diff --git a/docs/00-dependency-graph.md b/docs/00-dependency-graph.md
index e412984..8122190 100644
--- a/docs/00-dependency-graph.md
+++ b/docs/00-dependency-graph.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ flowchart TD
     classDef parked fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
     classDef specd fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
     classDef open fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
+    classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
 
     FOUND["1–6 foundation: doctrine, VM, compiler, binary, surface, stdlib"]:::done
     I7["7 log-watcher proof"]:::done
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ flowchart TD
     I36["36 operator parity: not/bitwise/hex literals — code landed 2026-08-22, awaiting the manual pass"]:::specd
     RELEASE["packaging + release pipeline ✅ 2026-08-25 (no story: VERSION, just dist, install-accept, release.yml)"]:::done
 
-    I18["18 framework v2: transaction{} + cache/flags/jobs (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; spec+plan approved, held intact)"]:::parked
+    I18["18 transaction{} 🔄 hold lifted + split 2026-09-11 (cache/flags/jobs → porch 10, graph 4); T1–T6, T8, T9 landed same day, corpus green; open: kill -9 battery (T7)"]:::inprog
 
     I9c["20 cross-program tables (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; channel half-built)"]:::parked
     I9d["21 keypair attach auth (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; crypto floor now exists via 34)"]:::parked
@@ -47,8 +48,8 @@ flowchart TD
     I24["24 chat + actor lifecycle 🔄 THE LIVE SLICE (absorbing 31 + 34)"]:::specd
     I34["34 crypto builtins ✅ code landed as 24's T1 (ids 85-87)"]:::done
     I31["31 actor lifecycle — call/mailbox-cap/death landed in 24; monitor + time.after (ids 89/90) open"]:::specd
-    I9f["23 io_uring group-commit"]:::open
-    I32["32 WAL checkpoint (append-only today; bounds replay)"]:::open
+    I9f["23 io_uring group-commit ✅ part A 2026-08-28 as databasev2 4 (part B refine)"]:::done
+    I32["32 WAL checkpoint ✅ 2026-08-29 as databasev2 3 (compaction by rewrite + rename)"]:::done
     I33["33 single-file store WO_DATA=<path>.db (driver-only, off-chain)"]:::open
     I25["25 HTTP service layer — `service` blocks (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; story file removed, plan remains)"]:::parked
     I11["11 fibers ✅ 2026-08-21"]:::done
@@ -92,7 +93,8 @@ flowchart TD
     I11 --> I24
     I35 --> I24
     I31 --- I24
-    I9f --> I32
+    %% 23 and 32 compose on the WAL commit path; neither needs the other (databasev2 story, corrected 2026-08-29)
+    I9f --- I32
     I32 --- I33
     I9 --> I26
     I25 --> I26
@@ -109,13 +111,15 @@ flowchart TD
 ```
 
 Reading it: **the live slice is 24** (chat + actor lifecycle, absorbing 31
-and 34), and the chain behind it is 23 → 32. Everything else with all-green
+and 34), and the chain behind it, 23 → 32, is done (databasev2 4 part A
+2026-08-28, databasev2 3 2026-08-29). Everything else with all-green
 incoming arrows is startable: **33** (driver-only, off-chain), **38** (the
 fs-mutation and outbound-socket gaps), and **30**'s remaining half
 (per-change CI and fuzzing — the release pipeline covered only publishing).
 **36** needs no work, only the developer's manual pass over
-`docs/examples/operators/`. The held tail — 18, 20/21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 —
-resumes on its own precedence notes; 29 and what is left of the drain still
+`docs/examples/operators/`. The held tail — 20/21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 — (18's
+hold lifted 2026-09-11, above) resumes on its own precedence notes; 29 and
+what is left of the drain still
 sit behind 26 by the 2026-08-08 scope directive (dashed), not by any
 technical edge. Note what left the drain: `pub(read)`, `using` and `#if` all
 shipped, so only the WO-E225/ADT rosters and group-by aggregates remain in
@@ -135,7 +139,7 @@ flowchart TD
 
     I7b2["7b per-shard collector (done — the precondition 8 waited on)"]:::rt
     I8x["8 shard-actor runtime: thread-per-core, ownership-move messages"]:::rt
-    I9fx["23 io_uring group-commit (batch = the shard tick)"]:::rt
+    I9fx["23 io_uring group-commit (batch = queue drain) ✅ part A 2026-08-28"]:::done
     I11x["11 fibers: reduction-budget preemption, blocking builtins park"]:::rt
     I9ex["22 baseline (numbers 8/23 sign against)"]:::rt
 
@@ -150,7 +154,7 @@ flowchart TD
 
     FIBJOBS2["fiber-scheduled jobs (replaces drain-on-request; queue table stays)"]:::v2
     CANCELRB["cancellation → transaction rollback"]:::v2
-    I18x["18 transaction{} + jobs"]:::v2
+    I18x["18 transaction{} (jobs moved to porch 10, 2026-09-11 — graph 4)"]:::v2
 
     I7b2 --> I8x
     I9ex --> I9fx
@@ -246,31 +250,32 @@ HS256 (the hard stop). Still gated: timeouts/unix-socket/peer-verify
 Note: 21's keypair crypto is its own C implementation (already on
 branch `keypair-auth`) — it neither waits for nor feeds this chain.
 
-## 4. Framework v2 (iteration 18) — internal order
+## 4. Language 18 — `transaction { }` (was "Framework v2"; split 2026-09-11)
+
+**Redrawn 2026-09-11.** The hold lifted (developer: "implement language 18")
+and codd-shoney re-settled the scope: 18 is now the engine + language block
+alone. `cache.wo`, `flags.wo`, `jobs.wo` and the transactional demo moved to
+[porch 10](stories/porch/10-memory-features-over-table.md) (`refine`, stub),
+which needs 18's `transaction { }` for its jobs demo and porch 1–3 otherwise.
 
 ```mermaid
 flowchart TD
     classDef piece fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
-    classDef indep fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
-    classDef later fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
+    classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
+    classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
 
-    TXN["transaction{} (engine undo log + language block)"]:::piece
-    JOBS["jobs.wo: wf_jobs + enqueue + JobRunner + idle() drain"]:::piece
-    DEMO["web-app demo: transactional order+confirm, GET /jobs, flags route"]:::piece
-    CACHE["cache.wo: TTL + FIFO"]:::indep
-    FLAGS["flags.wo: wf_flags + read-through map"]:::indep
-    TPRMW["txn-per-request middleware (v1 ledger's storage row; single-thread OK)"]:::later
+    TXN["language 18: transaction{} — compiler block, kind-6 log record, engine undo list, VM re-raise: landed 2026-09-11 (T1–T6); open: kill -9 battery"]:::inprog
+    TPRMW["txn-per-request middleware (v1 ledger's storage row; single-thread OK)"]:::piece
+    P10["porch 10: cache.wo, flags.wo, jobs.wo + the transactional demo (stub, refine)"]:::refine
 
