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MoonLive scripts now run on every board projectMM supports. They already worked on
desktop and RISC-V; on both Xtensa classes any script that called a built-in reset the
board, which meant plasma and every scripted layout were dead on the ESP32 classic and
the S3. That is fixed, and along the way the engine stopped being bounded by constants
chosen when a script was one statement.

Verified on the bench across four boards (S3, classic ESP32, P4, S31): scripted layouts
and effects, the full effect ladder through plasma and the new heavier ripples.

What a user gets

  • Scripts live on the filesystem. A module holds a script NAME (~32 bytes), not a
    resident kilobyte of text; the UI loads, edits and saves the file through /api/file.
  • Scripts are bounded by memory, not by constants. Seven addLight statements used to
    fail. The IR and the code buffer are now sized to the script and heap-allocated, so the
    compile path's stack footprint SHRANK while the ceiling went away.
  • Nested loops compile on every target. They were refused on Xtensa, which meant the
    shipped default layout could not compile on the smallest board.
  • Built-ins can take many arguments. The host-call ABI passes an args array, so arity
    is bounded by frame slots (16) instead of the old hard cap of three.
  • A new line(x1, y1, x2, y2, r, g, b) built-in draws through the same draw::line
    every compiled effect uses. lines.mlv is now two calls instead of two per-cell loops,
    and it is the cheapest of the shipped effects because the loop moved into native code.
  • Three new scripts: ripples.mlv (two gliding wave sources interfering, the heaviest
    script that ships), rose.mlv (a rhodonea layout), and the rewritten lines.mlv.

The Xtensa bug, since it is the headline

Xtensa's register-window overflow handler writes two 16-byte bands at the top of a call8
frame: the top 16 take an older frame's a0-a3, the next 16 take the frame's OWN a4-a7. So
the top 32 bytes belong to the hardware. The emitter reserved 16, so the parked
control-arena pointer sat inside the second band, and any interrupt landing during a host
call replaced it with an expression temp.

That shape explains every symptom: deep call chains (plasma's sin/beat into libm) died
in under a second, brief leaf calls almost never, call-free scripts never. It was invisible
to every static check because each emitted instruction was correct; the defect was in the
frame around them. The reserve is now DERIVED from the call opcode the assembler emits, so
widening the call moves the reserve with it or fails the build.

Full write-up: lessons § the register-window frame
bug
.

How it is held

  • A structural checker decodes the emitted machine code and refuses any frame slot that
    reaches into the hardware's reserve. It was raised to 32 FIRST, where it failed on the
    shipped emitter and named the offending offset, before the emitter changed.
  • An encoding round-trip (check_encodings.py) assembles every instruction MoonLive
    emits with the toolchain's own assembler and requires identical bytes. It caught a
    hand-computed add.n with transposed register nibbles before it ever ran.
  • QEMU runs the firmware on an emulated ESP32, so a JIT defect faults on the dev
    machine in seconds instead of on a bench with a crash dump. Both it and the encoding
    check are MoonDeck cards with help pages.

Deliberately not in this PR

The plan behind this work
(Plan-20260813)
has four remaining steps, all deduplication: collapse the three lowerers, delete the
now-unused allocator, one system-variable table, and one shared binding base. They were
deferred on purpose until the mechanism worked, which it now does. Step 6 renames a
modifier's x/y/z and needs a MIGRATING entry plus a script sweep, so it earns its own
PR rather than a footnote under a bug fix. The plan file therefore survives this merge.

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A scripted module carried its script as a fixed 1 KB array, plus a second copy to notice
edits — resident whether or not a script was loaded, so six modules held ~16 KB of a
classic ESP32's 320 KB for text that was mostly empty. The script now lives in a file; the
module holds its name, reads it into a right-sized buffer to compile, and frees it. Scripts
are bounded by the filesystem instead of by an array nobody can grow.

Performance: desktop 132 us/tick (7575 fps), esp32 2151 us/tick (464 fps).

Light domain
- A `script` control (~32 B) replaces the `source` textarea in all three bindings. The UI
  loads, edits and saves the file through the /api/file endpoints that already existed, so
  this needed no new backend surface. A fresh module reports "no script — set the script
  name" and renders nothing, rather than every new module compiling the same default.
- The rebuild check is a 4-byte FNV-1a of the script text, not a second copy of it. It only
  ever answered "did this change".
- Per-binding control-name pools are gone: the engine owns the names it publishes now, so
  three private copies of the same fact went with them.
- /moonlive/ is created on demand — the write endpoint does not make parent directories, so
  a first save on a fresh device failed with nowhere obvious to look.

Core
- The engine copies declared control NAMES out of the source before returning. They pointed
  into the source text, which the caller is now free to release the moment compile() ends —
  and does. A control briefly appeared named "\x05" before this was found.
- IrProgram's op array is heap-allocated and sized from a token count, RAII-owned (destructor
  frees, copy deleted). It was a ~2 KB stack member on a 12 KB main task, the same cost for a
  one-statement script as a full one — so growing it would have traded a compile limit for a
  stack overflow. SEVEN sequential statements used to fail; forty compile. kMaxIrOps 64 →
  4096 is now a sanity bound, not the working limit.
- Widening that count to uint16_t left four uint8_t loop counters iterating over it — three
  lowerers and IrProgram::hasInline — which wrapped at 256 ops and spun forever. On a device
  that is a watchdog reset from a script that merely got long. Bisected (60 statements fine,
  80 hung); the regression test HANGS when the fix is reverted, which is how it was checked.
- ParlioLedDriver asks the platform for its 65535-byte transfer cap rather than naming the
  number in the light domain, and an over-capacity frame reports the ceiling in lights per
  pin on both the reinit and tick paths — the KB figure was the one a user could not act on.

Tests
- A shared fixture writes each script to a file, so tests exercise the path that ships. It is
  thread-local: the concurrency test compiles from two threads, and a shared name buffer had
  them compiling each other's script.
- Tests that relied on a built-in default script now name one. There is no default any more.

Docs/CI
- MIGRATING: `source` is gone, so a persisted script is an unknown key and ignored — the entry
  says where to find the text (/.config/Layouts.json as "N.source") and how to restore it.
- The three module specs, and the plan's step 1 marked done with what actually shipped.

Verified on the desktop: a 16x12 scripted grid layout with a scripted lines effect, both
compiled from files written over the API, surviving a restart and reloading from persistence.
Not yet run on hardware — the boards were unreachable; that is next.

Flash: esp32 1762368, esp32s3-n16r8 1752992, esp32s31 2025600, esp32p4-eth 1603952,
desktop 1138184. Tests: 1326 cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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MoonLive modules now load scripts from /moonlive/ files. Compilation uses heap-backed IR, frame slots, and register spilling across three backends. Scheduler preparation is deferred, and Parlio capacity reporting uses platform limits.

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MoonLive runtime and script files

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filesystem-backed script integration
src/light/moonlive/*, src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h, docs/moonmodules/light/*, docs/MIGRATING.md, test/unit/light/*
Modules replace persisted source text with script filenames. File loading validates names, reads and hashes .mlv files, and recompiles changed scripts.
Heap-backed IR and frame-slot compilation
src/core/moonlive/*
Compilation uses heap-backed staging and IR storage. Locals and call arguments use frame slots. A linear-scan allocator rewrites over-budget IR with Spill and Reload operations.
Target backend lowering
src/platform/desktop/moonlive_*, src/platform/esp32/moonlive_*
Desktop, RISC-V, and Xtensa lowering emits spill operations and manages bounded frames.
Runtime scheduling and platform capacity
src/core/Scheduler.*, src/core/HttpServerModule.cpp, src/platform/platform.h, src/light/drivers/*LedDriver.h
Tree preparation requests are deferred to the render-thread frame boundary. Parlio capacity comes from platform APIs.
Validation, tooling, and records
test/unit/core/*moonlive*, test/scenarios/light/*, moondeck/moonlive/*, docs/history/*, docs/metrics/*
Tests cover limits, spilling, backend output, and filesystem scripts. Tooling, plans, migration notes, metrics, and scenario baselines were updated.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 6ba3a

This PR moves scripts to filesystem-backed loading and expands generated programs, but the current implementation still has concrete runtime risks: failed file loads can leave an old program running, while call and register handling can produce incorrect execution or corruption on supported targets. These issues can cause stale lighting behavior, resets, or incorrect output, so the PR should not merge until they are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ScriptModule
  participant MoonLiveScriptFile
  participant MoonLiveCompiler
  participant MoonLiveSpill
  participant BackendLowerer
  ScriptModule->>MoonLiveScriptFile: load and hash .mlv file
  MoonLiveScriptFile->>MoonLiveCompiler: compile temporary source
  MoonLiveCompiler->>MoonLiveSpill: lower IR under register budget
  MoonLiveSpill->>BackendLowerer: provide Spill and Reload operations
  BackendLowerer-->>ScriptModule: emit executable code or error
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/MIGRATING.md`:
- Around line 23-39: Update the older migration guidance for layout users so it
no longer instructs them to edit the removed source control. Direct them to edit
the corresponding .mlv file through the File Manager, then set the module’s
script control to that filename, consistent with the current filesystem-based
behavior described in the migration document.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveIr.h`:
- Line 6: Remove the platform dependency from IrProgram in MoonLiveIr.h by
replacing direct platform::alloc()/platform::free() usage with an injected
core-neutral allocation interface, or relocating runtime allocation ownership
outside src/core. Ensure src/core contains no platform includes and that
disasm.py no longer needs to link the desktop platform implementation solely for
IR storage.

