lanework/Kanban/LiveStore/BoardStore.swift

import Foundation
import Observation
import os
// The one UI import in the store layer, and it earns its place: 03-board-ui.md § Motion puts the
// animate-or-snap split on the *reload*, and a reload lands here. `Motion` owns the decision and
// every curve; this file owns nothing but the `withAnimation` around the assignment (see `land`).
import SwiftUI

// MARK: - Vocabulary

/// Why a board is refusing writes — the read-only lock's cause, and now the whole of the
/// vocabulary 02-architecture.md names.
///
/// The three cases share one *scope* (§ "The lock's scope") — every mutating command disabled
/// across every window sharing the store, drops refused, ⌘-drag moves degraded to copies, editor
/// buffers kept but their debounced saves suspended — and differ only in cause and in **what
/// clears them**, which is the one thing this enum's cases are actually asked about (see
/// `BoardStore.land(_:generation:origin:)`). The banner turns a case of this into user-facing
/// phrasing (§ The banner surface); the store only owns the truth of it.
public enum ReadOnlyLockReason: Sendable, Equatable {
    /// A reload that followed a bracketed wholesale operation failed, so the last-good snapshot on
    /// screen may describe a tree that no longer exists — after a branch switch, a different branch
    /// entirely. Writes derived from it would land nonsense, so every write is refused until a
    /// reload succeeds (02-architecture.md § Live-reload resilience, "A failed reload after a
    /// bracketed operation locks the board read-only").
    ///
    /// **Clears on the next successful reload, whatever its origin** — typically once the offending
    /// file is fixed.
    case bracketedReloadFailed

    /// The board's root is gone and its bookmark re-resolution found nothing: the volume unmounted,
    /// or the folder was deleted in Finder while the board was open (02-architecture.md §
    /// Write-failure surfacing, "A vanished board root locks the board read-only"). Every write
    /// would land nowhere, so the last-good snapshot stays on screen, read-only.
    ///
    /// **Clears on the next successful reload, whatever its origin**: a reload can only succeed if
    /// the root is back, so success *is* the return signal. Pending dirty buffers then save
    /// normally.
    case vanishedRoot

    /// The board is somewhere it cannot be written: a read-only volume (a DMG, a snapshot, a
    /// read-only share) or a permission-denied folder (02-architecture.md § Write-failure
    /// surfacing, "An unwritable board location enters the read-only lock at open"). Failing
    /// loudly, specifically, *once* beats letting every gesture fail one at a time.
    ///
    /// **It carries which** (settled): "the probe distinguishes read-only volume from
    /// permission-denied folder and the lock reason carries it … the fixes being different acts".
    /// The payload is the *only* thing the two spellings of this lock differ in — same scope, same
    /// clearing rule — so it is an associated value rather than two cases, and `BannerCenter` turns
    /// it into the one line the user reads.
    ///
    /// **Raised and cleared by the probe, not by the reload's success** — unlike its two siblings,
    /// whose cause a successful reload disproves by itself. A board on a read-only DMG reloads
    /// perfectly all day long; only the probe (§ "Writability re-probes on every reconciling
    /// reload" — wake, activation) can tell that the permission or the mount changed, in *either*
    /// direction: it clears a lock whose cause is gone and raises one whose cause has appeared
    /// mid-session (§ "the probe is symmetric").
    case unwritableLocation(UnwritableCause)
}

/// The refusal `BoardStore.performWrite` throws when the board is locked read-only.
///
/// **Deliberately temporary, and deliberately not a `BoardWriteError`.** The lock is a *store*
/// condition, not a filesystem outcome: nothing was attempted, no path failed, and folding it into
/// `BoardWriteError.io(message:)` would misrepresent a policy refusal as an I/O error in the one
/// place — the banner — where the distinction is the whole point. Widening `BoardWriteError` to
/// carry a refusal case is the banner card's job (02-architecture.md § Write-failure surfacing:
/// "The operation is a closed enum, not a string"), and it will unify this vocabulary with the
/// Writer's. Until then this thin error keeps `performWrite`'s honesty at the cost of an untyped
/// `throws` on its signature.
public enum BoardStoreWriteRefusal: Error, Sendable, Equatable, CustomStringConvertible {
    case readOnlyLocked(ReadOnlyLockReason)

    public var description: String {
        switch self {
        case let .readOnlyLocked(reason):
            "the board is read-only (\(reason))"
        }
    }
}

/// What became of a card-body save — the card window's Edit buffer meeting disk
/// (05-card-window.md ▸ Edit; `BoardStore.writeCardBody(inCard:body:)`).
///
/// A returned value rather than a thrown error, because **four of the five cases are not failures**
/// and the caller's response to each differs: only `.written` and `.unchanged` mean the buffer may
/// stop being held dirty. Making them one enum is what keeps that decision in one `switch` rather
/// than spread across a `try?` and two guards.
public enum CardBodyWriteOutcome: Sendable, Equatable {
    /// The bytes landed. The buffer matches disk; the echoing reload is now on its way.
    case written

    /// **Nothing to write** — the body on disk already reads exactly like the buffer. The three-gate
    /// write rule's outcome (05 ▸ Write rules: untouched, reverted, or the echo of an external
    /// edit), and as good as `.written` from the buffer's point of view: disk says what the user
    /// means it to say, and nothing was re-serialized to make that true.
    case unchanged

    /// The board is locked read-only, so the save is **suspended, not failed** (02-architecture.md §
    /// the lock's scope: "editor buffers kept but their debounced saves suspended"). The buffer stays
    /// dirty, the standing lock row already explains why, and nothing is posted — a banner per
    /// suppressed tick would bury the row that matters under echoes of itself.
    case suspended(ReadOnlyLockReason)

    /// The card is not in this board's tree at all any more — hard-deleted in Finder, or moved to
    /// another board. **Not a failure either**: there is nowhere for the text to land, which is 05 ▸
    /// Deletion & lifecycle's own answer ("A card hard-deleted externally (folder gone) discards
    /// both — nowhere left to write"). A *tombstoned* card is not this case; it is still on disk and
    /// is written to.
    case vanished

    /// The write was attempted and failed. The banner has already been posted by `performWrite`; the
    /// buffer must stay dirty, and a close standing on it is `DirtyBufferGuard`'s modal moment.
    case failed(BoardWriteError)
}

/// What came of opening a card's file in the raw-source outlet (05-card-window.md ▸ Raw source
/// outlet; `BoardStore.readCardSource(inCard:)`).
///
/// Three cases because the *entry* can be refused, which is the half of the outlet the design leaves
/// to the implementation: 05 fixes what Apply does with a bad buffer and says nothing about a file
/// that cannot be shown at all. The settled reading is that source mode does not open — see
/// `CardRawSourceSession.enter()`.
public enum RawSourceReadOutcome: Sendable, Equatable {
    /// The file, byte-honest, as the editor will show it.
    case read(String)

    /// The card is not live in this board any more — hard-deleted, moved away, or tombstoned. The
    /// window is dismissing itself in the same breath; there is nothing to open.
    case vanished

    /// The file could not be read, or is not UTF-8. The alert names it and the toggle stays
    /// unchecked; nothing on disk was touched.
    case failed(BoardWriteError)
}

/// What came of a raw-source Apply (05-card-window.md ▸ Raw source outlet;
/// `BoardStore.applyCardSource(inCard:text:)`).
///
/// `CardBodyWriteOutcome`'s shape and for its reason — the caller holds a buffer and has to know
/// whether it may stop holding it — plus the one case the body write cannot have: a proposal that
/// would not load. **Only `.applied`, `.unchanged` and `.vanished` leave source mode**; the other
/// three keep the buffer on screen with its text intact.
public enum RawSourceApplyOutcome: Sendable, Equatable {
    /// The bytes landed exactly as typed. The echoing reload refreshes every window.
    case applied

    /// The file already read exactly like the buffer, so nothing was written — an Apply on a buffer
    /// that was only read. As good as `.applied`: disk says what the user means it to say, and no
    /// `mtime` churn, watcher round-trip or empty commit was spent making that true.
    case unchanged

    /// **The text would not load** — the fail-fast parse refused it (`BoardLoader.validateCardIndex`).
    /// Nothing was attempted and nothing changed: source mode stays open with the detailed alert, and
    /// the toggle stays checked (05: "a failed validation keeps source mode open").
    case invalid(BoardLoadError)

    /// The board is locked read-only. Suspended rather than failed, `CardBodyWriteOutcome.suspended`'s
    /// rule: the buffer is kept, the standing lock row is the message, and nothing is posted.
    case suspended(ReadOnlyLockReason)

    /// The card left the board (or was tombstoned) under the open buffer. 05 ▸ Deletion & lifecycle
    /// is explicit that this buffer discards rather than writes — "a foreign delete is never reverted
    /// by a stale buffer" — so source mode closes with nothing written.
    case vanished

    /// The write was attempted and failed; `performWrite` has already posted the banner. The buffer
    /// stays on screen, because the text is only in it.
    case failed(BoardWriteError)
}

/// What a cross-board drop is doing to the items it carries — the **effective** operation the
/// locality model resolved (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop, settled).
///
/// Not a modifier and not a direction: by the time a store sees one of these the Finder volume
/// model has already been applied — within a board a drag is a move, between boards a copy, ⌥
/// forces copy and ⌘ forces move, each a no-op where it is already the default — and the badge the
/// user was looking at said exactly this. Two cases and no `.none`: a drag with no valid proposal
/// never reaches a commit at all (▸ Drag and drop, rule 2: "release with no valid proposal
/// cancels").
public enum TransferOperation: Sendable, Equatable {
    /// Fresh-GUID duplicates land at the drop, originals stay, `created` is kept — a copy is a
    /// fork (01-storage-format.md).
    case copy

    /// A real filesystem move: identity travels, and only the import boundary remints, per folder
    /// (01-storage-format.md's per-folder degradation).
    case move
}

// MARK: - BoardStore

/// The per-board hub: one live snapshot, one reload pipeline, and the read-side conditions the
/// board window renders (02-architecture.md § Layering ▸ Components).
///
/// **It enforces the one-way flow — files → watcher → loader → store → views — by never mutating
/// its snapshot from the write path.** A user action runs the Writer, the Writer touches disk, the
/// watcher notices, and the change arrives here as a reload like any external edit. The app trusts
/// its own writes no more than anyone else's; that is what makes external editors and agents
/// first-class, and it is why there is no `snapshot` setter anywhere below `apply(_:generation:)`.
///
/// ### What this type actually owns
///
/// 1. **The reload pipeline.** At most one tree walk in flight, off the main actor; signals arriving
///    during one coalesce into a single follow-up; only the newest result applies.
/// 2. **The failure rules.** A failed reload never replaces a good snapshot; an ordinary failure
///    raises the banner condition and leaves editing alone; a failure after a bracketed wholesale
///    operation locks the board read-only; the next success clears both.
/// 3. **Transient state across reloads.** `transient.resolve(against:)` runs on every applied
///    snapshot, re-grounding the selection, the drag, the pending cut, and the new-card placeholder.
///
/// ### What it deliberately does not own
///
/// The `FolderWatcher` itself — the registry owns one watcher and one store per board and wires
/// them together (`watcherBrackets`, `handleWatcherEvent(_:)`), so this type can be built and tested
/// without a filesystem stream. And the transient state itself, which lives in its own container
/// (`TransientBoardState`) rather than accreting here as fields: this type knows only *when* to
/// re-resolve it, never what the rules are. That includes the **new-card placeholder** — a
/// pseudo-card with no disk presence and no UUID, overlaid on the snapshot rather than merged into
/// it (02-architecture.md § Layering, the one named exception to the one-way flow). Nothing here
/// makes that awkward: `snapshot` is a pure value swap with no identity assumptions, so an overlay
/// is simply rendered on top of whatever the latest reload produced.
@MainActor
@Observable
public final class BoardStore {

    // MARK: Read-side state

    /// The last good tree walk. Replaced wholesale by a successful reload and **never** by the write
    /// path — see the type's doc comment for why. A failed reload leaves it exactly as it was.
    public private(set) var snapshot: BoardModel

    /// How many snapshots this store has applied, ever — a counter, not a version.
    ///
    /// It exists for **the committed-overlay hold** (DRAG-REORDER.md § The committed-overlay hold):
    /// a drop's overlay stands until "the next snapshot application on that store", and *application*
    /// is the event, not change. A reload that produced an identical model still ends the round trip
    /// the overlay was covering — comparing `snapshot` values would leave the overlay standing
    /// exactly when the write turned out to be a no-op.
    public private(set) var snapshotGeneration: Int = 0

    /// Tolerated anomalies from the load that produced `snapshot` (stray folders, an indexless
    /// UUID-shaped folder, a board-level `deleted:`). Replaced with the snapshot, so they always
    /// describe the tree currently on screen.
    public private(set) var loadWarnings: [LoadWarning]

    /// The cards the load that produced `snapshot` found holding loose files, exactly as the loader
    /// reported them — the loose-file carve-out's detection channel (01-storage-format.md § Fractal
    /// layout ▸ Rules, settled 2026-07-28). Replaced with the snapshot, like `loadWarnings`, so it
    /// always describes the tree currently on screen.
    ///
    /// **Nothing renders it.** A loose file is not content — it reaches no view, and the card it
    /// sits in draws exactly as it would without it. Its one consumer is
    /// `relocateLooseCardFiles()`, immediately below the reload that produced it.
    public private(set) var looseCardFiles: [LooseCardFiles]

    /// The legacy `deleted:` keys the load that produced `snapshot` found — the retired tombstone
    /// model's migration input (01-storage-format.md § Deletion, resettled 2026-07-28), in the
    /// loose-file channel's idiom and replaced with the snapshot exactly as it is.
    ///
    /// **Nothing renders it either.** Its one consumer is `migrateLegacyTombstones()`, immediately
    /// below the reload that produced it.
    public private(set) var legacyTombstones: [LegacyTombstone]

    /// The standing read-side condition: the error from the last reload that failed, `nil` when the
    /// board is healthy. `BoardLoadError` already carries fail-fast's specifics — the offending path
    /// and what is wrong with it — which is the whole of what the banner needs to render
    /// (02-architecture.md § Live-reload resilience). This is a *condition*, not a one-shot: it
    /// stands until a reload succeeds, and it heals without ceremony when one does.
    public private(set) var reloadFailure: BoardLoadError?

    /// Non-`nil` while the board refuses writes. Cleared by the next successful reload, per "the
    /// next successful reload clears both the banner and the lock".
    public private(set) var readOnlyLock: ReadOnlyLockReason?

    public var isReadOnly: Bool { readOnlyLock != nil }

    /// Everything shared across this board's windows that is **not on disk** — selection, drag
    /// membership, the pending cut, the search query, the new-card placeholder, trash visibility
    /// (02-architecture.md § Changes from Kanban).
    ///
    /// **Created with the store and dying with it**, which is what makes its per-open values per-open
    /// without any reset logic: closing the board is the reset. `let`, because it is one container
    /// for the store's whole life — the windows observe *it*, not a slot on this class.
    ///
    /// The store's only involvement is `resolve(against:)` on every successful reload; the rules that
    /// call answers live over there.
    public let transient: TransientBoardState

    /// Where the board is **now**. Follows the folder: a rename or a move absorbed through
    /// `relocate(to:)` updates it, so every URL derived from it — the Writer's paths, card-window
    /// keys, Reveal in Finder — re-derives at the new location (02-architecture.md §
    /// Write-failure surfacing, "A renamed or moved board root follows its file identity").
    ///
    /// Observed, deliberately: the window title's folder-name fallback reads this, and a rename in
    /// Finder should be visible in the title bar without anything else being told.
    ///
    /// `snapshot.rootURL` is the root the *last successful reload* walked, and therefore lags this
    /// by exactly one reload during an absorption. That is not a second source of truth: the
    /// relocation is always followed by the watcher reattach whose reconciling reload rebuilds the
    /// snapshot at the new root, after which the two agree again.
    public private(set) var rootURL: URL

    // MARK: Banners

    /// The board window's banner strip, as a model (02-architecture.md § The banner surface).
    ///
    /// **Owned, not injected**, and the reason is the hosting rule: the strip is "hosted by the
    /// window of origin", and a board window's strip has exactly one lifetime — this store's. A
    /// card window (m6) gets its *own* center for its own save, attachment, and raw-source Apply
    /// failures, and re-homes those rows here when it closes; injecting a shared center would
    /// erase precisely that distinction.
    ///
    /// It holds only what nothing else does — one-shot write failures, loss rows, the history
    /// suspension, in-progress operations, passive signposts. The lock and the reload breakage stay
    /// this store's own state and are composed in at render time by `bannerRows`.
    public let banners = BannerCenter()

    /// **This board's write-provenance ledger** (02-architecture.md ▸ Components ▸ EchoLedger):
    /// what the app wrote, so a landing reload can tell its own echo from someone else's edit.
    ///
    /// **In-memory, per-store, dies with the session** — a `let` beside `transient` and `banners`,
    /// for the same reason all three are: closing the board is the reset, and "losing it costs
    /// attribution and nothing else". Owned rather than injected because there is exactly one
    /// answer to "which ledger is this board's", and a second one would be a second provenance.
    ///
    /// Its consumers today are the announcer's digest and the vanishing-focus sentence, both
    /// through `land`. Pro's auto-committer (06-history-undo.md) becomes the second one without
    /// this line changing — which is why the type lives in `LiveStore/` beside `BoardDiff` rather
    /// than in `KanbanPro/`.
    @ObservationIgnored
    public let echoes = EchoLedger()

    /// The rows the board window's strip renders, in precedence order.
    ///
    /// Composed rather than stored: `readOnlyLock` and `reloadFailure` are the store's truths and
    /// `banners` holds the rest, so a stored array would be a third copy waiting to go stale. The
    /// ordering rule itself lives in `BannerCenter.rows(...)`, which is pure and tested on its own.
    public var bannerRows: [BannerRow] {
        BannerCenter.rows(
            lock: readOnlyLock,
            breakage: reloadFailure,
            oneShots: banners.oneShots,
            losses: banners.losses,
            suspension: banners.historySuspension,
            operations: banners.operations,
            signposts: banners.signposts
        )
    }

    // MARK: Wiring

    /// The watcher's bracket calls, injected rather than owned: the registry holds the watcher and
    /// the store together, and a store that reached into a watcher it did not own could not be
    /// tested without one. `nil` means "no watcher attached" — every operation below still behaves,
    /// it simply has nothing to suspend, which is exactly the shape unit tests want.
    @ObservationIgnored
    public var watcherBrackets: (begin: @MainActor () -> Void, end: @MainActor () -> Void)?

    /// What to do when the watched root changes identity — injected for the same reason the
    /// brackets are: the response needs the board's **security-scoped bookmark**, and this store
    /// does not own one (the registry does, along with the watcher that must be re-attached and the
    /// last-known path that arms the return detection). A store that reached for a bookmark it did
    /// not hold could not be built or tested without a registry.
    ///
    /// `nil` keeps the documented no-op: the last-good snapshot stays on screen, which is what
    /// every other failure path here does, and which is exactly the shape unit tests and any
    /// storeless use want. `BoardStoreRegistry` wires it to its own recovery loop.
    @ObservationIgnored
    public var rootChangeDelegate: (@MainActor () -> Void)?

    /// The registry's live write-through for this board's title, icon, and iconColor
    /// (02-architecture.md § Per-board app state, "these three refresh whenever an open board's
    /// reload changes them"). Injected the same way `rootChangeDelegate` is, and for the same
    /// reason: the write-through needs this board's **registry record id**, which this store does
    /// not own — `BoardWindowHost.configureWindow` wires it once a session's recordID exists,
    /// mirroring how it wires `windowController.onFrameChanged` right beside it.
    ///
    /// Called on **every** successful reload, whether or not the board-level display state
    /// actually changed. The "did it change" comparison is against the registry's *cached*
    /// record, not against this store's own previous snapshot — the registry is the only side
    /// that knows the cached value, so `BoardRegistry.syncDisplayState` is what turns a call that
    /// changed nothing into a no-op. `nil` (no watcher-backed session, a storeless test) simply
    /// means nothing is listening, exactly like `rootChangeDelegate`'s `nil`.
    @ObservationIgnored
    public var displayStateDelegate: (@MainActor () -> Void)?

    /// **Where this board's inverses go** — the undo/redo substrate every write below registers into
    /// (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules: "Registration at the Writer boundary … each Writer call site
    /// registers the inverse operation, computed from the pre-write snapshot the store already
    /// holds").
    ///
    /// The store is the Writer boundary: every app-mediated mutation in the app goes through one of
    /// the methods below and out through `performWrite`, which is precisely the set of call sites 13
    /// names. So the sink belongs here, injected like `watcherBrackets` and for the same reason — the
    /// stack is **the session's**, "one stack per board, owned by the board session", and a store that
    /// made its own would be a second answer to which stack a board has.
    /// `AppModel.beginSession` wires it the moment the session's provider exists.
    ///
    /// **Weak, deliberately.** The session owns both the store and the provider, and the provider's
    /// steps hold closures over *this* store: a strong reference here would close that loop, leaving a
    /// board that could only be freed by remembering to empty its undo stack first. `nil` — no session
    /// yet, a storeless test, a board whose stack has been cleared away — keeps every method below
    /// behaving exactly as it did before this milestone, registering nothing, which is `watcherBrackets`'
    /// `nil` rule restated for a second seam.
    @ObservationIgnored
    public weak var history: (any HistoryProviding)?

    // MARK: Reload machinery

    /// Monotonic id of the most recently *started* reload — and therefore also the number of tree
    /// walks this store has run since it opened, which is what makes the coalescing rule assertable
    /// from a test rather than merely plausible.
    ///
    /// Two rules are expressed as comparisons against it: **only the newest result applies** (a
    /// result whose generation is no longer the current one is dropped), and **the wholesale
    /// expectation binds to a load started after it was armed** (`wholesaleReloadFloor`).
    @ObservationIgnored
    private(set) var reloadGeneration = 0

    /// Whether a tree walk is running. At most one ever is: a second concurrent walk would buy
    /// nothing (both would produce the same snapshot) and would make "the newest result wins" a race
    /// rather than a rule.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var reloadInFlight = false

    /// A reload owed but not started, because one was already running when the signal arrived — a
    /// **flag, not a queue**: any number of signals during one walk coalesce into exactly one
    /// follow-up, because the follow-up is a full tree walk that covers all of them. The origin is
    /// merged by the watcher's own precedence rule (`reconciling > appMediated > foreign`) so a
    /// foreign event folding into a pending reconciling one never downgrades it.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var pendingReload: WatchOrigin?

