicitly upscaled ~3x by the NDC mapping onto the real
+    /// physical framebuffer -- the exact "blurry ... glyphs drawn at
+    /// logical size and stretched by the scale" Iris reported next.
+    /// Resolving `dp` at layout time replaces it: a widget author writes
+    /// `dp(16)` for a size that should look the same physical size on any
+    /// density, and everything downstream (layout, hit-testing, the window
+    /// uniform, and the font size handed to the text shaper) works in the
+    /// display's own physical pixels throughout, so nothing is
+    /// rasterised at one resolution and displayed at another.
+    pub content_scale: f32,
+    /// The last insets `render()` saw -- compared each frame so
+    /// `AndroidAppState::on_insets_changed` fires only when they actually
+    /// change (once at startup for the status bar, again if the device
+    /// rotates), not every frame.
+    last_insets: Insets,
 }
 
 impl AndroidUiState {
-    fn new(shared: Rc<RefCell<Shared>>) -> Self {
+    fn new(shared: Rc<RefCell<Shared>>, content_scale: f32) -> Self {
         Self {
             root: None,
             renderer: None,
@@ -78,6 +117,8 @@ impl AndroidUiState {
             access_adapter: Default::default(),
             access: AccessTree::new(),
             frame_report: FrameReport::new(),
+            content_scale,
+            last_insets: Insets::default(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -120,6 +161,48 @@ pub trait AndroidAppState: HasAndroidUiState {
     /// storing them has no effect on that mechanism.
     #[allow(unused_variables)]
     fn platform_ready(&mut self, rsc: &mut AndroidRsc<Self>, vm: JavaVM, view: GlobalRef) {}
+    /// Called from `render()` whenever `AndroidUiState::insets()` differs
+    /// from what it was last frame -- once at startup for the status bar
+    /// (RUST.md's P0 box: "the status-bar inset is not applied" reported
+    /// the two top buttons sitting under it, because nothing read `.top`
+    /// at all), and again on a rotation or the keyboard opening/closing.
+    /// `insets` is in the same physical-pixel units everything else in the
+    /// tree now uses (`AndroidUiState::content_scale`'s field comment), so
+    /// a widget can add it to a layout size directly -- `dp(...) +
+    /// abs(insets.top)` if the widget wants a density-independent size
+    /// plus the system bar's own (already-physical) height. The default
+    /// does nothing -- most screens have no chrome that sits under a
+    /// system bar.
+    #[allow(unused_variables)]
+    fn on_insets_changed(&mut self, rsc: &mut AndroidRsc<Self>, insets: WindowInsets) {}
+}
+
+/// `insets::Insets` as `f32`, for the widget-facing callback above -- a
+/// distinct type from `insets::Insets` so a caller of `on_insets_changed`
+/// is not coupled to that module's own (`i32`, JNI-shaped) representation.
+/// Both are physical pixels; this used to divide by `content_scale` into a
+/// separate *logical* unit (hence the old name, `LogicalInsets`), back when
+/// the rest of layout was logical too -- see `AndroidUiState::content_scale`'s
+/// field comment for why that stopgap is gone.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Default, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct WindowInsets {
+    pub left: f32,
+    pub top: f32,
+    pub right: f32,
+    pub bottom: f32,
+    pub ime_bottom: f32,
+}
+
+impl WindowInsets {
+    fn from_physical(insets: Insets) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            left: insets.left as f32,
+            top: insets.top as f32,
+            right: insets.right as f32,
+            bottom: insets.bottom as f32,
+            ime_bottom: insets.ime_bottom as f32,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// The android-view analogue of `default::DefaultRsc` -- identical in
@@ -242,6 +325,13 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> IrisViewPeer<State> {
             show_soft_input(&mut ctx.env, &ctx.view);
         }
 
+        // RUST.md's P0 box, "doesn't enter it until I hit space, and also
+        // doesn't move cursor forward": Gboard needs `updateSelection`
+        // after every edit to keep its own model of the field in sync, or
+        // it holds keystrokes back rather than trusting a screen it
+        // believes is stale. See `update_ime_selection`'s own doc.
+        self.update_ime_selection(ctx);
+
         let ui_state = self.state.android_state_mut();
         ui_state.cursor.end_frame();
         if self.render.needs_redraw(&ui_state.root, self.rsc.widgets()) {
@@ -266,10 +356,23 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> IrisViewPeer<State> {
     /// these in until that is root-caused; removing them loses the exact
     /// evidence a `logcat` capture needs to reproduce the state.
     fn render(&mut self, ctx: &mut CallbackCtx) {
-        let ui_state = self.state.android_state();
+        if self.state.android_state().renderer.is_none() {
-        if ui_state.renderer.is_none() {
             return;
         }
+        // See `AndroidAppState::on_insets_changed`'s doc comment: fires
+        // exactly when insets actually differ from last frame, not every
+        // frame -- most frames this is one `Insets` equality check against
+        // a `Copy` struct. Done before `ui_state` is bound below, since
+        // `on_insets_changed` needs `&mut self.state`/`&mut self.rsc` both.
+        let ui_state = self.state.android_state();
+        let current_insets = ui_state.insets();
+        if current_insets != ui_state.last_insets {
+            let physical = WindowInsets::from_physical(current_insets);
+            self.state.android_state_mut().last_insets = current_insets;
+            self.state.on_insets_changed(&mut self.rsc, physical);
+        }
+
+        let ui_state = self.state.android_state();
         log::debug!(
             "render(): root={:?} widgets={} active={} root_px={:?} out_size={:?}",
             ui_state.root.is_some(),
@@ -294,7 +397,27 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> IrisViewPeer<State> {
         let Some(renderer) = &mut ui_state.renderer else {
             return;
         };
-        renderer.update(&mut self.rsc.ui, &mut self.render);
+        let frame_diagnostics = renderer.update(&mut self.rsc.ui, &mut self.render);
+        // First `DIAGNOSTIC_FRAMES` frames after each `surface_changed`
+        // only -- RUST.md's P0 box, "the first input frame" investigation:
+        // the glyph-wipe Iris reported happens on the first tap or scroll
+        // after a fresh surface, so a report from that window is what
+        // would show whether an atlas grow, a masks/move_offsets resize, or
+        // a fresh wgpu error coincided with it. `frame_count()` was just
+        // incremented inside `update()`, so `<=` counts frame 1 through
+        // `DIAGNOSTIC_FRAMES` inclusive.
+        if renderer.frame_count() <= DIAGNOSTIC_FRAMES {
+            log::info!(
+                "iris frame diagnostics: frame={} masks_resized={} moves_resized={} \
+                 atlas_pages_grown_prev={} image_bind_group_creates_prev={} wgpu_errors={}",
+                renderer.frame_count(),
+                frame_diagnostics.masks_resized,
+                frame_diagnostics.moves_resized,
+                frame_diagnostics.atlas_pages_grown_prev,
+                frame_diagnostics.image_bind_group_creates_prev,
+                renderer.wgpu_errors.snapshot().len(),
+            );
+        }
         let submit_to_present = renderer.draw();
         self.state
             .android_state_mut()
@@ -337,6 +460,31 @@ fn show_soft_input<'local>(env: &mut JNIEnv<'local>, view: &View<'local>) {
     imm.show_soft_input(env, view, 0);
 }
 
+/// Replaces the activity's content with a plain, selectable, scrollable
+/// text view holding `report` -- the on-screen half of `surface_changed`'s
+/// renderer-failure path (UI_RULES.md: "a failure is reported where it
+/// happened, and says what to do next," here "copy this and send it").
+/// Goes through an ordinary instance method on the Java side
+/// (`IrisView.showRendererError`) rather than a new `native` method: this
+/// call is Rust reaching *into* Java, the opposite direction from every
+/// `native fn` android-view/`IrisView` declare, and an ordinary virtual
+/// call resolves against `ctx.view`'s real runtime class (`IrisView`) the
+/// same way any other JNI method call here does. Silently does nothing on
+/// any JNI failure -- there is no more-fallback screen to fall back to,
+/// and the `log::error!` in `surface_changed` already reached logcat
+/// first.
+fn show_renderer_error<'local>(env: &mut JNIEnv<'local>, view: &View<'local>, report: &str) {
+    let Ok(message) = env.new_string(report) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let _ = env.call_method(
+        &view.0,
+        "showRendererError",
+        "(Ljava/lang/String;)V",
+        &[JValue::Object(message.as_ref())],
+    );
+}
+
 impl<State: AndroidAppState> ViewPeer for IrisViewPeer<State> {
     fn on_key_down<'local>(
         &mut self,
@@ -379,6 +527,8 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> ViewPeer for IrisViewPeer<State> {
     ) -> bool {
         self.drain_tasks();
         let action = event.action_masked(&mut ctx.env);
+        // Device (physical) pixels, same space layout now uses throughout
+        // -- see `AndroidUiState::content_scale`'s field comment.
         let x = event.x(&mut ctx.env);
         let y = event.y(&mut ctx.env);
         let ui_state = self.state.android_state_mut();
@@ -431,7 +581,6 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> ViewPeer for IrisViewPeer<State> {
         height: i32,
     ) {
         self.drain_tasks();
-        let window = holder.surface(&mut ctx.env).to_native_window(&mut ctx.env);
         // The layout engine's own notion of the canvas size is separate
         // from the wgpu surface's -- winit's backend sets it from
         // `WindowEvent::Resized`, and there is no equivalent automatic
@@ -440,13 +589,117 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> ViewPeer for IrisViewPeer<State> {
         // nothing but the clear colour: the widget tree laid out against
         // whatever size `UiRenderState::new` starts at instead of the
         // surface's real one.
-        self.render.resize((width as u32, height as u32));
+        //
-        // Drop the old renderer (and the surface it owns) before building
+        // **Physical pixels, matching `AndroidRenderer`'s own
-        // one from the new window -- see `AndroidRenderer`'s doc comment.
+        // `size()`/`resize()`/`new()`** -- `AndroidUiState::content_scale`'s
-        let ui_state = self.state.android_state_mut();
+        // field comment. This call sets `UiRenderState::output_size`, which
-        ui_state.renderer = None;
+        // every `rel`/`rest` length resolves against and every `abs`
-        ui_state.renderer = Some(AndroidRenderer::new(window, width as u32, height as u32));
+        // pixel-region compares to directly; a `dp(56)` height now folds
-        self.render(ctx);
+        // in the density at `Len::apply_rest` time instead of this call
+        // dividing the whole window into a separate logical space, which
+        // is what used to make every `abs`-unit size (a fixed `.height(56)`
+        // in particular) mean something different from a `rest`-based one.
+        self.render.resize((width as f32, height as f32));
+
+        // **Reuse the existing renderer (device, atlas, buffers, bind
+        // groups) when one is already live -- only reconfigure the
+        // surface.** `surfaceChanged` fires on *every* size or format
+        // change, not only on a genuinely new `Surface`/window: showing
+        // the IME under `adjustResize` resizes the same `SurfaceView` and
+        // is reported through this exact callback. Rebuilding the whole
+        // `AndroidRenderer` here used to mean a fresh `UiRenderNode::new`
+        // -- a brand-new, empty glyph atlas and fresh GPU buffers -- while
+        // `iris_core`'s CPU-side glyph cache (`primitive/text.rs`) kept the
+        // atlas coordinates it had already handed out against the *old*
+        // atlas. Every glyph then drew from a UV rectangle that pointed
+        // into a texture that had just been recreated empty, so text
+        // vanished on the first keyboard open while rects (which never go
+        // through the atlas) kept drawing -- exactly the "rectangles stay,
+        // glyphs disappear" Iris reported. Confirmed by reading this path
+        // end to end (no fresh-atlas rebuild anywhere in `resize()` below,
+        // only in `AndroidRenderer::new`) before changing anything, per
+        // AGENTS.md's "verify before finishing".
+        //
+        // `AndroidRenderer::resize` only reconfigures the wgpu surface and
+        // rewrites the window uniform -- device, atlas, buffers and bind
+        // groups are untouched, so the glyph cache's coordinates stay
+        // valid. A genuinely new surface (after `surface_destroyed`, e.g.
+        // backgrounding) still goes through `AndroidRenderer::new` below,
+        // since `renderer` is `None` in that case.
+        let already_live = self.state.android_state().renderer.is_some();
+        if already_live {
+            let ui_state = self.state.android_state_mut();
+            ui_state
+                .renderer
+                .as_mut()
+                .expect("checked Some above")
+                .resize(width as u32, height as u32);
+            self.render(ctx);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let window = holder.surface(&mut ctx.env).to_native_window(&mut ctx.env);
+        // `AndroidRenderer::new` used to panic here through wgpu's own
+        // default uncaptured-error handler on a bind-group-layout
+        // validation failure -- exactly what aborted the P0 bench APK on
+        // Iris's phone with the message truncated to "wgpu error:
+        // Validation Error" and nothing else recoverable from the crash
+        // report (RUST.md's P0 box, "iris bench crash on the phone,
+        // 2026-09-06"). It now returns the full diagnostic instead; this is
+        // the one place in the app that can turn it into something a
+        // person can read, since `ctx.view`/`ctx.env` (needed to reach the
+        // Java side) are only in scope inside a `ViewPeer` callback.
+        //
+        // `content_scale` reaches `AndroidRenderer` only for the
+        // Diagnostics page's report text now -- window size and the
+        // shader's window uniform are physical pixels throughout (see the
+        // `resize` call above), not divided by it.
+        let content_scale = self.state.android_state().content_scale;
+        match AndroidRenderer::new(window, width as u32, height as u32, content_scale) {
+            Ok(renderer) => {
+                // A genuinely new renderer means a genuinely new GPU device
+                // and a fresh, empty glyph atlas -- the CPU-side glyph
+                // cache (`TextData::atlas`) and the texture bookkeeping it
+                // is built on (`UiData::textures`) both outlive `renderer`
+                // itself (they live on `self.rsc`, not on `AndroidRenderer`),
+                // so without this they would keep pointing at the *old*
+                // device's now-gone textures -- the app-switch counterpart
+                // to the keyboard-resize glyph wipe this same function's
+                // `already_live` branch above already fixed by reusing the
+                // renderer instead of rebuilding it. One mechanism either
+                // way: this call only runs on the branch that actually
+                // builds a new renderer, exactly where invalidation is
+                // needed, never on the reuse branch, where it would throw
+                // away perfectly valid GPU state for nothing.
+                self.rsc.ui.text.atlas.clear();
+                self.rsc.ui.textures.reset();
+                self.state.android_state_mut().renderer = Some(renderer);
+                self.render(ctx);
+            }
+            Err(report) => {
+                // One line for logcat (UI_RULES.md: "the full text for
+                // whoever can read the log" lives here), the multi-line
+                // original on screen -- `show_renderer_error` below.
+                log::error!("iris renderer init failed: {}", report.replace('\n', " | "));
+                // Deferred, not called directly: `Activity::setContentView`
+                // tears the old view hierarchy down synchronously, which
+                // fires `IrisView`'s own `onFocusChanged` before
+                // `setContentView` returns -- straight back into this same
+                // `IrisViewPeer` through `on_focus_changed` while
+                // `with_peer` (android-view's dispatch, `view.rs` upstream)
+                // still holds this peer's `RefCell` borrow for the
+                // `surface_changed` call in progress. Found by inducing a
+                // validation error and hitting `RefCell already borrowed`
+                // at exactly that reentrant call (RUST.md's P0 box).
+                // `push_dynamic_deferred_callback` runs after `with_peer`
+                // drops the borrow, which is what every other callback in
+                // this file that reaches into Java already relies on
+                // (`raise_if_enabled`, above).
+                ctx.push_dynamic_deferred_callback(move |env, view| {
+                    show_renderer_error(env, view, &report);
+                });
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     fn surface_destroyed<'local>(
@@ -557,10 +810,19 @@ impl<State: AndroidAppState> AccessibilityNodeProvider for IrisViewPeer<State> {
 /// `register_view_class`, which wants a plain function pointer) -- see
 /// `iris/android-app/src/lib.rs`.
 pub fn new_peer<'local, State: AndroidAppState>(
-    env: JNIEnv<'local>,
+    mut env: JNIEnv<'local>,
     view: View<'local>,
-    _context: Context<'local>,
+    context: Context<'local>,
 ) -> android_view::jni::sys::jlong {
+    // `DisplayMetrics.density` -- physical pixels per dp on this device.
+    // Read once here, at the one point in this file already handed a
+    // `Context`, and carried on `AndroidUiState` from then on (see
+    // `content_scale`'s field comment for what depends on it).
+    let content_scale = context
+        .resources(&mut env)
+        .display_metrics(&mut env)
+        .density(&mut env);
+    log::info!("iris: new_peer content_scale={content_scale}");
     let vm = env.get_java_vm().unwrap();
     let global_view = env.new_global_ref(&view.0).unwrap();
     let redraw: Arc<dyn RequestRedraw> = Arc::new(AndroidRedrawHandle::new(vm, global_view));
@@ -572,15 +834,22 @@ pub fn new_peer<'local, State: AndroidAppState>(
         state: Default::default(),
         _state: PhantomData,
     };
+    // See `TextData::density`'s field doc for why this is set alongside
+    // `render.set_density` below rather than read from there.
+    rsc.ui.text.density = content_scale;
     let shared = Rc::new(RefCell::new(Shared::default()));
-    let ui_state = AndroidUiState::new(shared.clone());
+    let ui_state = AndroidUiState::new(shared.clone(), content_scale);
     let mut state = State::new(ui_state, &mut rsc);
     let platform_vm = env.get_java_vm().unwrap();
     let platform_view = env.new_global_ref(&view.0).unwrap();
     state.platform_ready(&mut rsc, platform_vm, platform_view);
+    let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+    // Every `Len::dp` in the tree resolves against this from now on -- see
+    // `UiRenderState::density`'s field doc and `Len::dp`'s.
+    render.set_density(content_scale);
     let peer = IrisViewPeer {
         rsc,
-        render: UiRenderState::new(),
+        render,
         state,
         task_recv,
     };

iris/src/attr.rs

@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ pub trait FocusHost {
     /// it was hit in (`None` when the widget could not be located, which
     /// happens for one it was just deselected from).
     fn focus_gained(&mut self, region: Option<PixelRegion>);
+    /// Whether `id` is the current focus target -- what [`select`] uses to
+    /// tell a fresh press (which must wait to see whether it becomes a tap
+    /// or a drag before focusing/showing the IME, Iris 2026-09-06: "if I
+    /// swipe over the input bar it brings up the keyboard") from a drag
+    /// continuing inside a field that was already focused (an ordinary
+    /// drag-to-select, unaffected).
+    fn is_focused(&self, id: WeakWidget<TextEdit>) -> bool;
 }
 