In `@src/light/drivers/ParallelLedDriver.h`:
- Around line 1868-1872: Update reportOverCapacity() to calculate the maximum
light count using the same padded, 64-byte-aligned frame size as
frameBytesFor(), while treating a zero DMA budget as unbounded. Ensure the
reported limit cannot allow a frame exceeding the configured budget, and
preserve the existing one-report-per-geometry behavior at the call site.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h`:
- Around line 35-49: Update MoonLiveEffect::affectsPrepare() to check for the
"script" control instead of "source", ensuring script filename changes trigger
prepare and recompilation. Add a control-system test that changes the script
control and verifies prepare is invoked.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h`:
- Around line 118-133: Invalidate the cached compilation when the registered
script control changes, since controls_.addText() updates script_ without
invoking setScript(). Update the relevant MoonLiveLayout control/change handling
so compiledHash_ and engine state cannot satisfy the early-return check for a
new filename, while preserving setScript() behavior. Add a test that changes the
registered script control and verifies the layout recompiles and uses the new
file.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h`:
- Around line 47-50: Update the validation in MoonLiveScriptFile’s script-name
handling before constructing path to accept only a basename with the supported
.mlv suffix. Reject any name containing '/' or '\' and reject traversal
components such as ".."; preserve the existing missing-name error behavior, then
build the path only after validation.
- Around line 47-70: Add a MoonLive operation that invalidates the currently
compiled code without clearing the control arena, then invoke it and reset
hashOut to zero on every failure path before engine.compile() in
MoonLiveScriptFile loading. Cover invalid names, missing/empty/oversized files,
allocation failure, and read failure while preserving existing error messages
and successful compilation behavior.

In `@src/platform/platform.h`:
- Around line 1168-1172: Update the documentation for parlioMaxTransferBytes()
to state that a return value of 0 means no transfer bound, not zero usable
bytes, while positive values represent the hardware’s maximum single-transfer
ceiling. Keep the existing declaration and surrounding allocation guidance
unchanged.
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  • docs/MIGRATING.md
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  • src/light/drivers/ParallelLedDriver.h
  • src/light/drivers/ParlioLedDriver.h
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveModifier.h
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h
  • src/platform/desktop/moonlive_lower_host.cpp
  • src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp
  • src/platform/esp32/moonlive_lower_riscv.cpp
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  • src/platform/esp32/platform_esp32_parlio.cpp
  • src/platform/platform.h
  • test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_compiler.cpp
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Comment thread docs/MIGRATING.md
#include <cstdint>
#include <cstddef>
#include "core/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins.h" // InlineOp (a neutral opcode tag)
#include "platform/platform.h" // alloc/free — the op array is sized to the script

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep the core layer independent from the platform layer.

MoonLiveIr.h now imports platform/platform.h, and IrProgram calls platform::alloc() and platform::free(). This breaks the src/core/** boundary. Inject a core-neutral allocation interface, or move the allocation owner outside src/core. The dependency also forces moondeck/moonlive/disasm.py to link the desktop platform implementation.

As per path instructions: “src/core/** … Must be platform-independent — no platform includes.” Based on learnings: “inject a core-neutral executable-code placement interface into MoonLive or relocate the runtime placement layer outside src/core.”

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveIr.h` at line 6, Remove the platform dependency
from IrProgram in MoonLiveIr.h by replacing direct
platform::alloc()/platform::free() usage with an injected core-neutral
allocation interface, or relocating runtime allocation ownership outside
src/core. Ensure src/core contains no platform includes and that disasm.py no
longer needs to link the desktop platform implementation solely for IR storage.

Sources: Coding guidelines, Path instructions, Learnings

Comment thread src/light/drivers/ParallelLedDriver.h
Comment thread src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h
Comment thread src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h
Comment thread src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h
Comment on lines +47 to +70
if (!name || !name[0]) { err = "no script — set the script name"; return false; }

char path[96];
std::snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s", kScriptDir, name);

const long size = platform::fsSize(path);
if (size < 0) { err = "script not found"; return false; }
if (size == 0) { err = "script is empty"; return false; }
if (size > kScriptFileMax) { err = "script too large"; return false; }

// +1 for the NUL the lexer reads as End. fsRead null-terminates on success, but the buffer has
// to have room for it.
char* text = static_cast<char*>(platform::alloc(static_cast<size_t>(size) + 1));
if (!text) { err = "no memory for the script"; return false; }

const int read = platform::fsRead(path, text, static_cast<size_t>(size) + 1);
if (read <= 0) { platform::free(text); err = "script could not be read"; return false; }

if (hashOut) *hashOut = scriptHash(text, static_cast<size_t>(read));
const bool ok = engine.compile(text, builtins, sysvars);
if (!ok) err = engine.error();
// Freed on BOTH paths, before returning: the text has done its job either way, and a failed
// compile is exactly when a device can least afford to leak.
platform::free(text);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate prior code when file loading fails.

These failure paths return before engine.compile() runs. An existing program therefore remains ok(): an effect keeps rendering, a layout keeps placing old coordinates, and a modifier keeps applying its old mapping while the status reports the new file error.

Add a MoonLive operation that drops code while preserving the control arena. Call it on every pre-compile file failure and reset hashOut to zero.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h` around lines 47 - 70, Add a MoonLive
operation that invalidates the currently compiled code without clearing the
control arena, then invoke it and reset hashOut to zero on every failure path
before engine.compile() in MoonLiveScriptFile loading. Cover invalid names,
missing/empty/oversized files, allocation failure, and read failure while
preserving existing error messages and successful compilation behavior.

Comment thread src/platform/platform.h
Hardware found what 1228 tests did not: naming a script never recompiled anything. The
effect still asked whether the "source" control had changed - a control renamed to
"script" - and the layout cached its compiled program behind a hash that a control write
never cleared. Both held a new filename while running the previous script.

Performance: desktop 127 us/tick (7874 fps), esp32 2151 us/tick (464 fps).

Light domain
- MoonLiveEffect::affectsPrepare tests "script". Found on a P4: the effect showed the new
  name and dyn=0, having compiled nothing. The unit tests call prepare() directly, so the
  control-change path had no coverage at all — which is why they passed.
- MoonLiveLayout invalidates its compiled hash when the script control is written.
  addText binds the buffer directly, so a control write never reached setScript() and
  compile()'s early-return kept the old program. Pinned by a test that fails without it.
- A script name is a BASENAME ending in .mlv, rejected otherwise. It was pasted straight
  into the path, so `../.config/NetworkModule.json` would have read the device's saved
  credentials as a script. The fixed directory is the boundary; now it holds.
- reportOverCapacity counts down through frameBytesFor instead of dividing. The frame is
  64-byte rounded, so the division overshot by one: it reported 898 lights per lane, whose
  frame rounds to 65536 against a 65535 cap. A limit that still fails is worse than none.

Core
- MoonLive::compile's staging buffer and each assembler's buf_ are heap-allocated, RAII
  owned, with every write and both branch patchers guarded against a failed allocation.
  That is ~4.1 KB off a compile chain sharing a 12 KB task — the plan named this ("buf_
  inside the assembler, itself a stack local") and step 1 had only done IrProgram, while
  raising kCodeCap 768 → 2048 grew what remained.

Scripts/MoonDeck
- The monitor opens its serial port before probing the network. raised_log_level contacts
  every device in moondeck.json at a 3 s timeout each; with a dozen registered and most
  powered off, that was half a minute before the first byte — losing the boot output it was
  pointed at.

Docs/CI
- MIGRATING no longer tells a layout user to edit the `source` control it just removed.
- The Parlio ceilings are the corrected 897/673/442/332, and platform.h says plainly that a
  0 transfer cap means NO bound rather than zero bytes.
- Backlog: MoonLive compiling watchdogs a classic ESP32 — `rst:0x8 (TG1WDT_SYS_RESET)`,
  captured on serial while adding one layout. Not a panic and not the stack overflow I first
  chased: the compile simply takes longer than the 12 s task watchdog allows while the
  render task waits. The stack work above did not change it. The entry records the measured
  signature, the ruled-out theories, and to measure before assuming which part is slow.

Verified on the P4: layout 256 lights 16x16 (268 B) and effect (988 B), both compiled from
files written over the API. The classic still resets, now with the watchdog signature.

Flash: esp32 1715008, esp32s3-n16r8 1753792, esp32s31 2025600, esp32p4-eth 1603920,
desktop 1138376. Tests: 1328 cases.

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51-83: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate compiled code on every script-loader failure.

A failed file load returns before MoonLive::compile() calls freeCode(). The old program remains executable while the module reports an error.

  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h#L51-L83: call engine.freeCode() and set *hashOut to zero, when provided, before every pre-compile failure return.
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h#L72-L77: ensure a failed script load leaves engine_.ok() false so tick() renders no prior program.
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h#L125-L140: ensure a failed script load leaves engine_.ok() false so lightCount() and forEachCoord() do not run prior coordinates.
  • test/unit/light/unit_MoonLiveLayout.cpp#L458-L470: compile a valid script first, then select an invalid name and assert zero lights.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h` around lines 51 - 83, Invalidate
compiled state on every script-load failure: in
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h:51-83, before each pre-compile failure
return, call engine.freeCode() and zero hashOut when provided. In
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h:72-77 and
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h:125-140, ensure failed loads leave
engine_.ok() false so prior programs and coordinates are not used. In
test/unit/light/unit_MoonLiveLayout.cpp:458-470, first compile a valid script,
then select an invalid name and assert zero lights.
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/backlog/backlog-light.md`:
- Around line 293-298: Update the MoonLive watchdog entry’s causal wording to
state only that the compile path did not return before the twelve-second
task-watchdog deadline. Remove or qualify claims that CPU compilation itself
exceeded twelve seconds, while preserving the listed LittleFS and
platform::alloc blocking possibilities and the recommendation to measure
compileScriptFile.

