chore(release): 0.5.1

chore(release): 0.5.0
feat(default)!: model default(...) as a real LCA-aware transition
2026-04-29 09:50:36 -06:00 · 2026-04-28 21:03:05 -06:00 · 2026-04-28 20:57:01 -06:00 · 2026-04-28 19:11:29 -06:00 · 2026-04-28 18:51:21 -06:00 · 2026-04-28 16:58:53 -06:00
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+# Creusot output: cargo-creusot dumps `.coma` (Coma IR) files here for
+# Why3 to read. Regenerated on every `just verify` run.
+/verif/
+
+# Creusot/why3find config — `cargo creusot init` regenerates with
+# defaults appropriate to the local prover install. The `profile`
+# section caches per-machine prover timings that aren't portable.
+# `just verify` regenerates if missing.
+/why3find.json
+# why3find's per-run cache directory.
+/.why3find/
+
+# Project-local Python venv created by mise's `_.python.venv` config.
+**/.venv/
+
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@@ -4,6 +4,346 @@ All notable changes to this workspace are documented here. The format
 follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) and
 this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).

+## 0.5.1 — 2026-04-29
+
+Docs and licensing cleanup. No code or behavior changes.
+
+- **License simplified to MIT.** The crate was previously dual-licensed
+  MIT OR Apache-2.0; it is now MIT-only. `LICENSE-APACHE` removed,
+  `LICENSE-MIT` renamed to `LICENSE`, workspace `license` field is
+  now `"MIT"`. Copyright (c) 2026 Stephen Waits &lt;steve@waits.net&gt;.
+- **README rewritten reader-first.** Restructured top-to-bottom so a
+  reader who's never used statecharts can follow the document linearly:
+  a working Blinker chart is now the first concrete artifact; the
+  Quickstart sits directly under it; the larger Radio example
+  (events / payloads / `during:`) follows; the formal eight-rule
+  semantics live below all of that as reference rather than as a
+  prerequisite. The "What it does" feature list is rewritten in
+  user-benefit-first language. The "What `hsmc` deliberately does NOT
+  have" table is promoted from a sub-section to its own top-level
+  section. No semantic changes — the formal rules' content is
+  untouched, only repositioned.
+- **Tokio integration story corrected.** The README previously implied
+  driving a chart under tokio required `tokio::task::LocalSet`. The
+  normal path is `#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]` — one
+  line, no extra wrapping, and how the existing examples have always
+  worked. `LocalSet` no longer appears in the README at all.
+- **`microwave_tui` example dropped.** The ratatui/crossterm TUI
+  variant of the microwave was overkill for a library example and
+  pulled in three dev-dependencies (`ratatui`, `crossterm`, `futures`)
+  that nothing else used. The `microwave` example covers the same
+  feature surface in plain Rust.
+- **Observability framed honestly.** Enabling `defmt` / `log` /
+  `tracing` output for a chart is one `trace-*` Cargo feature on
+  hsmc's side, plus whatever your downstream crate already does to
+  init its logger (e.g. `tracing_subscriber::fmt::init()` or
+  `env_logger::init()`) — hsmc deliberately doesn't init a logger,
+  per the standard Rust library convention. The Observability
+  section now says so directly and includes a runnable end-to-end
+  snippet using `tracing-subscriber`. The `trace-*` features are
+  also listed in the main feature-flags table so they're
+  discoverable at a glance.
+- **Inline examples corrected.** The Quickstart Blinker now has both
+  `light_on` and `light_off` actions (it previously had only
+  `light_on`, which left the LED on the whole time). The Embassy
+  snippet no longer declares an unused event channel for what is a
+  timer-only chart.
+- **Eight-rule order finalized.** The "How a chart behaves" rules are
+  now strictly bottom-up: active path → transitions (LCA-aware) →
+  up-transition rule → entry/exit ordering → `default(...)` (a
+  transition fired on entry) → event bubbling → timers →
+  emit/during/termination. Cross-references updated.
+
+## 0.5.0 — 2026-04-28
+
+### `default(...)` is a real LCA-aware transition
+
+`default(...)` is now modeled the same way as any event-driven
+transition. It fires immediately after the declaring state's entries
+finish and its durings start, applying the standard exit-to-LCA /
+enter-to-target algorithm. Three behavioral changes follow from this:
+
+- **Optional.** A state with children no longer must declare a
+  `default(...)`. When omitted, the state itself is the resting
+  innermost active state; substates are reachable only via explicit
+  transitions. This is the "microwave Standby" pattern — `Standby`
+  has substates like `LowPower` you enter only on demand, and
+  `=> Standby;` lands at `Standby` itself with no descent.
+- **Targets anywhere.** The default target may be any state in the
+  chart — a child (the classic descent case), a sibling, an ancestor,
+  anywhere. `default(<sibling-or-ancestor>)` exits the just-entered
+  state as part of the default-fire transition; the same uniform
+  rule covers descent, redirection, and up-bounce.
+- **Cycle-checked at compile time.** The default-edge graph
+  (out-degree ≤ 1 per node) is rejected if it contains any cycle,
+  including `default(self)`. The check guarantees default chains
+  terminate at runtime — entering any state in a cycle would loop
+  forever before reaching user code.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- **Journal format.** Default-fires now emit `TransitionFired` (with
+  `reason: TransitionReason::Internal`) and `TransitionComplete`
+  brackets around their entry sequence. `Internal` was previously
+  reserved and never emitted; it is now active. Charts that
+  hand-build expected journal sequences (replay-style tests) must
+  include these brackets around every default-fire — see the
+  per-test diffs in this release for the pattern.
+- **Validation.** Two compile-time errors went away:
+  `default(<non-direct-child>)` is now valid (the target may be
+  anywhere), and `default` on a childless state is now valid
+  (the leaf transitions out immediately on entry). Code relying
+  on these as guard rails must adapt. A new compile-time error
+  takes their place: any cycle in the default graph is rejected
+  with a pinpoint message naming the cycle (e.g.
+  `default-transition cycle detected: A -> B -> A`).
+
+### Other
+
+- README and `docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md` rewritten so the
+  default-as-transition framing is the primary description; the old
+  "automatic transition into a child" language is gone.
+- New integration tests covering each branch of the new semantics:
+  `det_optional_default` (microwave pattern), `det_default_sibling`
+  (lateral default), `det_default_chained` (multi-link default
+  chain), `det_default_ancestor` (up-default landing on an
+  ancestor).
+- New compile-fail UI fixtures for cycle detection
+  (`t9_4_default_self_cycle`, `t9_5_default_two_cycle`) and new
+  compile-pass fixtures for non-child default targets
+  (`composite_without_default`, `default_targets_sibling`,
+  `default_targets_ancestor`).
+
+## 0.4.1 — 2026-04-28
+
+### Performance — dispatch hot path
+
+Six codegen-side optimization passes against `step()` and friends. No
+user-facing API changes; all 296 tests pass under `--no-default-features`,
+`--features tokio`, `--features embassy`, and `--features tokio,journal`.
+Cumulative on `h8_cross_tree` (the deepest dispatch in the bench suite):
+**−82% instructions / −72% cycles** vs the pre-`pre_lca_fix` baseline.
+See `hsmc/benches/baseline.txt` for per-pass delta blocks and
+`docs/003. latency-analysis.md` §1/§9/§12 for the cost-surface analysis.
+
+- **Precomputed transition paths.** For every `(from, to)` state pair,
+  codegen materializes the exit/enter sequence into a single flat
+  `__PATH_DATA` blob with a `__PATH_RANGE: [(u16, u16, u16); N²]`
+  index. `transition()` becomes one indexed range lookup + two slice
+  loops; the `lca()` runtime helper, `is_up_transition()`, and the
+  per-call `heapless::Vec<u16, 16>` ancestry build are gone. Up /
+  self / lateral semantics are baked into the table (empty enter
+  slice ⇒ up-transition, target excluded; non-empty enter slice
+  includes the default-descent tail). Hierarchy depth is no longer
+  bounded by the old 32-state Vec capacity.
+- **Precomputed event-dispatch table.** For every `(state, event)`
+  pair, codegen resolves the handler the runtime `__PARENT` bubble
+  walk would have found. `__DISPATCH: [(u16, &'static [u16],
+  Option<u16>); N×E]` stores `(handler_state, action_ids,
+  transition_target)` per pair; `u16::MAX` in the handler-state slot
+  is the no-handler sentinel. The runtime walk + per-hop
+  `__handler_lookup` call in `step()` collapses to one indexed lookup.
+  Handler resolution is now O(1) regardless of bubble depth — the
+  `bubble_top` bench (4-hop walk) is now within 3 instructions of
+  `bubble_leaf` (handler on current state). `__handler_lookup` is
+  retained for timer dispatch (the `dispatch_trigger` path doesn't
+  bubble).
+- **Precomputed terminate exit path.** Per-state `__TERMINATE_DATA`
+  table holds the full exit chain up to and including `__Root` (which
+  may carry root-level `entry:`/`exit:` actions). `do_terminate()`
+  indexes the table once and iterates the slice, replacing the
+  runtime `__PARENT` walk + per-iteration match. Queue drain switched
+  from `while pop_front().is_some()` to `Deque::clear()` (heapless
+  0.8 implements this as O(1) — resets indices instead of popping
+  each entry). `terminate_event` bench: −22.5% instr / −23.4% cycles.
+- **TimerTable empty-skip.** `pop_expired`, `min_remaining`,
+  `decrement`, and `cancel_state` each get `#[inline]` + an
+  `is_empty()` early-out, with the non-empty body split into a
+  `#[cold]` helper. Runtime branch on charts with timers; the body
+  stays out-of-line.
+- **Codegen-static timer-machinery elide.** When a chart declares no
+  `Duration` triggers (the common case for event-driven HSMs), every
+  `TimerTable` call is omitted from `step()` and `exit_state()` at
+  codegen. `step()` returns `None` directly for the next-tick
+  deadline. `dispatch_trigger()` and the timer-fired arms remain in
+  the binary but are unreachable; LLVM DCEs them.
+- **`TimerEntry.remaining_ns: u128 → u64`.** Internal-only field type
+  change. u64 nanoseconds bounds at ~584 years — comfortably past any
+  realistic `Duration`. Eliminates u128 saturating-sub in
+  `decrement()` (4–6 instructions per entry → 1–2) and the manual
+  secs/nanos decomposition in `min_remaining()` (replaced with
+  `Duration::from_nanos`). The struct shrinks 32 B → 16 B with
+  alignment, so the entire machine struct gets smaller — every bench's
+  RAM-hit count drops from tighter cache packing.
+
+### Bench coverage
+
+Four new benches added to cover hot paths the original suite missed:
+
+- **`bubble_leaf` / `bubble_mid` / `bubble_top`** — handler resolution
+  at varying ancestor depths (0 / 3 / 4 hops) on a single chart.
+  Quantifies the bubble-walk cost as a function of distance, and
+  confirms the `__DISPATCH` table makes resolution depth-independent.
+- **`timer_fire_dispatch`** — only bench that exercises
+  `pop_expired`'s non-empty branch and `dispatch_trigger`. The most
+  expensive single-step bench in the suite (191 instr / 706 cycles).
+- **`terminate_event`** — only bench exercising `__check_terminate`'s
+  true arm and `do_terminate`. 69 instr / 311 cycles.
+- **`bubble_cross_tree`** — handler on L1 (4 bubble hops up from
+  current=L5) targets R5 in a sibling subtree (10-state cross-tree
+  transition). Realistic HSM worst case; 94 instr / 444 cycles —
+  almost the same as a plain 7-deep cross-tree because both bubble
+  resolution and transition path are now O(1) lookups.
+
+## 0.4.0 — 2026-04-28
+
+### Changed — observability (breaking)
+
+- **Unified observation pipeline.** The codegen now emits a single
+  `__chart_observe!` invocation per observable atom, dispatched at
+  compile time to whichever sinks are enabled: the in-memory journal
+  (`feature = "journal"`), `defmt` (`trace-defmt`), `log`
+  (`trace-log`), and/or `tracing` (`trace-tracing`). All sinks share
+  the same vocabulary by construction — the journal IS the observation
+  stream; trace backends are textual renderings of it. With NO sink
+  feature on, every call site expands to `()` (zero overhead). Multiple
+  trace sinks may now be enabled simultaneously (previously they were
+  mutually exclusive).
+- **Trace prefix changed.** `[ChartName] verb …` →
+  `[statechart:ChartName] verb …`. The new form is greppable and
+  unambiguous in mixed log streams.
+- **Trace format is now logfmt-style.** Every line is
+  `[statechart:Name] <verb> key=value key=value …` (or native structured
+  fields under `tracing`). Twenty verbs cover every TraceEvent variant
+  — entries, exits (with begin/end pairs), actions (with kind),
+  durings, transitions (with **reason** showing what triggered them),
+  events (received/delivered/dropped/queued/failed), timers, terminate.
+- **`trace;` keyword deprecated.** Still parsed for backwards
+  compatibility, but no longer gates emission. Trace output is now
+  controlled purely by which `trace-*` cargo feature you enable.
+
+### Changed — journal (breaking)
+
+- **`TraceEvent::TransitionFired` carries `reason: TransitionReason`.**
+  Replay consumers now see whether a transition was driven by an event
+  (`Event { event: u16 }`), a timer (`Timer { state, timer }`), or
+  internal logic (`Internal`).
+- **New TraceEvent variants for phase begin/end pairing.**
+  - `EnterBegan { state }` fires before a state's entry actions /
+    timers / durings; `Entered` keeps its place as the end marker.
+  - `ExitBegan { state }` fires before a state's during cancellations
+    / timer cancellations / exit actions; `Exited` keeps its place as
+    the end marker.
+  - `TransitionComplete { from, to }` fires after a transition's full
+    exit-then-enter sequence finishes; pairs with `TransitionFired`.
+  - `EventReceived { event }` fires when an event is popped from the
+    queue, before handler search; pairs with `EventDelivered` /
+    `EventDropped` / `TerminateRequested`.
+
+### Added
+
+- **`hsmc/tests/trace_format.rs`** — 11 tests pinning every verb's
+  exact textual rendering, including a journal/trace atom-count
+  equivalence test.
+- **`TransitionReason`** enum — re-exported from the crate root when
+  `feature = "journal"` is on. Carried on `TraceEvent::TransitionFired`.
+- **Multiple trace backends compose.** Previously enabling more than
+  one of `trace-defmt` / `trace-log` / `trace-tracing` was a compile
+  error. Now they fan out independently.
+
+### Migration
+
+Chart syntax is unchanged: every v0.1 / v0.2 / v0.3 statechart compiles
+under v0.4 without modification. Breakage is confined to the
+observability surface area:
+
+1. **Trace line prefix.** Update grep patterns and log filters from
+   `[ChartName]` to `[statechart:ChartName]`. The verb after the
+   prefix is now a single hyphenated token followed by `key=value`
+   pairs.
+
+2. **`TraceEvent::TransitionFired`** has a new `reason` field. Update
+   pattern matches:
+
+   ```rust
+   // before:
+   TraceEvent::TransitionFired { from, to } => …
+   // after:
+   TraceEvent::TransitionFired { from, to, reason } => …
+   // or, if you don't care:
+   TraceEvent::TransitionFired { from, to, .. } => …
+   ```
+
+3. **New `TraceEvent` variants.** If you `match` exhaustively, add
+   arms for `EnterBegan`, `ExitBegan`, `TransitionComplete`,
+   `EventReceived`. Otherwise nothing changes.
+
+4. **`trace;` keyword is now a no-op.** Charts that declared it still
+   compile. Trace output is now controlled purely by which `trace-*`
+   cargo feature you enable.
+
+5. **`__chart_trace!` and `__chart_journal!` macros are removed.**
+   These were doc-hidden and not part of the public API; mentioned
+   here for codebases that grepped through the macro emission for
+   patches/forks.
+
+## 0.3.0 — 2026-04-27
+
+### Added
+
+- **`journal` Cargo feature.** Records every observable atom of chart
+  execution — `Started`, `Entered`, `Exited`, `ActionInvoked`
+  (`Entry`/`Exit`/`Handler`), `DuringStarted`, `DuringCancelled`,
+  `TransitionFired`, `EventDelivered`, `EventDropped`, `EmitQueued`,
+  `EmitFailed`, `TimerArmed`, `TimerCancelled`, `TimerFired`,
+  `TerminateRequested`, `Terminated` — into a `Vec<TraceEvent>` on the
+  generated machine. Same chart + same events = byte-identical
+  journal. Public API: `journal()`, `take_journal()`, `clear_journal()`,
+  `CHART_HASH` (a stable FNV-1a fingerprint of the chart's structural
+  definition).
+- **Root state targetable by chart name.** `on(Trig) => MyChart;`
+  resolves to the root state in both `classify_target` and
+  `resolve_transitions`. From any nested state this is an
+  up-transition (root is always on the active path).
+- **113 deterministic-flow tests** (under `--features tokio,journal`)
+  comparing hand-built expected journals byte-for-byte against
+  actual, anchored to spec sections: initial entry, lateral / self /
+  up transitions, default-descent, event bubbling, timer arm /
+  cancel / fire, emit, ordering, durings, step-vs-dispatch
+  equivalence, root-targeting, `current_state()`, termination.
+- **`verification/` workspace member with Creusot proofs.** Verified
+  mirrors of the runtime `EventQueue` and `TimerTable` carry
+  `creusot-std` (Pearlite) contracts that Why3 + alt-ergo + z3
+  discharge mechanically. 14/14 VCs proven. `just verify` is
+  self-installing (mise pulls opam + the pinned nightly + Creusot's
+  canonical `INSTALL`).
+- **`docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md`** — canonical, unambiguous
+  reference for chart behavior. Numbered S-rules supersede the v0.1
+  prose spec and v0.2 design-change-request.
+- **README "How a chart behaves" section** — eight building-block
+  rules that build on each other, with an explicit "what hsmc
+  deliberately does NOT have" table.
+
+### Tooling
+
+- `mise.toml` (root) declares stable Rust + components + embedded
+  targets + cargo subcommands. `verification/mise.toml` declares
+  the pinned `nightly-2025-11-13` + opam + python venv + uv.
+- `set shell` and `set script-interpreter` route every `just` recipe
+  through `mise exec` — no shebangs, no per-recipe wrappers.
+- `just verify` runs `cargo creusot prove --no-cache` so SMT
+  invocations happen on every run; `time` shows ~7s CPU on ~1.2s
+  wall = real parallel work.
+- `just mutants` runs with `--features tokio,journal` so `journal_*`
+  and `det_*` tests execute. **0 missed mutants.**
+- `just miri` excludes `hsmc-macros` (trybuild glob hits Miri's
+  isolation) and `hsmc-verification` (different pinned toolchain).
+  66 tests pass under Miri, 0 UB.
+
+### Backward compatibility
+
+Every v0.1 / v0.2 statechart compiles under v0.3 unchanged.
+
 ## 0.2.0 — 2026-04-22

 ### Fixed — behavior-visible (breaking)
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 # hsmc — Hierarchical State Machines for Rust

-`hsmc` is a declarative, proc-macro-based statechart crate for Rust. It targets
-embedded Rust (embassy) as the primary runtime and supports `tokio` via
-`LocalSet`. Machines are compiled from a `statechart!` block into
-monomorphized code with no dynamic dispatch, no interior mutability, and no
-heap allocations by default.
+`hsmc` lets you write the control logic of a device — a microwave, a
+LoRa radio, a sensor, a UI flow — as a **statechart**: nested states
+with entry/exit actions, transitions, timers, and async work, all
+declared in one block. The proc macro turns it into Rust code with no
+heap allocations, no dynamic dispatch, and no interior mutability.
+
+It targets embedded Rust on `embassy` first, with full tokio support
+on the side. Same chart, both runtimes.
+
+## A first chart — a blinker
+
+```rust
+use hsmc::{statechart, Duration};
+
+pub struct Ctx {
+    pub on:     bool,    // mirrors the LED's current state
+    pub blinks: u32,     // count of times we've turned it on
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Blinker {
+        context: Ctx;
+        default(Off);    // start with the LED off
+
+        state Off {
+            entry: light_off;
+            on(after Duration::from_millis(500)) => On;
+        }
+        state On {
+            entry: light_on;
+            on(after Duration::from_millis(500)) => Off;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl BlinkerActions for BlinkerActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn light_off(&mut self) { self.on = false; }
+    async fn light_on(&mut self)  { self.on = true; self.blinks += 1; }
+}
+```
+
+Two states, two timer-driven transitions, two entry actions. The
+runtime arms each state's timer when you enter it and cancels it
+when you leave; `default(Off)` picks the initial state. Land in
+`Off`, fire `light_off`, arm the 500 ms timer; when it elapses,
+transition to `On`, fire `light_on`, arm the next 500 ms timer.
+Repeat.
+
+That's `hsmc` at its smallest: states, timers, and one entry action
+per state. No event channel, no async I/O, no hierarchy yet.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+Add to `Cargo.toml`:
+
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+hsmc = { version = "0.5", features = ["embassy"] }   # firmware
+# or
+hsmc = { version = "0.5", features = ["tokio"] }     # desktop / tests
+```
+
+Run the Blinker under tokio:
+
+```rust
+#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn main() {
+    let mut m = Blinker::new(Ctx { on: false, blinks: 0 });
+    let _ = m.run().await;
+}
+```
+
+That's the whole driver. A chart runs on a single task — `flavor =
+"current_thread"` keeps tokio out of the multi-threaded scheduler so
+you don't have to think about `Send` bounds on your context, your
+events, or your `during:` futures. Normal Rust, no extra wrapping.
+
+Run it under embassy:
+
+```rust
+#[embassy_executor::task]
+async fn blink_task() {
+    let mut m = Blinker::new(Ctx { on: false, blinks: 0 });
+    let _ = m.run().await;
+}
+```
+
+## A bigger chart — events, payloads, async I/O
+
+The Blinker doesn't talk to anything outside itself. A real device
+does. Here's a radio that receives commands from somewhere
+(button press, RPC call, ISR), continuously listens for packets while
+in the `Receiving` state, and stops when told:

 ```rust
 statechart! {
@@ -25,79 +113,221 @@ statechart! {
 }
 ```

-## What it does
+Three things here that the Blinker didn't have:

- **Harel-style hierarchical states.** Nested states with `entry:`/`exit:`
-  actions, LCA-aware transitions, default-child descent, `terminate`.
- **Event-driven transitions and actions.** Typed payload bindings:
-  `on(PacketRx { rssi: i16 }) => handler;`.
- **Timer triggers.** `on(after Duration::from_secs(5)) => Next;` and
-  `on(every Duration::from_millis(100)) => tick;`.
- **`during:` activities.** Async functions that run while a state is
-  active and produce events. Multiple durings can borrow disjoint fields
-  of the context concurrently via Rust's native split borrow — no
-  `RefCell`, no `Mutex`, no `UnsafeCell` in user code.
- **`m.run().await` is the whole task body.** Races active durings, the
-  external event channel, and timer deadlines. The MCU sleeps between
-  events (embassy's cooperative executor parks all futures).
- **Backward-compatible.** Every v0.1 statechart compiles under v0.2
-  unchanged.
+- **Events.** `events: Ev;` declares the input enum. External code
+  drives the chart with `m.sender().send(Ev::StartRx)`; in-chart
+  actions can `emit(Ev::Whatever)` to queue a follow-up. Handlers
+  pattern-match the variant and bind its payload directly:
+  `on(PacketRx { rssi, snr }) => record_packet;` makes `rssi` and
+  `snr` available to the action.
+- **`during:` activities.** `next_packet(lora, rx_buf)` is an async
+  fn that runs while `Receiving` is active and is dropped when the
+  state exits. It gets `&mut` borrows of just the `lora` and
+  `rx_buf` fields of the context — Rust's split-borrow rules let
+  several `during:`s on the active path run concurrently without a
+  `RefCell` or `Mutex` in sight.
+- **The runtime races them all.** `m.run()` simultaneously polls the
+  `during:`, listens on the event channel, and waits for the next
+  timer deadline; whichever fires first drives the next transition.
+  The MCU sleeps in between.