 /// Helper shared by every `FocusHost` impl, so the double-click window is
@@ -33,6 +40,17 @@ pub fn recent_click(last_click: &mut Instant) -> bool {
     recent
 }
 
+/// `PressStart`/`Pressing`/`PressEnd`, all for the left button -- what
+/// [`Selector`]/[`Selectable`] register instead of [`CursorSense::
+/// click_or_drag`], so their shared handler (`on_press`, below) sees every
+/// frame of a gesture and can tell a completed tap from a drag itself,
+/// rather than reacting to `PressStart` alone the way `click_or_drag`'s
+/// consumer used to (Iris, 2026-09-06: "if I swipe over the input bar it
+/// brings up the keyboard").
+fn press_track() -> CursorSenses {
+    CursorSense::click() | CursorSense::Pressing(CursorButton::Left) | CursorSense::unclick()
+}
+
 pub struct Selector;
 
 impl<Rsc: HasEvents, W: Widget + 'static> WidgetAttr<Rsc, W> for Selector
@@ -42,7 +60,7 @@ where
     type Input = WeakWidget<TextEdit>;
 
     fn run(rsc: &mut Rsc, container: WeakWidget<W>, id: Self::Input) {
-        rsc.register_event(container, CursorSense::click_or_drag(), move |ctx, rsc| {
+        rsc.register_event(container, press_track(), move |ctx, rsc| {
             let region = ctx.data.render.window_region(&id, &*rsc).unwrap();
             let id_pos = region.top_left;
             let container_pos = ctx
@@ -53,14 +71,14 @@ where
                 .top_left;
             let pos = ctx.data.pos + container_pos - id_pos;
             let size = region.size();
-            select(
+            on_press(
                 rsc,
                 ctx.data.render,
                 ctx.state,
                 id,
                 pos,
                 size,
-                ctx.data.sense.is_dragging(),
+                ctx.data.sense,
             );
         });
     }
@@ -75,31 +93,71 @@ where
     type Input = ();
 
     fn run(rsc: &mut Rsc, id: WeakWidget<TextEdit>, _: Self::Input) {
-        rsc.register_event(id, CursorSense::click_or_drag(), move |ctx, rsc| {
+        rsc.register_event(id, press_track(), move |ctx, rsc| {
-            select(
+            on_press(
                 rsc,
                 ctx.data.render,
                 ctx.state,
                 id,
                 ctx.data.pos,
                 ctx.data.size,
-                ctx.data.sense.is_dragging(),
+                ctx.data.sense,
             );
         });
     }
 }
 
-fn select(
+/// One press-track frame (`PressStart`, `Pressing` or `PressEnd`) over a
+/// selectable field. A field that is *already* focused behaves exactly as
+/// `click_or_drag` always did -- every frame updates the selection, which
+/// is what lets a finger already inside a focused field drag out a
+/// selection. A field that is **not** focused withholds `select`'s
+/// focus-granting side effects (and so the platform-specific `focus_gained`
+/// that shows the keyboard) until the press resolves as a tap: `PressEnd`
+/// with no frame in between having moved past [`DRAG_SLOP`] from where the
+/// press began. A drag recognised before release simply cancels the
+/// pending tap and does nothing further here -- it is not consumed, so
+/// whatever is behind the field (a list to pan) still sees every frame of
+/// it, the same as a drag that never touched a selectable field at all.
+fn on_press(
     rsc: &mut impl UiRsc,
     render: &UiRenderState,
     state: &mut impl FocusHost,
     id: WeakWidget<TextEdit>,
     pos: Vec2,
     size: Vec2,
-    dragging: bool,
+    sense: CursorSense,
 ) {
-    let recent = state.recent_click();
+    if state.is_focused(id) {
-    id.edit(rsc).select(pos, size, dragging, recent);
+        let recent = matches!(sense, CursorSense::PressStart(_)) && state.recent_click();
-    state.set_focus(Some(id));
+        id.edit(rsc).select(pos, size, sense.is_dragging(), recent);
-    state.focus_gained(render.window_region(&id, &*rsc));
+        return;
+    }
+
+    match sense {
+        CursorSense::PressStart(_) => {
+            id.edit(rsc).text.press_origin = Some(pos);
+        }
+        CursorSense::Pressing(_) => {
+            let ctx = id.edit(rsc);
+            if let Some(origin) = ctx.text.press_origin
+                && ((pos.x - origin.x).abs() > DRAG_SLOP || (pos.y - origin.y).abs() > DRAG_SLOP)
+            {
+                // Past the slop before release: this is a drag, not a tap
+                // -- give up the pending focus rather than granting it once
+                // the finger lifts wherever it happens to be by then.
+                ctx.text.press_origin = None;
+            }
+        }
+        CursorSense::PressEnd(_) => {
+            let was_tap = id.edit(rsc).text.press_origin.take().is_some();
+            if was_tap {
+                let recent = state.recent_click();
+                id.edit(rsc).select(pos, size, false, recent);
+                state.set_focus(Some(id));
+                state.focus_gained(render.window_region(&id, &*rsc));
+            }
+        }
+        _ => {}
+    }
 }

iris/src/default/attr.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ impl<T: HasDefaultUiState> FocusHost for T {
         self.default_state_mut().focus = id;
     }
 
+    fn is_focused(&self, id: WeakWidget<TextEdit>) -> bool {
+        self.default_state().focus == Some(id)
+    }
+
     fn focus_gained(&mut self, region: Option<PixelRegion>) {
         let state = self.default_state_mut();
         let Some(region) = region else { return };

iris/src/default/input.rs

@@ -11,10 +11,15 @@ pub struct Input {
 }
 
 impl Input {
-    pub fn event(&mut self, event: &WindowEvent) -> bool {
+    /// `scale_factor` converts winit's physical-pixel event coordinates
+    /// into the same logical units `UiRenderNode`'s window uniform now uses
+    /// (`default::render::UiRenderer::new`'s doc comment) -- without it,
+    /// a cursor position and the widget tree it's tested against would be
+    /// in two different units on any monitor whose scale factor isn't 1.0.
+    pub fn event(&mut self, event: &WindowEvent, scale_factor: f32) -> bool {
         match event {
             WindowEvent::CursorMoved { position, .. } => {
-                self.cursor.pos = Vec2::new(position.x as f32, position.y as f32);
+                self.cursor.pos = Vec2::new(position.x as f32, position.y as f32) / scale_factor;
                 self.cursor.exists = true;
             }
             WindowEvent::MouseInput { state, button, .. } => {
@@ -30,7 +35,9 @@ impl Input {
             WindowEvent::MouseWheel { delta, .. } => {
                 let mut delta = match *delta {
                     MouseScrollDelta::LineDelta(x, y) => Vec2::new(x, y),
-                    MouseScrollDelta::PixelDelta(pos) => Vec2::new(pos.x as f32, pos.y as f32),
+                    MouseScrollDelta::PixelDelta(pos) => {
+                        Vec2::new(pos.x as f32, pos.y as f32) / scale_factor
+                    }
                 };
                 if delta.x == 0.0 && self.modifiers.shift {
                     delta.x = delta.y;
@@ -68,8 +75,13 @@ impl Input {
 
 impl DefaultUiState {
     pub fn window_size(&self) -> Vec2 {
-        let size = self.renderer.window().inner_size();
+        let window = self.renderer.window();
-        (size.width, size.height).into()
+        let size = window.inner_size();
+        let scale_factor = window.scale_factor() as f32;
+        Vec2::new(
+            size.width as f32 / scale_factor,
+            size.height as f32 / scale_factor,
+        )
     }
 
     pub fn cursor_state(&self) -> &CursorState {

iris/src/default/mod.rs

@@ -246,7 +246,8 @@ impl<State: DefaultAppState> AppState for DefaultApp<State> {
         ui_state
             .access_adapter
             .process_event(&ui_state.window, &event);
-        let input_changed = ui_state.input.event(&event);
+        let scale_factor = ui_state.renderer.window().scale_factor() as f32;
+        let input_changed = ui_state.input.event(&event, scale_factor);
         let cursor_state = ui_state.cursor_state().clone();
         let old = ui_state.focus;
         if cursor_state.buttons.left.is_start() {

iris/src/default/render.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::task::RequestRedraw;
-use iris_core::{UiData, UiRenderNode, UiRenderState};
+use iris_core::{UiData, UiRenderNode, UiRenderState, util::Vec2};
 use pollster::FutureExt;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use wgpu::*;
@@ -66,7 +66,13 @@ impl UiRenderer {
         self.config.width = size.width;
         self.config.height = size.height;
         self.surface.configure(&self.device, &self.config);
-        self.ui.resize((size.width, size.height), &self.queue);
+        // Logical, matching `new`'s own seed -- see the comment there.
+        let scale_factor = self.window.scale_factor() as f32;
+        let logical = Vec2::new(
+            size.width as f32 / scale_factor,
+            size.height as f32 / scale_factor,
+        );
+        self.ui.resize(logical, &self.queue);
     }
 
     fn create_encoder(device: &Device) -> CommandEncoder {
@@ -141,7 +147,28 @@ impl UiRenderer {
 
         let encoder = Self::create_encoder(&device);
 
-        let ui = UiRenderNode::new(&device, &queue, &config);
+        // Unlike the Android backend, the desktop backend has no on-screen
+        // fallback to show a diagnostic through, so a renderer-creation
+        // failure still panics here -- but now with wgpu's full "Caused
+        // by:" chain as the message, since `UiRenderNode::new` returns it
+        // rather than letting wgpu's own default handler panic first (see
+        // that function's doc comment).
+        // Logical size (physical / `scale_factor`), matching what the
+        // Android backend now reports too (`android::render::
+        // AndroidRenderer::new`, `content_scale`) -- the swapchain still
+        // configures at the real physical resolution above; only the
+        // window uniform layout/hit-testing agree on is scaled. Without
+        // this a window on any monitor whose scale factor isn't 1.0 would
+        // have the identical "everything too small" bug RUST.md's P0 box
+        // found on Iris's phone, just never noticed here because this
+        // crate's own dev monitors happen to run at 1.0.
+        let scale_factor = window.scale_factor() as f32;
+        let logical_size = Vec2::new(
+            size.width as f32 / scale_factor,
+            size.height as f32 / scale_factor,
+        );
+        let ui = UiRenderNode::new(&device, &queue, &config, logical_size)
+            .expect("Could not create iris render node!");
 
         Self {
             surface,

iris/src/layout_tests.rs

@@ -183,3 +183,80 @@ fn a_mask_stays_put_while_its_scrolled_content_moves() {
     assert_eq!(mask_delta_before, [0.0, 0.0]);
     assert_eq!(mask_delta_after, [0.0, 0.0]);
 }
+
+/// Reproduces `transcript_ui::composer::build_composer`'s exact tree shape
+/// (a `Rect` background stacked behind a `Span::RIGHT`-wrapped, padded,
+/// `rest`-width `TextEdit`, itself the second child of an outer
+/// `Span::DOWN` beside a `rest(1)`-height sibling) without the event/
+/// resource plumbing `composer.rs`'s builders need, to isolate whether the
+/// bug Iris reported on 2026-09-06 ("text seems to not appear in box")
+/// is this crate's layout engine or something specific to the real
+/// composer/screen. `TextEditable::edit` only needs `UiRsc`, so a plain
+/// insert exercises the exact redraw path a keystroke does.
+fn composer_like_tree(rsc: &mut TestRsc) -> (WeakWidget<TextEdit>, StrongWidget) {
+    let field = wtext("")
+        .editable(EditMode::MultiLine)
+        .text_align(Align::LEFT)
+        .wrap(true)
+        .size(18)
+        .color(UiColor::WHITE)
+        .add(rsc);
+    let bar = (field.pad(dp(12)).width(rest(1)),)
+        .span(Dir::RIGHT)
+        .background(rect(UiColor::new(40, 40, 46, 255)))
+        .add(rsc);
+    let list_stand_in = rect(UiColor::BLACK).height(rest(1)).add(rsc);
+    let tree = (list_stand_in, bar).span(Dir::DOWN).add_strong(rsc).any();
+    (field, tree)
+}
+
+/// The reproduction itself. A window this tall stands in for the keyboard
+/// closed; the second, shorter `resize` stands in for `adjustResize`
+/// shrinking the surface when the IME opens -- exactly the sequence
+/// `IrisViewPeer::surface_changed` drives on a real keyboard open. Typing
+/// happens both before and after, since Iris's report was specifically
+/// that text typed *after* the keyboard was already up did not appear.
+#[test]
+fn composing_text_after_a_keyboard_resize_lands_in_the_bars_own_region() {
+    let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+        ui: UiData::default(),
+    };
+    let (field, root) = composer_like_tree(&mut rsc);
+    let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+
+    render.resize((1080.0, 2298.0));
+    render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+    field.edit(&mut rsc).insert("a");
+    render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+    let before_px = render.window_region(&field, &rsc).unwrap();
+    // The field is one line plus 12dp of padding on a 2298-tall window --
+    // nowhere near the whole window's height, and anchored at the bottom.
+    assert!(
+        before_px.bot_right.y - before_px.top_left.y < 200.0,
+        "before a resize: {before_px:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        before_px.top_left.y > 1800.0,
+        "expected the bar near the bottom before a resize: {before_px:?}"
+    );
+
+    // The keyboard opens: a real `surface_changed`/`resize` to a shorter
+    // window, then a further keystroke -- the redraw that must land in the
+    // bar's new (also short) region, not whatever region a provisional
+    // measurement pass used along the way.
+    render.resize((1080.0, 1478.0));
+    render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+    field.edit(&mut rsc).insert("b");
+    render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+    let after_px = render.window_region(&field, &rsc).unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        after_px.bot_right.y - after_px.top_left.y < 200.0,
+        "after a resize + keystroke: {after_px:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        after_px.top_left.y > 1200.0,
+        "expected the bar near the bottom of the shorter window: {after_px:?}"
+    );
+}