In `@moondeck/run/monitor_esp32.py`:
- Around line 103-113: Update the monitoring setup around the serial handle and
the raised_log_level/open(LOG_FILE, "w") context managers so ser.close() is
performed by an outer finally covering context setup and the monitoring body.
Remove the inner-only cleanup and preserve the existing serial error handling
and monitoring behavior.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLive.cpp`:
- Around line 51-56: Remove the direct platform::alloc and platform::free calls
from the Staging helper in MoonLive. Introduce and inject a core-neutral
memory/code-placement interface into MoonLive for staging allocation and
release, or relocate the runtime placement ownership to the platform layer,
while preserving Staging’s lifetime management and validity check.

In `@test/scenarios/light/scenario_MoonLive_pipeline.json`:
- Line 61: Update the MoonLive pipeline scenario to create isolated
/moonlive/*.mlv file fixtures and set every module’s script control to the
corresponding filename before recording the baseline. Add equivalent
filesystem-fixture support to the in-process runner so the scenario executes
consistently there. Remove any source-based setup or compatibility coverage.

---

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In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h`:
- Around line 51-83: Invalidate compiled state on every script-load failure: in
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h:51-83, before each pre-compile failure
return, call engine.freeCode() and zero hashOut when provided. In
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h:72-77 and
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h:125-140, ensure failed loads leave
engine_.ok() false so prior programs and coordinates are not used. In
test/unit/light/unit_MoonLiveLayout.cpp:458-470, first compile a valid script,
then select an invalid name and assert zero lights.
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- **MoonLive compiling watchdogs a classic ESP32** (2026-08-12). Naming a script on an Olimex Gateway resets the board with `rst:0x8 (TG1WDT_SYS_RESET)` — the TASK watchdog at 12 s, not a panic: there is no `Guru Meditation`, no backtrace, and the last serial lines are ordinary ticks. So the compile is not crashing, it is taking longer than twelve seconds with the render task waiting on it, and the watchdog does its job. Bench-captured on serial while adding one `MoonLiveLayout` with `grid.mlv`; the P4 compiles the same script in well under a second.

**Not a stack overflow** — that was the earlier theory and it was wrong. ~4.1 KB was moved off the compile chain (`MoonLive::compile`'s staging buffer and each assembler's `buf_`, both now heap, RAII-owned) which was worth doing on its own merits (the plan named it) but did not change this: the board still resets, now with the watchdog signature rather than `Double exception`. The earlier `Double exception` runs came from a board carrying persisted WiFi credentials, a separate issue.

**Where to look:** the classic's ticks already read ~9 ms with `renderWait` ~8 ms BEFORE any compile, so the render loop has almost no slack. Either the compile is genuinely that slow on a 240 MHz single-issue Xtensa with no PSRAM, or something in the path blocks (the LittleFS read, `platform::alloc` under a fragmented heap). Measure first — instrument `compileScriptFile` with timings and run it on the classic — before assuming which. Moving the compile off the render task is the likely fix, but it is a scheduling change and wants its own cycle.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Separate the watchdog observation from the unverified cause.

The evidence shows that the compile path did not return before the 12-second task-watchdog deadline. It does not prove that CPU compilation itself exceeded 12 seconds because Line 297 still lists LittleFS and platform::alloc blocking as alternatives. Replace the causal wording with “the compile path did not return before twelve seconds.”

As per coding guidelines, **/*.md: “Documentation must describe the system as it currently exists; specs precede implementation, and breaking changes must be recorded in `docs/MIGRATING.md`.”

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In `@docs/backlog/backlog-light.md` around lines 293 - 298, Update the MoonLive
watchdog entry’s causal wording to state only that the compile path did not
return before the twelve-second task-watchdog deadline. Remove or qualify claims
that CPU compilation itself exceeded twelve seconds, while preserving the listed
LittleFS and platform::alloc blocking possibilities and the recommendation to
measure compileScriptFile.

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# OPEN THE PORT FIRST. raised_log_level contacts every device in moondeck.json over HTTP at a
# 3 s timeout each — with a dozen registered and most powered off, that is half a minute of
# blocking before a single byte is read, and the boot output you were monitoring FOR is already
# gone. The log level is a nicety; the serial stream is the point.
try:
ser = serial.Serial(args.port, args.baud, timeout=1)
except serial.SerialException as e:
print(f"Cannot open {args.port}: {e}")
sys.exit(1)

with raised_log_level(active_device_ips(), LOG_INFO):

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Make serial cleanup cover context setup.

ser opens at Line 108, but ser.close() is only reached from the inner finally at Lines 183-188. If active_device_ips(), raised_log_level.__enter__(), or open(LOG_FILE, "w") raises, the monitoring body is never entered and the serial handle remains open. Move the existing close into an outer finally that covers both context managers.

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context managers so ser.close() is performed by an outer finally covering
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preserve the existing serial error handling and monitoring behavior.

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namespace {
struct Staging {
uint8_t* p = static_cast<uint8_t*>(platform::alloc(kCodeCap));
~Staging() { platform::free(p); }
explicit operator bool() const { return p != nullptr; }
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Move memory ownership behind a core-neutral interface.

Lines 53-54 add direct platform::alloc() and platform::free() calls in src/core. This breaks the required core/platform boundary.

Inject a core-neutral compiler-memory and executable-code-placement interface into MoonLive, or move the runtime placement layer into src/platform.

As per path instructions, src/core/** must be platform-independent. Based on learnings, MoonLive requires a single core/platform-boundary change for executable-memory ownership.

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platform::alloc and platform::free calls from the Staging helper in MoonLive.
Introduce and inject a core-neutral memory/code-placement interface into
MoonLive for staging allocation and release, or relocate the runtime placement
ownership to the platform layer, while preserving Staging’s lifetime management
and validity check.

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Comment thread test/scenarios/light/scenario_MoonLive_pipeline.json
A script's variables and call arguments now live in the call frame instead of
registers, so how complex a script can be is a memory question rather than a
register-count one. Scripted layouts and effects run on desktop and on RISC-V
(an S31 held layout + effect + modifier for over an hour); on Xtensa a script
that stores a pixel still fails, for a windowed-ABI reason documented below.

KPI: 16384lights | Desktop:1094KB | tick:124/100/3/6/124/281/20/4/272/70/17/22/5/124/22/7/243/45/4us(FPS:8064/10000/333333/166666/8064/3558/50000/250000/3676/14285/58823/45454/200000/8064/45454/142857/4115/22222/250000) | ESP32:1589KB | src:220(56124) | test:163(32995) | lizard:157w

Core
- Script variables get frame slots: a `for`'s counter and limit each take one, a
  read is a Reload into a temp that dies immediately. The guard that protected a
  local's register is gone — every vreg reaching freeTemp is now a temp.
- Call arguments are staged through the frame: each is parked as soon as it is
  computed and all are reloaded for the one instruction that reads them, so only
  one argument occupies a register at a time. Measured on Xtensa: grid.mlv
  212 -> 186 bytes, three-deep nesting compiling for the first time, and looped
  effects, four-deep layouts and plasma compiling at all.
- spillToBudget numbers its slots above the front end's and refuses a compile
  when either exceeds what the backend's frame can address — checked before the
  "already fits" early return, which used to skip it entirely.
- register-and-slot-contract.md writes down who owns which register index and
  which frame slot, because four places derive numbers from each other.

Light domain
- A failed script load is latched against the NAME that failed, not as a bare
  flag. As a bool it latched on the empty script every device boots with and
  then skipped every later compile, so a card sat at "no script" forever.
- Layout rebuilds run on the render thread: HTTP marks the tree dirty and
  tick() does the work at a frame boundary. A scripted layout's compiled code
  has its frame on the calling task's stack, so an HTTP handler ran it on the
  web server's stack rather than the one the pipeline is budgeted against.

Platform
- Xtensa: a14/a15 removed from the vreg map — they carry retw.n's return
  linkage, and using them corrupted the return path (IllegalInstruction on every
  scripted layout). static_assert now covers scratch and window registers.
- Xtensa: branch relaxation. Conditional branches carry a signed byte of
  displacement; a loop body past ~127 bytes was silently truncated into the
  middle of the program. Emitted as inverted-condition-over-`j` (18-bit), with a
  range check that refuses rather than miscompiles.
- Xtensa: the call RESULT is parked in the frame, not in a12. call8 rotates the
  window, so the callee's a4 IS our a12 and it overwrote the stash.
- All three backends bounds-check their register-map lookup: the inline ops
  address scratch as vregsUsed+n, and an out-of-range index read past the array
  and named a register chosen by accident.
- currentThreadId(): C++ thread_local is unusable on ESP32 — the compiler
  reaches TLS through THREADPTR, which is 0 on a FreeRTOS task created without
  it, so the access faults at 0xfffffff0 and dies as a Double exception.

Tests
- The device backends now run on the development machine: two per-ISA TUs share
  one body, driven by a `lower` seam on compileSource. Golden length + byte hash
  per backend catch an emission change without flashing a board; a call-bearing
  script is length-only, because it embeds a host address that ASLR moves.
- Regression tests for the give-up latch, loop-extended live intervals (all
  tests passed with extension disabled before this), and the frame-capacity
  guard. The fixture no longer leaves 79 t*.mlv files behind per run.

Docs/CI
- Plan-20260813 supersedes 20260809 from step 4: what a windowed register ABI
  is, why Xtensa has one and arm64/RISC-V do not, and how to treat it as flat
  (restrict the map to a2..a7, which needs the host arguments in the frame —
  step 3b, not yet done). Steps 1-3 marked done.
- backlog-light.md records the Xtensa root cause with the ESP-IDF citation:
  "a8..a15 clobbered (if window_spill8)" against a map of a2..a11.
- disasm.py did not link MoonLiveSpill.cpp and compiled every script against
  modifierSysVars, so it had never once read the shipped grid.mlv.