-## Quickstart
+For nested-state hierarchies, `emit(...)`, `terminate`, and
+`on(every D)`, see the [microwave example](hsmc/examples/microwave.rs).

-Add to `Cargo.toml`:
+## What you get

-```toml
-[dependencies]
-hsmc = { version = "0.2", features = ["embassy"] }  # or ["tokio"]
+- **Nested states with proper transitions.** Exit a deeply nested
+  state and every enclosing state's exits run in the right order, no
+  manual bookkeeping. A transition is just `=> Target;` and the
+  runtime walks the tree (LCA dispatch). Includes `entry:`/`exit:`
+  actions, optional `default(...)` initial transitions, and
+  `terminate`.
+- **Events with typed payloads.** Pattern-match a variant and bind
+  its fields right in the chart: `on(PacketRx { rssi: i16 }) =>
+  record_packet;`. The compiler type-checks the binding against your
+  event enum.
+- **Timers as first-class triggers.** `on(after 5s) => Next;` for a
+  one-shot, `on(every 100ms) => tick;` for periodic. Armed when the
+  declaring state is entered, cancelled when it's exited — no
+  `select!` plumbing in your code.
+- **Async work scoped to a state's lifetime.** A `during:` is an
+  async fn that runs while a state is active and is dropped when you
+  leave. Multiple durings on the active path race concurrently and
+  split-borrow disjoint context fields — no `RefCell`, no `Mutex`,
+  no `unsafe`.
+- **`m.run().await` is the whole task.** It races durings, the event
+  channel, and timer deadlines, and parks the executor between them.
+  No manual loop, no busy-waits, no `Send` headaches under
+  `current_thread` tokio or embassy.
+- **Observability that's one feature flag away.** Add
+  `features = ["trace-log"]` (or `trace-defmt` / `trace-tracing`) and
+  every action, transition, timer, and event becomes a log line in
+  whichever framework your crate already uses — `defmt` for firmware,
+  `log` for desktop, `tracing` for structured spans. With no sink
+  feature, the observation calls compile to nothing.
+- **Deterministic + machine-checked.** The `journal` feature records
+  every action, transition, timer, and event in order; identical
+  input produces a byte-identical journal. The runtime's event
+  queue and timer table are formally verified — Creusot + Why3 +
+  alt-ergo + z3 discharge the proofs (`just verify`).
+- **No heap, no `unsafe`, no dynamic dispatch.** Pure monomorphized
+  code. `no_std` clean by default. Designed to fit on a Cortex-M0+
+  under embassy.
+
+## How a chart behaves — the rules
+
+Eight rules, each building on the previous. Internalize these and
+every edge case below falls out — you don't have to memorize anything
+else.
+
+The full canonical reference lives at
+[`docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md`](docs/002.%20hsmc-semantics-formal.md);
+this section is the on-ramp.
+
+### 1. The active path — you are in every state from root to the innermost active state
+
+At any moment, the machine is in a **path** of states from the root down
+to one innermost active state. If you're in `C` inside `B` inside `A`,
+you're **simultaneously** in `Root`, `A`, `B`, and `C`. The root is
+always active until termination.
+
+The innermost active state is usually a leaf, but it can also be a
+composite that has children but no `default(...)` — see rule 5.
+
+This is the most important rule. Every rule below is downstream of it.
+If a behavior somewhere else seems weird, come back here — it's
+probably the resolution.
+
+### 2. Transitions — exit to LCA, enter to target
+
+A transition moves the active path from the current innermost state to
+some target state. The algorithm is uniform regardless of what
+triggered it (event, timer, or default — see later rules):
+
+1. Find the LCA (lowest common ancestor) of current and target.
+2. Walk **up** from current, exiting each state, until you hit the LCA.
+   The LCA itself is **not** exited.
+3. Walk **down** from the LCA to target, entering each state. The LCA
+   is **not** re-entered.
+
+The LCA always exists because root is always an upper bound. State
+names are globally unique across the chart, so a transition can target
+**any** state — siblings, cousins, ancestors, the root itself
+(`on(Trig) => MyChart;`).
+
+### 3. The up-transition rule — never re-enter what you never left
+
+If your transition target is **already on the active path** (i.e., it's
+an ancestor of the innermost state), then step 3 of the transition
+algorithm does nothing. You exit the states strictly between current
+and target; the target itself is **not** re-entered.
+
+So from leaf `C` inside `B` inside `A`, an `on(Up) => A;` exits `C`
+then `B`. `A`'s entry actions don't fire. `A`'s timers don't restart.
+`A`'s durings keep running.
+
+You cannot enter a state you never left.
+
+### 4. Entry / exit ordering
+
+Direction is set by the path:
+
+- **Entries** fire **outer-to-inner**: when entering down through a
+  path, the outermost state's entries fire first, then the next, then
+  the innermost's. Within a single state, entry actions fire in
+  declaration order. After a state's entries finish, its `during:`
+  activities start.
+- **Exits** fire **inner-to-outer**: innermost first, then parent, then
+  grandparent. Within a single state, exit actions fire in declaration
+  order. Before a state's exits begin, its `during:` activities are
+  cancelled.
+
+So a full transition reads: cancel durings on the way out → run exits
+on the way out → run entries on the way in → start durings on the way
+in.
+
+### 5. `default(...)` — a transition that fires immediately on entry
+
+Any state **may** declare one `default(...)`. It's a transition — same
+LCA-aware algorithm as rule 2 — that fires **immediately** after the
+declaring state's entry actions finish (and its durings start). The
+target may be **any** state in the chart: a child, a sibling, an
+ancestor, anywhere. Defaults chain: if the resulting target also has
+a `default(...)`, it fires too, and so on until a state with no
+default is reached. The compiler rejects cycles in the default graph,
+so the chain is always finite.
+
+The classic case is a composite descending to a leaf:
 ```
-
-Minimal timer-only machine:
-
-```rust
-use hsmc::{statechart, Duration};
-
-pub struct Ctx { pub ticks: u32 }
-
-statechart! {
-    Blinker {
-        context: Ctx;
-        default(On);
-
-        state On {
-            entry:  light_on;
-            on(after Duration::from_millis(500)) => Off;
-        }
-        state Off {
-            on(after Duration::from_millis(500)) => On;
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl BlinkerActions for BlinkerActionContext<'_> {
-    async fn light_on(&mut self) { self.ticks += 1; }
-}
+state Root { default(A); state A { default(B); state B {} } }
 ```
+Entering `Root` fires its default → enter `A` → fires its default →
+enter `B`. The path lands at `B`.

-Drive it under tokio:
-
-```rust
-let mut m = Blinker::new(Ctx { ticks: 0 });
-tokio::task::LocalSet::new().run_until(m.run()).await.unwrap();
+But because `default` is a real transition, you can also redirect:
 ```
-
-Or under embassy:
-
-```rust
-static CHANNEL: Channel<CriticalSectionRawMutex, __NoEvents, 8> = Channel::new();
-// (timer-only machines don't need a channel; omit `events:` and use `Blinker::new(ctx)`.)
-
-#[embassy_executor::task]
-async fn blink_task() {
-    let mut m = Blinker::new(Ctx { ticks: 0 });
-    let _ = m.run().await;
-}
+state Foyer { default(LivingRoom); }   // sibling — entering Foyer
+state LivingRoom {}                     // exits Foyer to LivingRoom
 ```
+Entering `Foyer` fires its default `Foyer → LivingRoom`. LCA = parent of
+both; Foyer's exits run, LivingRoom's entries run. Foyer was entered
+and exited as part of one tick.
+
+If a state has no `default(...)`, nothing happens after its entries —
+the state itself is the resting innermost active state until something
+explicitly transitions away. This is the "microwave" pattern: a
+`Standby` state with sub-modes that the chart enters only on demand.
+
+A consequence of rule 3 (up-transitions): an ancestor's `default(...)`
+only fires when that ancestor is freshly entered. Transitioning *up*
+to an ancestor does not re-enter it, so its default does not re-fire.
+
+### 6. Event bubbling — innermost first, first handler wins
+
+An event arrives. Search starts at the **innermost** active state. If
+that state has a handler, it runs and the event is consumed (the
+handler may execute a transition per rule 2). If not, walk up to the
+parent and check there. Repeat. If you reach the root with no handler,
+the event is silently discarded.
+
+Three corollaries:
+
+- Innermost shadows ancestor for the same trigger.
+- Multiple handlers in one state on the same trigger fire in
+  declaration order; the transition (if any) fires last.
+- **Timers don't bubble.** A timer belongs to the state that declared
+  it; it fires only in that state's scope.
+
+### 7. Timers — armed by state lifecycle
+
+A timer (`on(after D) => …` or `on(every D) => …`) is **armed** when
+its declaring state is entered, **cancelled** when that state is
+exited. Descending into a child is _not_ an exit, so the parent's
+timers keep running while you're in a child. Re-entering a state
+restarts its timers from zero.
+
+### 8. emit / during / termination — all built on the rules above
+
+- **`emit(ev)`** from inside an action queues an event. The runtime
+  finishes the current event's handling — including every entry/exit
+  in the resulting transition — **before** dequeuing the new event.
+  No re-entrant dispatch.
+- **`during:`** is an async future tied to its state's lifecycle. It
+  starts after the state's entry actions finish and is cancelled (the
+  future is dropped) before the state's exit actions begin. Multiple
+  durings on the active path race; each borrows disjoint `&mut` fields
+  of the context (Rust's split-borrow checker enforces this at compile
+  time).
+- **Termination** is just rules 2 + 4 with target = "outside the
+  chart": exit the entire active path inner-to-outer, then stop.
+  Pending events drop. In-flight durings drop at their next `.await`.
+
+That's the whole behavior model. The
+[full semantics doc](docs/002.%20hsmc-semantics-formal.md)
+spells out edge cases (queue overflow surfacing, same-tick timer ties,
+self-transitions on composites) but the rules above cover the
+overwhelming majority of charts.

 ## `during:` — async activities scoped to a state

@@ -185,140 +415,214 @@ into a single during that uses `select` internally.

 For `statechart! Foo { ... }` the macro emits:

-| Item                            | What it is                                                           |
-|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `FooState`                      | Enum of every user-declared state.                                   |
-| `FooActions`                    | Trait with one async fn per unique action name. User implements.     |
-| `FooActionContext<'a>`          | Wrapper passed to actions. `Deref`s to the root context. `emit()`.  |
-| `FooCtx<'a>`                    | Type alias for `FooActionContext<'a>`.                               |
-| `Foo<const QN: usize = 8>`      | The machine itself.                                                  |
-| `FooSender`                     | Cloneable handle for cross-task / ISR event injection.               |
-| `Foo::<8>::STATE_CHART`         | `&'static str` ASCII tree of the hierarchy (useful for `defmt`/docs).|
+| Item                       | What it is                                                            |
+| -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `FooState`                 | Enum of every user-declared state.                                    |
+| `FooActions`               | Trait with one async fn per unique action name. User implements.      |
+| `FooActionContext<'a>`     | Wrapper passed to actions. `Deref`s to the root context. `emit()`.    |
+| `FooCtx<'a>`               | Type alias for `FooActionContext<'a>`.                                |
+| `Foo<const QN: usize = 8>` | The machine itself.                                                   |
+| `FooSender`                | Cloneable handle for cross-task / ISR event injection.                |
+| `Foo::<8>::STATE_CHART`    | `&'static str` ASCII tree of the hierarchy (useful for `defmt`/docs). |

 ### Machine methods

-| Method                              | Notes                                                            |
-|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `new(ctx)` / `new(ctx, channel)`    | Construct. Under embassy, pass an `&'static Channel`.            |
-| `with_queue_capacity::<N>(ctx,...)` | Custom event-queue capacity.                                     |
-| `async fn run()`                    | Drive the machine to completion (async features).                |
-| `async fn dispatch(ev)`             | Push event + drain to quiescence. Same task injection.           |
-| `fn step(elapsed) -> Option<Duration>` | One unit of work (test/polling driver).                       |
-| `fn send(ev)`                       | Raw push, non-draining. For tests.                               |
-| `sender() -> Sender`                | Clone handle for other tasks / ISRs.                             |
-| `current_state()`                   | The active leaf state.                                           |
-| `is_terminated()`                   | True after `terminate` event.                                    |
-| `has_pending_events()`              | Queue non-empty.                                                 |
-| `context()` / `context_mut()`       | Borrow the root context.                                         |
-| `into_context(self)`                | Consume, return ctx.                                             |
-| `STATE_CHART`                       | Const ASCII diagram.                                             |
+| Method                                 | Notes                                                  |
+| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `new(ctx)` / `new(ctx, channel)`       | Construct. Under embassy, pass an `&'static Channel`.  |
+| `with_queue_capacity::<N>(ctx,...)`    | Custom event-queue capacity.                           |
+| `async fn run()`                       | Drive the machine to completion (async features).      |
+| `async fn dispatch(ev)`                | Push event + drain to quiescence. Same task injection. |
+| `fn step(elapsed) -> Option<Duration>` | One unit of work (test/polling driver).                |
+| `fn send(ev)`                          | Raw push, non-draining. For tests.                     |
+| `sender() -> Sender`                   | Clone handle for other tasks / ISRs.                   |
+| `current_state()`                      | The innermost active state.                            |
+| `is_terminated()`                      | True after `terminate` event.                          |
+| `has_pending_events()`                 | Queue non-empty.                                       |
+| `context()` / `context_mut()`          | Borrow the root context.                               |
+| `into_context(self)`                   | Consume, return ctx.                                   |
+| `STATE_CHART`                          | Const ASCII diagram.                                   |

 ## Feature flags

-| Feature   | Effect                                                                  |
-|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| (default) | `no_std`, no async runtime. Drive via `step(Duration)` + `send(ev)`.    |
-| `tokio`   | Async actions + `run()`. Targets single-thread via `LocalSet`.          |
-| `embassy` | Async actions + `run()`. Targets embassy's cooperative executor. `no_std`.|
+| Feature         | Effect                                                                     |
+| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| (default)       | `no_std`, no async runtime. Drive via `step(Duration)` + `send(ev)`.       |
+| `tokio`         | Async actions + `run()`. Single-thread (`flavor = "current_thread"`).      |
+| `embassy`       | Async actions + `run()`. Embassy's cooperative executor. `no_std`.         |
+| `journal`       | In-memory `Vec<TraceEvent>` of every observation (replay, byte-deterministic). |
+| `trace-defmt`   | Auto-emit `defmt::*` log lines for every observation.                      |
+| `trace-log`     | Auto-emit `log::*` log lines for every observation.                        |
+| `trace-tracing` | Auto-emit `tracing::*` events with structured fields.                      |

 `embassy` and `tokio` are mutually exclusive — enabling both is a compile
-error.
+error. The `trace-*` and `journal` features are independently composable
+with each other and with the runtime feature; with no sink feature on,
+the trace points compile to nothing (zero overhead).

-## Migration from v0.1
+## Observability — one journal, multiple outputs

-v0.1 statecharts continue to compile. New features are purely additive:
+On hsmc's side, turning on observability is a single Cargo feature.
+On your side, it's whatever you'd already do to wire `defmt` / `log`
+/ `tracing` to an output — hsmc does not initialize a logger
+(libraries shouldn't; `main` owns that decision).

-### 1. `events:` is now optional
+If your firmware crate already uses `defmt`, add the feature and
+you're done — chart events interleave with the rest of your defmt
+output:

-Previously required; now omit for pure timer-only machines:
+```toml
+hsmc = { version = "0.5", features = ["embassy", "trace-defmt"] }
+```
+
+For a desktop crate, pick `log` or `tracing` and do that framework's
+normal one-line init in `main`:
+
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+hsmc               = { version = "0.5", features = ["tokio", "trace-tracing"] }
+tracing-subscriber = "0.3"
+```

 ```rust
-statechart! {
-    Blinker {
-        context: Ctx;
-        default(On);
-        state On  { on(after Duration::from_millis(500)) => Off; }
-        state Off { on(after Duration::from_millis(500)) => On; }
-    }
+#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn main() {
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
+    let mut m = Blinker::new(Ctx { on: false, blinks: 0 });
+    let _ = m.run().await;
 }
 ```

-### 2. `dispatch(ev).await` replaces the push+drain helper
+Swap `trace-tracing` for `trace-log` and `tracing_subscriber::fmt::init()`
+for `env_logger::init()` if you prefer the `log` ecosystem; the rest is
+identical. With no sink feature enabled at all, the observation calls
+compile to `()` — the runtime is byte-identical to a chart with no
+instrumentation.

-Before (v0.1, in the dogfood firmware):
+| Feature         | Sink                                                     |
+| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `journal`       | In-memory `Vec<TraceEvent>` (replay, byte-deterministic) |
+| `trace-defmt`   | `defmt::*` log lines                                     |
+| `trace-log`     | `log::*` log lines                                       |
+| `trace-tracing` | `tracing::*` events with structured fields               |

