fix(rendering): reconcile shadow roots from live runtime

Recover ordinary live roots from LiveEntityRuntime's canonical active spatial workset instead of relying on already-retained derived records. Keep attached children callback-authoritative, cache immutable selection geometry fingerprints, and pin zero-allocation retained update paths with regression tests.

Release gate: 3,733 App tests / 3 skips; 8,217 complete-solution tests / 5 skips.

Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>

docs/plans/2026-07-24-modern-runtime-slices-f-g-render-scene.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ retail-faithful gameplay
 | F2 — static projection journal | complete | Static and EnvCell-shell projections now append ordered deltas only after the final activation receipt and exact detach receipt. Same-landblock rehydrate reconciles retained/new/omitted identities; stale Far completions are inert. Seven focused lifecycle tests pass inside the 3,708-App / 8,192-solution Release gate. The scene remains unconstructed and non-drawing in production. |
 | F3 — live/equipped projection | complete | Exact EntityReady/resource teardown, visibility, attachment pose/removal, and active-only final-frame seams now drive generation/incarnation-gated live records. Duplicate CreateObject, pending/loaded rebucket, hidden/appearance, reentrancy, session clear, attachment, and GUID-generation replacement pass 11 focused tests. Production still constructs no render scene. |
 | F4 — dynamic indices | complete | The contained scene now maintains outdoor/static, per-cell static/dynamic, special dynamic-route, translucent, selectable, light-candidate, and dirty indices incrementally. Final-frame live/equipped synchronization remains active-only, and active animated statics are synchronized from the scheduler's active workset rather than a resident-world scan. The production scene remains unconstructed and non-drawing. |
-| F5 | active — connected gate | Lifecycle automation now constructs the otherwise-absent non-drawing scene, drains ordered static/live deltas after post-network spatial reconciliation, compares the accepted current partition every 30 rendered frames and at every canonical checkpoint, retains only the first field-level mismatch, and publishes scene/journal/index/memory evidence in checkpoint JSON. Focused and complete App suites are green; capped/uncapped nine-stop and dense-Arwic physical gates remain. |
+| F5 | active — connected redrive | Lifecycle automation now constructs the otherwise-absent non-drawing scene, drains ordered static/live deltas after post-network spatial reconciliation, compares the accepted current partition every 30 rendered frames and at every canonical checkpoint, retains only the first field-level mismatch, and publishes scene/journal/index/memory evidence in checkpoint JSON. The first exact `056bbd4e` capped route passed the harness and graceful-shutdown gates but correctly exposed missing live roots after a same-location Sawato revisit. Root synchronization now recovers ordinary roots from `LiveEntityRuntime`'s canonical active spatial workset while attached children remain callback-authoritative. Immutable selection geometry is fingerprinted once per GfxObj/mesh identity, and retained scene/journal update paths have zero-allocation regression tests. Release is green at 3,733 App tests / 3 skips and 8,217 complete-solution tests / 5 skips; all three connected routes must be redriven before F5 closes. |
 | G0–G5 | pending | No production consumer has switched. |
 
 The exact pre-F/G runtime rollback anchor remains `e7d9d6fa`. F0 is
@@ -404,6 +404,31 @@ switched. F may temporarily cost memory and a small amount of CPU in diagnostic
 mode; those costs are reported separately and shadow comparison is disabled by
 default after its gate.
 
