# Handoff Where the work in flight stands. The settled layout design, the vocabulary and the measurement method are in `docs/LAYOUT.md`; what the review of #19 found is in `docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md`. ## The Iris layout repair is submitted **Iris PR #19** (`layout/one-ask`) replaces closed #18. The tip is `1096c31`, and past the reviewed `cadfba0` it is seven rounds, each described in `docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md`: - **The repair**, `add6774` and `84dad21` -- collapsed-share placement, retained mask ownership, a redraw-on-reparent defect, and repeated work in the test harness. - **The vocabulary and the container API**, `5642f20` through `58ce74d`. - **Naming**, `55df32a` through `40b89c1`. - **A sweep over the logic those names exposed**, `8d2b7a5` and `6c84b6f`. - **A clarity sweep**, `3da1c71` through `1ebd4d3` -- naming the pairs layout returns, `Span::slot`, a diagnostic that printed the rel base while calling it the box, and `in_parent` matching a place's own cases. - **A quality sweep**, `aea0387` through `69ba915` -- a kept contract judged against the placed box rather than the box asked about, two things nothing read, three reuse rejections the diagnostics could not see, and a fuzz case that ran only in the long scan. - **A sweep over the renderer, the text store and the retained path**, `d8d5122` through `1096c31` -- a contract kept where the new window left it out, a surface configured under its own texture, a counter naming the wrong contract, things nothing reads, and a question asked through a value rather than a reference. The settled design of the last three is in `docs/LAYOUT.md` under "Three names, and the one argument that says them". Bryan settled the API over 2026-09-17 to 19; it is current, not frozen. The core design remains sound. Round-to-nearest is still unchanged. Two checkouts share one Git storage: `/home/bob/repos/iris` is the active `layout/one-ask` worktree, and `ai-app-2/iris` stays on `main` at the app's `32f6ad8` pin until the integration below is ready. ### How to check a round **Always**, because they cost nothing: format, workspace clippy under `-D warnings` with and without `layout-diagnostics`, the workspace tests, and the **cold dump**. `layout_dump` over 400 depth-5 trees is 34,492 boxes, and it is the only thing that catches two same-typed values being swapped, which is the failure mode of a rename or a move. The repair moved 650 of those boxes, all from the collapsed-share correction; every commit since has been byte-identical to `84dad21`. **Only when the change can alter what layout computes**: the three seed scans -- 400 at depth 5, 1,000 at depth 6, 2,000 at depth 4. They cost about a quarter of an hour and they exist to find logic that is wrong on some tree shape, so a rename has nothing for them to find (Bryan, 2026-09-19). Never start one and then edit the tree: cargo rebuilds mid-flight and exits 1 from a compile error, which reads exactly like a fuzzer failure. ## What is next, in order 1. **Bryan's review of #19.** Fixes are themselves unreviewed code: repeat `pre-submit-review` over each round's changes, and apply the gate above to whatever each one touched. The ordinary oracle does not replace absolute geometry and retained-primitive expectations. 2. **A review of everything written before the review gate existed.** `pre-submit-review` and the rule that nothing is submitted unreviewed arrived on 2026-09-13, well after the Rust port and most of Iris were written, so all of that code went in unreviewed and none of the five sweeps above covered more than the layout branch. It wants a pass of its own (Bryan, 2026-09-20). The surface-texture defect in `02048ea` is the argument: nothing about that arm was hard, and it was written wrong anyway, which is what a first reader catches and a later sweep of some other subject does not. 3. **Integrate the app's Iris capabilities before changing its pin.** `32f6ad8` has 45 commits not reachable from the review branch; shared UI ownership, richer masks, Android support, and app-side performance work must survive the integration. What has to survive is those capabilities, not the calls the app makes today: the app is to be largely rewritten against the new API rather than ported call by call, so nothing in Iris is kept alive for the app's sake (Bryan, 2026-09-20). 4. **Round-to-nearest**, CPU and shader together as one verified change. Bryan approved it on 2026-09-17 and neither half has landed; the derivation, the form to use and what to re-check are in `docs/LAYOUT.md` under "Rendering the grid (pending)". Wanted but not started, recorded in `iris/TODO`: transforms on a move entry, so a whole subtree scales or rotates with one buffer write and no redraw. Compose-style stretch at the end of a scroll area is the use that prompted it. A move entry only translates today, and composing through one scales the `rel` part while `px` passes through untouched, so fixed-size content and glyphs do not follow a shortened entry. ## Smaller layout items, none urgent - Nested spans pass `leftover` weight up, so three leftover children in one inner span beside one in another get three quarters to one quarter. No other layout system does that; confirm it is wanted. - A span can overflow itself without bound, so boxes of negative length reach children and nothing states what a widget may assume about one. - `Fixed::div` by zero answers `MIN`/`MAX` while `ratio` answers `ZERO`; both are caller bugs under `debug_assert`, but the fallbacks differ. - `docs/LAYOUT.md` §4, §5 and the density section name `Painter::place`, `Painter::region()`, `SetSize`, `desired_width`, `apply_rest`, `Len::dp`, `Aligned` and `MaxSize`, none of which exist. Do not restore `OnResize::Translate` or `OrthoSize`. - `LazySpan`, then `SizeRule::{Min, Max, Clamp}`. A cap may not contain `leftover`; whether `Max` narrows the child's drawing box is a product decision. - `Scroll` taking a direction rather than one axis. Other product work is in `docs/PLAN.md` and the focused documents it links. Do not mix it into the Iris layout branch.