-    TXN --> JOBS
-    JOBS --> DEMO
-    FLAGS --> DEMO
     TXN --> TPRMW
+    TXN -. moved 2026-09-11 .-> P10
 ```
 
-Cache and flags are dependency-free warm-ups; `transaction { }` is the
-critical path (the only engine + language work); jobs compose on it; the
-demo and gate close it. Fiber-scheduled jobs and cancellation→rollback
-appear in graph 2 — they need iteration 11 as well as 18.
+`transaction { }` is the only engine + language work left in this iteration;
+everything that only needed the WAL's staged batch as a `.wo` consumer moved
+downstream to the track that owns `.wo` product code. Fiber-scheduled jobs and
+cancellation→rollback appear in graph 2 — they need iteration 11 as well as 18.
 
 ## 5. porch — the web framework track
 
@@ -278,7 +283,10 @@ States live on [the board's porch section](stories/00-status.md). **The whole
 track (2–8) is `readiness: ready`** as of the 2026-09-06 brainstorm; **1** is
 done, **9** is held (blocked on the lang-41 arena hang, not an enhancement).
 Three independent roots: **2** (the auth chain), **6** (the streaming chain),
-**5** (anytime, no incoming edges at all — not even iteration 2).
+**5** (anytime, no incoming edges at all — not even iteration 2). **10** is a
+`refine` stub added 2026-09-11 (language 18's split — TTL cache, `@table`
+feature flags, durable job queue) and is not part of the "whole track ready"
+count.
 
 This graph makes the **cross-track language edges** visible: the three builtins
 the track needs, each drawn as a `lang` node feeding the story that owns it.
@@ -289,8 +297,10 @@ flowchart TD
     classDef ready fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
     classDef held fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
     classDef lang fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
+    classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
 
-    RB["language work: random_bytes builtin (bare-name, id 84/90) — porch 2 Phase A"]:::lang
+    TXN["language 18: transaction{} (T1 in flight)"]:::lang
+    RB["random_bytes builtin ✅ 2026-09-09 (bare-name, id 119 — one shared enum with wob.h/loader arity) — porch 2 Phase A"]:::done
     DFL["language work: deflate + crc32 builtins (C) — porch 7 Phase C"]:::lang
     TU["language work: time.utc builtin (gmtime sibling of time.local) — porch 8 Phase A"]:::lang
 
@@ -303,6 +313,7 @@ flowchart TD
     P7["porch 7 SSE + compression"]:::ready
     P8["porch 8 static files + lifecycle"]:::ready
     P9["porch 9 idempotent replay (ready — unblocked 2026-09-09)"]:::ready
+    P10["porch 10 memory features over @table: cache/flags/jobs (stub, refine — split from language 18, 2026-09-11)"]:::refine
     L41["language 41 actor-arena double free ✅ fixed 63065ff (cross-shard marshal)"]:::done
     L44["language 44 poison-on-free ✅ (41's decision 3: a freed header can never pass for live; double free aborts)"]:::done
     L41 -.follow-up.-> L44
@@ -319,6 +330,10 @@ flowchart TD
     TU --> P8
     L41 -.fixed 2026-09-09 — no longer blocks.-> P9
     P1 -.re-scope 79e6da4: replay-on-retry split out of 1.-> P9
+    TXN --> P10
+    P1 --> P10
+    P2 --> P10
+    P3 --> P10
 ```
 
 Edges corrected by the 2026-09-06 brainstorm: `P5 --> P7` (gzip's
@@ -327,7 +342,9 @@ Edges corrected by the 2026-09-06 brainstorm: `P5 --> P7` (gzip's
 (iteration 5's shape), not iteration 2's repeated-header work. `P5 --> P8` is the
 `Download`/`Attachment` helper. The three `lang` nodes are the track's entire
 language bill; each is a builtin with a named consumer, none shipped as
-decoration.
+decoration. **10** (added 2026-09-11) needs language 18's `transaction { }`
+for its jobs demo and 1–3 for the store pattern, session-keyed cache and
+flags read-through — see graph 4 for 18's own state.
 
 ## 5a. porch's language-driven gaps (out-of-scope features and the language stories that own them)
 
@@ -342,12 +359,13 @@ flowchart LR
     classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
     classDef held fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
     classDef gap fill:#cf222e,color:#fff,stroke:none
+    classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
 
     L29["language 29 @derive (⏸ hold)"]:::held
     L38["language 38 net.connect ✅ landed (id 110); proxy middleware now buildable"]:::done
     L43["runtime-v2 8 symmetric cipher (refine, NEW 2026-09-06)"]:::refine
     L30["runtime-v2 7 observability (refine, moved from language 30, 2026-09-06)"]:::refine
-    L18["language 18 TTL cache + transaction{} (⏸ hold)"]:::held
+    L18["language 18 transaction{} (hold lifted 2026-09-11; T1 in flight) — TTL cache moved to porch 10"]:::inprog
     L31["language 31 cancellation ✅ (landed in 24)"]:::done
 
     BIND["typed request binding (fiber Bind)"]:::gap
@@ -369,8 +387,9 @@ flowchart LR
 backpressure are unblocked at the language level and wait only on a porch slice
 to consume them. The other five gaps are gated on an upstream story: two
 brand-new runtime-v2 iterations (8 cipher, 7 observability — moved out of the
-language track 2026-09-06), two language iterations on hold (29, 18), one pending
-a spec (38). Landed enablers the
+language track 2026-09-06), one language iteration on hold (29) and one
+unheld and in flight (18, since 2026-09-11 — its TTL-cache half of `CACHE` now
+lives in porch 10), one pending a spec (38). Landed enablers the
 track already consumed — 34 (crypto digests), 36 (bit operators), 35 (net
 seams) — are green in graphs 1–3 and not repeated here.
 
@@ -402,8 +421,60 @@ flowchart TD
     GSIG["runtime-v2 3 ✅ 2026-09-02 signals as events: signal.on delivers Signal records"]:::done
     GTERMIOS["runtime-v2 4 ✅ 2026-09-02 termios: raw/restore, restore a runtime obligation"]:::done
     GFDPASS["runtime-v2 5 ✅ 2026-09-02 fd passing: send_fd/recv_fd/connect_unix"]:::done
-    GVTE["VTE grid in pure .wo + unicode width tables (pinned against recorded sessions)"]:::gap
-    WMUX["wmux 1 (was language 43): server owns sessions/PTYs in durable tables, thin client hands over its tty — reattach after server RESTART replays from the WAL"]:::product
+    GVTE["VTE grid in pure .wo + unicode width tables ✅ (rung 2; UTF-8 decode + term.width landed)"]:::done
+    DB2W["databasev2 2 per-table durable/resident ✅ 2026-09-10 — durable default + WAL wmux 1 persists sessions/scrollback into"]:::done
+    WMUX["wmux 1 foundation ✅ 2026-09-02 (was language 43): server owns sessions/PTYs in durable tables, thin client hands over its tty — reattach after server RESTART replays from the WAL"]:::done
+    W2["wmux 2 the screen ✅ VTE grid"]:::done
+    W3["wmux 3 windows + status ✅"]:::done
+    W4["wmux 4 split panes ✅ (2-pane vertical)"]:::done
+    W5["wmux 5 copy mode ✅"]:::done
+    W6["wmux 6 multi-client ✅ (mirroring)"]:::done
+    W7["wmux 7 command system ✅"]:::done
+    W8["wmux 8 hooks + control ✅"]:::done
+    W9["wmux 9 parity audit ✅"]:::done
+    W10["wmux 10 layout tree — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03: horizontal split-window -h, select-pane -L/R/U/D, zoom; 2-pane max, N-way/swap/break/persistence pending"]:::gap
+    W11["wmux 11 formats + options + key rebinding ✅ 2026-09-02 — durable options/binds, #{...} status format, one run_command dispatcher; folded rung 14's prompt-race fix; fixed a PTY-EIO reader spin + a kill-session chunk race. gate 36/0"]:::done
+    W12["wmux 12 resize + mouse — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03/04: attach-time term.size sizing + SGR mouse (wheel/click/status-row); live SIGWINCH + min-size pending (rt2 3/6 ready)"]:::gap
+    W13["wmux 13 copy selection + search — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03: char-range vi v/y yank → buffer+OSC52; only search + rectangle pending"]:::gap
+    W14["wmux 14 control surface (prompt-race fix DONE in rung 11; narrows to control-mode commands + %notifications)"]:::gap
+    W15["wmux 15 terminfo — 🟡 terminfo-lite DONE 2026-09-03: a TERM allowlist retired the foreign-TERM refusal; full compiled-terminfo parsing pending"]:::gap
+    W16["wmux 16 durability polish (pane persistence, killw compaction) — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-02: Window owns+reaps its panes (spawns in-actor so wait_dl works on its shard), zombie leak fixed, gate 37/0"]:::gap
+    W18["wmux 18 key tables (new, from the config audit) — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03: no-prefix RootBind table, Meta/named key_code, tty key decoder in Input; bind-key -n works; gate 42/0. copy-mode-vi + -r repeat pending. Also landed: dynamic sizing (term.size), alt-screen, erase 0/1, SGR reset, UTF-8 decode, O(n log n) replay"]:::gap
+    W19["wmux 19 mouse-driven UX (new) — 🟡 active-pane border + status-row click→window DONE 2026-09-04; drag-resize/drag-select pending. Forks open (scope split, motion mode, drag owner)"]:::gap
+    W17["wmux 17 formats v2 ✅ 2026-09-03 — #(shell) cached+timer, recursive #{...} conditionals/modifiers, #{time}/#{host_short}/#{window_name}"]:::done
+    W20["wmux 20 display-popup ✅ 2026-09-03/04 — session-owned modal float, -B borderless, rounded border, popup wheel forward; drove the OSC-swallow + frame-coalesce VTE fixes"]:::done
+    W21["wmux 21 sesh + switch-client ✅ 2026-09-04 — in-session switch-client -t/-l, reg threaded into sessions, sync call hand-off (fds move without close, B spawns a fresh Input, old Input exits on success), B-occupied refuses. Fixed a ?actor nullable schema-reorder. Gate 54/0"]:::done
+    W22["wmux 22 theming ✅ 2026-09-04 — style_sgr engine (fg/bg/attrs from durable options), active-pane border marker, automatic-rename via OSC title"]:::done
+    W23["wmux 23 plugin ports — thumbs/fzf/fzf-url via capture-pane + a popup picker (port vs tmux-compat shim). Forks open"]:::gap
+    W11 --> W18
+    W12 --> W19
+    W13 --> W19
+    W10 -.drag-resize only.-> W19
+    W11 --> W17
+    W2 --> W20
+    W6 --> W21
+    W20 --> W21
+    W11 --> W22
+    W10 --> W22
+    W20 --> W23
+    W12 --> W23
+    WMUX --> W2
+    W2 --> W3
+    W3 --> W4
+    W4 --> W5
+    W5 --> W6
+    W6 --> W7
+    W7 --> W8
+    W8 --> W9
+    W9 --> W10
+    W4 --> W10
+    W7 --> W11
+    W6 --> W12
+    W5 --> W13
+    W8 --> W14
+    W1TERM["(rung 1 fixed-profile refusal)"]:::done
+    W1TERM -.retired by.-> W15
+    W10 --> W16
     TINFO["terminfo fork: parse the db in .wo vs fixed xterm-256color + refusal by name (decide at 43's brainstorm)"]:::later
     TMONO["time.mono returns (status clock, repaint pacing) — v2"]:::later
 