iris/src/sense.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use std::{
+    collections::VecDeque,
     ops::{BitOr, Deref, DerefMut},
     rc::Rc,
     time::{Duration, Instant},
@@ -21,6 +22,14 @@ pub enum CursorSense {
     Hovering,
     HoverEnd,
     Scroll,
+    /// Delivered exactly once, in place of `PressEnd`, to whichever widget
+    /// currently holds pointer capture (`UiRenderState::capture_pointer`)
+    /// when the button lifts -- see `iris::sense`'s pointer-capture doc
+    /// and `DragGesture`. A widget must register this explicitly (it is
+    /// never bundled into `click_or_drag`/`unclick`, since most widgets
+    /// never call `capture_pointer` and have no use for it) to receive it
+    /// at all; ordinary hit-tested widgets keep seeing `PressEnd`.
+    Drop,
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
@@ -30,6 +39,21 @@ impl Event for CursorSenses {
     type Data<'a> = CursorData<'a>;
     type State = SensorState;
     fn should_run<'a>(&self, data: &Self::Data<'a>) -> Option<Self::Data<'a>> {
+        // `Drop` is never derived from raw cursor/hover state below (the
+        // free `should_run`'s own arm for it is only ever asked here,
+        // never independently true or false against the button) -- it is
+        // set exclusively by `run_sensors`' pointer-capture branch, which
+        // has already decided this exact frame is the captured widget's
+        // terminal event. Matching it by identity, ahead of the general
+        // derivation, matters because a captured widget's registration
+        // list very likely also carries `PressEnd` (`unclick()`, for the
+        // ordinary un-captured case) -- the same button-lift condition
+        // `PressEnd` matches on, so falling through to the loop below
+        // would let whichever of the two happens to be registered first
+        // win, silently swallowing the `Drop` a caller relied on.
+        if data.sense == CursorSense::Drop {
+            return self.contains(&CursorSense::Drop).then(|| data.clone());
+        }
         if let Some(sense) = should_run(self, &data.cursor, data.hover) {
             let mut data = data.clone();
             data.sense = sense;
@@ -176,6 +200,48 @@ impl SensorUi for UiRenderState {
         cursor: CursorState,
         window_size: Vec2,
     ) {
+        // Exclusive pointer capture (`UiRenderState::capture_pointer`,
+        // `DragGesture`): once some widget has committed to a drag, every
+        // other widget sees nothing from this pointer at all -- no hover,
+        // no click, no press -- until it releases. This is what lets a
+        // fast pan or a selection keep going once the finger has moved
+        // off whatever hit region first noticed the press (including
+        // right off the end of the gesture, at `PressEnd`/`Cancel`): a
+        // per-widget hit test would otherwise silently stop delivering to
+        // *anyone* the moment the pointer left every registered region,
+        // which is exactly what used to leave a fling never started (no
+        // widget ever saw the release). The captured widget keeps getting
+        // ordinary `Pressing` frames while the button is down and gets
+        // exactly one `Drop` -- not `PressEnd` -- the frame it lifts,
+        // which also releases the capture.
+        if let Some(id) = self.captured_pointer() {
+            let Some(shape) = self.resolved_region(&id, rsc) else {
+                self.release_pointer();
+                return;
+            };
+            let region = shape.to_px(window_size);
+            let button_down = cursor.buttons.select(&CursorButton::Left).is_on();
+            let sense = if button_down {
+                CursorSense::Pressing(CursorButton::Left)
+            } else {
+                CursorSense::Drop
+            };
+            let data = CursorData {
+                pos: cursor.pos - region.top_left,
+                size: region.bot_right - region.top_left,
+                scroll_delta: cursor.scroll_delta,
+                hover: ActivationState::On,
+                cursor: cursor.clone(),
+                sense,
+                render: self,
+            };
+            rsc.run_event::<CursorSense>(id, data, state);
+            if !button_down {
+                self.release_pointer();
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+
         // in order to remove this take, need to store active list in UiRenderState somehow
         // this would probably be done through a generic parameter that adds yet another rsc /
         // state like thing, but local to render state, and is passed to UiRsc events so you can
@@ -265,6 +331,15 @@ pub fn should_run(
             CursorSense::Hovering => hover.is_on(),
             CursorSense::HoverEnd => hover.is_end(),
             CursorSense::Scroll => cursor.scroll_delta != Vec2::ZERO,
+            // Never derived here -- `Drop` only ever fires through
+            // `CursorSenses::should_run`'s own special case, ahead of this
+            // loop, for the one widget `run_sensors`' capture branch is
+            // delivering it to this frame. If this arm answered from raw
+            // button state instead, an ordinary hit-tested widget that
+            // happened to register `Drop` (with no capture involved at
+            // all) would see it fire on every plain button-up under the
+            // cursor.
+            CursorSense::Drop => false,
         } {
             return Some(*sense);
         }
@@ -491,7 +566,25 @@ impl DragArbiter {
                 } else if dy.abs() > DRAG_SLOP && dy.abs() >= dx.abs() {
                     self.state = ArbiterState::Panning;
                     self.last = pos;
-                    DragOutcome::Pan(dy)
+                    // `dy` here is the *whole* drag since `press_start`,
+                    // not since the last frame -- nothing panned while
+                    // `Undecided` was withholding the slop, so applying it
+                    // in full on this one frame is a visible jump the
+                    // instant `DRAG_SLOP` is crossed (IRIS_TODO.md's
+                    // "scrolling down sometimes jitters the text," root-
+                    // caused by tracing `List`'s per-frame offset against
+                    // a synthetic monotonic drag: the offset held flat for
+                    // every `Undecided` frame, then stepped by several
+                    // frames' worth of motion at once on the frame slop
+                    // was crossed, before resuming ordinary per-frame
+                    // deltas). Only the excess past the slop threshold is
+                    // real, undecided motion the reader hasn't seen
+                    // reflected yet -- so only that excess is applied now,
+                    // the same way Android's own touch handling consumes
+                    // `ViewConfiguration.getScaledTouchSlop()` once from
+                    // the first scroll past it rather than replaying the
+                    // whole pre-threshold drag in one step.
+                    DragOutcome::Pan(dy - DRAG_SLOP.copysign(dy))
                 } else if now.duration_since(self.origin_at) >= LONG_PRESS
                     && dx.abs() <= DRAG_SLOP
                     && dy.abs() <= DRAG_SLOP
@@ -510,6 +603,522 @@ impl DragArbiter {
     pub fn release(&mut self) {
         self.state = ArbiterState::Idle;
     }
+
+    /// Whether the arbiter's current gesture (if any) has committed to
+    /// panning -- what a caller checks at release time to decide whether
+    /// to hand the tracked velocity to [`crate::widget::List::fling`], per
+    /// IRIS_TODO.md's "swiping has no momentum": a fling must only follow
+    /// a pan, never a text selection that happened to end with the finger
+    /// still moving.
+    pub fn is_panning(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self.state, ArbiterState::Panning)
+    }
+}
+
+/// What a [`DragGesture`] decided this frame -- [`DragOutcome`] plus the
+/// one further state a shared gesture needs: the drag ending, with the
+/// released velocity if (and only if) it had committed to panning.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+pub enum GestureOutcome {
+    Undecided,
+    /// Same units and sign as [`DragOutcome::Pan`] -- the caller's own
+    /// convention (`List::scroll`'s, for a transcript) to apply.
+    Pan(f32),
+    SelectStart,
+    SelectExtend,
+    /// The drag ended -- `PressEnd` or the capture's own terminal `Drop`.
+    /// `Some(velocity)` only if the gesture had committed to panning
+    /// (never a tap, a long-press selection, or one still `Undecided`);
+    /// same units as `Pan`, so a caller hands it to `List::fling` with
+    /// whatever sign flip it already applies to `Pan`.
+    Released(Option<f32>),
+}
+
+/// Bundles a [`DragArbiter`] and a [`VelocityTracker`] into the one thing
+/// most drag-driven widgets need: arbitrate pan-vs-hold, track the pan's
+/// velocity, and take pointer capture (`UiRenderState::capture_pointer`)
+/// the moment the gesture commits so the rest of it -- including the
+/// terminal release -- keeps reaching the same widget even after the
+/// finger has moved off whatever hit region first noticed the press. Iris
+/// asked for this to live here rather than in `transcript-ui::Selection`
+/// (2026-09-06, recorded in `IRIS.md`): "dragging should be part of the
+/// default input system ... anything that provides good performance and
+/// can be generalized well is part of iris rather than the app." A caller
+/// still decides what a committed pan or a completed selection *means*
+/// (transcript-ui's pan-vs-select is one call site; a slider or a plain
+/// scroll area is another) -- this only owns the *mechanics* every one of
+/// them would otherwise duplicate.
+pub struct DragGesture {
+    arbiter: DragArbiter,
+    velocity: VelocityTracker,
+}
+
+impl Default for DragGesture {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new()
+    }
+}
+
+impl DragGesture {
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            arbiter: DragArbiter::new(),
+            velocity: VelocityTracker::new(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Whether this gesture has no press in flight -- a thin passthrough
+    /// to the underlying `DragArbiter::is_idle`, for a caller (a test, a
+    /// diagnostic) that wants to observe the recovery behaviour `handle`'s
+    /// idle-recovery branch documents without reaching into a private
+    /// field.
+    pub fn is_idle(&self) -> bool {
+        self.arbiter.is_idle()
+    }
+
+    /// Feed one frame of a gesture through. `id` is the widget iris should
+    /// give exclusive pointer input to once this gesture commits to
+    /// panning or selecting -- a stable widget that outlives the gesture
+    /// (a `List`'s own id, not one of its virtualised rows, which can be
+    /// retired mid-drag as content scrolls). `render` is `CursorData`'s
+    /// own field, already in hand at every call site. `already_selected`
+    /// only matters for the first frame of a gesture (`PressStart`, or the
+    /// recovery branch below) -- see `DragArbiter::press_start`'s doc.
+    pub fn handle(
+        &mut self,
+        render: &UiRenderState,
+        id: WidgetId,
+        sense: CursorSense,
+        pos_window: Vec2,
+        now: Instant,
+        already_selected: bool,
+    ) -> GestureOutcome {
+        match sense {
+            CursorSense::PressStart(_) => {
+                self.velocity.reset();
+                self.arbiter.press_start(pos_window, now, already_selected);
+                self.dispatch(render, id, pos_window, now)
+            }
+            CursorSense::Drop | CursorSense::PressEnd(_) => {
+                let released = if self.arbiter.is_panning() {
+                    Some(self.velocity.velocity())
+                } else {
+                    None
+                };
+                self.arbiter.release();
+                render.release_pointer();
+                GestureOutcome::Released(released)
+            }
+            // See `DragArbiter::update`'s own doc: a `Pressing` frame can
+            // arrive with no matching `PressStart` if the touch-down
+            // landed outside whichever hit region first noticed it.
+            _ if self.arbiter.is_idle() => {
+                self.velocity.reset();
+                self.arbiter.press_start(pos_window, now, already_selected);
+                self.dispatch(render, id, pos_window, now)
+            }
+            _ => self.dispatch(render, id, pos_window, now),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn dispatch(
+        &mut self,
+        render: &UiRenderState,
+        id: WidgetId,
+        pos: Vec2,
+        now: Instant,
+    ) -> GestureOutcome {
+        match self.arbiter.update(pos, now) {
+            DragOutcome::Undecided => GestureOutcome::Undecided,
+            DragOutcome::Pan(dy) => {
+                render.capture_pointer(id);
+                self.velocity.add_sample(dy, now);
+                GestureOutcome::Pan(dy)
+            }
+            DragOutcome::SelectStart => {
+                render.capture_pointer(id);
+                GestureOutcome::SelectStart
+            }
+            DragOutcome::SelectExtend => {
+                render.capture_pointer(id);
+                GestureOutcome::SelectExtend
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// How far back a [`VelocityTracker`] looks when estimating a fling's
+/// initial speed -- Android's own `VelocityTracker` defaults to a similar
+/// short window so a gesture's last flick dominates over its slower start.
+const VELOCITY_WINDOW: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
+
+/// Tracks a drag's speed along one axis from its last ~100ms of motion, so
+/// a release can be handed a realistic initial velocity for
+/// [`AndroidFlingSpline`]/[`FlingCalculator`] rather than a single frame's
+/// noisy last delta. Fed one timestamped pan delta per frame
+/// (`add_sample`, the same `dy`/`-dy` quantity `DragArbiter::update`'s
+/// `Pan` outcome already carries) and answers `velocity()` in units per
+/// second, matching whatever unit the deltas were in.
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct VelocityTracker {
+    /// `(when, delta)` pairs, oldest first, trimmed to `VELOCITY_WINDOW`
+    /// on every `add_sample` -- so this never grows past however many
+    /// frames land in that window.
+    samples: VecDeque<(Instant, f32)>,
+}
+
+impl VelocityTracker {
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self::default()
+    }
+
+    /// Forget everything -- called on a fresh press, so a new gesture's
+    /// velocity is never contaminated by the tail of the previous one.
+    pub fn reset(&mut self) {
+        self.samples.clear();
+    }
+
+    /// Record one frame's motion. `delta` is this frame's movement since
+    /// the last sample, not a cumulative position.
+    pub fn add_sample(&mut self, delta: f32, at: Instant) {
+        self.samples.push_back((at, delta));
+        while let Some(&(when, _)) = self.samples.front() {
+            if at.duration_since(when) > VELOCITY_WINDOW {
+                self.samples.pop_front();
+            } else {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The estimated speed, in units-per-second, over whatever samples
+    /// currently fall inside the tracking window: total motion divided by
+    /// the elapsed time between the oldest and newest sample still held.
+    /// `0.0` with fewer than two samples (no time span to divide by).
+    pub fn velocity(&self) -> f32 {
+        if self.samples.len() < 2 {
+            return 0.0;
+        }
+        let total: f32 = self.samples.iter().map(|&(_, d)| d).sum();
+        let span = self
+            .samples
+            .back()
+            .unwrap()
+            .0
+            .duration_since(self.samples.front().unwrap().0)
+            .as_secs_f32();
+        if span <= 0.0 { 0.0 } else { total / span }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Android's fling deceleration curve, ported from AOSP's
+/// `android.widget.OverScroller.SplineOverScroller` (the same curve
+/// Compose's `androidx.compose.ui.gestures.AndroidFlingSpline` and
+/// `androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.FlingCalculator` reuse) so a
+/// fling here travels the same distance a Compose `LazyColumn`'s own
+/// `ScrollableDefaults.flingBehavior()` would for the same initial
+/// velocity -- RUST.md's "Benchmark v2" box asked the two apps' fling
+/// phase to be comparable, and IRIS_TODO.md's "swiping has no momentum"
+/// asked for the same physics a reader's muscle memory already expects
+/// from every other Android scroll view.
+///
+/// The curve is a cubic-Bezier-derived spline sampled into two lookup
+/// tables at start-up (`SPLINE`, built once via [`std::sync::OnceLock`]):
+/// `SPLINE_POSITION[i]`/`SPLINE_TIME[i]` give the fraction of total
+/// distance/time elapsed at the `i`th of 100 even steps along the curve's
+/// own parameter. A lookup at an arbitrary time fraction interpolates
+/// between the two bracketing samples.
+mod android_fling_spline {
+    use std::sync::OnceLock;
+
+    const NB_SAMPLES: usize = 100;
+    /// Where the two cubic tension lines cross (AOSP's own constant name
+    /// and value, `SplineOverScroller.INFLEXION`).
+    pub(super) const INFLEXION: f32 = 0.35;
+    const START_TENSION: f32 = 0.5;
+    const END_TENSION: f32 = 1.0;
+    const P1: f32 = START_TENSION * INFLEXION;
+    const P2: f32 = 1.0 - END_TENSION * (1.0 - INFLEXION);
+
+    pub(super) struct Spline {
+        position: [f32; NB_SAMPLES + 1],
+        time: [f32; NB_SAMPLES + 1],
+    }
+
+    fn build() -> Spline {
+        let mut position = [0.0f32; NB_SAMPLES + 1];
+        let mut time = [0.0f32; NB_SAMPLES + 1];
+        let (mut x_min, mut y_min) = (0.0f32, 0.0f32);
+        for i in 0..NB_SAMPLES {
+            let alpha = i as f32 / NB_SAMPLES as f32;
+
+            let mut x_max = 1.0f32;
+            let (mut x, mut coef);
+            loop {
+                x = x_min + (x_max - x_min) / 2.0;
+                coef = 3.0 * x * (1.0 - x);
+                let tx = coef * ((1.0 - x) * START_TENSION + x * END_TENSION) + x * x * x;
+                if (tx - alpha).abs() < 1e-5 {
+                    break;
+                }
+                if tx > alpha {
+                    x_max = x;
+                } else {
+                    x_min = x;
+                }
+            }
+            position[i] = coef * ((1.0 - x) * P1 + x * P2) + x * x * x;
+
+            let mut y_max = 1.0f32;
+            let (mut y, mut coef_y);
+            loop {
+                y = y_min + (y_max - y_min) / 2.0;
+                coef_y = 3.0 * y * (1.0 - y);
+                let dy = coef_y * ((1.0 - y) * START_TENSION + y * END_TENSION) + y * y * y;
+                if (dy - alpha).abs() < 1e-5 {
+                    break;
+                }
+                if dy > alpha {
+                    y_max = y;
+                } else {
+                    y_min = y;
+                }
+            }
+            time[i] = coef_y * ((1.0 - y) * P1 + y * P2) + y * y * y;
+        }
+        position[NB_SAMPLES] = 1.0;
+        time[NB_SAMPLES] = 1.0;
+        Spline { position, time }
+    }
+
+    static SPLINE: OnceLock<Spline> = OnceLock::new();
+
+    /// The fraction of total distance covered at `time_fraction` (0..=1
+    /// of the fling's total duration). Finds the bracketing samples in
+    /// `SPLINE_TIME` and interpolates linearly between their matching
+    /// `SPLINE_POSITION` entries, exactly as AOSP's `SplineOverScroller
+    /// .flingPosition` does.
+    pub(super) fn distance_fraction(time_fraction: f32) -> f32 {
+        let spline = SPLINE.get_or_init(build);
+        let t = time_fraction.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+        let index = ((t * NB_SAMPLES as f32) as usize).min(NB_SAMPLES - 1);
+        let t_inf = spline.time[index];
+        let t_sup = spline.time[index + 1];
+        let d_inf = spline.position[index];
+        let d_sup = spline.position[index + 1];
+        let span = t_sup - t_inf;
+        if span <= 0.0 {
+            d_inf
+        } else {
+            d_inf + (d_sup - d_inf) * (t - t_inf) / span
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// AOSP `SplineOverScroller`'s two other physical constants: the default
+/// `ViewConfiguration.getScrollFriction()` and the deceleration rate a
+/// friction of `0.84` per frame at 60Hz corresponds to
+/// (`ln(0.78)/ln(0.9)`, `SplineOverScroller.DECELERATION_RATE`).
+const FLING_FRICTION: f32 = 0.015;
+fn deceleration_rate() -> f32 {
+    (0.78f32.ln()) / (0.9f32.ln())
+}
+const GRAVITY_EARTH: f32 = 9.80665;
+
+/// Turns an initial fling velocity into a total travel distance and
+/// duration, following AOSP `SplineOverScroller`'s own closed-form
+/// formulas (`getSplineFlingDistance`/the duration half of `fling()`) --
+/// ported the same way Compose's `FlingCalculator` is, including its
+/// `density`-dependent physical coefficient (`computeDeceleration`,
+/// `GravityEarth * 39.37 * density * 160 * friction`). Density and
+/// velocity/distance units cancel algebraically as long as velocity and
+/// the returned distance share one pixel space (physical or logical) --
+/// [`crate::widget::List::fling`] relies on exactly that cancellation to
+/// avoid needing a display density of its own, since iris's `List`
+/// already works in logical (density-independent) pixels throughout.
+pub struct FlingCalculator {
+    physical_coefficient: f32,
+}
+
+impl FlingCalculator {
+    pub fn new(density: f32) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            physical_coefficient: GRAVITY_EARTH * 39.37 * density * 160.0 * FLING_FRICTION,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn deceleration_for(&self, velocity: f32) -> f32 {
+        (android_fling_spline::INFLEXION * velocity.abs()
+            / (FLING_FRICTION * self.physical_coefficient))
+            .ln()
+    }
+
+    /// Total signed distance the fling travels before settling, in the
+    /// same pixel units `velocity` was given in.
+    pub fn distance(&self, velocity: f32) -> f32 {
+        if velocity == 0.0 {
+            return 0.0;
+        }
+        let l = self.deceleration_for(velocity);
+        let rate = deceleration_rate();
+        let magnitude =
+            FLING_FRICTION * self.physical_coefficient * (rate / (rate - 1.0) * l).exp();
+        magnitude.copysign(velocity)
+    }
+
+    /// How long the fling takes to settle.
+    pub fn duration(&self, velocity: f32) -> Duration {
+        if velocity == 0.0 {
+            return Duration::ZERO;
+        }
+        let l = self.deceleration_for(velocity);
+        let rate = deceleration_rate();
+        Duration::from_secs_f32((l / (rate - 1.0)).exp())
+    }
+
+    /// The signed distance covered by `elapsed` into a fling of this
+    /// `velocity` that started at `t0` -- what a per-frame ticker
+    /// (`List::tick_fling`) calls to find how far to have scrolled by now.
+    /// Clamped to the full `distance()` once `elapsed` reaches
+    /// `duration()`, so a caller need not special-case "past the end."
+    pub fn position_at(&self, velocity: f32, elapsed: Duration) -> f32 {
+        let duration = self.duration(velocity);
+        if duration.is_zero() {
+            return 0.0;
+        }
+        let fraction = (elapsed.as_secs_f32() / duration.as_secs_f32()).min(1.0);
+        self.distance(velocity) * android_fling_spline::distance_fraction(fraction)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod velocity_tracker_tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::sync::LazyLock;
+
+    // A single fixed base rather than a fresh `Instant::now()` per call --
+    // computing it once per test keeps every sample's spacing exact
+    // instead of at the mercy of however long the test itself takes to
+    // run between calls, the same reasoning `drag_arbiter_tests::t` uses.
+    static BASE: LazyLock<Instant> = LazyLock::new(Instant::now);
+
+    fn t(ms: u64) -> Instant {
+        *BASE + Duration::from_millis(ms)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fewer_than_two_samples_reports_zero() {
+        let mut v = VelocityTracker::new();
+        assert_eq!(v.velocity(), 0.0);
+        v.add_sample(10.0, t(0));
+        assert_eq!(v.velocity(), 0.0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_steady_drag_reports_its_own_speed() {
+        // 5px every 10ms, 11 samples spanning 100ms, sums to 55px over
+        // 0.1s -- 550px/s by this tracker's own "sum of deltas over the
+        // span between the oldest and newest held sample" definition.
+        let mut v = VelocityTracker::new();
+        for i in 0..=10 {
+            v.add_sample(5.0, t(i * 10));
+        }
+        assert!((v.velocity() - 550.0).abs() < 1.0, "got {}", v.velocity());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn only_the_last_100ms_of_samples_count() {
+        // An old, fast burst well outside the window followed by a slow,
+        // steady drag should report the recent speed, not the average of
+        // both -- otherwise a flick that trails off would still fling at
+        // its earlier, faster speed. The burst sits 110ms before the last
+        // sample, just past the 100ms window, so it is evicted.
+        let mut v = VelocityTracker::new();
+        v.add_sample(1000.0, t(0)); // will be 110ms old by the last sample
+        for i in 1..=11 {
+            v.add_sample(1.0, t(i * 10)); // 1px/10ms = 100px/s
+        }
+        assert!(
+            (v.velocity() - 110.0).abs() < 5.0,
+            "old burst leaked into the window: got {}",
+            v.velocity()
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn reset_forgets_prior_samples() {
+        let mut v = VelocityTracker::new();
+        v.add_sample(500.0, t(0));
+        v.add_sample(500.0, t(10));
+        assert!(v.velocity() != 0.0);
+        v.reset();
+        assert_eq!(v.velocity(), 0.0);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod fling_calculator_tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn zero_velocity_flings_nowhere() {
+        let calc = FlingCalculator::new(1.0);
+        assert_eq!(calc.distance(0.0), 0.0);
+        assert_eq!(calc.duration(0.0), Duration::ZERO);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn distance_grows_with_velocity_and_keeps_its_sign() {
+        let calc = FlingCalculator::new(2.75); // a typical phone's density
+        let d_slow = calc.distance(2000.0);
+        let d_fast = calc.distance(12000.0);
+        assert!(d_slow > 0.0);
+        assert!(d_fast > d_slow);
+        assert_eq!(calc.distance(-12000.0), -d_fast);
+    }
+
+    /// Summing the spline's own per-frame position deltas across the
+    /// whole fling has to land within 1% of the closed-form `distance()`
+    /// -- this is the guarantee that `List::tick_fling`'s per-frame reads
+    /// of `position_at` actually add up to the total the fling promised,
+    /// not merely that the two formulas look plausible independently.
+    #[test]
+    fn integrating_position_at_matches_the_closed_form_distance() {
+        let calc = FlingCalculator::new(1.0);
+        for velocity in [1500.0f32, 5000.0, 12000.0, -12000.0] {
+            let total = calc.distance(velocity);
+            let duration = calc.duration(velocity);
+            let final_position = calc.position_at(velocity, duration);
+            let err = (final_position - total).abs() / total.abs();
+            assert!(
+                err < 0.01,
+                "velocity {velocity}: position_at(duration)={final_position} vs distance()={total}, err={err}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn position_at_is_monotonic_and_clamped_past_the_end() {
+        let calc = FlingCalculator::new(1.0);
+        let velocity = 12000.0f32;
+        let duration = calc.duration(velocity);
+        let total = calc.distance(velocity);
+        let mut last = 0.0;
+        let mut t = Duration::ZERO;
+        while t < duration {
+            let p = calc.position_at(velocity, t);
+            assert!(p >= last - 0.01, "position went backwards at {t:?}");
+            last = p;
+            t += Duration::from_millis(16);
+        }
+        // Well past the end, it stays pinned at the total -- a caller
+        // must be able to ask "where would this fling be" without first
+        // checking whether it has already settled.
+        assert_eq!(
+            calc.position_at(velocity, duration + Duration::from_secs(5)),
+            total
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -534,9 +1143,13 @@ mod drag_arbiter_tests {
     fn a_vertical_drag_pans_immediately() {
         let mut a = DragArbiter::new();
         a.press_start(Vec2::new(0.0, 0.0), t(0), false);
+        // The transition frame applies only the motion past `DRAG_SLOP`
+        // (20 - 8 = 12), not the full 20px since `press_start` -- see the
+        // `Pan` arm's own comment for why replaying the whole withheld
+        // drag in one step is the scroll-jitter bug this guards against.
         assert_eq!(
             a.update(Vec2::new(0.0, 20.0), t(10)),
-            DragOutcome::Pan(20.0)
+            DragOutcome::Pan(12.0)
         );
         // Subsequent frames keep panning, by the delta since last frame.
         assert_eq!(
@@ -545,6 +1158,22 @@ mod drag_arbiter_tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// Direct regression test for the fix: a slow drag that crosses
+    /// `DRAG_SLOP` by only a fraction of a pixel must not still produce a
+    /// visible jump -- the amount applied on the crossing frame should
+    /// itself shrink toward zero as the crossing gets closer to exactly
+    /// `DRAG_SLOP`, rather than always dumping the whole pre-threshold
+    /// distance at once.
+    #[test]
+    fn crossing_the_slop_by_a_little_pans_by_a_little() {
+        let mut a = DragArbiter::new();
+        a.press_start(Vec2::new(0.0, 0.0), t(0), false);
+        assert_eq!(
+            a.update(Vec2::new(0.0, DRAG_SLOP + 0.5), t(10)),
+            DragOutcome::Pan(0.5)
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn a_horizontal_drag_with_nothing_selected_does_not_select() {
         let mut a = DragArbiter::new();
@@ -603,7 +1232,7 @@ mod drag_arbiter_tests {
         a.press_start(Vec2::new(0.0, 0.0), t(0), true);
         assert_eq!(
             a.update(Vec2::new(0.0, 20.0), t(10)),
-            DragOutcome::Pan(20.0)
+            DragOutcome::Pan(12.0)
         );
     }
 