    /// The generation from which a bracketed wholesale operation's expectation applies, or `nil`
    /// when no operation is outstanding.
    ///
    /// **Why a floor and not a boolean.** The rule is "the reload that ends this wholesale operation
    /// must succeed, or the board locks" — and a boolean cannot tell that reload apart from one that
    /// was *already in flight* when the operation ended, which observed a tree from before the
    /// operation touched it and therefore proves nothing about the result. Arming stores
    /// `reloadGeneration + 1`: the next walk to be *started*. An in-flight walk's generation is
    /// below the floor and passes through without consuming it; the first walk started at or after
    /// it consumes it — succeeding clears everything as usual, failing engages the lock.
    ///
    /// Ordinary (non-wholesale) reload failures never set the lock, because ordinary breakage is
    /// per-file: the snapshot still describes the tree and editing around the broken file is safe.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var wholesaleReloadFloor: Int?

    /// What the outstanding wholesale operation wants said when its reload lands, or `nil` for one
    /// that has nothing to announce — **"bracketed operations announce once, at completion … never
    /// their internal churn"** (10-accessibility.md ▸ Live board announcements).
    ///
    /// Stored beside the floor and consumed by the same reload, because the announcement's whole
    /// claim is that the operation *finished*: a phrase spoken when `performWholesale` returns would
    /// be describing a tree the store has not read yet, and one spoken per file would be the churn
    /// the design rules out. It is dropped along with the floor whichever way that reload went — a
    /// failed closing reload locks the board and says so instead (`BoardAnnouncer`'s ladder puts the
    /// raised lock above the completion), and the phrase must not survive to be spoken by some
    /// later, unrelated reload.
    ///
    /// **`nil` on every base-edition bracket today.** Base has no git operations, and the design's
    /// examples ("Pulled 3 commits", "Switched to branch 'redesign'") are pro-m1's; the parameter
    /// exists so that milestone supplies phrasing rather than re-plumbing the seam.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var wholesaleCompletion: String?

    /// Consumers suspended in `awaitQuiescence()`, resumed together the moment nothing is running
    /// and nothing is owed.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var quiescenceWaiters: [CheckedContinuation<Void, Never>] = []

    /// The loose-file set the last relocation attempt was made against — the loop guard
    /// `relocateLooseCardFiles()` documents. Empty means "nothing has been attempted against the
    /// current picture", which is both the opening state and what a clean board resets it to.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var attemptedRelocation: Set<String> = []

    /// The tombstone set the last migration attempt was made against — `attemptedRelocation`'s twin,
    /// documented at `migrateLegacyTombstones()`.
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var attemptedTombstoneMigration: Set<String> = []

    /// The board root's agent-guide picture the last refresh acted on — the third of the same loop
    /// guard, documented at `refreshAgentGuide()`. `nil` means "nothing has been acted on against
    /// the current picture", which is both the opening state and what a board whose guide is already
    /// current resets it to (so the state it holds is never a guide's own text for longer than the
    /// one reload that wrote it).
    @ObservationIgnored
    private var attemptedGuideRefresh: AgentGuide.State?

    /// Awaited off the main actor **after** a tree walk finishes and **before** its result is
    /// applied — the one seam this type keeps, `nil` in production.
    ///
    /// It exists because two of the contracts above are ordering claims about work that runs
    /// concurrently with the main actor ("only the newest result applies"; "the wholesale
    /// expectation never binds to a walk already in flight"), and a test that cannot pin a finished
    /// walk open can only approximate them with sleeps — which would make the suite slow, flaky, and
    /// silent about the very race it exists to rule out.
    @ObservationIgnored
    var loadBarrier: (@Sendable () async -> Void)?

    /// **This board's one outlet for spoken announcements** — `AccessibilityAnnouncer.post` in
    /// production, and the second seam this type keeps (`loadBarrier` is the first, and this is the
    /// same bargain).
    ///
    /// Every *decision* about what the board says is already a pure function of values
    /// (`BoardAnnouncer.speech(for:)`, `AccessibilityPhrases`), so the rules are not here and are not
    /// tested through here. What this makes assertable is the **wiring**: that a foreign reload's
    /// sentence actually reaches an outlet, that an app-mediated echo produces none, and that a
    /// bracket's completion phrase is spoken by the reload that closed it and by no later one. Those
    /// are claims about the reload path rather than about phrasing, and the alternative way to check
    /// them is a screen reader and a human ear.
    ///
    /// One outlet rather than a call per producer, for `setTrashVisible`'s own reason: the board's
    /// announcements are one voice, and a producer that posted around this would be a second voice
    /// nothing could see.
    @ObservationIgnored
    var announce: @MainActor (String?) -> Void = { AccessibilityAnnouncer.post($0) }

    private static let logger = Logger(subsystem: "dev.rzen.indie.Kanban", category: "store")

    // MARK: - Init

    /// Opens a board: one synchronous tree walk, and **no fallback if it fails**.
    ///
    /// Fail-fast is the *initial-load* contract (01-storage-format.md § Malformed input): there is
    /// no last-good snapshot to keep on screen yet, so a broken board throws its `BoardLoadError`
    /// instead of constructing a store that would have nothing to show. Every rule below — the
    /// banner, the lock, "a failed reload never replaces a good snapshot" — exists only *because*
    /// this one succeeded.
    ///
    /// The walk is synchronous because the caller has nothing to render until it lands; the
    /// asynchronous, off-main pipeline starts with the first reload.
    ///
    /// **It writes nothing, the opened board's loose files included.** `looseCardFiles` is recorded
    /// here and acted on by whoever wired this store up — `BoardStoreRegistry.acquire` calls
    /// `relocateLooseCardFiles()` once the watcher and the brackets exist, so the relocation is a
    /// bracketed write with a reload behind it rather than a write into a board nothing is watching
    /// yet. A store built directly (a test, a storeless consumer) relocates when it is asked to, and
    /// on every reload thereafter.
    public init(rootURL: URL) throws(BoardLoadError) {
        let result = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: rootURL)
        self.rootURL = rootURL
        self.snapshot = result.model
        self.loadWarnings = result.warnings
        self.looseCardFiles = result.looseCardFiles
        self.legacyTombstones = result.legacyTombstones
        self.reloadFailure = nil
        self.readOnlyLock = nil
        self.transient = TransientBoardState()
    }

    // MARK: - Inbound signals

    /// The single inbound signal — everything the outside world tells this store arrives here.
    ///
    /// Deliberately one door: the watcher, a test, and (later) the registry's wake/activation
    /// reconciliation all speak the same two-case vocabulary, so there is exactly one place where a
    /// filesystem change becomes a reload.
    public func handleWatcherEvent(_ event: WatcherEvent) {
        switch event {
        case let .treeChanged(origin):
            requestReload(origin)

        case .rootChanged:
            // Delegated, never guessed at. The settled response is to re-resolve the board's
            // security-scoped bookmark and either `reattach(to:)` the watcher at the new location —
            // a rename absorbed with no banner and no lock — or enter the vanished-root read-only
            // lock (02-architecture.md § Write-failure surfacing). Both halves need a bookmark this
            // store does not own, and a guess here would be a *wrong* guess: treating a rename as a
            // vanish would lock a board that is merely somewhere else.
            //
            // No reload is started either way. The delegate's two outcomes both end in one —
            // `reattach(to:)`'s reconciling reload at the re-resolved root, or the vanished-root
            // lock's eventual clearance when the root returns — and a reload fired from here would
            // walk a path that just stopped being the board.
            guard let rootChangeDelegate else {
                Self.logger.debug("rootChanged ignored — no delegate is wired (storeless use)")
                return
            }
            rootChangeDelegate()
        }
    }

    /// Starts a reload, or banks one if a walk is already running.
    private func requestReload(_ origin: WatchOrigin) {
        guard !reloadInFlight else {
            pendingReload = WatchOrigin.merged(pendingReload, origin)
            return
        }
        startReload(origin)
    }

    // MARK: - The reload pipeline

    /// Runs one tree walk **off the main actor** and applies its result on it.
    ///
    /// Off-main because a board of any size is a directory walk plus a YAML parse per item, and the
    /// whole point of the value-type snapshot is that this work can happen anywhere: `BoardLoader`
    /// is stateless statics and `LoadResult` is `Sendable`, so the only thing that has to be on the
    /// main actor is the assignment at the end. `Task.detached` rather than `Task { }`: a task
    /// created inside a `@MainActor` method inherits that isolation and would run the walk on the
    /// main actor — the exact thing this is avoiding.
    ///
    /// `origin` is not branched on: every reload is a full tree walk, so no origin is less safe than
    /// another. It is carried because the *policy* around a reload differs later — a `.reconciling`
    /// sweep re-probes writability (02-architecture.md § Write-failure surfacing) — and because it is
    /// the one thing that makes a reload's provenance legible in the log.
    private func startReload(_ origin: WatchOrigin) {
        reloadGeneration += 1
        let generation = reloadGeneration
        let root = rootURL
        let barrier = loadBarrier
        reloadInFlight = true
        Self.logger.debug("reload \(generation, privacy: .public) started (\(origin.rawValue, privacy: .public))")

        Task.detached(priority: .userInitiated) { [weak self] in
            // `do throws(BoardLoadError)`: without the annotation the `catch` widens to `any Error`
            // and the loader's typed error is lost on the way into `Result`.
            let outcome: Result<LoadResult, BoardLoadError>
            do throws(BoardLoadError) {
                outcome = .success(try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: root))
            } catch {
                outcome = .failure(error)
            }
            await barrier?()
            await self?.apply(outcome, generation: generation, origin: origin)
        }
    }

    /// Lands one walk's result and starts whatever it uncovered.
    private func apply(_ outcome: Result<LoadResult, BoardLoadError>, generation: Int, origin: WatchOrigin) {
        reloadInFlight = false

        // The stale-apply guard. Serialization means this should not trigger today, but "only the
        // newest result applies" is the rule the wholesale floor and every future overlapping-load
        // change are written against, so it is enforced rather than assumed.
        if generation == reloadGeneration {
            land(outcome, generation: generation, origin: origin)
        }

        startPendingReload()
        resumeQuiescenceWaitersIfQuiet()
    }

    private func land(_ outcome: Result<LoadResult, BoardLoadError>, generation: Int, origin: WatchOrigin) {
        // Consumed here, before the branch, because *both* outcomes end the expectation: a wholesale
        // operation gets exactly one reload to prove itself, and a second failure after it is
        // ordinary per-file breakage again.
        let endsWholesaleOperation: Bool
        let completion: String?
        if let floor = wholesaleReloadFloor, generation >= floor {
            wholesaleReloadFloor = nil
            completion = wholesaleCompletion
            wholesaleCompletion = nil
            endsWholesaleOperation = true
        } else {
            completion = nil
            endsWholesaleOperation = false
        }

        // The two standing conditions as they stood *before* this reload touched them —
        // 10-accessibility.md makes the live-reload-resilience banner an announced element "when it
        // appears and when it clears", and appearing and clearing are transitions, not states. Read
        // here rather than at each mutation below so there is one before-picture for the whole
        // landing, whichever branch it takes.
        var facts = BoardAnnouncer.ReloadFacts()
        facts.endsBracketedOperation = endsWholesaleOperation
        facts.completion = completion
        facts.lockBefore = readOnlyLock
        facts.breakageBefore = reloadFailure

        switch outcome {
        case let .success(result):
            // **What changed, who changed it, and what it cost the cursor** — all three computed
            // against the *outgoing* snapshot, so they have to be taken before the assignment below
            // replaces it. All three are functions of two value types; nothing here reads disk and
            // nothing here decides whether anyone is told.
            //
            // **Asked on every origin, reconciling included** (10-accessibility.md ▸ Live board
            // announcements, ruled 2026-07-29): what buys silence is the *ledger*, not the reload's
            // label. An app-mediated echo is silent because its files carry receipts that still
            // match; a reconciling sweep over a blind window is not, because the files it reveals
            // carry none — "the app never vouches for changes it didn't witness". The one exemption
            // is the bracket, which 10 gives a single sentence at completion rather than a
            // description of its churn, and which 02 keeps out of the ledger entirely.
            let focus: BoardAnnouncer.FocusOutcome
            if !endsWholesaleOperation {
                // **The digest covers the trash only while the trash lane is shown**
                // (10-accessibility.md ▸ Live board announcements, ruled 2026-07-29). This is the
                // seam that reading takes: visibility is view state on the board's own transient
                // container — one per store, shared by every window onto this board
                // (`TransientBoardState.isTrashVisible`) — so the store asks it here and both the
                // summarizer and the classifier stay pure functions of two snapshots plus one fact.
                let shownTrash = transient.isTrashVisible
                let diff = BoardDiff.between(snapshot, result.model, includingTrash: shownTrash)
                let verdicts = echoes.verdicts(
                    from: snapshot,
                    to: result.model,
                    diff: diff,
                    includingTrash: shownTrash
                )
                facts.diff = verdicts.foreign
                // The vanishing-focus sentence takes the same gate, one rung up the ladder: it says
                // "deleted *externally*", which would be a lie about an app-mediated delete — whose
                // own command already chose a successor (04-interactions.md ▸ The map's ⌫ rule) and
                // must not have it overridden here. So a vanishing the ledger vouches for is no
                // vanishing at all as far as speech and focus are concerned.
                let outcome = BoardAnnouncer.focusOutcome(
                    old: snapshot,
                    new: result.model,
                    selection: transient.selection,
                    focused: focusedItem
                )
                focus = Self.vanishingIsForeign(
                    focused: focusedItem,
                    old: snapshot,
                    new: result.model,
                    foreignItems: verdicts.foreignItems
                ) ? outcome : .survived
            } else {
                focus = .survived
            }
            facts.vanishedFocus = focus.vanished

            // **The motion language's one decision point** (03-board-ui.md § Motion, via `Motion`).
            // "User-initiated structural changes animate; foreign changes snap" cannot live at the
            // call sites here the way it did in the pathfinder — the one-way flow means the user's
            // own delete arrives back through the watcher exactly like an agent's edit — so it lives
            // at the *reload*, whose origin is already classified. `Motion` owns which origins
            // perform and in which voice; this store owns only the assignment they wrap.
            //
            // A `nil` animation is not a special case: `withAnimation(nil)` is the bare assignment,
            // which is what the snapping origins and the Reduce Motion variant both want.
            withAnimation(Motion.reloadAnimation(
                origin: origin,
                endsBracketedOperation: endsWholesaleOperation,
                reduced: Motion.prefersReducedMotion
            )) {
                snapshot = result.model
                snapshotGeneration += 1
                loadWarnings = result.warnings
                // The one place transient state is re-grounded. It goes last, after `snapshot` is
                // the new one, because a view woken by the snapshot's change must never observe a
                // selection still pointing at the old tree.
                //
                // Inside the transaction deliberately: 03 § Motion has the selection highlight
                // "ride whatever transaction is active rather than easing on its own", and a
                // re-grounding that landed outside this one would be exactly the independent ease
                // that rules out.
                transient.resolve(against: result.model)
                // And *then* the recovery, on top of the set rule rather than instead of it: the
                // resolution leaves an emptied selection wherever the focused item used to be, and
                // this is 10-accessibility.md's answer to the hole ("focus recovers to the card's
                // lane … walks up then sideways"). Inside the same transaction for the highlight's
                // sake, exactly like the resolution it follows.
                recoverFocus(focus.recovery)
            }
            // Outside it, equally deliberately — 03 keys transactions narrowly, and the banner
            // conditions are not board structure. A lock clearing is not a thing the strip should
            // slide out on the back of a card being deleted.
            //
            // Breakage always heals on a success — it *is* the claim "the last reload failed", and
            // this one did not.
            reloadFailure = nil
            looseCardFiles = result.looseCardFiles
            legacyTombstones = result.legacyTombstones
            reconcileLock(after: origin)
            // The registry write-through, for the same "not board structure" reason the lock
            // clearing sits out here: whether this board's row needs a new title, icon, or
            // iconColor is the registry's question to answer (`syncDisplayState`'s own no-op
            // guard), not a decision this store makes by comparing against its own prior
            // snapshot.
            displayStateDelegate?()
            // Last, and after `reconcileLock` deliberately: this is the seam the two deferred
            // app-initiated writes are armed on. A board that was locked read-only tolerated its
            // loose files and its legacy tombstones for exactly as long as the lock stood, and the
            // reload that clears the lock is the reload that lets them move — see
            // `relocateLooseCardFiles()` and `migrateLegacyTombstones()`. The ordering cuts the
            // other way too now that the probe is symmetric: a reconciling reload that *raises* the
            // lock raises it before these three run, so none of them writes into a location the
            // same reload just learned is read-only.
            //
            // The migration goes second only because the relocation is the older rule; they touch
            // disjoint files (loose files beside an `index.md` vs the `deleted:` key inside one) and
            // share one bracket-per-call posture, so neither can see the other's work half-done —
            // each opens its own bracket and each is re-armed by the reload the other's write
            // produces.
            //
            // The agent guide joins them last, and is the one of the three that runs on *every*
            // board rather than only on one an older version or an outside writer left work in: it
            // re-checks a single board-root file and writes only when the version marker says to
            // (08-agent-integration.md ▸ The agent guide). Running it here rather than at open alone
            // is what makes it self-healing — see `refreshAgentGuide()`.
            relocateLooseCardFiles()
            migrateLegacyTombstones()
            refreshAgentGuide()

        case let .failure(error):
            // `snapshot`, `loadWarnings` and the transient state are untouched: a failed reload
            // never replaces a good snapshot, and state over a snapshot that did not change has
            // nothing to re-resolve against. Nothing is performed here either, for the same reason —
            // and neither is anything on the lock paths below (`enterVanishedRootLock`,
            // `enterUnwritableLock`, `relocate`), none of which touch the snapshot at all. A board
            // that did not change has no motion to show.
            reloadFailure = error
            // `readOnlyLock == nil` rather than an unconditional assignment: a root that vanished
            // mid-bracket already raised its own, truer lock, and 02-architecture.md is explicit
            // that the bracket's final reload becomes a no-op there rather than a redundant
            // failure. Overwriting `.vanishedRoot` with `.bracketedReloadFailed` would also break
            // the clearing rules — the vanished root's lock must not clear on a reload that never
            // proves the root came back.
            if endsWholesaleOperation, readOnlyLock == nil {
                readOnlyLock = .bracketedReloadFailed
            }
            Self.logger.error("reload \(generation, privacy: .public) failed: \(error.description, privacy: .public)")
        }

        // **One announcement per reload**, chosen by `BoardAnnouncer`'s precedence ladder and posted
        // last, after both branches have finished moving the store — so the after-picture the
        // decision reads is the settled one, and so a sentence is never spoken about a state that a
        // line below it then changed.
        facts.lockAfter = readOnlyLock
        facts.breakageAfter = reloadFailure
        announce(BoardAnnouncer.speech(for: facts))
    }

    /// Installs the recovery `BoardAnnouncer` chose for a focus that vanished under a foreign
    /// reload — the storage half of the rule, with every decision already made.
    ///
    /// The board container case is spelled rather than skipped: `resolve(against:)` has already
    /// emptied the selection by the time this runs, so `clearSelection()` is a no-op on membership —
    /// but it also drops the anchor and the head, which is the difference between "nothing is
    /// selected" and "nothing is selected and the next ⇧-arrow ranges from a ghost".
    ///
    /// `noteActiveLane` rides along on the lane case for `lastActiveLaneID`'s own reason: the
    /// resolution just cleared that memory along with the lane it named, and a ⌘N after a foreign
    /// delete should file the card where the user has been left, not at the far left of the board.
    private func recoverFocus(_ recovery: BoardAnnouncer.FocusRecovery?) {
        switch recovery {
        case nil:
            break
        case let .lane(id):
            transient.select([id], in: .board)
            transient.noteActiveLane(id)
        case .boardContainer:
            transient.clearSelection()
        }
    }

    /// **Whether the hole under the cursor was somebody else's doing** — the gate that used to be
    /// `origin == .foreign`, now asked of the ledger per file (10-accessibility.md, ruled
    /// 2026-07-29).
    ///
    /// It mirrors `BoardAnnouncer.focusOutcome`'s own choice of subject rather than second-guessing
    /// it, because the two must agree about *what vanished*: when the lane went, the lane is the
    /// subject and the lane's classification is the one that decides — a card swept away with an
    /// app-mediated lane delete carries no receipt of its own (the removal took the whole subtree's
    /// receipts with it), and letting the child's verdict speak would announce the user's own
    /// gesture back at them.
    ///
    /// `false` for a focus that was never on the board's old side: there is nothing to classify, and
    /// `focusOutcome` already answers `.survived` there.
    nonisolated static func vanishingIsForeign(
        focused: ItemID?,
        old: BoardModel,
        new: BoardModel,
        foreignItems: Set<ItemID>
    ) -> Bool {
        guard let focused else { return false }
        if old.lanes.contains(where: { $0.id == focused }) {
            return foreignItems.contains(focused)
        }
        guard let home = old.lanes.first(where: { lane in lane.cards.contains { $0.id == focused } })
        else { return false }
        if new.lanes.contains(where: { $0.id == home.id }) {
            return foreignItems.contains(focused)
        }
        return foreignItems.contains(home.id)
    }

    /// **The cursor**, as 10-accessibility.md's announcements mean it: the navigation head when it
    /// is still in the selection, else a sole selected item, else nothing.
    ///
    /// Nothing for a multi-item selection with no head deliberately — a vanishing-focus sentence
    /// names *one* item ("Card 'Fix login' was deleted externally"), and picking one out of a
    /// five-card selection by set order would name whichever the hash table happened to yield. That
    /// case falls through to the digest, which describes all five honestly.
    private var focusedItem: ItemID? {
        let ids = transient.selection.ids
        if let head = transient.selectionHead, ids.contains(head) { return head }
        return ids.count == 1 ? ids.first : nil
    }

    private func startPendingReload() {
        guard !reloadInFlight, let origin = pendingReload else { return }
        pendingReload = nil
        startReload(origin)
    }