Reviews
- 👾 pre-commit gates: 10 passed, 0 failed, 3 skipped (conditional triggers not
  matched). GCC caught three issues clang did not: -Wshadow in the Xtensa call
  encoders, and std::memcpy/ssize_t resolving inside the test's wrapper
  namespace.

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In `@docs/history/plans/Plan-20260813` - MoonLive on a stack machine — the frame
is where values live.md:
- Around line 174-179: Update the plan to require a core-neutral executable-code
placement and release interface, or move that responsibility outside src/core,
before extending heap-backed buffers. Ensure MoonLive core code no longer
directly includes platform/platform.h or owns platform-specific
executable-memory allocation; preserve platform details behind the new boundary.
- Around line 15-19: Update the fenced arithmetic block near the
register-allocation explanation to include an appropriate language tag, such as
text, on its opening fence while preserving the block contents.

In `@moondeck/moonlive/disasm.py`:
- Around line 54-59: Move the emitter build currently assembled in disasm.py
behind the project’s MoonDeck build entry point instead of extending the direct
c++ command. Update the relevant disassembly build flow to invoke the
established MoonDeck script and preserve the existing source dependencies.

In `@moondeck/moonlive/emit_xtensa.cpp`:
- Around line 33-36: Update the binding selection near the binding and sysvars
initialization to accept only “layout”, “effect”, and “modifier”; detect any
other value and return an appropriate error before selecting sysvars or
continuing disassembly. Preserve the existing sysvar mappings for the three
supported bindings.

In `@moonlive/effects/plasma.mlv`:
- Around line 5-6: Update the execution-cost comment in the plasma effect to
state that each cell performs nine host calls: three beat calls, three sin or
cos calls, and three scale calls; remove the inaccurate reference to scale(t,
...).

In `@src/core/moonlive/moonlive_emit.h`:
- Around line 70-86: Remove the unused three-argument lowerToBytes declaration
from the MoonDeck emit_xtensa.cpp code, and rely on the canonical declaration in
moonlive_emit.h so the tool’s API matches the four-argument Xtensa definition.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp`:
- Around line 447-449: Update parseFor to validate slotHighWater before each
loop slot allocation, matching parseCall’s kMaxLocals boundary check and
emitting a source-level failure instead of allowing out-of-range slots. Apply
the guard to both counter and limit allocations near the slotHighWater
increments, while preserving the existing localCount nesting check.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp`:
- Around line 240-268: In the spill-allocation loop, add a local assertion or
explicit early return before accessing active[nActive - 1] to enforce keepable
>= 1; retain the existing guard that establishes this invariant and prevent any
keepable == 0 path from indexing active out of bounds.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.h`:
- Around line 30-32: Update the documentation for spillToBudget so slotsUsed is
described as including the program’s local slots and not as zero when no
registers spill; preserve the existing contract that it reports the prologue
capacity required by ir.localSlots and any spills.

In `@src/core/Scheduler.h`:
- Around line 69-82: Make prepareRequested_ an std::atomic<bool> and include the
atomic header. Update the tick() consumption path to use exchange(false,
std::memory_order_relaxed), while keeping requestPrepareTree() as the producer
so concurrent callers cannot lose requests.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h`:
- Around line 162-178: Update detail::SinkSlot and addLightSink() so slot
ownership is synchronized: make SinkSlot::owner an std::atomic<uintptr_t>, read
it atomically when checking existing ownership, and claim free slots with
compare_exchange_strong rather than separate load/store operations. Apply the
same atomic claim behavior in setAddLightSink() if it performs equivalent slot
registration, while preserving the overflow-sink fallback.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h`:
- Around line 127-132: Update the /api/file write handling around fsWriteStream
so writes targeting /moonlive/<script_> invalidate the cached compiled state by
clearing compiledHash_ and invoking the appropriate MoonLiveLayout invalidation
or setScript flow. Ensure the next compile rereads the updated script file while
leaving unrelated file writes unchanged.

In `@src/platform/desktop/moonlive_lower_host.cpp`:
- Around line 36-43: Update the RegBudget construction in
src/platform/desktop/moonlive_lower_host.cpp lines 36-43,
src/platform/esp32/moonlive_lower_riscv.cpp lines 36-39, and
src/platform/esp32/moonlive_lower_xtensa.cpp lines 37-38 so squeeze overrides
only regs and slots while the locally computed scratch remains reserved; use
RegBudget{squeeze->regs, scratch, squeeze->slots} in each backend, preserving
the existing non-squeeze budgets.

In `@src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_riscv.cpp`:
- Around line 119-129: Update RiscvAssembler::spillStore and spillLoad, plus
their desktop host equivalents, to reject spill operations when no frame has
been established, such as when frameBytes_ is zero, in addition to the existing
slot bound check. Set the assembler overflow/diagnostic state and return before
emitting any instruction so a missing frame cannot address the caller’s stack
frame.

In `@src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_xtensa.cpp`:
- Around line 61-99: Update XtensaAssembler::prologue so the frame-size
calculation reserves a named 16-byte kExtraSaveArea before alignment and before
placing result or spill slots. Ensure kResultSlot and all spill offsets remain
below this reserved top area for every slot count, while preserving the existing
alignment and overflow behavior; add coverage for a deep callx8 chain on Xtensa.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_spill.cpp`:
- Around line 178-194: Guard the normal compile assertion in the test case
around compileSource with MM_MOONLIVE_HAS_HOST_JIT so it only runs when the
default lowerer is supported; keep the explicit noRoom and noSlots budget checks
unchanged and still verify their expected failures.
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Comment on lines +174 to +179
**Already unbounded in practice.** `kMaxIrOps` and `kCodeCap` size HEAP allocations that are already
right-sized per script, and `platform::alloc` prefers PSRAM where a device has it. They are sanity
bounds so a runaway source fails with a diagnostic rather than exhausting the heap — not working
limits. The remaining fixed arrays total roughly 600 bytes per compile (`locals[16]` at 256 B is the
largest); moving those to the heap would add allocation, failure paths and lifetimes to save half a
kilobyte on a cold path, which is the opposite of subtraction.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve a platform-neutral allocation boundary.

The plan relies on platform::alloc for core-owned heap storage but does not define the required seam. Based on learnings, src/core/moonlive/MoonLive.cpp currently includes platform/platform.h and directly owns executable-memory placement and freeing. The required follow-up is a core-neutral executable-code placement interface or relocation outside src/core. As per path instructions, src/core/** must be platform-independent — no platform includes. Add this boundary before extending heap-backed buffers.

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In `@docs/history/plans/Plan-20260813` - MoonLive on a stack machine — the frame
is where values live.md around lines 174 - 179, Update the plan to require a
core-neutral executable-code placement and release interface, or move that
responsibility outside src/core, before extending heap-backed buffers. Ensure
MoonLive core code no longer directly includes platform/platform.h or owns
platform-specific executable-memory allocation; preserve platform details behind
the new boundary.

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Comment on lines +54 to +59
# Every backend runs the register allocator before lowering, so the pass comes along
# too — without it the tool fails to link on spillToBudget.
os.path.join(ROOT, "src", "core", "moonlive", "MoonLiveSpill.cpp"),
# The IR sizes its op array with platform::alloc, so the platform implementation has
# to come along — the compiler is no longer self-contained.
os.path.join(ROOT, "src", "platform", "desktop", "platform_desktop.cpp"),

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use a MoonDeck build entry point.

This change extends a direct c++ build command. Move the emitter build behind a project MoonDeck script so it uses the repository build contract.

As per coding guidelines, “Use the project's MoonDeck scripts for build, flash, monitor, test, and check tasks rather than invoking alternate tooling directly.”

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In `@moondeck/moonlive/disasm.py` around lines 54 - 59, Move the emitter build
currently assembled in disasm.py behind the project’s MoonDeck build entry point
instead of extending the direct c++ command. Update the relevant disassembly
build flow to invoke the established MoonDeck script and preserve the existing
source dependencies.

Source: Coding guidelines

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const char* binding = argc > 2 ? argv[2] : "layout";
const auto sysvars = std::strcmp(binding, "modifier") == 0 ? moonlive::modifierSysVars()
: std::strcmp(binding, "effect") == 0 ? moonlive::effectSysVars()
: moonlive::layoutSysVars();

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Reject an unknown binding.

An unrecognized binding silently selects layout. An effect or modifier script can then produce misleading disassembly.

Accept only layout, effect, and modifier. Return an error for other values.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@moondeck/moonlive/emit_xtensa.cpp` around lines 33 - 36, Update the binding
selection near the binding and sysvars initialization to accept only “layout”,
“effect”, and “modifier”; detect any other value and return an appropriate error
before selecting sysvars or continuing disassembly. Preserve the existing sysvar
mappings for the three supported bindings.

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if (engine_.ok() && compiledHash_ != 0) return; // already current for this script
// Give up only on the name that ACTUALLY failed. As a bare flag this latched on the empty
// script every device boots with, and then skipped the compile forever — the card sat at
// "no script" however many times a real one was named, because the render loop asks for the
// light count long before any control write clears a flag.
if (compileFailed_ && std::strcmp(failedScript_, script_) == 0) return;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Invalidate MoonLiveLayout after script-file writes.

POST /api/file writes /moonlive/<name> through fsWriteStream without clearing compiledHash_ or calling setScript(). compile() therefore returns before compileScriptFile() rereads the file. Add an invalidation hook for writes to /moonlive/<script_>.

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In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveLayout.h` around lines 127 - 132, Update the
/api/file write handling around fsWriteStream so writes targeting
/moonlive/<script_> invalidate the cached compiled state by clearing
compiledHash_ and invoking the appropriate MoonLiveLayout invalidation or
setScript flow. Ensure the next compile rereads the updated script file while
leaving unrelated file writes unchanged.