@@ -646,7 +1275,7 @@ mod drag_arbiter_tests {
         a.press_start(Vec2::new(0.0, 700.0), t(0), false);
         assert_eq!(
             a.update(Vec2::new(0.0, 720.0), t(10)),
-            DragOutcome::Pan(20.0)
+            DragOutcome::Pan(12.0)
         );
         assert!(!a.is_idle());
     }

iris/src/sense_tests.rs

@@ -122,3 +122,127 @@ fn a_button_over_a_list_scrolls_the_list_and_still_clicks() {
         "the button on top must still receive an actual click"
     );
 }
+
+/// The bug behind "finger flings do nothing" (RUST.md's P0 phone report,
+/// defect 2): a fast gesture's `PressEnd` can land at a screen position
+/// nothing is registered at -- past the edge of whatever widget noticed
+/// the press, in a gap, or off the loaded content entirely. Before pointer
+/// capture, `run_sensors`' hit test simply delivered nothing that frame,
+/// so a widget mid-drag never saw its release and never got a chance to
+/// start a fling. `UiRenderState::capture_pointer`/`DragGesture` fix this
+/// by giving the drag's widget every frame regardless of where the
+/// pointer is, including the terminal `Drop` in place of `PressEnd`.
+#[test]
+fn a_release_outside_every_hit_region_still_reaches_the_captured_widget() {
+    let mut rsc = SenseRsc {
+        ui: UiData::default(),
+        events: EventManager::default(),
+    };
+
+    // A small draggable widget in the corner -- the release below lands
+    // far outside it, exactly the "moved off the hit region" case.
+    let draggable = rsc.ui.widgets.add_strong(Rect::new(UiColor::WHITE)).any();
+    let draggable_weak = draggable.weak();
+
+    let dropped = Rc::new(Cell::new(false));
+    {
+        let dropped = dropped.clone();
+        rsc.register_event(
+            draggable_weak,
+            CursorSense::click_or_drag() | CursorSense::unclick() | CursorSense::Drop,
+            move |ctx, rsc| match ctx.data.sense {
+                CursorSense::PressStart(_) | CursorSense::Pressing(_) => {
+                    // Any committed drag takes capture -- a real caller
+                    // would gate this on a `DragArbiter`/`DragGesture`
+                    // decision, but this test only needs to exercise the
+                    // capture-and-release mechanics themselves.
+                    ctx.data.render.capture_pointer(draggable_weak.id());
+                    let _ = rsc;
+                }
+                CursorSense::Drop => dropped.set(true),
+                _ => {}
+            },
+        );
+    }
+
+    let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+    render.resize((100.0, 100.0));
+    render.update(&draggable, &mut rsc);
+
+    let mut state = ();
+    let mut press = cursor_at((5.0, 5.0).into());
+    press.buttons.left = ActivationState::Start;
+    render.run_sensors(&mut rsc, &mut state, press, (100.0, 100.0).into());
+    assert_eq!(
+        render.captured_pointer(),
+        Some(draggable.id()),
+        "the press should have taken capture"
+    );
+
+    // The release lands nowhere near the widget's own region -- the exact
+    // shape of a fast fling's `ACTION_UP`.
+    let mut release = cursor_at((95.0, 95.0).into());
+    release.buttons.left = ActivationState::End;
+    render.run_sensors(&mut rsc, &mut state, release, (100.0, 100.0).into());
+
+    assert!(
+        dropped.get(),
+        "a release outside every widget's hit region must still reach \
+         the widget holding pointer capture"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        render.captured_pointer(),
+        None,
+        "Drop must release the capture"
+    );
+}
+
+/// A widget that never registers `CursorSense::Drop` at all must not be
+/// affected by someone else's capture -- capture is per-gesture, not
+/// global suppression of the whole input system for widgets that were
+/// never party to it. (Practically this matters because a captured
+/// widget's registration list still has to include `Drop` for `should_run`
+/// to ever match it; this pins that half of the contract.)
+#[test]
+fn capturing_one_widget_starves_every_other_widget_of_events() {
+    let mut rsc = SenseRsc {
+        ui: UiData::default(),
+        events: EventManager::default(),
+    };
+
+    let a = rsc.ui.widgets.add_strong(Rect::new(UiColor::WHITE));
+    let a_weak = a.weak();
+    let b = rsc.ui.widgets.add_strong(Rect::new(UiColor::RED));
+    let b_weak = b.weak();
+
+    let b_hovered = Rc::new(Cell::new(false));
+    {
+        let b_hovered = b_hovered.clone();
+        rsc.register_event(b_weak, CursorSense::Hovering, move |_ctx, _rsc| {
+            b_hovered.set(true);
+        });
+    }
+
+    let root = rsc
+        .ui
+        .widgets
+        .add_strong(Stack {
+            children: vec![a.any(), b.any()],
+            size: StackSize::default(),
+        })
+        .any();
+
+    let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+    render.resize((100.0, 100.0));
+    render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+    render.capture_pointer(a_weak.id());
+
+    let mut state = ();
+    let cursor = cursor_at((50.0, 50.0).into());
+    render.run_sensors(&mut rsc, &mut state, cursor, (100.0, 100.0).into());
+
+    assert!(
+        !b_hovered.get(),
+        "while a's drag holds capture, b must see no hover at all"
+    );
+}

iris/src/widget/list.rs

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use iris_core::util::HashMap;
-use std::collections::VecDeque;
+use std::{collections::VecDeque, sync::Arc, time::Instant};
 