@@ -414,16 +485,19 @@ flowchart TD
     GTERMIOS --> WMUX
     GFDPASS --> WMUX
     GVTE --> WMUX
+    DB2W --> WMUX
     TINFO -.settled at wmux's brainstorm.-> WMUX
     TMONO -.v2.-> WMUX
 ```
 
 **The track landed whole on 2026-09-02** — every runtime edge into wmux
-is green; what remains for wmux 1 is its own `.wo` work (the VTE grid +
-unicode width node) and its brainstorm's terminfo fork. Sibling reuse:
+is green. The VTE grid + unicode-width node landed (rung 2), and the ladder
+is now through rung 22 (see the wmux table on the board); rungs 10/12/13/15
+have first slices, rung 23 (plugin ports + a tmux-compat CLI) remains the
+big open item. Sibling reuse:
 the alacritty Wayland stage reuses GFDPASS + GVTE; the zen CDP driver
 now lacks only a WebSocket client; skillhost (28) has its stdin
-transport.
+transport. One edge added 2026-09-10: [databasev2 2](stories/databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md) → wmux 1, drawn above as `DB2W`, because wmux 1 persists sessions/scrollback in durable `@table` classes and replays from the WAL on reattach — the dependency the prose already named without a node.
 
 ## 7. jarvis — the AI-assistant track and everything it waits on
 
@@ -501,6 +575,83 @@ flowchart TD
 4, 8, 9 to complete porch) → **jarvis 1**. Nothing on the runtime side is
 outstanding; every remaining edge into jarvis 1 is a porch iteration.
 
+## 8. databasev2 — the database beyond RAM
+
+The third track ([databasev2](stories/databasev2/00-story.md)): what happens
+when the data does not fit in memory. Its 3 and 4 are the language track's 32
+and 23 renumbered — graph 1 still carries them as `I32`/`I9f`, green since
+2026-08-29/28. Arrows point AT the iteration that needs the other, as in the
+track's own ASCII graph; two edges are undirected: 3–4, which compose on the
+WAL commit path and need each other in neither direction, and 2–3 (added
+2026-09-10 — this graph had dropped it; the story's own graph always carried
+it, [00-story.md:169-171](stories/databasev2/00-story.md)) — 2 needs 3's
+offset map to survive compaction, and 3 has called 2's row API since task 5d,
+so the coupling runs both ways. 9 and 10 (cross-program tables, keypair
+attach) are held and not drawn.
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
+    classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
+    classDef ready fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
+    classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
+    classDef hold fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
+
+    D1["databasev2 1 RAM ceiling measured ✅ 2026-08-27"]:::done
+    D2["databasev2 2 per-table durable/resident ✅ 2026-09-10 — 6a: refuse durable:true without WO_DATA, WO_EPHEMERAL=1 escape, .wob v8 table bit"]:::done
+    D3["databasev2 3 WAL checkpoint ✅ 2026-08-29 (was 32)"]:::done
+    D4["databasev2 4 group commit 🔄 — part A ✅ 2026-08-28; part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10, GO measured (forks 6/7), fold pending — refine (was 23)"]:::inprog
+    D5["databasev2 5 bounded tables + eviction — ready 2026-09-10 (12 forks, review_pending), status pending; Phase A is the resident byte budget moved from 2 (2026-09-09)"]:::ready
+    D6["databasev2 6 cold tiering — hold (superseded by 2's resident: keys)"]:::hold
+    D7["databasev2 7 single-file store ✅ 2026-09-10 — WO_DATA=<path>.db (was 33)"]:::done
+    D8["databasev2 8 query grammar from corpora — hold, refine (count landed 2026-08-16; exists open) (was 27)"]:::hold
+    D11["databasev2 11 bounded delta chains ✅ 2026-08-30"]:::done
+    D12["databasev2 12 schema migrations ✅ 2026-08-31"]:::done
+    D13["databasev2 13 fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV ✅ fixed 2026-09-10"]:::done
+
+    P1["porch 1 store-backed middleware ✅ 2026-08-30"]:::done
+    P2["porch 2 randomness + cookies (ready)"]:::ready
+    P3["porch 3 sessions (ready)"]:::ready
+
+    D1 -- budget default follows the measurement --> D5
+    D2 -- the byte budget, moved 2026-09-09 --> D5
+    D2 --> D11
+    D2 --> D12
+    D3 --- D4
+    D3 --- D2
+    D2 -- volatile tables; store.wo is default-durable today, so fork 6 makes WO_DATA or WO_EPHEMERAL=1 whole-program --> P1
+    D2 --> P2
+    D2 --> P3
+    D2 -- the offset map D13's fix touches --> D13
+    D12 -- the schema head record D13's fix touches --> D13
+```
+
+Node D13, added 2026-09-10, fixed the same day: a defect found while smoking
+databasev2 7, not that iteration's fault (it reproduced identically in the
+pre-existing directory form). It needed 2 (the keys-resident offset map) and
+12 (the schema head record) — both are the mechanism the crash lived in.
+Fixed by `6310078` (`wo_wal_next_offset` stages the pending schema head
+before returning an offset) + `1b6750d` (NULL-`msg` guard in
+`wo_wal_fold_row_at`); `just residency` 32/0. The separate
+`residency.keys.fit` rc 74 bug (compaction/replay of keys-resident offsets)
+is **not** the same defect and stays open under codd.md's "Next bugs".
+
+**States as of 2026-09-10** (the board carries the words; this is the glance):
+
+| databasev2 | status / readiness | what is left |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| 1 RAM ceiling | ✅ done | — |
+| 2 per-table storage | ✅ done (2026-09-10) | — (6a landed with the `.wob` v8 table bit; 6b lives in 5) |
+| 3 WAL checkpoint | ✅ done | — |
+| 4 group commit | 🔄 in-progress / refine | part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10 (GO measured, forks 6/7); fold into the story, `.dev/zack/databasev2-4b.md` |
+| 5 bounded tables | ⬜ pending / **ready** (2026-09-10) | developer review of the twelve `review_pending` forks, or a prebuild brief for Phase B; Phase A is startable now |
+| 6 cold tiering | ⏸ hold / refine | superseded by 2; revisit only on a measurement |
+| 7 single-file store | ✅ done (2026-09-10) | — (`WO_DATA` is a path, never a sentinel; `review_pending` developer second review) |
+| 8 query grammar | ⏸ hold / refine | `count` landed; `exists` waits for a corpus |
+| 11 bounded delta chains | ✅ done | — |
+| 12 schema migrations | ✅ done | — |
+| 13 fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV | ✅ done (2026-09-10) | — (`residency.keys.fit` rc 74 is a separate, still-open bug) |
+
 ## Maintenance rule
 
 When an iteration or slice lands, update its node's class here in the
diff --git a/docs/stories/00-status.md b/docs/stories/00-status.md
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 | 15  | [deps: `wo.toml [deps]`](language-runtime-database/15-deps-package-manager.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-18** (branch web-framework): [deps] inline tables, git-binary fetch, wo.lock pinning, offline-when-locked, --update-deps, WO-E106/E107; `just deps-accept` 8/0 |
 | 16  | [web framework](language-runtime-database/16-web-framework.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-19** — writeonce-framework (HTTP/1.1 + router + Handler/Middleware) consumed by web-app through [deps]; h2c parked (§C) behind 8/23/11. **v1 polish landed 2026-08-20** (branch framework-v1): get/post/put/delete_ helpers, 405+Allow, HEAD, Logging middleware, set_header; `just web-app` 16/0; fixed the interp-borrowed-field emitter crash en route. **Auth-in-core landed 2026-08-20**: http/auth.wo (Bearer/Basic, ct_eq, req.principal), web-app dogfoods BearerAuth, gate 17/0 |
 | 17  | [library projects + `internal/`](language-runtime-database/17-library-projects-internal.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-20** — `kind = "library"` in `wo.toml` (default `program`, so every existing manifest is byte-identical; unknown value = WO-E109 exit 2); `woc <dir>` on a library runs the FULL pipeline entry-less and writes nothing, retiring iteration 16's `--emit` workaround; the no-entry build error names the kind; lib+bin dual works. Go's `internal/` rule as **WO-E108** at the consumer's own `use`, dep-boundary-only — the library imports its own interior freely. Framework reorganized: `internal/{parse,serve}.wo` behind the line, `http/form.wo` split out to keep `media_type`/`form_values` public. Driver-only change; VM/`.wob`/GC untouched. `just web-app` **26/0** (3 new checks), every standing gate unchanged |
-| 18  | [framework v2: memory-rich features](language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) | ⏸ hold (2026-08-21); spec approved + plan authored, both held intact ([spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-memory-db-features-design.md), [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-20-framework-v2-memory-features.md)): TTL cache + @table flags + durable job queue (drain-on-request) + `transaction { }` over the WAL's staged batch; pub/sub rejection expired with the arc (8/11 landed 2026-08-21) — revisit on unhold |
+| 18  | [`transaction { }`](language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) | 🔄 **hold lifted 2026-09-11** (developer: "implement language 18"); re-settled and **split** — 18 keeps `transaction { }` only, TTL cache + `@table` flags + durable job queue moved to [porch 10](porch/10-memory-features-over-table.md) (`refine`, stub); `status: in-progress`, `readiness: ready`, five forks (3c/3d/3h/3j/3l) `review_pending`; zack on T1 (compiler surface) |
 
