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Summary

Preserve Windows Wire drags across verified same-window recapture, safely observe the owned native edge sheet, and match macOS's Create action. Normal W1 was accepted at71a; independently qualified495b and the release-metadata composition1a5514a preserve the original failures and their evidence limits.

Changes

• Preserve same-window recapture only with matching recipient and actual GetCapture ownership; foreign transfer/release/cancel still cancel. Dispatch the owned connector gesture with strict recipient/runtime/endpoint guards; tracing stays default OFF.
• Support optional verified installed compiler/vcvars/SDK input through normal fresh preparation/full execution. Preserve default discovery, flags/deadlines/current-source/native-custody/EOF checks; no error31 retry expansion or old-manifest rebinding.
• Observe the root's transitive owner/descendant family, including hidden/disabled controls, and caption-free structural readiness before one full census. Ambiguity, ancestry drift, replacement and native query failures refuse without guard relaxation.
• Use Create only for new edge forms; edited edges retain OK. Keep strict Button+Create/count1/enabled/onscreen and native/semantic readonly endpoint checks before invocation.
• Retain actual initial/filtered UIA predicate state and primary Current/property/post-exit discovery errors. Attach trace failures rather than replacing the primary; reuse the validated current-source/signed-provider UIA client loader and idempotent registration.
• Repair receipt-test publication with the existing atomic replacement pattern. Harden held-process image output with an owned32768-character Unicode buffer: BOOL/immediate cached Win32 error first, validated successful length/terminator/content only, and finally free. PID/generation/image comparison, UNKNOWN, retries and custody remain unchanged.
• Add separate strict-positive image-buffer9 contracts without inflating hierarchy32/observation15/capture182 or185/registry684 counts. This is unsafe-output-contract hardening, not proof of the historical CI capacity error's API cause.
• Merge only main's Project.swift release0.1.84/build324 metadata. Every other tracked object is byte-identical to495b, including all Windows/Tools/shared/provider inputs. No rebase, classifier manipulation, admin/force/bypass or manual dispatch.

Test plan

RED: pwsh -NoProfile -File Tools\windows\Tests\WireCreateObservation.Tests.ps1 -ScratchRoot D:\gc-nwc-e718\create-observation-20261107\red9 -> 9 executed, 7 passed, 2 failed: Current getter and trace failures lost primary errors; actual extracted managed guard/native0
GREEN: pwsh -NoProfile -File Tools\windows\Tests\NativeImageBuffer.Tests.ps1 -ScratchRoot D:\gc-nwc-e718\native-image-freeze-lf-20261107\NativeImageBuffer -> 9 executed, 9 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped/nativeQueries0; controlled decoder/source evidence, not historical native cause
REGRESSION: pwsh -NoProfile -File Tools\windows\Tests\WindowHierarchyDiagnostic.Tests.ps1 -ScratchRoot D:\gc-nwc-e718\native-image-freeze-lf-20261107\WindowHierarchyDiagnostic -> 32 executed, 32 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped/nativeCalls0; separate from full684 qualification

Current composition: head 1a5514a07e1a346b462aa1faa7379feaa7680724, tree a9d360e49b18b0120edfce2395edbf681d6be396, parents495b and main999fcf. The complete tracked delta from495b is only Project.swift; its bytes match main exactly.23 PR commits have DCO/coauthor trailers and the worktree is clean/LF. Fresh privacy, the four-case TDD-validator contract suite, body TDD/template and composition checks passed locally. macOS make test/make check cannot run here and were not run; inherited base-only metadata legitimately path-skips the required macOS job. No executed-macOS claim.

Actual new-head PR CI: shell42416539900, port42416539926 and TDD42416539933 completed SUCCESS at exact1a5514a. Before this body edit:26 checks=21 SUCCESS/5 SKIPPED,9 required=7 SUCCESS+Linux/macOS2 legitimate skips. Fresh coverage AACE4280611C8506807BC511E75304F30BB0D337C4C987991B6BEAA6800A752A proves684 unique/684passed/2231direct+1derived/fullTRUE/errors0/selectors0/onePASS-EXEC, not reused495b coverage. Latest body TDD/all required checks must remain positive before ready/expected-head merge.

The exact locally excepted GraphcodeWindowsProductionTests.WindowsDaemonTests/testWindowsScheduledTaskXMLRegistersLongUnicodeSupportAndPipe started once and passed once in0.196s on1a5514a. It is distinct from the unfiltered native packaging scheduler's3 actual PASS markers. Real scheduled install/locked-upgrade/upgrade/rollback/uninstall lifecycles passed twice; stock default native UIA integration/connected rename ran without focused-selector flags. Earlier495b CI separately passed27checks/22SUCCESS/5SKIPPED/full684, exact Swift scheduler0.183s and actual image-buffer9/hierarchy32/observation15 prerequisites.

Accepted W1 remains a71a execution: manifest E1C1AC88FBEF1CB2D81FBDF763541FF52079F17880DCE365BDC7A63F959DAB11, release 78B742AD610B9E34BED8E29C82E1DD23F7B0CC1C2000D7C8D7925A73FB6A827E, outer 4634FF6B8280993FD9BAAF290E0FD5DF8673DC543C0837779E96CE67E0E8986D. Native Edit9100/9101 ES_READONLY, semantic IsReadOnly, exact native/semantic UUIDs and owned identities were verified before Create. Actual Button50000/Edit50004; one correlated APPLIED handoff/always edge, request 00000000-0000-4000-8000-d9b2162b0eff, unanswered0/edge1/cards preserved/unwired removed. Receipt1/png0/exit0/18.4298847s/all6cleanup/no retention.71a185 and495b full/focused9 remain source-bound historical runs applicable to unchanged Windows inputs, not newly executed1a5514a W1 or rebinding. The normal AppEC4319 build source remains e255.

Failures preserved: published71a CI42405008318 failed capture182/180passed/2failed: post-exit descendant discovery PID616 capacity error, then a derived all-green-report refusal. Coverage684/53passed/350direct/incomplete was not success. Earlier495b full5B57/9EC0 failed Wire75/70passed/5failed and halted; downstream missing units were not independent failures and outer cleanup passed. Two assertions only failed expected-message predicates after catch-any/unexported exceptions, not accepted gestures or guard bypasses. Three explicitly failed GetCursorPos Win32error5 before dispatch, with no contemporaneous input-desktop/lock/user-activity/ACL/RDP cause established. Later full329E/F904 independently passed684; failed receipts were not overwritten.

Original buffer RED9/0 contained five intended decoder/source assertions plus four managed WriteInt16 overload harness failures; first post-implementation5/4 retained that harness error. Corrected final9/9 is controlled evidence, not nine native reproductions. Focused native9 passes did not reproduce the historical CI capacity failure or prove its failed-API branch. Old e255/1df Create/Pane predicate failures remain failed. Integration resize-error log entries preceding successful smoke contracts do not establish error-free PTY behavior. No physical-input, paired macOS visual parity, hardware or production-daemon persistence acceptance.

Completion follows creator-origin delegation under the original approved M1 normal PR-completion scope, not a fresh human permission response. Original detailed evidence/drafts/logs remain retained; no additional permissions, native campaign, guard weakening, source retry or manual-dispatch substitute.

Checklist

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines
• I have signed off my commits (git commit -s) per the DCO
• Tests pass locally (make test)
• Code follows the existing style (make check)
• I added the test/contract before the implementation and observed the intended RED failure