+#### F5 connected-gate correction record
+
+The first physical capped nine-stop route on exact commit `056bbd4e` completed
+the harness and graceful shutdown, but the shadow referee rejected the route at
+the same-location Sawato revisit. The first mismatch was a missing live root
+(`sourceChannel=live`, `field=presence`), while journal pending and rejected
+delta counts remained zero. This proved the problem was source-workset
+reconciliation rather than a drain failure.
+
+The derived live journal had been synchronizing only records it already
+retained. Once a root projection was absent, that loop could not recover it.
+The correction sources ordinary world roots from the canonical active spatial
+workset already owned by `LiveEntityRuntime`. Attached children deliberately
+remain callback-authoritative and are refreshed only while retained, preventing
+removed equipment from being resurrected.
+
+The same route also showed that the diagnostic referee was re-hashing immutable
+selection polygons and vertices every sampled frame. Geometry fingerprints are
+now cached by GfxObj and mesh identity, and all retained projection collection
+walks use allocation-free indexed access. Permanent tests cover root recovery,
+attachment non-resurrection, cached selection geometry, retained transform
+updates, and active animated-static synchronization. The capped, uncapped, and
+dense-town routes are all rerun from the corrective commit; no F5 success is
+claimed from the rejected `056bbd4e` route.
+
 ## 6. Slice G — Frame product and production cutover
 
 ### G0 — Borrowed double-buffered frame product

src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Scene/CurrentRenderSceneOracle.cs

@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
             new(ReferenceEqualityComparer.Instance);
     private readonly List<CurrentRenderSelectionFingerprint>
         _selectionParts = [];
+    private readonly Dictionary<uint, SelectionGeometryCacheEntry>
+        _selectionGeometryByGfxObj = [];
     private ulong _frameSequence;
     private int _abortedFrames;
     private int _outdoorStaticCount;
@@ -637,16 +639,15 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
         }
         ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(mesh);
 
-        StableRenderHash128 geometry = StableRenderHash128.Create();
+        if (!_selectionGeometryByGfxObj.TryGetValue(
-        geometry.Add(mesh.SphereCenter);
+                gfxObjId,
-        geometry.Add(mesh.SphereRadius);
+                out SelectionGeometryCacheEntry cachedGeometry)
-        geometry.Add(mesh.Polygons.Count);
+            || !ReferenceEquals(cachedGeometry.Mesh, mesh))
-        foreach (RetailSelectionPolygon polygon in mesh.Polygons)
         {
-            geometry.Add(polygon.SingleSided);
+            cachedGeometry = new SelectionGeometryCacheEntry(
-            geometry.Add(polygon.Vertices.Count);
+                mesh,
-            foreach (Vector3 vertex in polygon.Vertices)
+                FingerprintSelectionGeometry(mesh));
-                geometry.Add(vertex);
+            _selectionGeometryByGfxObj[gfxObjId] = cachedGeometry;
         }
 
         var fingerprint = new CurrentRenderSelectionFingerprint(
@@ -656,7 +657,7 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
             PartIndex: partIndex,
             GfxObjId: gfxObjId,
             LocalToWorld: localToWorld,
-            Geometry: geometry.Finish());
+            Geometry: cachedGeometry.Fingerprint);
         _selectionParts.Add(fingerprint);
         _selectionHash.Add(fingerprint.Sequence);
         _selectionHash.Add(fingerprint.ServerGuid);
@@ -722,8 +723,11 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
 
         StableRenderHash128 geometry = StableRenderHash128.Create();
         geometry.Add(entity.MeshRefs.Count);
-        foreach (MeshRef mesh in entity.MeshRefs)
+        for (int meshIndex = 0;
+             meshIndex < entity.MeshRefs.Count;
+             meshIndex++)
         {
+            MeshRef mesh = entity.MeshRefs[meshIndex];
             geometry.Add(mesh.GfxObjId);
             geometry.Add(mesh.PartTransform);
         }
@@ -734,8 +738,12 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
             appearance.Add(true);
             appearance.Add(palette.BasePaletteId);
             appearance.Add(palette.SubPalettes.Count);
-            foreach (PaletteOverride.SubPaletteRange range in palette.SubPalettes)
+            for (int rangeIndex = 0;
+                 rangeIndex < palette.SubPalettes.Count;
+                 rangeIndex++)
             {
+                PaletteOverride.SubPaletteRange range =
+                    palette.SubPalettes[rangeIndex];
                 appearance.Add(range.SubPaletteId);
                 appearance.Add(range.Offset);
                 appearance.Add(range.Length);
@@ -747,8 +755,11 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
         }
 
         appearance.Add(entity.PartOverrides.Count);
-        foreach (PartOverride part in entity.PartOverrides)
+        for (int partIndex = 0;
+             partIndex < entity.PartOverrides.Count;
+             partIndex++)
         {
+            PartOverride part = entity.PartOverrides[partIndex];
             appearance.Add(part.PartIndex);
             appearance.Add(part.GfxObjId);
         }
@@ -784,6 +795,31 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
             Appearance: appearance.Finish());
     }
 