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@@ -1295,8 +1295,11 @@ that sequences its tasks. Read one, approve, then the next starts.
 | Language | 🔄 [iteration 36 — operator parity](language-runtime-database/36-operator-parity.md): `not`, bitwise `& \| ^ << >>`, hex/binary/`_` literals, compound assigns — CODE LANDED 2026-08-22 (branch operator-parity, `.wob` v6, all gates green; reference project `.dev/reference/go` drove the design). Awaiting the developer's MANUAL pass on `docs/examples/operators/` (no test fixtures by directive); unblocks story 34's pure-`.wo` HMAC question | [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-22-operator-parity.md) |
 | Language | the framework v1-polish slice landed 2026-08-20 (branch framework-v1, awaiting merge); next per the order: brainstorm 20/21's forks | [order](#implementation-order-re-sequenced-2026-08-21--concurrency-chain) |
 | Runtime  | ✅ **iteration 35 landed 2026-08-23** (branch `framework-v1b`, with framework v1 slice 2 + the serving slice): net deadlines/unix/peer (ids 91–95), fiber pooling, serve_conn + web-app fiber-per-connection — web-app gate 41/0, both WO_IO backends | [design](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-23-net-seams-park-design.md) |
+| databasev2 | 🔄 [iteration 4 — group commit](databasev2/04-io-uring-commit.md): part A landed 2026-08-28; part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10 (forks 1–5/8–10 `review_pending`, forks 6/7 settled in substance — GO measured — but fold pending, `.dev/zack/databasev2-4b.md`); `readiness: refine` until folded | [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-28-wal-group-commit-design.md) |
+| databasev2 | ⬜ [iteration 5 — bounded tables and eviction](databasev2/05-bounded-tables-eviction.md): brainstormed to `readiness: ready` 2026-09-10 (twelve forks, `review_pending`); `status: pending` — not started | [databasev2 5](databasev2/05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) |
+| Language | 🔄 [iteration 18 — `transaction { }`](language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md): hold lifted 2026-09-11, re-settled and split (TTL cache/flags/jobs moved to [porch 10](porch/10-memory-features-over-table.md), `refine`); zack on T1 (compiler surface); `readiness: ready`, five forks (3c/3d/3h/3j/3l) `review_pending` | [18](language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) |
 
-**No slice is active.** Iteration 24 landed 2026-08-27 and its marker doc was
+**Active slice: [language 18](language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) T1 (compiler surface) is in flight (hold lifted 2026-09-11), and [databasev2 5](databasev2/05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) Phase A is `ready` and startable (brainstormed 2026-09-10, per codd-pm's ranking) — see the standup entry above.** Iteration 24 landed 2026-08-27 and its marker doc was
 deleted per the convention. Everything pending is the concurrency chain (see
 *Pending* below) — **the chain's next link is
 [databasev2 4](databasev2/04-io-uring-commit.md)** (chain 5, the io_uring
@@ -1541,17 +1544,18 @@ the language arc as v1 history.
 | # | Iteration | State |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | 1 | [RAM ceiling: measure the breaking point](databasev2/01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md) | ✅ **MEASURED 2026-08-27** — `readiness: ready`, `status: done`; forks settled, harness landed (**148 checks**). Footprint **96.5–100 B/row** Int vs **320.6–324 B/row** text = **3.3×** (not the "order of magnitude" three docs claimed), read as median-of-marginals because doublings swing a two-point slope 2×. **Both predicted exits were wrong:** table storage has no checked ceiling and is **SIGKILLed** (overcommit lets `malloc` succeed, kernel kills on page touch), and swap is not latency collapse — 900k rows finished **148 s capped-with-swap vs 150 s uncapped**, ~1%, returning 0 while serving from disk. **Ack-after-fsync survives an OOM kill:** ~40 000 rows recovered as an intact prefix, gated as the `ceiling` leg. Also measured: **random reads over an oversized table collapse 273×** (1.85M vs 6 771 reads/s, p99 1 µs vs 487 µs) — so the two access patterns sit ~270× apart under the same pressure, and departure is a **step, not a curve**. Replay measured too: **≈5.5 µs/record, 1.9× history penalty** (10M records ≈ 55 s of boot) — iteration 3's missing "before", now gated. Iteration 2's budget dependency is **removed, not satisfied** — there is no "swap onset" to derive it from |
-| 2 | [per-table storage: `durable` and `resident`](databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md) | 🔄 **the language enrichment — the `durable` half is DONE and usable.** Two optional `@table` keys, `durable: true\|false` and `resident: all\|keys`, both defaulting to today's behaviour (all 28 existing declarations compile unchanged, no golden moved). Landed: the grammar, WO-E224 (a durable `ref` into a volatile table is refused), `.wob` v7 carrying both properties in spare `flags` bits, `durable: false` actually skipping the WAL (measured: 50 inserts → 1500 bytes durable, **0** volatile) with a mode-mismatch startup refusal, plus offset capture and read-a-row-from-an-offset. Outstanding: 5c/5d (the id→offset map and rewiring `wo_row_ptr`'s 11 call sites, slab scans and `@unique`/FK across the boundary — not yet written up), the two runtime refusals, and closeout. [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-table-residency-design.md) · [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md) |
+| 2 | [per-table storage: `durable` and `resident`](databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md) | ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-10 — the language enrichment: grammar, the `durable` half, keys-resident CRUD, the measurement and task 6a's refusal are all landed.** Two optional `@table` keys, `durable: true\|false` and `resident: all\|keys`, both defaulting to today's behaviour (all 28 existing declarations compile unchanged, no golden moved). Landed: the grammar, WO-E224 (a durable `ref` into a volatile table is refused), `.wob` v7 carrying both properties in spare `flags` bits, `durable: false` actually skipping the WAL (measured: 50 inserts → 1500 bytes durable, **0** volatile) with a mode-mismatch startup refusal. **5c/5d landed 2026-08-29** — the id map stores LOG OFFSETS in place of slot indices, every reader goes through `wo_row_borrow`/`wo_row_release`, scans through `wo_row_next_id`, `@unique` and FK restrict cross the boundary, and compaction re-points the map; two memory-corruption bugs (a `delete` indexing a slab with a byte offset; a tombstone replayed as corruption) found by audit and pinned. Keys-resident **updates** lifted 2026-08-30 (delta records folded on read; [11](databasev2/11-bounded-delta-chains.md) bounds the chain). **Task 7 measured and gated 2026-08-30 (`a310496`)**: **2.55×** smaller resident set, **1.53×** faster than swapping under a cap, **4.2×** slower reads when RAM is not tight — and the finding that cgroup limits charge the page cache, so the honest guidance is "fit more, not go faster"; `residency.*` rows in the baseline. **Task 6a landed 2026-09-10 and CLOSED the iteration:** refuse `durable: true` (the default) with no `WO_DATA` — exit 2, one stderr line naming the first durable table and all three ways forward — with **`WO_EPHEMERAL=1`** as the exact-value whole-program escape (refused alongside `WO_DATA` or with any other value; does not bypass the `resident: keys` refusal), and the **`.wob` v8 table bit** (`WO_CLASSF_TABLE`) so the rule binds `@table` classes only — the first cut, keyed on the mere absence of the volatile bit, refused every class-bearing program; seven forks auto-approved, `review_pending`. **Task 6b, the resident byte budget, moved to [5](databasev2/05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) Phase A** on 2026-09-09. [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-table-residency-design.md) · [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md) |
 | 3 | [WAL checkpoint](databasev2/03-wal-checkpoint.md) *(was 32)* | ✅ **LANDED 2026-08-29 — the chain's last link.** Compaction rewrites the log as one record per live row and swaps it in with `rename`, so **recovery is completely unchanged** and crash safety comes from the filesystem rather than from code. **2.16× space reclaimed** (1 962 358 → 907 094 B), **boot 114 → 64 ms**, stop-the-world pause **2 651 µs** against a stated 50 ms budget. Read `.dev/reference/postgresql` for it: PG *never* compacts its WAL — its records are page deltas, so it needs heap files, a control file, a redo pointer and a separate process. Ours are full row images, so a compacted log IS a store, which deletes all of that. `kill -9` during compaction: 40 rounds/run, 10 clean runs, and **mutation-proven** — against in-place rewrite instead of `rename` the battery fails every time. Outstanding: the **`resident: keys` offset map** (compaction moves every record; the obligation is recorded at the compactor) and the O(live rows) pause, ~5.5 s at 1 GB, which is what an incremental design must be bought against |