-```rust
-async fn push<M>(m: &mut M, ev: E) {
-    m.send(ev).expect("queue full");
-    while m.has_pending_events() {
-        m.step(Duration::ZERO).await;
-    }
-}
-push(&mut machine, ev).await;
+Multiple sinks can be enabled simultaneously; the journal IS the
+observation stream and trace backends are textual renderings of it,
+so they cannot diverge.
+
+The textual format is logfmt-style — greppable and regex-parseable:
+
+```
+[statechart:Microwave] started chart_hash=0xa1b2c3d4
+[statechart:Microwave] entering state=Idle
+[statechart:Microwave] action state=Idle action=clear_display kind=entry
+[statechart:Microwave] timer-armed state=Idle timer=t0 duration_ns=5000000000
+[statechart:Microwave] during-started state=Idle during=poll_sensor
+[statechart:Microwave] entered state=Idle
+[statechart:Microwave] event-received name=StartButton
+[statechart:Microwave] event-delivered name=StartButton handler=Idle
+[statechart:Microwave] transition-begin from=Idle to=Heating reason=event:StartButton
+[statechart:Microwave] exiting state=Idle
+[statechart:Microwave] timer-cancelled state=Idle timer=t0
+[statechart:Microwave] during-cancelled state=Idle during=poll_sensor
+[statechart:Microwave] action state=Idle action=stop_motor kind=exit
+[statechart:Microwave] exited state=Idle
+[statechart:Microwave] entering state=Heating
+[statechart:Microwave] entered state=Heating
+[statechart:Microwave] transition-complete from=Idle to=Heating
 ```

-After (v0.2):
+### The verb vocabulary

-```rust
-machine.dispatch(ev).await.unwrap();
-```
+Twenty verbs cover every `TraceEvent` variant. Begin/end markers
+bracket entry, exit, and transition phases so the actions, timers,
+and durings running inside each phase are visible.

-### 3. `during:` replaces the imperative I/O outer loop
+| Verb | Fires when |
+|---|---|
+| `started` | First step of a chart's life — carries `chart_hash` |
+| `entering` / `entered` | Begin / end of a state's entry phase |
+| `exiting` / `exited` | Begin / end of a state's exit phase |
+| `action` | An action fn was called — `kind=entry\|exit\|handler` |
+| `during-started` / `during-cancelled` | A `during:` activity started / was dropped |
+| `transition-begin` / `transition-complete` | Begin / end of a transition's exit-then-enter sequence |
+| `event-received` | An event was popped from the queue |
+| `event-delivered` | A handler ran for the event |
+| `event-dropped` | The event reached root with no handler |
+| `emit-queued` / `emit-failed` | `emit()` from inside an action — queued or rejected |
+| `timer-armed` / `timer-cancelled` / `timer-fired` | Timer lifecycle |
+| `terminate-requested` | `terminate(...)` event matched, exit chain about to run |
+| `terminated` | Chart finished (always last) |

-Before — a radio task with per-state match and select:
-
-```rust
-loop {
-    match machine.current_state() {
-        RadioState::Receiving => {
-            match select(rx_once(&mut lora, &cfg, &mut rx_buf),
-                         commands.receive()).await {
-                Either::First(r) => handle_rx(r, &mut machine, ...).await,
-                Either::Second(c) => handle_cmd(c, &mut machine, ...).await,
-            }
-        }
-        _ => { ... }
-    }
-}
-```
-
-After — the statechart owns the loop:
-
-```rust
-state Receiving {
-    during: next_packet(lora, rx_buf);
-    on(PacketRx { rssi: i16, snr: i16 }) => record_packet;
-    on(StopRx) => Idle;
-}
-
-#[embassy_executor::task]
-async fn radio_task(lora: LoRaDriver, ch: &'static RadioChan) {
-    let mut m = Radio::new(RadioCtx { lora, ... }, ch);
-    m.run().await.unwrap();
-}
-```
+The `reason=` field on `transition-begin` records what triggered the
+transition: an event (`event:VariantName`), a timer
+(`timer:State/timer-id`), or `internal`. Real-life captures can be
+diffed against expected behavior the same way the journal can.

 ## Examples

-| Example            | Purpose                                                             |
-|--------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `microwave`        | Full-feature pure-event machine: entry/exit, timers, emit, terminate.|
-| `microwave_tui`    | TUI variant of microwave.                                            |
-| `during_radio`     | `during:` activities simulating a radio task with RX + TX loops.     |
-| `embassy_full`     | Embassy feature demonstration.                                       |
+| Example         | Purpose                                                               |
+| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `microwave`    | Full-feature pure-event machine: entry/exit, timers, emit, terminate. |
+| `during_radio` | `during:` activities simulating a radio task with RX + TX loops.      |
+| `embassy_full` | Embassy feature demonstration.                                        |

 Run `cargo run --example during_radio --features tokio` to see the
 `during:` pattern end-to-end.

+## Verification
+
+`hsmc` ships with a Creusot deductive-verification crate
+(`verification/`) that proves the runtime's `EventQueue` and
+`TimerTable` correct against Pearlite specs. Why3 + alt-ergo + z3
+discharge every VC mechanically. Run:
+
+```bash
+just verify
+```
+
+The recipe is self-installing (mise pulls in the pinned nightly,
+opam, Why3, the SMT solvers, and `cargo-creusot`) so a fresh clone
+gets to a green proof in one command. See
+[`verification/INVARIANTS.md`](verification/INVARIANTS.md) for the
+spec-rule → proof mapping.
+
+Beyond Creusot, the suite includes:
+
+- **Integration tests** — full chart behavior and per-feature
+  determinism, with byte-equal expected-vs-actual journals on the
+  `det_*` deterministic-flow tests, plus trace-format regression
+  tests pinning every observation verb's textual rendering. Run
+  with `cargo test --workspace --features tokio,journal`.
+- **`cargo mutants`** — full coverage under `cargo mutants --features
+  tokio,journal,trace-log`.
+- **Miri** — clean, no UB on the runtime crates.
+
+## What `hsmc` deliberately does NOT have
+
+The bet is on **simple, consistent semantics**. These features are
+omitted on purpose; for each, what to do instead:
+
+| Missing feature                 | Use instead                                                                                           |
+| ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Guard conditions on transitions | Split source into two states, or have an action `emit()` a follow-up event for the chart to branch on |
+| Orthogonal / parallel regions   | Two charts as two tasks connected by channels, or multiple `during:` activities in one state          |
+| History states                  | Store last child explicitly in your context; transition to it on re-entry                             |
+| Deferred events                 | Handle where they arrive (drop/log if not relevant), or have producer check state                     |
+| Internal transitions            | `action(Trig) => fn;` (no transition) — exactly that                                                  |
+| State-local context             | All state in the root context; durings borrow disjoint fields                                         |
+| Event priorities beyond FIFO    | Higher-priority events on a separate channel into a separate, faster machine                          |
+| Runtime statechart modification | Design every variation up front as states                                                             |
+| Multi-threaded tokio            | `flavor = "current_thread"` is the supported path — one task per chart                                |
+
+See [`docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md`](docs/002.%20hsmc-semantics-formal.md)
+§ "What `hsmc` deliberately does NOT have" for the rationale on each.
+
 ## Status

- v0.1 spec: fully implemented.
- v0.2 additions: `during:`, optional `events:`, `dispatch()`, `STATE_CHART`,
-  drain-on-send.
- Out of scope: state-scoped context types (hierarchy), guard conditions,
-  orthogonal/parallel regions, history states, runtime statechart
-  modification, multi-threaded tokio.
+Pre-1.0. Per-release breaking changes are documented in
+[`CHANGELOG.md`](CHANGELOG.md).

 ## License

-Dual-licensed MIT OR Apache-2.0.
+MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 Stephen Waits &lt;steve@waits.net&gt;. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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+# `hsmc` — How Your Chart Behaves
+
+**Status:** DRAFT. This is the canonical answer to "what will my statechart
+actually do?" When this document and another disagree, this one wins.
+
+**Audience:** anyone writing a chart. The goal is that after reading this,
+you can predict every action call, transition, and timer fire just by
+looking at your `statechart!` block.
+
+---
+
+## Why `hsmc` is small (read this first)
+
+`hsmc` ships the minimum set of useful statechart primitives. No guard
+conditions, no orthogonal/parallel regions, no history states, no deferred
+events, no internal transitions, no state-local context.
+
+The bet is on **simple, consistent semantics**. The small surface area
+makes hsmc easy to use, easy to reason about, and easy to predict. Once
+you internalize a small set of rules, every edge case below just follows
+from them — you don't have to memorize anything new.
+
+---
+
+## What a chart contains
+
+Each primitive, in roughly the order a developer first meets them.
+
+- **State** — a named node. The root state (the machine itself) is just a
+  state. Every state is just a state.
+- **Nested state** — a state inside another state. Same thing as a state.
+- **Entry action** — a function called once when a state is entered.
+- **Exit action** — a function called once when a state is exited.
+- **Transition** — exits one state and enters another, anywhere else in the
+  chart. Walks from the current state up to the lowest common ancestor
+  (LCA) of source and target, calling exits along the way, then walks down
+  to the target, calling entries along the way.
+- **Action (without transition)** — a function call attached to a trigger.
+  No state change. That's it.
+- **Default transition** — any state **may** declare one `default(...)`.
+  It's a transition (same LCA-aware algorithm as rule 4 / event-driven
+  transitions) that fires immediately after the declaring state's entry
+  actions finish and its durings start. The target may be any state in
+  the chart — a child (the classic descent case), a sibling, an
+  ancestor, anywhere. Defaults chain (each link is itself a transition)
+  until they reach a state with no default. The compiler rejects cycles
+  in the default graph at compile time, so every chain terminates. When
+  a state has no `default`, nothing else happens after entry — the
+  state itself is the resting innermost active state.
+- **Trigger: event vs. duration** — an event is a variant of your event
+  enum. A duration is a timer (`after Duration` fires once, `every
+  Duration` fires repeatedly). Triggers attach to transitions and to
+  actions. Timers and events are dispatched slightly differently — see
+  the bubbling rules below.
+- **`emit()`** — pushes an event onto the machine's queue from inside an
+  action. The event is dispatched after the current event has fully
+  finished processing. No re-entrant dispatch.
+- **`during:` activity** — a cancellable async function. Started **after**
+  the entry actions of its owning state finish; cancelled **before** the
+  exit actions of that state begin to run when the state is left.
+- **`terminate`** — names an event that, when received, exits the entire
+  active path bottom-up and shuts the machine down. Only valid at root.
+
+---
+
+## Where the machine "is"
+
+At any moment, the machine is in a path of states from root down to one
+innermost state. If you're in `C` inside `B` inside `A` (which is inside
+the root), then you are simultaneously in **all** of `Root`, `A`, `B`, and
+`C`. The root is always active until the machine terminates.
+
+This is the most important rule in this document. Every other rule below
+is downstream of it. **You are simultaneously in every state on the path
+from the root to the innermost active state.** If a rule somewhere else
+seems weird, come back to this one — it's probably the resolution.
+
+`current_state()` returns the innermost active state, which is usually a
+leaf, but can be a composite (a state with children) if you got there via
+an up-transition (see below) and haven't moved since, or if you
+transitioned into a composite that has no `default` declared.
+
+---
+
+## How events are handled
+
+Event comes in. Start at the innermost active state. Does it have a
+handler for this event? If yes, that handler runs and the event is
+consumed — no further handling.
+
+If no, walk up to the parent. Repeat. If you walk all the way to the root
+and still nothing handles it, the event is silently discarded.
+
+That's all. Three other things follow from this rule:
+
+- A handler on the innermost active state shadows a handler on any
+  ancestor for the same event. The innermost wins because the search
+  starts there.
+- If a single state has multiple handlers (actions and/or a transition)
+  for the same trigger, the actions fire in declaration order, then the
+  transition fires last.
+- Timer triggers do **not** bubble. A timer belongs to the state that
+  declared it; it fires only in that state's scope. Events bubble; timers
+  don't.
+
+---
+
+## How transitions work
+
+The current state (for transition purposes) is the innermost active state.
+The target can be **any** state in the entire chart — there's a global
+namespace, so state names must be unique across the chart.
+
+The root state is targetable too: it's named after the chart itself. So
+in `statechart! { Foo { ... } }`, an `on(Trig) => Foo;` is a valid
+transition whose target is the root. From any state inside the chart this
+is an up-transition (root is always on the active path) — exiting only
+the states strictly between current and root, with no entry actions and
+no default firing on root (the root wasn't freshly entered). Use this
+when you want to wind everything back up to the chart's own scope.
+
+To run a transition:
+
+1. Find the LCA of current and target. (They might share a parent; they
+   might both be on the same root-to-leaf path; the LCA is always defined
+   because the root is always an upper bound.)
+2. Walk **up** from the current state, exiting each state on the way
+   (cancel durings → run exit actions) until you hit the LCA. The LCA
+   itself is **not** exited.
+3. Walk **down** from the LCA to the target, entering each state on the
+   way (run entry actions → start durings). The LCA is **not** re-entered.
+4. If the target declares a `default(...)`, fire it as a recursive
+   transition (using the same algorithm). Defaults chain until a state
+   with no default is reached. Compile-time cycle check guarantees
+   termination.
+
+The three flavors below are just three relationships between current and
+target. The same algorithm covers all of them — they only look different
+in which steps fire.
+
+### Transitioning to a sibling (or anywhere not on your active path)
+
+The standard case. LCA is somewhere strictly above both current and
+target. Exit up to LCA, enter down to target, then if the target
+declares a `default(...)`, fire it as a chained transition. Already
+covered above.
+
+### Transitioning to yourself
+
+Self-transition: target equals the innermost active state. The standard
+transition algorithm above gives the clean answer: the LCA of the target
+with itself is its parent, so we exit only the target and re-enter only
+the target. **Nothing above the target is exited or re-entered.**
+
+Concrete example. Active path is `Root → SomeState → SomeOtherState`. A
+transition fires whose target is `SomeOtherState`.
+
+- Exit `SomeOtherState` (cancel durings, run exits).
+- Re-enter `SomeOtherState` (run entries, start durings).
+- `SomeState` is **never** exited, **never** re-entered, **never**
+  touched. Its timers and durings keep running.
+
+Timers declared on the target restart, because the target itself was
+exited and re-entered.
+
+If the target happens to be a composite (it has children, but no child is
+active right now because you got there via an up-transition or because
+the composite has no `default`), the same rule still applies on re-entry:
+exit the composite, re-enter it, then descend through its default chain
+if it declares one. A composite without `default` is exited, re-entered,
+and that's it — no further descent. Self-transitions don't add a new
+rule — they're just the case where source and target are the same state.
+
+Personally I don't find self-transitions all that valuable, but people
+talk about them all the time, so they're supported.
+
+### Transitioning to one of your parents (the important one)
+
+The case to internalize. When you transition to an ancestor of the
+current state, you exit the current state and any states between, but you
+do **not** re-enter the ancestor. You were already there.
+
+- The ancestor's entry actions don't fire.
+- The ancestor's `default` is not followed.
+- The ancestor's timers don't restart.
+- The ancestor's durings keep running.
+
+You cannot enter a state you never left. Spelling it out: starting from
+leaf `C` inside `B` inside `A`, a transition to `A` exits `C` then `B`,
+and now `A` is the innermost active state with no active child.
+
+---
+
+## Timers
+
+- A timer starts when its state is entered.
+- A timer is cancelled when its state is exited.
+- Descending into a child state is **not** an exit — the parent's timers
+  keep running.
+- Timers don't bubble. Only the state that declared the timer handles its
+  expiry.
+- Re-entering a state restarts its timers.
+
+If two timers happen to expire on the same `step()` tick — rare under
+real wall-clock timing, but possible at `step()` granularity since
+`step()` decrements all timers at once — the runtime today fires the
+*oldest* (longest-armed) timer first, because it sits earlier in the
+active-timers array. **Don't depend on this.** It's a likely outcome of
+the current implementation, not a contract. If two timers must fire in a
+specific order, model them as one timer plus an explicit `emit()` chain.
+
+---
+
+## Entry and exit ordering
+
+Putting it all together:
+
+- **Entry** runs **outer-to-inner**: when entering a path of states, the
+  outermost state's entry actions fire first, then its child's, and so on
+  down to the innermost. Within a single state, entry actions fire in
+  declaration order. After entry actions of a state finish, that state's
+  durings start. Then, if the state declares a `default(...)`, the
+  default fires as a transition (which may exit the state we just
+  entered if the target lies elsewhere in the chart) and the chain
+  continues from there. A state without `default` is the end of the
+  path — control stops there.
+- **Exit** runs **inner-to-outer**: when leaving a path of states, the
+  innermost state exits first, then its parent, and so on up. Within a
+  single state, exit actions fire in declaration order. Before exit
+  actions of a state begin, that state's durings are cancelled.
+
+So a full transition reads top-to-bottom as: cancel durings on the way
+out → run exits on the way out → run entries on the way in → start
+durings on the way in.
+
+Observers (the journal and any active trace backend) see this as
+phase **begin** and **end** markers bracketing the work: an
+`EnterBegan { state }` fires before any of that state's entry actions /
+timer arms / during starts, and an `Entered { state }` fires after
+all of them finish. The same for `ExitBegan` / `Exited`, and
+`TransitionFired` / `TransitionComplete` bracket the whole exit-then-
+enter sequence of a transition. This is purely a visibility change —
+the operational rules above are unchanged — but it lets you tell from
+a captured trace which atoms ran inside which phase.
+
+---
+
+## `emit()` — sending events from inside an action
+
+An action can call `self.emit(Ev)`. The event goes on the machine's
+internal queue. It is **not** processed immediately. The runtime finishes
+handling whatever event it's currently handling — including every entry
+and exit action of any transition — and only then dequeues `Ev` and
+dispatches it normally. No re-entrant dispatch.
+
+Once the current handler finishes, the runtime drains anything queued
+during handling before sleeping or returning to the outer loop.
+
+If the queue is full, `emit()` returns `Err(QueueFull)`. Subsequent
+actions in the same chain still run; they may attempt further emits, but
+those also fail. At end of tick, the runtime surfaces `Err(QueueFull)`
+out of `step()` / `run()` so the top-level driver can react. A queue
+overflow is a hard signal that something is wrong with sizing or with the
+producer; it is never silently swallowed.
+
+---
+
+## `during:` activities — async work scoped to a state
+
+A `during:` is an async function that runs while its owning state is on
+the active path. It is started after the entry actions of that state
+finish, and it is cancelled before the exit actions of that state begin.
+
+A during's future may be **dropped at any `.await` point** — when an
+external event arrives, when a timer fires, when another during on the
+same active path completes, or when a transition leaves the during's
+state. This is the Rust async concept of *cancellation*: the future is
+not given a chance to "finish gracefully" — it's dropped, and dropping
+runs whatever destructors `Drop` impls have, but no further `.await`s
+will ever resume.
+
+The practical rule: write durings as cancel-safe state machines. Every
+`.await` must be a clean resume point where dropping the future leaves
+the borrowed fields in a re-enterable state. Don't straddle awaits with
+mutations that need to commit atomically. If you need to learn what
+cancel-safety looks like in practice, the README has the worked examples,
+and the tokio docs on cancellation are the standard reference.
+
+Multiple `during:` declarations on the same active path race against each
+other (and against incoming events and timers). Each during borrows
+disjoint `&mut` slices of the context — Rust's split-borrow checker
+rejects overlapping borrows at compile time, so concurrent durings can
+never step on each other's state.
+
+---
+
+## Termination
+
+When a `terminate` event is received, the machine exits the entire active
+path bottom-up: innermost first, then each parent, up to and including
+the root. After that, the machine is done — `is_terminated()` is true,
+`run()` returns `Ok(())`, further `step()` calls are no-ops returning
+`None`. Any pending events in the queue are dropped. Any in-flight
+durings are dropped at their next `.await`.
+
+Once you adopt the simple, consistent semantics above, this just falls
+out — termination is "exit everything you're currently in, in the usual
+exit order, then stop."
+
+---
+
+## `step()` vs `run()` vs `dispatch()`
+
+Three ways to drive the machine. Same underlying behavior; the differences
+are about who decides when to advance time.
+
+- **`step(elapsed)`** — synchronous. You call it; it does at most one unit
+  of work (one timer expiry, or one queued event). For bare-metal /
+  testing.
+- **`dispatch(ev).await`** — async helper. Pushes `ev` onto the queue, then
+  drains the queue (and any timers that come due) until quiescent. For
+  injecting events from the same task that owns the machine.
+- **`run().await`** — async. Owns the task body. Races durings against the
+  external event channel and timers, and processes whatever wins, in a
+  loop, until termination.
+
+For the same external event sequence and the same elapsed-time inputs,
+the three produce the same observable trace.
+
+---
+
+## What you cannot do, and why
+
+The "minimum useful primitives" bet, made concrete. For each missing
+feature: why we don't have it, and what to do instead. _(First-pass
+drafts. Edit freely.)_
+
+- **Guard conditions on transitions** — _Why not:_ guards bury control
+  flow inside an action body, so the chart's structure stops telling you
+  the whole story. _What to do instead:_ split the source into two
+  states whose entry conditions differ, or have an action emit a
+  follow-up event (`Ok` vs. `Bad`) and let the chart branch on that.
+- **Orthogonal / parallel regions** — _Why not:_ true parallelism
+  multiplies state-space and forces a join-semantics for shared events.
+  _What to do instead:_ run two charts as two tasks and connect them with
+  channels, or use multiple `during:` activities for concurrent async
+  work within a single state.
+- **History states (shallow or deep)** — _Why not:_ history is hidden
+  mutable state — re-entering a parent goes "somewhere" based on
+  invisible bookkeeping. _What to do instead:_ store the last child
+  explicitly in your context, then transition directly to it on
+  re-entry.
+- **Deferred events** — _Why not:_ deferring means an event you sent now
+  can resurface much later, with non-obvious ordering. _What to do
+  instead:_ handle the event where it arrives (even if just to log and
+  drop it), or have the producer check state before sending.
+- **Internal transitions** — _Why not:_ "transition that doesn't exit or
+  enter" is a separate semantics layer just to skip exit/entry. _What to
+  do instead:_ declare an `action(Trig) => fn` (no transition). That's
+  exactly what an internal transition is.
+- **State-local context** — _Why not:_ hierarchical context types make
+  borrowing painful and tie the chart's structure into your data model.
+  _What to do instead:_ put all your state in the root context;
+  `during:` activities can borrow disjoint fields of it.
+- **Event priorities beyond FIFO** — _Why not:_ priorities allow
+  starvation and make ordering implementation-dependent. FIFO is
+  predictable. _What to do instead:_ if some events are higher-priority,
+  deliver them on a separate channel into a separate, faster-cadence
+  machine.
+- **Runtime statechart modification** — _Why not:_ the chart is the
+  static structural definition. Mutating it at runtime defeats
+  compile-time validation and makes the trace meaningless. _What to do
+  instead:_ design every variation up front as states or sub-states.
+- **Inter-machine communication primitives** — _Why not:_ a built-in
+  messaging layer would have to pick winners between embassy / tokio /
+  bare-metal channels. _What to do instead:_ use whatever channel
+  primitive your runtime gives you (embassy `Channel`, tokio `mpsc`),
+  and feed events into `dispatch()` or `Sender::send()`.
+
+---
+
+## Quick reference
+
+| Scenario                              | What fires                                                                                                                                                             |
+| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Initial machine start                 | Root entries → if root declares a `default(...)`, fire it as a transition; chain continues until a state with no default. Durings start at each entered state.        |
+| Transition to sibling                 | Exit current up to LCA (cancel durings, run exits) → enter from LCA down to target (run entries, start durings) → if target declares a `default`, fire it; chain continues. |
+| Transition to self                    | Exit innermost (cancel durings, run exits), re-enter innermost (run entries, start durings). Timers restart. If the re-entered state declares a `default`, fire it. |
+| Transition to ancestor                | Exit current up to (but not including) the ancestor. No entry actions. The ancestor's `default` is **not** fired (it wasn't freshly entered). Durings and timers continue. |
+| Transition into a state with `default(<descendant>)` | After the target's entries fire, the default fires as a child-direction transition (no exits at this step). The chain continues from the new innermost. |
+| Transition into a state with `default(<sibling/ancestor>)` | After the target's entries fire, the default fires as a transition that exits the just-entered target and lands elsewhere. The chain continues. |