 /// A stable identifier for a loaded row, reused across pages so that a row
 /// already measured and drawn is not treated as new when data is inserted
@@ -213,6 +213,39 @@ pub struct List {
     /// row is evicted (`pop_front`/`pop_back`) so this cannot grow past
     /// however many rows are currently loaded.
     heights: HashMap<RowKey, f32>,
+    /// A fling in progress, or `None` if the list is at rest -- see
+    /// `fling`/`tick_fling`/`is_scrolling`, IRIS_TODO.md's "swiping has no
+    /// momentum."
+    fling: Option<Fling>,
+    /// What `tick_fling` re-arms every frame a fling is still running, so
+    /// the list keeps animating without needing a caller to poll it --
+    /// set once via `set_redraw_handle` by whoever owns the surface this
+    /// list draws into (the same handle `iris::task::Tasks::redraw_handle`
+    /// hands out elsewhere). `None` for a list that never flings
+    /// (headless tests, a caller driving `tick_fling` by hand as
+    /// `bench_client.rs`'s scripted phases do).
+    redraw: Option<Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>>,
+    /// Whether the last `draw` found no more content above the topmost
+    /// visible row (its top edge at or past the viewport's own top, with
+    /// no `prev_slot`) -- what `tick_fling` clamps a fling moving toward
+    /// the start against. Stale (from whatever the last draw found) on a
+    /// list that hasn't drawn yet; `false` by default, matching "assume
+    /// there is more content until a draw proves otherwise."
+    at_start: bool,
+    /// The mirror of `at_start` for the newest end.
+    at_end: bool,
+}
+
+/// One in-flight fling: the physics answer (`FlingCalculator`) plus how
+/// much of its total distance has already been applied to the anchor, so
+/// `tick_fling` only ever moves the list by this frame's *incremental*
+/// delta -- matching every other place in this widget that scrolls by
+/// writing `anchor.offset`.
+struct Fling {
+    calc: FlingCalculator,
+    velocity: f32,
+    started_at: Instant,
+    applied: f32,
 }
 
 impl List {
@@ -226,6 +259,10 @@ impl List {
             snap_end: true,
             viewport_len: 0.0,
             last_viewport_len: 0.0,
+            fling: None,
+            redraw: None,
+            at_start: false,
+            at_end: false,
             pending_tap: None,
             extents: HashMap::default(),
             heights: HashMap::default(),
@@ -317,6 +354,40 @@ impl List {
         self.extents.clear();
     }
 
+    /// Swap the last row's widget for a new one **without moving it**: the
+    /// slot index is unchanged, so an anchor already pointing at this slot
+    /// (in particular `snap_end`'s pinned-to-newest case) stays pinned, and
+    /// an anchor pointing anywhere else -- this row scrolled out of view --
+    /// is untouched, so nothing currently on screen moves. This is what a
+    /// streamed reply needs: the row whose *content* keeps changing after
+    /// it first appears is still the same row by position, even if its
+    /// `RowKey` happens to change too (rare -- only `heights`/`extents` care
+    /// about the key, and both are invalidated here the same way
+    /// `pop_back` already invalidates them for the row it removes).
+    /// `None` if the list is empty. O(1), same as `push_back`/`pop_back`.
+    pub fn replace_back(&mut self, row: ListRow) -> Option<ListRow> {
+        let idx = self.items.len().checked_sub(1)?;
+        let old = std::mem::replace(&mut self.items[idx], row);
+        self.heights.remove(&old.key);
+        self.extents.clear();
+        Some(old)
+    }
+
+    /// Drop every loaded row and reset to the same state `List::new` would
+    /// give -- the fallback path for a change `apply`-style incremental
+    /// callers can't express as a replace-or-append (RUST.md: `group_tool_runs`
+    /// regrouping an earlier row). `more_before`/`more_after` are left
+    /// alone: a full paging reset is a different operation from "the
+    /// content changed," and a caller that wants both calls
+    /// `set_more_before(None)`/`set_more_after(None)` itself.
+    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
+        self.items.clear();
+        self.anchor = None;
+        self.snap_end = true;
+        self.heights.clear();
+        self.extents.clear();
+    }
+
     /// Move the anchor's edge by `amt` pixels. Positive moves later
     /// content into view (mirrors `Scroll::scroll`'s sign convention).
     /// Deliberately unclamped -- see the module doc's "what is not
@@ -327,6 +398,115 @@ impl List {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Give this list a way to ask for another frame on its own, so a
+    /// fling keeps animating without a caller polling it every tick --
+    /// see the `redraw` field's doc. Pass the same handle
+    /// `iris::task::Tasks::redraw_handle` hands a `spawn`ed task; a list
+    /// that never calls this can still `fling`, but has to be driven by a
+    /// caller-owned loop instead (`bench_client.rs`'s scripted phases do
+    /// exactly that, since they need to await settling rather than let it
+    /// run in the background).
+    pub fn set_redraw_handle(&mut self, handle: Arc<dyn RequestRedraw>) {
+        self.redraw = Some(handle);
+    }
+
+    /// Start a fling at `velocity_px_per_s` (this widget's own pixel
+    /// space, same sign convention as `scroll`'s `amt`: positive continues
+    /// moving later content into view). Cancels any fling already in
+    /// progress. A caller with a live touch/press must cancel this on the
+    /// next touch-down (`cancel_fling`) -- `AndroidFlingSpline`'s curve
+    /// has no idea a finger came back down, and Android's own `Scroller`
+    /// relies on the view calling `abortAnimation` for the same reason.
+    ///
+    /// Density cancels out of the underlying spline as long as velocity
+    /// and the distance it produces share one pixel space (see
+    /// `FlingCalculator`'s own doc) -- `List` works entirely in logical
+    /// pixels, so `1.0` here is not a placeholder for "unknown density,"
+    /// it is the correct density for a self-consistent unit system.
+    pub fn fling(&mut self, velocity_px_per_s: f32) {
+        if velocity_px_per_s == 0.0 || self.anchor.is_none() {
+            self.fling = None;
+            return;
+        }
+        self.fling = Some(Fling {
+            calc: FlingCalculator::new(1.0),
+            velocity: velocity_px_per_s,
+            started_at: Instant::now(),
+            applied: 0.0,
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// Whether a fling is currently animating. What a caller's own
+    /// per-frame loop polls to know when to stop driving `tick_fling`
+    /// (`bench_client.rs`'s fling phase) or to decide whether the list is
+    /// "moving on its own" for any other purpose.
+    pub fn is_scrolling(&self) -> bool {
+        self.fling.is_some()
+    }
+
+    /// Cancel any fling in progress with no further movement -- the next
+    /// touch-down's job, per `fling`'s own doc.
+    pub fn cancel_fling(&mut self) {
+        self.fling = None;
+    }
+
+    /// Advance an in-flight fling to `now`, applying this call's share of
+    /// its total travel via `scroll` and re-arming this list's own redraw
+    /// handle (if it has one) for another frame. Returns whether the
+    /// fling is still going after this call -- `false` either because it
+    /// settled on its own spline-decided schedule or because it reached
+    /// `at_start`/`at_end` (the module doc's clamp: a fling must not carry
+    /// the list past content that does not exist, unlike an ordinary
+    /// touch-pan, which this widget already leaves unclamped by design).
+    ///
+    /// Safe to call even with no fling active (a no-op returning `false`),
+    /// so a caller does not need to check `is_scrolling` first.
+    pub fn tick_fling(&mut self, now: Instant) -> bool {
+        let Some(f) = &mut self.fling else {
+            return false;
+        };
+        let elapsed = now.saturating_duration_since(f.started_at);
+        let target = f.calc.position_at(f.velocity, elapsed);
+        let delta = target - f.applied;
+        f.applied = target;
+        let settled_on_schedule = elapsed >= f.calc.duration(f.velocity);
+        let velocity = f.velocity;
+        self.scroll(delta);
+
+        // Clamp: a fling moving toward the start that has already reached
+        // it (or one moving toward the end that has already reached that)
+        // stops rather than continuing to spend its remaining distance on
+        // a part of the list that will never scroll further.
+        let hit_bound = (velocity < 0.0 && self.at_start) || (velocity > 0.0 && self.at_end);
+
+        if settled_on_schedule || hit_bound {
+            self.fling = None;
+            return false;
+        }
+        if let Some(redraw) = &self.redraw {
+            redraw.request_redraw();
+        }
+        true
+    }
+
+    /// The anchor's own row index and pixel offset, formatted the same
+    /// shape Compose's `firstVisibleItemIndex`/`firstVisibleItemScrollOffset`
+    /// report (`idx=N/off=Mpx`) -- what RUST.md's "Benchmark v2" fling
+    /// phase reads before/after/between its fling runs so the two apps'
+    /// travel can be compared directly. `more_before`/`more_after`
+    /// sentinels print as `idx=more-before`/`idx=more-after` rather than
+    /// leaking their internal `isize` representation; `idx=none` if the
+    /// list has never drawn (no anchor yet -- e.g. right after
+    /// `jump_to_end` and before the next frame runs `repair_anchor`).
+    pub fn anchor_position_display(&self) -> String {
+        match self.anchor {
+            None => "idx=none".to_string(),
+            Some(a) if a.slot == BEFORE_SLOT => "idx=more-before".to_string(),
+            Some(a) if a.slot == AFTER_SLOT => "idx=more-after".to_string(),
+            Some(a) => format!("idx={}/off={}px", a.slot, a.offset.round() as i64),
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Snap to the newest content (last item, or the `more_after`
     /// sentinel if set), bottom-aligned to the viewport. O(1).
     pub fn jump_to_end(&mut self) {
@@ -372,6 +552,20 @@ impl List {
         self.extents.get(&key).map(|e| (e.top, e.bottom))
     }
 
+    /// The row whose on-screen box (as of the last layout) contains
+    /// `viewport_pos`, or `None` if it falls outside every row currently
+    /// drawn (a gap, a header, or off the loaded content entirely). O
+    /// (visible rows), same as `reanchor_at_tap`. What a caller resolves a
+    /// pointer-captured gesture's row-under-the-finger against once the
+    /// gesture is no longer being delivered through any one row's own hit
+    /// region -- see `iris::sense`'s pointer-capture doc.
+    pub fn key_at(&self, viewport_pos: f32) -> Option<RowKey> {
+        self.extents
+            .iter()
+            .find(|(_, ext)| viewport_pos >= ext.top && viewport_pos <= ext.bottom)
+            .map(|(&key, _)| key)
+    }
+
     fn slot_exists(&self, slot: isize) -> bool {
         match slot {
             BEFORE_SLOT => self.more_before.is_some(),
@@ -572,9 +766,10 @@ impl List {
         let axis = self.axis;
         let output_len = painter.output_size().axis(axis);
         let container_len = painter.region().axis(axis).len();
+        let density = painter.density();
         let resolve = move |used: Size| -> f32 {
             used.axis(axis)
-                .apply_rest()
+                .apply_rest(density)
                 .within_len(container_len)
                 .to_abs(output_len)
         };
@@ -690,26 +885,33 @@ impl Widget for List {
         };
         let (mut top, mut bottom) = self.place(painter, anchor.slot, placement);
 
-        let mut idx = anchor.slot;
+        let mut idx_top = anchor.slot;
         while top > 0.0 {
-            let Some(prev) = self.prev_slot(idx) else {
+            let Some(prev) = self.prev_slot(idx_top) else {
                 break;
             };
             let (t, _) = self.place(painter, prev, Placement::Bottom(top));
             top = t;
-            idx = prev;
+            idx_top = prev;
         }
 
-        idx = anchor.slot;
+        let mut idx_bottom = anchor.slot;
         while bottom < self.viewport_len {
-            let Some(next) = self.next_slot(idx) else {
+            let Some(next) = self.next_slot(idx_bottom) else {
                 break;
             };
             let (_, b) = self.place(painter, next, Placement::Top(bottom));
             bottom = b;
-            idx = next;
+            idx_bottom = next;
         }
 