-| 4 | [io_uring group commit](databasev2/04-io-uring-commit.md) *(was 23)* | ✅ **part A LANDED 2026-08-28 — group commit**, one barrier per drain instead of one per statement (the engine was fsync-per-STATEMENT, not per commit; the story's premise was wrong). Shard 0 holds each reply, commits once when its queue empties, releases all — so a writer is acked after the barrier carrying ITS record. **≈2.9× durable write throughput, ≈2.1× lower p50**, two measurement methods agreeing (2.9× controlled, 3.5× s1-vs-sN); mean batch 5.43, peak 57. A durability failure is now **fatal (exit 74), not a catchable `WO_T_IO`** — replacing three behaviours that disagreed, two of which admitted leaving RAM ahead of disk. **What it did NOT do:** `durable.sN.mixwrite` 480→492 (unchanged — that workload does 20 writes at C=4, mean batch 1.01) and `seed` unchanged (serial writers have nothing to batch with). **This row used to say "close the 66× gap"; that target was mis-stated** — the gap is two problems and part A fixes only the concurrent one. ⬜ part B (io_uring) **needs re-brainstorming**, not starting on the old premise |
-| 5 | [Bounded tables and eviction](databasev2/05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) | ⬜ a declared capacity + refuse/evict/back-pressure, and a process-level pressure signal that sheds **before** the allocator or OS gets involved — turning the invisible failure into a managed one |
+| 4 | [io_uring group commit](databasev2/04-io-uring-commit.md) *(was 23)* | ✅ **part A LANDED 2026-08-28 — group commit**, one barrier per drain instead of one per statement (the engine was fsync-per-STATEMENT, not per commit; the story's premise was wrong). Shard 0 holds each reply, commits once when its queue empties, releases all — so a writer is acked after the barrier carrying ITS record. **≈2.9× durable write throughput, ≈2.1× lower p50**, two measurement methods agreeing (2.9× controlled, 3.5× s1-vs-sN); mean batch 5.43, peak 57. A durability failure is now **fatal (exit 74), not a catchable `WO_T_IO`** — replacing three behaviours that disagreed, two of which admitted leaving RAM ahead of disk. **What it did NOT do:** `durable.sN.mixwrite` 480→492 (unchanged — that workload does 20 writes at C=4, mean batch 1.01) and `seed` unchanged (serial writers have nothing to batch with). **This row used to say "close the 66× gap"; that target was mis-stated** — the gap is two problems and part A fixes only the concurrent one. **Part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10** (codd-shoney): ten forks named, 1–5 and 8–10 settled under `review_pending`; forks 6 (lintor's kernel-floor answers) and 7 (cyril's tmpfs-vs-ext4 ceiling: **GO**, tmpfs `mixread.p99` 91–112 µs on the RAM figure, ext4 3902–4307 µs, bar for B8 ext4 `mixread.p99` ≤ 225 µs / ≥ 15k reads/s / `s1.seed.p50` within 15% of 213 µs / `wmix.ops_sec` ≥ 6017) are **settled in substance but fold pending** — both answers sit in `.dev/zack/databasev2-4b.md`, not yet folded into the story. 🔄 `status: in-progress`, **`readiness: refine`** until the fold lands |
+| 5 | [Bounded tables and eviction](databasev2/05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) | ⬜ **brainstormed to `readiness: ready` 2026-09-10** by codd-shoney: twelve forks settled, `review_pending` — rows per table (`max_rows`/`on_full`), bytes per process (`WO_DB_MB`), default = cgroup limit or `MemAvailable` minus boot RSS, refuse on breach, no eviction on durable tables, `drop_oldest` volatile-only, chunk-rounded estimate, `.wob` v9. Phase A is engine-only and startable now; a prebuild-feature brief is recommended before Phase B. `status: pending` — not started |
 | 6 | [Cold tiering](databasev2/06-cold-tiering.md) | ⚠ **largely superseded by 2** — `resident: keys` took the ceiling-raising role; its user-space-working-set premise was rejected for the kernel page cache. Mostly forks: which shape, whether the index itself fits, whether the *language* surfaces the fault cost, and whether `@unique` on a cold table is refused outright. A paged B-tree stays rejected — if tiering needs one, reject tiering |
-| 7 | [Single-file store](databasev2/07-single-file-db.md) *(was 33)* | ⬜ `WO_DATA=<path>.db`; driver-only, independent |
+| 7 | [Single-file store](databasev2/07-single-file-db.md) *(was 33)* | ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-10.** `WO_DATA=<path>.db`; driver-only, independent. `wo_wal_resolve_data_path` + the two refusals (`b31bd40`), compaction/migration temps pinned beside a file-form log (`ccee2d0`), the contract + `CODE-LOGIC.md` paragraphs (`f1985ba`), the gate leg (`e274f4a` + `aaea6b2`, codd-cyril): `just residency` **32/0**, `db-bench --quick --wo-data-file` **181 checks, 5 failures** — the same 5 as the plain directory form (`residency.keys.fit` rc 74, not this defect). Open item: the gate runs a stale `runtime/wovm` unless it is rebuilt first — a follow-up for codd-cyril |
 | 8 | [Query grammar from corpora](databasev2/08-query-grammar-corpus.md) *(was 27)* | ⬜ whole-query `count`, `exists`; independent |
 | 9 | [Cross-program tables](databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md) *(was 20)* | ⏸ hold — attach to a running program's database over local IPC |
 | 10 | [Keypair attach auth](databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md) *(was 21)* | ⏸ hold — program identity as a keypair; needs 9 |
 | 11 | [Bounded delta chains](databasev2/11-bounded-delta-chains.md) | ✅ **LANDED 2026-08-30.** A `resident: keys` row's delta chain is bounded in the UPDATE path, because the checkpoint is blind to per-row chain length — it thresholds on whole-log bytes, so one hot row can grow an unbounded chain inside a log that never trips compaction. The fold now reports hop count (free — the walk already visited every hop), and past `WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS` (16) the update writes a full row image instead of a delta, resetting depth to 0. **Two things the tests corrected.** The flattened image is a `WO_WAL_UPDATE`, not an `INSERT`: the row's original INSERT is already in a live log, so a second one for the same id is a duplicate that replay correctly refuses as corruption — INSERT is right only for compaction, which builds a *fresh* log. And the **proportional ceiling was removed as dead code**: with the absolute term at 64 MiB, garbage large enough to reach a 256 MiB ceiling has already tripped it, so the branch was unreachable. Borrowing both constants from postgres was the wrong inference — PG needs two because it thresholds on *tuples* with its pair at opposite ends (base 50, max 1e8); this thresholds on *bytes*, where one constant does both jobs. Found by trying to write a test for the ceiling and finding no input could reach it. Four tests: depth stays bounded across 2K+2 updates, a flattened chain replays, a delta on an **indexed** column composes with flattening (checked at every step across the bound and after restart — found no product defect), and the policy's absolute term with its boundary. `test_wal` **5700 pass / 0 fail**; `wovm-test` and `woc-test` green. **One criterion is weaker than written:** the replay check asserts an expected value, not a `resident: all` oracle table. [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-30-bounded-delta-chains-design.md) |
 | 12 | [Schema migrations](databasev2/12-schema-migrations.md) | ✅ **LANDED 2026-08-31.** A `@table` class is the schema, the log is the database, and boot now compares them — before this, an added or deleted field turned a healthy `WO_DATA` into "corruption" and reordering declarations silently decoded rows into the wrong class. Landed: `WO_WAL_SCHEMA` head record (written LAZILY ahead of the first real record — an eager head broke `durable: false`'s documented zero-bytes contract by 75 bytes and the gate caught it), a name-keyed diff whose refusals are per-class POISONS that bite only when a record of the class is met, and a record-level TRANSCODE: cids remap by name including inside stored owned values, deleted values freed, added fields zero-filled, delta back-pointers rewritten through an offset map with deltas on deleted fields SPLICED out; temp+fsync+rename, compaction's crash discipline. **Two bugs the tests forced out:** a poisoned class skipped plan identity so the retype refusal fell through to generic "corruption" (the message this iteration exists to replace), and early `goto corrupt` freed uninitialized memory. End-to-end: `migrating \`Note\`: +flag` then `flag=0`; retype refuses naming `val`, exit 2, old binary still boots the refused log. 21 new tests, `test_wal` **5966/0**; wovm/woc/site/residency gates green. v2 holds rename (`@renamed_from`), retypes, and data/seed migrations. [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-31-schema-migrations-design.md) |