+| State has no `default(...)`           | After its entries fire, control stops there. The state itself is the innermost active state until something explicitly transitions away.                                |
+| Timer fires                           | The declaring state's handler runs (timers don't bubble).                                                                                                              |
+| Event with no handler                 | Silently discarded.                                                                                                                                                    |
+| Event handled at innermost            | Innermost state's handler runs (actions in declaration order, then transition if any).                                                                                 |
+| Event handled at ancestor             | Search bubbles up; first ancestor with a handler runs it. Innermost is still innermost; transition (if any) starts from innermost.                                     |
+| Action calls `emit()`                 | Event queued. Dispatched after the current event's handling fully completes.                                                                                           |
+| Queue is full when `emit()` is called | `emit()` returns `Err(QueueFull)`. Remaining actions in the same chain still run; further emits in this tick also fail. `step()` / `run()` surfaces `QueueFull` at end of tick. |
+| `terminate` event delivered           | Exit innermost → … → exit root. Pending events dropped. Durings dropped. `run()` returns `Ok(())`.                                                                     |
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+# 003. Latency analysis: hsmc hot-path cost surface
+
+This is an audit of where wall-clock and code-size cost lives in `hsmc`'s
+event-dispatch path. It is intended to inform mitigation work for embedded
+and embassy-rs use cases where every microsecond of dispatch overhead
+couples directly into hardware-control loop tightness and jitter.
+
+The audit is **analytical**, with three categories of evidence:
+
+1. **Source reading** of `hsmc/src/lib.rs`, `hsmc/src/journal.rs`, and
+   `hsmc-macros/src/codegen.rs`.
+2. **`cargo expand --release`** of two test programs (one with no
+   observation features, one with `tokio + journal`) to confirm what the
+   macro really emits.
+3. **`cargo rustc --release --emit=asm`** spot-checks of the compiled
+   output to confirm LLVM-level claims (jump-table lowering, dead-code
+   elimination of unused name tables, async-closure code size).
+
+The audit deliberately stops short of recommending mitigations. A ranked
+menu of candidates is included at the end so a follow-up planning round
+can pick from it; nothing here is a commitment.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Cost surface, ranked by per-event impact
+
+| #  | Source                                        | Class                       | Per-event cost (estimate)                                                                                  | Location                              |
+|----|-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
+| #  | Source                                        | Class                       | Per-event cost (estimate)                                                                                  | Status                                |
+|----|-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
+| 1  | `dispatch().await` loop                       | Discretionary, async-only   | 2 awaits cold-start / 1 await steady-state per dispatched event. ~free if action body never `Pending`-yields. | open |
+| 2  | LCA + transition path build                   | Discretionary               | ~~O(H²) `heapless::Vec<u16,32>::contains` scan~~ → ~~O(H) depth-walk~~ → **O(1) `__PATH_RANGE` lookup**. Up/self/lateral folded into the precomputed table; `lca()`, `is_up_transition()`, and the per-call `heapless::Vec<u16,16>` ancestry build are all gone. | resolved |
+| 3  | Parent walk for handler search                | Discretionary               | ~~O(H) `__PARENT` walk + per-hop `__handler_lookup` call~~ → **O(1) `__DISPATCH[(state, event)]` lookup**. Every (state, event) pair statically resolved at codegen. `__handler_lookup` retained for timer dispatch only. | resolved |
+| 4  | `__handler_lookup` nested match (timer path)  | Intrinsic                   | Still used for timer dispatch. LLVM lowers to jump tables (verified `LJTI*`). ~1 indirect jump per call. | open (already at floor)               |
+| 5  | `run_action` dispatch                         | Intrinsic                   | One match arm + monomorphized trait call + 1 vtable hop on `&mut dyn QueuePush` (verified devirtualized when callsite type is known). | open (already at floor)               |
+| 6  | Event queue push/pop                          | Intrinsic                   | `heapless::Deque::push_back` / `pop_front`, both O(1).                                                    | open (already at floor)               |
+| 7  | `__chart_observe!` macro arms                 | Compile-eliminable when off | Zero residue when all sink features off. Each call site collapses to `{};`.                                | verified zero-cost                    |
+| 8  | Journal `Vec::push` per atom                  | Conditional on `journal`    | Amortized O(1); ~16 B per `TraceEvent`. ~11 push sites fire per transition.                                | opt-in                                |
+| 9  | Async-fn future size (binary cost)            | Discretionary, async-only   | ~3000 asm lines of chart machinery for a 5-state chart; dominated by async-fn state machines.              | open (mitigation H3)                  |
+| 10 | `tokio::sync::mpsc::unbounded_channel`        | Tokio-only, std-bound       | Heap-backed channel for cross-task event injection. Embassy uses bounded `embassy_sync::channel`.          | feature-specific                      |
+| 11 | TimerTable per-step / per-exit fixed cost     | Discretionary               | ~~Unconditional `pop_expired` + `cancel_state` calls every step / exit~~ → **inlined `is_empty()` + `#[cold]` non-empty body** (runtime branch on charts that use timers; compile-time elided on timer-free charts). | resolved                              |
+| 12 | TimerEntry size + per-decrement work          | Discretionary               | ~~`remaining_ns: u128`, 32-byte entry, u128 saturating-sub per decrement~~ → **`u64`, 16-byte entry, u64 saturating-sub** (~584-year ceiling; Duration::from_nanos round-trips exactly). | resolved                              |
+| 13 | `do_terminate()` exit walk                    | Discretionary               | ~~Runtime `__PARENT` walk + `pop_front`-loop queue drain~~ → **precomputed `__TERMINATE_DATA` slice + `Deque::clear()`** (O(1)). | resolved                              |
+
+Items 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 are fully resolved by the precompute / inline-
+empty-check passes in this round of work — see `hsmc/benches/baseline.txt`
+for the per-pass delta blocks. Items 4–6 are at or near the algorithmic
+floor for hierarchical state machines. Item 7 is verified zero-cost.
+Items 1 (async overhead) and 9 (async machinery binary size) are the
+only meaningful open items; both are addressable via a `dispatch_sync()`
+fast path (mitigation H3 in §9), which would be a user-facing API
+change and is therefore out-of-scope for this round.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Per-event cost model (analytical)
+
+For a chart with hierarchy depth `H=3`, one entry action + one exit action,
+a simple lateral transition, no observation features, `cargo build
+--release`, on a Cortex-M4-class core (~168 MHz):
+
+| Stage                                  | Cycles (rough)     | Notes                                          |
+|----------------------------------------|--------------------|------------------------------------------------|
+| `queue.pop_front`                      | ~5–10              | `heapless::Deque` index op                     |
+| `__event_to_id`                        | ~3–5               | match arm (jump table)                         |
+| `__DISPATCH[(state, event)]` lookup    | ~5                 | one indexed load + sentinel branch             |
+| `run_action` (1 action)                | ~10–20             | match + monomorphized call + 1 vtable hop      |
+| Path lookup (`__PATH_RANGE`)           | ~5                 | one indexed load + slice arithmetic            |
+| Exit chain (H states × A actions)      | ~3 × H + 30 × A    | per-state work is now ~3 instr each            |
+| Enter chain (H states × A actions)     | ~3 × H + 30 × A    | per-state work is now ~3 instr each            |
+| Timer machinery (timer-free chart)     | 0                  | codegen-elided when `ir.duration_triggers.is_empty()` |
+| Timer machinery (timer chart, no fire) | ~3                 | inlined `is_empty()` branches × 3              |
+| Timer machinery (timer firing)         | ~30–40             | decrement + pop_expired + dispatch_trigger     |
+| **Total `.step()` steady-state**       | ~0.4 – 0.8 µs      | for H=3, A=1; user action body excluded        |
+| Async overhead (`.dispatch()` loop)    | per-await checkpoint | ~free if no `Pending`-yield                  |
+
+These are back-of-envelope numbers; actual measurements would tighten
+them by ~2× in either direction, depending on inlining decisions.
+
+For empirical numbers (deterministic, instruction-counted), see
+`hsmc/benches/baseline.txt`. Headline numbers (current):
+h2_warm_lateral 84 instr / 397 cycles; h4_cross_tree 101 instr / 456
+cycles; h8_cross_tree 93 instr / 443 cycles; bubble_top 99 instr /
+453 cycles (4-hop handler resolution); bubble_cross_tree 94 instr /
+444 cycles (4-hop bubble + 10-state cross-tree); terminate_event 69
+instr / 311 cycles; timer_fire_dispatch 191 instr / 706 cycles;
+chain_self_emit 419 instr across 4 events (≈105 instr/event).
+Cumulative on h8_cross_tree: **-82% instructions / -72% cycles** vs
+the original O(H²) LCA scan.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Spot-check evidence
+
+### 3.1 `__chart_observe!` is zero-cost when off (cargo expand)
+
+Test: `tests/state_chart_const.rs`, with no observation features enabled.
+
+In the expanded source (`/tmp/hsmc_expand_no_features.rs`, 911 lines), every
+observation site collapses to an empty block:
+
+```rust
+// in `step()`:
+if self.current.is_none() {
+    {};                     // would be observe_started
+    self.enter_path(0);
+    return self.timers.min_remaining();
+}
+// ...
+if let Some((state, trig)) = self.timers.pop_expired(&__DEPTH) {
+    let __t_state = state;
+    let __t_trigger = trig;
+    {};                     // would be observe_timer_fired
+    // ...
+}
+```
+
+A grep for any of `TraceEvent::`, `::log::`, `::tracing::`, `::defmt::`,
+`JournalSink::push` in the expanded code returns **zero matches**. The
+macro arms entirely vanish.
+
+`JournalSink` itself becomes a unit struct when the feature is off:
+
+```rust
+#[cfg(not(feature = "journal"))]
+pub struct JournalSink;     // ZST — 0 bytes in the chart struct
+```
+
+so the `__journal` field on the chart costs zero bytes at runtime.
+
+### 3.2 Name lookups are dead-code-eliminated (cargo rustc --emit=asm)
+
+Test: `tests/det_lateral.rs`, built with `--features tokio,journal`.
+
+Even with `journal` enabled, a grep across the 22,477 lines of generated
+asm for `state_name`, `action_name`, `event_name`, or `timer_name` returns
+**zero matches**. The journal stores `u16` indices, not strings, and no
+trace-* feature is on, so the name-lookup helper functions are uncalled
+and DCE'd from the final binary.
+
+This means even if a user enables `journal` for replay/verification, they
+pay zero binary cost for the human-readable name tables until they also
+enable a `trace-*` sink.
+
+### 3.3 LLVM lowers handler matches to jump tables
+
+Same asm file. Grep for `LJTI`:
+
+```asm
+    leaq    .LJTI2_0(%rip), %rcx
+    jmpq    *%rax
+.LJTI2_0:
+    .long   .LBB2_1-.LJTI2_0
+    .long   .LBB2_28-.LJTI2_0
+    .long   .LBB2_29-.LJTI2_0
+    .long   .LBB2_23-.LJTI2_0
+```
+
+Multiple jump tables are present, each sized roughly to the chart's
+state/event count. This corroborates the assumption that
+`__handler_lookup`'s nested `match (state_id) { match (kind, trigger_id) }`
+lowers to a single indirect jump on platforms LLVM can target with one,
+not a chain of compares.
+
+### 3.4 Async machinery code size
+
+Symbol-by-symbol asm sizes from `det_lateral`:
+
+| Symbol (async closure / future) | Asm lines | Notes                                        |
+|---------------------------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------|
+| `Lat::exit_state`               | ~275      | one `.await` per exit action                 |
+| `Lat::run_action`               | ~349      | match arm + N monomorphized async branches   |
+| `Lat::run_handlers`             | ~826      | loop over actions, each `.await`             |
+| `Lat::enter_state_no_descent`   | ~217      |                                              |
+| `Lat::step`                     | ~970      | inlines `lca`, `is_up_transition`, etc.      |
+| `Lat::dispatch`                 | ~137      | thin loop wrapper                            |
+| **Lat-chart total**             | **~2,800**| async machinery for one 5-state chart        |
+
+For comparison, `Lat::new` is 141 lines. The async coloring
+roughly doubles to triples the binary footprint of a chart relative to a
+pure sync codegen. On Cortex-M0/M0+ where flash is small, this matters.
+
+### 3.5 Journal expansion adds N pushes, nothing else (cargo expand)
+
+Same test, expanded with `--features tokio,journal`
+(`/tmp/hsmc_expand_with_journal.rs`, 2,426 lines vs. 911 lines without).
+
+Counts:
+- 104 total `TraceEvent::*` constructions.
+- 20 distinct variant names (the full vocabulary).
+- 8 `Vec::push` call sites inside `step()` — but only one fires per
+  invocation (timer-fired path, event-received path, etc., are mutually
+  exclusive).
+
+The diff against the no-feature expansion is exactly: every `{};`
+placeholder becomes a `(&mut self.__journal).push(TraceEvent::...)`. No
+other infrastructure is added. No locking, no allocation per push beyond
+the amortized `Vec` growth.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Observability cost matrix
+
+Distilled from `lib.rs:158-712` and the spot-checks above:
+
+| Feature(s)        | Per-call CPU                              | Per-call alloc           | Off → fully elided?           |
+|-------------------|-------------------------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------------|
+| `(none)`          | 0                                         | 0                        | Yes (verified)                |
+| `journal`         | `Vec::push` ~10 ns amortized              | ~16-24 B amortized       | n/a                           |
+| `trace-defmt`     | format-hash u32 + field write             | 0                        | Yes                           |
+| `trace-log`       | `log_enabled!()` check + format if passes | 0 unless format          | Yes (with small residual when on but level filtered) |
+| `trace-tracing`   | unconditional field collection + span     | 0                        | Yes (with ~30-cycle residual when on but no subscriber) |
+
+The codegen emits **~11 `__chart_observe!` calls per typical transition**
+in deterministic order: `EventReceived` → `EventDelivered` →
+`TransitionFired` → `ExitBegan` → `ActionInvoked{Exit}` → `Exited` →
+`EnterBegan` → `ActionInvoked{Entry}` → `Entered` → `TransitionComplete`,
+plus action-handler markers. That's the multiplier on every per-call
+number above.
+
+---
+
+## 5. What is *not* a problem (audited and dismissed)
+
+- **Handler-lookup growth with chart size** — confirmed jump-table
+  lowering (§3.3). O(1) per event regardless of state or event count
+  (modulo cache effects from larger jump tables).
+- **Trait-object cost on action dispatch** — only the `&mut dyn QueuePush`
+  proxy is `dyn`. User actions are monomorphized trait methods (one match
+  arm per action ID, direct calls). One vtable hop per emit, *not* per
+  action.
+- **Observation overhead with features off** — confirmed zero. Verified
+  three ways: macro arm structure (every body `#[cfg]`-gated), expanded
+  source (every site is `{};`), and asm (no name-lookup symbols, no trace
+  symbols).
+- **Heap allocation in default build** — `extern crate alloc` is confined
+  to `journal.rs:26`. With `journal` off, the runtime is fully stack-only.
+  Verified: no `Vec`, `Box`, or `String` in expanded sync code.
+- **`Pin<Box<...>>` futures on the hot path** — none. Chart futures are
+  inline state machines, not boxed.
+- **Tokio `unbounded_channel` for embedded** — irrelevant: tokio is `std`
+  anyway. Embassy uses bounded `embassy_sync::channel::Channel` (no
+  alloc).
+
+---
+
+## 6. Event entry points
+
+Events reach the chart's internal `heapless::Deque` via four distinct
+paths. Each has its own latency, wakeup, ordering, and backpressure
+profile, summarized below.
+
+| Path | API                                       | Backing                                    | Wakeup                  | Ordering                               | Backpressure                       |
+|------|-------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------|----------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
+| 1    | `chart.send(event)` (sync, single-task)   | `heapless::Deque::push_back`               | none — caller drives    | FIFO within queue                      | `Err(QueueFull)` immediate         |
+| 2a   | `chart.sender().send(ev)` (tokio)         | `tokio::sync::mpsc::unbounded_channel`     | tokio task wake         | FIFO; biased select deprioritizes vs. durings | **unbounded memory**         |
+| 2b   | `chart.sender().send(ev)` (embassy)       | `embassy_sync::channel::Channel` (bounded) | embassy task wake       | FIFO; same biased-select               | `Err(Full)` (try_send) or backpressure-await |
+| 3    | `actx.emit(ev)` from inside an action     | same internal `Deque` as path 1            | none — drained inline   | drained synchronously after current handler completes; *before* `step()` returns | sticky overflow flag |
+| 4    | return from a `during:` future            | `select!` arm in run loop                  | driver-specific         | biased priority over channel events    | silent drop on `Deque` full        |
+
+**Path 1 (sync send)** — `codegen.rs:2316-2319`. Bare
+`Deque::push_back`; owning task only, no synchronization. ~5–10 cycles.
+Caller is responsible for invoking `step()` (or `dispatch()` under an
+async feature) to actually process the event.
+
+**Path 2 (cross-task `sender()`)** — `codegen.rs:1492` (tokio sender),
+`1638` (embassy sender), `1308` / `1405` (run-loop receive sites). The
+canonical cross-thread / ISR path per the spec. Tokio uses an unbounded
+MPSC (heap-backed; no backpressure signal); embassy uses a bounded
+`Channel<M, E, N>` with `try_send` for ISR-safe non-blocking emits and
+an `async send` that backpressures the producer. The receiver task
+wakes on send; one iteration of the run-loop's `select!` consumes the
+event and pushes it into the internal `Deque`.
+
+**Path 3 (self-emit from action)** — `actx.emit(...)` goes through
+`EmitProxy::push` (`hsmc/src/lib.rs`) which writes into the same
+internal `Deque` as Path 1. Self-emitted events are drained in the
+*same* `step()` call that emitted them — `dispatch()` runs `while
+!queue.is_empty() { step().await }` until quiescence. Nothing crosses a
+task boundary.
+
+**Path 4 (`during:` return)** — `codegen.rs:1306–1313` (tokio with
+durings), `1392+` (embassy). Durings are racing futures spawned in the
+run-loop's `select!`. When one resolves to an event, the `select!`
+unblocks and the event is pushed into the internal `Deque`. The
+`select!` is `biased;` so durings have priority over the channel —
+relevant if a during is a poll-based driver that's almost always
+ready (see §8).
+
+**One ordering caveat**: there is no global FIFO across paths 1–4.
+Within each path, events are FIFO; across paths, the order depends on
+when each path's wakeup arrives at the run loop. For most charts this
+is a non-issue, but a chart that mixes high-frequency cross-task sends
+with rapid self-emits could observe self-emits processed before
+external events that arrived "first" in wall-clock terms.
+
+---
+
+## 7. Cooperative-driving audit
+
+The library targets embassy-rs's single-priority cooperative scheduler,
+where any tight loop without an `.await` can starve other tasks. An
+audit of every loop and await pattern in the runtime and codegen:
+
+| Loop / await                          | Location                  | Bounded?                | Awaits per iter?         | Verdict             |
+|---------------------------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------|
+| Main `run()` outer                    | codegen.rs:1290+, 1379+   | by `terminated` flag    | yes — always             | cooperative         |
+| `dispatch()` drain loop               | codegen.rs:2339           | by queue size           | only via `step().await`  | suspect — fairness  |
+| Transition exit/enter slice loops     | codegen.rs (transition)   | by precomputed slice len| yes (async variant)      | OK                  |
+| Termination drain                     | codegen.rs:2750           | by hierarchy + queue    | yes (async variant)      | OK                  |
+| Timer decrement / pop                 | runtime / lib.rs          | by timer-table size     | sync, off the event-loop | OK                  |
+| Send/recv backends                    | codegen.rs:1308, 1405     | n/a                     | always `.await`          | cooperative         |
+
+No `try_recv` patterns anywhere. No fixed-period polling. The library
+is fundamentally event-driven and embassy-friendly.
+
+**One latent fairness characteristic**: the `dispatch()` drain loop —
+`while !self.queue.is_empty() { step(Duration::ZERO).await }` — never
+yields to the executor between iterations. If user actions are all
+synchronous and they emit a chain of follow-on events (action A emits
+B, B emits C, …), each `step().await` completes inline, and the loop
+becomes effectively synchronous for the duration of the chain. Embassy
+high-priority tasks could be delayed by the chain length.
+
+This is **not a bug** — `dispatch()` is documented to drain to
+quiescence — but it's worth knowing about. A future option (not part of
+this round of work) would be a feature-gated
+`embassy_futures::yield_now().await` every Nth iteration, or a
+chart-level config to bound chain length. Not done by default because
+it would serialize the common case for no benefit.
+
+---
+
+## 8. Correctness invariants surfaced during the audit
+
+Three contracts that aren't bugs, but warrant explicit documentation
+because they are easy to miss when reading the code:
+
+**Sticky overflow flag in `EmitProxy`** (`hsmc/src/lib.rs`,
+`EmitProxy::push`). When a self-emit fails because the internal `Deque`
+is full, an `__overflow` flag is set on the chart. *Every* subsequent
+`actx.emit(...)` in the same dispatch chain returns `Err(QueueFull)`,
+even after the queue has drained. The flag is cleared at the top of
+each `dispatch()` call by `take_overflow()`. This is intentional — it
+prevents a chart from observing a partially-applied sequence of
+self-emissions where some made it into the queue and others did not.
+Authors of actions that emit multiple events should treat
+`Err(QueueFull)` as terminal for the current chain.
+
+**Biased select in run loop** (tokio: `codegen.rs:1306–1313`; embassy:
+`1392+`). The `select!` is `biased;`, so durings are always polled
+before the cross-task channel. For most charts this is the right
+priority — a sensor driver should pre-empt a UI event. But for a
+`during:` that wraps a poll-based driver (one that returns `Ready`
+nearly every poll), the channel can be starved indefinitely. Cure:
+make the during yield (`embassy_futures::yield_now`) when there's
+nothing real to report.
+
+**Cancel-safety contract on durings** (`hsmc/src/lib.rs:53–60`). Every
+`.await` in a `during:` future must be a clean resume point, because
+the future will be dropped if the state transitions before it
+completes. This is the standard async-cancel-safety contract, but it
+is easy to violate by holding a mutable borrow across an await — the
+borrow is "valid" when resumed but the surrounding state may have
+moved on.
+
+---
+
+## 9. Candidate mitigations (menu, NOT a commitment)
+
+Sized for sequencing in a follow-up plan-mode session. "Effort" is gut
+feel: L = afternoon, M = couple of days, H = a week or more.
+
+| ID  | Mitigation                                                                                                                        | Targets   | Impact                                  | Effort | Cost                                  |
+|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------------------------------------|--------|---------------------------------------|
+| H0  | Replace `lca()` with an O(H) depth-walk via the `__DEPTH` table.                                                                  | #2        | **Landed.**                             | -      | -                                     |
+| H1  | Codegen per-(from, to) precomputed exit/enter chains as `__PATH_DATA` + `__PATH_RANGE`.                                           | #2        | **Landed.** Up/self/lateral folded into one indexed lookup; `lca()` and `is_up_transition()` removed. | - | ~`6·N²` B index + ~`N²·H` B path data |
+| T1  | Inlined `is_empty()` early-out on `pop_expired` / `min_remaining` / `decrement` / `cancel_state` with `#[cold]` non-empty bodies. | #11       | **Landed.**                             | -      | -                                     |
+| T2  | Codegen-static elide of all `TimerTable` calls when `ir.duration_triggers.is_empty()`.                                            | #11       | **Landed.** Most charts are timer-free; `step()` returns `None` directly. | - | -                |
+| H4  | `__DISPATCH[(state, event)]` const array; one indexed lookup replaces the runtime __PARENT bubble walk + per-hop `__handler_lookup`. | #3     | **Landed.** Each (state, event) statically resolved at codegen. | - | ~24 B per (state, event) pair |
+| U1  | Shrink `TimerEntry.remaining_ns: u128 → u64` (~584-year ceiling). Halves entry size; replaces u128 saturating-sub with u64.       | #12       | **Landed.**                             | -      | -                                     |
+| K1  | `__TERMINATE_DATA` per-state precomputed exit chain (root inclusive); `do_terminate()` indexes a slice instead of walking __PARENT, and uses `Deque::clear()` (O(1)) for the queue drain. | #13 | **Landed.** terminate_event -22.5% instr / -23.4% cycles. | - | ~`(H+1)·N` B path data |
+| H3  | Provide a `dispatch_sync()` API that bypasses `.await` when the chart's actions are fully synchronous.                            | #1, #9    | High for sync-action charts             | L-M    | API surface growth (user-facing)      |
+| H5  | Sparse `__PATH_RANGE` / `__DISPATCH` for very large charts (N > 64): emit only reachable pairs with a small perfect-hash. Latency-neutral; cuts O(N²) static memory growth. | cost mitigation | Low at typical N; significant at N > 100 | M | codegen complexity            |
+| M1  | Eliminate the trailing `step().await` in `dispatch()` when queue empties mid-step.                                                | #1        | Low                                     | L      | minor refactor                        |
+| M2  | Lazy field eval in `trace-tracing` arm using `tracing`'s field-closure form to skip evaluation when filtered.                    | #8 (on)   | Low                                     | L      | none                                  |
+
+H0/H1/T1/T2/H4/U1/K1 all landed in the most recent round of work.
+Callgrind now reports the entire HSM machinery as a single `step`
+symbol — every helper inlined. The only remaining optimization avenue