+        // What `tick_fling` clamps a fling against -- see `at_start`'s
+        // field doc. `top`/`bottom` are the extreme edges actually placed
+        // this frame, and `prev_slot`/`next_slot` returning `None` is what
+        // "no more content" means everywhere else in this widget.
+        self.at_start = self.prev_slot(idx_top).is_none() && top >= 0.0;
+        self.at_end = self.next_slot(idx_bottom).is_none() && bottom <= self.viewport_len;
+
         self.update_snap_end();
         Size::REST
     }
@@ -1032,4 +1234,333 @@ mod tests {
             assert!(moves <= 12, "n={n}: expected O(visible) moves, got {moves}");
         }
     }
+
+    /// The streamed-reply case (RUST.md's "streaming still costs a full
+    /// rebuild" fix, `transcript-ui::TranscriptScreen::apply`): a delta
+    /// swaps the last row's widget for a taller one, same key, same slot.
+    /// A list flush with its own end (the default, `snap_end`) must stay
+    /// flush -- the row grows *upward* from the pinned bottom edge, not
+    /// the other way around, exactly like an ordinary resize of that same
+    /// row would (`expanding_a_row_holds_the_bottom_edge_when_tap_is_lower`).
+    #[test]
+    fn replacing_the_last_row_stays_pinned_to_the_bottom() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let mut list = List::new(Axis::Y);
+        push_rows(&mut rsc, &mut list, &[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], 20.0);
+        let (list_weak, root) = add_list(&mut rsc, list);
+
+        let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+        render.resize((100.0, 60.0));
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+        // Row 4 is flush with the viewport's bottom edge before the replace.
+        {
+            let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+            assert!((list_ref.extents[&4].bottom - 60.0).abs() < 0.01);
+        }
+
+        let (_weak, new_row) = fixed_row(&mut rsc, 40.0);
+        let old = rsc
+            .ui
+            .widgets
+            .get_mut(&list_weak)
+            .unwrap()
+            .replace_back(ListRow::new(4, new_row));
+        assert!(
+            old.is_some(),
+            "replace_back should hand back the row it evicted"
+        );
+
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+        let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+        let row4 = list_ref.extents[&4];
+        assert!(
+            (row4.bottom - 60.0).abs() < 0.01,
+            "still pinned to the newest end after the replace: {row4:?}"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            (row4.top - 20.0).abs() < 0.01,
+            "grew upward, from the pinned bottom edge: {row4:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The other half of the same fix's contract: replacing a row that is
+    /// *not* on screen must not move anything that is. `replace_back` only
+    /// touches the last slot's own widget and this file's own `heights`/
+    /// `extents` caches for that one key -- nothing about `Anchor` changes
+    /// -- so the already-placed rows above it should come out at the exact
+    /// same boxes on the next frame.
+    #[test]
+    fn replacing_the_last_row_out_of_view_does_not_move_visible_rows() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let mut list = List::new(Axis::Y);
+        push_rows(&mut rsc, &mut list, &[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], 20.0);
+        let (list_weak, root) = add_list(&mut rsc, list);
+
+        let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+        render.resize((100.0, 60.0));
+        // Settle at the default (bottom) anchor first -- `jump_to_start`
+        // does not touch `snap_end`, and `repair_anchor` only leaves a
+        // freshly-set anchor's offset alone once `viewport_len` has
+        // already matched `last_viewport_len` once, the same reason
+        // `moves_stay_o1_across_list_size` settles before the tick it
+        // actually measures.
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        // Scrolled to the oldest content: rows 0,1,2 visible, row 4 is far
+        // below the viewport.
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().jump_to_start();
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+        let (before0, before1, before2) = {
+            let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+            assert!(!list_ref.extents.contains_key(&4));
+            (
+                list_ref.extents[&0],
+                list_ref.extents[&1],
+                list_ref.extents[&2],
+            )
+        };
+
+        let (_weak, new_row) = fixed_row(&mut rsc, 999.0);
+        rsc.ui
+            .widgets
+            .get_mut(&list_weak)
+            .unwrap()
+            .replace_back(ListRow::new(4, new_row));
+
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+        let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+        for (key, before) in [(0u64, before0), (1, before1), (2, before2)] {
+            let after = list_ref.extents[&key];
+            assert_eq!(
+                (after.top, after.bottom),
+                (before.top, before.bottom),
+                "row {key} moved after an off-screen replace"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// RUST.md's P0 phone report (Iris's screenshot, 2026-09-06): a
+    /// replaced row's primitives drawn a second time, overlapping the
+    /// replacement. Reproduces the exact path `TranscriptScreen::apply`'s
+    /// `ReplaceLast` case drives up to 400 times during a streamed reply
+    /// (`bench_client.rs`'s stream phase): the last slot's widget is
+    /// swapped for a brand-new one, same key, and (since a fresh widget
+    /// has no cached height) placed via `place`'s `draw_twice` path every
+    /// time -- the provisional-then-real two-draw sequence LAYOUT.md
+    /// documents as the one place in this crate that deliberately draws a
+    /// widget twice. If `draw_inner`'s old-children diffing or
+    /// `UiRenderState::remove`'s primitive freeing ever failed to retire
+    /// the evicted widget (or the provisional draw's own primitives), it
+    /// would show up here as `active_widgets` growing without bound.
+    /// **Passes as written** -- this pins the widget-arena layer as
+    /// correct in isolation; see the P0 box for where the duplicate was
+    /// actually chased to instead (`Span`'s two-phase draw and the
+    /// `redraw_all`-vs-`redraw_updates` split, still open).
+    #[test]
+    fn replacing_the_last_row_many_times_does_not_leak_primitives() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let mut list = List::new(Axis::Y);
+        for key in 0..5u64 {
+            let (_bg_id, row) = background_styled_row(&mut rsc, 20.0);
+            list.push_back(ListRow::new(key, row));
+        }
+        let (list_weak, root) = add_list(&mut rsc, list);
+
+        let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+        render.resize((100.0, 100.0));
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+
+        let before = render.active_widgets();
+        for i in 0..400u32 {
+            // A varying height keeps every replace on the `draw_twice`
+            // (cache-miss) path rather than settling into the O(1)
+            // same-size `mov` fast path once the height happens to repeat.
+            let (_bg_id, new_row) = background_styled_row(&mut rsc, 20.0 + (i % 3) as f32);
+            rsc.ui
+                .widgets
+                .get_mut(&list_weak)
+                .unwrap()
+                .replace_back(ListRow::new(4, new_row));
+            render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        }
+        let after = render.active_widgets();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            before, after,
+            "400 replaces of the last row must leave exactly the same \
+             number of active widgets as before a leaked id (and the \
+             primitives that live as long as its ActiveData does) would \
+             show up here as growth"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Enough rows, tall enough, that a fling toward the start has real
+    /// room to travel before `at_start` clamps it -- shared by the fling
+    /// tests below.
+    fn build_flingable_list(rsc: &mut TestRsc) -> (WeakWidget<List>, StrongWidget, UiRenderState) {
+        let mut list = List::new(Axis::Y);
+        push_rows(rsc, &mut list, &(0..200).collect::<Vec<_>>(), 20.0);
+        let (list_weak, root) = add_list(rsc, list);
+        let mut render = UiRenderState::new();
+        render.resize((100.0, 600.0));
+        render.update(&root, rsc);
+        (list_weak, root, render)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fling_moves_the_list_and_then_settles() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let (list_weak, root, mut render) = build_flingable_list(&mut rsc);
+
+        // A fling toward the start: negative velocity, matching `scroll`'s
+        // sign convention (`Selection::drag` calls `scroll(-dy)` for a
+        // downward finger motion revealing older content).
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().fling(-8000.0);
+        assert!(rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().is_scrolling());
+
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        let mut last_still_scrolling = true;
+        for step in 0..600 {
+            let now = start + std::time::Duration::from_millis(step * 16);
+            last_still_scrolling = rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().tick_fling(now);
+            render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+            if !last_still_scrolling {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        assert!(
+            !last_still_scrolling,
+            "fling never settled within 600 steps"
+        );
+        assert!(!rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().is_scrolling());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fling_distance_is_positive_toward_the_end() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let (list_weak, root, mut render) = build_flingable_list(&mut rsc);
+        // Start scrolled away from the newest end so there is room for an
+        // end-ward fling to actually move.
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().jump_to_start();
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        let before = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().extents[&0];
+
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().fling(8000.0);
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        for step in 0..600 {
+            let now = start + std::time::Duration::from_millis(step * 16);
+            let still = rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().tick_fling(now);
+            render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+            if !still {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+        // Row 0 either scrolled out of the loaded extents (flung well past
+        // it) or moved upward (smaller top) -- either way, real motion
+        // happened toward the end rather than staying put.
+        if let Some(after) = list_ref.extents.get(&0) {
+            assert!(
+                after.top < before.top,
+                "fling toward the end did not move content up"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn cancel_fling_stops_it_with_no_further_movement() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let (list_weak, root, mut render) = build_flingable_list(&mut rsc);
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().fling(-8000.0);
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        rsc.ui
+            .widgets
+            .get_mut(&list_weak)
+            .unwrap()
+            .tick_fling(start + std::time::Duration::from_millis(16));
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        assert!(rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().is_scrolling());
+
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().cancel_fling();
+        assert!(!rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().is_scrolling());
+
+        let before = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().extents[&199];
+        // A tick after cancelling must be a no-op -- this is what a fresh
+        // touch-down relies on to stop a fling in its tracks.
+        let still = rsc
+            .ui
+            .widgets
+            .get_mut(&list_weak)
+            .unwrap()
+            .tick_fling(start + std::time::Duration::from_millis(200));
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        assert!(!still);
+        let after = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap().extents[&199];
+        assert_eq!((before.top, before.bottom), (after.top, after.bottom));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_first_row() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let (list_weak, root, mut render) = build_flingable_list(&mut rsc);
+        // An enormous velocity that would travel far past all 200 rows if
+        // unclamped -- this is exactly what IRIS_TODO.md's "way faster...
+        // better for stress testing" fling asks for.
+        rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().fling(-50_000.0);
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        for step in 0..2000 {
+            let now = start + std::time::Duration::from_millis(step * 16);
+            let still = rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().tick_fling(now);
+            render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+            if !still {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+        assert!(
+            list_ref.at_start,
+            "fling should have clamped at the first row"
+        );
+        let first = list_ref.extents[&0];
+        assert!(
+            first.top >= -0.5,
+            "clamped fling overshot the first row's top: {}",
+            first.top
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn anchor_position_display_before_any_draw_is_none() {
+        let list = List::new(Axis::Y);
+        assert_eq!(list.anchor_position_display(), "idx=none");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn anchor_position_display_reports_slot_and_offset() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let (list_weak, root, mut render) = build_flingable_list(&mut rsc);
+        let _ = (&root, &mut render);
+        let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+        assert!(list_ref.anchor_position_display().starts_with("idx="));
+        assert!(!list_ref.anchor_position_display().contains("none"));
+    }
 }

iris/src/widget/position/align.rs

@@ -17,14 +17,15 @@ impl Widget for Aligned {
         // already-resolved region double-applies that composition and is
         // wrong for any widget nested below the root.
         let used = painter.widget(&self.inner);
+        let density = painter.density();
         let region = match self.align.tuple() {
-            (Some(x), Some(y)) => used.to_uivec2().align(RegionAlign { x, y }),
+            (Some(x), Some(y)) => used.to_uivec2(density).align(RegionAlign { x, y }),
             (Some(x), None) => {
-                let x = used.x.apply_rest().align(x);
+                let x = used.x.apply_rest(density).align(x);
                 UiRegion::new(x, UiSpan::FULL)
             }
             (None, Some(y)) => {
-                let y = used.y.apply_rest().align(y);
+                let y = used.y.apply_rest(density).align(y);
                 UiRegion::new(UiSpan::FULL, y)
             }
             (None, None) => UiRegion::FULL,

iris/src/widget/position/max_size.rs

@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ pub struct MaxSize {
 impl MaxSize {
     /// Caps a reported length at `max`, comparing in pixels since `Len`'s
     /// rel/abs/rest components are not otherwise comparable.
-    fn clamp(len: Len, max: Option<Len>, output: f32) -> Len {
+    fn clamp(len: Len, max: Option<Len>, output: f32, density: f32) -> Len {
         let Some(max) = max else {
             return len;
         };
-        let len_px = len.apply_rest().to_abs(output);
+        let len_px = len.apply_rest(density).to_abs(output);
-        let max_px = max.apply_rest().to_abs(output);
+        let max_px = max.apply_rest(density).to_abs(output);
         if len_px > max_px { max } else { len }
     }
 
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ impl MaxSize {
     /// start, if it does not. Needed so the child is never painted bigger
     /// than the size this widget reports for it -- see the identical
     /// requirement noted on `Sized::draw`.
-    fn clamp_region(offered_px: f32, max: Option<Len>, output: f32) -> UiSpan {
+    fn clamp_region(offered_px: f32, max: Option<Len>, output: f32, density: f32) -> UiSpan {
         let Some(max) = max else {
             return UiSpan::FULL;
         };
-        let max_scalar = max.apply_rest();
+        let max_scalar = max.apply_rest(density);
         let max_px = max_scalar.to_abs(output);
         if offered_px > max_px {
             max_scalar.align(AxisAlign::Neg)
@@ -41,15 +41,16 @@ impl MaxSize {
 impl Widget for MaxSize {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
         let output = painter.output_size();
+        let density = painter.density();
         let offered = painter.px_size();
         let region = UiRegion {
-            x: Self::clamp_region(offered.x, self.x, output.x),
+            x: Self::clamp_region(offered.x, self.x, output.x, density),
-            y: Self::clamp_region(offered.y, self.y, output.y),
+            y: Self::clamp_region(offered.y, self.y, output.y, density),
         };
         let used = painter.widget_within(&self.inner, region);
         Size {
-            x: Self::clamp(used.x, self.x, output.x),
+            x: Self::clamp(used.x, self.x, output.x, density),
-            y: Self::clamp(used.y, self.y, output.y),
+            y: Self::clamp(used.y, self.y, output.y, density),
         }
     }
 }

iris/src/widget/position/pad.rs

@@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ pub struct Pad {
 
 impl Widget for Pad {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        let used = painter.widget_within(&self.inner, self.padding.region());
+        let density = painter.density();
-        let width = self.padding.left + self.padding.right;
+        let used = painter.widget_within(&self.inner, self.padding.region(density));
-        let height = self.padding.top + self.padding.bottom;
+        let width =
+            self.padding.left.apply_rest(density).abs + self.padding.right.apply_rest(density).abs;
+        let height =
+            self.padding.top.apply_rest(density).abs + self.padding.bottom.apply_rest(density).abs;
         Size {
             x: used.x + Len::abs(width),
             y: used.y + Len::abs(height),
@@ -17,23 +20,29 @@ impl Widget for Pad {
     }
 }
 
+/// Each side is a `Len`, not a bare `f32`, so `.pad(dp(10))` resolves
+/// against the display's density the same way any other size does -- see
+/// `Len::dp`'s field doc. `.pad(10)` (a bare number) still works via
+/// `From<T: UiNum>` below, unchanged: it becomes an `abs` (physical-pixel)
+/// `Len`, exactly as a bare number always has meant elsewhere in this
+/// crate.
 pub struct Padding {
-    pub left: f32,
+    pub left: Len,
-    pub right: f32,
+    pub right: Len,
-    pub top: f32,
+    pub top: Len,
-    pub bottom: f32,
+    pub bottom: Len,
 }
 
 impl Padding {
     pub const ZERO: Self = Self {
-        left: 0.0,
+        left: Len::ZERO,
-        right: 0.0,
+        right: Len::ZERO,
-        top: 0.0,
+        top: Len::ZERO,
-        bottom: 0.0,
+        bottom: Len::ZERO,
     };
 
-    pub fn uniform(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn uniform(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        let amt = amt.to_f32();
+        let amt = amt.into();
         Self {
             left: amt,
             right: amt,
@@ -41,80 +50,84 @@ impl Padding {
             bottom: amt,
         }
     }
-    pub fn region(&self) -> UiRegion {
+    pub fn region(&self, density: f32) -> UiRegion {
         let mut region = UiRegion::FULL;
-        region.x.start.abs += self.left;
+        region.x.start.abs += self.left.apply_rest(density).abs;
-        region.y.start.abs += self.top;
+        region.y.start.abs += self.top.apply_rest(density).abs;
-        region.x.end.abs -= self.right;
+        region.x.end.abs -= self.right.apply_rest(density).abs;
-        region.y.end.abs -= self.bottom;
+        region.y.end.abs -= self.bottom.apply_rest(density).abs;
         region
     }
-    pub fn x(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn x(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        let amt = amt.to_f32();
+        let amt = amt.into();
         Self {
             left: amt,
             right: amt,
-            top: 0.0,
+            top: Len::ZERO,
-            bottom: 0.0,
+            bottom: Len::ZERO,
         }
     }
-    pub fn y(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn y(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        let amt = amt.to_f32();
+        let amt = amt.into();
         Self {
-            left: 0.0,
+            left: Len::ZERO,
-            right: 0.0,
+            right: Len::ZERO,
             top: amt,
             bottom: amt,
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn top(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn top(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
         let mut s = Self::ZERO;
-        s.top = amt.to_f32();
+        s.top = amt.into();
         s
     }
 
-    pub fn bottom(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn bottom(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
         let mut s = Self::ZERO;
-        s.bottom = amt.to_f32();
+        s.bottom = amt.into();
         s
     }
 
-    pub fn left(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn left(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
         let mut s = Self::ZERO;
-        s.left = amt.to_f32();
+        s.left = amt.into();
         s
     }
 
-    pub fn right(amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn right(amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
         let mut s = Self::ZERO;
-        s.right = amt.to_f32();
+        s.right = amt.into();
         s
     }
 
-    pub fn with_top(mut self, amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn with_top(mut self, amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        self.top = amt.to_f32();
+        self.top = amt.into();
         self
     }
 
-    pub fn with_bottom(mut self, amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn with_bottom(mut self, amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        self.bottom = amt.to_f32();
+        self.bottom = amt.into();
         self
     }
 
-    pub fn with_left(mut self, amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn with_left(mut self, amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        self.left = amt.to_f32();
+        self.left = amt.into();
         self
     }
 
-    pub fn with_right(mut self, amt: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn with_right(mut self, amt: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        self.right = amt.to_f32();
+        self.right = amt.into();
         self
     }
 }
 
-impl<T: UiNum> From<T> for Padding {
+/// Covers both a bare number (`.pad(8)`, via `Len`'s own `From<N: UiNum>`
+/// blanket -- an `abs`/physical-pixel `Len`) and a `Len` directly
+/// (`.pad(dp(10))`) with the one impl, since `Len: Into<Len>` is the
+/// reflexive case of the same bound.
+impl<T: Into<Len>> From<T> for Padding {
     fn from(amt: T) -> Self {
-        Self::uniform(amt.to_f32())
+        Self::uniform(amt.into())
     }
 }

iris/src/widget/position/scroll.rs

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
 
         self.content_len = used
             .axis(axis)
-            .apply_rest()
+            .apply_rest(painter.density())
             .within_len(container_len)
             .to_abs(output_len);
 

iris/src/widget/position/sized.rs

@@ -17,12 +17,13 @@ impl Widget for Sized {
         // learn its size, then moves it into place with a pure
         // translation; that translation is only valid if what got painted
         // is already the reported size, anchored the same way both times.
+        let density = painter.density();
         let mut region = UiRegion::FULL;
         if let Some(x) = self.x {
-            region.x = x.apply_rest().align(AxisAlign::Neg);
+            region.x = x.apply_rest(density).align(AxisAlign::Neg);
         }
         if let Some(y) = self.y {
-            region.y = y.apply_rest().align(AxisAlign::Neg);
+            region.y = y.apply_rest(density).align(AxisAlign::Neg);
         }
         let used = painter.widget_within(&self.inner, region);
         Size {

iris/src/widget/position/span.rs

@@ -4,12 +4,18 @@ use std::marker::PhantomData;
 pub struct Span {
     pub children: Vec<StrongWidget>,
     pub dir: Dir,
-    pub gap: f32,
+    /// A `Len` (not a bare `f32`) so `dp(4)` resolves against the display's
+    /// density the same way any other size in the tree does -- see
+    /// `Len::dp`'s field doc. Only the `abs` component (folded from `dp` at
+    /// draw time, `Widget::draw` below) is meaningful here; `rel`/`rest`
+    /// were never supported for a gap and still are not.
+    pub gap: Len,
 }
 
 impl Widget for Span {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
         let axis = self.dir.axis;
+        let gap = self.gap.apply_rest(painter.density()).abs;
 
         // Phase 1: draw each child once, at the ambient (unmodified, full)
         // region a size-only query used to see before this migration, to
@@ -25,7 +31,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
             .map(|child| painter.widget(child).axis(axis))
             .collect();
 