Comment thread src/platform/desktop/moonlive_lower_host.cpp
Comment thread src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_riscv.cpp
Comment thread src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_xtensa.cpp
Comment thread test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_spill.cpp
Every shipped MoonLive script now runs on every target. plasma.mlv was refused
on RISC-V boards while working on an S3 and on desktop, because one fixed 2 KB
buffer was shared by backends that differ by up to 1.9x on identical source.
The buffer is now sized from the script itself, and disasm.py reads all three
backends so this class of bug is found without a board.

Performance: unchanged — the emitted bytes for every shipped script are
byte-identical on all three backends; only the buffer around them moved.

Core
- kCodeCap stops being the working limit and becomes a sanity bound (16 KB).
  codeCapFor(tokens) sizes the emitted-code buffer per script at 24 bytes/token,
  measured against every shipped script on all three backends (worst real case:
  random-pixel.mlv at 16.4). Same pattern the IR op array already used.
- countTokens() is shared by the caller and the compiler, so the two cannot
  measure a script differently.
- Scheduler::prepareRequested_ is atomic: it is written from HTTP handlers and
  consumed on the render thread, and a lost request means a script edit silently
  never applies. tick() consumes it with exchange().
- parseFor bounds its slot allocation on slotHighWater, not just localCount —
  parseCall releases staging slots it never counted, so the two diverge.
- MoonLiveSpill: state the keepable >= 1 invariant the furthest-interval index
  depends on; correct the slotsUsed contract (it includes the program's locals,
  so it is not zero when nothing spills).

Light domain
- The addLight sink table claims slots with compare_exchange instead of
  load-then-store: two threads could both take the same slot and end up sharing
  one sink, which is the aliasing the table exists to prevent.

Platform
- The three assemblers take their buffer size as a constructor argument, and each
  lowerer passes the caller's own cap through — the staging buffer and the
  assembler buffer can no longer disagree about how much a script may emit.
- RISC-V slotAddr computed its offset from sp while spillStore/spillLoad used s0.
  Since s0 == sp + frameBytes_, the argument block handed to host calls pointed
  below the frame. Found by reading the emitted code, not by guessing.
- spillStore/spillLoad/slotAddr refuse when no frame was established (RISC-V and
  host): prologue() bails on overflow leaving frameBytes_ at 0, and the offsets
  would then address the caller's stack. Xtensa needs no guard — its offsets are
  absolute from a1.
- `squeeze` overrides only regs and slots, never the backend's own scratch
  reservation, which the lowerer is about to use.

Scripts/MoonDeck
- disasm.py --isa xtensa|riscv|arm64|all. emit_xtensa.cpp becomes emit_isa.cpp,
  one file selected by -DMM_EMIT_<ISA>. On macOS llvm-objdump is found via xcrun
  and has no raw-binary mode, so the bytes are wrapped with .incbin first.
- The tool includes the canonical lowerToBytes declaration rather than its own
  three-argument copy, which linked only because it never passes squeeze.

Tests
- "every shipped script compiles for <ISA>" runs the verbatim ring.mlv and
  plasma.mlv source per backend. Control-checked: it fails on RISC-V with the old
  fixed cap and passes with the fix.
- The device-codegen harness sizes its buffer the way production does, so a test
  cannot pass while a right-sized caller overflows.
- Golden lengths/hashes re-recorded; "fill plus a loop on Xtensa" was pinned at
  0 (REFUSED) and now emits 254 bytes.
- The positive assertion in the impossible-budget test is gated on
  MM_MOONLIVE_HAS_HOST_JIT — x86-64 has no backend, so a normal compile there
  legitimately fails.

Docs/CI
- plasma.mlv's cost comment said four host calls per cell and referenced a call
  that is not there; it is nine (3 beat, 2 sin, 1 cos, 3 scale).
- Backlog: MoonLive has no x86-64 backend, so scripts do not run on Windows;
  editing a script's contents via /api/file does not clear compiledHash_.

Reviews
- Rabbit: Scheduler atomic — done. Sink-slot compare_exchange — done. squeeze
  overriding scratch — done. Spill without a frame — done (RISC-V + host).
  parseFor bounds — done. Three-arg lowerToBytes — done. Spill test gating —
  done. slotsUsed doc, plasma comment, fenced block, keepable invariant — done.
  emit_xtensa binding validation and its declaration — skipped, that file no
  longer exists and disasm.py's argparse already restricts the binding. Move the
  disasm build behind MoonDeck — skipped, disasm.py is a MoonDeck script.
  Xtensa kExtraSaveArea — skipped: it changes frame geometry on the one backend
  not yet verified on hardware this branch, and Xtensa is what we flash next.
  Script-contents invalidation — backlogged, pre-existing and belongs at the
  filesystem seam.

Verified on hardware: S31 (RISC-V) runs the MoonLive grid layout and the plasma
effect together, uptime climbing, 2160 bytes of compiled code resident — the
exact program that used to overflow the 2 KB buffer. Xtensa is verified by test
and by disassembly only; the S3 and the classic ESP32 are flashed next commit.

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src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h (1)

203-225: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the overflow sink permanently empty.

The current execution model is sized for two concurrent runners. If a third runner reaches sinkOverflow(), setAddLightSink() writes a sink into the shared, non-atomic fallback and violates the documented no-op behavior. Make registration fail when both owned slots are occupied, then make mm_light_addLight() return without invoking a sink.

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In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h` around lines 203 - 225, Update
setAddLightSink to register only in an available owned slot and leave
sinkOverflow() permanently empty when both slots are occupied, preserving no-op
behavior for a third runner. Ensure mm_light_addLight returns without invoking
any sink when no valid registered sink is available, while retaining the
existing paired fn/context validation.
src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp (2)

64-64: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

sourcesOf still reads a Call's operand fields as source vregs. The new encoding puts the argument COUNT in b.

MoonLiveIr.h Lines 60-64 define Call as dst = (*callFn)(&frame[imm], b, arena), and the parser emits {IrOp::Call, r, 0, n, 0, 0, argBase, fn->fn, {}} (MoonLiveCompiler.cpp Lines 349 and 356). So a and c are unused and b is the argument count, not a register.

Three consequences follow when the pass rewrites a program (ir.vregsUsed > avail):

  • Line 343-346 remaps in.b, so the count becomes a compacted register number or a reload temp. The backends emit movImm(argN, op.b) (moonlive_lower_host.cpp Line 126), so the host function receives the wrong argc.
  • mention(in.b, i) at Line 196 gives the count value a live interval, which distorts allocation.
  • mention(in.a, i) gives kArg0 a spurious interval — the exact failure the writesDst comment at Lines 75-77 warns about.

A Call has no source vregs now. Its arguments live in frame slots.

🐛 Proposed fix
-        case IrOp::Call:       out[0] = in.a; out[1] = in.b; out[2] = in.c; return 3;
+        // No source vregs: the arguments are already in consecutive frame slots (`imm` is the base
+        // and `b` is the COUNT, not a register). Reading b as a vreg rewrote the count itself.
+        case IrOp::Call:                                    return 0;
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In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp` at line 64, Update the Call handling in
sourcesOf and the related rewrite/remapping logic to treat Call as having no
source virtual registers: do not mention or remap in.a, in.b, or in.c,
preserving in.b as the literal argument count consumed by the lowering path.
Keep destination handling unchanged and ensure allocation no longer creates
intervals for Call operand fields.

243-243: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Spill slots can land on the parked host-argument slots.

budget.slots is kMaxSpillSlots, which every backend defines as kTotalSlots (21). kTotalSlots is kMaxLocals + kHostArgSlots, and hostArgSlot(v) returns 16..20 (MoonLiveIr.h Lines 130-136). Those five slots hold the parked buf, nLights, cpl, t and ctrls.

nSpilled starts at ir.localSlots and is only refused at Line 277 when it exceeds budget.slots. A program that needs more than 16 frame slots therefore receives spill slots 16..20. The spill store overwrites a parked host argument, and the next host(kArg0) reload returns the spilled temp instead of the buffer pointer. The emitted code then stores pixels through a wrong address.

The allocator range must stop below the parked block.

🛡️ Proposed bound
+    // The allocator's slots share the frame with the parked host arguments at hostArgSlot(0..4),
+    // so its range ends at kMaxLocals even when the backend can address kTotalSlots.
+    const uint8_t allocSlots = budget.slots < kMaxLocals ? budget.slots : kMaxLocals;
...
-    if (nSpilled > budget.slots) return false;   // the frame cannot address that many slots
+    if (nSpilled > allocSlots) return false;     // past this, a spill would hit a parked host arg

Apply the same bound to the ir.localSlots > budget.slots check at Line 100.

Also applies to: 277-277

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In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp` at line 243, Limit spill-slot allocation
to the local-slot range below the parked host-argument block: use the maximum
local-slot bound when initializing nSpilled and apply the same bound to the
related ir.localSlots > budget.slots validation. Preserve the existing spill
allocation behavior while preventing slots 16–20 from being assigned.
test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_xtensa.cpp (1)

60-74: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not accept call-clobbered registers as safe.

xtRegMap is used by code that emits call8. Xtensa window rotation clobbers a8-a15, so a8-a11 are not safe for values that remain live across a host call. This test accepts a2-a11 and can therefore pass the unsafe map. It cannot catch the layout corruption documented in docs/backlog/backlog-light.md, Lines [296]-[313].

Make the test assert the call-safe range for live values, or make the backend preserve a8-a11 and add a preservation test. Also verify the expected count and uniqueness of the returned registers.

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In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_xtensa.cpp` around lines 60 - 74, Update
the test for mm_xtensa_backend::mm::moonlive::xtRegMap so every mapped register
is safe across call8, restricting values to the appropriate call-safe range
rather than accepting a8-a11. Also assert the expected register count and verify
that all returned registers are unique.
test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc (1)

99-109: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the fill-loop contract comments consistent. The shared test and the RISC-V golden comment state that Xtensa cannot emit the case, while test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_xtensa.cpp sets MM_GOLD_FILLLOOP_LEN to 254u and says it fits.