+that meaningfully affects per-event latency is H3 (`dispatch_sync()`),
+which is excluded as user-facing. Memory-side mitigations (H5) only
+matter for N > 64-state charts; embedded users with large charts are
+the audience.
+
+---
+
+## 10. Where to look in the source
+
+For anyone reading this audit and wanting to verify or extend it:
+
+- **`hsmc/src/lib.rs`**
+  - `:94` — the `#![cfg_attr(... no_std)]` boundary
+  - `:158-712` — `__chart_observe!` macro, all observation arms
+  - `:737-772` — `JournalSink` ZST/Vec duality
+- **`hsmc/src/journal.rs`**
+  - `:26-32` — `extern crate alloc` and `Vec` import (only here)
+  - `:65-150+` — `TraceEvent` enum (the journal vocabulary)
+- **`hsmc-macros/src/codegen.rs`**
+  - `compute_transition_paths()` (top of file, after `compute_chart_hash`) — builds `__PATH_DATA` + `__PATH_RANGE` at codegen time
+  - `__PARENT`, `__DEPTH`, `__DEFAULT_CHILD`, `__PATH_DATA`, `__PATH_RANGE` static-table emission (search "const __PARENT")
+  - `step()` (search "fn step" / "async fn step") — sync vs. async branches
+  - `dispatch()` await loop (search "fn dispatch")
+  - `run_action` (search "fn run_action") — sync vs. async
+  - `transition` (search "fn transition") — now a thin slice-iter wrapper
+  - name-lookup helpers (`__state_name`, `__action_name`, etc.) at `:631-667`
+- **Test reference shape**: `hsmc/tests/state_chart_const.rs` is the
+  smallest sync-only chart in the tree; `hsmc/tests/det_lateral.rs` is
+  the reference async + journal shape used for the asm spot-check.
+
+---
+
+## 11. Reproducing the spot-checks
+
+```sh
+# Zero-cost observation verification (expand → no observation residue)
+cargo expand --release --test state_chart_const \
+    > /tmp/expand_no_features.rs --manifest-path hsmc/Cargo.toml
+grep -E "TraceEvent::|::log::|::tracing::|::defmt::" /tmp/expand_no_features.rs
+# expect: no matches
+
+# Journal expansion (count of TraceEvent push sites)
+cargo expand --release --test det_lateral --features tokio,journal \
+    --manifest-path hsmc/Cargo.toml \
+    | grep -c "TraceEvent::"
+# expect: ~100
+
+# Asm spot-check (jump tables, function sizes, name DCE)
+cargo rustc --release --test det_lateral --features tokio,journal \
+    --manifest-path hsmc/Cargo.toml -- --emit=asm
+ASM=$(find target -name 'det_lateral*.s' | head -1)
+grep -E "LJTI|jmpq?[[:space:]]+\*" "$ASM"        # jump tables
+grep -E "state_name|action_name" "$ASM"           # expect no matches
+```
+
+---
+
+## 12. Summary
+
+`hsmc`'s hot path is mostly already at the algorithmic floor for
+hierarchical state machines. The intrinsic per-event cost (parent walk,
+handler lookup, action dispatch, queue ops) is small and well-monomorphized.
+Observation cost is verified zero when features are off, and stays
+proportional to the user's chosen sink mix when on.
+
+**Items #2, #3, #11, #12, and #13 in §1 have all landed** across six
+optimization passes (H0 → H1 → T1 → H4 → T2 → K1+U1). Cumulative impact
+on the deepest dispatch (h8_cross_tree) is **-82% instructions / -72%
+cycles** vs the original O(H²) LCA scan. The headline wins by bench:
+
+- `terminate_event` 69 instr / 311 cycles (~14 instr of HSM work after
+  subtracting bench wrapper) — `do_terminate()` is one indexed slice
+  + `Deque::clear()`.
+- `bubble_top` 99 instr / 453 cycles — 4-hop handler resolution
+  collapses to one indexed `__DISPATCH` lookup; per-dispatch cost is
+  bench-shape-independent.
+- `bubble_cross_tree` 94 instr / 444 cycles — realistic HSM worst
+  case (deep bubble + 10-state cross-tree) costs the same as a plain
+  cross-tree because bubble lookup is O(1) and transition is
+  O(path-length).
+- `h8_cross_tree` 93 instr / 443 cycles — 7-deep cross-tree dispatch.
+
+Callgrind reports the entire HSM machinery as a single `step` symbol —
+`run_handlers`, `run_action`, `transition`, `do_terminate`,
+`exit_state`, `enter_state_no_descent`, `EmitProxy::push`, all four
+`TimerTable` methods, the dispatch-table lookup, and the
+terminate-path lookup are all inlined.
+
+Cost remaining, in priority order:
+
+1. **Async coloring code-size cost** (item #9) — chart machinery is
+   ~3,000 asm lines for a 5-state chart, dominated by async-fn state
+   machines. Mitigation H3 (a `dispatch_sync()` fast path) would let
+   users with all-sync actions skip this entirely. **User-facing API
+   change** — out of scope for the current optimization pass.
+2. **Bench-wrapper noise floor** — at the smallest dispatch's ~38–80
+   instructions, the iai-callgrind wrapper (`black_box`, `send`,
+   instrumented call-edge crossing) accounts for ~45 instructions.
+   Sub-bench-wrapper improvements are below the measurement floor.
+3. **Memory cost of `__PATH_DATA` / `__PATH_RANGE` / `__DISPATCH` /
+   `__TERMINATE_DATA` at large N** — `__PATH_RANGE` is O(N²);
+   `__DISPATCH` is O(N×E); `__TERMINATE_DATA` is O(N×H). For N ≤ 32 /
+   E ≤ 16 / H ≤ 8 the total static footprint is a few KiB. A
+   64-state × 32-event chart would push past ~80 KiB. Mitigation H5
+   sketches a sparse encoding.
+
+All addressable purely in `hsmc-macros/src/codegen.rs` and `hsmc/src/lib.rs`
+without breaking runtime semantics or feature gates. The bench harness
+in `hsmc/benches/dispatch.rs` (13 benches, every dispatch shape
+covered) is in place to measure each mitigation as it lands.
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@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ pub struct Ir {
    /// Duration triggers referenced anywhere, in first-seen order.
    /// Each one gets a trigger id used by the timer table.
    pub duration_triggers: Vec<DurationTrigger>,
+    /// Set when the chart declared `trace;` at root. Retained for
+    /// backwards-compatible parsing — the keyword no longer gates
+    /// observation emission. As of 0.4 every chart unconditionally
+    /// emits `__chart_observe!` calls, and the actual trace fan-out is
+    /// chosen by the user's `hsmc/trace-*` cargo feature selection.
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    pub trace_enabled: bool,
 }

 pub struct ActionIr {
@@ -72,7 +79,17 @@ pub struct StateIr {
    pub name: Ident,
    pub parent: Option<u16>,
    pub depth: u8,
+    /// Target of this state's `default(...)` declaration, if any. Resolved
+    /// in `resolve_transitions`. The target may be any state in the chart
+    /// (not just a direct child) — `default(...)` is a transition that
+    /// fires immediately after the declaring state's entries, using the
+    /// same LCA-aware algorithm as event-driven transitions. The
+    /// default-graph cycle check in `validate.rs` ensures the chain
+    /// terminates.
    pub default_child: Option<u16>,
+    /// Original ident from the parse tree, kept until resolution so we can
+    /// emit good error spans on unknown targets / cycles.
+    pub default_target_ident: Option<(Ident, Span)>,
    pub entries: Vec<u16>, // action ids
    pub exits: Vec<u16>,
    pub handlers: Vec<HandlerIr>,
@@ -122,6 +139,7 @@ pub fn build_ir(input: StatechartInput) -> syn::Result<Ir> {
        }
    };
    let terminate_event = root_body.terminate.as_ref().map(|(i, _)| i.clone());
+    let trace_enabled = root_body.trace_enabled;

    let mut ir = Ir {
        name,
@@ -133,6 +151,7 @@ pub fn build_ir(input: StatechartInput) -> syn::Result<Ir> {
        actions: Vec::new(),
        event_variants: Vec::new(),
        duration_triggers: Vec::new(),
+        trace_enabled,
    };

    // Two passes: collect the set of declared state names first so
@@ -140,6 +159,9 @@ pub fn build_ir(input: StatechartInput) -> syn::Result<Ir> {
    // (transition) or a handler fn (action) based on the declared set.
    let mut state_names = std::collections::HashSet::new();
    collect_state_names(&root_body, &mut state_names);
+    // Per spec: the root state is just a state, named after the chart.
+    // `on(...) => <ChartName>;` must classify as a transition to root.
+    state_names.insert(ir.name.to_string());

    let name_span = ir.name.span();
    let root_name = Ident::new("__Root", name_span);
@@ -152,6 +174,13 @@ pub fn build_ir(input: StatechartInput) -> syn::Result<Ir> {
    );
    lower_body(&mut ir, root_id, &root_body, true, &state_names)?;

+    // Intern the terminate event variant so the journal can record it
+    // by id (otherwise `__event_to_id` returns u16::MAX for the very
+    // event that triggered shutdown, which is useless for replay).
+    if let Some(t_ident) = ir.terminate_event.clone() {
+        let _ = intern_event(&mut ir, &t_ident, None)?;
+    }
+
    Ok(ir)
 }

@@ -173,6 +202,7 @@ fn alloc_state(ir: &mut Ir, name: Ident, parent: Option<u16>, depth: u8, span: S
        parent,
        depth,
        default_child: None,
+        default_target_ident: None,
        entries: Vec::new(),
        exits: Vec::new(),
        handlers: Vec::new(),
@@ -432,12 +462,11 @@ fn lower_body(
    }
    ir.states[state_id as usize].children = child_ids.clone();

-    if let Some((dc_ident, _)) = &body.default_child {
-        let resolved = child_ids
-            .iter()
-            .find(|&&cid| ir.states[cid as usize].name == *dc_ident)
-            .copied();
-        ir.states[state_id as usize].default_child = resolved;
+    // Stash the unresolved default target. The actual id is filled in by
+    // `resolve_transitions`, which has the global state-name → id map and
+    // can resolve targets that aren't direct children.
+    if let Some((dc_ident, dc_span)) = &body.default_child {
+        ir.states[state_id as usize].default_target_ident = Some((dc_ident.clone(), *dc_span));
    }

    Ok(())
@@ -495,6 +524,12 @@ pub fn resolve_transitions(ir: &mut Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
            name_map.insert(s.name.to_string(), s.id);
        }
    }
+    // Per spec: the root state is targetable as a transition destination
+    // by the chart's own name. Find the root (parent is None) and map
+    // `<ChartName>` → root_id.
+    if let Some(root) = ir.states.iter().find(|s| s.parent.is_none()) {
+        name_map.insert(ir.name.to_string(), root.id);
+    }

    let n = ir.states.len();
    for i in 0..n {
@@ -522,5 +557,24 @@ pub fn resolve_transitions(ir: &mut Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
            }
        }
    }
+
+    // Resolve default-transition targets against the same global map.
+    for i in 0..n {
+        if let Some((ident, _span)) = ir.states[i].default_target_ident.clone() {
+            let tname = ident.to_string();
+            match name_map.get(&tname).copied() {
+                Some(id) => {
+                    ir.states[i].default_child = Some(id);
+                }
+                None => {
+                    return Err(syn::Error::new(
+                        ident.span(),
+                        format!("unknown state `{}` in `default(...)`", ident),
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
    Ok(())
 }
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ pub struct StateBody {
    /// split borrow on the generated `select` call site; the macro emits a
    /// clearer error when it can detect overlap at expansion time.
    pub durings: Vec<During>,
+    /// `trace;` — root-only flag. When set, codegen injects calls to
+    /// `::hsmc::__chart_trace!(...)` at every state entry, state exit,
+    /// action dispatch, and transition. The runtime backend (defmt /
+    /// log / tracing / no-op) is selected by which `hsmc/trace-*` cargo
+    /// feature the user enables in their `Cargo.toml`. Off by default,
+    /// fully zero-cost when off.
+    pub trace_enabled: bool,
 }

 impl StateBody {
@@ -45,6 +52,7 @@ impl StateBody {
            handlers: Vec::new(),
            children: Vec::new(),
            durings: Vec::new(),
+            trace_enabled: false,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -196,6 +204,23 @@ fn parse_body(input: ParseStream, is_root: bool) -> syn::Result<StateBody> {
                    }
                    body.event_ty = Some(ty);
                }
+                "trace" => {
+                    let _: Ident = input.parse()?;
+                    input.parse::<Token![;]>()?;
+                    if !is_root {
+                        return Err(syn::Error::new(
+                            ident.span(),
+                            "`trace;` is only valid at root",
+                        ));
+                    }
+                    if body.trace_enabled {
+                        return Err(syn::Error::new(
+                            ident.span(),
+                            "duplicate `trace;` declaration",
+                        ));
+                    }
+                    body.trace_enabled = true;
+                }
                "entry" => {
                    let _: Ident = input.parse()?;
                    input.parse::<Token![:]>()?;
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use crate::ir::{HandlerKindIr, Ir, TriggerIr};
 use crate::parse::{StateBody, StatechartInput};

 pub fn validate(ir: &Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
+    validate_default_graph(ir)?;
    // Duplicate state names
    let mut seen = HashMap::new();
    for s in &ir.states {
@@ -25,12 +26,17 @@ pub fn validate(ir: &Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
    // Resolve transitions: done already? We need post-build resolution.
    // We'll do it here because we need IR mutable; but we're given &Ir.
    // Instead perform target lookup inline.
-    let name_map: HashMap<String, u16> = ir
+    let mut name_map: HashMap<String, u16> = ir
        .states
        .iter()
        .filter(|s| s.name != "__Root")
        .map(|s| (s.name.to_string(), s.id))
        .collect();
+    // Per spec: the root state is targetable as a transition destination
+    // by the chart's own name.
+    if let Some(root) = ir.states.iter().find(|s| s.parent.is_none()) {
+        name_map.insert(ir.name.to_string(), root.id);
+    }

    for s in &ir.states {
        // Empty state (not root). A state with a `during:` is not empty —
@@ -89,16 +95,11 @@ pub fn validate(ir: &Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
            }
        }

-        // Children require default; default must be a direct child; no default allowed if no children.
-        if !s.children.is_empty() && s.default_child.is_none() {
-            return Err(syn::Error::new(
-                s.span,
-                format!(
-                    "state `{}` has children but no `default` declaration",
-                    s.name
-                ),
-            ));
-        }
+        // `default` is optional: a composite without a `default(...)` is a
+        // valid resting state — transitions targeting it land on the composite
+        // itself, with no descent. Substates of such a composite are reachable
+        // only via explicit transitions. (`default` must still be a direct
+        // child when declared; that's checked in `validate_parse_tree`.)

        // duplicate transitions per trigger in this state, AND transition
        // target (if present) must be declared after every action handler
@@ -179,9 +180,70 @@ pub fn validate(ir: &Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
    Ok(())
 }

+/// Walk the default-edge graph and reject cycles. Each state has at most one
+/// outgoing default edge, so the graph has out-degree ≤ 1 and any cycle is a
+/// simple chain that loops. Detection: 3-color DFS via an iterative chain walk.
+///
+/// Cycles are rejected at compile time because at runtime, a default chain
+/// fires as a sequence of immediate transitions on entry — a cycle would loop
+/// forever, never returning control to the dispatcher.
+fn validate_default_graph(ir: &Ir) -> syn::Result<()> {
+    let n = ir.states.len();
+    // 0 = white (unvisited), 1 = gray (on current chain), 2 = black (done).
+    let mut color = vec![0u8; n];
+    for start in 0..n {
+        if color[start] != 0 {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let mut chain: Vec<usize> = Vec::new();
+        let mut cur = start;
+        loop {
+            if color[cur] == 2 {
+                // Joined a previously-cleared subgraph. Chain so far is fine.
+                break;
+            }
+            if color[cur] == 1 {
+                // Back-edge into the current chain — cycle.
+                let cycle_start = chain
+                    .iter()
+                    .position(|&x| x == cur)
+                    .expect("gray node must be on current chain");
+                let cycle: Vec<String> = chain[cycle_start..]
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|&id| ir.states[id].name.to_string())
+                    .collect();
+                let pretty = format!("{} -> {}", cycle.join(" -> "), cycle[0]);
+                let err_span = ir.states[chain[cycle_start]]
+                    .default_target_ident
+                    .as_ref()
+                    .map(|(_, s)| *s)
+                    .unwrap_or(ir.states[chain[cycle_start]].span);
+                return Err(syn::Error::new(
+                    err_span,
+                    format!(
+                        "default-transition cycle detected: {} \
+                         (entering any state in this cycle would loop forever \
+                          before reaching user code)",
+                        pretty
+                    ),
+                ));
+            }
+            color[cur] = 1;
+            chain.push(cur);
+            match ir.states[cur].default_child {
+                Some(next) => cur = next as usize,
+                None => break,
+            }
+        }
+        for &id in &chain {
+            color[id] = 2;
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 /// Additional checks that require the original parse tree (for counting duplicate
-/// `default`/`terminate` with their spans, and the "default in childless state" /
-/// "default not a direct child" / "terminate in non-root" errors).
+/// `default`/`terminate` with their spans, and the "terminate in non-root" error).
 pub fn validate_parse_tree(input: &StatechartInput) -> syn::Result<()> {
    let root_name = input.name.to_string();
    validate_body(&input.body, true, &root_name)
@@ -212,28 +274,13 @@ fn validate_body(body: &StateBody, is_root: bool, state_name: &str) -> syn::Resu
            ));
        }
    }
-    if body.default_child.is_some() && body.children.is_empty() {
-        return Err(syn::Error::new(
-            body.default_span.unwrap(),
-            format!(
-                "`default` in state `{}` which has no child states",
-                state_name
-            ),
-        ));
-    }
-    if let (Some((dc, dspan)), false) = (&body.default_child, body.children.is_empty()) {
-        // default must be a direct child
-        let is_child = body.children.iter().any(|c| c.name == *dc);
-        if !is_child {
-            return Err(syn::Error::new(
-                *dspan,
-                format!(
-                    "`default({})` in state `{}`: `{}` is not a direct child of `{}`",
-                    dc, state_name, dc, state_name
-                ),
-            ));
-        }
-    }
+    // default(...) is a transition that fires immediately after the
+    // declaring state's entries finish. It may be declared on any state
+    // (composite or leaf) and may target any state in the chart. A leaf
+    // with `default(T)` just transitions to T on every entry. The
+    // default-graph cycle check in `validate_default_graph` (run from the
+    // top-level `validate_parse_tree` over the lowered IR) ensures we
+    // cannot construct an infinite chain at startup.
    for c in &body.children {
        let cname = c.name.to_string();
        validate_body(&c.body, false, &cname)?;
@@ -3,15 +3,3 @@ error: field `a` listed twice in `during: tick(...)` — each field can only be
   |
 19 |         during: tick(a, a);
   |                         ^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t10_1_during_duplicate_field.rs:26:6
-   |
-26 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {}
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t10_1_during_duplicate_field.rs:26:19
-   |
-26 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {}
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -3,15 +3,3 @@ error: field `a` is borrowed by two concurrent durings on state `S` (`one` and `
   |
 21 |         during: two(a);
   |                     ^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t10_2_during_overlap_same_state.rs:29:6
-   |
-29 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {}
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t10_2_during_overlap_same_state.rs:29:19
-   |
-29 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {}
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -4,18 +4,6 @@ error: duplicate transition on trigger `Go` in state `Red`
 15 |         on(Go) => Yellow;
   |            ^^

-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_1_duplicate_transition.rs:22:6
-   |
-22 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_1_duplicate_transition.rs:22:19
-   |
-22 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
 warning: unused import: `Duration`
 --> tests/ui/t9_1_duplicate_transition.rs:1:24
  |
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-use hsmc::statechart;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub enum Ev { _U }
-
-pub struct Ctx;
-
-statechart! {
-M {
-    context: Ctx;
-    events: Ev;
-    default(Parent);
-    state Parent {
-        state ChildA { entry: e; }
-        state ChildB { entry: e; }
-    }
-}
-}
-
-impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-    fn e(&mut self) {}
-}
-
-fn main() {}
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-error: state `Parent` has children but no `default` declaration
-  --> tests/ui/t9_2_missing_default.rs:13:11
-   |
-13 |     state Parent {
-   |           ^^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_2_missing_default.rs:20:6
-   |
-20 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_2_missing_default.rs:20:19
-   |
-20 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -3,15 +3,3 @@ error: `terminate` is only valid at the root level
   |
 14 |         terminate(Halt);
   |         ^^^^^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_3_terminate_in_child.rs:20:6
-   |
-20 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_3_terminate_in_child.rs:20:19
-   |
-20 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-use hsmc::statechart;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub enum Ev { _U }
-
-pub struct Ctx;
-
-statechart! {
-M {
-    context: Ctx;
-    events: Ev;
-    default(Parent);
-    state Parent {
-        default(Cousin);
-        state Child { entry: e; }
-    }
-    state Cousin { entry: e; }
-}
-}
-
-impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-    fn e(&mut self) {}
-}
-
-fn main() {}
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-error: `default(Cousin)` in state `Parent`: `Cousin` is not a direct child of `Parent`
-  --> tests/ui/t9_4_default_non_child.rs:14:9
-   |
-14 |         default(Cousin);
-   |         ^^^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_4_default_non_child.rs:21:6
-   |
-21 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_4_default_non_child.rs:21:19
-   |
-21 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// `default(self)` is a 1-cycle: entering A would fire its default
+// transition to A, which would fire its default again, ad infinitum.
+// Compile-time error.
 use hsmc::statechart;

 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
@@ -9,9 +12,9 @@ statechart! {
 M {
    context: Ctx;
    events: Ev;
-    default(Leaf);
-    state Leaf {
-        default(Ghost);
+    default(A);
+    state A {
+        default(A);
        entry: e;
    }
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+error: default-transition cycle detected: A -> A (entering any state in this cycle would loop forever before reaching user code)
+  --> tests/ui/t9_4_default_self_cycle.rs:17:9
+   |
+17 |         default(A);
+   |         ^^^^^^^
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-error: `default` in state `Leaf` which has no child states
-  --> tests/ui/t9_5_default_childless.rs:14:9
-   |
-14 |         default(Ghost);
-   |         ^^^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_5_default_childless.rs:20:6
-   |
-20 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_5_default_childless.rs:20:19
-   |
-20 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// A → B → A is a default cycle: entering either state would loop
+// forever before reaching user code. Compile-time error.
+use hsmc::statechart;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev { _U }
+
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+statechart! {
+M {
+    context: Ctx;
+    events: Ev;
+    default(A);
+    state A {
+        default(B);
+        entry: e;
+    }
+    state B {
+        default(A);
+        entry: e;
+    }
+}
+}
+
+impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
+    fn e(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+fn main() {}
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+error: default-transition cycle detected: A -> B -> A (entering any state in this cycle would loop forever before reaching user code)
+  --> tests/ui/t9_5_default_two_cycle.rs:16:9
+   |
+16 |         default(B);
+   |         ^^^^^^^
@@ -3,15 +3,3 @@ error: empty state `Empty`
   |
 14 |     state Empty {}
   |           ^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_6_empty_state.rs:18:6
-   |
-18 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_6_empty_state.rs:18:19
-   |
-18 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -3,15 +3,3 @@ error: multiple `default` declarations in state `Parent`
   |
 14 |         default(A);
   |         ^^^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_7_duplicate_default.rs:22:6
-   |
-22 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_7_duplicate_default.rs:22:19
-   |
-22 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
 use hsmc::statechart;

 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
@@ -1,50 +1,13 @@
-warning: unexpected `cfg` condition value: `tokio`
-  --> tests/ui/t9_8_unknown_target.rs:8:1
-   |
- 8 | / statechart! {
- 9 | | M {
-10 | |     context: Ctx;
-11 | |     events: Ev;
-...  |
-17 | | }
-   | |_^
-   |
-   = note: no expected values for `feature`
-   = note: using a cfg inside a macro will use the cfgs from the destination crate and not the ones from the defining crate
-   = help: try referring to `statechart` crate for guidance on how handle this unexpected cfg
-   = help: the macro `statechart` may come from an old version of the `hsmc_macros` crate, try updating your dependency with `cargo update -p hsmc_macros`
-   = note: see <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/check-cfg/cargo-specifics.html> for more information about checking conditional configuration
-   = note: `#[warn(unexpected_cfgs)]` on by default
-   = note: this warning originates in the macro `statechart` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
-
-warning: unexpected `cfg` condition value: `embassy`
-  --> tests/ui/t9_8_unknown_target.rs:8:1
-   |
- 8 | / statechart! {
- 9 | | M {
-10 | |     context: Ctx;
-11 | |     events: Ev;
-...  |
-17 | | }
-   | |_^
-   |
-   = note: no expected values for `feature`
-   = note: using a cfg inside a macro will use the cfgs from the destination crate and not the ones from the defining crate
-   = help: try referring to `statechart` crate for guidance on how handle this unexpected cfg
-   = help: the macro `statechart` may come from an old version of the `hsmc_macros` crate, try updating your dependency with `cargo update -p hsmc_macros`
-   = note: see <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/check-cfg/cargo-specifics.html> for more information about checking conditional configuration
-   = note: this warning originates in the macro `statechart` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
-
 error[E0046]: not all trait items implemented, missing: `NonExistent`
-  --> tests/ui/t9_8_unknown_target.rs:19:1
+  --> tests/ui/t9_8_unknown_target.rs:21:1
   |
- 8 | / statechart! {
- 9 | | M {
-10 | |     context: Ctx;
-11 | |     events: Ev;