+| 13 | [Fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV](databasev2/13-fresh-log-keys-seed-segv.md) | ✅ **FIXED 2026-09-10.** Defect found while smoke-testing 7 (independent of it): `seed` of `docs/examples/residency` on a fresh log SEGV'd rc 139 in both `WO_DATA` forms — `wo_wal_fold_row_at` wrote an unguarded `*msg` while `wo_idx_probe` borrows with `msg = NULL`, entering the "record header is malformed" arm; root cause confirmed: the databasev2 12 schema head was staged lazily after the first keys-resident row's offset was captured (`db.c`'s `koff`). Fixed: `wo_wal_next_offset` now stages the head first (`6310078`) + the fold tolerates a NULL `msg` (`1b6750d`); `test_wal` 6629→6660, `make -C runtime test` 21 suites **8462/0**, `just residency` **32/0**. Also found and fixed: `scripts/residency-accept.sh:155` never checked `seed`'s rc, so the 20/0 residency gate was green while `seed` crashed under it (`e274f4a`, databasev2 7 task 4). `residency.keys.fit` rc 74 confirmed a **separate**, still-open bug (different code path) |
 
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-⏸ **Held** (2026-08-21, developer decision): 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28,
-29 — every story carrying `status: hold` in its frontmatter (25's story
+⏸ **Held** (2026-08-21, developer decision): 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28,
+29 — every story carrying `status: hold` in its frontmatter (18's hold lifted
+2026-09-11, above; 25's story
 file removed; its
 [plan doc](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-http-service-layer.md)
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 | # | Iteration | Delivers | Needs |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| 1 | [RAM ceiling: measure the breaking point](01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md) | 🔄 **measured 2026-08-27**: footprint per shape (3.3× apart), the two silent exits (SIGKILL vs swap-serving-from-disk at ~uncapped speed), and ack-after-fsync surviving an OOM kill. Also measured: the **273× random-read collapse** over an oversized table, and replay at **≈5.5 µs/record with a 1.9× history penalty** — iteration 3's "before" | nothing; extends iteration 22's harness |
-| 2 | [per-table storage](02-table-storage-modes.md) | the grammar: `durable: true\|false` and `resident: all\|keys`, per table, replacing the global `WO_DATA` all-or-nothing. **In progress — the `durable` half is done** | 1 for the budget default |
+| 1 | [RAM ceiling: measure the breaking point](01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md) | ✅ **measured 2026-08-27**: footprint per shape (3.3× apart), the two silent exits (SIGKILL vs swap-serving-from-disk at ~uncapped speed), and ack-after-fsync surviving an OOM kill. Also measured: the **273× random-read collapse** over an oversized table, and replay at **≈5.5 µs/record with a 1.9× history penalty** — iteration 3's "before" | nothing; extends iteration 22's harness |
+| 2 | [per-table storage](02-table-storage-modes.md) | ✅ **closed 2026-09-10.** the grammar: `durable: true\|false` and `resident: all\|keys`, per table, replacing the global `WO_DATA` all-or-nothing. Grammar, the `durable` half, keys-resident CRUD and task 7's measurement landed by 2026-08-30; task 6a — refuse `durable: true` without `WO_DATA`, `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` as the whole-program escape, the `.wob` v8 table bit so the rule binds `@table` classes only — landed 2026-09-10; the byte budget (6b) moved to 5 | 3 (the offset map survives compaction — landed); no longer 1, since the budget moved to 5 on 2026-09-09 |
 | 3 | [WAL checkpoint](03-wal-checkpoint.md) *(was language 32)* | snapshot + truncate: disk reclaimed, replay bounded | 4 composes |
-| 4 | [io_uring group commit](04-io-uring-commit.md) *(was language 23)* | close the 66× durable/RAM write gap (4.5k vs 297k inserts/s) | the arc (landed) |
-| 5 | [Bounded tables and eviction](05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) | a capacity a `ram` table may not exceed, and what happens when it does | 2 |
+| 4 | [io_uring group commit](04-io-uring-commit.md) *(was language 23)* | one barrier per DB-actor drain instead of one per statement — part A landed 2026-08-28 (≈2.9× concurrent durable writes); the "66× gap" this row used to name is a serial writer's latency, which part B must re-brainstorm. **Part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10**: forks 1–5/8–10 settled (`review_pending`); forks 6/7 settled in substance (GO — tmpfs `mixread.p99` on the RAM figure, ext4 3902–4307 µs) but **fold pending** — see `.dev/zack/databasev2-4b.md`. `status: in-progress`, `readiness: refine` until folded | the arc (landed) |
+| 5 | [Bounded tables and eviction](05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) | a capacity a `ram` table may not exceed, and what happens when it does; **since 2026-09-09 also the resident byte budget** (iteration 2's former task 6b) as its Phase A. **Brainstormed to `readiness: ready` 2026-09-10** (codd-shoney): twelve forks settled, `review_pending`; Phase A is engine-only and startable, a prebuild brief is recommended before Phase B. `status: pending` — not started | 1 (the budget default follows a measurement) and 2 (the mode a bound attaches to) |
 | 6 | [Cold tiering](06-cold-tiering.md) | ⚠ **largely superseded by 2** — `resident: keys` is the ceiling-raiser. Its premise (a user-space resident working set) was rejected in favour of the kernel page cache. Revisit only with a measurement showing the page cache insufficient | — |
-| 7 | [Single-file store](07-single-file-db.md) *(was language 33)* | `WO_DATA=<path>.db` — a file path IS the store | independent |
-| 8 | [Query grammar from corpora](08-query-grammar-corpus.md) *(was language 27)* | whole-query `count`, `exists` | independent |
+| 7 | [Single-file store](07-single-file-db.md) *(was language 33)* | ✅ **closed 2026-09-10.** `WO_DATA=<path>.db` — a file path IS the store: directory or trailing `/` stays byte-identical to today; otherwise the path IS the log, created if absent behind an existing parent, refused (exit 2, naming path + parent) on a missing parent or a non-regular/non-directory path. Compaction and migration temps land beside the file-form log, pinned by a test + a mutation control. Gate leg (task 4, codd-cyril): `just residency` **32 checks, 0 failures**; `db-bench --quick --wo-data-file` **181 checks, 5 failures**, the same 5 as the directory form (`residency.keys.fit` rc 74, databasev2 13's sibling bug, not this defect) | independent |
+| 8 | [Query grammar from corpora](08-query-grammar-corpus.md) *(was language 27)* | whole-query `count` (landed 2026-08-16 from the skill-catalog corpus); `exists` waits for a corpus that forces it | independent |
 | 9 | [Cross-program tables](09-cross-program-tables.md) *(was language 20)* | attach to a running program's database over local IPC | independent |
 | 10 | [Keypair attach auth](10-keypair-attach-auth.md) *(was language 21)* | program identity as a keypair; mutual challenge–response | 9 |
-| 11 | [Bounded delta chains](11-bounded-delta-chains.md) | cap a keys-resident row's delta chain in the update path, and give the compaction policy an absolute term + ceiling | 2 (fixes a limitation it shipped) |
+| 11 | [Bounded delta chains](11-bounded-delta-chains.md) | cap a keys-resident row's delta chain in the update path, and give the compaction policy an absolute garbage term (`WO_CKPT_ABS_BYTES`; a separate ceiling was tried and removed) | 2 (fixes a limitation it shipped) |
+| 12 | [Schema migrations](12-schema-migrations.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-31**: the log describes itself (`WO_WAL_SCHEMA` head record, kind 5); boot diffs by name, transcodes add/delete record by record, refuses everything else by name | 2 (the v7 descriptor, and the delta record it rewrites) |
+| 13 | [Fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV](13-fresh-log-keys-seed-segv.md) | ✅ **fixed 2026-09-10.** A `resident: keys` table's first insert on a fresh log SEGV'd (`wo_wal_fold_row_at` wrote an unguarded `*msg`; the schema head was staged after the first row's offset was captured). Fixed: `wo_wal_next_offset` stages the pending head before returning an offset (`6310078`), plus a NULL-`msg` guard in the fold (`1b6750d`); `test_wal` 6660/0, `make -C runtime test` 21 suites 8462/0, `just residency` 32/0. **Not** the same defect as `residency.keys.fit` rc 74 (compaction/replay of keys-resident offsets), which stays open under codd.md's "Next bugs" | 2 (the offset map), 12 (the schema head record) |
+| 14 | [The shop workload](14-shop-workload.md) | what an order-taking web app needs from the store: ordered index + range probe, `skip`, composite unique + check rules, on-delete policy, export/import; group-by carried as a criterion (language track) | 2 (keys-resident index shape), 9 (attach), language 18 (implicit block for cascade) |
 