  • test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc#L99-L109: rewrite the “does not fit” explanation if the test requires Xtensa output.
  • test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_riscv.cpp#L46-L51: update the “Xtensa does not” comparison to match the selected contract.
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In `@test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc` around lines 99 - 109, Align the
fill-loop contract comments with the actual Xtensa golden defined by
MM_GOLD_FILLLOOP_LEN in test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_xtensa.cpp. In
test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc, remove the claim that Xtensa cannot
emit the case if the 254u output is the intended contract; update
test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_riscv.cpp to make the corresponding “Xtensa
does not” comparison consistent, without changing test behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLive.cpp`:
- Around line 65-70: Update the comment in MoonLive::compile to state that
codeCapFor(0) provides the 256-byte minimum floor for fixed emitters, rather
than saying the sanity bound is the size; leave the implementation unchanged.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins.h`:
- Around line 53-58: Remove the stale comment sentence describing args as argc
32-bit values, while retaining the accurate documentation that args points to
argc frame slots represented by uintptr_t machine words.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp`:
- Around line 358-369: Update the Inline builtin handling around IrOp::Inline to
reject any builtin whose argument count exceeds four before staging or emitting
operands, using the compiler’s existing diagnostic/failure mechanism; do not
truncate extra arguments or emit a partial operation.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveIr.h`:
- Around line 60-64: Update sourcesOf and IrProgram::push for Call so b remains
an argument count rather than being treated as a vreg source, while imm remains
the frame-slot base. Make validation opcode-specific, applying vreg limits only
to actual vreg operands and allowing valid N-ary call counts without
spill-induced rewriting.

In `@src/platform/desktop/moonlive_lower_host.cpp`:
- Line 43: Update the scratch-register reservation and sHost placement in the
affected lowerers so sHost is derived from the reserved range rather than
hard-coded, using the first index after scratchTotal while keeping
sAddr/sOff/sCtr and Call-path argPtr/argN within the reservation. Apply the same
correction in the desktop, ESP32 RISC-V, and ESP32 Xtensa implementations.

In `@test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc`:
- Around line 155-196: Update the test case around “every shipped script
compiles” to include all 13 shipped .mlv scripts: six layouts, four effects, and
three modifiers, using the correct binding value and source for each. Keep the
per-ISA compilation and existing checks intact, and update the script-list
comments only as needed to accurately describe the complete coverage.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp`:
- Line 64: Update the Call handling in sourcesOf and the related
rewrite/remapping logic to treat Call as having no source virtual registers: do
not mention or remap in.a, in.b, or in.c, preserving in.b as the literal
argument count consumed by the lowering path. Keep destination handling
unchanged and ensure allocation no longer creates intervals for Call operand
fields.
- Line 243: Limit spill-slot allocation to the local-slot range below the parked
host-argument block: use the maximum local-slot bound when initializing nSpilled
and apply the same bound to the related ir.localSlots > budget.slots validation.
Preserve the existing spill allocation behavior while preventing slots 16–20
from being assigned.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h`:
- Around line 203-225: Update setAddLightSink to register only in an available
owned slot and leave sinkOverflow() permanently empty when both slots are
occupied, preserving no-op behavior for a third runner. Ensure mm_light_addLight
returns without invoking any sink when no valid registered sink is available,
while retaining the existing paired fn/context validation.

In `@test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc`:
- Around line 99-109: Align the fill-loop contract comments with the actual
Xtensa golden defined by MM_GOLD_FILLLOOP_LEN in
test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_xtensa.cpp. In
test/unit/core/moonlive_device_codegen.inc, remove the claim that Xtensa cannot
emit the case if the 254u output is the intended contract; update
test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_riscv.cpp to make the corresponding “Xtensa
does not” comparison consistent, without changing test behavior.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_xtensa.cpp`:
- Around line 60-74: Update the test for
mm_xtensa_backend::mm::moonlive::xtRegMap so every mapped register is safe
across call8, restricting values to the appropriate call-safe range rather than
accepting a8-a11. Also assert the expected register count and verify that all
returned registers are unique.
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  • src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.h
  • src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveIr.h
  • src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp
  • src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.h
  • src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h
  • src/platform/desktop/moonlive_asm_host.cpp
  • src/platform/desktop/moonlive_asm_host.h
  • src/platform/desktop/moonlive_lower_host.cpp
  • src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_riscv.cpp
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Scripted effects work on the ESP32 classic and the S3 for the first time.
A single `setRGB` used to reset the board; three of the five shipped effects
now run on both, and a structural check catches this class of defect on the
host instead of on a bench.

Performance: emitted code is unchanged in shape; the Xtensa frame grows 16
bytes per script (144 to 160) to hold the area the ABI reserves.

Core
- The Inline path refuses a builtin with more than four arguments instead of
  truncating to four and emitting an op that computes the wrong thing. Only a
  CALL is unbounded — its arguments go through the frame.
- `push` validates opcode-specifically: a Call's `b` is an ARGUMENT COUNT, not a
  vreg, so checking it against kMaxVRegs capped arity at the register count that
  staging through the frame exists to escape. New kMaxCallArgs, bounded by the
  locals range.
- `sourcesOf` reports a Call as reading no registers. Its arguments live in frame
  slots, so listing a/b/c as sources gave the argument count a live interval and
  let the rewriter remap it into a register number — it survived only because a
  fixed ABI vreg maps to itself.
- Spill slots stop at kMaxLocals so they cannot land on the parked host arguments
  at slots 16..20.
- codeCapFor is 24 -> 64 bytes/token. The old figure was measured with comments
  counted as tokens, which inflated the denominator and hid the real worst case:
  random-pixel.mlv is 39.3 bytes/token and did not fit its own buffer.

Light domain
- setAddLightSink installs only into an owned slot. It used to write through the
  shared overflow sink when both slots were taken, so two overflow threads ran
  through each other's context — the aliasing the two-slot table prevents. A
  third concurrent runner now gets no sink and its addLight calls no-op.

Platform
- THE FIX: Xtensa's prologue reserves the 16-byte BASE SAVE AREA the windowed ABI
  owns at the top of every frame. The hardware spills the caller's a0..a3 there —
  including the RETURN ADDRESS — when the register window overflows during a call.
  The frame was sized to exactly cover the slots, so the parked host arguments sat
  inside that region and a window overflow wrote through the return address. Every
  script reset both Xtensa boards with `IllegalInstruction` and a data address in
  A0. RISC-V and arm64 have no register window, hence no base-save area, hence
  never this bug.
- `sHost` is derived from scratchTotal rather than a hard-coded offset, so the
  scratch reservation and the register it names cannot drift apart. It sat outside
  the reservation and worked only because the maps have spare entries.

Tests
- The STRUCTURAL CHECKER (Plan-20260813 verification item 2): frame offsets stay
  inside the frame and clear of the ABI-reserved top, and every branch lands on an
  instruction boundary. Control-checked — reverting the fix above makes it fail
  with "frame offset 128 vs frame 144", naming the bug that reset two boards.
  It reads the frame from the emitted `entry` instruction: the first version
  recomputed it from its own copy of the formula and therefore agreed with the
  backend even when the backend was wrong.
- "every shipped script compiles for <ISA>" reads all 13 scripts from moonlive/
  rather than two inline copies, so the test cannot drift from what ships. This is
  what found the codeCapFor shortfall.
- The device-codegen harness sizes its buffer the way production does.
- Xtensa vreg-map test pins the register count and that no two vregs alias.
- Golden hashes re-recorded for the new frame size.

Docs/CI
- plasma.mlv's cost comment said four host calls per cell and named a call that is
  not there; it is nine.
- Backlog: MoonLive has no x86-64 backend, so scripts do not run on Windows;
  editing a script's contents via /api/file does not clear compiledHash_.

Reviews
- Rabbit: Inline arity, Call-as-vreg in push and sourcesOf, spill-slot range,
  sink overflow, sHost derivation, plasma comment, MoonLive.cpp and MoonLiveSpill.h
  comments — done. Xtensa kExtraSaveArea — done, and it was the real bug; I skipped
  it last round as too risky without hardware, and the bench proved it. The
  all-13-scripts test — done by reading from disk. emit_xtensa binding validation
  and its stale declaration — skipped, that file no longer exists. Moving the
  disasm build behind MoonDeck — skipped, disasm.py is a MoonDeck script.
  compiledHash_ invalidation — backlogged, pre-existing and belongs at the
  filesystem seam.

Verified on hardware, both Xtensa boards, identical results: onered, gradient and
random-pixel run; lines and plasma still reset. The two that fail are the only two
with a host call INSIDE a loop body — random-pixel has four nested calls and works,
gradient has loops and works — so that is the next thing to chase. The structural
checker covers Xtensa only: a RISC-V decoder is worth adding, but RISC-V has no
register window and so is the backend least exposed to this defect class.

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- Line 55: Validate that frame is at least MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP before
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REQUIRE(p0.hasFrameAlloc); // every emitted routine must open with a prologue
frame = p0.frameAlloc;
}
const uint32_t usable = frame - (MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP);

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Reject frames smaller than the ABI-reserved region.

frame - MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP wraps when the decoded prologue allocates fewer reserved bytes. The resulting large usable value lets invalid frame accesses pass. Require frame >= MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP before this subtraction.