+10 | / statechart! {
+11 | | M {
+12 | |     context: Ctx;
+13 | |     events: Ev;
 ...  |
-17 | | }
+19 | | }
   | |_- `NonExistent` from trait
-18 |
-19 |   impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {}
+20 |
+21 |   impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {}
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ missing `NonExistent` in implementation
@@ -3,15 +3,3 @@ error: multiple `terminate` declarations
   |
 13 |     terminate(Halt);
   |     ^^^^^^^^^
-
-error[E0405]: cannot find trait `MActions` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_9_multiple_terminate.rs:19:6
-   |
-19 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |      ^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
-
-error[E0425]: cannot find type `MActionContext` in this scope
-  --> tests/ui/t9_9_multiple_terminate.rs:19:19
-   |
-19 | impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
-   |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+//! Compile-pass: a composite state may omit `default(...)`.
+//!
+//! When a composite has children but no `default`, transitions targeting
+//! that composite land on the composite itself — the substates are reachable
+//! only via explicit transitions. Microwave-style chart: `Standby` is the
+//! resting state and `LowPower` is a sub-mode you enter only on demand.
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::statechart;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    PowerOn,
+    PowerOff,
+    EnterLowPower,
+    LeaveLowPower,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+statechart! {
+Microwave {
+    context: Ctx;
+    events:  Ev;
+    default(Standby);
+    terminate(Halt);
+
+    state Standby {
+        // No `default(...)` — Standby is itself the resting state.
+        on(PowerOn) => On;
+        on(EnterLowPower) => LowPower;
+
+        state LowPower {
+            on(LeaveLowPower) => Standby;
+        }
+    }
+
+    state On {
+        on(PowerOff) => Standby;
+    }
+}
+}
+
+impl MicrowaveActions for MicrowaveActionContext<'_> {}
+
+fn main() {
+    let _ = Microwave::new(Ctx);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+//! Compile-pass: a state's `default(...)` may target an ancestor. Entering
+//! the declaring state would immediately exit back up to the ancestor (the
+//! up-transition rule applies — ancestor not re-entered). The state is
+//! reached only via an explicit transition; without one, control never
+//! enters it. (No cycle here: Outer has no default; Inner targets Outer.)
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::statechart;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev { GoIn, Halt }
+
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+statechart! {
+M {
+    context: Ctx;
+    events:  Ev;
+    default(Outer);
+    terminate(Halt);
+
+    state Outer {
+        entry: outer_in;
+        on(GoIn) => Inner;
+        state Inner {
+            entry: inner_in;
+            // Default jumps up to Outer. Inner is reachable only via the
+            // explicit GoIn transition; once entered, this default fires
+            // and lands the chart back at Outer (no re-entry of Outer).
+            default(Outer);
+        }
+    }
+}
+}
+
+impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
+    fn outer_in(&mut self) {}
+    fn inner_in(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let _ = M::new(Ctx);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+//! Compile-pass: a state's `default(...)` may target a sibling. Entering
+//! the declaring state immediately fires a transition out to the sibling,
+//! using the same LCA-aware algorithm as any other transition.
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::statechart;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev { Halt }
+
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+statechart! {
+M {
+    context: Ctx;
+    events:  Ev;
+    default(Foyer);
+    terminate(Halt);
+
+    state Foyer {
+        // Default redirects out of Foyer to its sibling LivingRoom.
+        default(LivingRoom);
+        entry: foyer_in;
+    }
+    state LivingRoom {
+        entry: living_in;
+    }
+}
+}
+
+impl MActions for MActionContext<'_> {
+    fn foyer_in(&mut self) {}
+    fn living_in(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let _ = M::new(Ctx);
+}
@@ -11,27 +11,50 @@ readme = "../README.md"
 keywords = ["statechart", "state-machine", "hsm", "embassy", "embedded"]
 categories = ["embedded", "no-std", "asynchronous", "rust-patterns"]
 autoexamples = false
-exclude = ["examples/microwave_tui.rs"]

 [features]
 default = []
 tokio = ["dep:tokio"]
 embassy = ["dep:embassy-sync", "dep:embassy-time", "dep:embassy-futures"]
+# Auto-tracing sinks — every chart emits `__chart_observe!` calls
+# unconditionally; whichever of these sinks you enable is what gets
+# textual log lines. Pick zero, one, or any combination — the
+# observation pipeline fans out to all enabled sinks and the in-memory
+# journal (below). With NO sink feature enabled, observation is fully
+# elided at compile time (zero overhead).
+#
+# Format: `[statechart:<Name>] <verb> key=value …` (logfmt-style,
+# greppable, regex-parseable). The `tracing` backend uses native
+# structured fields instead of stringly key=value pairs.
+trace-defmt   = ["dep:defmt"]
+trace-log     = ["dep:log"]
+trace-tracing = ["dep:tracing"]
+# In-memory journal sink. When enabled, every `__chart_observe!` site
+# also records a `TraceEvent` into the per-machine `JournalSink`. The
+# journal is the authoritative byte-deterministic atom-by-atom record
+# of chart execution; trace backends are textual renderings of the
+# same vocabulary.
+# Requires `alloc` (the journal grows dynamically). Off by default —
+# zero overhead and no `alloc` requirement when not enabled.
+journal       = []

 [dependencies]
-hsmc-macros = { path = "../hsmc-macros", version = "0.2.0" }
+hsmc-macros = { path = "../hsmc-macros", version = "0.5.1" }
 heapless = "0.8"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["sync", "time", "rt", "macros"], optional = true }
 embassy-sync = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 embassy-time = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 embassy-futures = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
+defmt = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+log = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
+tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }

 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows"))'.dev-dependencies]
 trybuild = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "sync", "time", "test-util"] }
-ratatui = "0.28"
-crossterm = { version = "0.28", features = ["event-stream"] }
-futures = "0.3"
+
+[target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dev-dependencies]
+iai-callgrind = "0.16"

 [[example]]
 name = "microwave"
@@ -45,3 +68,7 @@ required-features = ["tokio"]
 name = "embassy_full"
 required-features = ["embassy"]
 crate-type = ["lib"]
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "dispatch"
+harness = false
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@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+# hsmc dispatch baseline — instruction counts from iai-callgrind.
+#
+# Current numbers reflect the codebase after the terminate-path + u64-ns
+# pass. `do_terminate()` indexes into a precomputed `__TERMINATE_DATA`
+# table (one slice per starting state, root inclusive); `TimerEntry`'s
+# `remaining_ns` field shrunk from u128 to u64 (~584 years of headroom),
+# halving the entry size and replacing per-step u128 saturating-sub work
+# with u64. The smaller machine struct improves cache density on every
+# bench, even those that don't use timers.
+#
+# Re-run with:
+#
+#     cargo bench --bench dispatch
+#
+# Named baselines under target/iai/ for diffing past changes:
+#   pre_lca_fix                       — original O(H²) LCA contains() scan
+#   before_path_precompute            — post-LCA-fix, pre-precompute
+#   before_timer_skip                 — post-precompute, pre-timer-skip (runtime is_empty)
+#   before_dispatch_precompute        — post-timer-skip, pre-dispatch-table
+#   before_timer_elide                — post-dispatch-table, pre-codegen-elide
+#   before_terminate_and_timer_opts   — post-codegen-elide, pre-terminate-path / u64
+#
+# To diff a future change against the current numbers:
+#
+#     cargo bench --bench dispatch -- --save-baseline=before_<your_change>
+#     <change>
+#     cargo bench --bench dispatch -- --baseline=before_<your_change>
+#
+# Numbers below are from a 6.19.14-zen kernel x86_64 box, valgrind 3.25.1,
+# iai-callgrind 0.16.1, --release.
+
+dispatch::dispatch::h2_cold_start cold:setup_h2_cold()
+  Instructions:                          38
+  Estimated Cycles:                     201
+
+dispatch::dispatch::h2_warm_lateral warm:setup_h2_warm()
+  Instructions:                          84
+  Estimated Cycles:                     397
+
+dispatch::dispatch::h4_cross_tree cross:setup_h4_warm()
+  Instructions:                         101
+  Estimated Cycles:                     456
+
+dispatch::dispatch::h4_up up:setup_h4_warm()
+  Instructions:                          98
+  Estimated Cycles:                     384
+
+dispatch::dispatch::h4_self self_:setup_h4_warm()
+  Instructions:                         101
+  Estimated Cycles:                     456
+
+dispatch::dispatch::h8_cross_tree cross:setup_h8_warm()
+  Instructions:                          93
+  Estimated Cycles:                     443
+
+dispatch::dispatch::bubble_leaf leaf:setup_bubble_warm()
+  Instructions:                          99
+  Estimated Cycles:                     453
+
+dispatch::dispatch::bubble_mid mid:setup_bubble_warm()
+  Instructions:                          99
+  Estimated Cycles:                     453
+
+dispatch::dispatch::bubble_top top:setup_bubble_warm()
+  Instructions:                          99
+  Estimated Cycles:                     453
+
+dispatch::dispatch::timer_fire_dispatch fire:setup_timer_fire_armed()
+  Instructions:                         191
+  Estimated Cycles:                     706
+
+dispatch::dispatch::terminate_event quit:setup_term_warm()
+  Instructions:                          69
+  Estimated Cycles:                     311
+
+dispatch::dispatch::bubble_cross_tree switch:setup_bubble_cross_warm()
+  Instructions:                          94
+  Estimated Cycles:                     444
+
+dispatch::dispatch::chain_self_emit chain:setup_chain_warm()
+  Instructions:                         419
+  Estimated Cycles:                    1301
+
+# ─── LCA O(H) fix delta (pre_lca_fix → before_path_precompute) ──────
+#
+# Bench               Instr Δ      Cycle Δ
+# h2_warm_lateral    -22.8%       -22.1%
+# h4_cross_tree      -25.9%       -10.6%
+# h4_self            -21.5%       -11.7%
+# h8_cross_tree      -46.2%       -41.0%       ← deepest LCA stress
+# chain_self_emit    -15.4%       -10.4%
+#
+# ─── Precompute-paths delta (before_path_precompute → before_timer_skip) ──
+#
+# Bench               Instr Δ      Cycle Δ
+# h2_warm_lateral    -19.5%        -4.8%
+# h4_cross_tree      -45.0%       -28.6%
+# h8_cross_tree      -48.6%       -34.8%
+# chain_self_emit    -28.1%       -14.6%
+#
+# ─── Timer empty-skip delta (before_timer_skip → before_dispatch_precompute) ──
+#
+# Bench               Instr Δ      Cycle Δ
+# h2_warm_lateral    -30.8%       -35.1%
+# h4_cross_tree      -38.4%       -35.4%
+# h8_cross_tree      -54.4%       -52.9%
+# chain_self_emit    -27.9%       -29.2%
+#
+# ─── Dispatch-table delta (before_dispatch_precompute → before_timer_elide) ──
+#
+# Bench               Instr Δ      Cycle Δ
+# bubble_mid         -19.4%        -4.7%       3-hop __PARENT walk → table lookup
+# bubble_top         -22.3%        -5.8%       4-hop walk → table lookup
+# h8_cross_tree       +4.2%       +15.8%       cold-cache miss on __DISPATCH (warm-cache neutral)
+#
+# ─── Timer-elide delta (before_timer_elide → before_terminate_and_timer_opts) ──
+#
+# Bench               Instr Δ      Cycle Δ
+# h2_warm_lateral    -26.9%        -9.7%
+# h4_cross_tree      -22.2%       -20.1%
+# h8_cross_tree      -24.2%       -20.8%
+# bubble_top         -22.1%       -23.2%
+# chain_self_emit    -18.0%        -8.4%
+#
+# ─── Terminate-path + u64-ns delta (before_terminate_and_timer_opts → current) ──
+#
+# Bench                  Instr Δ      Cycle Δ      Notes
+# h2_cold_start          -2.6%       -14.1%       smaller machine struct, tighter cache
+# h2_warm_lateral        -3.4%       -21.2%       (RAM hits 11→8)
+# h4_cross_tree          -3.8%        -1.7%
+# h4_up                  -3.9%       -22.3%       (RAM hits 10→7)
+# h4_self                -3.8%        -8.4%
+# h8_cross_tree          -1.1%        -0.7%
+# bubble_leaf            -6.6%        -9.6%
+# bubble_mid             -6.6%        -3.0%
+# bubble_top             -6.6%        -9.6%
+# timer_fire_dispatch    +2.7%       -12.6%       smaller TimerEntry → -3 RAM hits
+# terminate_event       -22.5%       -23.4%       ← headline: precomputed exit path + queue.clear()
+# bubble_cross_tree      -2.1%        -0.9%
+# chain_self_emit        -0.9%        -3.1%
+#
+# Two changes in this pass:
+#
+# (1) `__TERMINATE_DATA` / `__TERMINATE_RANGE` — per-state precomputed
+# exit chain up to and including __Root. `do_terminate()` indexes the
+# table once and iterates the slice, replacing the runtime `__PARENT`
+# walk + per-iteration match. Also swapped the queue-drain loop
+# (`while self.queue.pop_front().is_some() {}`) for `self.queue.clear()`,
+# which heapless 0.8 implements as O(1) (resets indices, no per-element
+# pop). Together: -22% instr / -23% cycles on terminate_event, the
+# headline win the user asked for.
+#
+# (2) `TimerEntry.remaining_ns: u128 → u64`. Internal-only field type
+# change. u64 nanoseconds bounds at ~584 years — past any realistic
+# Duration. Eliminates u128 saturating-sub in `decrement()` (4-6 instr
+# → 1-2 instr per entry per step) and the manual secs/nanos
+# decomposition in `min_remaining()` (replaced with
+# `Duration::from_nanos(u64)`). The struct shrinks 32 B → 16 B with
+# alignment, so the entire machine struct is smaller — even no-timer
+# benches see RAM-hit reductions from tighter cache packing.
+#
+# Net across the six optimization passes (pre_lca_fix → current):
+# h8_cross_tree dispatch is **-82% instructions / -72% cycles** vs the
+# original O(H²) LCA scan. terminate_event is now 69 instr / 311 cycles
+# — about 80% of that is the iai-callgrind wrapper, leaving ~14 instr
+# of actual HSM termination work for a 3-deep chart.
+#
+# ─── Bench coverage (3 benches added in the previous pass) ──────────
+#
+# `timer_fire_dispatch` (191 instr / 706 cycles) — only bench that
+# exercises pop_expired's non-empty branch and `dispatch_trigger`.
+# `terminate_event` (69 instr / 311 cycles) — only bench that
+# exercises `__check_terminate`'s true arm and `do_terminate`.
+# `bubble_cross_tree` (94 instr / 444 cycles) — handler on L1 (4
+# bubble hops) firing a 10-state cross-tree transition. Realistic
+# HSM worst case.
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+//! Deterministic instruction-count benches for the dispatch hot path.
+//!
+//! Run with `cargo bench --bench dispatch` (Linux only — uses
+//! iai-callgrind + valgrind).
+//!
+//! Each bench measures one dispatch kind in isolation:
+//!  - `h2_warm_lateral`: lateral transition between siblings, hierarchy depth 2.
+//!  - `h4_cross_tree`: lateral transition crossing two parallel subtrees, depth 4 from root.
+//!  - `h8_cross_tree`: same shape but depth 8 — exercises LCA worst-case.
+//!  - `h4_up`: up-transition (target is an ancestor of current).
+//!  - `h4_self`: self-transition (target == current).
+//!  - `h4_drop`: send an event with no matching handler (drop path).
+//!  - `h4_self_emit_chain`: action emits next event 3×; tests the dispatch drain loop.
+//!  - `h2_cold_start`: first dispatch into a freshly-constructed chart (priming step).
+//!
+//! Each bench's setup function primes the chart to a known state outside the
+//! measured region. The body sends one event and runs `step()` once.
+
+#[cfg(not(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy")))))]
+fn main() {
+    // The benches use sync action impls; under `--features tokio` /
+    // `--features embassy` the codegen emits async fns and the impls
+    // would need an `async` keyword. Rather than maintain two parallel
+    // bench files, we gate the whole suite to the default-features /
+    // Linux configuration, which is what we measure latency in anyway.
+    eprintln!(
+        "hsmc dispatch benches require Linux + default features \
+         (iai-callgrind + valgrind, sync action impls)."
+    );
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+use hsmc::{statechart, Duration};
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+use iai_callgrind::{library_benchmark, library_benchmark_group, main};
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+use std::hint::black_box;
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 1: H=2 sibling. LCA(A, B) = P. Two states deep.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod h2 {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Go,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        H2 {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(P);
+
+            state P {
+                default(A);
+                state A { on(Go) => B; }
+                state B { entry: noop; }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl H2Actions for H2ActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 2: H=4 cross-tree. LCA(L3, R3) = root. Stresses LCA over 8 ancestors.
+// Also has up- and self-transition events for additional benches.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod h4 {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Cross,
+        Up,
+        Self_,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        H4 {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(L1);
+
+            state L1 {
+                default(L2);
+                state L2 {
+                    default(L3);
+                    state L3 {
+                        on(Cross) => R3;
+                        on(Up)    => L1;
+                        on(Self_) => L3;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            state R1 {
+                default(R2);
+                state R2 {
+                    default(R3);
+                    state R3 { entry: noop; }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl H4Actions for H4ActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 3: H=8 cross-tree. LCA(L7, R7) = root. Worst-case for the
+// pre-fix O(H²) LCA — old code does ~64 compares; new code does ~16.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod h8 {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Cross,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        H8 {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(L1);
+
+            state L1 { default(L2);
+                state L2 { default(L3);
+                    state L3 { default(L4);
+                        state L4 { default(L5);
+                            state L5 { default(L6);
+                                state L6 { default(L7);
+                                    state L7 { on(Cross) => R7; }
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            state R1 { default(R2);
+                state R2 { default(R3);
+                    state R3 { default(R4);
+                        state R4 { default(R5);
+                            state R5 { default(R6);
+                                state R6 { default(R7);
+                                    state R7 { entry: noop; }
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl H8Actions for H8ActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 4: emit-chain. S0 →(Go)→ S1 →(emits Next)→ S2 →(emits Next)→ S3 →(emits Next)→ S4.
+// One Send + one Step ⇒ chart drains 4 events through 3 self-emits.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod chain {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Go,
+        Next,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        Chain {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(S0);
+
+            state S0 { on(Go) => S1; }
+            state S1 { entry: emit_next; on(Next) => S2; }
+            state S2 { entry: emit_next; on(Next) => S3; }
+            state S3 { entry: emit_next; on(Next) => S4; }
+            state S4 { entry: settle; }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl ChainActions for ChainActionContext<'_> {
+        fn emit_next(&mut self) {
+            let _ = self.emit(Ev::Next);
+        }
+        fn settle(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 5: handler bubbling. Active state is L4 (depth 5). The three
+// events resolve to handlers at three different ancestor depths so the
+// __PARENT walk in step() is exercised at increasing distance:
+//
+//   Leaf — handler on L4 itself        →  bubble depth 0
+//   Mid  — handler on L1 (3 ancestors) →  bubble depth 3
+//   Top  — handler on Outer (4 anc.)   →  bubble depth 4
+//
+// `Sibling` is the transition target so each event causes the same
+// dispatch shape; the only thing that varies between benches is the
+// bubble distance to the handler.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod bubble {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Leaf,
+        Mid,
+        Top,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        Bubble {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(Outer);
+
+            state Outer {
+                default(L1);
+                on(Top) => Sibling;
+                state L1 {
+                    default(L2);
+                    on(Mid) => Sibling;
+                    state L2 {
+                        default(L3);
+                        state L3 {
+                            default(L4);
+                            state L4 {
+                                on(Leaf) => Sibling;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            state Sibling { entry: noop; }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl BubbleActions for BubbleActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 6: timer firing. A single timer armed for 1 ns; the bench body
+// advances time past expiry so `pop_expired` returns Some and dispatches
+// the timer-driven transition. This is the only bench that exercises
+// `step()`'s pop_expired non-empty branch — every other chart in this
+// suite declares no `Duration` triggers and (post timer-elide pass) has
+// the timer-table machinery removed at codegen.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod timer_fire {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    statechart! {
+        TimerFire {
+            context: Ctx;
+            default(Armed);
+
+            state Armed {
+                on(after Duration::from_nanos(1)) => Fired;
+            }
+            state Fired { entry: noop; }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl TimerFireActions for TimerFireActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 7: terminate event. `Quit` is declared as the terminate event,
+// so dispatching it runs `do_terminate()` — exits every active state up
+// to the root, sets `terminated`, and short-circuits future `step()`s.
+// Only bench that exercises `__check_terminate`'s true arm and the
+// terminate-on-event path.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod term {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Quit,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        Term {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(L1);
+            terminate(Quit);
+
+            state L1 {
+                default(L2);
+                state L2 {
+                    default(L3);
+                    state L3 { entry: noop; }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl TermActions for TermActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Chart 8: bubble + cross-tree. Handler declared on L1 (4 ancestors up
+// from current=L5) targets a deep leaf in a sibling subtree (R5). Two
+// dispatch costs at once: the (now-O(1)) handler resolution and a
+// 10-state-op cross-tree transition (5 exits + 5 enters). The
+// realistic worst case for HSM dispatch — a parent's "back to default"
+// handler that descends deep on the other side.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+mod bubble_cross {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Default)]
+    pub struct Ctx;
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+    pub enum Ev {
+        Switch,
+    }
+
+    statechart! {
+        BubbleCross {
+            context: Ctx;
+            events:  Ev;
+            default(L1);
+
+            state L1 {
+                default(L2);
+                on(Switch) => R5;
+                state L2 {
+                    default(L3);
+                    state L3 {
+                        default(L4);
+                        state L4 {
+                            default(L5);
+                            state L5 { entry: noop; }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            state R1 {
+                default(R2);
+                state R2 {
+                    default(R3);
+                    state R3 {
+                        default(R4);
+                        state R4 {
+                            default(R5);
+                            state R5 { entry: noop; }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl BubbleCrossActions for BubbleCrossActionContext<'_> {
+        fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    }
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Setup helpers. Prime each chart to its measurement starting state
+// OUTSIDE the measured region — iai-callgrind only counts work inside
+// the bench fn body.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_h2_warm() -> h2::H2<8> {
+    let mut m = h2::H2::new(h2::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → enters P → A
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_h2_cold() -> h2::H2<8> {
+    h2::H2::new(h2::Ctx)
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_h4_warm() -> h4::H4<8> {
+    let mut m = h4::H4::new(h4::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → L1 → L2 → L3
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_h8_warm() -> h8::H8<8> {
+    let mut m = h8::H8::new(h8::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → L1..L7
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_chain_warm() -> chain::Chain<8> {
+    let mut m = chain::Chain::new(chain::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → S0
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_bubble_warm() -> bubble::Bubble<8> {
+    let mut m = bubble::Bubble::new(bubble::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → Outer → L1 → L2 → L3 → L4
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_timer_fire_armed() -> timer_fire::TimerFire<8> {
+    let mut m = timer_fire::TimerFire::new(timer_fire::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → enters Armed, arms 1ns timer
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_term_warm() -> term::Term<8> {
+    let mut m = term::Term::new(term::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → L1 → L2 → L3
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+fn setup_bubble_cross_warm() -> bubble_cross::BubbleCross<8> {
+    let mut m = bubble_cross::BubbleCross::new(bubble_cross::Ctx);
+    let _ = m.step(Duration::ZERO); // priming step → L1 → L2 → L3 → L4 → L5
+    m
+}
+
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Benches. One library_benchmark per scenario. Each takes its primed
+// chart by value, sends one event, and runs one step.
+// ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::cold(setup = setup_h2_cold)]
+fn h2_cold_start(mut m: h2::H2<8>) -> h2::H2<8> {
+    // first .step() primes the chart by entering the default state path
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::warm(setup = setup_h2_warm)]
+fn h2_warm_lateral(mut m: h2::H2<8>) -> h2::H2<8> {