+    private static RenderSceneHash128 FingerprintSelectionGeometry(
+        RetailSelectionMesh mesh)
+    {
+        StableRenderHash128 geometry = StableRenderHash128.Create();
+        geometry.Add(mesh.SphereCenter);
+        geometry.Add(mesh.SphereRadius);
+        geometry.Add(mesh.Polygons.Count);
+        for (int polygonIndex = 0;
+             polygonIndex < mesh.Polygons.Count;
+             polygonIndex++)
+        {
+            RetailSelectionPolygon polygon = mesh.Polygons[polygonIndex];
+            geometry.Add(polygon.SingleSided);
+            geometry.Add(polygon.Vertices.Count);
+            for (int vertexIndex = 0;
+                 vertexIndex < polygon.Vertices.Count;
+                 vertexIndex++)
+            {
+                geometry.Add(polygon.Vertices[vertexIndex]);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return geometry.Finish();
+    }
+
     private static InteriorEntityPartition.ProjectionClass ProjectionClassOf(
         WorldEntity entity) =>
         entity.ServerGuid != 0
@@ -792,6 +828,10 @@ internal sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracle :
                 ? InteriorEntityPartition.ProjectionClass.CellStatic
                 : InteriorEntityPartition.ProjectionClass.OutdoorStatic;
 
+    private readonly record struct SelectionGeometryCacheEntry(
+        RetailSelectionMesh Mesh,
+        RenderSceneHash128 Fingerprint);
+
     private static void AddPViewCandidate(
         ref StableRenderHash128 hash,
         in CurrentRenderPViewCandidateFingerprint candidate)

src/AcDream.App/Rendering/Scene/LiveRenderProjectionJournal.cs

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ internal sealed class LiveRenderProjectionJournal : ILiveRenderProjectionSink
     private readonly LiveEntityRuntime _runtime;
     private readonly RenderProjectionJournal _journal;
     private readonly Dictionary<uint, TrackedProjection> _byLocalId = [];
+    private readonly List<LiveEntityRecord> _activeRootScratch = [];
     private readonly List<TrackedProjection> _activeScratch = [];
 
     public LiveRenderProjectionJournal(
@@ -107,10 +108,34 @@ internal sealed class LiveRenderProjectionJournal : ILiveRenderProjectionSink
     /// </summary>
     public void SynchronizeActiveSources()
     {
+        // The canonical live-runtime workset is the source of truth for world
+        // roots. Walking only this journal's already-tracked values would make
+        // a missed/reordered derived callback permanent and prevent shadow
+        // comparison from converging after a same-location revisit.
+        _runtime.CopySpatialRootObjectRecordsTo(_activeRootScratch);
+        for (int i = 0; i < _activeRootScratch.Count; i++)
+        {
+            LiveEntityRecord record = _activeRootScratch[i];
+            if (!record.ResourcesRegistered
+                || record.WorldEntity is not { } entity
+                || !_runtime.IsCurrentSpatialRootObject(record))
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            Upsert(record, entity, record.IsSpatiallyVisible);
+        }
+
+        // Attached children are not members of the ordinary root workset.
+        // Their exact EntityReady/pose/removal callbacks remain authoritative;
+        // synchronization only refreshes children whose attachment projection
+        // is still retained by this derived scene.
         _activeScratch.Clear();
         foreach (TrackedProjection tracked in _byLocalId.Values)
         {
-            if (tracked.Record.IsSpatiallyProjected)
+            if (tracked.Record.IsSpatiallyProjected
+                && tracked.Record.ProjectionKind is
+                    LiveEntityProjectionKind.Attached)
                 _activeScratch.Add(tracked);
         }
 