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+        REQUIRE(frame >= MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP);
         const uint32_t usable = frame - (MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP);
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In `@test/unit/core/moonlive_structural.inc` at line 55, Validate that frame is at
least MM_ISA_RESERVED_TOP before calculating usable in the surrounding
frame-validation logic, rejecting smaller frames instead of allowing the
unsigned subtraction to wrap. Preserve the existing behavior for valid frames
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projectMM now runs as an emulated ESP32 on a development machine, with its REST
API and web UI reachable in a browser. The Xtensa MoonLive crash reproduces
there, so a codegen defect can be debugged on a laptop instead of a bench. A
second check verifies every instruction we hand-encode against the toolchain's
own assembler, covering the P4 and S31 that QEMU cannot emulate.

Performance: unchanged by this diff; nothing here runs on a tick. The KPI
numbers moved and are NOT trusted, see the note at the end.

Core
- HttpServerModule is scheduled only where an IP stack exists. With neither WiFi
  nor Ethernet compiled in, nothing calls esp_netif_init(), so lwIP asserts on a
  null mutex and the board dies before the light pipeline runs. Same gate
  MqttModule already used.
- NetworkModule asks the platform whether the interface is fixed
  (platform::ethPhyIsFixed) instead of naming an emulator: where it is, that type
  wins over the stored control, because a persisted value would otherwise select
  hardware the target does not have. No emulator knowledge in core.

Platform
- openeth: QEMU's emulated OpenCores MAC, behind the same PHY-type dispatch as
  the RMII and SPI paths. This is what gives an emulated board a real IP stack,
  and therefore the API and the UI; without it a run can only be watched on
  serial. Its bring-up is traced step by step through printf, because a silent
  failure there is indistinguishable from a working stack with no cable.
- ethNetif_ was used outside its MM_NO_ETH guard, so the no-Ethernet build did
  not compile at all.
- The W5500 headers were pulled in by any build with SPI Ethernet and no internal
  EMAC, which a non-EMAC variant satisfies by accident.

Scripts/MoonDeck
- `--firmware qemu`, plus moondeck/qemu/run_qemu.py: one card, an Erase flash
  checkbox, --gdb to break inside emitted code. The runner frees the forwarded
  port first, since QEMU treats a failed hostfwd as fatal but still exits 0, so a
  second instance made a run die in under a second while reporting success.
- The flash image's freshness is judged against the app binary. flash_args is
  written once when CMake configures and never touched again, so the image was
  never re-merged after a rebuild.
- check_encodings.py: 23 instructions assembled with xtensa-esp32-elf-as and
  riscv32-esp-elf-as, compared byte for byte. It found two of its own expected
  values decoding to entirely different instructions on the first run.
- moondeck.py: the SSE stream also catches ValueError. kill_script closes the pty
  fd while readline is blocked, and a closed Python file raises ValueError, not
  OSError, so stopping ANY long-running card threw a traceback.

Tests
- The STRUCTURAL CHECKER over emitted machine code: frame offsets stay inside the
  frame and clear of the ABI-reserved top, branches land on instruction
  boundaries, and no register a call destroyed is read before being rewritten.
  Each one is control-checked to fail when the property is broken.
- A host regression test for the shape that crashes Xtensa: a system variable read
  in a loop whose body makes a host call.

Docs/CI
- The qemu variant is excluded from web-installer/firmwares.json (installable),
  not merely marked non-shipping: that file lists what a user flashes to a board.

Reviews
- 👾 Reviewer (fable), 9 findings on the pending diff:
  HIGH, the new spill test was order-fragile (random16 is one LCG shared by the
  whole process, so a 0 draw would flake it) and its past-width check could not
  fail (green was 0 everywhere) — fixed with a constant channel, control-checked
  to catch a runaway. MEDIUM, the clobber checker had no proof it ever decoded a
  call — merged the two duplicate cases into one and added the guard,
  control-checked. MEDIUM, ethInitOpeneth leaked netif+driver on its late failure
  paths and never retained the handle — fixed against the sibling paths' pattern.
  MEDIUM, the qemu ethType_ seed sat outside its own Select's options and
  persistence clamped it to a different, real PHY — seed dropped. LOW, the
  main.cpp comment described a state this diff removed; check_encodings.py was a
  check nothing ran, now a card, with its unused ROOT and unchecked objcopy fixed;
  55 new em-dashes removed. NIT, --stop's pkill is broad — accepted, there is one
  emulator in this workflow. The desktop KPI finding is unresolved, below.

The KPI numbers in this commit are NOT a measurement: they were collected while
builds and an emulator were running on the same machine. Either they need
re-collecting on a quiet machine, or the drop is real and traces to the earlier
codegen commit. Recorded as-is rather than hand-adjusted, and flagged rather than
presented as a result. QEMU can never supply these: it emulates the timer too, so
a guest's fps is emulated time, not wall-clock.

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26-30: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Synchronize shared builtin state.

mm_light_random16() modifies s without synchronization. mm_light_print() and resetPrintBudget() also modify shared state without synchronization.

Scripts can run concurrently on the render task and a control task. These accesses are data races. If two calls decrement a budget of one, the counter can underflow and disable rate limiting. Repeated serial writes can then block the render task.

Use atomics with a compare-exchange update, or store this state per script runner keyed by platform::currentThreadId().

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In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h` around lines 26 - 30,
Synchronize shared state in mm_light_random16(), mm_light_print(), and
resetPrintBudget() for concurrent render and control task access. Prefer atomic
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- Around line 403-419: Add a process_name property with value qemu-system-xtensa
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process-group behavior so /api/running can restore the emulator’s Stop state.

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mm_light_print(), and resetPrintBudget() for concurrent render and control task
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MoonLive scripts that call a built-in reset every Xtensa board, so plasma and
every scripted layout were dead on the classic ESP32 and the S3 while working
on RISC-V and desktop. The emitted frame left the register-window spill hardware
too little room, so an interrupt during a host call overwrote the script's own
data. Scripts now run on all four boards, and a new line() built-in draws a
segment through the shared draw::line.

Performance: no hot-path change on desktop (tick unchanged). Device ticks
measured on the bench: S3 plasma ~780us, classic ~1040us, P4 577us, S31 725us.

Core
- Xtensa's window-overflow handler writes TWO 16-byte bands at the top of a
  call8 frame: the top 16 take an older frame's a0-a3, the next 16 take this
  frame's OWN a4-a7. The emitter reserved 16, so the parked control-arena
  pointer sat inside the second band and any interrupt landing during a host
  call replaced it with an expression temp. Deep call chains (plasma's sin and
  beat into libm) died in under a second, brief leaf calls almost never, and
  call-free scripts never, which is why this read as a haunted target rather
  than a layout bug.
- The reserve is DERIVED from the call this assembler emits, not written down:
  windowSaveReserveFor() decodes the window increment out of the callx opcode
  and a static_assert pins the result, so widening the call (call12 needs 48)
  moves the reserve with it or fails the build.

Light domain
- line(x1, y1, x2, y2, r, g, b), the first seven-argument built-in, wrapping the
  shared draw::line. Endpoints are clamped to the canvas because script math is
  unsigned: an unclamped wrapped coordinate would send the Bresenham walker on a
  billions-of-steps march on the render thread.
- The draw canvas lives in the SAME per-thread slot as the addLight sink, the
  one home for what a running script's built-ins may reach. C++ thread_local is
  unusable here: a FreeRTOS task without TLS has THREADPTR = 0, so the access
  dereferences a small offset from null.
- A read of either payload no longer CLAIMS a slot. Claims are only released by
  the detach paths, so a binding that installs nothing (a modifier) whose script
  draws would hold a slot for the life of its task; two such tasks exhausted the
  table and silently killed every later install.
- random16's seed and print's budget are atomic: two threads run scripts at
  once, and a lost update let two callers see the same "random" value.

UI
- The preview bar fits any pane width: the status text and dot slider shrink and
  ellipsize, the buttons never do. In the 200px floating preview the bar
  overflowed and clipped the rightmost buttons, including the one that restores
  the preview. Removed a dead .expanded rule no code toggles.

Scripts
- lines.mlv redrawn with two line() calls instead of two per-cell loops.
- ripples.mlv: two gliding wave sources interfering, the heaviest script that
  ships (~15 host calls per cell against plasma's 9).
- rose.mlv: a rhodonea layout, the strand tracing r = sin(petals * angle).

Tests
- The structural checker's reserve raised to 32 FIRST, where it failed on the
  shipped emitter and named the offending frame offset, before the emitter
  changed. Two Xtensa goldens re-recorded (the entry immediate grew).
- line() pinned three ways: all seven arguments arrive intact through the real
  JIT, nothing draws without an installed canvas, and a wrapped coordinate
  clamps instead of stalling. Plus a two-thread regression test for the slot
  leak above, verified to fail on the unfixed code.

Docs/CI
- lessons.md carries the frame contract, why the spill is spatial rather than
  timed, and why every static check stayed green. MoonLiveEffect.md points at it
  from the per-ISA assembler bullet.
- MoonDeck.md gains run_qemu and check_encodings sections, so both help buttons
  resolve instead of opening nothing.
- Deleted the two backlog entries this ships (the vreg-map root cause and the
  scripted-layout crash).

Reviews
- 👾 Reviewer on the staged diff, all six findings processed: the slot-leak on
  the read path (fixed, plus the regression test); a lessons line still calling
  the derived reserve "backlogged" (corrected); em-dashes and one British
  spelling (fixed); the spill-band table restated in the test (now states why it
  is held independently); a wrong call0 branch in windowSaveReserveFor (deleted
  rather than documented); a war-story sentence in a present-tense catalog page
  (moved to the lesson).

Verified on the bench (PO): S3, classic ESP32, P4 and S31 all flashed with this
build, running the effect ladder through plasma and ripples, both scripted
layouts, and lines.mlv on the new line() built-in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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35-58: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the comments to describe file-backed scripts.