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(h2::Ev::Go)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::cross(setup = setup_h4_warm)]
+fn h4_cross_tree(mut m: h4::H4<8>) -> h4::H4<8> {
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(h4::Ev::Cross)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::up(setup = setup_h4_warm)]
+fn h4_up(mut m: h4::H4<8>) -> h4::H4<8> {
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(h4::Ev::Up)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::self_(setup = setup_h4_warm)]
+fn h4_self(mut m: h4::H4<8>) -> h4::H4<8> {
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(h4::Ev::Self_)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::cross(setup = setup_h8_warm)]
+fn h8_cross_tree(mut m: h8::H8<8>) -> h8::H8<8> {
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(h8::Ev::Cross)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::leaf(setup = setup_bubble_warm)]
+fn bubble_leaf(mut m: bubble::Bubble<8>) -> bubble::Bubble<8> {
+    // Handler on L4 (current state). Bubble distance = 0.
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(bubble::Ev::Leaf)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::mid(setup = setup_bubble_warm)]
+fn bubble_mid(mut m: bubble::Bubble<8>) -> bubble::Bubble<8> {
+    // Handler on L1. Bubble walks L4 → L3 → L2 → L1 (3 __PARENT hops).
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(bubble::Ev::Mid)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::top(setup = setup_bubble_warm)]
+fn bubble_top(mut m: bubble::Bubble<8>) -> bubble::Bubble<8> {
+    // Handler on Outer. Bubble walks L4 → L3 → L2 → L1 → Outer (4 hops).
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(bubble::Ev::Top)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::fire(setup = setup_timer_fire_armed)]
+fn timer_fire_dispatch(mut m: timer_fire::TimerFire<8>) -> timer_fire::TimerFire<8> {
+    // Advance time by 2ns — past the 1ns arm — so pop_expired returns
+    // Some and dispatches the timer-driven Armed → Fired transition.
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::from_nanos(2))));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::quit(setup = setup_term_warm)]
+fn terminate_event(mut m: term::Term<8>) -> term::Term<8> {
+    // Send Quit (declared as terminate event); step runs check_terminate's
+    // true arm and do_terminate, which exits L3 → L2 → L1 → root.
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(term::Ev::Quit)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::switch(setup = setup_bubble_cross_warm)]
+fn bubble_cross_tree(mut m: bubble_cross::BubbleCross<8>) -> bubble_cross::BubbleCross<8> {
+    // Switch handler is on L1 (4 bubble hops from current=L5). Target is
+    // R5 in a sibling subtree, so the transition is exit L5..L1 + enter
+    // R1..R5 = 10 state operations.
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(bubble_cross::Ev::Switch)));
+    let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+#[library_benchmark]
+#[bench::chain(setup = setup_chain_warm)]
+fn chain_self_emit(mut m: chain::Chain<8>) -> chain::Chain<8> {
+    let _ = black_box(m.send(black_box(chain::Ev::Go)));
+    // Drain the chain: 1 step per event. Go → S1 (entry emits Next) → S2
+    // (entry emits Next) → S3 (entry emits Next) → S4. 4 events total.
+    for _ in 0..4 {
+        let _ = black_box(m.step(black_box(Duration::ZERO)));
+    }
+    m
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+library_benchmark_group!(
+    name = dispatch;
+    benchmarks =
+        h2_cold_start,
+        h2_warm_lateral,
+        h4_cross_tree,
+        h4_up,
+        h4_self,
+        h8_cross_tree,
+        bubble_leaf,
+        bubble_mid,
+        bubble_top,
+        timer_fire_dispatch,
+        terminate_event,
+        bubble_cross_tree,
+        chain_self_emit,
+);
+
+#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(any(feature = "tokio", feature = "embassy"))))]
+main!(library_benchmark_groups = dispatch);
@@ -1,761 +0,0 @@
-//! Interactive microwave oven TUI driven by `hsmc`.
-//!
-//! Run it:
-//!
-//! ```text
-//! cargo run --example microwave_tui --features tokio
-//! ```
-//!
-//! Keys:
-//!   S  — Start cook              O — Open door
-//!   X  — Stop / cancel           C — Close door
-//!   K  — Simulate power failure (terminates the machine)
-//!   Q  — Quit
-//!
-//! This demonstrates the same statechart as `microwave.rs` but hooked up to
-//! live keyboard input and a real-time ratatui UI. The state machine runs
-//! on `oven.run()` in one task; a second task reads keys and forwards them
-//! via a cloned `sender()`; a third task redraws the screen 30×/sec using
-//! state published by entry/exit actions.
-
-use std::{
-    collections::VecDeque,
-    io,
-    sync::{Arc, Mutex},
-    time::Instant,
-};
-
-use crossterm::{
-    event::{DisableMouseCapture, EnableMouseCapture, Event, EventStream, KeyCode, KeyEventKind},
-    execute,
-    terminal::{disable_raw_mode, enable_raw_mode, EnterAlternateScreen, LeaveAlternateScreen},
-};
-use futures::StreamExt;
-use hsmc::{statechart, Duration};
-use ratatui::{
-    backend::CrosstermBackend,
-    layout::{Constraint, Direction, Layout, Rect},
-    style::{Color, Modifier, Style, Stylize},
-    text::{Line, Span},
-    widgets::{Block, Borders, Gauge, Paragraph, Wrap},
-    Terminal,
-};
-
-// ---------- Shared UI state ----------
-//
-// The actions write into this through the user context. The render task
-// reads it. `Arc<Mutex<_>>` keeps it cheap and thread-safe.
-
-#[derive(Default)]
-pub struct UiState {
-    state_path: Vec<&'static str>,
-    display: String,
-    magnetron: bool,
-    heater: bool,
-    door_open: bool,
-    blink: bool,
-    log: VecDeque<String>,
-    /// Instant at which the cook should complete. Advances by the pause
-    /// duration on resume so the progress bar freezes while paused.
-    cook_deadline: Option<Instant>,
-    cook_total: Duration,
-    /// Set when we enter Paused; cleared on resume. Freezes the gauge.
-    paused_at: Option<Instant>,
-    terminated: bool,
-}
-
-impl UiState {
-    async fn log(&mut self, msg: impl Into<String>) {
-        self.log.push_back(msg.into());
-        while self.log.len() > 50 {
-            self.log.pop_front();
-        }
-    }
-    async fn set_path(&mut self, path: &[&'static str]) {
-        self.state_path = path.to_vec();
-    }
-}
-
-// ---------- User context ----------
-
-pub struct OvenContext {
-    pub ui: Arc<Mutex<UiState>>,
-}
-
-// ---------- Events ----------
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub enum OvenEvent {
-    StartPressed,
-    StopPressed,
-    DoorOpened,
-    DoorClosed,
-    Reset,
-    /// Sent by the external watchdog when the adjusted cook deadline is met.
-    /// Using an event instead of a static `Duration` transition lets us pause
-    /// and resume the cook clock — something hsmc timers can't do on their own.
-    CookDone,
-    PowerFailure,
-}
-
-// ---------- Statechart ----------
-//
-// Same shape as microwave.rs (every feature exercised) with a longer cook
-// time so the user has time to interact. The cook timer lives on `Running`
-// so it survives Heating⇄Paused transitions.
-
-const COOK_MS: u64 = 8_000;
-
-statechart! {
-Oven {
-    context: OvenContext;
-    events: OvenEvent;
-
-    entry: boot_self_test;
-    entry: log_boot_done;
-    exit: save_last_state;
-    exit: cut_all_power;
-    default(Idle);
-    terminate(PowerFailure);
-
-    // Root-level door tracking. Any state whose local handler shadows these
-    // must repeat `mark_door_*` alongside its own handlers.
-    on(DoorOpened) => mark_door_open;
-    on(DoorClosed) => mark_door_closed;
-
-    // Idle is split so Start can only fire when the door is closed. This is
-    // the HSM equivalent of a guard — a structural check rather than a
-    // boolean predicate.
-    state Idle {
-        // `sync_door` runs after the default descent completes handling, then
-        // emits DoorOpened if the door is physically open. That re-aligns the
-        // machine with reality when we land in Idle from Running (e.g. Stop
-        // pressed while door is open). The emitted event is processed after
-        // the entry cascade, so DoorClosed → DoorOpen happens cleanly.
-        entry: enter_idle, sync_door;
-        default(DoorClosed);
-
-        state DoorClosed {
-            entry: show_ready;
-            // Local handlers, so we must repeat mark_door_open here.
-            on(DoorOpened) => mark_door_open;
-            on(DoorOpened) => DoorOpen;
-
-            on(StartPressed) => record_start;
-            on(StartPressed) => prime_cook;
-            on(StartPressed) => Running;
-        }
-
-        state DoorOpen {
-            entry: show_close_door;
-            on(DoorClosed) => mark_door_closed;
-            on(DoorClosed) => DoorClosed;
-            // Pressing Start while door is open: beep + log, no transition.
-            on(StartPressed) => warn_door_open;
-        }
-    }
-
-    state Running {
-        entry: enter_running, start_cook_clock;
-        exit: stop_cook_clock;
-        default(Cooking);
-
-        on(after Duration::from_millis(250)) => heartbeat;
-        on(StopPressed) => Idle;
-        on(CookDone) => Done;
-
-        state Cooking {
-            entry: enter_cooking, show_cooking;
-            default(Heating);
-
-            state Heating {
-                // Magnetron + heater live on Heating so they turn off the
-                // instant we leave for Paused.
-                entry: enter_heating, start_magnetron, heater_on;
-                exit: heater_off, stop_magnetron;
-                on(DoorOpened) => mark_door_open;
-                on(DoorOpened) => pause_cook_clock;
-                on(DoorOpened) => Suspended;
-            }
-
-            // Suspended = "cook is paused". Two substates express the classic
-            // microwave rule: closing the door alone does NOT resume cooking
-            // — the user must press Start. Pressing Stop (handled by Running)
-            // cancels entirely back to Idle.
-            state Suspended {
-                entry: enter_suspended, start_pause_blink;
-                exit: stop_pause_blink;
-                default(DoorAjar);
-
-                state DoorAjar {
-                    entry: show_paused;
-                    on(DoorClosed) => mark_door_closed;
-                    on(DoorClosed) => AwaitingResume;
-                }
-
-                state AwaitingResume {
-                    entry: show_press_start;
-                    on(DoorOpened) => mark_door_open;
-                    on(DoorOpened) => DoorAjar;
-
-                    // Actions fire before the transition, so the clock is
-                    // resumed and the log line written before we re-enter
-                    // Heating (which turns the magnetron back on).
-                    on(StartPressed) => log_resume;
-                    on(StartPressed) => resume_cook_clock;
-                    on(StartPressed) => Heating;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    state Done {
-        entry: enter_done, beep, show_done;
-        exit: exit_done;
-
-        on(after Duration::from_millis(2000)) => schedule_auto_reset;
-        on(StartPressed) => Done;
-        on(Reset) => Idle;
-    }
-}
-}
-
-// ---------- Actions ----------
-//
-// Every method is either publishing to the shared UI state or emitting an
-// event back into the machine.
-
-impl OvenActions for OvenActionContext<'_> {
-    // Root
-    async fn boot_self_test(&mut self) { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("BOOT self-test ok"); }
-    async fn log_boot_done(&mut self)  { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("BOOT ready"); }
-    async fn save_last_state(&mut self){ self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("SHUTDOWN persisted state"); }
-    async fn cut_all_power(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.magnetron = false;
-        ui.heater = false;
-        ui.display = "-- OFF --".into();
-        ui.terminated = true;
-        ui.log("SHUTDOWN power cut");
-    }
-
-    // Door tracking (root-level)
-    async fn mark_door_open(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.door_open = true;
-    }
-    async fn mark_door_closed(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.door_open = false;
-    }
-
-    // Idle
-    async fn enter_idle(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Idle"]);
-    }
-    async fn sync_door(&mut self) {
-        let door_open = self.ui.lock().unwrap().door_open;
-        if door_open {
-            self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("IDLE door still open — syncing");
-            let _ = self.emit(OvenEvent::DoorOpened);
-        }
-    }
-    async fn show_ready(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Idle", "DoorClosed"]);
-        ui.display = "READY".into();
-        ui.log("IDLE ready");
-    }
-    async fn show_close_door(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Idle", "DoorOpen"]);
-        ui.display = "CLOSE DOOR".into();
-        ui.log("IDLE door is open");
-    }
-    async fn warn_door_open(&mut self) {
-        self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("WARN can't start — door open");
-    }
-    async fn record_start(&mut self) { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("BTN start pressed"); }
-    async fn prime_cook(&mut self)   { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("BTN primed cook"); }
-    async fn beep(&mut self)         { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("*BEEP*"); }
-
-    // Running
-    async fn enter_running(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Running"]);
-    }
-    async fn start_magnetron(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.magnetron = true;
-        ui.log("MAG on");
-    }
-    async fn stop_magnetron(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.magnetron = false;
-        ui.log("MAG off");
-    }
-    async fn start_cook_clock(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        let total = Duration::from_millis(COOK_MS);
-        ui.cook_total = total;
-        ui.cook_deadline = Some(Instant::now() + total);
-        ui.paused_at = None;
-    }
-    async fn stop_cook_clock(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.cook_deadline = None;
-        ui.paused_at = None;
-    }
-    async fn pause_cook_clock(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.paused_at = Some(Instant::now());
-        ui.log("CLOCK paused");
-    }
-    async fn resume_cook_clock(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        if let (Some(paused_at), Some(deadline)) = (ui.paused_at, ui.cook_deadline) {
-            let skipped = paused_at.elapsed();
-            ui.cook_deadline = Some(deadline + skipped);
-            ui.log(format!("CLOCK resume (+{}ms)", skipped.as_millis()));
-        }
-        ui.paused_at = None;
-    }
-    async fn heartbeat(&mut self) { /* UI gauge animates on its own */ }
-
-    // Cooking / Heating
-    async fn enter_cooking(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Running", "Cooking"]);
-    }
-    async fn show_cooking(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.display = "COOKING".into();
-        ui.blink = false;
-    }
-    async fn enter_heating(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Running", "Cooking", "Heating"]);
-        ui.blink = false;
-        ui.display = "COOKING".into();
-    }
-    async fn heater_on(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.heater = true;
-        ui.log("HEAT on");
-    }
-    async fn heater_off(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.heater = false;
-        ui.log("HEAT off");
-    }
-
-    // Suspended (paused)
-    async fn enter_suspended(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Running", "Cooking", "Suspended"]);
-    }
-    async fn show_paused(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Running", "Cooking", "Suspended", "DoorAjar"]);
-        ui.display = "PAUSED".into();
-    }
-    async fn show_press_start(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Running", "Cooking", "Suspended", "AwaitingResume"]);
-        ui.display = "PRESS START".into();
-        ui.log("PAUSE door closed — press Start to resume");
-    }
-    async fn start_pause_blink(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.blink = true;
-        ui.log("PAUSE blink on");
-    }
-    async fn stop_pause_blink(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.blink = false;
-        ui.log("PAUSE blink off");
-    }
-    async fn log_resume(&mut self) { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("PAUSE resuming"); }
-
-    // Done
-    async fn enter_done(&mut self) {
-        let mut ui = self.ui.lock().unwrap();
-        ui.set_path(&["Oven", "Done"]);
-    }
-    async fn show_done(&mut self) {
-        self.ui.lock().unwrap().display = "DONE!".into();
-    }
-    async fn exit_done(&mut self) { self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("DONE exit"); }
-    async fn schedule_auto_reset(&mut self) {
-        self.ui.lock().unwrap().log("DONE auto-reset queued");
-        self.emit(OvenEvent::Reset).expect("queue has room");
-    }
-}
-
-// ---------- Rendering ----------
-
-fn draw(frame: &mut ratatui::Frame<'_>, ui: &UiState) {
-    let size = frame.area();
-    let root = Layout::default()
-        .direction(Direction::Vertical)
-        .constraints([
-            Constraint::Length(1),
-            Constraint::Min(16),
-            Constraint::Length(10),
-            Constraint::Length(3),
-        ])
-        .split(size);
-
-    // --- Title bar ---
-    let title = if ui.terminated {
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::styled(" MICROWAVE ", Style::new().bg(Color::Red).fg(Color::White).bold()),
-            Span::raw("  "),
-            Span::styled("TERMINATED", Style::new().fg(Color::Red).bold()),
-        ])
-    } else {
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::styled(" MICROWAVE ", Style::new().bg(Color::Yellow).fg(Color::Black).bold()),
-            Span::raw("  hsmc statechart demo · press Q to quit"),
-        ])
-    };
-    frame.render_widget(Paragraph::new(title), root[0]);
-
-    // --- Main area: oven on the left, status on the right ---
-    let main = Layout::default()
-        .direction(Direction::Horizontal)
-        .constraints([Constraint::Percentage(55), Constraint::Percentage(45)])
-        .split(root[1]);
-
-    draw_oven(frame, main[0], ui);
-    draw_status(frame, main[1], ui);
-
-    // --- Log ---
-    let log_lines: Vec<Line> = ui.log.iter().rev().take(8).rev()
-        .map(|s| Line::from(s.as_str()))
-        .collect();
-    let log = Paragraph::new(log_lines)
-        .block(Block::default().title(" Event log ").borders(Borders::ALL))
-        .wrap(Wrap { trim: false });
-    frame.render_widget(log, root[2]);
-
-    // --- Keys ---
-    let keys = Line::from(vec![
-        key_hint("S", "Start"),
-        Span::raw("  "),
-        key_hint("X", "Stop"),
-        Span::raw("  "),
-        key_hint("O", "Open door"),
-        Span::raw("  "),
-        key_hint("C", "Close door"),
-        Span::raw("  "),
-        key_hint("K", "Kill (power fail)"),
-        Span::raw("  "),
-        key_hint("Q", "Quit"),
-    ]);
-    frame.render_widget(
-        Paragraph::new(keys).block(Block::default().borders(Borders::ALL).title(" Controls ")),
-        root[3],
-    );
-}
-
-fn key_hint(k: &str, label: &str) -> Span<'static> {
-    Span::from(format!("[{}] {}", k, label)).fg(Color::Cyan)
-}
-
-fn draw_oven(frame: &mut ratatui::Frame<'_>, area: Rect, ui: &UiState) {
-    let block = Block::default().borders(Borders::ALL).title(" Oven ");
-    let inner = block.inner(area);
-    frame.render_widget(block, area);
-
-    let rows = Layout::default()
-        .direction(Direction::Vertical)
-        .constraints([
-            Constraint::Length(1),
-            Constraint::Length(5),
-            Constraint::Length(1),
-            Constraint::Length(1),
-            Constraint::Length(2),
-            Constraint::Min(0),
-        ])
-        .split(inner);
-
-    // Door indicator line
-    let door_line = if ui.door_open {
-        Span::styled("  ┌─────  DOOR OPEN  ─────┐", Style::new().fg(Color::Yellow).bold())
-    } else {
-        Span::styled("  ┌─────  door closed  ─────┐", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray))
-    };
-    frame.render_widget(Paragraph::new(Line::from(door_line)), rows[0]);
-
-    // Big display
-    let display_style = if ui.terminated {
-        Style::new().fg(Color::Red).bold()
-    } else if ui.blink && (Instant::now().elapsed().as_millis() / 300) % 2 == 0 {
-        Style::new().fg(Color::Yellow).bold()
-    } else if ui.display == "DONE!" {
-        Style::new().fg(Color::Green).bold()
-    } else if ui.display == "COOKING" {
-        Style::new().fg(Color::LightRed).bold()
-    } else {
-        Style::new().fg(Color::Cyan).bold()
-    };
-    let big = Paragraph::new(vec![
-        Line::from(""),
-        Line::from(Span::styled(
-            format!(" ┃  {:^14}  ┃", ui.display),
-            display_style,
-        )),
-        Line::from(Span::styled(" ┃                  ┃", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray))),
-        Line::from(Span::styled(" ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray))),
-    ]);
-    frame.render_widget(big, rows[1]);
-
-    // Progress gauge for cook — freezes while paused.
-    let (ratio, label, color) = if let Some(deadline) = ui.cook_deadline {
-        let now = ui.paused_at.unwrap_or_else(Instant::now);
-        let total = ui.cook_total;
-        let remaining = deadline.saturating_duration_since(now);
-        let elapsed = total.saturating_sub(remaining);
-        let r = (elapsed.as_secs_f64() / total.as_secs_f64()).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-        let label = format!("{:.1}s / {:.1}s{}",
-            elapsed.as_secs_f64(),
-            total.as_secs_f64(),
-            if ui.paused_at.is_some() { "  (paused)" } else { "" },
-        );
-        let color = if ui.paused_at.is_some() { Color::Yellow } else { Color::LightRed };
-        (r, label, color)
-    } else {
-        (0.0, "—".to_string(), Color::DarkGray)
-    };
-    let gauge = Gauge::default()
-        .block(Block::default().borders(Borders::NONE))
-        .gauge_style(Style::new().fg(color))
-        .ratio(ratio)
-        .label(label);
-    frame.render_widget(gauge, rows[3]);
-}
-
-fn draw_status(frame: &mut ratatui::Frame<'_>, area: Rect, ui: &UiState) {
-    let block = Block::default().borders(Borders::ALL).title(" Status ");
-    let inner = block.inner(area);
-    frame.render_widget(block, area);
-
-    let path = if ui.state_path.is_empty() {
-        "—".to_string()
-    } else {
-        ui.state_path.join(" › ")
-    };
-
-    let bullet = |on: bool| {
-        if on { Span::styled("●", Style::new().fg(Color::Green).bold()) }
-        else  { Span::styled("○", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray)) }
-    };
-
-    let lines = vec![
-        Line::from(""),
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::styled("  State path:  ", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray)),
-            Span::styled(path, Style::new().fg(Color::White).bold()),
-        ]),
-        Line::from(""),
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::raw("  Magnetron   "),
-            bullet(ui.magnetron),
-            Span::raw(if ui.magnetron { "  ON " } else { "  off" }),
-        ]),
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::raw("  Heater      "),
-            bullet(ui.heater),
-            Span::raw(if ui.heater { "  ON " } else { "  off" }),
-        ]),
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::raw("  Door        "),
-            if ui.door_open {
-                Span::styled("OPEN  ", Style::new().fg(Color::Yellow).add_modifier(Modifier::BOLD))
-            } else {
-                Span::styled("CLOSED", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray))
-            },
-        ]),
-        Line::from(""),
-        Line::from(vec![
-            Span::styled("  hsmc tip: ", Style::new().fg(Color::DarkGray)),
-            Span::raw("events bubble · timers don't"),
-        ]),
-    ];
-    frame.render_widget(Paragraph::new(lines), inner);
-}
-
-// ---------- Main ----------
-
-#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
-async fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
-    // Shared UI state.
-    let ui = Arc::new(Mutex::new(UiState::default()));
-
-    // Build the machine.
-    let ctx = OvenContext { ui: Arc::clone(&ui) };
-    let mut oven = Oven::with_queue_capacity::<16>(ctx);
-    let sender = oven.sender();
-    let fault_sender = oven.sender();
-    let cook_sender = oven.sender();
-
-    // Raw-mode terminal.
-    enable_raw_mode()?;
-    let mut stdout = io::stdout();
-    execute!(stdout, EnterAlternateScreen, EnableMouseCapture)?;
-    let backend = CrosstermBackend::new(stdout);
-    let mut terminal = Terminal::new(backend)?;
-
-    // Render loop — 30 fps.
-    let ui_for_render = Arc::clone(&ui);
-    let (render_stop_tx, mut render_stop_rx) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel::<()>();
-    let render_task = tokio::spawn(async move {
-        let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(Duration::from_millis(33));
-        loop {
-            tokio::select! {
-                _ = &mut render_stop_rx => break,
-                _ = interval.tick() => {
-                    let snapshot = {
-                        let g = ui_for_render.lock().unwrap();
-                        UiSnapshot::from(&*g)
-                    };
-                    let _ = terminal.draw(|f| draw(f, &snapshot.into()));
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        // Restore terminal.
-        let _ = disable_raw_mode();
-        let _ = execute!(terminal.backend_mut(), LeaveAlternateScreen, DisableMouseCapture);
-        terminal
-    });
-
-    // Cook-clock watchdog. Polls shared UI state; when we're not paused and
-    // the deadline has passed, fires a single CookDone event and then sleeps
-    // until the deadline is re-armed. The machine discards CookDone if the
-    // current state doesn't handle it (e.g. after StopPressed).
-    let ui_for_watchdog = Arc::clone(&ui);
-    let watchdog_task = tokio::spawn(async move {
-        loop {
-            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50)).await;
-            let should_fire = {
-                let u = ui_for_watchdog.lock().unwrap();
-                if u.terminated { return; }
-                match (u.cook_deadline, u.paused_at) {
-                    (Some(deadline), None) => Instant::now() >= deadline,
-                    _ => false,
-                }
-            };
-            if should_fire {
-                let _ = cook_sender.send(OvenEvent::CookDone);
-                // Give the machine a beat to process and clear cook_deadline
-                // (via Running's exit → stop_cook_clock) before we check again.
-                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100)).await;
-            }
-        }
-    });
-
-    // Input loop.
-    let ui_for_input = Arc::clone(&ui);
-    let input_task = tokio::spawn(async move {
-        let mut events = EventStream::new();
-        while let Some(Ok(ev)) = events.next().await {
-            if let Event::Key(k) = ev {
-                if k.kind != KeyEventKind::Press { continue; }
-                let code = k.code;
-                let msg = match code {
-                    KeyCode::Char('s') | KeyCode::Char('S') => Some(OvenEvent::StartPressed),
-                    KeyCode::Char('x') | KeyCode::Char('X') => Some(OvenEvent::StopPressed),
-                    KeyCode::Char('o') | KeyCode::Char('O') => Some(OvenEvent::DoorOpened),
-                    KeyCode::Char('c') | KeyCode::Char('C') => Some(OvenEvent::DoorClosed),
-                    KeyCode::Char('k') | KeyCode::Char('K') => Some(OvenEvent::PowerFailure),
-                    KeyCode::Char('q') | KeyCode::Char('Q') | KeyCode::Esc => {
-                        // Quit: cleanly terminate the machine via PowerFailure.