@@ -137,6 +162,7 @@ internal sealed class LiveRenderProjectionJournal : ILiveRenderProjectionSink
     public void ResetTracking()
     {
         _byLocalId.Clear();
+        _activeRootScratch.Clear();
         _activeScratch.Clear();
     }
 

tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/ArchRenderSceneTests.cs

@@ -290,6 +290,45 @@ public sealed class ArchRenderSceneTests
         Assert.Equal(current.Bounds, stored.Bounds);
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void TransformUpdateBatch_ReusesRetainedStorage()
+    {
+        const int count = 1_000;
+        RenderSceneGeneration generation = Generation(11);
+        using var scene = new ArchRenderScene(generation);
+        var registrations = new RenderProjectionDelta[count];
+        var updates = new RenderProjectionDelta[count];
+        for (int index = 0; index < count; index++)
+        {
+            RenderProjectionRecord record = Record(
+                (ulong)index + 1,
+                1,
+                RenderProjectionClass.ActiveAnimatedStatic,
+                x: index);
+            registrations[index] = RenderProjectionDelta.Register(
+                generation,
+                (ulong)index + 1,
+                record);
+            updates[index] = RenderProjectionDelta.Update(
+                RenderProjectionDeltaKind.UpdateTransform,
+                generation,
+                (ulong)count + (ulong)index + 1,
+                record with
+                {
+                    Transform = new RenderTransform(
+                        Matrix4x4.CreateTranslation(index + 1, 0, 0)),
+                });
+        }
+
+        scene.Apply(registrations);
+        long before = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread();
+
+        scene.Apply(updates);
+
+        long allocated = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread() - before;
+        Assert.True(allocated == 0, $"Allocated {allocated:N0} bytes.");
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void Digest_IsStableAcrossRegistrationOrderAndBufferReuse()
     {

tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/CurrentRenderSceneOracleTests.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System.Numerics;
 using AcDream.App.Rendering;
 using AcDream.App.Rendering.Scene;
 using AcDream.App.Rendering.Wb;
+using AcDream.Core.Selection;
 using AcDream.Core.World;
 
 namespace AcDream.App.Tests.Rendering;
@@ -363,6 +364,48 @@ public sealed class CurrentRenderSceneOracleTests
         Assert.Empty(oracle.DispatcherCandidates);
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void SelectionGeometryFingerprint_IsCachedAndFrameStorageIsReused()
+    {
+        const int partCount = 1_000;
+        var oracle = new CurrentRenderSceneOracle();
+        var mesh = new RetailSelectionMesh(
+            Vector3.Zero,
+            2f,
+            [new RetailSelectionPolygon(
+                [
+                    new(-1f, -1f, 0f),
+                    new(1f, -1f, 0f),
+                    new(1f, 1f, 0f),
+                    new(-1f, 1f, 0f),
+                ],
+                SingleSided: false)]);
+        PublishSelectionFrame();
+        long before = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread();
+
+        PublishSelectionFrame();
+
+        long allocated = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread() - before;
+        Assert.Equal(partCount, oracle.Snapshot.SelectionPartCount);
+        Assert.True(allocated == 0, $"Allocated {allocated:N0} bytes.");
+
+        void PublishSelectionFrame()
+        {
+            oracle.BeginSelectionFrame();
+            for (int index = 0; index < partCount; index++)
+            {
+                oracle.ObserveSelectionPart(
+                    serverGuid: (uint)index + 1,
+                    localEntityId: (uint)index + 1,
+                    partIndex: index,
+                    gfxObjId: 0x0100_0001u,
+                    Matrix4x4.CreateTranslation(index, 0, 0),
+                    mesh);
+            }
+            oracle.CompleteSelectionFrame();
+        }
+    }
+
     private static CurrentRenderProjectionFingerprint CaptureSingle(
         WorldEntity entity,
         uint landblockId,

tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/LiveRenderProjectionJournalTests.cs