    // MARK: - The lock's reconciliation rules

    /// Brings the read-only lock into line with what this successful reload — and, on a reconciling
    /// one, a fresh writability probe — actually proves.
    ///
    /// **Reason-specific, because the causes are not alike** (02-architecture.md § Write-failure
    /// surfacing):
    ///
    /// - `.bracketedReloadFailed` and `.vanishedRoot` are *disproved by the success itself*. The
    ///   first says "the tree could not be re-read after a wholesale change" and the second says
    ///   "the root is gone" — a completed tree walk at the root contradicts both, whatever origin
    ///   asked for it, so any success clears them.
    /// - `.unwritableLocation` is not. A board on a read-only DMG reloads flawlessly forever;
    ///   loading proves nothing about writing. Only the probe can speak to it, and the probe runs on
    ///   **reconciling** reloads — wake, activation, a stream re-creation — because those are the
    ///   reloads that admit a blind window ("Writability re-probes on every reconciling reload").
    ///
    /// ### The probe is symmetric (settled)
    ///
    /// It clears *and* raises. "A rewritable remount or fixed permission clears the lock without
    /// ceremony, and a volume gone read-only mid-session *raises* it at the next probe — banner up
    /// front, not every gesture failing one at a time (the lock's own founding rationale)." Between
    /// probes a write that hits the newly read-only volume fails as an ordinary one-shot; this is
    /// the line that converts that condition into the standing lock.
    ///
    /// A raise here is deliberately **not** routed through `enterUnwritableLock(_:)`: that method
    /// speaks its own sentence, and this runs inside `land`, which posts exactly one announcement
    /// per reload from the before/after pictures it already holds. Two voices for one lock is the
    /// bug `announceLockChange` exists to avoid.
    ///
    /// The sibling locks are settled *before* the probe, so a reconciling reload that clears a
    /// vanished root on a volume that came back read-only ends with the honest lock rather than no
    /// lock at all. And a standing `.unwritableLocation` whose cause *changed* — a permission-denied
    /// folder whose volume was then remounted read-only — re-lands with the new cause, updating the
    /// row's line rather than replacing the row (`BannerRow.id` is constant per condition).
    private func reconcileLock(after origin: WatchOrigin) {
        switch readOnlyLock {
        case .bracketedReloadFailed, .vanishedRoot:
            readOnlyLock = nil
        case .unwritableLocation, nil:
            break
        }

        guard origin == .reconciling else { return }

        switch (readOnlyLock, WritabilityProbe.probe(rootURL)) {
        case (.unwritableLocation, nil):
            Self.logger.debug("writability re-probe passed — the unwritable-location lock clears")
            readOnlyLock = nil
        case let (.unwritableLocation, .some(cause)):
            // Still unwritable. The assignment is not a no-op only when the *cause* moved.
            readOnlyLock = .unwritableLocation(cause)
        case let (nil, .some(cause)):
            Self.logger.error("writability re-probe failed (\(cause.rawValue, privacy: .public)) — the read-only lock rises")
            readOnlyLock = .unwritableLocation(cause)
        case (nil, nil):
            break
        // Cleared above, so unreachable — spelled so a new lock reason is a compile error here
        // rather than a silent fall-through past the probe.
        case (.bracketedReloadFailed, _), (.vanishedRoot, _):
            break
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Root identity and explicit locks

    /// Points this store at the board's new location, absorbing a rename or a move.
    ///
    /// Called by the registry when a `.rootChanged` re-resolved the board's bookmark somewhere else
    /// (02-architecture.md § Write-failure surfacing, "A renamed or moved board root follows its
    /// file identity"): the board the app has open is the *file*, not the path string, so this is
    /// bookkeeping rather than an event — **no banner, no lock, nothing was ever wrong**.
    ///
    /// It deliberately starts **no reload**. The caller follows this with the watcher's
    /// `reattach(to:)`, whose reconciling reload is the one that rebuilds the snapshot at the new
    /// root; a reload fired from here would be a second walk racing that one for no gain. Until it
    /// lands, `rootURL` is the new location and `snapshot.rootURL` is still the old — see
    /// `rootURL`'s note.
    public func relocate(to newRoot: URL) {
        guard newRoot != rootURL else { return }
        Self.logger.debug("board root relocated; Writer URLs now derive from the new location")
        rootURL = newRoot
    }

    /// Raises the vanished-root read-only lock — the registry's call, after bookmark re-resolution
    /// found nothing and the last-known path is not there either.
    ///
    /// Overwrites whatever lock was standing: a root that is gone is the most current and most
    /// specific truth about why writes are refused, and its clearing rule (a successful reload,
    /// which can only happen if the root came back) is strictly the safer one to be holding.
    public func enterVanishedRootLock() {
        Self.logger.error("board root vanished — entering the read-only lock")
        let before = readOnlyLock
        readOnlyLock = .vanishedRoot
        announceLockChange(from: before)
    }

    /// **The open-time writability probe** (02 § "An unwritable board location enters the read-only
    /// lock at open") — `BoardStoreRegistry.acquire`'s call, and the only place the lock is raised
    /// outside a reconciling reload.
    ///
    /// A no-op on a writable board, which is the overwhelming case, and one `access(2)` plus one
    /// volume resource value when it is not — cheap enough to sit unconditionally on the open path.
    ///
    /// **The open still succeeds.** Nothing here refuses the board or throws: the lock's read
    /// affordances stay live as always, because "inspecting an archived board on a DMG is a
    /// legitimate errand, and viewing-first is the point". All that changes is that every mutating
    /// entry point now consults a predicate that is already `true` before the window can be acted
    /// on — the lock is up *before* the user's first gesture, which is the whole of "fail loudly,
    /// specifically, once".
    public func probeWritabilityAtOpen() {
        guard let cause = WritabilityProbe.probe(rootURL) else { return }
        enterUnwritableLock(cause)
    }

    /// Raises the unwritable-location read-only lock with the cause the probe found.
    ///
    /// Public because the probe is not the only conceivable producer and because tests arm it
    /// directly; `probeWritabilityAtOpen()` is the app's own path to it.
    ///
    /// Does **not** overwrite a standing lock: a board that is already locked for a vanished root
    /// or a failed bracketed reload has a cause that outranks "and it is also read-only", and both
    /// of those clear on a success that would then re-probe anyway (`reconcileLock(after:)` settles
    /// the siblings first, then probes, precisely so that reload lands on the right answer).
    public func enterUnwritableLock(_ cause: UnwritableCause) {
        guard readOnlyLock == nil else { return }
        Self.logger.error("board location is not writable (\(cause.rawValue, privacy: .public)) — entering the read-only lock")
        readOnlyLock = .unwritableLocation(cause)
        announceLockChange(from: nil)
    }

    /// Speaks a lock raised **outside** the reload path — the registry's vanished-root call and the
    /// open flow's writability probe, neither of which is a reload and neither of which therefore
    /// competes with anything for the debounce's one sentence.
    ///
    /// 10-accessibility.md makes the live-reload-resilience banner an announced element, and these
    /// are the two ways it can appear without a reload landing. Routed through the same
    /// `BoardAnnouncer.ReloadFacts` ladder rather than posting directly so the sentence is composed
    /// exactly once, in one place, from the banner's own headline: a lock the user hears described
    /// one way and reads another is two locks as far as they can tell.
    private func announceLockChange(from before: ReadOnlyLockReason?) {
        var facts = BoardAnnouncer.ReloadFacts()
        facts.lockBefore = before
        facts.lockAfter = readOnlyLock
        announce(BoardAnnouncer.speech(for: facts))
    }

    // MARK: - Write gate

    /// Runs a synchronous Writer operation inside the watcher bracket, so the churn it produces
    /// rounds back as one app-mediated reload rather than a scatter of foreign ones.
    ///
    /// The store does **not** touch its snapshot here, before or after. `operation` puts bytes on
    /// disk; the watcher notices; the reload applies. That indirection is the one-way flow, and it is
    /// why this method's only jobs are the gate and the bracket.
    ///
    /// **A failure posts to the banner before it is rethrown** (02-architecture.md § Write-failure
    /// surfacing): the strip is how the one-way flow keeps its honesty — the action visibly did not
    /// happen, and the banner is the only thing that says why — so no call site is trusted to
    /// remember, and a `try?` at some future call site cannot make a failure silent. The refusal
    /// below is deliberately *not* posted: the lock row is already standing, and a second row per
    /// refused gesture would bury it under echoes of itself.
    ///
    /// - Throws: `BoardStoreWriteRefusal.readOnlyLocked` if the board is locked read-only — checked
    ///   *before* the bracket opens, so a refusal costs no suspended watcher and no owed reload.
    ///   Otherwise rethrows whatever `operation` threw, which is a `BoardWriteError`. The untyped
    ///   `throws` is the price of those being two different error types today; see
    ///   `BoardStoreWriteRefusal` for why they are, and why they will not stay that way.
    ///
    /// One ergonomic wart, recorded so it is not rediscovered: when `operation` returns a value,
    /// Swift cannot infer `T` and the closure's thrown type at the same time — the thrown type
    /// widens to `any Error` and the call fails to compile. Such a call site spells the closure out
    /// (`{ () throws(BoardWriteError) -> ItemID in … }`). `Void`-returning operations, which are
    /// most of them, infer cleanly.
    @discardableResult
    public func performWrite<T>(_ operation: () throws(BoardWriteError) -> T) throws -> T {
        if let readOnlyLock {
            throw BoardStoreWriteRefusal.readOnlyLocked(readOnlyLock)
        }
        watcherBrackets?.begin()
        // `defer`, not a trailing call: a Writer operation that fails partway has still touched disk,
        // and an unbalanced bracket would leave the watcher suspended for the rest of the session.
        defer { watcherBrackets?.end() }
        // **The receipt seam** (02-architecture.md ▸ Components ▸ EchoLedger). Binding the ledger
        // here rather than passing it down is what keeps `BoardWriter` the stateless enum of statics
        // the same bullet requires: the Writer's disk primitives drop receipts into whichever
        // board's ledger is bound, and the binding is exactly this bracket — which is exactly the
        // span in which a write is the app's. A Writer call outside one (another board's tree, a
        // test) finds no ledger and records nothing.
        return try EchoLedger.$current.withValue(echoes) {
            // `do throws(BoardWriteError)`: without the annotation the `catch` widens to `any Error`
            // and the Writer's typed error is lost on the way to the banner.
            do throws(BoardWriteError) {
                return try operation()
            } catch {
                banners.post(error)
                throw error
            }
        }
    }

    /// Runs an operation that rewrites the tree **wholesale** — pull-rebase, branch switch, undo
    /// restore (06-history-undo.md, 07-sync-collab.md) — under the bracket, and arms the rule that
    /// its closing reload must succeed.
    ///
    /// Two things distinguish this from `performWrite`:
    ///
    /// - The bracket is load-bearing rather than tidy: a reload landing mid-operation would render a
    ///   half-checked-out tree.
    /// - Failure of the closing reload **locks the board** (`ReadOnlyLockReason.bracketedReloadFailed`).
    ///   After a wholesale change the last-good snapshot may describe a different branch entirely, so
    ///   writes derived from it would land nonsense — unlike ordinary per-file breakage, where the
    ///   snapshot still describes the tree.
    ///
    /// The expectation is armed on **every** exit path, a thrown error included: an operation that
    /// died partway is precisely the case where the tree's state is unknown and the next reload had
    /// better be the authority on it.
    ///
    /// - Parameter completion: what to announce when the closing reload lands
    ///   (10-accessibility.md ▸ Live board announcements: "bracketed operations announce once, at
    ///   completion" — "Pulled 3 commits", "Switched to branch 'redesign'"). `nil`, the default, is
    ///   an operation whose completion is not worth speech, which is **every base-edition bracket
    ///   today**: base has no git operations, and the two app-initiated writes that do reach disk on
    ///   their own — the loose-file relocation and the legacy-tombstone migration — are ordinary
    ///   `performWrite` calls that already say what they did on the banner strip. The parameter is
    ///   the seam pro-m1 fills; see `wholesaleCompletion`.
    ///
    /// - Throws: `BoardStoreWriteRefusal.readOnlyLocked` if the board is already locked — a locked
    ///   board refuses to *start* wholesale work, not just ordinary writes. Otherwise rethrows
    ///   `operation`'s error. (Spelled `throws` rather than `rethrows` because of that refusal: a
    ///   `rethrows` function may only throw errors its closure threw.)
    public func performWholesale(announcing completion: String? = nil, _ operation: () throws -> Void) throws {
        if let readOnlyLock {
            throw BoardStoreWriteRefusal.readOnlyLocked(readOnlyLock)
        }
        watcherBrackets?.begin()
        defer {
            // Ordered: arm first, then close the bracket. `endBracket()` is what schedules the
            // post-bracket reload, and with a `nil` watcher a consumer may signal by hand the instant
            // this returns — either way the floor has to be in place before any walk can start. The
            // completion phrase is armed with it, for the same reason and on the same exit paths: an
            // operation that died partway still owes its closing reload, and 10 gives that reload one
            // sentence whichever way it goes.
            wholesaleReloadFloor = reloadGeneration + 1
            wholesaleCompletion = completion
            watcherBrackets?.end()
        }
        do {
            try operation()
        } catch let error as BoardWriteError {
            // Same honesty rule as `performWrite`, applied to the one error type the banner has
            // phrasing for. A wholesale operation is usually git's (m7), whose own failure
            // vocabulary is not `BoardWriteError` and whose surfacing — the suspended-history
            // condition, the in-progress row swapping for an error — is the committer's to drive;
            // but a `BoardWriteError` escaping here is an ordinary failed write and may no more
            // bypass the strip than one from `performWrite`.
            banners.post(error)
            throw error
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Lane width

    /// Writes a lane's width — the one commit point both width mechanisms share (03-board-ui.md §
    /// Lane): the right-edge drag's release and the stepper's ⌥⌘→/⌥⌘← both land here, and they differ
    /// only in what they did to the *window* on the way (the drag grew it, the stepper did not).
    ///
    /// **The value written is an integer, replacing whatever was there.** `width` is a lenient field
    /// on the read side — missing, malformed, zero and negative all render as one unit
    /// (`LaneLayoutMath.displayUnits`) with the author's bytes left alone — but an explicit width
    /// change is the user overwriting that value, so the Writer puts a plain integer in its place
    /// (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter).
    ///
    /// Three ways this does nothing, all deliberate: a count below 1 clamps to 1 (a lane spans at
    /// least one unit), an id that is not in the snapshot is ignored (the lane vanished under the
    /// gesture — the reload that removed it is the authority), and a count already equal to what the
    /// lane displays writes nothing (a drag that ends where it started must not stamp `modified` or
    /// mint a git commit).
    ///
    /// Failures are already the banner's: `performWrite` posts every `BoardWriteError` before it
    /// rethrows, so the rethrow is swallowed here rather than propagated to a gesture that has no
    /// second thing to do about it. The lane stays at its old width, which is the truth — nothing was
    /// written.
    public func setLaneWidth(_ id: ItemID, units: Int) {
        writeLaneWidths([(id, max(1, units))])
    }

    /// Steps every lane in `ids` one unit — the Increase/Decrease Lane Width menu items' batch
    /// (03-board-ui.md § Lane, settled: "they batch over a multi-lane selection — each selected
    /// lane steps one unit, one gesture, one commit"; the context-menu stepper stays single-lane
    /// by nature and keeps calling `setLaneWidth`).
    ///
    /// Lanes already at the one-unit floor simply hold there on a decrease — the batch is not
    /// refused because one member has nowhere to go, matching the style batch's silent-skip shape.
    public func stepLaneWidths(_ ids: Set<ItemID>, by delta: Int) {
        let changes: [(ItemID, Int)] = snapshot.lanes
            .filter { ids.contains($0.id) }
            .map { ($0.id, max(1, LaneLayoutMath.displayUnits(of: $0) + delta)) }
        writeLaneWidths(changes)
    }

    /// The one commit point every width mechanism shares — the edge drag, the context-menu stepper,
    /// and the menu items' batch. One `performWrite` bracket whatever the count: one gesture, one
    /// app-mediated reload, one commit on git boards (the style batch's rule).
    ///
    /// **A width landing on 1 removes the `width` key** (03-board-ui.md § Lane, settled — the
    /// remove-at-default family beside the empty rename's `title` and the None well's
    /// `background`): a default lane's frontmatter stays clean whichever mechanism wrote it. A
    /// hand-written `width: 1` is legal and preserved until the app itself next edits width — the
    /// unchanged-units guard below skips it, so only a real change reaches the remove.
    private func writeLaneWidths(_ changes: [(id: ItemID, units: Int)]) {
        let writes: [(folder: URL, units: Int, prior: FieldValue<Int>, title: String?)] = changes.compactMap { change in
            guard let lane = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == change.id }),
                  LaneLayoutMath.displayUnits(of: lane) != change.units
            else { return nil }
            return (rootURL.appendingPathComponent(change.id.rawValue), change.units, lane.width, lane.title.value)
        }
        guard !writes.isEmpty else { return }

        // The closure's signature is spelled out because of `try?`: with the error discarded at the
        // call site Swift stops inferring the typed `throws(BoardWriteError)` and widens it to `any
        // Error`, which `performWrite` will not take. Same wart as the value-returning call sites
        // `performWrite`'s doc comment records, arriving from the other direction.
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for write in writes {
                try Self.setWidth(write.units, at: write.folder)
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil else { return }

        // resize → prior width (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). One step whatever the batch's size — the
        // menu items step every selected lane in one gesture, and one gesture is one step.
        //
        // The validated field is `width`, read as the app reads it: a lane landing on one unit has
        // **no key at all** (the remove-at-default rule above), which is a real after-value and the
        // one `nil` here means. The redo's expectation is the prior as the inverse restores it —
        // `prior.value`, which is `nil` for a missing *and* for a malformed prior, exactly matching
        // `restoreWidth`'s own reading.
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.resize, kind: .lane, count: writes.count),
            subject: writes.count == 1 ? writes[0].title : nil,
            undoExpects: writes.map { .present($0.folder, .width($0.units == 1 ? nil : $0.units)) },
            redoExpects: writes.map { .present($0.folder, .width($0.prior.value)) }
        ) { _ in
            for write in writes {
                try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: write.folder, operation: .resize(title: nil)) { document in
                    Self.restoreWidth(write.prior, in: &document)
                }
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            for write in writes {
                try Self.setWidth(write.units, at: write.folder)
            }
        }
    }

    /// The width write itself, spelled once so the gesture and its redo cannot drift apart on the
    /// remove-at-default rule.
    private static func setWidth(_ units: Int, at folder: URL) throws(BoardWriteError) {
        try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: folder, operation: .resize(title: nil)) { document in
            if units == 1 {
                document.remove(FrontmatterKeys.width)
            } else {
                document.set(FrontmatterKeys.width, to: .int(units))
            }
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Styling

    /// One item a style gesture is about to act on: where its `index.md` is, and what the two styled
    /// keys currently say there.
    ///
    /// The editor reads these for its per-dimension current-value display (`StyleFieldState.resolve`)
    /// and `applyStyle` reads the *same* values to decide what is a no-op, so the display and the
    /// write can never disagree about what is already on disk. `id` is `nil` for the board root,
    /// which has no `ItemID` by design (see `ItemID`'s doc comment).
    public struct StyleSubject: Sendable, Equatable {
        public let id: ItemID?
        public let folder: URL
        public let background: FieldValue<String>
        public let icon: FieldValue<String>
    }

    /// The live items `target` names, in display order — lanes left to right, each lane's cards top
    /// to bottom.
    ///
    /// **Vanished targets are simply absent**, ancestor walk included: a tombstoned card, a card
    /// under a tombstoned lane, and an id that names nothing all contribute no subject, which is the
    /// same silent skip `commitRename` gives a vanished rename target — "nothing is ever written into
    /// a vanished folder". A style editor whose set has emptied dismisses (`StyleEditorSession`), so
    /// an empty result is a frame's worth of nothing to show rather than a state to handle.
    public func styleSubjects(of target: StyleTarget) -> [StyleSubject] {
        switch target {
        case .board:
            return [StyleSubject(
                id: nil,
                folder: rootURL,
                background: snapshot.background,
                icon: snapshot.icon
            )]

        case let .items(ids):
            var subjects: [StyleSubject] = []
            for lane in snapshot.lanes {
                let laneFolder = rootURL.appendingPathComponent(lane.id.rawValue)
                if ids.contains(lane.id) {
                    subjects.append(StyleSubject(
                        id: lane.id,
                        folder: laneFolder,
                        background: lane.background,
                        icon: lane.icon
                    ))
                }
                for card in lane.cards where ids.contains(card.id) {
                    subjects.append(StyleSubject(
                        id: card.id,
                        folder: laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(card.id.rawValue),
                        background: card.background,
                        icon: card.icon
                    ))
                }
            }
            return subjects
        }
    }

    /// Which level `target` sits at — the editor's symbol grid needs it for its leading well, "the
    /// level's default symbol" (03-board-ui.md § Styling ▸ Controls).
    ///
    /// A set naming any card is a card set: 04-interactions.md's cards-XOR-lanes rule means a live
    /// selection never mixes the two, so the branch below is a total answer rather than a policy —
    /// and if a mixed set ever reached here, `doc.text` is the level whose default would actually be
    /// removed by the leading well.
    public func styleLevel(of target: StyleTarget) -> StyleLevel {
        switch target {
        case .board:
            return .board
        case let .items(ids):
            let namesACard = snapshot.lanes.contains { lane in
                lane.cards.contains { ids.contains($0.id) }
            }
            return namesACard ? .card : .lane
        }
    }

    /// Writes a style gesture — the **one** commit point every anchor shares (03-board-ui.md §
    /// Styling ▸ Controls: "One component, one behavior, three anchors"), and the quick-style recents
    /// row with them.
    ///
    /// **One bracket, whatever the target set's size.** "Choosing a well applies to the whole
    /// selection — one gesture, one commit on git boards" (§ Controls), so every target's `index.md`
    /// is rewritten inside a single `performWrite`: the churn rounds back as one app-mediated reload,
    /// and the auto-committer (m7) sees one operation rather than N.
    ///
    /// **No-ops are skipped per dimension and per target** — `setLaneWidth`'s rule, for its reason: a
    /// well clicked twice, or a batch where half the cards are already that colour, must not stamp
    /// `modified` or mint a commit on the items that were already right. A dimension whose value is
    /// already what the gesture asks contributes nothing; a target both of whose dimensions are
    /// no-ops is dropped entirely; and a gesture that changes nothing anywhere never opens the
    /// bracket at all.
    ///
    /// **`iconColor` is not a parameter, and that is the design**: it is "resolved — schema yes,
    /// control no" (§ Capabilities). The field renders when hand-written and the app offers no
    /// control for it, so there is nothing here to pass.
    ///
    /// Failure is `performWrite`'s: the banner is posted before the rethrow, which is swallowed here
    /// like every other gesture with no second thing to do. A batch that fails partway leaves the
    /// targets written before it written — the Writer is "atomic per filesystem operation, not per
    /// gesture" — and the reload shows the true state, which is the honest one.
    public func applyStyle(to target: StyleTarget, background: StyleChange = .keep, icon: StyleChange = .keep) {
        let edits: [(
            id: ItemID?,
            folder: URL,
            background: StyleChange,
            icon: StyleChange,
            priorBackground: FieldValue<String>,
            priorIcon: FieldValue<String>
        )] = styleSubjects(of: target)
            .compactMap { subject in
                let background = Self.effective(background, against: subject.background)
                let icon = Self.effective(icon, against: subject.icon)
                guard background != .keep || icon != .keep else { return nil }
                return (
                    id: subject.id,
                    folder: subject.folder,
                    background: background,
                    icon: icon,
                    priorBackground: subject.background,
                    priorIcon: subject.icon
                )
            }
        guard !edits.isEmpty else { return }

        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for edit in edits {
                // `.style(title: nil)`: `updateIndex` enriches it off the document it reads, so a
                // failure names the item by the title it still has (see `WriteOperation.style`).
                try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: edit.folder, operation: .style(title: nil)) { document in
                    Self.apply(edit.background, to: FrontmatterKeys.background, in: &document)
                    Self.apply(edit.icon, to: FrontmatterKeys.icon, in: &document)
                }
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil else { return }

