diff --git a/docs/examples/fibers/.gitignore b/docs/examples/fibers/.gitignore
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+
+# built artifacts
+target/
diff --git a/docs/examples/fibers/README.md b/docs/examples/fibers/README.md
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+# fibers — the hybrid scheduler, demonstrated
+
+The smallest program that shows all three legs of the concurrency model
+(the doctrine-depth writeup lives in
+[`docs/plan/exploration/fibers/00-fibers.md`](../../plan/exploration/fibers/00-fibers.md)):
+
+1. **Reduction-budget eviction** — part 1's output is byte-exact and
+   timing-free: main sends three messages, then burns reductions; every
+   time its budget expires the counter actor gets a turn and delivers
+   exactly one message. Cooperative mechanics, preemptive fairness.
+2. **Actors as the spawn surface** — `spawn Counter { ... }` returns an
+   `actor Tick`; `send` moves the message (using it afterwards is a
+   compile error); delivery is one message at a time per actor.
+3. **Parking, not blocking** — part 2's sleeper actor calls `time.sleep`
+   mid-receive: the fiber parks on the shard's I/O plane (io_uring
+   primary, epoll fallback — `WO_IO=uring|epoll` forces either) and
+   main keeps ticking while it sleeps.
+
+Run: `just fibers` (the acceptance gate builds it, checks part 1
+byte-exact, asserts part 2's ordering invariants, and repeats the run on
+both I/O backends plus ASan).
diff --git a/docs/examples/fibers/main.wo b/docs/examples/fibers/main.wo
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+use time
+
+-- fibers — the writeonce hybrid demonstrated (BEAM's shape):
+--   cooperative MECHANICS (no signals, no interrupts) with
+--   reduction-budget EVICTION (loop back-edges pay one reduction; at
+--   zero the fiber re-queues whether it likes it or not), actors as the
+--   spawn surface (one message at a time, ownership-moving sends), and
+--   blocking builtins that PARK on the shard's io_uring plane instead
+--   of holding the thread.
+--
+-- Part 1 is deterministic by construction (budget accounting, no time):
+-- its output is byte-exact. Part 2 shows a sleeping fiber not blocking
+-- anyone; its ordering is asserted loosely by the acceptance gate
+-- because it depends on real time.
+
+class Tick {
+  n: Int
+}
+
+-- Part 1: a counting actor; main and the actor interleave one message
+-- per main-yield under the default budget.
+class Counter {
+  label: Text
+  total: Int
+  fn receive(msg: Tick) {
+    self.total = self.total + msg.n;
+    print("${self.label} +${msg.n} = ${self.total}");
+  }
+}
+
+-- Part 2: an actor whose receive PARKS mid-message. The park releases
+-- the shard: main keeps ticking while this fiber sleeps.
+class Sleeper {
+  pad: Int
+  fn receive(msg: Tick) {
+    print("sleeper: down for ${msg.n}ms");
+    time.sleep(msg.n);
+    print("sleeper: up");
+  }
+}
+
+fn spin(rounds: Int) {
+  -- burn reductions so the scheduler's eviction gets a chance: each
+  -- back-edge pays one reduction; the default budget is 4000
+  let i = 0;
+  while i < rounds {
+    i = i + 1;
+  }
+}
+
+fn main() -> Int {
+  -- ---- part 1: deterministic budget interleave ----
+  let c: actor Tick = spawn Counter { label: "count", total: 0 };
+  send(c, Tick { n: 1 });
+  send(c, Tick { n: 2 });
+  send(c, Tick { n: 3 });
+  -- three yields deliver exactly three messages, one per turn
+  spin(5000);
+  spin(5000);
+  spin(5000);
+  print("part1 done");
+
+  -- ---- part 2: a parked fiber blocks nobody ----
+  let s: actor Tick = spawn Sleeper { pad: 0 };
+  send(s, Tick { n: 150 });
+  let t = 0;
+  while t < 8 {
+    time.sleep(25);
+    print("main tick ${t}");
+    t = t + 1;
+  }
+  print("part2 done");
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/docs/examples/fibers/wo.toml b/docs/examples/fibers/wo.toml
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+name        = "fibers"
+version     = "0.1.0"
+description = "the hybrid scheduler demonstrated: budget eviction + actors + parked sleeps"
+
+[runtime]
+wo = ">= 0.1"
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 7ab2f6a..7d611e5 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ deps-accept:
 web-app:
     ./scripts/web-app-accept.sh
 
+# fibers: the hybrid-scheduler demo (docs/examples/fibers) — part 1 byte-
+# exact budget interleave, part 2 parked-sleeper-blocks-nobody, on the
+# uring AND epoll backends plus an ASan run.