@@ -244,6 +244,48 @@ public sealed class LiveRenderProjectionJournalTests
         Assert.Same(record, harness.Runtime.Records.Single());
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void SynchronizeActiveSources_RecoversCurrentRootFromCanonicalWorkset()
+    {
+        Harness harness = CreateHarness(loadLandblock: true);
+        LiveEntityRecord record = Materialize(harness, Guid, instance: 8);
+        Assert.True(harness.Projections.OnEntityReady(
+            LiveEntityReadyCandidate.Capture(record)));
+        harness.Journal.DrainTo(harness.Scene);
+        harness.Projections.ResetTracking();
+
+        harness.Projections.SynchronizeActiveSources();
+
+        RenderProjectionDelta recovered =
+            Assert.Single(harness.Journal.Pending.ToArray());
+        Assert.Equal(RenderProjectionDeltaKind.Register, recovered.Kind);
+        Assert.Equal(
+            RenderProjectionClass.LiveDynamicRoot,
+            recovered.Record.ProjectionClass);
+        Assert.Equal(record.LocalEntityId, recovered.Record.Source.LocalEntityId);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void SynchronizeActiveSources_DoesNotResurrectRemovedAttachment()
+    {
+        Harness harness = CreateHarness(loadLandblock: true);
+        LiveEntityRecord record = Materialize(
+            harness,
+            Guid,
+            instance: 9,
+            projectionKind: LiveEntityProjectionKind.Attached);
+        Assert.True(harness.Projections.OnEntityReady(
+            LiveEntityReadyCandidate.Capture(record)));
+        harness.Journal.DrainTo(harness.Scene);
+        harness.Projections.OnProjectionRemoved(record.WorldEntity!.Id);
+        harness.Journal.DrainTo(harness.Scene);
+
+        harness.Projections.SynchronizeActiveSources();
+
+        Assert.Equal(0, harness.Journal.Count);
+        Assert.Equal(0, harness.Projections.ProjectionCount);
+    }
+
     private static Harness CreateHarness(bool loadLandblock)
     {
         var state = new GpuWorldState();

tests/AcDream.App.Tests/Rendering/StaticRenderProjectionJournalTests.cs

@@ -263,6 +263,48 @@ public sealed class StaticRenderProjectionJournalTests
             unchanged.ProjectionClass);
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void ActiveAnimatedSynchronization_ReusesRetainedJournalStorage()
+    {
+        const int count = 1_000;
+        RenderSceneGeneration generation = Generation(9);
+        var journal = new RenderProjectionJournal(generation);
+        var statics = new StaticRenderProjectionJournal(journal);
+        var animated = new WorldEntity[count];
+        for (int index = 0; index < animated.Length; index++)
+            animated[index] = Entity((uint)index + 1);
+        LandblockBuild build = Build(
+            LandblockId,
+            animated,
+            includeShell: false);
+        statics.Reconcile(build, Publication(build));
+        using var scene = new ArchRenderScene(generation);
+        journal.DrainTo(scene);
+        statics.SynchronizeActiveAnimatedSources(animated);
+        journal.DrainTo(scene);
+        for (int index = 0; index < animated.Length; index++)
+        {
+            animated[index].Rotation = Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle(
+                Vector3.UnitZ,
+                0.25f);
+        }
+        statics.SynchronizeActiveAnimatedSources(animated);
+        journal.DrainTo(scene);
+        for (int index = 0; index < animated.Length; index++)
+        {
+            animated[index].Rotation = Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle(
+                Vector3.UnitZ,
+                0.5f);
+        }
+        long before = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread();
+
+        statics.SynchronizeActiveAnimatedSources(animated);
+
+        long allocated = GC.GetAllocatedBytesForCurrentThread() - before;
+        Assert.Equal(count, journal.Count);
+        Assert.True(allocated == 0, $"Allocated {allocated:N0} bytes.");
+    }
+
     private static GpuLandblockSpatialPublication Publication(
         LandblockBuild build,
         bool requiresActivation = true) =>