        // restyle → prior style (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). **One step for the batch**, which is the
        // same sentence as this method's one bracket: "choosing a well applies to the whole selection
        // — one gesture, one commit", substrate swapped.
        let kind: HistoryPhrase.Kind = switch styleLevel(of: target) {
        case .board: .board
        case .lane: .lane
        case .card: .card
        }
        // **Per dimension, not per item**: a gesture that set only `background` validates only
        // `background`, so a foreign `icon:` edit on the very same card leaves the step alone. That is
        // the field-level predicate read at its narrowest, and it is free — `effective(_:against:)`
        // has already narrowed each dimension to what this write actually changed.
        let subject = edits.count == 1
            ? edits[0].id.flatMap { Self.boardItem($0, in: snapshot)?.title }
            : nil
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.restyle, kind: kind, count: edits.count),
            subject: subject,
            undoExpects: edits.map {
                .present($0.folder, fields: Self.styledFields(background: $0.background, icon: $0.icon))
            },
            redoExpects: edits.map {
                .present($0.folder, fields: Self.restoredStyleFields(
                    background: $0.background,
                    priorBackground: $0.priorBackground,
                    icon: $0.icon,
                    priorIcon: $0.priorIcon
                ))
            }
        ) { _ in
            for edit in edits {
                try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: edit.folder, operation: .style(title: nil)) { document in
                    Self.restore(edit.priorBackground, to: FrontmatterKeys.background, in: &document)
                    Self.restore(edit.priorIcon, to: FrontmatterKeys.icon, in: &document)
                }
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            for edit in edits {
                try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: edit.folder, operation: .style(title: nil)) { document in
                    Self.apply(edit.background, to: FrontmatterKeys.background, in: &document)
                    Self.apply(edit.icon, to: FrontmatterKeys.icon, in: &document)
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /// `change` narrowed against what is already on disk: `.keep` when it would write what is
    /// already there.
    ///
    /// The comparison is against the **valid** reading, not the written text: a malformed value —
    /// `background: [a, b]`, a sequence where a scalar belongs — is never equal to a palette name, so
    /// choosing a well always replaces it, which is what "choosing any well replaces it" (§ Controls)
    /// promises about a value the app could not read.
    nonisolated static func effective(_ change: StyleChange, against field: FieldValue<String>) -> StyleChange {
        switch change {
        case .keep: .keep
        case let .set(value): field.value == value ? .keep : .set(value)
        case .remove: field.isMissing ? .keep : .remove
        }
    }

    private static func apply(_ change: StyleChange, to key: String, in document: inout FrontmatterDocument) {
        switch change {
        case .keep: break
        case let .set(value): document.set(key, to: .string(value))
        case .remove: document.remove(key)
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Creation

    /// Creates a lane at the board's right end — File ▸ New Lane ⇧⌘N (11-command-nexus.md).
    ///
    /// **Untitled, and deliberately with no inline editor.** 03-board-ui.md gives lane titles one
    /// editing surface — "Inline rename on the header" — and 04-interactions.md gives that surface
    /// one entry point, Board ▸ Rename, "since Return on a lane creates a card". Nothing in either
    /// doc opens an editor *at creation*, so a new lane appears with the untitled placeholder and
    /// the user renames it if they want a name. Titles are optional at every level; a lane with no
    /// `title` key is a legitimate resting state, not a half-finished one.
    ///
    /// Like `setLaneWidth`, the rethrow is swallowed: `performWrite` has already posted the banner,
    /// and a menu item has no second thing to do about a failure.
    public func createLane() {
        let root = rootURL
        let created = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> ItemID in
            try BoardWriter.createLane(inBoard: root, title: nil)
        }
        guard let created else { return }

        // create → remove the created folder (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). The bytes are read back
        // here, while the folder still exists, because the inverse destroys it — see `CreatedItem`.
        let folder = root.appendingPathComponent(created.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
        guard let item = createdItem(at: folder, kind: .lane) else { return }
        registerCreation([item], kind: .lane)
    }

    // MARK: - The new-card placeholder's commit

    /// Turns the open placeholder into a real card — the write half of 02-architecture.md §
    /// Layering's one named exception to the one-way flow.
    ///
    /// The five outcomes, all settled:
    ///
    /// - **No placeholder, or one already committed** — nothing to do. (Idempotence matters: Return
    ///   commits, and the field's focus-loss handler fires immediately afterwards.)
    /// - **An empty title discards it** — "creating-then-abandoning never leaves an empty card
    ///   behind" (04-interactions.md ▸ Grammar). Whitespace counts as empty: a title of three
    ///   spaces is a slip, not a deliberate untitled card.
    /// - **A vanished lane discards it** — the anchor is gone, so there is nowhere to file the
    ///   card; the reload that removed the lane is the authority.
    /// - **A failed create discards it too** (settled, 02 § Layering): "the overlay never waits for
    ///   a card that cannot arrive". The failure is already the banner's.
    /// - **A successful create hands off**: the overlay flips to `.awaitingArrival` and stands until
    ///   the watcher round-trips the real card, so the user never sees a hole where they just typed.
    ///
    /// - Returns: the created card's id, or `nil` on any of the discard paths — which is what the
    ///   ⌘↩ call site needs to know whether it has a card window to open.
    @discardableResult
    public func commitPlaceholder() -> ItemID? {
        guard let placeholder = transient.newCardPlaceholder, placeholder.phase == .editing else { return nil }

        let title = placeholder.draftTitle.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
        guard !title.isEmpty,
              let lane = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == placeholder.laneID })
        else {
            transient.discardPlaceholder()
            return nil
        }

        let laneFolder = rootURL.appendingPathComponent(placeholder.laneID.rawValue)
        let visible = lane.cards
        // `nil` means "append", which is `createCard`'s own default — so the anchored case is the
        // only one that needs a rank at all.
        let position = Self.insertionIndex(after: placeholder.anchorCardID, among: visible)

        let created = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> ItemID in
            let id = try BoardWriter.createCard(inLane: laneFolder, title: title)
            guard let position else { return id }

            // The rank is computed here rather than passed to `createCard` because the create's
            // contract is "append after the visible siblings" and widening it would give every
            // caller a position to think about. The reposition rides the Writer's own same-parent
            // degenerate reorder — "a move whose destination is the item's current parent degrades
            // to a plain reorder" — inside the *same* `performWrite`, so the pair rounds back as
            // one app-mediated reload rather than showing the card at the bottom for a frame.
            var rank = Ranks.insertionRank(amongVisible: visible.map(\.order), at: position)
            if rank == nil {
                // Midpoint precision exhausted between the anchor and its neighbour
                // (01-storage-format.md § Ordering). Compact, then place against the fresh ranks:
                // the new card is not among the renumbered siblings — it was appended past them —
                // so the compacted ladder lines up one-for-one with `visible`.
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: laneFolder)
                rank = Ranks.insertionRank(amongVisible: Ranks.renumbered(count: visible.count), at: position)
            }
            guard let rank else { return id }

            _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                at: laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(id.rawValue),
                toParent: laneFolder,
                sourceBoardRoot: rootURL,
                destinationBoardRoot: rootURL,
                order: rank
            )
            return id
        }

        guard let created else {
            transient.discardPlaceholder()
            return nil
        }
        transient.commitPlaceholder(expecting: created)

        // create → remove the created folder (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). The rank the pair above
        // may have written is inside the captured bytes, so a redo puts the card back where the
        // gesture put it, not merely at the bottom of the lane.
        if let item = createdItem(at: laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(created.rawValue, isDirectory: true), kind: .card) {
            registerCreation([item], kind: .card, subject: title)
        }
        return created
    }

    /// The display position a new card takes, or `nil` for "append at the bottom".
    ///
    /// An anchor that is not among `visible` degrades to `nil` rather than failing: the card the
    /// ⌘N target rule named was deleted or moved away mid-typing, and the lane — the anchor that
    /// actually matters — is still there. Appending is the honest fallback; refusing to create
    /// would punish the user for someone else's edit.
    nonisolated static func insertionIndex(after anchor: ItemID?, among visible: [Card]) -> Int? {
        guard let anchor, let index = visible.firstIndex(where: { $0.id == anchor }) else { return nil }
        // Already last: "immediately after it" and "at the bottom" are the same position, and
        // append needs no rank of its own.
        return index + 1 < visible.count ? index + 1 : nil
    }

    // MARK: - Inline rename

    /// Writes the open rename editor's draft — the third inline editor's commit
    /// (04-interactions.md ▸ Grammar), reached by Return **and** by focus loss ("a rename commits
    /// … the deliberate exception being the placeholder, because nothing exists on disk yet").
    ///
    /// Four rules, all from 04 and 03:
    ///
    /// - **The editor closes first, unconditionally.** Every path below ends with it gone, and
    ///   retiring it up front is what makes this idempotent — Return commits and the field's
    ///   focus-loss handler fires an instant later against no editor at all.
    /// - **A vanished target writes nothing, silently.** "A target that is tombstoned, deleted, or
    ///   gone at commit time discards the editor and its keystrokes silently … nothing is ever
    ///   written into a vanished folder, and no partial `index.md` can resurrect deleted data."
    ///   Entering the trash is a vanish from the board, and so is losing the lane you were in.
    /// - **An empty commit removes the `title` key** (03-board-ui.md § Card face; 04 ▸ Selection:
    ///   "Committing an empty rename on an existing item removes its `title` key"), rather than
    ///   writing `title: ""` — titles are optional, and the face shows the untitled placeholder.
    /// - **An unchanged title writes nothing.** `setLaneWidth`'s rule, for the same reason: an
    ///   editor opened and dismissed with Return must not stamp `modified` or mint a commit.
    ///
    /// The folder is re-derived from the *current* snapshot, which is what makes a foreign move
    /// mid-rename invisible: the editor follows the UUID, and the write lands wherever the item is
    /// now.
    public func commitRename() {
        guard let editor = transient.renameEditor else { return }
        transient.discardRename()

        guard let target = Self.boardItem(editor.targetID, in: snapshot) else { return }

        let typed = editor.draftTitle.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
        let newTitle: String? = typed.isEmpty ? nil : typed
        guard newTitle != target.title else { return }

        var folder = rootURL.appendingPathComponent(target.laneID.rawValue)
        if let cardID = target.cardID {
            folder.append(component: cardID.rawValue)
        }

        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            // `.rename(title: nil)`: `updateIndex` enriches it off the document it reads, so the
            // banner names the item by the title it still has rather than the one that failed to
            // land (see `WriteOperation.rename`).
            try Self.setTitle(newTitle, at: folder)
        }
        guard landed != nil else { return }

        // rename → restore title (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). The prior title is the *typed* value,
        // `nil` for an untitled item — so undoing a rename that gave an untitled card a name takes
        // the `title` key away again rather than writing `title: ""`.
        //
        // The validated field is `title` and nothing else: an agent that restyles this very card
        // between the rename and the ⌘Z has not touched what this step wrote, so the undo applies —
        // "a foreign change to an unrelated item must not skip anything", read one level finer.
        let priorTitle = target.title
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.rename, kind: target.cardID == nil ? .lane : .card),
            subject: newTitle ?? priorTitle,
            undoExpects: [.present(folder, .title(newTitle))],
            redoExpects: [.present(folder, .title(priorTitle))]
        ) { _ in
            try Self.setTitle(priorTitle, at: folder)
        } redo: { _ in
            try Self.setTitle(newTitle, at: folder)
        }
    }

    /// The title write every rename shares — the item-level one and the board's — spelled once so
    /// the empty-title rule (a missing key, never `title: ""`) cannot differ between a gesture and
    /// its own undo.
    private static func setTitle(_ title: String?, at folder: URL) throws(BoardWriteError) {
        try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: folder, operation: .rename(title: nil)) { document in
            if let title {
                document.set(FrontmatterKeys.title, to: .string(title))
            } else {
                document.remove(FrontmatterKeys.title)
            }
        }
    }

    /// Where a **board** item lives and what it is currently called, or `nil` when the id names
    /// nothing on the board.
    ///
    /// **The board container, and only it.** A card that has been deleted is in `.trash/`, where it
    /// does not open, cannot be renamed, takes no attachments and has no task boxes to tick
    /// (03-board-ui.md § Trash's no-editing rule) — so every caller of this wants exactly the board
    /// side, and a trash card answering `nil` is the vanished-target guard those gestures already
    /// make. The tombstone era's ancestor walk is gone with the tombstones: presence in the lanes is
    /// the whole question.
    ///
    /// The path is returned as its two identity components rather than as a URL so the caller builds
    /// it off the store's *current* `rootURL`, which a mid-session folder rename may have moved.
    nonisolated static func boardItem(
        _ id: ItemID,
        in snapshot: BoardModel
    ) -> (laneID: ItemID, cardID: ItemID?, title: String?)? {
        for lane in snapshot.lanes {
            if lane.id == id {
                return (laneID: lane.id, cardID: nil, title: lane.title.value)
            }
            if let card = lane.cards.first(where: { $0.id == id }) {
                return (laneID: lane.id, cardID: card.id, title: card.title.value)
            }
        }
        return nil
    }

    // MARK: - Task checkboxes

    /// Ticks or unticks a Preview task-list checkbox — **the app's one write into a card's body**
    /// (05-card-window.md ▸ Preview), and otherwise an entirely ordinary one: the same
    /// `performWrite` bracket, the same banner on failure, the same one-way flow back through the
    /// watcher. "A toggle is an ordinary user edit — the standard atomic write, auto-committed and
    /// undoable on git boards."
    ///
    /// `bodyOffset` is the UTF-8 byte offset the parse handed the renderer (`BodyTask
    /// .markerOffset`) and `checked` is the state the user was looking at; both travel to
    /// `BoardWriter.toggleTaskMarker`, which re-verifies them against the file it reads and refuses
    /// rather than write blind. Nothing here inspects the body: the store never re-parses to
    /// second-guess the click, because its own snapshot is exactly as stale as the render was.
    ///
    /// **It registers no undo step.** 13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules' inventory names the body write it
    /// makes undoable precisely — "Edit-session body save → restore prior body bytes" — and a Preview
    /// checkbox is not one: it belongs to no session, has no flip to coalesce at, and 05 files it
    /// under what is "undoable on git boards", which is the *other* substrate's answer. Registering it
    /// here would be extending 13's inventory rather than implementing it.
    ///
    /// **A checkbox in a card that has gone writes nothing** — the vanished-target guard every
    /// gesture in this file makes, ancestor-walked through `boardItem`: the card window would be
    /// dismissing itself in the same breath, and the reload that removed the card is the authority.
    /// The read-only lock is `performWrite`'s refusal, which is also why the controls disable in
    /// place on the Preview side rather than failing here (02-architecture.md § the lock's scope).
    public func toggleTaskMarker(inCard cardID: ItemID, bodyOffset: Int, checked: Bool) {
        guard let target = Self.boardItem(cardID, in: snapshot), let card = target.cardID else { return }
        let folder = rootURL
            .appendingPathComponent(target.laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
            .appendingPathComponent(card.rawValue, isDirectory: true)

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            try BoardWriter.toggleTaskMarker(inItemFolder: folder, bodyOffset: bodyOffset, checked: checked)
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Card body

    /// Saves a card window's Edit buffer — the debounced tick, the flush that leaves Edit, and the
    /// flush that closes the window (05-card-window.md ▸ Edit).
    ///
    /// An ordinary store write in every mechanical respect: one `performWrite` bracket, so the churn
    /// rounds back as a single app-mediated reload (and, on git boards, sits inside the session's
    /// one commit — see `CardBodyEditSession` for that seam); the banner posts itself on failure;
    /// the snapshot is never touched here, because the watcher's reload is what brings the text
    /// back.
    ///
    /// **It reports rather than swallows**, which is the one way it differs from every other write
    /// in this file. `toggleTaskMarker` and its neighbours are one-shot gestures whose failure the
    /// banner fully describes, so they `try?` and move on. This one has a *buffer* behind it: the
    /// caller has to know whether the text landed, because on success it may stop holding it dirty
    /// and on failure it must keep holding it — the whole of "nothing is lost while the window stays
    /// open" (02-architecture.md § Write-failure surfacing). Hence an outcome, not a `Void`.
    ///
    /// **A trashed card is writable here, deliberately.** The folder is resolved by
    /// `cardBodyTarget(_:in:)` — a walk that spans **both containers** — because 05-card-window.md ▸
    /// Deletion & lifecycle requires exactly that: "a dirty Edit buffer flushes into the card's
    /// folder at its new `.trash/` location before the window dismisses — a surgical body write, so
    /// the keystrokes survive a later restore". The write replaces the body span and nothing else,
    /// so the card is not otherwise disturbed on its way into the trash.
    public func writeCardBody(inCard cardID: ItemID, body: String) -> CardBodyWriteOutcome {
        guard let target = Self.cardBodyTarget(cardID, in: snapshot) else { return .vanished }
        let folder = target.folder(under: rootURL)

        do {
            // The closure's signature is spelled out because it returns a value — the inference wart
            // `performWrite`'s doc comment records.
            let wrote = try performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Bool in
                try BoardWriter.writeBody(inItemFolder: folder, body: body)
            }
            return wrote ? .written : .unchanged
        } catch let refusal as BoardStoreWriteRefusal {
            guard case let .readOnlyLocked(reason) = refusal else { return .unchanged }
            return .suspended(reason)
        } catch let error as BoardWriteError {
            return .failed(error)
        } catch {
            // `performWrite`'s `throws` is untyped only because its two error types have not been
            // unified yet (`BoardStoreWriteRefusal`); there is no third thing it can throw.
            Self.logger.error("unexpected error saving a card body: \(String(describing: error), privacy: .public)")
            return .unchanged
        }
    }

    /// Registers **one Edit session** as one undo step — 13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules' coalescing
    /// sentence, stated where the session ends rather than where the bytes land.
    ///
    /// ### Why this is not registered in `writeCardBody`
    ///
    /// Because a session is not a save. "An Edit session is one step, registered at the Edit→Preview
    /// flip (the effective Save — 05-card-window.md)", and a session contains any number of debounced
    /// saves: registering per write would put a step on the stack every ~700 ms of typing, and ⌘Z
    /// would walk backwards through the user's keystrokes in seven-hundred-millisecond slices rather
    /// than undoing the edit they made. So `CardBodyEditSession` remembers the bytes disk held when
    /// the session's first save landed, and calls this once at the flip with that pair — the same
    /// boundary pro-m1's auto-committer coalesces on, for the same reason.
    ///
    /// ### The bytes are the whole state
    ///
    /// `BoardWriter.writeBody` replaces the body span and nothing else, so a step built from two body
    /// strings restores the prior body **byte for byte** — unknown keys, comments and key order above
    /// the delimiter were never this write's to change. That is the one inverse in the app whose
    /// fidelity is byte-level rather than field-level.
    ///
    /// ### Its staleness predicate is the bytes, at the path the session wrote to
    ///
    /// "Body steps compare bytes" (13 ▸ Rules), so the expectation is the whole body span as this
    /// session left it — a foreign editor that changed one character of it skips the step rather than
    /// throwing that character away. The **container rides in the path** (`HistoryStaleness`): a
    /// session that ended because its card was moved to the trash registers against the trash folder
    /// it actually flushed into, and a later restore moves the card out from under the step, which
    /// the ordinary existence check then reads as the collision it is.
    public func registerBodyEdit(inCard cardID: ItemID, priorBody: String, newBody: String) {
        guard priorBody != newBody, let target = Self.cardBodyTarget(cardID, in: snapshot) else { return }
        let folder = target.folder(under: rootURL)
        let title = Self.cardTitle(at: target, in: snapshot)

        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.edit, kind: .card),
            subject: title,
            undoExpects: [.present(folder, .body(newBody))],
            redoExpects: [.present(folder, .body(priorBody))]
        ) { _ in
            _ = try BoardWriter.writeBody(inItemFolder: folder, body: priorBody)
        } redo: { _ in
            _ = try BoardWriter.writeBody(inItemFolder: folder, body: newBody)
        }
    }

    /// Which folder a card's body write lands in — **the one card walk that spans both containers**.
    ///
    /// Every other resolution in this file goes through `boardItem`, whose board-side-only answer is
    /// what keeps gestures off cards that have left the working set. This one deliberately does not:
    /// the card window's dismissal flush has to reach a card that was moved into the trash *out from
    /// under the buffer* (05 ▸ Deletion & lifecycle), and to `boardItem` that card is already gone. A
    /// card whose folder is genuinely no longer in the tree — purged, or moved to another board —
    /// still resolves to `nil`, which is the case 05 answers with "nowhere left to write".
    nonisolated static func cardBodyTarget(_ id: ItemID, in snapshot: BoardModel) -> ItemPath? {
        for lane in snapshot.lanes {
            if lane.cards.contains(where: { $0.id == id }) { return .card(lane: lane.id, id: id) }
        }
        return snapshot.trash.contains { $0.id == id } ? .trashCard(id) : nil
    }

    /// A card's title at a resolved path, in either container — the skip banner's quoted subject.
    nonisolated static func cardTitle(at path: ItemPath, in snapshot: BoardModel) -> String? {
        switch path {
        case let .card(lane, id):
            snapshot.lanes.first { $0.id == lane }?.cards.first { $0.id == id }?.title.value
        case let .trashCard(id):
            snapshot.trash.first { $0.id == id }?.title.value
        case let .lane(id):
            snapshot.lanes.first { $0.id == id }?.title.value
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Raw source

    /// Reads a card's `index.md` as literal text, for the raw-source outlet's entry
    /// (05-card-window.md ▸ Raw source outlet: "Entering source mode flushes any pending title/body
    /// edits first, then reads the file fresh from disk").
    ///
    /// **Never from the snapshot**, which is what the design's "fresh" means and what the store is
    /// least able to offer: a `BoardModel` holds a parsed `FrontmatterDocument`, and re-emitting it
    /// would be a rendering of the file rather than the file. It also lags the reload, so a pull or
    /// an agent write that landed a moment ago would be invisible to the one surface that promises to
    /// show what is actually there.
    ///
    /// **Ancestor-walked liveness** (`boardItem`), unlike `writeCardBody`'s deliberately liveness-blind
    /// walk: there is nothing to *rescue* here — a tombstoned card's window is dismissing itself, and
    /// opening its whole `index.md` in an editor whose Apply would undelete it is exactly what 05 ▸
    /// Deletion & lifecycle forbids ("An open raw-source buffer discards instead: its Apply writes
    /// the *whole* pre-tombstone `index.md` and would silently undelete the card").
    ///
    /// No `performWrite` bracket and no banner: this is a read, and its one failure — a file that is
    /// not UTF-8, or is gone between the snapshot and the read — is the card window's alert to raise,
    /// where it can say "so source mode did not open" rather than joining a strip of write failures.
    public func readCardSource(inCard cardID: ItemID) -> RawSourceReadOutcome {
        guard let target = Self.boardItem(cardID, in: snapshot), let card = target.cardID else { return .vanished }
        let folder = rootURL
            .appendingPathComponent(target.laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
            .appendingPathComponent(card.rawValue, isDirectory: true)

        do {
            return .read(try BoardWriter.readRawSource(ofCard: folder))
        } catch {
            return .failed(error)
        }
    }

