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Summary

Docs and pins only; no engine change. The principled answer to #3886, laid out the way the async rules are.

Before: the rules say what a value does under a hold (F-2: staged until the frame reveals) and what an error is (F-12: a boundary returning to its fallback), but nothing says when an error shows. The engine publishes an error straight into the node's working status, which is also what reads, effect arms and boundaries look at, so an error has one state where a value has two (staged, committed). Under a hold that is the torn screen F-1 forbids: the error fallback (content, F-4) beside the previous frame's sibling content.

After: D-40 (proposed) states the narrowing of F-12: an error is an answer; it ends the wait like a value and it shows when a value would. What a hold waits on does not change. S-41 and S-42 are the screens (a held rejection; a held recovery, including recovery to the last good value). Q-6 puts the two columns to the maintainer; Q-7 carries the loadingValue contract question #3886 raised beside it, to decide on its own. F-12's "what it does not say" points at D-40.

Pinned it.fails in tests/error-is-an-answer.test.ts, failing at the deviation: with no boundary the effect's error arm runs before the sibling lands; with a boundary the screen holds but the untracked read throws; during a retry the untracked read of a shown error serves the pre-error value. The no-hold case (an async landing equal to the last good value never reaches the effect) is pinned too; it is a plain bug and gets its own fix.

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  • tests/error-is-an-answer.test.ts: 5 expected failures, each at the assertion the scenario names (checked by flipping them to it).
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… and pins

An error settles the async its node asked for, so a hold never waits on
it; but settled is not shown. A value landing on a held node is staged
until the frame reveals, an error publishes at once. F-1 and F-2 already
decide this; D-40 states it as a narrowing of F-12, S-41/S-42 are the
screens, Q-6 puts the two columns to the maintainer, Q-7 the loadingValue
contract question #3886 raised beside it. Pinned it.fails.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015Q7JD9PktsxtBJJbWmtuwr
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Size (brotli, eager entry chunk)

scenario head vs base minified vs base minified vs recorded cap lazy chunks (not counted)
signals: core floor (createSignal/Memo/Effect/Root/flush) 7.44 KB +2 B (+0.0%) 0 B +31 B 7.45 KB ✅
signals: + createStore 14.70 KB +47 B (+0.3%) 0 B +23 B 14.71 KB ✅
signals: + isPending/latest 9.70 KB +5 B (+0.1%) 0 B −100 B 9.73 KB ✅
app: render + one signal (the simple-app floor) 9.92 KB +5 B (+0.1%) 0 B −39 B 9.94 KB ✅
app: hydrating (no stores) with Show/For/Loading/Errored/lazy 17.77 KB +52 B (+0.3%) +186 B −464 B 17.93 KB ✅ lazy-page.js 0.04 KB
app: hydrating + every store primitive family 29.20 KB +109 B (+0.4%) +187 B −364 B 29.27 KB ✅ lazy-page.js 0.04 KB
app: CSR with Show/For/Loading/Errored/lazy 13.01 KB +34 B (+0.3%) +186 B 0 B 13.03 KB ✅ lazy-page.js 0.04 KB
app: CSR, observe tier (same app on the observe artifacts) 14.57 KB +8 B (+0.1%) +186 B 0 B 14.59 KB ✅ lazy-page.js 0.04 KB
app: CSR, observe tier + attribution engine enabled 28.94 KB +80 B (+0.3%) +280 B +279 B 28.91 KB ❌ over by 32 B lazy-page.js 0.04 KB
app: compiled floor (one template, one text hole, one delegated click) 10.13 KB +5 B (+0.0%) 0 B −57 B 10.13 KB ⚠️ over by 1 B, 77 B minified headroom
app: compiled CSR (JSX todo app: spread/merge/omit, events, class/style, keyed For, Show, Loading + lazy, store) 25.49 KB +69 B (+0.3%) +186 B +14 B 25.51 KB ✅ stats.js 0.18 KB
app: compiled hydrating (the same JSX todo app through hydrate(), compiled hydratable) 31.21 KB +32 B (+0.1%) +187 B −440 B 31.39 KB ✅ stats.js 0.20 KB
frames: eager client consumer (frames client + transport, lazy codec) 11.43 KB 0 B 0 B 0 B 11.43 KB ✅
page: base server components (hydrating + dynamic + frames + sf reference) 33.93 KB +67 B (+0.2%) +187 B −2083 B 34.33 KB ✅ assets.js 0.78 KB, bind.js 1.83 KB, decode.js 6.23 KB, lazy-page.js 0.04 KB, regions.js 0.80 KB, trace.js 8.79 KB, wire.js 0.93 KB
page: live server components (base + live/GET + action + isPending/latest) 37.67 KB +47 B (+0.1%) +187 B −2199 B 38.15 KB ✅ assets.js 0.78 KB, bind.js 1.83 KB, decode.js 6.23 KB, lazy-page.js 0.04 KB, regions.js 0.80 KB, trace.js 8.79 KB, wire.js 0.93 KB
page: compiled base server components (the base page as JSX: templates with class/style/attributes/events, For/Show; no spread) 34.82 KB +71 B (+0.2%) +193 B −3236 B 35.66 KB ✅ assets.js 0.78 KB, bind.js 1.83 KB, decode.js 6.23 KB, regions.js 0.80 KB, sc-comments.js 0.20 KB, trace.js 8.76 KB, wire.js 0.93 KB
page: compiled live server components (the compiled base page + live/GET + action + isPending/latest) 40.41 KB +173 B (+0.4%) +186 B −3306 B 41.21 KB ✅ eager (counted): web.js 21.39 KB; assets.js 0.78 KB, bind.js 1.83 KB, decode.js 6.23 KB, regions.js 0.79 KB, sc-comments.js 0.19 KB, trace.js 8.77 KB, wire.js 0.93 KB
page: base + router (base page + @solidjs/router: createRouter, two routes, preload, useNavigate) 41.35 KB +89 B (+0.2%) +187 B −2070 B 41.79 KB ✅ assets.js 0.78 KB, bind.js 1.85 KB, decode.js 6.23 KB, lazy-page.js 0.04 KB, regions.js 0.80 KB, server.js 1.02 KB, serverForms.js 3.58 KB, trace.js 8.79 KB, wire.js 0.94 KB
page: live + router (live page + @solidjs/router: createRouter, two routes, preload, useNavigate) 47.08 KB +85 B (+0.2%) +187 B −2148 B 47.49 KB ✅ eager (counted): client.js 27.60 KB; assets.js 0.78 KB, bind.js 1.85 KB, decode.js 6.23 KB, lazy-page.js 0.04 KB, regions.js 0.81 KB, server.js 1.02 KB, serverForms.js 3.32 KB, trace.js 8.75 KB, wire.js 0.94 KB
server: floor (getRequestEvent + isServer) 1.33 KB 0 B 0 B 0 B 1.34 KB ✅
server: renderToString (the server-render floor) 20.40 KB 0 B 0 B +4 B 20.42 KB ✅