 ```
 An arrow points AT the iteration that NEEDS the other.
 
-1 ──▶ 2 ◀── 3      2 needs 1 (budget from a measurement) and 3 (the
-      │            offset map survives compaction). Since 5d, 3 also
-      ▼            calls 2's row API — the coupling runs both ways.
-      5            5 needs 2. Nothing needs 5.
+      2 ◀── 3      2 needs 3 (the offset map survives compaction). Since
+      │            5d, 3 also calls 2's row API — the coupling runs both
+      ▼            ways. 2 no longer needs 1: its budget moved to 5
+1 ──▶ 5            (2026-09-09). 5 needs 1 (the budget default follows a
+                   measurement) and 2 (the mode a bound attaches to).
+                   Nothing needs 5.
+2 ──▶ 11, 12       both need 2: 11 bounds a chain 2 shipped, 12 transcodes
+                   the descriptor and the records 2 defined.
 
 4                  composes with 3 on the WAL commit path; NEITHER
                    needs the other. Executed 4 then 3 (chain 5, then 6).
@@ -177,7 +184,8 @@ An arrow points AT the iteration that NEEDS the other.
 9 ──▶ 10
 ```
 
-Order rationale: **1 before 2** because the budget default should follow from a
+Order rationale: **1 before 5** — it read "1 before 2" until 2026-09-09, when
+the budget moved to 5 — because the budget default should follow from a
 measurement, not a guess. **3 and 4 matter to 2** for the same reason tiering
 onto a never-truncating log would have: `resident: keys` rebuilds its offset map
 by scanning the whole log at boot until 3's snapshot persists it.
diff --git a/docs/stories/databasev2/01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md b/docs/stories/databasev2/01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md
index 3abfc9a..103c4c0 100644
--- a/docs/stories/databasev2/01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md
+++ b/docs/stories/databasev2/01-ram-ceiling-measurement.md
@@ -243,7 +243,11 @@ Outstanding:
   **Iteration 2 must pick its budget on other grounds** (host RAM fraction, or
   an explicit developer-declared figure) rather than waiting on a number this
   iteration cannot produce. This is the most important thing this slice learned
-  and it removes a dependency rather than satisfying it.
+  and it removes a dependency rather than satisfying it. **Redirected
+  2026-09-09:** the budget itself moved from iteration 2 to
+  [5](05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) Phase A, so this finding — pick the
+  default on other grounds — is 5's input now, and iteration 2 no longer needs
+  this iteration at all.
 - **Given** rising fractions of the cap, **when** latency is sampled, **then**
   the p99 departure point is recorded. Partially, and now with a real answer
   elsewhere: `p99_departure_decile` stays 0 because the footprint legs never
@@ -293,9 +297,10 @@ Outstanding:
    runs that differ only in their cap belongs to the engine. Both legs read the
    same Weyl key order (`i*2654435761 mod n` — no RNG in the language, and none
    needed) so residency is the only variable.
-7. **The ceiling leg asserts `rc`, never records it.** When iteration 2's byte
-   budget lands, death should become a checked refusal — the gate must not fail
-   on that improvement.
+7. **The ceiling leg asserts `rc`, never records it.** When the byte budget
+   lands (iteration 2's until 2026-09-09; now
+   [5](05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) Phase A), death should become a checked
+   refusal — the gate must not fail on that improvement.
 
 ## History — four corrections worth keeping
 
diff --git a/docs/stories/databasev2/06-cold-tiering.md b/docs/stories/databasev2/06-cold-tiering.md
index 1047ccc..46ee28b 100644
--- a/docs/stories/databasev2/06-cold-tiering.md
+++ b/docs/stories/databasev2/06-cold-tiering.md
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ readiness: refine
 > [3](03-wal-checkpoint.md) so the log this builds on does not grow forever,
 > and [5](05-bounded-tables-eviction.md) for the policy machinery.
 >
+> **Correction, 2026-09-10:** the Needs line above is superseded prose, kept
+> for the iteration's original reasoning, not a live dependency — the
+> story's own sequence table lists this iteration's Needs as "—"
+> ([00-story.md:158](00-story.md)) and its ASCII graph says "superseded by
+> 2 — not sequenced" ([00-story.md:180](00-story.md)).
+>
 > **⚠ LARGELY SUPERSEDED 2026-08-27 by [iteration 2](02-table-storage-modes.md).**
 > This iteration was written to implement a `cold` mode. That mode no longer
 > exists: the brainstorm replaced it with `resident: all | keys`, and
@@ -28,7 +34,7 @@ readiness: refine
 > the reason the engine avoids `O_DIRECT`.
 >
 > **What may still be left:** if measurement after 5c/5d (landed 2026-08-29,
-> still unmeasured — that is iteration 2's task 7) shows the page cache
+> measured by iteration 2's task 7 on 2026-08-30 — see below) shows the page cache
 > insufficient for some workload, a user-space working set becomes arguable
 > again — but only with that number in hand, which is the opposite of how this
 > file was written.
@@ -40,8 +46,11 @@ readiness: refine
 > the number `resident: keys` must **beat**, since it `pread`s through the page
 > cache, which gets readahead and a shared cache. So this file revives if and
 > only if 5c/5d measures the page-cache path landing near 273× rather than well
-> below it. Until that measurement exists, neither outcome is assumed. Until then treat the design questions below as answered
-> elsewhere and the phases as void. Its genuinely durable contribution is its
+> below it. **Measured 2026-08-30 (iteration 2, task 7):** under the same memory
+> cap `resident: all` collapsed **105×** from its uncapped throughput and
+> `resident: keys` only **16×**, 1.53× faster than swapping — well below 273×,
+> so by this file's own criterion it stays superseded. Treat the design
+> questions below as answered elsewhere and the phases as void. Its genuinely durable contribution is its
 > fork list, especially "does the language surface the fault cost at the *use*
 > site" — still open, and still the largest question about what writeonce is.
 >
diff --git a/docs/stories/databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md b/docs/stories/databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md
index d485f3b..bf7c21e 100644
--- a/docs/stories/databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md
+++ b/docs/stories/databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md
@@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ readiness: refine
     - **Given** the employee sample running as A with its departments and
       employees tables,
     - **when** a second sample program (a thin reporting client) attaches
-      read-only and runs the GroupBy report over `a.Employee`,
+      read-only and runs the sample's department report over `a.Employee`
+      (as written in `docs/examples/employee-list/main.wo` it is a
+      `group … by … into` query, which the compiler still refuses —
+      `types.ml` "group-by aggregation is not supported yet" — so group-by
+      aggregation lands first or the report is rephrased),
     - **then** it prints the same report the owner prints — the
       demonstration that attach + query compose.
 
@@ -133,6 +137,15 @@ A's checkout); A **exports a schema file** (a `.wob`-adjacent digest of its
 class table) that B's manifest points at (decoupled, but a new artifact
 with a staleness story); or shared type definitions in a common module both
 import (cleanest language story, needs the module system to span projects).
+**Annotation, 2026-09-10:** that module system is language-track work, not
+this iteration's. The closest existing story is [language-runtime-database
+15](../language-runtime-database/15-deps-package-manager.md) (`wo.toml
+[deps]`, git fetch — done, 2026-08-18), which lets `use <name>` resolve
+into a fetched dependency's module tree; two separately-run programs naming
+the same dependency already share its types at build time, but no story
+addresses schema-sharing between two independently *running* programs
+specifically — no dedicated language story yet for that; this option
+remains a fork for the language track.
 A runtime schema handshake must exist regardless — B's compiled expectation
 of `a.Employee`'s shape is verified against A's live class table at attach,
 and a mismatch refuses the attachment with both sides' shapes named.
diff --git a/docs/stories/databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md b/docs/stories/databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md
index 3c8aaa8..5df76ff 100644
--- a/docs/stories/databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md
+++ b/docs/stories/databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ component with its provenance pinned in the tree — the doctrine's spirit is
 "no dependency sprawl", not "write your own constant-time field
 arithmetic".
 
+**Annotation, 2026-09-10:** an in-tree answer now exists: runtime-v2 9
+landed constant-time RSA-PSS and ECDSA-P256 signing plus X.509 parsing
+(`runtime/src/crypto.c`, `tls.c`), runtime-v2 8 the AEADs; libsodium would
+violate the zero-dependency doctrine ([docs/00-principles.md principle
+2](../../00-principles.md)). Not a decision — Ed25519-vs-reuse is still this
+fork's open question.
+
 **2. Key generation and storage.** Options: a `woc keygen` subcommand
 (keys are a toolchain concern), or first-boot generation by the runtime
 into the data directory (keys are a runtime concern, zero setup). Leaning:
diff --git a/docs/stories/porch/00-story.md b/docs/stories/porch/00-story.md
index 3ef6473..70f8973 100644
--- a/docs/stories/porch/00-story.md
+++ b/docs/stories/porch/00-story.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ risky work starts.
 
 | # | Iteration | Delivers | Needs |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| 1 | [Store-backed middleware](01-store-backed-middleware.md) | rate limiting + idempotency over a `@table` store, serialized through a sharded actor pool | 🔄 in progress; needs no new primitive (`call`/`send`/`monitor`/`time.after` all landed) |
+| 1 | [Store-backed middleware](01-store-backed-middleware.md) | rate limiting over a sharded actor pool — exact counting, restart-durable | ✅ **done** 2026-08-30; re-scoped to the limiter alone |
 | 2 | [Randomness and cookies](02-randomness-and-cookies.md) | a `random_bytes` runtime builtin, repeated response headers, `Cookie:` parsing, signed cookies | a language-track builtin (phase A) |
 | 3 | [Sessions](03-sessions.md) | server-side sessions, idle + absolute timeout, revocation | 2 |
 | 4 | [CSRF](04-csrf.md) | token mint/verify, trusted origins, single-use tokens | 2, 3 |
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ risky work starts.
 | 6 | [Streaming core](06-streaming-core.md) | incremental response writes and chunked framing — the seam three iterations wait on | nothing new, but it changes `Resp` |
 | 7 | [SSE and compression](07-sse-and-compression.md) | server-sent events, gzip/deflate | 6 |
 | 8 | [Static files and lifecycle](08-static-and-lifecycle.md) | byte ranges, cache headers, directory listing, lifecycle hooks, the small middleware everyone ships | 6 |
+| 9 | [Idempotent replay](09-idempotent-replay.md) | idempotent replay of unsafe requests, the actor running the route handler | ⏸ built and reverted; blocked on [language 41](../language-runtime-database/41-actor-arena-crash.md) |
+| 10 | [Memory features over `@table`](10-memory-features-over-table.md) | TTL cache, `@table` feature flags, durable job queue — the three `.wo` pieces split out of language 18 on 2026-09-11 | stub, `readiness: refine`; needs [language 18](../language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md)'s `transaction { }` for the jobs demo, and 1–3 |
 