    /// Applies a raw-source buffer: **validate, then write the bytes verbatim** (05-card-window.md ▸
    /// Raw source outlet).
    ///
    /// ### Validation runs before the bracket, on purpose
    ///
    /// A proposal that would not load is not a failed write — it is a write that never started. Doing
    /// it here means an invalid Apply opens no watcher bracket, posts no banner, and touches nothing;
    /// the typed `BoardLoadError` travels back so the window's alert can show the loader's own detail
    /// ("detailed alert on error, stays in source mode"). `BoardWriter.writeRawSource` validates the
    /// same bytes through the same function again as its own guarantee — the two are one call to
    /// `BoardLoader.validateCardIndex`, not two rules that could drift.
    ///
    /// ### Everything else is an ordinary store write
    ///
    /// One `performWrite` bracket, so the echo comes back as a single app-mediated reload that
    /// refreshes every window on the board; the banner posts itself on a real failure; the snapshot is
    /// never touched here. The read-only lock refuses it like any other write — Apply is a mutation,
    /// however literal — and the buffer's owner reads `.suspended` as "hold the text", the standing
    /// lock row being the message.
    ///
    /// A pull landing mid-session is not consulted at all: "Apply stays last-writer-wins" (05, citing
    /// 07-sync-collab.md), the same posture the Edit buffer takes.
    ///
    /// **It registers no undo step**, `toggleTaskMarker`'s reason: 13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules makes the
    /// *Edit session's* body save undoable, and Apply is not one — it is a whole-file replacement of
    /// bytes the user typed themselves, with the raw buffer still on screen as its own record of what
    /// they were.
    public func applyCardSource(inCard cardID: ItemID, text: String) -> RawSourceApplyOutcome {
        guard let target = Self.boardItem(cardID, in: snapshot), let card = target.cardID else { return .vanished }
        let folder = rootURL
            .appendingPathComponent(target.laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
            .appendingPathComponent(card.rawValue, isDirectory: true)

        do throws(BoardLoadError) {
            _ = try BoardLoader.validateCardIndex(Data(text.utf8), path: BoardLoader.indexFileName)
        } catch {
            return .invalid(error)
        }

        do {
            // The closure's signature is spelled out because it returns a value — the inference wart
            // `performWrite`'s doc comment records.
            let wrote = try performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Bool in
                try BoardWriter.writeRawSource(inCard: folder, text: text)
            }
            return wrote ? .applied : .unchanged
        } catch let refusal as BoardStoreWriteRefusal {
            guard case let .readOnlyLocked(reason) = refusal else { return .unchanged }
            return .suspended(reason)
        } catch let error as BoardWriteError {
            return .failed(error)
        } catch {
            Self.logger.error("unexpected error applying raw source: \(String(describing: error), privacy: .public)")
            return .unchanged
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Board rename

    /// Writes the board's own `title` — the board popover's rename field (03-board-ui.md § Board
    /// popover), and the one rename in the app with no item to aim at.
    ///
    /// **It edits frontmatter, never the folder**: "Rename edits the board's frontmatter `title`
    /// only — the folder is never renamed by the app; the Finder document name is Finder's to
    /// change" (§ Board popover, 01-storage-format.md § Board naming). The app's display name and
    /// the Finder document name may therefore diverge, which is accepted rather than reconciled.
    ///
    /// The three commit rules are `commitRename`'s, deliberately identical — one rename vocabulary
    /// whatever level it is aimed at:
    ///
    /// - **Trimmed**, so a title of three spaces is a slip rather than a name.
    /// - **An empty commit removes the key.** A board with no `title` falls back to its *folder
    ///   name* (§ Board naming) — never the "Untitled" placeholder cards and lanes show, and never
    ///   `title: ""`, which would be a real if blank title with nothing to fall back to.
    /// - **An unchanged title writes nothing**, so a popover opened and dismissed with Return
    ///   neither stamps `modified` nor mints a commit.
    ///
    /// There is no vanished-target guard, because a board cannot tombstone itself out of its own
    /// window (01-storage-format.md § Deletion): the only way this target goes away is the root
    /// itself vanishing, which is the read-only lock's story, and `performWrite` refuses under it
    /// before anything touches disk.
    public func renameBoard(_ title: String?) {
        let typed = (title ?? "").trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
        let newTitle: String? = typed.isEmpty ? nil : typed
        guard newTitle != snapshot.title.value else { return }

        let folder = rootURL
        let priorTitle = snapshot.title.value
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            // `.rename(title: nil)`: `updateIndex` enriches it off the document it reads, so a
            // refusal names the board by the title it still has (see `WriteOperation.rename`).
            try Self.setTitle(newTitle, at: folder)
        }
        guard landed != nil else { return }

        // rename → restore title, at the one level with no item to aim at. The board root is never
        // tombstoned however its frontmatter reads (a board-level `deleted:` is a tolerated load
        // warning), so `.live` here means exactly "the root is still readable".
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.rename, kind: .board),
            subject: newTitle ?? priorTitle,
            undoExpects: [.present(folder, .title(newTitle))],
            redoExpects: [.present(folder, .title(priorTitle))]
        ) { _ in
            try Self.setTitle(priorTitle, at: folder)
        } redo: { _ in
            try Self.setTitle(newTitle, at: folder)
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Lane reorder

    /// Commits a lane drag: `id` lands at display position `index` among the board's live lanes,
    /// counted **with the dragged lane itself removed** — which is the index
    /// `DropSlotMath.laneSlot` produces.
    ///
    /// Within-board only. A cross-board lane drag is the locality model's (04-interactions.md ▸
    /// Drag and drop) and belongs to m5's drag card; here source and destination board roots are
    /// the same URL, so `moveItem` takes its same-parent degenerate-reorder path and rewrites
    /// exactly one file — the moved lane's `order`.
    ///
    /// **A drag that ends where it started writes nothing**: `index == from` re-inserts the lane in
    /// its own slot, and a no-op must not stamp `modified` or mint a commit — the resize drag's
    /// rule, and for the same reason.
    public func moveLane(_ id: ItemID, toIndex index: Int) {
        let lanes = snapshot.lanes
        guard let from = lanes.firstIndex(where: { $0.id == id }) else { return }

        var remaining = lanes
        remaining.remove(at: from)
        let target = min(max(0, index), remaining.count)
        guard target != from else { return }

        let root = rootURL
        let folder = root.appendingPathComponent(id.rawValue)
        // The rank the lane held before the write and the one it lands on — both read out of the
        // bracket below, because a renumber that fires inside it moves the *prior* value too: the
        // dragged lane is among the renumbered children, so its pre-gesture `order` would no longer
        // place it where it was. What an inverse must restore is the rank the file held immediately
        // before its own rewrite, which is exactly what this captures either way.
        var priorOrder = lanes[from].order
        var newOrder: Double?
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var rank = Ranks.insertionRank(amongVisible: remaining.map(\.order), at: target)
            if rank == nil {
                // Compact and place again. Unlike the card case the dragged lane *is* among the
                // renumbered children — it is a real folder on disk — so its fresh rank is dropped
                // from the ladder before the neighbours are consulted.
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: root)
                let renumbered = Ranks.renumbered(count: lanes.count)
                priorOrder = renumbered[from]
                var compacted = renumbered
                compacted.remove(at: from)
                rank = Ranks.insertionRank(amongVisible: compacted, at: target)
            }
            guard let rank else { return }
            newOrder = rank

            _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                at: folder,
                toParent: root,
                sourceBoardRoot: root,
                destinationBoardRoot: root,
                order: rank
            )
        }
        guard landed != nil, let newOrder else { return }

        // reorder → restore original `order` (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). A lane drag never changes
        // parent — the board root is the only one there is — so 06's vocabulary word for it is
        // Reorder, not Move.
        let restored = priorOrder
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.reorder, kind: .lane),
            subject: lanes[from].title.value,
            undoExpects: [.present(folder, .order(newOrder))],
            redoExpects: [.present(folder, .order(restored))]
        ) { _ in
            try Self.setOrder(restored, at: folder)
        } redo: { _ in
            try Self.setOrder(newOrder, at: folder)
        }
    }

    /// The bare rank rewrite an inverse reorder performs — `moveItem`'s same-parent degenerate path
    /// with the URL arithmetic taken out, since an inverse always names the folder directly.
    private static func setOrder(_ order: Double, at folder: URL) throws(BoardWriteError) {
        try BoardWriter.updateIndex(inItemFolder: folder, operation: .reorder(title: nil)) { document in
            document.set(FrontmatterKeys.order, to: .double(order))
        }
    }

    /// The within-board **lane drag**, multi-drag included: `ids` land contiguously at display
    /// position `index` among the board's live lanes, counted with the dragged run removed — the
    /// index `DropSlotMath.laneSlot` produces.
    ///
    /// `moveLane`'s plural, and it exists rather than a loop over it because "one `performWrite`
    /// bracket per gesture whatever the set's size" is load-bearing (DRAG-REORDER.md § The drop
    /// commits): one app-mediated reload, and on git boards one commit rather than N.
    ///
    /// The run keeps **board order**, which is the lane level's flatten order — a multi-lane drag has
    /// no other relative order to preserve.
    ///
    /// A drag that changes nothing writes nothing, stated as the arrangement rather than as a special
    /// case: if the strip would render exactly what it renders now, no rank is rewritten and no
    /// commit is minted.
    public func moveLanes(_ ids: Set<ItemID>, toIndex index: Int) {
        let lanes = snapshot.lanes
        let members = lanes.filter { ids.contains($0.id) }
        guard !members.isEmpty else { return }

        let remaining = lanes.filter { !ids.contains($0.id) }
        let target = min(max(0, index), remaining.count)
        guard DropSlotMath.applied(lanes.map(\.id), moving: members.map(\.id), to: target) != lanes.map(\.id)
        else { return }

        let root = rootURL
        // `moveLane`'s capture, per member — see its note on why the prior rank is read out of the
        // bracket rather than off the snapshot.
        var priorOrders = members.map(\.order)
        var rewrites: [(folder: URL, order: Double)] = []
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: remaining.map(\.order), at: target, count: members.count)
            if ranks == nil {
                // Compact and place again. The dragged lanes *are* among the renumbered children —
                // they are real folders on disk — so their fresh rungs are dropped from the ladder
                // before the neighbours are consulted, exactly as `moveLane` drops its one.
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: root)
                let renumbered = Array(zip(lanes, Ranks.renumbered(count: lanes.count)))
                priorOrders = renumbered.filter { ids.contains($0.0.id) }.map(\.1)
                let compacted = renumbered.filter { !ids.contains($0.0.id) }.map(\.1)
                ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: compacted, at: target, count: members.count)
            }
            guard let ranks else { return }

            for (member, rank) in zip(members, ranks) {
                let folder = root.appendingPathComponent(member.id.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                rewrites.append((folder: folder, order: rank))
                _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                    at: folder,
                    toParent: root,
                    sourceBoardRoot: root,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    order: rank
                )
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil, !rewrites.isEmpty else { return }

        // reorder → restore original `order`, one step for the whole run: "one `performWrite` bracket
        // per gesture whatever the set's size" is the same sentence as one gesture, one undo step.
        let inverse = Array(zip(rewrites.map(\.folder), priorOrders))
        let forward = rewrites
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.reorder, kind: .lane, count: forward.count),
            subject: members.count == 1 ? members[0].title.value : nil,
            undoExpects: forward.map { .present($0.folder, .order($0.order)) },
            redoExpects: inverse.map { .present($0.0, .order($0.1)) }
        ) { _ in
            for (folder, order) in inverse {
                try Self.setOrder(order, at: folder)
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            for write in forward {
                try Self.setOrder(write.order, at: write.folder)
            }
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Drag & drop commits

    // The writes a released drag performs (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop; the geometry that
    // produces their `index` is DRAG-REORDER.md's, implemented in `DropSlotMath`).
    //
    // **One `performWrite` bracket per gesture**, whatever the set's size — the style batch's and
    // the tombstone batch's rule, for their reason: one gesture, one app-mediated reload, one commit
    // on git boards.
    //
    // **`index` always means the same thing**: a position among the destination's *rendered* items
    // counted with the dragged run already removed — the resting layout's own convention, so the
    // number the geometry produced is the number these methods consume, unrewritten. Every one of
    // them clamps it rather than trusting it: a proposal computed against a snapshot one reload old
    // must not trap.
    //
    // **Ranks are inserted, never permuted.** A drop rewrites only the dragged items' `order`, so
    // the siblings' files — and `modified`, and a git commit — stay honest about what actually
    // moved. That is the one place these differ from `sortSelection`, which permutes because its
    // gesture is a permutation. `Ranks.insertionRanks` answering `nil` is the renumber trigger, and
    // the fallback is `moveLane`'s: compact the destination, then place against the fresh ladder.
    //
    // **Silent no-ops throughout**, all of them the reload being the authority rather than the
    // gesture: a destination lane that is gone or tombstoned (04's "a card is never filed under a
    // `deleted:` parent"), a dragged set emptied by a foreign reload, and a drop that lands exactly
    // where everything already is (a drag that ends where it started must not stamp `modified` or
    // mint a commit — the resize drag's rule).

    /// One member of a dragged card set, resolved against the snapshot: **where it is now** — a lane,
    /// or the board's trash.
    private struct DraggedCard {
        let id: ItemID
        /// The card's current home, which is also where an undo puts it back.
        let path: ItemPath
        let order: Double
        /// What it is called, for the skip banner a stale step would raise — read here because the
        /// snapshot this resolves against is the pre-write one, which is where a title still is.
        let title: String?

        /// The parent folder an inverse move returns it to.
        func parent(under root: URL) -> URL {
            switch path {
            case let .card(lane, _): ItemPath.lane(lane).folder(under: root)
            case .trashCard: BoardWriter.trashFolder(inBoard: root)
            case .lane: root
            }
        }
    }

    /// `ids` narrowed to cards the snapshot holds and sorted into **flatten order** — "lane `order`
    /// first, then card `order`" (`SelectionGrammar.boardCards`), which is what "drop inserts
    /// contiguously in preserved relative order" means and the only order a `Set` cannot supply.
    ///
    /// **Both containers, because a drag out of the trash is an ordinary move** (03-board-ui.md §
    /// Trash, resettled 2026-07-28: "Restoring is an ordinary move out … there is no restore-specific
    /// machinery and no Put Back"). A drag membership set is homogeneous by container, so exactly one
    /// of the two branches below ever contributes; asking both is what lets `moveCards` and
    /// `copyCards` serve the restore without a second code path able to disagree with them.
    ///
    /// Members that vanished since the drag began are simply absent: drag membership is a UUID set
    /// that vanished items leave silently (02-architecture.md), and "partial vanishing drops the
    /// survivors" is the design's own wording.
    private func draggedCards(_ ids: Set<ItemID>) -> [DraggedCard] {
        var members: [DraggedCard] = []
        for lane in snapshot.lanes {
            for card in lane.cards where ids.contains(card.id) {
                members.append(DraggedCard(
                    id: card.id,
                    path: .card(lane: lane.id, id: card.id),
                    order: card.order,
                    title: card.title.value
                ))
            }
        }
        guard members.isEmpty else { return members }
        for card in snapshot.trash where ids.contains(card.id) {
            members.append(DraggedCard(
                id: card.id,
                path: .trashCard(card.id),
                order: card.order,
                title: card.title.value
            ))
        }
        return members
    }

    /// The within-board card drop: `ids` land contiguously at logical position `index` among
    /// `laneID`'s rendered cards, in flatten order.
    ///
    /// **Uniformly `moveItem`, cross-lane members and same-lane ones alike.** A member already in
    /// the destination takes the writer's same-parent degenerate path, which rewrites exactly one
    /// file — its `order` — and never touches the filesystem; a member arriving from another lane
    /// moves its folder and carries the same explicit rank. That is `moveItem`'s own promise ("a
    /// drop that lands back in its own lane is the same gesture as one that lands elsewhere"), and
    /// leaning on it is what keeps this method from growing two branches that could disagree about
    /// ordering.
    ///
    /// The selection is deliberately untouched: every id survives the move, and the cards the user
    /// is dragging should stay the cards the user is dragging.
    public func moveCards(_ ids: Set<ItemID>, toLane laneID: ItemID, at index: Int) {
        guard let destination = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == laneID }) else { return }
        let members = draggedCards(ids)
        guard !members.isEmpty else { return }

        let rendered = destination.cards
        let memberIDs = members.map(\.id)
        let remaining = rendered.filter { !ids.contains($0.id) }
        let target = min(max(0, index), remaining.count)

        // The no-op guard, stated as the arrangement rather than as a special case: if the lane
        // would render exactly what it renders now, nothing moved. A member sitting in another lane
        // — or in the trash — makes the two lists differ by construction, so this covers the
        // cross-container case too.
        guard DropSlotMath.applied(rendered.map(\.id), moving: memberIDs, to: target) != rendered.map(\.id)
        else { return }

        let root = rootURL
        let laneFolder = ItemPath.lane(laneID).folder(under: root)

        // The pre-write home of every member, per 13's "move → move back (original lane, original
        // `order`)" — and, for a card coming out of the trash, back into `.trash/` at the rank it
        // was filed under. A renumber inside the bracket rewrites the destination lane's own cards,
        // so a member that was already there has its captured rank refreshed — `moveLane`'s note.
        var origins = Dictionary(uniqueKeysWithValues: members.map { ($0.id, (path: $0.path, order: $0.order)) })
        var arrivals: [(id: ItemID, order: Double)] = []
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: remaining.map(\.order), at: target, count: members.count)
            if ranks == nil {
                // Compact and place again. The renumber assigns in display order over the lane's
                // cards, so the compacted ladder lines up one-for-one with `rendered`; the members
                // already in this lane are dropped from it before the neighbours are consulted,
                // exactly as `moveLane` drops the dragged lane's own rung.
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: laneFolder)
                let renumbered = Array(zip(rendered, Ranks.renumbered(count: rendered.count)))
                for (card, rank) in renumbered where ids.contains(card.id) {
                    origins[card.id] = (path: .card(lane: laneID, id: card.id), order: rank)
                }
                let compacted = renumbered.filter { !ids.contains($0.0.id) }.map(\.1)
                ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: compacted, at: target, count: members.count)
            }
            guard let ranks else { return }

            for (member, rank) in zip(members, ranks) {
                arrivals.append((id: member.id, order: rank))
                _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                    at: member.path.folder(under: root),
                    toParent: laneFolder,
                    sourceBoardRoot: root,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    order: rank
                )
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil, !arrivals.isEmpty else { return }

        // move → move back (original container, original `order`); a drop that never left its lane is
        // 06's Reorder rather than Move, which is the same distinction the commit vocabulary draws —
        // and a card arriving from the trash always counts as a Move, because it crossed containers.
        let inverse: [(from: URL, toParent: URL, order: Double)] = arrivals.compactMap { arrival in
            guard let origin = origins[arrival.id] else { return nil }
            return (
                from: laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(arrival.id.rawValue, isDirectory: true),
                toParent: Self.parentFolder(of: origin.path, under: root),
                order: origin.order
            )
        }
        let forward: [(from: URL, order: Double)] = arrivals.compactMap { arrival in
            guard let origin = origins[arrival.id] else { return nil }
            return (from: origin.path.folder(under: root), order: arrival.order)
        }
        let crossed = members.contains { member in
            if case let .card(lane, _) = member.path { return lane != laneID }
            return true
        }
        // The two lists are index-aligned mirror images — `inverse[i].from` is where the card is now
        // and `forward[i].from` is where it was — so the expectations read as one swap: **the undo
        // wants the card at its destination holding the rank the drop gave it; the redo wants it back
        // at its origin holding the rank it left.** The destination *path* is both the lane check and
        // the container check: a card a foreign writer moved elsewhere — into the trash included —
        // leaves nothing there to validate (`HistoryStaleness`).
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(crossed ? .move : .reorder, kind: .card, count: arrivals.count),
            subject: members.count == 1 ? members[0].title : nil,
            undoExpects: zip(inverse, forward).map { .present($0.from, .order($1.order)) },
            redoExpects: zip(inverse, forward).map { .present($1.from, .order($0.order)) }
        ) { _ in
            for step in inverse {
                _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                    at: step.from,
                    toParent: step.toParent,
                    sourceBoardRoot: root,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    order: step.order
                )
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            for step in forward {
                _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                    at: step.from,
                    toParent: laneFolder,
                    sourceBoardRoot: root,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    order: step.order
                )
            }
        }
    }

    /// The parent folder an item at `path` sits in — the destination an inverse move returns it to.
    nonisolated static func parentFolder(of path: ItemPath, under root: URL) -> URL {
        switch path {
        case let .card(lane, _): ItemPath.lane(lane).folder(under: root)
        case .trashCard: BoardWriter.trashFolder(inBoard: root)
        case .lane: root
        }
    }

    /// The within-board ⌥-drag: fresh-GUID duplicates of `ids` land contiguously at `index` among
    /// `laneID`'s rendered cards, **originals untouched** (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop:
    /// "originals stay, cursor shows the copy badge, fresh-GUID duplicates land at the drop").
    /// `created` survives because a copy is a fork — `CopyStamps.fork`, the same stamps paste uses.
    ///
    /// **The ranks are placed among the lane's *full* rendered set**, not among the set with the
    /// dragged members removed — the one place a copy's arithmetic differs from a move's. The
    /// originals are lifted out of the layout for the duration of the drag whatever the effective
    /// operation is (⌥ can be pressed and released mid-drag; a layout that re-admitted them on every
    /// flip would flap the whole board), but they are still *on disk* holding their ranks, and a
    /// rank chosen in the gap they appear to have vacated would collide with them the instant they
    /// reappear. So the drop's index is mapped through to the neighbour it names — the card the run
    /// lands in front of — and the rank is taken there.
    public func copyCards(_ ids: Set<ItemID>, toLane laneID: ItemID, at index: Int) {
        guard let destination = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == laneID }) else { return }
        let members = draggedCards(ids)
        guard !members.isEmpty else { return }

        let rendered = destination.cards
        let remaining = rendered.filter { !ids.contains($0.id) }
        let target = min(max(0, index), remaining.count)
        // The resting-layout index, re-read against the layout the originals are still part of.
        let placement = target < remaining.count
            ? (rendered.firstIndex { $0.id == remaining[target].id } ?? rendered.count)
            : rendered.count

        let root = rootURL
        let laneFolder = ItemPath.lane(laneID).folder(under: root)

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: rendered.map(\.order), at: placement, count: members.count)
            if ranks == nil {
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: laneFolder)
                ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(
                    amongVisible: Ranks.renumbered(count: rendered.count),
                    at: placement,
                    count: members.count
                )
            }
            guard let ranks else { return }

            for (member, rank) in zip(members, ranks) {
                _ = try BoardWriter.copyItem(
                    at: member.path.folder(under: root),
                    toParent: laneFolder,
                    order: rank,
                    stamps: .fork
                )
            }
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Cross-board arrivals
    //
    // Executed by the **destination** store, inside *its* bracket, because the destination is where
    // the write's effects have to round-trip. A move mutates the source board's tree outside that
    // board's own bracket, which is correct and needs no coordination: the source store's watcher
    // sees a foreign change and reloads, which is exactly what a foreign change is.
    //
    // **None of these register an undo step, and the reason is 13's own two sentences.** Its inverse
    // inventory names nine operations and an arrival is not among them; and "undo is board-local" —
    // one stack per board — while a cross-board move's inverse would have to write into the *source*
    // board, whose stack knows nothing about it and whose window may not even be open. The clipboard's
    // half is the same shape one remove further: a paste's inverse needs the staged tree to still be
    // there, which is exactly the staging lifecycle 13 defers with the attachment operations. Within a
    // board, `copyCards`' ⌥-drag is left out with them: its Writer operation is `.copy`, not a create,
    // and the three arrival paths are one gesture family that should gain undo together or not at all.
    //
    // `sources` are the items' folder URLs in the source board — both boards are open in this app,
    // so both roots are already security-scoped and the payload can carry plain URLs. The source
    // board root is read back off the path rather than passed alongside: 01-storage-format.md's
    // fractal layout fixes the depth (`<root>/<lane>` and `<root>/<lane>/<card>`), so the URL
    // already carries it and a second parameter could only ever disagree with the first.