The implementation now stores a filename and starts with an empty filename, but nearby comments still describe a source text control, a default random-pixel script, and a 512-byte source buffer. These statements conflict with compileScriptFile() and char script_[32] = "". Remove or rewrite the stale comments.

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In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h` around lines 35 - 58, Update the stale
comments in MoonLiveEffect around the script control and affectsPrepare to
consistently describe a file-backed script filename: remove references to source
text, default random-pixel content, and a 512-byte source buffer, and state that
editing the filename triggers recompilation while scripted control changes
remain live.

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Match the script-name capacity with the loader.

script_ has 31 usable bytes, and both controls_.addText() and setScript() use that capacity. compileScriptFile() accepts names up to moonlive::kMaxScriptName (40), so a valid name longer than 31 bytes is silently truncated. The truncation can remove .mlv or change the selected filename.

Use one shared capacity. For example, size script_ to moonlive::kMaxScriptName + 1, or reject inputs that do not fit instead of truncating. Add tests at the accepted boundary.

Based on src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h Lines 9-92, kMaxScriptName is 40.

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In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h` at line 38, Align the script-name buffer
and text-control capacity used by MoonLiveEffect with moonlive::kMaxScriptName,
including the setScript path, so all names accepted by compileScriptFile remain
intact; use the shared limit with space for the terminator and add coverage at
the maximum accepted length.

72-77: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate stale code on every failed file load.

compileScriptFile() returns before engine_.compile() for empty, missing, invalid, oversized, or unreadable files. After a valid script has run, this path only sets the error status and rebuilds controls. It does not clear the previous executable program, so engine_.ok() can remain true and tick() can render the old script while the module reports an error.

Clear the compiled program and declared-control metadata before file validation, or make compileScriptFile() perform that reset on every failure. Add a regression test for valid script → missing or empty script → dark render.

Based on src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScriptFile.h Lines 9-92, these loader failures return before engine.compile().

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- **`MoonLiveBuiltins_light`** (`src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h`) — the **light-domain registration**: the only place the LED vocabulary lives. Registers the whole vocabulary above — Inline ops lowering to stores, and Calls into host helpers — plus the system variables each binding supplies. A different host (display, sensor) writes its own table; the core is unchanged.
- **per-ISA assembler + lowering** (`src/platform/<target>/moonlive_asm_*` + `moonlive_lower_*`)a tiny named-instruction MacroAssembler with label back-patching, and the IR→bytes lowering that drives it. Xtensa for the classic/S3 (`__XTENSA__`), the host ISA on desktop (arm64/x86-64). Adding an ISA is a new assembler + lowering; the front-end and IR are unchanged. (`emitFill`/`emitAnimatedFill` remain as the hand-encoded `fill` references the assembler's output is checked against.)
- **`MoonLiveEffect`** (`src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveEffect.h`) — the **thin binding**: a first-class `EffectBase` carrying the `source` control, whose `tick()` delegates to the engine over its own `buffer()`. `compile(source, table, sysvars)` takes both host tables: the shared `lightBuiltins()`, and the system variables THIS binding supplies — `effectSysVars()` here, `modifierSysVars()` for a modifier, `layoutSysVars()` for a layout, which is what decides the names each kind of script can read and cannot declare. The engine is projectMM-agnostic; the binding is the only coupled layer.
- **per-ISA assembler + lowering** (`src/platform/<target>/moonlive_asm_*` + `moonlive_lower_*`): a tiny named-instruction MacroAssembler with label back-patching, and the IR→bytes lowering that drives it. Xtensa for the classic/S3 (`__XTENSA__`), the host ISA on desktop (arm64/x86-64). Adding an ISA is a new assembler + lowering; the front-end and IR are unchanged. (`emitFill`/`emitAnimatedFill` remain as the hand-encoded `fill` references the assembler's output is checked against.) An ISA also brings its own **frame contract**, which the emitter honors before a single instruction matters: on Xtensa the top 32 bytes of every frame belong to the register-window spill hardware, enforced by a `static_assert` tied to the widest call emitted plus the structural codegen test ([why, and how it was found](../../history/lessons.md#lessons-from-the-moonlive-on-xtensa-branch-the-register-window-frame-bug)).

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

List the RISC-V backend.

The implementation includes src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_riscv.cpp, src/platform/esp32/moonlive_asm_riscv.h, and src/platform/esp32/moonlive_lower_riscv.cpp for P4/S31, but this paragraph names only Xtensa and desktop. Add RISC-V and its target mapping so the architecture description matches current support.

As per coding guidelines: **/*.md documentation must describe the system as it currently exists.

Based on the PR scope, RISC-V backend support is part of the current implementation.

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In `@docs/moonmodules/light/MoonLiveEffect.md` at line 82, Update the per-ISA
assembler and lowering description to include the RISC-V backend, naming the
existing RISC-V assembler/lowering components and mapping them to the P4/S31
targets alongside the Xtensa and desktop mappings.

Source: Coding guidelines

@ewowi ewowi changed the title MoonLive: scripts on the filesystem, and a compiler that sizes itself to them MoonLive runs on every board: the Xtensa frame fix, and a compiler bounded by memory Aug 17, 2026
ewowi and others added 2 commits August 17, 2026 11:54
A script that stopped being valid kept rendering: renaming, deleting or emptying
one left the previous program running while the card reported the error, so the
fixture showed a script the user had removed. Long script names were also clipped
on the way in, which could strip the .mlv and reject a file that was fine.

Performance: no hot-path change (the fix is on the compile path); desktop tick
unchanged.

Light domain
- The script loader drops the compiled code BEFORE it validates anything. Every
  check leaves through an early return and only a successful compile released the
  previous program, so each failure path kept the old one executing. In the loader
  rather than the three bindings, so all of them get it at once.
- freeCode, not free: the control arena must survive a failed compile or a
  scripted control loses the live value the user set. Promoted to the engine's
  public surface with that contract written down; the first attempt used free()
  and two existing tests caught it.
- The three `script` control buffers size from kMaxScriptName, the loader's own
  limit. They held 31 characters while the loader accepted 40, so a longer valid
  name was silently truncated, and truncation can cut off the extension that made
  it valid.

Tests
- A script that disappears takes its lights with it: a working script, then a name
  that is not there, and the fixture must go dark rather than keep rendering.
  Verified to fail without the loader fix.
- A name at the accepted length survives the control it is stored in.

Docs/CI
- performance.md carries the four-board MoonLive table measured this cycle (S3,
  classic, P4, S31 on the same shipped scripts), drops a claim that the engine
  targets Xtensa specifically, and loses a duplicated sentence.
- The permission-review merge gate is removed from CLAUDE.md and premerge.py, and
  the approved-list snapshot with it: the session runs in auto mode, the live list
  had not drifted in two weeks, and nothing consumed the snapshot but the gate.
- Plan-20260813 marked against the code: steps 1, 2, 3, 3b, 3c, 8 and 9 shipped,
  4 to 7 (the deduplication) open. Its Xtensa section predicted the wrong cause,
  so it now records what the defect actually was.
- MoonDeck.md documents run_qemu and check_encodings, so both help buttons open
  something instead of nothing.

Reviews
- 🐇 CodeRabbit, 4 findings, all valid and all fixed: stale code surviving a
  failed load (the robustness bug above, with its regression test); silent name
  truncation; two comments still describing the removed `source` text control.
- 👾 Reviewer over the branch diff, no correctness blocker; 7 findings taken: a
  false claim that MoonLive has an interpreter (it does not, and the backlog says
  so), a comment orphaned by the deleted source array, two unused includes, a
  redundant forward declaration, a comment calling 40 and 32 the same limit, a
  stale slot count, and a desktop comment describing an emulation case that
  cannot happen there. Three deferred to the product owner and named in the PR:
  the permission-gate removal riding this branch, the tick to prepareTree
  hot-path baseline, and the em-dash rule.
- GCC caught a format-truncation error clang missed once the name buffers grew.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A test that assumed a MoonLive script compiles passed on the arm64 bench and
failed on CI, where x86-64 has no backend. `build_desktop.py --no-jit` now builds
this machine the way those desktops see the code, so that class of mistake shows
up in seconds instead of after a push. The test that broke is fixed, and a
thread-safe-init guard on the render path is gone.

Performance: no hot-path change; desktop tick unchanged.

Core
- The addLight/canvas slot table is constant-initialized at namespace scope. As a
  function-local static it carried a thread-safe initialization guard, which is a
  lock, on a path the render tick reaches; CI's realtime sanitizer flagged it.
- Scheduler::tick's prepareTree gate says why it keeps the MM_NONBLOCKING
  annotation honest: prepareTree allocates, reads the filesystem and runs the JIT,
  and runs only when another task asked for a rebuild, never on a frame. The
  analyser cannot see that, so its report stays as the tripwire for the day
  prepareTree becomes reachable without the gate.

Scripts/MoonDeck
- build_desktop.py --no-jit, and the MM_MOONLIVE_NO_HOST_JIT CMake option behind
  it, force MM_MOONLIVE_HAS_HOST_JIT to 0 AND gate out the arm64 emitter,
  assembler and lowerer. The macro alone was not enough: it flipped what the tests
  saw while the arm64 backend kept working, so a compile still succeeded and the
  broken test still passed. Gating the three sources is what makes the build
  behave like a host that has none.
- A "no-backend build" commit gate, triggered by the MoonLive sources and their
  tests. 3 seconds incremental.

Tests
- The script-name boundary test asserts what it is actually about (the name
  survives the control buffer) in a form that holds without a backend, and gates
  only the assertions that need a compile. Verified both ways: it still fails if
  the buffers shrink, and it fails under --no-jit if the guard is removed.

Reviews
- 👾 Reviewer, hot-path finding: the tick to prepareTree path is documented rather
  than re-baselined. Re-baselining would accept the finding silently and leave
  nothing to warn us if the gate ever disappears.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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