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+# Semantic integration verification
+
+Status: verified Windows integration. Merge `332e46b`, formatting correction
+`c6db9d4`. This checkpoint does not complete native acceptance, structured semantic
+review or the release. The lead retains overall state and native ownership.
+
+## Inputs and preserved work
+
+Merged frozen semantic branch `6ad3cb92df21a5e67c318e31c751fc6a61555ef6` into
+DATA `1a07475` (combined direct process/scenario production `60d162c`). Every Rust
+change merged automatically. Only two working-memory documents conflicted: both
+architectural decisions were retained; DATA's `STATE.md` was preserved unchanged
+for the lead's next overall checkpoint.
+
+The integration contains source/schema 5 and explicit historical migration, the
+closed typed semantic review core, first equal-constructor acknowledgment, three
+REST query/preview/apply operations, current OpenAPI/reST, and scalar desktop
+review milestones 1–2. It preserves process continuation, direct scenario editing,
+stable scenario viewport, compact controls and recursive value browsing.
+Constructor/keyed/ordered/reset/multi-source desktop authoring remains outside the
+scalar milestone. No native input or external deployment was performed here.
+
+## Windows verification
+
+Windows, Rust/Cargo 1.98.1. Exclusive target:
+`D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-data-target`. Logs and generated check artifacts:
+`D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-data-target/semantic-integration`.
+
+Run from `D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-data-integration`:
+
+```powershell
+$env:CARGO_TARGET_DIR='D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-data-target'
+cargo test --locked --offline --workspace
+cargo clippy --locked --offline --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
+cargo build --locked --offline --workspace --release
+cargo fmt --all -- --check
+```
+
+All gates passed. Workspace tests: **718 passed, 0 failed, 1 intentionally ignored**
+inheritance scaling probe across 39 test summaries: 353 core, 317 desktop, 48 server.
+This includes the integrated scenario/process/value-browser regressions, all 11
+scalar semantic desktop cases, source5 migration/writeback and real HTTP operations.
+Strict all-target workspace Clippy had no warnings. Optimized workspace build passed
+in 2m11s. Logs: `workspace-tests.log`, `workspace-clippy.log`, `workspace-release.log`.
+
+The initial formatting check found only the order of two HTTP test module imports.
+Commit `c6db9d4` applies rustfmt to that file; the repeated whole-workspace check
+passed (`workspace-fmt-after.log`). No production-code correction was necessary.
+The ordinary unprivileged Python launcher was denied by the local environment;
+the authorized scoped verification process succeeded. No blocker remains here.
+
+## Normative and actual service contracts
+
+With existing Docutils 0.23 and JSON Schema libraries:
+
+```powershell
+$env:PYTHONPATH='D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-docutils;D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-contract-tools'
+python crates/oa-server/tests/semantic_schema.py --check
+python crates/oa-server/tests/semantic_http_contract.py D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-data-target/release/arcadia-server.exe
+```
+
+The closed generated catalog check passed: 13 families, 84 scalar leaves and 184
+schemas match checked-in OpenAPI. The HTTP script launched the optimized service
+on loopback with an isolated temporary store and terminated it after verification.
+**184 schemas valid; 19 actual/typed values checked against served and checked-in
+contracts; 9 obsolete/malformed shapes rejected.** It verifies import/migration,
+query, preview, apply, typed baselines, one-sided selectors and stale rejection.
+Log: `actual-semantic-http.log`. This is actual executable transport evidence.
+
+Strict `docs/language.rst` and `docs/api.rst` generation passed with
+`docutils.core.publish_file`, `writer_name='html5'`, and settings
+`{'halt_level': 2, 'report_level': 2}`. Outputs went into the evidence directory.
+Both generated documents exactly match tracked HTML after line-ending
+normalization. The full core suite also parsed the complete normative examples
+and exercised typed historical source/JSON, included-file writeback and reopen.
+
+## Frozen binaries and handoff
+
+Both optimized executables are frozen in
+`D:/CodexBuilds/Capella2-data-target/semantic-integration/freeze-c6db9d4`:
+
+- `arcadia-studio.exe` SHA256
+  `38AF477646BCC7096E5C71D95D827BF24F9E7ECA1E310DCD7D4AD258ED9E55A0`
+- `arcadia-server.exe` SHA256
+  `C420DFBC30FDA6935E306DF12C310739066389066B878F44D4470E5DD5B1529E`
+
+The directory also contains `SHA256.txt`. No desktop process was launched. The
+build target is idle and returned to the lead. Linux integrated checks, native
+semantic acceptance, independent scalar-review follow-ups and the structured
+semantic desktop milestone remain separate required work.