    /// The board root a lane folder sits directly under.
    nonisolated static func boardRoot(ofLaneFolder folder: URL) -> URL {
        folder.deletingLastPathComponent()
    }

    /// The board root a card folder sits two levels under.
    nonisolated static func boardRoot(ofCardFolder folder: URL) -> URL {
        folder.deletingLastPathComponent().deletingLastPathComponent()
    }

    /// Where one arriving item's bytes come from.
    ///
    /// **Two producers, one arrival path.** A drag names folders in the source board; a paste names
    /// folders in the clipboard's staging directory — and, when that snapshot is missing or
    /// unreadable, the manifest's embedded `index.md` instead (04-interactions.md ▸ Clipboard's
    /// staging-less fallback). Modelling the fallback as a second kind of *source* rather than as a
    /// second arrival method is what keeps the rank insertion, the tombstone stripping and the
    /// `deleted:` clearing stated once: everything downstream of "where do the bytes come from" is
    /// identical, and a paste that half-falls-back mixes the two cases inside one bracket.
    public enum ItemSource: Sendable, Equatable {

        /// A folder on disk — the source board's own, or a staged snapshot of it.
        case folder(URL)

        /// The manifest's embedded text: the item's `index.md`, and (for a lane) its cards'.
        /// Materialized by `BoardWriter.materializeItem`, byte-faithfully.
        case text(index: String, cards: [String])
    }

    /// A cross-board card drop, landing contiguously at `index` among `laneID`'s rendered cards.
    ///
    /// - `.copy` (the default between boards) — `copyItem` per folder: fresh GUIDs throughout,
    ///   `created` kept, originals untouched. Copies mint by construction, so the import boundary's
    ///   collision question never arises.
    /// - `.move` (⌘-drag) — `moveItem` per folder: identity travels, and the import boundary remints
    ///   **only** the folders whose UUID the destination board already holds, per folder at the
    ///   finest grain (01-storage-format.md's per-folder degradation, which is `moveItem`'s own
    ///   behaviour rather than something this method arranges).
    public func receiveCards(_ sources: [URL], operation: TransferOperation, toLane laneID: ItemID, at index: Int) {
        receive(
            sources.map(ItemSource.folder),
            operation: operation,
            toLane: laneID,
            at: index,
            normalizingLooseFiles: false
        )
    }

    /// **The clipboard's card arrival** — `receiveCards` with the one axis a paste varies
    /// independently (04-interactions.md ▸ Clipboard).
    ///
    /// It is the same commit as a drop's, deliberately: `.copy` materializes from the staged snapshot
    /// (or, per entry, from the embedded `index.md`) and `.move` is the armed cut's — "the ⌘-drag
    /// move path — identity travels", which is also the keyboard restore when the cut was made in the
    /// trash (▸ The trash: "cut in the trash, paste into a lane is the keyboard-native restore, an
    /// ordinary folder move").
    ///
    /// **The trash's old copy-out rule is gone with the tombstone it stripped** (resettled
    /// 2026-07-28): a trashed card carries no `deleted:` key, so a card copied out of the trash is
    /// an ordinary copy of an ordinary card and there is nothing to clear at materialization.
    ///
    /// `normalizingLooseFiles` is the remaining axis: **"a paste is an import boundary, so
    /// normalization applies"** (04-interactions.md ▸ Clipboard, settled 2026-07-28 —
    /// 01-storage-format.md's loose-file rule). Loose files the staged snapshot carries beside a
    /// card's `index.md` land in the pasted card's `attachments/`, Finder-renamed on collision, so
    /// "nothing the snapshot preserved is dropped on arrival" *and* nothing arrives out of place.
    ///
    /// It has **no default**, here and on `receiveLanes`, so every arrival path states which side of
    /// the import boundary it is on rather than inheriting an answer. The clipboard passes `true`
    /// (both operations: 04 says "a paste is an import boundary" unqualified, and an armed cut's
    /// move is a paste); the drag passes `false` and leaves its arrivals to the destination board's
    /// own carve-out, which relocates on the next reload with the notice a user-initiated paste has
    /// no need of.
    public func receiveCards(
        _ sources: [ItemSource],
        operation: TransferOperation,
        toLane laneID: ItemID,
        at index: Int,
        normalizingLooseFiles: Bool
    ) {
        receive(
            sources,
            operation: operation,
            toLane: laneID,
            at: index,
            normalizingLooseFiles: normalizingLooseFiles
        )
    }

    private func receive(
        _ sources: [ItemSource],
        operation: TransferOperation,
        toLane laneID: ItemID,
        at index: Int,
        normalizingLooseFiles: Bool
    ) {
        guard !sources.isEmpty,
              let destination = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == laneID })
        else { return }

        let rendered = destination.cards
        let target = min(max(0, index), rendered.count)
        let root = rootURL
        let laneFolder = ItemPath.lane(laneID).folder(under: root)

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: rendered.map(\.order), at: target, count: sources.count)
            if ranks == nil {
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: laneFolder)
                ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(
                    amongVisible: Ranks.renumbered(count: rendered.count),
                    at: target,
                    count: sources.count
                )
            }
            guard let ranks else { return }

            for (source, rank) in zip(sources, ranks) {
                guard let arrived = try Self.materialize(
                    source,
                    operation: operation,
                    intoParent: laneFolder,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    sourceBoardRoot: Self.boardRoot(ofCardFolder:),
                    order: rank
                ) else { continue }
                // Inside the same bracket, so the card lands normalized in one round trip rather
                // than appearing loose for a reload and being tidied afterwards.
                guard normalizingLooseFiles else { continue }
                try BoardWriter.normalizeLooseFiles(
                    inCard: laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(arrived.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                )
            }
        }
    }

    /// One arrival's materialization — the two `ItemSource` kinds crossed with the two operations,
    /// in the one place both the card path and the lane path can share.
    ///
    /// **`.move` of a `.text` source is unreachable and answers `nil`.** A move needs a folder whose
    /// identity travels, and the only producer of text sources is the clipboard's fallback, which is
    /// a *copy* by construction (04-interactions.md ▸ Clipboard: an armed cut moves the surviving
    /// originals, and a cut that cannot find them is void). Skipping is the standing posture for an
    /// arrival that names nothing — the same silent no-op every other drop commit gives a source that
    /// has gone.
    private static func materialize(
        _ source: ItemSource,
        operation: TransferOperation,
        intoParent parent: URL,
        destinationBoardRoot: URL,
        sourceBoardRoot: (URL) -> URL,
        order: Double
    ) throws(BoardWriteError) -> ItemID? {
        switch (source, operation) {
        case let (.folder(folder), .copy):
            return try BoardWriter.copyItem(at: folder, toParent: parent, order: order, stamps: .fork)
        case let (.folder(folder), .move):
            return try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                at: folder,
                toParent: parent,
                sourceBoardRoot: sourceBoardRoot(folder),
                destinationBoardRoot: destinationBoardRoot,
                order: order
            ).id
        case let (.text(index, cards), .copy):
            return try BoardWriter.materializeItem(
                inParent: parent,
                indexText: index,
                children: cards,
                order: order
            )
        case (.text, .move):
            return nil
        }
    }

    /// A cross-board lane drop, landing contiguously at `stripIndex` among this board's lanes.
    ///
    /// **The two operations no longer differ** (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop, resettled
    /// 2026-07-28): "A lane carries exactly its cards — the trash is board-level (`.trash/`), so
    /// there is nothing lane-nested to strip or carry: copy and ⌘-drag move alike transfer the lane's
    /// folder as it is; the old tombstone-stripping rule is retired with the tombstone model." A
    /// copy therefore mints fresh GUIDs and a move carries the identity, and that is the whole of the
    /// difference.
    ///
    /// Within-board lane reorders are `moveLane(_:toIndex:)`, and a within-board lane *copy* does
    /// not exist by drag at all (⌥ is ignored on lane drags; the clipboard is that operation's one
    /// home), so this method is cross-board by construction.
    public func receiveLanes(_ sources: [URL], operation: TransferOperation, at stripIndex: Int) {
        receiveLanes(
            sources.map(ItemSource.folder),
            operation: operation,
            at: stripIndex,
            normalizingLooseFiles: false
        )
    }

    /// **The clipboard's lane arrival** — `receiveLanes` with the staging-less fallback folded in
    /// (04-interactions.md ▸ Clipboard).
    ///
    /// The two operations keep their drag semantics exactly, because 04 says they are the same
    /// semantics: "a pasted *copy* takes fresh GUIDs throughout; a cut-paste is the ⌘-drag move —
    /// the folder moves whole (nothing lane-nested to strip or carry — the trash is board-level)".
    ///
    /// `normalizingLooseFiles` is the import boundary's, exactly as on `receiveCards` and with the
    /// same no-default rule; at lane level it reaches each arriving lane's **cards**, which is the
    /// only level the carve-out has (a lane's own loose files keep the verbatim posture).
    public func receiveLanes(
        _ sources: [ItemSource],
        operation: TransferOperation,
        at stripIndex: Int,
        normalizingLooseFiles: Bool
    ) {
        guard !sources.isEmpty else { return }

        let root = rootURL
        let rendered = snapshot.lanes
        let target = min(max(0, stripIndex), rendered.count)

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(amongVisible: rendered.map(\.order), at: target, count: sources.count)
            if ranks == nil {
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: root)
                ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(
                    amongVisible: Ranks.renumbered(count: rendered.count),
                    at: target,
                    count: sources.count
                )
            }
            guard let ranks else { return }

            for (source, rank) in zip(sources, ranks) {
                guard let arrived = try Self.materialize(
                    source,
                    operation: operation,
                    intoParent: root,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    sourceBoardRoot: Self.boardRoot(ofLaneFolder:),
                    order: rank
                ) else { continue }

                guard normalizingLooseFiles else { continue }
                try BoardWriter.normalizeLooseFiles(
                    inLane: root.appendingPathComponent(arrived.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                )
            }
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Finder file drops

    // **The attachment half registers no undo step** (13-native-undo.md ▸ Out of scope, ratified
    // 2026-07-27): "attachment add/remove registers **no undo step** in v1", because remove →
    // re-add needs the removed file to survive somewhere and that staging area is a design pass of
    // its own. Add → remove would be a clean inverse on its own, but half a pair is worse than none:
    // ⌘Z would undo attaching and refuse to undo detaching, which is not a rule anyone could learn.
    // The *card-creating* half below is an ordinary create and does register one.
    //
    // The writes an external Finder file drag performs (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop, "Files
    // from Finder"): onto a card the files join its `attachments/`, onto lane empty space they become
    // one card each. The gesture's half — which card, which slot — is `BoardDropContext`'s; these are
    // ordinary store writes, with the drop commits' own rules above (one `performWrite` bracket per
    // gesture; a vanished or tombstoned destination is a silent no-op, the reload being the
    // authority; failures are the banner's).
    //
    // **Folders never arrive here from a drop.** "Folders are refused at hover" (04-interactions.md):
    // the gesture refuses a folders-only drag outright and `FinderDrop.land` partitions a mixed one
    // before it calls either of these, naming the skipped folders in a loss row. Both functions stay
    // honest about a directory anyway — `BoardWriter.importAttachments` refuses one by design — since
    // nothing about their contract says a drop is the only caller.

    /// Copies `urls` into `cardID`'s `attachments/` — the drop-on-a-card half.
    ///
    /// **The board container, and only it** (`boardItem`): a card that has been deleted is in
    /// `.trash/`, and a drop on a target that vanished under the gesture writes nothing at all. That
    /// is also the whole of "Finder file drops on trash cards are inert" (04-interactions.md ▸ The
    /// trash) on the write side — the gesture refuses to propose one in the first place, and this
    /// refuses to serve one that slipped through a reload.
    ///
    /// A lane id is refused for the same reason a lane folder is: attachments belong to cards.
    /// Multi-file, any type, and a name already taken is renamed Finder-style rather than
    /// overwritten — all `BoardWriter.importAttachments`', including its failure shape: the first
    /// failing file stops the batch and banners naming it, and everything already copied stays.
    public func importAttachments(_ urls: [URL], toCard cardID: ItemID) {
        guard !urls.isEmpty,
              let item = Self.boardItem(cardID, in: snapshot),
              let card = item.cardID
        else { return }

        let folder = rootURL
            .appendingPathComponent(item.laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
            .appendingPathComponent(card.rawValue, isDirectory: true)

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            _ = try BoardWriter.importAttachments(urls, intoCard: folder)
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Removing an attachment

    /// Moves one of a card's attachments to the **system** Trash — the card window attachment row's
    /// Remove, its ⌫ twin, and nothing else (05-card-window.md ▸ Attachments).
    ///
    /// **An ordinary bracketed write, which is the whole point of it being here** rather than a
    /// `FileManager` call in the view: it mutates the card's folder, so the churn has to round back
    /// as one *app-mediated* reload (the echo the watcher would otherwise read as a foreign edit),
    /// it has to refuse under the read-only lock like every other mutation (`performWrite`'s gate),
    /// and its failures have to reach the banner strip like every other write's. On git boards it
    /// is also one commit, for free, for the same reason.
    ///
    /// The guards are `importAttachments`' exactly, and its inverse in every way: **the board
    /// container and only it** (`boardItem`), so a trashed card is as unreachable as a deleted one
    /// and its attachments are not removable from a window that is dismissing itself in the same
    /// breath; a lane id is refused because attachments belong to cards. Which *file* may go is
    /// `BoardWriter.removeAttachment`'s listing check, and a name that is no longer there is a
    /// silent no-op rather than a failure — the reload is the authority on what the card has.
    public func removeAttachment(named name: String, fromCard cardID: ItemID) {
        guard !name.isEmpty,
              let item = Self.boardItem(cardID, in: snapshot),
              let card = item.cardID
        else { return }

        let folder = rootURL
            .appendingPathComponent(item.laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
            .appendingPathComponent(card.rawValue, isDirectory: true)

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            _ = try BoardWriter.removeAttachment(named: name, fromCard: folder)
        }
    }

    // MARK: - The loose-file carve-out

    /// Moves every loose file the last applied snapshot found beside a card's `index.md` into that
    /// card's `attachments/`, and posts one notice naming what moved — the **act** half of
    /// 01-storage-format.md's loose-file carve-out (§ Fractal layout ▸ Rules, settled 2026-07-28,
    /// "Lanework-owns-the-board"; the loader's `looseCardFiles` is the notice half).
    ///
    /// **It registers no undo step**, and unlike its neighbours that is not a deferral: nobody asked
    /// for it. The relocation is the app tidying its own house on a reload, not a gesture — there is
    /// no ⌘Z that should follow it, and putting one on the stack would let the next ⌘Z undo something
    /// the user never did. (It is `renumberVisibleChildren`'s posture: bookkeeping composes no event,
    /// 06-history-undo.md ▸ Commit messages.)
    ///
    /// **It is an ordinary app write and nothing more.** One `performWrite` bracket over the whole
    /// board's worth of relocation, so the churn rounds back as a single app-mediated reload and (on
    /// git boards) a single commit — the style batch's rule, applied to a batch the app started
    /// itself. The snapshot is not touched here any more than it is anywhere else: the files move,
    /// the watcher notices, the reload lands.
    ///
    /// ### The read-only lock defers it, it does not cancel it
    ///
    /// "The relocation … waits out any read-only lock — strays stay tolerated until it clears." A
    /// locked board returns here having written nothing **and having remembered nothing**, so the
    /// next attempt is a fresh one. The arming seam is `land(_:generation:origin:)`: every lock
    /// clears on a successful reload and nowhere else, and this runs at the end of every successful
    /// reload, after `reconcileLock(after:)` — so the reload that lifts the lock is the reload that
    /// performs the relocation, with no timer, no queue, and no second state to keep in step. The
    /// same ordering covers the other direction, now that the probe is symmetric: a reconciling
    /// reload that *raises* the unwritable-location lock raises it before this runs.
    ///
    /// ### It cannot hot-loop
    ///
    /// The relocation's own reload re-walks the tree, which is the loop the guard exists for. After
    /// a success the walk finds nothing loose, `looseCardFiles` empties, and the memo below is
    /// cleared — the ordinary resting state. After a *failure* the walk finds the same files again,
    /// and an unguarded call would fail again, forever, at the speed of a directory walk. So an
    /// attempt is made only when the loose-file set **differs from the last one attempted**: one
    /// failure, one banner row, then silence until the picture on disk actually changes (a file
    /// added, removed, or partially moved by the failed attempt itself — each of which is a
    /// different set and so a fresh attempt).
    ///
    /// The failure is the banner's already: `performWrite` posts every `BoardWriteError` before it
    /// rethrows, and the rethrow is swallowed here like every other gesture with nothing else to do
    /// about it. Files moved before the failure stay moved, and the notice names exactly those.
    public func relocateLooseCardFiles() {
        let work = looseCardFiles
        guard !work.isEmpty else {
            // The resting state, and the memo's reset: a board with nothing loose has nothing to
            // remember having tried.
            attemptedRelocation = []
            return
        }
        // Deferred, not abandoned — and deliberately *before* the memo is written, so the attempt
        // this lock refused is not the attempt the guard below remembers.
        guard readOnlyLock == nil else {
            Self.logger.debug("loose-file relocation deferred — the board is read-only")
            return
        }
        let signature = Self.relocationSignature(of: work)
        guard signature != attemptedRelocation else { return }
        attemptedRelocation = signature

        let root = rootURL
        var relocated: [BannerCenter.Relocation] = []
        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for card in work {
                let folder = root
                    .appendingPathComponent(card.laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                    .appendingPathComponent(card.cardID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                let moved = try BoardWriter.relocateLooseFiles(card.fileNames, inCard: folder)
                // A card whose files all vanished under the write contributes no line: the Writer
                // skipped them because they are gone, and nothing was moved to report.
                guard !moved.isEmpty else { continue }
                relocated.append(BannerCenter.Relocation(
                    title: card.title,
                    fileNames: moved.map { $0.sourceURL.lastPathComponent }
                ))
            }
        }
        banners.postRelocatedLooseFiles(relocated)
    }

    /// The loose-file picture as a comparable value: one entry per file, keyed by where it sits.
    ///
    /// A `Set` rather than the array itself because the *identity* of the work is what matters, not
    /// the order the walk happened to meet it in — and because two loads of an unchanged tree must
    /// compare equal even if a lane's folder-name ordering shifted underneath them.
    nonisolated static func relocationSignature(of work: [LooseCardFiles]) -> Set<String> {
        var signature: Set<String> = []
        for card in work {
            for name in card.fileNames {
                signature.insert("\(card.laneID.rawValue)/\(card.cardID.rawValue)/\(name)")
            }
        }
        return signature
    }

    /// Creates one card per file at `index` in `laneID`, each titled with its filename minus the
    /// extension and carrying that file as its attachment — the drop-into-a-lane half.
    ///
    /// **`index` is the drop position, not the lane's end** (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop,
    /// settled 2026-07-28): "created cards land at the drop position — resolved through the same
    /// card-grid zones an ordinary card drag uses … drops are positional everywhere, and
    /// append-at-bottom stays the creation *trio*'s rule, not the drop's". The gesture resolves it
    /// through `FileDropZones.landing`; the rank arithmetic below is `moveCards`', so a run landing
    /// between two siblings takes exactly the ranks a card drop there would have produced.
    ///
    /// **Ordinary store writes, with no drop-only path**: a fresh GUID and an inserted rank per card
    /// (`Ranks.insertionRanks`, compacting and placing again when midpoint precision is exhausted,
    /// exactly as `moveCards` does), then the m2 import machinery for the file. The whole batch is one
    /// `performWrite` bracket, so a five-file drop rounds back as one reload and one commit.
    ///
    /// **The title follows the empty-title rules**: a name that trims to nothing — a dotfile whose
    /// stem is blank, a file called `" .png"` — writes no `title` key at all rather than an empty
    /// string, since a missing key is the untitled state and `""` would be a real, blank title
    /// (01-storage-format.md § Frontmatter).
    ///
    /// **A Finder file drop is a user-initiated creation, so it clears the search**
    /// (04-interactions.md § Search, stated by mechanism: "⌘N, Return-creation, the header button,
    /// empty-space double-click, paste, and Finder file drops alike"). Cleared at the gesture, in
    /// front of the write, exactly as the placeholder's begin clears it in front of the typing —
    /// `TransientBoardState.noteUserCreation()` is the rule's one home, and the *attach* half of the
    /// same gesture (`importAttachments`) deliberately does not call it, because a drop on a card
    /// creates nothing that could be born invisible.
    ///
    /// **Partial failure is honest, and leaves no half-made card.** The batch stops at the first file
    /// that cannot be imported — an unreadable source, a vanished one, a disk with no room left —
    /// which banners naming it; the cards already made keep their files, matching `importAttachments`'
    /// own "everything already imported stays landed". The card whose import failed is removed again
    /// before the throw: it was minted moments earlier in this same bracket and holds nothing but
    /// what this call put there, and "creating-then-abandoning never leaves an empty card behind"
    /// (04-interactions.md ▸ Grammar) is the rule it would otherwise break.
    public func createCards(fromFiles urls: [URL], inLane laneID: ItemID, at index: Int) {
        guard !urls.isEmpty,
              let lane = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == laneID })
        else { return }

        transient.noteUserCreation()

        let rendered = lane.cards
        let target = min(max(0, index), rendered.count)
        let root = rootURL
        let laneFolder = root.appendingPathComponent(laneID.rawValue, isDirectory: true)

        var created: [(folder: URL, source: URL)] = []
        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(
                amongVisible: rendered.map(\.order), at: target, count: urls.count)
            if ranks == nil {
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: laneFolder)
                ranks = Ranks.insertionRanks(
                    amongVisible: Ranks.renumbered(count: rendered.count), at: target, count: urls.count)
            }
            guard let ranks else { return }

            for (url, rank) in zip(urls, ranks) {
                // Create then place, `commitPlaceholder`'s pair: the Writer's create appends after the
                // visible siblings by contract, and the rank rides its same-parent degenerate reorder
                // inside this same bracket rather than widening the create's signature.
                let id = try BoardWriter.createCard(inLane: laneFolder, title: Self.cardTitle(forFile: url))
                let folder = laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(id.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                do throws(BoardWriteError) {
                    _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                        at: folder,
                        toParent: laneFolder,
                        sourceBoardRoot: root,
                        destinationBoardRoot: root,
                        order: rank
                    )
                    _ = try BoardWriter.importAttachments([url], intoCard: folder)
                } catch {
                    try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: folder)
                    throw error
                }
                created.append((folder: folder, source: url))
            }
        }