-        let gap_total = self.gap * self.children.len().saturating_sub(1) as f32;
+        let gap_total = gap * self.children.len().saturating_sub(1) as f32;
         let total = lens.iter().fold(Len::abs(gap_total), |s, &l| s + l);
 
         // Phase 2: place each child for real, using the lengths just
@@ -54,7 +60,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
                 child_region.flip(axis);
             }
             let used = painter.widget_within(child, child_region);
-            start.abs += self.gap;
+            start.abs += gap;
 
             let ortho = used.axis(!axis);
             if ortho.rel > 0.0 || ortho.rest > 0.0 {
@@ -82,12 +88,12 @@ impl Span {
         Self {
             children: Vec::new(),
             dir,
-            gap: 0.0,
+            gap: Len::ZERO,
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn gap(mut self, gap: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn gap(mut self, gap: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        self.gap = gap.to_f32();
+        self.gap = gap.into();
         self
     }
 
@@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ impl Span {
 pub struct SpanBuilder<State, const LEN: usize, Wa: WidgetArrLike<State, LEN, Tag>, Tag> {
     pub children: Wa,
     pub dir: Dir,
-    pub gap: f32,
+    pub gap: Len,
     _pd: PhantomData<(State, Tag)>,
 }
 
@@ -129,13 +135,13 @@ impl<State, const LEN: usize, Wa: WidgetArrLike<State, LEN, Tag>, Tag>
         Self {
             children,
             dir,
-            gap: 0.0,
+            gap: Len::ZERO,
             _pd: PhantomData,
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn gap(mut self, gap: impl UiNum) -> Self {
+    pub fn gap(mut self, gap: impl Into<Len>) -> Self {
-        self.gap = gap.to_f32();
+        self.gap = gap.into();
         self
     }
 }

iris/src/widget/text/edit.rs

@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ pub struct TextEdit {
     #[cfg_attr(target_os = "android", allow(dead_code))]
     history: Vec<(String, Option<Selection>)>,
     double_hit: Option<usize>,
+    /// Where an in-flight press over this field began, while it is still
+    /// undecided whether the gesture is a tap (focus/show the IME) or a
+    /// drag (attr.rs's `Selector`/`Selectable`, Iris 2026-09-06: a swipe
+    /// over the composer must not summon the keyboard). `None` both before
+    /// any press and once the gesture has been decided either way --
+    /// `attr.rs` is the only reader/writer, kept `pub(crate)` rather than
+    /// behind an accessor since it is pure bookkeeping with no invariant
+    /// beyond "some press is undecided," same shape as `double_hit` above.
+    pub(crate) press_origin: Option<Vec2>,
     pub mode: EditMode,
 }
 
@@ -48,6 +57,7 @@ impl TextEdit {
             selection: None,
             history: Default::default(),
             double_hit: None,
+            press_origin: None,
             mode,
         }
     }
@@ -141,7 +151,8 @@ impl<'a> TextEditCtx<'a> {
     fn layout(&mut self) -> &Layout<UiColor> {
         let attrs = self.text.view.attrs.clone();
         let width = self.text.view.wrap_width();
-        self.text.view.buf.shape(self.data, &attrs, width);
+        let density = self.data.density;
+        self.text.view.buf.shape(self.data, &attrs, width, density);
         self.text.view.buf.layout()
     }
 
@@ -167,6 +178,20 @@ impl<'a> TextEditCtx<'a> {
         self.text.selection = None;
     }
 
+    /// [`set`](Self::set) plus a fresh set of [`SpanStyle`]s in one call --
+    /// what a streamed transcript row needs, since its markdown re-renders
+    /// to a new string *and* a new span list on every delta and the two
+    /// have to land together (a stale span list drawn against new text can
+    /// point past its end). Used by `transcript-ui`'s incremental apply
+    /// (RUST.md's "streaming still costs a full rebuild" fix) rather than
+    /// tearing the row's widget down and rebuilding it from scratch.
+    pub fn set_with_spans(&mut self, text: &str, spans: Vec<SpanStyle>) {
+        let text = self.string(text);
+        self.text.view.buf.set_text(text);
+        self.text.view.buf.set_spans(spans);
+        self.text.selection = None;
+    }
+
     pub fn motion(&mut self, motion: Motion, select: bool) {
         let Some(sel) = self.text.selection else {
             return;
@@ -683,6 +708,67 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(content(&t), "に");
     }
 
+    /// `android/ime.rs`'s `set_composing_text` calls `replace` and expects
+    /// the caret to land right after the inserted text, growing with it on
+    /// every re-send -- the buffer-level half of RUST.md's P0 box ("doesn't
+    /// enter it until I hit space, and also doesn't move cursor forward").
+    #[test]
+    fn composing_advances_the_caret_with_the_growing_text() {
+        let (mut t, mut d) = edit("", EditMode::SingleLine);
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).set_caret(0);
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).replace(0, "h");
+        assert_eq!(t.caret(), Some(1));
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).replace(1, "hi");
+        assert_eq!(content(&t), "hi");
+        assert_eq!(t.caret(), Some(2));
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).replace(2, "hit");
+        assert_eq!(content(&t), "hit");
+        assert_eq!(t.caret(), Some(3));
+    }
+
+    /// The IME's `commitText` (`android_view::InputConnection::commit_text`'s
+    /// default body): finish a composition in place, same as a real word
+    /// boundary (a space) landing after Gboard's composing span.
+    #[test]
+    fn committing_composed_text_leaves_it_in_place_with_the_caret_after_it() {
+        let (mut t, mut d) = edit("say ", EditMode::SingleLine);
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).set_caret(4);
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).replace(0, "hi");
+        assert_eq!(content(&t), "say hi");
+        // `finish_composing_text`/`commit_text` do not themselves touch the
+        // buffer -- only the IME's own `compose_len` bookkeeping resets, in
+        // `android/ime.rs`. Confirms the buffer already holds committed
+        // text as plain, uncomposed content: a further `replace(0, " ")`
+        // (the space that ends the word) appends rather than overwriting.
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).replace(0, " ");
+        assert_eq!(content(&t), "say hi ");
+        assert_eq!(t.caret(), Some(7));
+    }
+
+    /// `TextEditCtx::delete_byte_range` is `deleteSurroundingText`'s entry
+    /// point once `android/ime.rs` has converted UTF-16 code units to
+    /// bytes -- exercised directly here in bytes, since the UTF-16 math
+    /// itself is `android/ime.rs`'s own `byte_to_utf16`/`utf16_to_byte`,
+    /// outside this widget-only test module.
+    #[test]
+    fn delete_byte_range_removes_exactly_that_range() {
+        let (mut t, mut d) = edit("hello world", EditMode::SingleLine);
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).delete_byte_range(5, 11);
+        assert_eq!(content(&t), "hello");
+        assert_eq!(t.caret(), Some(5));
+    }
+
+    /// `set_cursor_byte` is `setSelection`'s entry point -- collapses to a
+    /// caret at the given byte offset regardless of any span that was there.
+    #[test]
+    fn set_cursor_byte_collapses_to_a_caret_there() {
+        let (mut t, mut d) = edit("hello world", EditMode::SingleLine);
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).select_all();
+        ctx(&mut t, &mut d).set_cursor_byte(5);
+        assert_eq!(t.selected_text(), None);
+        assert_eq!(t.caret(), Some(5));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn motion_moves_the_caret_and_shift_extends_a_span() {
         let (mut t, mut d) = edit("abc", EditMode::SingleLine);

iris/transcript-ui/src/composer.rs

@@ -8,14 +8,58 @@
 //! measures whatever vertical space is left each frame -- nothing here
 //! computes a height by hand, and growing this field is exactly the
 //! O(1)-move-chain case LAYOUT.md and I3's benchmark already measured.
+//!
+//! **Rebuilt 2026-09-06** (Iris's phone report on the dc01f88 build: the
+//! grey bar drawn as a short, fixed strip with the typed text ~150px below
+//! it on black, and empty black between the bar and the keyboard). One
+//! widget now, top to bottom: an opaque background sized to its content
+//! (`.background`, the same `Stack` idiom the header row's `HEADER_SURFACE`
+//! already uses), the field inside `dp` padding and capped at
+//! [`MAX_LINES`] before it scrolls instead of growing forever, and an
+//! outer [`Pad`] whose `bottom` [`TranscriptScreen::set_bottom_inset`]
+//! rewrites in place whenever the keyboard opens/closes -- never rebuilt,
+//! since `field` is strongly owned inside this tree and this crate's
+//! widgets cannot be re-parented once added (this module's own comment
+//! below on why `build_composer` hands back a **weak** id).
 
 use iris::prelude::*;
 
+/// Caps the field's growth at roughly six lines of its own 18px text
+/// before it scrolls instead of consuming the whole screen -- an
+/// approximation (line-height and padding folded into one round `dp`
+/// number) rather than a value derived from the font's real metrics,
+/// which nothing in this crate exposes to a caller today.
+const MAX_LINES: f32 = 6.0;
+const APPROX_LINE_HEIGHT_DP: f32 = 24.0;
+const FIELD_PAD_DP: f32 = 12.0;
+
 /// `field` is exposed so the caller can read its content on submit
 /// (`field.edit(rsc).text()`) and clear it afterward
 /// (`field.edit(rsc).set("")`).
 pub struct Composer {
     pub field: WeakWidget<TextEdit>,
+    /// The bar's own outer padding -- only `bottom` is ever changed, by
+    /// [`Self::set_bottom_inset`]. A `Pad` around the whole bar rather than
+    /// a rebuilt tree, because `field` lives inside it and cannot be
+    /// re-added to a new wrapper once it is strongly owned here.
+    outer_pad: WeakWidget<Pad>,
+}
+
+impl Composer {
+    /// Called by the platform shell (Android's `on_insets_changed`, e.g.)
+    /// whenever the space below the bar changes: the IME's own inset while
+    /// it is open, the navigation-bar inset otherwise. Takes a plain
+    /// `f32` in the caller's own physical-pixel units rather than an
+    /// Android-specific insets type, so this crate stays usable from the
+    /// winit backend too, which has no navigation bar to report.
+    /// Rewrites the existing `Pad` in place (marking it dirty through the
+    /// ordinary `Widgets::get_mut` path) instead of swapping in a new one,
+    /// so the field's focus, selection and in-progress text are untouched.
+    pub fn set_bottom_inset(&self, rsc: &mut impl UiRsc, inset: f32) {
+        if let Some(pad) = rsc.ui_mut().widgets.get_mut(&self.outer_pad) {
+            pad.padding.bottom = Len::abs(inset);
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Returns the composer plus its own bar as a **weak** id -- the caller
@@ -39,10 +83,20 @@ where
         .label("Message")
         .add(rsc);
 
-    let bar: WeakWidget = (field.pad(12).width(rest(1)),)
+    // One widget: an opaque bar sized to its own content (`.background`'s
-        .span(Dir::RIGHT)
+    // `Stack{child: 1}`, the header row's own idiom) wrapping the padded,
+    // height-capped field -- not a background rect and a field drawn as
+    // two independent siblings, which is what let the two disagree on
+    // where the bar actually was.
+    let content = field
+        .pad(dp(FIELD_PAD_DP))
+        .max_height(dp(APPROX_LINE_HEIGHT_DP * MAX_LINES + FIELD_PAD_DP * 2.0))
+        .scrollable()
+        .width(rest(1))
         .background(rect(UiColor::new(40, 40, 46, 255)))
         .add(rsc);
 
-    (Composer { field }, bar)
+    let outer_pad: WeakWidget<Pad> = content.pad(Padding::ZERO).add(rsc);
+
+    (Composer { field, outer_pad }, outer_pad)
 }

iris/transcript-ui/src/lib.rs

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ pub mod selection;
 use client_core::transcript_fold::TranscriptRow as FoldedRow;
 use iris::prelude::*;
 use selection::Selection;
-use std::{cell::RefCell, rc::Rc};
+use std::{cell::RefCell, rc::Rc, time::Instant};
 
 pub struct TranscriptScreen {
     /// The transcript's own `List` -- exposed so a caller can read
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ pub struct TranscriptScreen {
     pub list: WeakWidget<List>,
     pub composer: composer::Composer,
     selection: Rc<RefCell<Selection>>,
+    /// How many times [`Self::apply`] has fallen back to a full rebuild --
+    /// `Cell` rather than requiring `&mut self`, matching every other
+    /// method here (the real state lives behind `list`/`selection`'s own
+    /// interior mutability, per `push_row`'s existing `&self`). Drained by
+    /// [`Self::take_rebuilds`].
+    rebuilds: std::cell::Cell<usize>,
 }
 
 impl TranscriptScreen {
@@ -75,6 +81,93 @@ impl TranscriptScreen {
         (self.list)(rsc).push_back(ListRow::new(key, widget));
     }
 
+    /// Apply the effect of one more folded event without rebuilding the
+    /// whole screen -- RUST.md's "streaming still costs a full rebuild"
+    /// fix. `old`/`new` are `client_core::transcript_fold::fold_event`'s
+    /// own before/after item lists (never grouped into rows -- that
+    /// happens here, over both, so the common tail cases can be told
+    /// apart; `group_tool_runs` is pure bookkeeping over already-folded
+    /// items, no widget is built doing it).
+    ///
+    /// Three cases, cheapest first:
+    /// - **nothing changed**: no-op.
+    /// - **pure append** (a still-open reply's row now closed and stable,
+    ///   a new tool call, a new message): every new row is `push_back`ed,
+    ///   same cost as [`Self::push_row`].
+    /// - **only the last row's content changed** (the common case: a delta
+    ///   folded into a still-open assistant message): that one row is
+    ///   rebuilt (`row::build_row`, the same path a fresh row goes
+    ///   through) and swapped in with [`List::replace_back`] -- every
+    ///   other row is untouched, so nothing else redraws or moves. Any
+    ///   further new rows are appended after it, for the (also common)
+    ///   case of a delta that both finishes the open reply and starts the
+    ///   next row in the same event.
+    ///
+    /// Anything else -- a row *before* the tail changed, which only
+    /// happens when `group_tool_runs` regroups already-seen items (a tool
+    /// run's calls that used to be separate rows join once the run closes)
+    /// -- falls back to a full rebuild: every row is dropped
+    /// (`List::clear`) and rebuilt from `new`. Counted in
+    /// [`Self::take_rebuilds`] so a caller (a report, a test) can see how
+    /// often the fallback actually fires rather than assuming it never
+    /// does.
+    pub fn apply<Rsc: HasEvents>(
+        &self,
+        rsc: &mut Rsc,
+        old: &[client_core::transcript_fold::TranscriptItem],
+        new: &[client_core::transcript_fold::TranscriptItem],
+    ) where
+        Rsc::State: FocusHost,
+    {
+        use client_core::transcript_fold::group_tool_runs;
+
+        let old_rows = group_tool_runs(old);
+        let new_rows = group_tool_runs(new);
+
+        match diff_rows(&old_rows, &new_rows) {
+            RowDiff::Unchanged => {}
+            RowDiff::Appended { common } => {
+                // Pure append: every already-drawn row is byte-for-byte the
+                // same `FoldedRow` it was last time.
+                for row in &new_rows[common..] {
+                    self.push_row(rsc, row);
+                }
+            }
+            RowDiff::ReplaceLast { common } => {
+                // Only the tail row's content changed -- rebuild that one
+                // row and swap it in place, keeping every row before it
+                // untouched.
+                let old_key = row::row_key(&old_rows[common].key());
+                let (new_key, widget) =
+                    row::build_row(rsc, self.list, self.selection.clone(), &new_rows[common]);
+                if new_key != old_key {
+                    self.selection.borrow_mut().unregister(old_key);
+                }
+                let evicted = (self.list)(rsc).replace_back(ListRow::new(new_key, widget));
+                drop(evicted); // frees the old row's widget, same as a pop would
+                for row in &new_rows[common + 1..] {
+                    self.push_row(rsc, row);
+                }
+            }
+            RowDiff::Rebuild => {
+                // A row before the tail changed (a regroup) -- nothing
+                // short of a full rebuild expresses that.
+                self.rebuilds.set(self.rebuilds.get() + 1);
+                (self.list)(rsc).clear();
+                for row in &new_rows {
+                    self.push_row(rsc, row);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// How many times [`Self::apply`] has fallen back to a full rebuild
+    /// since the last call, reset to 0 by reading it -- the same
+    /// take-and-reset shape `AccessTree::take_rebuilds` already uses (I4).
+    pub fn take_rebuilds(&self) -> usize {
+        self.rebuilds.replace(0)
+    }
+
     /// The concatenated text of whatever is currently selected across one
     /// or more rows, `None` if nothing is -- what a copy command reads.
     pub fn selected_text(&self, rsc: &mut impl UiRsc) -> Option<String> {
@@ -127,6 +220,43 @@ where
     })
     .add(rsc);
 