 ```
 1 ─ independent, start here
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ risky work starts.
 | Not porch's | Owner |
 | --- | --- |
 | typed binding of query/params/form into a class | language: [`@derive`](../language-runtime-database/29-compile-time-metaprogramming.md) — reflection is forbidden by principle 13 |
-| TTL cache, `transaction { }`, durable job queue | language: [iteration 18](../language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) |
+| `transaction { }` | language: [iteration 18](../language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) — the engine + language half; TTL cache, `@table` feature flags and the durable job queue **moved into this track** as [iteration 10](10-memory-features-over-table.md) on 2026-09-11 |
 | a `proxy` middleware | language: [iteration 38](../language-runtime-database/38-content-platform-capabilities.md) — needs `net.connect`, ✅ landed 2026-09-07 (id 110; plus `net.connect_tls` for an HTTPS upstream, runtime-v2 9). Buildable now |
 | metrics, profiling, per-change CI, fuzzing | [runtime-v2 7](../runtime-v2/07-observability.md) — observability (was language iteration 30; metrics/profiling/trace-on-trap; CI + fuzz are tooling, split out) |
 | TLS | ✅ [runtime-v2 9](../runtime-v2/09-in-process-tls.md) — in-process TLS 1.3 both directions (2026-09-09); porch can terminate inbound TLS with `net.accept_tls`, no front proxy required. The proxy-termination doctrine is retired |