        // create → remove the created folder (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules), one step for the drop
        // whatever its file count. The redo re-imports from the same source URLs the gesture used —
        // the one create in the app whose replay needs more than the card's own bytes. Collected
        // from what actually landed rather than from `urls`, so a batch that failed halfway still
        // hands ⌘Z exactly the cards it left behind.
        let items = created.compactMap { createdItem(at: $0.folder, kind: .card, attachments: [$0.source]) }
        registerCreation(
            items,
            kind: .card,
            subject: created.count == 1 ? Self.cardTitle(forFile: created[0].source) : nil
        )
    }

    /// The title a dropped file's card takes: **the filename without its extension**
    /// (04-interactions.md ▸ Drag and drop), or `nil` — no `title` key — when that trims to nothing.
    ///
    /// The split is `URL`'s own, which is also Finder's: an extension-less name keeps all of itself,
    /// and a multi-dot name loses only the last component (`archive.tar.gz` → `archive.tar`), matching
    /// the collision-rename rule the same file's attachment goes through.
    nonisolated static func cardTitle(forFile url: URL) -> String? {
        let stem = url.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
            .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
        return stem.isEmpty ? nil : stem
    }

    // MARK: - Within-lane sort

    /// The lane and the new card ordering one ⌥⌘↑/⌥⌘↓ press would produce, or `nil` when the press
    /// is not available — **the menu items' `disabled` condition and the write's guard, as one
    /// answer** (`LaneWidthCommands`' rule).
    ///
    /// `nil` covers every refusal the design names in one expression: an empty or trash-side
    /// selection ("⌥⌘↑/⌥⌘↓ are inert on trash cards — the trash's order is its arrival order, not a
    /// workspace to arrange"), a lane selection ("with a lane
    /// selected … ⌥⌘↑/⌥⌘↓ are inert"), a card selection that **spans lanes** ("cards never change
    /// lanes by ⌘-arrow … so ⌥⌘↑/⌥⌘↓ disable when a card selection spans lanes"), and a block
    /// already at the end of its lane.
    func sortPlan(_ direction: SortMath.Direction) -> (lane: Lane, ordering: [ItemID])? {
        let selection = transient.selection
        guard selection.container == .board,
              SelectionGrammar.kind(of: selection, in: snapshot) == .card,
              // `nil` here *is* the spans-lanes case: the helper answers only when one lane holds
              // the whole set.
              let laneID = Self.lane(holding: selection.ids, in: snapshot),
              let lane = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == laneID })
        else { return nil }

        let rendered = lane.cards.map(\.id)
        guard let ordering = SortMath.reordered(rendered, moving: selection.ids, direction) else { return nil }
        return (lane, ordering)
    }

    /// Board ▸ Move Up / Move Down (⌥⌘↑/⌥⌘↓) — the within-lane sort (04-interactions.md ▸ The map).
    ///
    /// **One `performWrite` bracket**, like every other batch here: one gesture, one app-mediated
    /// reload, one commit on git boards.
    ///
    /// **The ranks are permuted, not invented.** The lane's existing `order` values, read in display
    /// order, are already a sorted ladder of exactly the right length — so the new ordering takes
    /// them rung for rung and only the cards whose *position* changed are rewritten. A block stepping
    /// past one sibling therefore touches the block plus that sibling and nothing else, which is what
    /// keeps `modified` (and, later, a git commit) honest about what actually moved.
    ///
    /// The one case that ladder cannot serve is **duplicate `order` values**, where display order is
    /// decided by the folder-name tie-break (`Ranks.isOrderedForDisplay`) rather than by the rank —
    /// permuting equal ranks would write the file and leave the board looking identical. That is the
    /// renumber trigger, exactly as an exhausted midpoint is elsewhere: compact the lane, then place
    /// against the fresh ladder (`commitPlaceholder`'s and `moveLane`'s pattern).
    ///
    /// The selection, the anchor and the head are deliberately untouched: every id survives, and the
    /// cards the user is moving should stay the cards the user is moving.
    public func sortSelection(_ direction: SortMath.Direction) {
        guard let plan = sortPlan(direction) else { return }

        let rendered = plan.lane.cards
        let laneFolder = rootURL.appendingPathComponent(plan.lane.id.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
        let orders = rendered.map(\.order)
        let positions = Dictionary(uniqueKeysWithValues: rendered.enumerated().map { ($1.id, $0) })

        // Every rank this gesture rewrites, with the value it replaced — the permutation's own
        // inverse. It is read out of the bracket because the ladder may be the *renumbered* one:
        // after a compaction the card at display position `origin` holds `ladder[origin]`, which is
        // what its own rewrite overwrites and therefore what an undo has to put back.
        var rewrites: [(folder: URL, from: Double, to: Double)] = []
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            var ladder = orders
            if !Self.isStrictlyAscending(orders) {
                try BoardWriter.renumberVisibleChildren(of: laneFolder)
                // The renumber assigns in display order, so the compacted ladder lines up one-for-one
                // with `rendered` — the same alignment `commitPlaceholder` relies on.
                ladder = Ranks.renumbered(count: rendered.count)
            }
            for (destination, id) in plan.ordering.enumerated() {
                guard let origin = positions[id], origin != destination else { continue }
                let rank = ladder[destination]
                let folder = laneFolder.appendingPathComponent(id.rawValue, isDirectory: true)
                rewrites.append((folder: folder, from: ladder[origin], to: rank))
                try BoardWriter.updateIndex(
                    inItemFolder: folder,
                    // `.reorder(title: nil)`: `updateIndex` enriches it off the document it reads, so
                    // a failure names the card by its own title.
                    operation: .reorder(title: nil)
                ) { document in
                    document.set(FrontmatterKeys.order, to: .double(rank))
                }
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil, !rewrites.isEmpty else { return }

        // reorder → restore original `order` (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules). The step is named for the
        // *gesture's* subject — the cards the user was moving — not for every sibling the permutation
        // displaced, which is the same rule 06 applies to a commit subject.
        //
        // Every rewritten rank is validated, the displaced siblings' included: they are what this
        // permutation wrote, so they are what it must find unchanged — the step is *named* for the
        // gesture's subject and *validated* over its whole write.
        let steps = rewrites
        let moved = selection.ids
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.reorder, kind: .card, count: moved.count),
            subject: moved.count == 1 ? moved.first.flatMap { Self.boardItem($0, in: snapshot)?.title } : nil,
            undoExpects: steps.map { .present($0.folder, .order($0.to)) },
            redoExpects: steps.map { .present($0.folder, .order($0.from)) }
        ) { _ in
            for step in steps {
                try Self.setOrder(step.from, at: step.folder)
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            for step in steps {
                try Self.setOrder(step.to, at: step.folder)
            }
        }
    }

    /// Whether a lane's ranks separate its cards on their own — the condition under which they can
    /// be permuted rather than replaced. Ties fall to the folder-name tie-break, which a permutation
    /// cannot reach past.
    nonisolated static func isStrictlyAscending(_ orders: [Double]) -> Bool {
        zip(orders, orders.dropFirst()).allSatisfy { $0 < $1 }
    }

    // MARK: - The trash

    /// Whether physically removing a card on this board destroys the only copy of it — and
    /// therefore whether a permanent delete stands an alert between one keystroke and unrecoverable
    /// deletion (03-board-ui.md § Trash, "Both confirm exactly where the loss is real").
    ///
    /// **Every board is `true` today**, because every board is history mode *none*: nothing in the
    /// app keeps a second copy, so a purge is final everywhere.
    ///
    // m7-git: git boards answer `false` here — "on git boards they act immediately (delete-never-
    // forgets)" (06-history-undo.md). Repo-nested boards stay `true` alongside mode none: the app
    // manages no history for them either. The named predicate exists now so the committer card
    // changes one expression rather than hunting the confirmation logic out of two menu items and an
    // alert.
    public var purgeIsUnrecoverable: Bool { true }

    /// **File ▸ Delete ⌘⌫ and its plain-⌫ grammar twin — staged by place** (04-interactions.md ▸
    /// The map, resettled 2026-07-28: "one Delete vocabulary, staged by place").
    ///
    /// The selection's container is the whole of the staging, and it is asked exactly once, here:
    /// a board selection moves into `.trash/` (or, for lanes, deletes physically), a trash selection
    /// deletes **permanently**. That is why Put Back's ⌘⌫ twin could retire — there is one Delete
    /// item and one predicate, and which write it performs is a fact about where the user was
    /// working, not about which of two menu rows AppKit happened to enable.
    ///
    /// **The confirmation is not here.** Whether the permanent branch's loss is real is
    /// `purgeIsUnrecoverable`'s question and the alert is the window's (`TrashConfirmations`); a
    /// store method that put up its own dialog could not be driven from a test.
    public func deleteSelection() {
        switch selection.container {
        case .board: delete(selection.ids)
        case .trash: deleteTrashCards(selection.ids)
        }
    }

    /// Deletes every **board** item in `ids` — cards into `.trash/`, lanes outright — in one bracket.
    ///
    /// **Two writes, because they are two acts** (03-board-ui.md § Trash): "deleting a card moves its
    /// folder into `<board-root>/.trash/`", while "Cards only. Lanes are never trashed — deleting a
    /// lane deletes it, folder and contents, physically. The net is undo, not the trash."
    ///
    /// **A set naming both is not a gesture this app can produce** — the selection is cards XOR lanes
    /// (04-interactions.md § Selection) — so the partition below never actually splits, and when a
    /// caller hands one anyway the lanes win: a lane delete takes its cards with it, and running the
    /// trash move as well would put a second step on the undo stack for one keystroke.
    ///
    /// **Ids that name nothing are silently skipped**, not refused: the paths are resolved against
    /// the snapshot, so a selection the next reload will drop writes nothing. An empty resolution
    /// never opens a bracket at all.
    ///
    /// **The selection moves to the successor sibling** — 04-interactions.md ▸ The map's Finder-style
    /// rule ("next card in the lane, next lane on the board; the last sibling's predecessor
    /// otherwise; empty container = nothing selected"), whose whole point is that "repeated ⌫ walks
    /// down a lane".
    ///
    /// Two things make that hold. The successor is computed from the **pre-write** snapshot, which is
    /// the last one that still knows where the doomed items sat; and it is selected **immediately**,
    /// rather than waiting for the reload the delete will echo back — a second ⌫ pressed before the
    /// watcher rounds the first one back must already have somewhere to land.
    ///
    /// **Deliberate deletes only.** External vanishing never picks a successor (02-architecture.md's
    /// reload-survival rule).
    public func delete(_ ids: Set<ItemID>) {
        let paths = ItemPath.resolve(ids, in: .board, snapshot: snapshot)
        guard !paths.isEmpty else { return }
        // The successor is drawn from what the container is *showing*, so a delete under an active
        // search walks the filtered lane rather than selecting a card the query has hidden.
        let successor = SelectionGrammar.successor(
            afterDeleting: ids,
            in: .board,
            snapshot: snapshot,
            filter: searchFilter
        )

        let lanes = paths.compactMap { path -> ItemID? in
            guard case let .lane(id) = path else { return nil }
            return id
        }
        let landed = lanes.isEmpty
            ? moveToTrash(paths.compactMap(Self.cardMove(of:)))
            : removeLanes(lanes)
        guard landed else { return }

        if let successor {
            select([successor], in: .board, anchor: successor, head: successor)
        } else {
            clearSelection()
        }
    }

    /// **Drop-on-trash deletes** (04-interactions.md ▸ The trash): "the drag is the pointer's delete
    /// gesture — release moves the dragged card(s) into `.trash/`".
    ///
    /// *Exactly* the ⌫ delete is a claim about the disk, and `moveToTrash(_:)` is what makes it
    /// structural rather than a matter of two call sites staying in step: one write op, one bracket,
    /// one set of ranks and stamps, so a card deleted by drop and a card deleted by keystroke are
    /// byte-indistinguishable afterwards.
    ///
    /// ### The one thing it does not share is the successor
    ///
    /// ⌫ moves the selection to the deleted card's successor sibling because *the selection* lost its
    /// cards and "repeated ⌫ walks down a lane" — the rule exists to keep a keyboard gesture
    /// repeatable. A drag has no such continuation, and its run is **not necessarily the selection at
    /// all**: dragging a card outside the selection drags that card alone and leaves the selection
    /// exactly where it was (`LaneView.startCardDrag`), so picking a successor for it would re-point a
    /// selection that never lost anything.
    ///
    /// So this writes and says nothing about the selection, and the ordinary reload does the rest: a
    /// board-side set ejects members that cross into the trash, as the vanish it is
    /// (02-architecture.md's reload-survival rule).
    public func deleteByDrag(cardIDs: [ItemID]) {
        _ = moveToTrash(ItemPath.resolve(Set(cardIDs), in: .board, snapshot: snapshot).compactMap(Self.cardMove(of:)))
    }

    /// **The card window's Actions ▸ Delete** (05-card-window.md ▸ Actions: "Delete — moves the card
    /// to the trash … the window then dismisses itself").
    ///
    /// The write is `moveToTrash(_:)`, so a card deleted from its own window is byte-indistinguishable
    /// from one deleted with ⌫ on the board or dropped on the trash column. What differs is the same
    /// thing that differs for the drag, and for its reason: **it says nothing about the selection.**
    ///
    /// **It does not dismiss the window either**, and must not: the window's dismissal is a *fate*
    /// re-derived from every snapshot (`CardWindowHost.cardWindowFate`), so the move this writes
    /// comes back through the watcher and the fate walk takes the window down — the same path an
    /// agent's or another window's delete takes. A second dismissal from here would be a second rule
    /// able to disagree with the first.
    public func deleteCard(_ id: ItemID) {
        _ = moveToTrash(ItemPath.resolve([id], in: .board, snapshot: snapshot).compactMap(Self.cardMove(of:)))
    }

    /// One card about to be moved into the trash: where it is now, and what an undo has to put back.
    private struct TrashMove {
        let id: ItemID
        let laneID: ItemID
        /// The rank it holds in its lane — the position an undo returns it to (13's "move → move
        /// back (original lane, original `order`)").
        let order: Double
        let title: String?
    }

    /// A resolved board path as a card move, or `nil` for a lane — the one place the partition is
    /// spelled, so no caller re-derives it.
    private static func cardMove(of path: ItemPath) -> (lane: ItemID, card: ItemID)? {
        guard case let .card(lane, id) = path else { return nil }
        return (lane, id)
    }

    /// **The delete write itself: a physical move into `<root>/.trash/`, at a freshly minted top
    /// rank** — one `performWrite` bracket whatever the set's size and whichever gesture asked.
    ///
    /// Spelled once so ⌫, drop-on-trash and the card window's button cannot drift apart on disk;
    /// everything that differs between them is about the *selection*, and lives in the callers.
    ///
    /// **The rank is the store's to mint** (03-board-ui.md § Trash: "every arrival lands at the
    /// trash's topmost position, minting an `order` rank above the current top"). That is a question
    /// about the snapshot, which the stateless Writer does not have — so `Ranks.insertAtHead` runs
    /// here over `snapshot.trash`, and a multi-card delete threads the minted rank back through the
    /// running list so each card in the run lands above the one before it. Newest-first therefore
    /// falls out of ordinary ranks, with no timestamp sort anywhere.
    ///
    /// - Returns: whether the write landed, so a caller can decide what to do with the selection.
    @discardableResult
    private func moveToTrash(_ cards: [(lane: ItemID, card: ItemID)]) -> Bool {
        let moves: [TrashMove] = cards.compactMap { entry in
            guard let lane = snapshot.lanes.first(where: { $0.id == entry.lane }),
                  let card = lane.cards.first(where: { $0.id == entry.card })
            else { return nil }
            return TrashMove(id: card.id, laneID: lane.id, order: card.order, title: card.title.value)
        }
        guard !moves.isEmpty else { return false }

        let root = rootURL
        // The ranks, minted against the trash as it stands and threaded forward: each arrival is
        // above the previous one, so a three-card ⌫ reads newest-first in the column exactly as three
        // separate deletes would.
        var ladder = snapshot.trash.map(\.order)
        var ranks: [Double] = []
        for _ in moves {
            let rank = Ranks.insertAtHead(ofVisible: ladder)
            ranks.append(rank)
            ladder.insert(rank, at: 0)
        }

        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for (move, rank) in zip(moves, ranks) {
                try BoardWriter.deleteCardToTrash(
                    at: ItemPath.card(lane: move.laneID, id: move.id).folder(under: root),
                    inBoard: root,
                    order: rank
                )
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil else { return false }

        // delete → **move back out of `.trash/`** (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules, ▸ Interaction with the
        // trash: "a card delete is a move into `.trash/`, so its undo is the ordinary inverse move,
        // returning the card to its source lane and rank").
        //
        // The redo replays the *forward* write with its own captured rank, exactly as every other
        // redo in this file replays the values its gesture wrote — so a redone delete lands the card
        // back where the undo took it from, rather than at whatever the top of the trash has become
        // in the meantime.
        //
        // **The expectations are one swap, and the container rides in the path** (`HistoryStaleness`):
        // the undo wants the card in the trash holding the rank the delete gave it; the redo wants it
        // back in its lane holding the rank it left. A foreign restore empties the trash path and the
        // undo skips; a foreign re-delete empties the lane path and the redo skips.
        let steps = zip(moves, ranks).map { move, rank in
            (
                trashed: ItemPath.trashCard(move.id).folder(under: root),
                origin: ItemPath.card(lane: move.laneID, id: move.id).folder(under: root),
                laneFolder: ItemPath.lane(move.laneID).folder(under: root),
                priorOrder: move.order,
                trashRank: rank
            )
        }
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.delete, kind: .card, count: steps.count),
            subject: moves.count == 1 ? moves[0].title : nil,
            undoExpects: steps.map { .present($0.trashed, .order($0.trashRank)) },
            redoExpects: steps.map { .present($0.origin, .order($0.priorOrder)) }
        ) { _ in
            for step in steps {
                _ = try BoardWriter.moveItem(
                    at: step.trashed,
                    toParent: step.laneFolder,
                    sourceBoardRoot: root,
                    destinationBoardRoot: root,
                    order: step.priorOrder
                )
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            for step in steps {
                try BoardWriter.deleteCardToTrash(at: step.origin, inBoard: root, order: step.trashRank)
            }
        }
        return true
    }

    /// **Deleting a lane is physical** — the folder and its contents go (03-board-ui.md § Trash:
    /// "Cards only. Lanes are never trashed … The net is undo, not the trash").
    ///
    /// **Capture before you remove.** The undo replays the lane's bytes, which only works if the step
    /// is holding them: `captureSubtree` reads the whole tree — nested cards, their `attachments/`,
    /// every stray, symlinks as links, POSIX modes — inside the same bracket as the removal, so
    /// nothing can change between the two. The capture is the reason this is a *destructive* delete
    /// with a real inverse rather than an unrecoverable one.
    ///
    /// **In-session only, and that is the accepted net** (13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules ▸ session-only
    /// persistence): the bytes live on the stack, so closing the board loses them. Git boards keep
    /// the lane reachable forever (06-history-undo.md's delete-never-forgets) — a Pro difference,
    /// stated honestly.
    ///
    /// A capture that fails takes the whole bracket down and nothing is removed: better a delete that
    /// visibly did not happen than one whose undo could not.
    @discardableResult
    private func removeLanes(_ ids: [ItemID]) -> Bool {
        let lanes = ids.compactMap { id in snapshot.lanes.first { $0.id == id } }
        guard !lanes.isEmpty else { return false }

        let root = rootURL
        let folders = lanes.map { ItemPath.lane($0.id).folder(under: root) }
        var captures: [SubtreeSnapshot] = []
        let landed: Void? = try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for folder in folders {
                captures.append(try BoardWriter.captureSubtree(at: folder, operation: .delete(title: nil)))
                try BoardWriter.removeLane(at: folder)
            }
        }
        guard landed != nil, captures.count == folders.count else { return false }

        // lane delete → **recreate the folder from the registered inverse** (13 ▸ Rules). Values, not
        // references: the capture is a `SubtreeSnapshot` of bytes taken before the removal, so the
        // step means the same thing any number of reloads later.
        //
        // Its predicate is existence and nothing else — the undo wants the paths still empty (a
        // recreate refuses to clobber, so a lane somebody re-made at that id is not this step's to
        // overwrite), the redo wants them back.
        let steps = Array(zip(folders, captures))
        registerStep(
            HistoryPhrase.name(.delete, kind: .lane, count: steps.count),
            subject: lanes.count == 1 ? lanes[0].title.value : nil,
            undoExpects: steps.map { .absent($0.0) },
            redoExpects: steps.map { .present($0.0) }
        ) { _ in
            for (folder, capture) in steps {
                try BoardWriter.recreateSubtree(at: folder, from: capture, operation: .createLane)
            }
        } redo: { _ in
            // Reversed, so a multi-lane delete unwinds in the mirror of the order it was made in.
            for (folder, _) in steps.reversed() {
                try BoardWriter.removeLane(at: folder)
            }
        }
        return true
    }

    /// **The trash's own Delete — permanent** (03-board-ui.md § Trash: "on a trash card, Delete
    /// (⌫/⌘⌫) is permanent; in the trash it removes the folder").
    ///
    /// Its own method rather than a flag on `delete(_:)` because it is a different act with a
    /// different safety story: it registers **no undo step**, and `purgeIsUnrecoverable` stays `true`
    /// — 13-native-undo.md ▸ Rules settles this by name ("Permanently delete (Delete Immediately,
    /// Empty Trash) … the confirm *is* the safety"). A stack entry here would be a promise the
    /// filesystem cannot keep.
    ///
    /// **The confirmation is the window's** (`TrashConfirmations`), for `deleteSelection`'s reason —
    /// and it is why this seam is explicit: the alert has to be able to name what this will purge
    /// before it runs.
    ///
    /// The selection moves to the successor sibling **within the trash**: the permanent delete is as
    /// deliberate a gesture as the move-to-trash, so repeated ⌫ walks down the column exactly as it
    /// walks down a lane (04-interactions.md ▸ The map).
    public func deleteTrashCards(_ ids: Set<ItemID>) {
        let paths = ItemPath.resolve(ids, in: .trash, snapshot: snapshot)
        guard !paths.isEmpty else { return }
        let successor = SelectionGrammar.successor(
            afterDeleting: ids,
            in: .trash,
            snapshot: snapshot,
            filter: searchFilter
        )
        let root = rootURL