+    // The continuation of a row-started drag once it has committed and
+    // taken pointer capture on `list`'s own id (`row.rs`'s registration is
+    // only ever the gesture's first frame) -- registered once here, not
+    // once per row, since `DragGesture`'s single shared instance must see
+    // each frame of one gesture exactly once. `ctx.data.pos`/`size` are
+    // already relative to `list`'s own on-screen box (this is what it was
+    // registered against), which is exactly the viewport-pixel space
+    // `List::key_at`/`extent` work in, so the row-under-the-pointer is
+    // resolved from those instead of a per-row hit test.
+    {
+        let selection = selection.clone();
+        list.on(
+            CursorSense::Pressing(CursorButton::Left) | CursorSense::Drop,
+            move |ctx, rsc| {
+                let pos = ctx.data.pos;
+                let row = list(rsc).key_at(pos.y).and_then(|key| {
+                    let (top, bottom) = list(rsc).extent(key)?;
+                    Some((
+                        key,
+                        Vec2::new(pos.x, pos.y - top),
+                        Vec2::new(ctx.data.size.x, bottom - top),
+                    ))
+                });
+                selection.borrow_mut().drag(
+                    rsc,
+                    list,
+                    row,
+                    ctx.data.cursor.pos,
+                    ctx.data.sense,
+                    Instant::now(),
+                    ctx.data.render,
+                );
+            },
+        )
+        .add(rsc);
+    }
+
     let (composer, composer_bar) = composer::build_composer(rsc);
 
     let tree = (list.width(rest(1)).height(rest(1)), composer_bar)
@@ -139,7 +269,148 @@ where
             list,
             composer,
             selection,
+            rebuilds: std::cell::Cell::new(0),
         },
         tree,
     )
 }
+
+/// What changed at the tail between two folded row lists -- the decision
+/// [`TranscriptScreen::apply`] acts on. Kept as its own pure function, no
+/// widget and no `Rsc`, so the three cases can be tested directly against
+/// synthetic `Vec<FoldedRow>`s (below) rather than needing a full widget
+/// harness to exercise logic that never touches one.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum RowDiff {
+    /// `old` and `new` are the same length and every row is identical.
+    Unchanged,
+    /// Rows `[common..]` of `new` are new; everything before `common` is
+    /// byte-for-byte the same `FoldedRow` `old` already had.
+    Appended { common: usize },
+    /// Row `common` is the only one whose content differs; anything past
+    /// it in `new` is a pure append after the replacement.
+    ReplaceLast { common: usize },
+    /// A row *before* the tail differs -- only `group_tool_runs` regrouping
+    /// an earlier run does this, and nothing short of a full rebuild
+    /// expresses it.
+    Rebuild,
+}
+
+fn diff_rows(old: &[FoldedRow], new: &[FoldedRow]) -> RowDiff {
+    let common = old
+        .iter()
+        .zip(new.iter())
+        .take_while(|(a, b)| a == b)
+        .count();
+
+    if common == old.len() && common == new.len() {
+        RowDiff::Unchanged
+    } else if common == old.len() {
+        RowDiff::Appended { common }
+    } else if !old.is_empty() && common == old.len() - 1 && common < new.len() {
+        // The `common < new.len()` guard is what tells "the tail row's
+        // content changed" apart from "the tail row was removed and
+        // nothing replaced it" (a shrinking list) -- the latter has
+        // nothing at `new[common]` to rebuild into place.
+        RowDiff::ReplaceLast { common }
+    } else {
+        RowDiff::Rebuild
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod diff_tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use client_core::transcript_fold::TranscriptItem;
+
+    fn user(seq: u64, text: &str) -> FoldedRow {
+        FoldedRow::Single(TranscriptItem::UserMsg {
+            seq,
+            text: text.to_string(),
+            attachments: Vec::new(),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn assistant(seq: u64, text: &str, settled: bool) -> FoldedRow {
+        FoldedRow::Single(TranscriptItem::AssistantMsg {
+            seq,
+            text: text.to_string(),
+            settled,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn tool(seq: u64, run_id: &str) -> TranscriptItem {
+        TranscriptItem::ToolRun {
+            seq,
+            id: format!("id{seq}"),
+            run_id: run_id.to_string(),
+            tool: "grep".to_string(),
+            input: "x".to_string(),
+            output: String::new(),
+            done: false,
+            asks: Vec::new(),
+            images: Vec::new(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn identical_lists_are_unchanged() {
+        let rows = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hello", true)];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&rows, &rows.clone()), RowDiff::Unchanged);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_empty_list_growing_by_one_is_an_append_from_zero() {
+        let old: Vec<FoldedRow> = Vec::new();
+        let new = vec![user(1, "hi")];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&old, &new), RowDiff::Appended { common: 0 });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_new_message_after_a_settled_reply_is_a_pure_append() {
+        // The row that used to be the tail (a now-closed assistant
+        // message) is unchanged; a new user message is appended after it
+        // -- the transition every reply's *last* delta makes once the
+        // next turn starts.
+        let old = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hello", true)];
+        let new = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hello", true), user(3, "and?")];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&old, &new), RowDiff::Appended { common: 2 });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_delta_into_the_open_reply_is_a_last_row_replace() {
+        // The common streaming case: the assistant message's key (its
+        // first delta's seq) never changes, only its text grows.
+        let old = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hel", false)];
+        let new = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hello", false)];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&old, &new), RowDiff::ReplaceLast { common: 1 });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_delta_that_both_settles_the_reply_and_starts_the_next_row_is_still_a_replace() {
+        // `ReplaceLast` only claims the row it names; `apply` appends
+        // whatever comes after it separately -- this just confirms the
+        // diff still recognises the replace even with a trailing append.
+        let old = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hel", false)];
+        let new = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hello", true), user(3, "and?")];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&old, &new), RowDiff::ReplaceLast { common: 1 });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_tool_run_closing_and_joining_an_earlier_call_is_a_regroup_fallback() {
+        // Two separate `Single` rows for the same run id become one
+        // `Tools` row once `group_tool_runs` sees them adjacent -- that
+        // changes row 0, not just the tail, so nothing short of a full
+        // rebuild expresses it.
+        let old = vec![FoldedRow::Single(tool(1, "run-a")), user(2, "meanwhile")];
+        let new = vec![FoldedRow::Tools(vec![tool(1, "run-a"), tool(3, "run-a")])];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&old, &new), RowDiff::Rebuild);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn shrinking_the_list_is_a_rebuild() {
+        let old = vec![user(1, "hi"), assistant(2, "hello", true)];
+        let new = vec![user(1, "hi")];
+        assert_eq!(diff_rows(&old, &new), RowDiff::Rebuild);
+    }
+}

iris/transcript-ui/src/row.rs

@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ fn item_content(item: &TranscriptItem) -> (Option<&str>, String) {
         TranscriptItem::PeerNote { from, text, .. } => (Some(from.as_str()), text.clone()),
         TranscriptItem::Note { text, .. } => (None, text.clone()),
         TranscriptItem::ClearedNote { .. } => (None, "_Context cleared._".to_string()),
+        // Epoch seconds as-is until the port has a relative-time formatter
+        // (P1); the Compose `LimitRow` draws it as a countdown.
+        TranscriptItem::LimitNote { resets_at, .. } => (
+            None,
+            match resets_at {
+                Some(at) => format!("_Usage limit reached; resets at {at:.0} (epoch seconds)._"),
+                None => "_Usage limit reached._".to_string(),
+            },
+        ),
         TranscriptItem::CompactedNote {
             pre_tokens,
             post_tokens,
@@ -128,20 +137,26 @@ where
 
     field
         // `| CursorSense::unclick()` on top of the usual click-or-drag set
-        // -- the arbiter inside `Selection::drag` needs the release too,
+        // -- this row's own registration only ever needs to see a
-        // to go back to idle for the next press (`DragArbiter::release`).
+        // gesture's *first* frame (`PressStart`, or a `Pressing` that
+        // missed it -- `DragGesture::handle`'s idle-recovery branch); once
+        // it commits, `DragGesture` takes pointer capture on `list`'s own
+        // id and every further frame, including the terminal `Drop`,
+        // reaches `lib.rs`'s list-level registration instead -- see
+        // `iris::sense`'s pointer-capture doc for why that has to be a
+        // stable id rather than this row's, which `List` can retire mid-
+        // drag as content scrolls.
         .on(
             CursorSense::click_or_drag() | CursorSense::unclick(),
             move |ctx, rsc| {
                 selection.borrow_mut().drag(
                     rsc,
                     list,
-                    key,
+                    Some((key, ctx.data.pos, ctx.data.size)),
-                    ctx.data.pos,
-                    ctx.data.size,
                     ctx.data.cursor.pos,
                     ctx.data.sense,
                     Instant::now(),
+                    ctx.data.render,
                 );
             },
         )
@@ -165,8 +180,8 @@ where
 
     (header, field.width(rest(1)))
         .span(Dir::DOWN)
-        .gap(4)
+        .gap(dp(4))
-        .pad(10)
+        .pad(dp(10))
         .add_strong(rsc)
         .any()
 }

iris/transcript-ui/src/selection.rs

@@ -36,11 +36,15 @@ use std::{collections::BTreeMap, time::Instant};
 pub struct Selection {
     rows: BTreeMap<RowKey, WeakWidget<TextEdit>>,
     anchor: Option<(RowKey, Vec2)>,
-    /// One arbiter shared by every row's drag handler -- RUST.md's I5
+    /// One gesture shared by every row's drag handler -- RUST.md's I5
     /// gesture conflict (a row's own `click_or_drag()` and a list-level
     /// pan wanting the same touch gesture). See `drag` below, and
-    /// `iris::sense::DragArbiter`'s own doc for the decision itself.
+    /// `iris::sense::DragGesture`'s own doc for the arbitration, velocity
-    arbiter: DragArbiter,
+    /// tracking and pointer-capture mechanics this no longer owns itself
+    /// -- Iris's 2026-09-06 ask (`IRIS.md`) that a drag's *mechanics* live
+    /// in iris's default input layer, with only the pan-vs-select
+    /// *decision* staying here.
+    gesture: DragGesture,
 }
 
 impl Default for Selection {
@@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ impl Selection {
         Self {
             rows: BTreeMap::new(),
             anchor: None,
-            arbiter: DragArbiter::new(),
+            gesture: DragGesture::new(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -158,66 +162,65 @@ impl Selection {
     /// row, is what makes that consistent as a drag crosses row
     /// boundaries).
     ///
-    /// `pos_row`/`size` are row-local, as `begin`/`extend` want;
+    /// `row`, if given, is `(key, pos_row, size)` for whichever row the
+    /// pointer is currently over -- row-local, as `begin`/`extend` want.
+    /// `None` once the gesture is pointer-captured (`iris::sense`'s
+    /// pointer-capture doc) and the current position falls outside every
+    /// row `List` has loaded (a gap, or off the end of the content); a
+    /// `Pan` outcome never needs it, so this only actually matters mid-
+    /// selection, where it is rare and the frame is simply dropped.
     /// `pos_window` is in window space, since a pan's delta has to stay
     /// meaningful even when this frame's event landed on a different row
-    /// than the last one.
+    /// than the last one. `render` is `CursorData`'s own field -- what
+    /// `DragGesture` needs to take pointer capture.
     #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn drag(
         &mut self,
         ui: &mut impl UiRsc,
         list: WeakWidget<List>,
-        key: RowKey,
+        row: Option<(RowKey, Vec2, Vec2)>,
-        pos_row: Vec2,
-        size: Vec2,
         pos_window: Vec2,
         sense: CursorSense,
         now: Instant,
+        render: &UiRenderState,
     ) {
-        let outcome = match sense {
+        if matches!(sense, CursorSense::PressStart(_)) {
-            CursorSense::PressStart(_) => {
+            // A fresh touch-down cancels any fling still coasting from
-                let already_selected = self.has_selection(ui);
+            // the previous gesture -- `List::fling`'s own doc, and
-                self.arbiter.press_start(pos_window, now, already_selected);
+            // Android's `Scroller::abortAnimation` for the same reason.
-                self.arbiter.update(pos_window, now)
+            list(ui).cancel_fling();
-            }
+        }
-            CursorSense::PressEnd(_) => {
+        let already_selected = self.has_selection(ui);
-                self.arbiter.release();
+        let outcome =
-                return;
+            self.gesture
-            }
+                .handle(render, list.id(), sense, pos_window, now, already_selected);
-            // A `Pressing` frame with the arbiter still `Idle` means this
-            // gesture's `ACTION_DOWN` landed somewhere no row's sensor
-            // covers (a row's own padding/gap, or a header with no
-            // selection handler) and this row is only now getting the
-            // touch as it moves across it -- the touch is definitely still
-            // down (that's what `Pressing` means), so without this the
-            // arbiter would sit in `Idle` answering `Undecided` for the
-            // rest of the gesture (`DragArbiter::update`'s own doc).
-            // Recovered by starting the press here instead of where it
-            // was missed -- RUST.md's I5 intermittent-touch-scroll-dropout
-            // finding, 2026-09-05.
-            _ if self.arbiter.is_idle() => {
-                let already_selected = self.has_selection(ui);
-                self.arbiter.press_start(pos_window, now, already_selected);
-                self.arbiter.update(pos_window, now)
-            }
-            _ => self.arbiter.update(pos_window, now),
-        };
         match outcome {
-            DragOutcome::Undecided => {}
+            GestureOutcome::Undecided => {}
-            DragOutcome::Pan(dy) => list(ui).scroll(-dy),
+            GestureOutcome::Pan(dy) => list(ui).scroll(-dy),
-            DragOutcome::SelectStart => {
+            GestureOutcome::SelectStart => {
-                // Grep-able on "iris selection" the way the frame report is
+                if let Some((key, pos_row, size)) = row {
-                // on "iris frame report" -- selection has no accessibility
+                    // Grep-able on "iris selection" the way the frame
-                // label of its own yet, so this is the smallest way to
+                    // report is on "iris frame report" -- selection has no
-                // confirm a real on-device long-press-then-drag actually
+                    // accessibility label of its own yet, so this is the
-                // reached here (RUST.md's I5 box, "Measurements taken" (c)).
+                    // smallest way to confirm a real on-device long-
-                log::info!("iris selection: begin at row {key:?}");
+                    // press-then-drag actually reached here (RUST.md's I5
-                self.begin(ui, key, pos_row, size);
+                    // box, "Measurements taken" (c)).
+                    log::info!("iris selection: begin at row {key:?}");
+                    self.begin(ui, key, pos_row, size);
+                }
             }
-            DragOutcome::SelectExtend => {
+            GestureOutcome::SelectExtend => {
-                log::info!("iris selection: extend to row {key:?}");
+                if let Some((key, pos_row, size)) = row {
-                self.extend(ui, key, pos_row, size);
+                    log::info!("iris selection: extend to row {key:?}");
+                    self.extend(ui, key, pos_row, size);
+                }
             }
+            // A fling only ever follows a pan -- never a selection that
+            // happened to end with the finger still moving, and never a
+            // tap/long-press that never left `Undecided` -- exactly what
+            // `DragGesture`'s `Some(v)` already encodes.
+            GestureOutcome::Released(Some(v)) => list(ui).fling(-v),
+            GestureOutcome::Released(None) => {}
         }
     }
 
@@ -319,8 +322,9 @@ mod tests {
 
         let mut sel = Selection::new();
         sel.register(1, field);
-        assert!(sel.arbiter.is_idle());
+        assert!(sel.gesture.is_idle());
 
+        let render = UiRenderState::new();
         let now = Instant::now();
         let size = Vec2::new(100.0, 20.0);
         // No `PressStart` is ever sent -- only the `Pressing` frames a
@@ -328,15 +332,14 @@ mod tests {
         sel.drag(
             &mut rsc,
             list,
-            1,
+            Some((1, Vec2::ZERO, size)),
-            Vec2::ZERO,
-            size,
             Vec2::new(540.0, 700.0),
             CursorSense::Pressing(CursorButton::Left),
             now,
+            &render,
         );
         assert!(
-            !sel.arbiter.is_idle(),
+            !sel.gesture.is_idle(),
             "a Pressing frame with the arbiter still Idle must recover \
              the press rather than leaving it stuck"
         );