+fibers:
+    ./scripts/fibers-accept.sh
+
 # install-accept: extract the dist tarball to a temp prefix, PATH it, and prove
 # `woc version` + a from-scratch project build+run (self-located wovm) + the
 # wo-constraint refusal all work — the "tarball install actually works" gate.
diff --git a/scripts/fibers-accept.sh b/scripts/fibers-accept.sh
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+++ b/scripts/fibers-accept.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# scripts/fibers-accept.sh — the hybrid-scheduler demo's gate: part 1 is
+# byte-exact (budget accounting, timing-free); part 2 asserts ordering
+# invariants (a parked sleeper blocks nobody) on BOTH I/O backends and
+# under ASan.
+set -uo pipefail
+
+ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+WOC="$ROOT/compiler/_build/default/bin/woc"
+WOVM="$ROOT/runtime/wovm"
+DIR="$ROOT/docs/examples/fibers"
+
+pass=0; fail=0
+ok() { echo "ok   $1"; pass=$((pass + 1)); }
+bad() { echo "FAIL $1 -- $2"; fail=$((fail + 1)); }
+
+if [[ ! -x "$WOC" || ! -x "$WOVM" ]]; then
+  echo "fibers-accept: build woc and wovm first" >&2; exit 1
+fi
+
+if WO_RUNTIME="$WOVM" "$WOC" "$DIR" >/dev/null 2>&1 && [[ -x "$DIR/target/fibers" ]]; then
+  ok "builds"
+else
+  bad "build" "woc failed"; echo "fibers-accept: 1 checks, 1 failures"; exit 1
+fi
+
+check_run() { # name [env pairs...]
+  local name="$1"; shift
+  local out
+  out="$(env "$@" "$DIR/target/fibers" 2>&1)"
+  local want_p1=$'count +1 = 1\ncount +2 = 3\ncount +3 = 6\npart1 done'
+  if [[ "$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | head -4)" == "$want_p1" ]]; then
+    ok "$name: part 1 byte-exact (budget interleave)"
+  else
+    bad "$name part1" "$(printf '%s' "$out" | head -4 | tr '\n' '|')"
+  fi
+  local down_ln up_ln done_ln ticks
+  down_ln=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -n "sleeper: down" | cut -d: -f1)
+  up_ln=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -n "sleeper: up" | cut -d: -f1)
+  done_ln=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -n "part2 done" | cut -d: -f1)
+  ticks=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -c "main tick")
+  if [[ -n "$down_ln" && -n "$up_ln" && -n "$done_ln" && "$ticks" == "8" ]]; then
+    local before
+    before=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | sed -n "${down_ln},${up_ln}p" | grep -c "main tick")
+    if [[ "$before" -ge 3 && "$up_ln" -lt "$done_ln" ]]; then
+      ok "$name: part 2 — parked sleeper blocked nobody ($before ticks while down)"
+    else
+      bad "$name part2" "only $before ticks before wake"
+    fi
+  else
+    bad "$name part2" "down=$down_ln up=$up_ln done=$done_ln ticks=$ticks"
+  fi
+}
+
+check_run "auto"
+check_run "uring" WO_IO=uring
+check_run "epoll" WO_IO=epoll
+
+# ASan flavor: rebuild the binary against the ASan runtime and repeat once
+make -C "$ROOT/runtime" wovm-asan -s >/dev/null 2>&1
+if "$WOC" build "$DIR" -o "$DIR/target/fibers_asan" --runtime "$ROOT/runtime/build/wovm_asan" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  out="$("$DIR/target/fibers_asan" 2>&1)"
+  if printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q "part2 done" && ! printf '%s' "$out" | grep -qi "sanitizer\|leak"; then
+    ok "ASan run clean"
+  else
+    bad "asan" "$(printf '%s' "$out" | tail -2 | tr '\n' '|')"
+  fi
+else
+  bad "asan" "build failed"
+fi
+
+echo
+printf 'fibers-accept: %d checks, %d failures\n' "$((pass + fail))" "$fail"
+[[ $fail -eq 0 ]]