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for path in paths {
                try BoardWriter.purgeTrashCard(at: path.folder(under: root), inBoard: root)
            }
        }

        if let successor {
            select([successor], in: .trash, anchor: successor, head: successor)
        } else {
            clearSelection()
        }
    }

    /// **Delete Immediately ⌥⌘⌫ — skips the trash from anywhere** (03-board-ui.md § Trash;
    /// 11-command-nexus.md: "Board window, card selection — skips the trash from anywhere").
    ///
    /// The one method whose targets can be in either container, and the reason is the command's own
    /// wording: from a lane it bypasses the trash the ordinary delete would have used, and from the
    /// trash it is the permanent delete the card is already one keystroke from. Cards only — a lane's
    /// delete is physical already, so there is nothing for "skip the trash" to mean on one.
    ///
    /// **It registers no undo step**, `deleteTrashCards`' ruling and its wording.
    ///
    /// The selection is cleared rather than walked to a successor: unlike ⌫, this is the command a
    /// confirmation stands in front of, and what follows it is reading the board rather than pressing
    /// the key again.
    public func deleteImmediately(_ ids: Set<ItemID>) {
        let container = selection.container
        let paths = ItemPath.resolve(ids, in: container, snapshot: snapshot).filter { !$0.isLane }
        guard !paths.isEmpty else { return }
        let root = rootURL

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for path in paths {
                switch path {
                case .trashCard:
                    try BoardWriter.purgeTrashCard(at: path.folder(under: root), inBoard: root)
                default:
                    try BoardWriter.purgeItem(at: path.folder(under: root))
                }
            }
        }
        clearSelection()
    }

    /// **Empty Trash… ⇧⌘⌫** — purges every card in `<root>/.trash/`, in one bracket.
    ///
    /// Not undoable, `deleteTrashCards`' ruling — this is the other half of 13's "Permanently delete".
    ///
    /// **Whole-trash scope, search-independent** (03-board-ui.md § Trash, settled): the writer walks
    /// the folder itself, never a filtered view — "a bulk command about the trash itself never
    /// silently narrows to the visible subset". The filter does not reach this method at all, which
    /// is the strongest form of that guarantee, and strays a hand-editor left in the container are
    /// preserved verbatim rather than swept up with the cards (`BoardWriter.emptyTrash`).
    public func emptyTrash() {
        guard !snapshot.trash.isEmpty else { return }
        let root = rootURL

        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            try BoardWriter.emptyTrash(inBoard: root)
        }
        if selection.container == .trash {
            clearSelection()
        }
    }

    // MARK: - The legacy tombstone migration

    /// Migrates every legacy `deleted:` key the last applied snapshot found, and posts one notice —
    /// the **act** half of 01-storage-format.md § Deletion's migration rule ("Legacy `deleted:` keys
    /// migrate on load-and-write, never destroy"; the loader's `legacyTombstones` is the notice half).
    ///
    /// **`relocateLooseCardFiles()`'s twin in every mechanical respect**, deliberately: same tail hook
    /// on a successful reload, same lock deferral, same attempted-set loop guard, same one bracket
    /// for the whole board, same warning-tone loss row. Two migrations arriving in one release with
    /// two different schedulings would be two things to keep honest.
    ///
    /// ### The two acts
    ///
    /// - **A card relocates into `.trash/`** with the key removed (`BoardWriter.migrateTombstonedCard`).
    /// - **A lane returns live** with the key stripped and nothing moved
    ///   (`BoardWriter.migrateTombstonedLane`) — "resurrection is the safe direction, nothing is
    ///   destroyed by migration". A tombstoned lane's own cards come back with it; any of them
    ///   carrying their own key migrate on their own account, as ordinary tombstoned cards, in the
    ///   same pass.
    ///
    /// ### The order among migrating cards is `deleted:`-ascending, deliberately
    ///
    /// Every arrival mints a rank above the current top, so the *last* card migrated ends up topmost.
    /// Migrating oldest-first therefore reproduces the newest-first column the tombstone model's
    /// timestamp sort used to render — the same board, read the same way, with ordinary ranks doing
    /// the work. A card whose stamp is missing or unparseable sorts as **oldest** (the retired sort's
    /// own rule: "a corrupt stamp must not outrank fresh deletions"), and ties fall to the loader's
    /// walk order — lane `order`, then card `order` — which is the deterministic tie-break the whole
    /// corpus already uses. `legacyTombstones` carries no timestamp of its own, so the stamps are
    /// read out of the snapshot the same walk produced.
    ///
    /// ### The read-only lock defers it, it does not cancel it
    ///
    /// Exactly the relocation's posture, and stated there: a locked board returns having written
    /// nothing **and having remembered nothing**, so the reload that lifts the lock is the reload
    /// that performs the migration.
    ///
    /// ### It cannot hot-loop
    ///
    /// The migration's own write triggers a reload, which re-walks the tree — the loop the guard
    /// exists for. After a success the walk finds no keys, `legacyTombstones` empties, and the memo
    /// clears. After a *failure* it finds the same keys again, and an unguarded call would fail
    /// forever at the speed of a directory walk; so an attempt is made only when the tombstone set
    /// **differs from the last one attempted**.
    public func migrateLegacyTombstones() {
        let work = legacyTombstones
        guard !work.isEmpty else {
            attemptedTombstoneMigration = []
            return
        }
        guard readOnlyLock == nil else {
            Self.logger.debug("legacy tombstone migration deferred — the board is read-only")
            return
        }
        let signature = Self.migrationSignature(of: work)
        guard signature != attemptedTombstoneMigration else { return }
        attemptedTombstoneMigration = signature

        let root = rootURL
        let cards = Self.migrationOrder(of: work, in: snapshot)
        let lanes = work.filter { $0.kind == .lane }

        var movedCards: [String?] = []
        var returnedLanes: [String?] = []
        // The ranks are minted exactly as a delete's are — head of the trash, threaded forward — so a
        // migrated card is indistinguishable on disk from one the user deletes today.
        var ladder = snapshot.trash.map(\.order)
        try? performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
            for card in cards {
                guard let cardID = card.cardID else { continue }
                let rank = Ranks.insertAtHead(ofVisible: ladder)
                try BoardWriter.migrateTombstonedCard(
                    at: ItemPath.card(lane: card.laneID, id: cardID).folder(under: root),
                    inBoard: root,
                    order: rank
                )
                ladder.insert(rank, at: 0)
                movedCards.append(card.title)
            }
            for lane in lanes {
                try BoardWriter.migrateTombstonedLane(at: ItemPath.lane(lane.laneID).folder(under: root))
                returnedLanes.append(lane.title)
            }
        }
        banners.postMigratedTombstones(cards: movedCards, lanes: returnedLanes)
    }

    /// The tombstone picture as a comparable value — `relocationSignature`'s shape, for its reason:
    /// the *identity* of the work is what matters, not the order the walk happened to meet it in.
    nonisolated static func migrationSignature(of work: [LegacyTombstone]) -> Set<String> {
        Set(work.map { "\($0.laneID.rawValue)/\($0.cardID?.rawValue ?? "")" })
    }

    /// The `.card` tombstones in the order they should be filed into the trash — oldest `deleted:`
    /// first, so the newest ends up on top (see `migrateLegacyTombstones`).
    ///
    /// `sorted(by:)` is not stable in the standard library, so the walk position is folded into the
    /// key rather than relied on: an unparseable or missing stamp takes `Date.distantPast` and ties
    /// break on the index the loader met the card at.
    nonisolated static func migrationOrder(
        of work: [LegacyTombstone],
        in snapshot: BoardModel
    ) -> [LegacyTombstone] {
        var stamps: [ItemID: Date] = [:]
        for lane in snapshot.lanes {
            for card in lane.cards {
                if let deleted = card.deleted.value { stamps[card.id] = deleted }
            }
        }
        return work
            .enumerated()
            .filter { $0.element.kind == .card }
            .sorted { lhs, rhs in
                let left = lhs.element.cardID.flatMap { stamps[$0] } ?? .distantPast
                let right = rhs.element.cardID.flatMap { stamps[$0] } ?? .distantPast
                return left == right ? lhs.offset < rhs.offset : left < right
            }
            .map(\.element)
    }

    // MARK: - The agent guide

    /// Brings the board root's `CLAUDE.md` up to the current guide version, or leaves it exactly as
    /// it is — the whole of 08-agent-integration.md ▸ The agent guide's scheduling. The rule itself
    /// is `AgentGuide.decide(_:)`, a pure function; this method is the I/O and the policy around it.
    ///
    /// **Run on every successful reload**, beside the relocation and the tombstone migration, and
    /// once more at open (`BoardStoreRegistry.acquire`, which fires it after the watcher and the
    /// brackets exist, for the reason stated there). That makes the guide *self-healing* rather than
    /// merely written-once: a foreign deletion, a downgrade to an older guide, a board restored from
    /// a template carrying a stale one — each heals on the next reload, without a single new signal.
    /// It also pre-wires the Pro-era bounce 06-history-undo.md acknowledges by name, where undoing
    /// an "Update agent guide (vN)" commit restores an older guide that the app immediately
    /// re-upgrades.
    ///
    /// **The steady state is a read and a comparison** — one `lstat`, one small file read, one
    /// first-line parse — and no write at all. Nothing here touches the snapshot: the bytes land, the
    /// watcher notices, the reload applies, exactly like every other app write.
    ///
    /// ### The read-only board is skipped, never banner-ed
    ///
    /// Two gates, because two different things can be true. `performWrite` would refuse under the
    /// read-only lock on its own, but that refusal is a thrown error and this is not a gesture — so
    /// the lock is checked first, the relocation's own deferral idiom. That gate is now the one that
    /// actually fires on an unwritable board: `BoardStoreRegistry.acquire` probes writability
    /// *before* it calls this method, so 02-architecture.md's "the open-time agent-guide write is
    /// skipped-with-log, the `CLAUDE.user.md`-taken precedent" is honored by the lock being up
    /// rather than by this method noticing on its own.
    ///
    /// The `access(2)` check below stays anyway, as the second line of defense: it is the only gate
    /// covering the window *between* probes — a volume remounted read-only mid-session raises the
    /// lock at the next reconciling reload, and a reload landing in that window would otherwise
    /// reach the Writer, fail, and post a banner about a file the user never asked for. Both skips
    /// are logged and neither is ever surfaced.
    ///
    /// ### It cannot hot-loop
    ///
    /// `performWrite`'s bracket schedules a reload whether or not the write succeeded, and this runs
    /// on every reload — so a *failing* guide write would retry forever at the speed of the debounce,
    /// posting a banner row each time. The guard is the relocation's exactly: an attempt is made only
    /// when the board root's picture **differs from the one last acted on**. One failure, one row,
    /// then silence until something on disk actually changes. The same memo is what keeps the two
    /// skip cases from repeating their log line on every reload of an unchanged board.
    public func refreshAgentGuide() {
        let state = AgentGuide.inspect(atBoardRoot: rootURL)
        let decision = AgentGuide.decide(state)
        guard decision != .leaveAlone else {
            // The resting state, and the memo's reset: a board whose guide is current has nothing to
            // remember having tried.
            attemptedGuideRefresh = nil
            return
        }
        // Deferred, not abandoned — and deliberately *before* the memo is written, so the refresh a
        // lock refused is not the one the guard below remembers.
        guard readOnlyLock == nil else {
            Self.logger.debug("agent-guide refresh deferred — the board is read-only")
            return
        }
        guard FileManager.default.isWritableFile(atPath: rootURL.path) else {
            Self.logger.debug("agent-guide refresh skipped — the board's location is not writable")
            return
        }
        guard state != attemptedGuideRefresh else { return }
        // Armed before anything is attempted, so a write that throws leaves it set — the memo's
        // whole job is to remember pictures this store has already failed or refused to act on.
        attemptedGuideRefresh = state

        switch decision {
        case .leaveAlone:
            break // Ruled out above; the switch stays exhaustive so a new decision is a compile error.
        case .skipUntouchable:
            Self.logger.debug("agent-guide refresh skipped — CLAUDE.md is not an ordinary file")
        case .skipUserFilenameTaken:
            // The ruling's own outcome (08 ▸ Ownership): a user-authored CLAUDE.md that cannot be
            // rescued keeps its name, and the guide simply does not exist on this board.
            Self.logger.debug("agent-guide refresh skipped — CLAUDE.md is not the app's and CLAUDE.user.md is taken")
        case .write, .displaceThenWrite:
            let root = rootURL
            let displace = decision == .displaceThenWrite
            do {
                // One bracket over the rescue move *and* the write: two files change, one
                // app-mediated reload lands, and (in the Pro edition) one honestly-attributed commit
                // records it.
                try performWrite { () throws(BoardWriteError) -> Void in
                    try AgentGuide.install(atBoardRoot: root, displacingUserContent: displace)
                }
                // **Cleared on success, and this is load-bearing rather than tidy**: the memo keys on
                // the picture that provoked the write, and a foreign deletion restores that exact
                // picture ("missing"). A memo left standing would make the deletion the one thing the
                // self-heal could not heal.
                attemptedGuideRefresh = nil
            } catch {
                // Already the banner's — `performWrite` posts every `BoardWriteError` before it
                // rethrows — and there is nothing else a courtesy write can do about a failure. The
                // memo, left armed above, is what keeps it from being posted again every reload.
                Self.logger.error("agent-guide write failed: \(error.localizedDescription, privacy: .public)")
            }
        }
    }

    // MARK: - Selection (delegated)

    // The thin pass-throughs to `transient`, and the only ones.
    //
    // **Conveniences, not a second home.** The selection is the transient state every command site
    // touches — menu validation, ⌫, paste anchoring, Select All — and `store.selection` reads better
    // at each of them than `store.transient.selection` while meaning exactly the same thing. Nothing
    // is stored here: `selection` is computed and the two mutators forward, so there is no second
    // copy to go stale. Drag membership, the pending cut, the query and the editors get no such
    // shortcuts — they have one or two call sites each, and a delegate per field would be the
    // grab-bag reassembling itself on this class.
    //
    // `isEditingInline` earns one for the selection's reason and no other: **every** board-mutating
    // menu item validates against it (04-interactions.md's focused-editor rule), and a rule read
    // that often should read as one word.

    /// The board's selection, re-resolved against every snapshot this store applies —
    /// `TransientBoardState.selection` under a shorter name.
    public var selection: ItemReferenceSet { transient.selection }

    /// Whether an inline title editor is open — `TransientBoardState.isEditingInline`, which owns
    /// what it means and why every mutating command reads it.
    ///
    /// **The search field is not one of these**, and that is 04-interactions.md § Search's settled
    /// dispatch rule as one absence: "the field is a *control*, not a content editor — the
    /// focused-editor lockdown does not apply", so board menu commands stay enabled and act on the
    /// selection while the user types a query. The narrow exception — the caret chords — is the
    /// menu items' own (`caretChordsYield`), not this flag's.
    public var isEditingInline: Bool { transient.isEditingInline }

    // MARK: - The live search filter

    /// The search field's text (04-interactions.md § Search), and **the one funnel every change to
    /// it goes through**.
    ///
    /// The setter is where the filter's one consequence lives: narrowing the query narrows what the
    /// board shows, and "hidden cards leave the selection" — so every write re-applies
    /// `TransientBoardState.constrainToSearch(in:)` against the current snapshot. Putting it here
    /// rather than at the field's binding is what makes it true for Escape's clear and for any later
    /// caller equally, without either having to remember.
    ///
    /// **The equality guard is not an optimisation.** `NSSearchField` reports its text on events
    /// that did not change it, and a re-entrant assignment during a live keystroke would re-run the
    /// constraint (harmlessly) and re-fire observation (not harmlessly — the strip's animated
    /// transaction is keyed on this value).
    public var searchQuery: String {
        get { transient.searchQuery }
        set {
            guard newValue != transient.searchQuery else { return }
            transient.searchQuery = newValue
            transient.constrainToSearch(in: snapshot)
        }
    }

    /// The query as the predicate, for the selection grammar's order lists — read wherever the board
    /// asks "what is on the board, in what order" (`SelectionGrammar.order`).
    public var searchFilter: SearchFilter { SearchFilter(query: transient.searchQuery) }

    /// Clears the search — **Escape's middle step** (04 § Search's staged Escape: "with *board*
    /// focus and an active search, one press clears the search and the full board returns"), and the
    /// search field's own Escape in a non-empty field.
    ///
    /// Widening, so it constrains nothing; it goes through the setter anyway so there is exactly one
    /// place the query is written on the store.
    public func clearSearch() {
        searchQuery = ""
    }

    /// Replaces the selection, and **records the lane it lands in** as the last-active one.
    ///
    /// The lane bookkeeping lives here rather than in `TransientBoardState` for one reason: it
    /// takes a snapshot to answer "which lane is that". 04-interactions.md's ⌘N target rule calls
    /// for "the lane that most recently held selection or a creation", and a *card* selection is
    /// its lane holding selection just as much as the lane's own header click is — so both are
    /// noted here, and creation notes itself in `beginPlaceholder`.
    public func select(_ ids: Set<ItemID>, in container: ItemContainer, anchor: ItemID? = nil, head: ItemID? = nil) {
        transient.select(ids, in: container, anchor: anchor, head: head)
        transient.noteActiveLane(Self.lane(holding: ids, in: snapshot))
    }

    /// **Every pointer click on a selectable surface goes through here** — card face, lane header,
    /// lane empty space, trash row — so 04-interactions.md § Selection's grammar is stated once
    /// (`SelectionGrammar`) rather than four times with three of them subtly different.
    ///
    /// The store's whole contribution is supplying the three inputs the grammar cannot see (the
    /// snapshot, the selection, the anchor) and storing the outcome. An emptied outcome clears
    /// rather than storing an empty set on a side, because that is what "nothing selected" is
    /// everywhere else in the app.
    ///
    /// - Parameter togglesOnRepeat: the lane's click-again-to-unselect — see `SelectionGrammar`.
    public func click(_ target: SelectionTarget, modifier: ClickModifier, togglesOnRepeat: Bool = false) {
        let outcome = SelectionGrammar.click(
            target,
            modifier: modifier,
            selection: selection,
            anchor: transient.selectionAnchor,
            snapshot: snapshot,
            togglesOnRepeat: togglesOnRepeat,
            // A ⇧-range walks the *filtered* board (04 § Search); the other two branches ignore it.
            filter: searchFilter
        )
        guard !outcome.selection.isEmpty else {
            clearSelection()
            return
        }
        // Both cursors are passed through explicitly: `select`'s default would otherwise re-anchor a
        // ⇧-range's single-member edge case on the target, and the grammar's answer is the one that
        // knows whether this click was an origin or an extension. The head is the clicked item in
        // every branch — see `SelectionGrammar.Outcome`.
        select(
            outcome.selection.ids,
            in: outcome.selection.container,
            anchor: outcome.anchor,
            head: outcome.head
        )
    }

    /// **Select All** — "all visible cards on the board" (04-interactions.md ▸ The map), with the
    /// trash's own reading of the same command when the trash side is the one in play.
    ///
    /// Two branches, and the trash's is the narrow one: it fires only when the column is **shown**,
    /// the selection is in the trash, and it still names a card — the exact conditions under which
    /// "all" could mean anything but the board (04 ▸ The map, resettled 2026-07-28: "with the trash
    /// visible and a non-empty trash selection, Select All selects all visible trash cards; in every
    /// other state, all visible live cards — the container boundary decides which 'all' is meant").
    /// A trash selection naming nothing (a foreign restore, a purge) falls through to the board
    /// rather than selecting the trash wholesale on a guess. There is no kind clause any more:
    /// lanes are never trashed, so every trash row is a card.
    ///
    /// The anchor — and the navigation head with it — **survives if it is still in the set** and is
    /// dropped otherwise: Select All is not a click, so it names no new origin and no new cursor,
    /// but it has no business discarding ones that are still standing inside what it selected.
    ///
    /// **"All visible cards" means the filter's survivors** — "filter-respecting, like every
    /// surface" (04 ▸ The map). The universe is `SelectionGrammar`'s order lists, which is where the
    /// filter threads in, so this command and every ⇧-range narrow together by construction.
    public func selectAll() {
        let filter = searchFilter
        if transient.isTrashVisible, selection.container == .trash, !selection.isEmpty,
           SelectionGrammar.kind(of: selection, in: snapshot) != nil {
            apply(Set(SelectionGrammar.trashCards(in: snapshot, filter: filter)), in: .trash)
            return
        }
        apply(Set(SelectionGrammar.boardCards(in: snapshot, filter: filter)), in: .board)
    }

    /// Select All's storage half: an empty universe clears rather than storing an empty set, and the
    /// anchor and head are kept only while they are still inside what was selected.
    private func apply(_ ids: Set<ItemID>, in container: ItemContainer) {
        guard !ids.isEmpty else {
            clearSelection()
            return
        }
        let anchor = transient.selectionAnchor.flatMap { ids.contains($0) ? $0 : nil }
        let head = transient.selectionHead.flatMap { ids.contains($0) ? $0 : nil }
        select(ids, in: container, anchor: anchor, head: head)
    }

    /// Selects nothing — Escape's last step outward (04-interactions.md ▸ Grammar).
    ///
    /// The last-active lane deliberately survives: it is a high-water mark of where the user has
    /// been working, and ⌘N after a deselect is exactly the case it exists to answer.
    public func clearSelection() {
        transient.clearSelection()
    }

    /// The lane a selection sits in, or `nil` when it names no single one — a lane selects itself;
    /// cards select their lane, but only when they all share one (a cross-lane selection has no
    /// single home to remember). A trash selection names no lane at all, which is exactly 04's "a
    /// trash selection never anchors creation".
    nonisolated static func lane(holding ids: Set<ItemID>, in snapshot: BoardModel) -> ItemID? {
        guard !ids.isEmpty else { return nil }
        var found: ItemID?
        for lane in snapshot.lanes {
            let names = ids.contains(lane.id) || lane.cards.contains { ids.contains($0.id) }
            guard names else { continue }
            guard found == nil else { return nil }
            found = lane.id
        }
        return found
    }

    // MARK: - Quiescence

    /// Suspends until no reload is running and none is owed.
    ///
    /// The store is not a request/response object — a signal in does not produce a result out — so
    /// this is how a consumer (and every test below) says "let the pipeline settle" without polling.
    /// Returns immediately when the store is already quiet.
    public func awaitQuiescence() async {
        guard !isQuiescent else { return }
        await withCheckedContinuation { continuation in
            quiescenceWaiters.append(continuation)
        }
    }

    private var isQuiescent: Bool { !reloadInFlight && pendingReload == nil }

    private func resumeQuiescenceWaitersIfQuiet() {
        guard isQuiescent, !quiescenceWaiters.isEmpty else { return }
        let waiters = quiescenceWaiters
        quiescenceWaiters.removeAll()
        for waiter in waiters {
            waiter.resume()
        }
    }
}