⚠️ Over the brotli cap within the minified allowance (passes)

  • app: compiled floor (one template, one text hole, one delegated click): over brotli cap by 1 B; minified 28,386 B vs 28,443 B recorded with the cap (−57 B) — 77 B of the 20 B minified allowance left; +0 B minified over this PR's base

❌ Fails the gate

  • app: CSR, observe tier + attribution engine enabled: over brotli cap by 32 B; minified 87,216 B vs 86,937 B recorded with the cap (+279 B) — 259 B past the 20 B minified allowance; +280 B minified over this PR's base. real growth: reduce it, or raise the cap and its recorded minified in this PR with a reason (frozen floors need Size-Exception:)

Bundled with Rolldown (what Vite ships), brotli q11, decimal KB. A scenario fails only when it is over its brotli cap and its minified size is more than 20 B over the minified recorded with the cap; over the cap within that allowance is brotli layout noise and passes with a warning. Caps and their recorded minified in scripts/size/scenarios.js; the floor and page caps in floor-caps.json are frozen (lower only, or Size-Exception: in the PR body). npm run ratchet lowers caps per RC; it never raises one (scripts/size/README.md).

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Merging this PR will degrade performance by 12.55%

⚠️ 2 benchmarks spent significant time in system calls

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❌ memo + sync render effect only (reference) 26.7 ms 30.6 ms -12.55%

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The size check is red here because it is red on next itself (49a765c, same job): the "app: CSR, observe tier + attribution engine enabled" scenario is over its brotli cap by 32 B. This PR changes only docs and a pinned test, so it adds nothing to that scenario (0 B minified vs base on every prod scenario). The growth came from #3994 (+36 B brotli, +92 B minified) and #3992 (+34 B, +188 B) landing together; each passed on its own. No fix PR exists yet; I'll propose a trim in attribution.ts separately rather than widen this PR.


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CodSpeed reports "memo + sync render effect only (reference)" at −12.55% on this head; the previous run of this same PR reported it at +15.74%, and the diff is docs plus a pinned test, so it cannot move a benchmark. The report also flags different runtime environments between base and head. Nothing to fix here; it needs an acknowledgement on CodSpeed, which I cannot do from this session.


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