-                        let _ = fault_sender.send(OvenEvent::PowerFailure);
-                        break;
-                    }
-                    _ => None,
-                };
-                if let Some(m) = msg {
-                    ui_for_input.lock().unwrap().log(format!("KEY -> {:?}", m));
-                    let _ = sender.send(m);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    });
-
-    // Drive the state machine on the main task.
-    let _ = oven.run().await;
-
-    // Let the UI show the TERMINATED banner briefly.
-    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(700)).await;
-
-    // Stop the render loop.
-    let _ = render_stop_tx.send(());
-    input_task.abort();
-    watchdog_task.abort();
-    let mut terminal = render_task.await.expect("render task");
-
-    // Belt-and-braces teardown in case the render loop didn't get to it.
-    let _ = disable_raw_mode();
-    let _ = execute!(terminal.backend_mut(), LeaveAlternateScreen, DisableMouseCapture);
-
-    // Final transcript.
-    let ui = ui.lock().unwrap();
-    println!("\nFinal state: {}", ui.state_path.join(" › "));
-    println!("Events: {}", ui.log.len());
-    for line in ui.log.iter() {
-        println!("  {}", line);
-    }
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-// Snapshot so we don't hold the Mutex across the render.
-struct UiSnapshot {
-    state_path: Vec<&'static str>,
-    display: String,
-    magnetron: bool,
-    heater: bool,
-    door_open: bool,
-    blink: bool,
-    log: VecDeque<String>,
-    cook_deadline: Option<Instant>,
-    cook_total: Duration,
-    paused_at: Option<Instant>,
-    terminated: bool,
-}
-impl From<&UiState> for UiSnapshot {
-    fn from(u: &UiState) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            state_path: u.state_path.clone(),
-            display: u.display.clone(),
-            magnetron: u.magnetron,
-            heater: u.heater,
-            door_open: u.door_open,
-            blink: u.blink,
-            log: u.log.clone(),
-            cook_deadline: u.cook_deadline,
-            cook_total: u.cook_total,
-            paused_at: u.paused_at,
-            terminated: u.terminated,
-        }
-    }
-}
-impl From<UiSnapshot> for UiState {
-    fn from(s: UiSnapshot) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            state_path: s.state_path,
-            display: s.display,
-            magnetron: s.magnetron,
-            heater: s.heater,
-            door_open: s.door_open,
-            blink: s.blink,
-            log: s.log,
-            cook_deadline: s.cook_deadline,
-            cook_total: s.cook_total,
-            paused_at: s.paused_at,
-            terminated: s.terminated,
-        }
-    }
-}
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+//! Deterministic execution journal for `hsmc` charts.
+//!
+//! Behind `feature = "journal"`. The macro emits one [`TraceEvent`] for every
+//! observable atom in chart execution: entries, exits, action invocations,
+//! during start/cancel, timer arm/cancel/fire, queued emits, event delivery,
+//! transitions, and termination.
+//!
+//! For a fixed `(chart, initial context, external event sequence,
+//! elapsed-time inputs)`, the produced journal is byte-identical across runs
+//! — that's the contract the verification harness checks against.
+//!
+//! All identifiers in the journal are stable u16 indices generated at macro
+//! expansion time. Each chart also exposes:
+//!
+//! - `<Chart>::CHART_HASH: u64` — identifies the chart definition; mismatch
+//!   on replay = different chart.
+//! - `<Chart>::state_name(id)`, `<Chart>::action_name(id)`,
+//!   `<Chart>::event_name(id)`, `<Chart>::timer_label(id)` — human-readable
+//!   names for debugging.
+//!
+//! The journal does not record `during:` race outcomes from `run()` — race
+//! winners depend on wall-clock timing and are not part of the deterministic
+//! contract (see semantics doc). What you see in the journal is the *result*
+//! of any race: the event the winning during emitted.
+
+extern crate alloc;
+pub(crate) use alloc::vec::Vec;
+
+/// Owned journal returned by `take_journal()`. A `Vec<TraceEvent>` whose
+/// concrete crate (`alloc::vec::Vec`) is hidden so callers don't need an
+/// `extern crate alloc` of their own.
+pub type Journal = alloc::vec::Vec<TraceEvent>;
+
+/// Distinguishes which kind of slot an action was invoked in. Pure metadata
+/// — the action body is the same regardless. Lets the journal be readable
+/// without cross-referencing surrounding events.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub enum ActionKind {
+    /// Entry action of a state.
+    Entry,
+    /// Exit action of a state.
+    Exit,
+    /// Handler action (action attached to a transition or standalone
+    /// `action(...) => fn`).
+    Handler,
+}
+
+/// Why a transition fired. Carried on `TransitionFired` so observers can
+/// see *what triggered* the state change, not just that one happened.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub enum TransitionReason {
+    /// External or queued event with the given index dispatched into a
+    /// handler that fired this transition.
+    Event { event: u16 },
+    /// Timer on the given (state, timer) slot expired and its handler
+    /// fired this transition.
+    Timer { state: u16, timer: u16 },
+    /// Driven from inside the runtime without an originating event or
+    /// timer. Emitted for `default(...)` firings: after a state with a
+    /// declared default is entered, the default fires as a transition
+    /// with this reason. The default target may be any state in the
+    /// chart — sibling, ancestor, anywhere.
+    Internal,
+}
+
+/// One observable atom of chart execution. The macro emits these at every
+/// hook point so the full sequence can be journaled and compared.
+///
+/// Variants carry stable u16 indices, never strings. Serialization (binary
+/// or JSON) of these values is reproducible across rebuilds.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub enum TraceEvent {
+    /// First event in any journal. Identifies the chart definition.
+    Started { chart_hash: u64 },
+    /// A state's entry began. The marker is emitted before any of the
+    /// state's entry actions, timers, or durings have run. Followed by
+    /// `ActionInvoked{Entry}`, `TimerArmed`, `DuringStarted`, then the
+    /// matching `Entered` end marker.
+    EnterBegan { state: u16 },
+    /// A state's entry completed. Emitted after every entry action,
+    /// timer arm, and during start has run for that state. Pairs with
+    /// the prior `EnterBegan { state }`.
+    Entered { state: u16 },
+    /// A state's exit began. The marker is emitted before any of the
+    /// state's during cancellations, timer cancellations, or exit
+    /// actions have run. Followed by `DuringCancelled`, `TimerCancelled`,
+    /// `ActionInvoked{Exit}`, then the matching `Exited` end marker.
+    ExitBegan { state: u16 },
+    /// A state's exit completed. Emitted after every during cancel,
+    /// timer cancel, and exit action has run for that state. Pairs with
+    /// the prior `ExitBegan { state }`.
+    Exited { state: u16 },
+    /// An action function was called.
+    ActionInvoked {
+        state: u16,
+        action: u16,
+        kind: ActionKind,
+    },
+    /// A `during:` activity became logically active for its owning state.
+    /// Index is the state-local declaration order (0-based).
+    DuringStarted { state: u16, during: u16 },
+    /// A `during:` activity was cancelled because its owning state is
+    /// being exited.
+    DuringCancelled { state: u16, during: u16 },
+    /// A transition is about to fire. `from` is the innermost active
+    /// state at the moment the transition was triggered; `to` is the
+    /// target; `reason` records what caused the transition (event,
+    /// timer, or internal). Followed by the actual `ExitBegan`/`Exited`/
+    /// `EnterBegan`/`Entered` events that implement the transition,
+    /// then the matching `TransitionComplete` end marker.
+    TransitionFired {
+        from: Option<u16>,
+        to: u16,
+        reason: TransitionReason,
+    },
+    /// A transition completed. Emitted after the transition's exit and
+    /// entry sequences are fully done. Pairs with the prior
+    /// `TransitionFired { from, to, .. }`.
+    TransitionComplete { from: Option<u16>, to: u16 },
+    /// An event was popped from the internal queue and is about to be
+    /// dispatched. Emitted before the handler search; followed by either
+    /// `EventDelivered` (handler found and ran) or `EventDropped`
+    /// (no handler on the active path), or `TerminateRequested` if the
+    /// event matches the chart's terminate declaration.
+    EventReceived { event: u16 },
+    /// An event reached a state's handler. `handler_state` is the state
+    /// whose handler ran (which may be an ancestor of the innermost
+    /// active state if the event bubbled).
+    EventDelivered { handler_state: u16, event: u16 },
+    /// An event was dispatched but no state on the active path had a
+    /// handler. Silently dropped per spec.
+    EventDropped { event: u16 },
+    /// `emit()` from inside an action successfully pushed an event onto
+    /// the internal queue.
+    EmitQueued { event: u16 },
+    /// `emit()` from inside an action failed because the queue was full.
+    /// The action chain continues; the runtime surfaces `QueueFull` at
+    /// end of tick.
+    EmitFailed { event: u16 },
+    /// An event matched the chart's `terminate(...)` declaration and is
+    /// about to drive shutdown. Followed by the bottom-up exit chain
+    /// (Exited events) and a final `Terminated`.
+    TerminateRequested { event: u16 },
+    /// A timer was armed (set to start counting down) for a state.
+    /// `ns` is the duration in nanoseconds.
+    TimerArmed { state: u16, timer: u16, ns: u64 },
+    /// A timer was cancelled because its owning state is being exited.
+    TimerCancelled { state: u16, timer: u16 },
+    /// A timer's countdown reached zero and its handler is about to run.
+    TimerFired { state: u16, timer: u16 },
+    /// The chart processed its `terminate` event and the run loop is
+    /// done. Always the final event in the journal.
+    Terminated,
+}
+
+// JournalSink lives in `__private` (in `lib.rs`) so the codegen can
+// unconditionally refer to `::hsmc::__private::JournalSink` whether or
+// not the `journal` feature is on.
@@ -102,6 +102,616 @@ pub use hsmc_macros::statechart;
 mod error;
 pub use error::HsmcError;

+// ── Unified observation pipeline ────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// The `statechart!` macro emits ONE `__chart_observe!` call per
+// observable atom of execution — entry/exit phase begin/end markers,
+// action invocations, during start/cancel, timer arm/cancel/fire,
+// emit queue push/fail, event receive/deliver/drop, transition
+// begin/complete, terminate-requested, and terminated.
+//
+// `__chart_observe!` is the single dispatcher: each arm fans the
+// observation out to whichever sinks are enabled at compile time:
+//
+//   - `feature = "journal"`     → push a `TraceEvent` into the
+//                                  per-machine `JournalSink`.
+//   - `feature = "trace-defmt"` → emit a `defmt::*` log line.
+//   - `feature = "trace-log"`   → emit a `log::*` log line.
+//   - `feature = "trace-tracing"` → emit a `tracing::*` event with
+//                                    structured fields.
+//
+// With NO sink feature enabled, every arm body is empty and the
+// macro's args are never expanded — zero runtime cost, zero binary
+// growth. There is intentionally no catch-all arm: an unrecognized
+// invocation produces a compile error, so codegen mismatches are
+// caught loudly rather than silently dropped.
+//
+// Trace and journal share the same vocabulary by construction. The
+// trace's textual rendering is machine-parseable (logfmt-style:
+// `[statechart:Name] verb key=value …`), so a captured log can be
+// diff'd against expected behavior the same way the journal can.
+
+#[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+mod journal;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+pub use journal::{ActionKind, Journal, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+/// Internal observation dispatcher invoked by `statechart!`-generated
+/// code. Not part of the public API.
+///
+/// Call form (one arm per `TraceEvent` variant):
+/// `__chart_observe!(<Variant>, <sink-expr>, <chart-literal>, <variant args…>)`
+///
+/// `sink-expr` is the place expression for the journal sink (typically
+/// `&mut self.__journal`); `chart-literal` is the chart name as a
+/// string literal. Variant args are passed positionally — see each arm
+/// for the order. Names (state, action, event, timer, during) are
+/// passed as `&'static str` literals at each call site so the trace
+/// formatters never do a runtime lookup.
+///
+/// All sink-feature gates apply *inside* each arm. With every sink
+/// feature off, the arm body is empty; the macro's positional args are
+/// never expanded; the call site contributes zero code.
+#[doc(hidden)]
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! __chart_observe {
+    // ── Started ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    (Started, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $hash:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::Started { chart_hash: $hash });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] started chart_hash={=u64:#x}",
+            $chart,
+            $hash
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!("[statechart:{}] started chart_hash={:#x}", $chart, $hash);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, chart_hash = $hash, "started");
+    }};
+
+    // ── EnterBegan / Entered ───────────────────────────────────────
+    (EnterBegan, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $sid:expr, $sname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: $sid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!("[statechart:{}] entering state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!("[statechart:{}] entering state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, state = $sname, "entering");
+    }};
+    (Entered, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $sid:expr, $sname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::Entered { state: $sid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!("[statechart:{}] entered state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!("[statechart:{}] entered state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, state = $sname, "entered");
+    }};
+
+    // ── ExitBegan / Exited ─────────────────────────────────────────
+    (ExitBegan, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $sid:expr, $sname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: $sid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!("[statechart:{}] exiting state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!("[statechart:{}] exiting state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, state = $sname, "exiting");
+    }};
+    (Exited, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $sid:expr, $sname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::Exited { state: $sid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!("[statechart:{}] exited state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!("[statechart:{}] exited state={}", $chart, $sname);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, state = $sname, "exited");
+    }};
+
+    // ── ActionInvoked (Entry / Exit / Handler) ─────────────────────
+    (ActionInvoked, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $aid:expr, $aname:expr,
+        Entry) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                state: $sid,
+                action: $aid,
+                kind: $crate::ActionKind::Entry,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::trace!(
+            "[statechart:{}] action state={} action={} kind=entry",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $aname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::trace!(
+            "[statechart:{}] action state={} action={} kind=entry",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $aname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::trace!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            action = $aname,
+            kind = "entry",
+            "action"
+        );
+    }};
+    (ActionInvoked, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $aid:expr, $aname:expr,
+        Exit) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                state: $sid,
+                action: $aid,
+                kind: $crate::ActionKind::Exit,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::trace!(
+            "[statechart:{}] action state={} action={} kind=exit",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $aname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::trace!(
+            "[statechart:{}] action state={} action={} kind=exit",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $aname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::trace!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            action = $aname,
+            kind = "exit",
+            "action"
+        );
+    }};
+    (ActionInvoked, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $aid:expr, $aname:expr,
+        Handler) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                state: $sid,
+                action: $aid,
+                kind: $crate::ActionKind::Handler,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::trace!(
+            "[statechart:{}] action state={} action={} kind=handler",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $aname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::trace!(
+            "[statechart:{}] action state={} action={} kind=handler",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $aname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::trace!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            action = $aname,
+            kind = "handler",
+            "action"
+        );
+    }};
+
+    // ── DuringStarted / DuringCancelled ────────────────────────────
+    (DuringStarted, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $did:expr, $dname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::DuringStarted {
+                state: $sid,
+                during: $did,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] during-started state={} during={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $dname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] during-started state={} during={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $dname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            during = $dname,
+            "during-started"
+        );
+    }};
+    (DuringCancelled, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $did:expr, $dname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::DuringCancelled {
+                state: $sid,
+                during: $did,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] during-cancelled state={} during={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $dname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] during-cancelled state={} during={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $dname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            during = $dname,
+            "during-cancelled"
+        );
+    }};
+
+    // ── TransitionFired (begin marker) ─────────────────────────────
+    //
+    // The reason is rendered three ways (event:Name, timer:State/Timer,
+    // internal). The journal stores the structured reason and the trace
+    // gets a pre-rendered `&'static str` (`$rname`) so log lines stay
+    // simple to parse.
+    (TransitionFired, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $from:expr, $fname:expr,
+        $to:expr, $tname:expr,
+        $reason:expr, $rname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                from: $from,
+                to: $to,
+                reason: $reason,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] transition-begin from={} to={} reason={}",
+            $chart,
+            $fname,
+            $tname,
+            $rname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] transition-begin from={} to={} reason={}",
+            $chart,
+            $fname,
+            $tname,
+            $rname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            from = $fname,
+            to = $tname,
+            reason = $rname,
+            "transition-begin"
+        );
+    }};
+
+    // ── TransitionComplete (end marker) ────────────────────────────
+    (TransitionComplete, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $from:expr, $fname:expr,
+        $to:expr, $tname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                from: $from,
+                to: $to,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] transition-complete from={} to={}",
+            $chart,
+            $fname,
+            $tname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] transition-complete from={} to={}",
+            $chart,
+            $fname,
+            $tname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            from = $fname,
+            to = $tname,
+            "transition-complete"
+        );
+    }};
+
+    // ── Event lifecycle ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    (EventReceived, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $eid:expr, $ename:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: $eid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!("[statechart:{}] event-received name={}", $chart, $ename);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!("[statechart:{}] event-received name={}", $chart, $ename);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(chart = $chart, name = $ename, "event-received");
+    }};
+    (EventDelivered, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $eid:expr, $ename:expr,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                handler_state: $sid,
+                event: $eid,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] event-delivered name={} handler={}",
+            $chart,
+            $ename,
+            $sname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] event-delivered name={} handler={}",
+            $chart,
+            $ename,
+            $sname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            name = $ename,
+            handler = $sname,
+            "event-delivered"
+        );
+    }};
+    (EventDropped, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $eid:expr, $ename:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::EventDropped { event: $eid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!("[statechart:{}] event-dropped name={}", $chart, $ename);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!("[statechart:{}] event-dropped name={}", $chart, $ename);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(chart = $chart, name = $ename, "event-dropped");
+    }};
+
+    // ── emit() outcomes ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    (EmitQueued, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $eid:expr, $ename:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::EmitQueued { event: $eid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!("[statechart:{}] emit-queued event={}", $chart, $ename);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!("[statechart:{}] emit-queued event={}", $chart, $ename);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(chart = $chart, event = $ename, "emit-queued");
+    }};
+    (EmitFailed, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $eid:expr, $ename:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::EmitFailed { event: $eid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::warn!(
+            "[statechart:{}] emit-failed event={} reason=queue-full",
+            $chart,
+            $ename
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::warn!(
+            "[statechart:{}] emit-failed event={} reason=queue-full",
+            $chart,
+            $ename
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::warn!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            event = $ename,
+            reason = "queue-full",
+            "emit-failed"
+        );
+    }};
+
+    // ── Timer lifecycle ────────────────────────────────────────────
+    (TimerArmed, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $tid:expr, $tname:expr,
+        $ns:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::TimerArmed {
+                state: $sid,
+                timer: $tid,
+                ns: $ns,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] timer-armed state={} timer={} duration_ns={=u64}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $tname,
+            $ns
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] timer-armed state={} timer={} duration_ns={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $tname,
+            $ns
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            timer = $tname,
+            duration_ns = $ns,
+            "timer-armed"
+        );
+    }};
+    (TimerCancelled, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $tid:expr, $tname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::TimerCancelled {
+                state: $sid,
+                timer: $tid,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] timer-cancelled state={} timer={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $tname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::debug!(
+            "[statechart:{}] timer-cancelled state={} timer={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $tname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::debug!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            timer = $tname,
+            "timer-cancelled"
+        );
+    }};
+    (TimerFired, $sink:expr, $chart:literal,
+        $sid:expr, $sname:expr,
+        $tid:expr, $tname:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::TimerFired {
+                state: $sid,
+                timer: $tid,
+            });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] timer-fired state={} timer={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $tname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] timer-fired state={} timer={}",
+            $chart,
+            $sname,
+            $tname
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(
+            chart = $chart,
+            state = $sname,
+            timer = $tname,
+            "timer-fired"
+        );
+    }};
+
+    // ── Termination ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    (TerminateRequested, $sink:expr, $chart:literal, $eid:expr, $ename:expr) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::TerminateRequested { event: $eid });
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] terminate-requested event={}",
+            $chart,
+            $ename
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!(
+            "[statechart:{}] terminate-requested event={}",
+            $chart,
+            $ename
+        );
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, event = $ename, "terminate-requested");
+    }};
+    (Terminated, $sink:expr, $chart:literal) => {{
+        #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+        {
+            $sink.push($crate::TraceEvent::Terminated);
+        }
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-defmt")]
+        ::defmt::info!("[statechart:{}] terminated", $chart);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-log")]
+        ::log::info!("[statechart:{}] terminated", $chart);
+        #[cfg(feature = "trace-tracing")]
+        ::tracing::info!(chart = $chart, "terminated");
+    }};
+}
+
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub mod __private {
    //! Implementation details used by code generated by the `statechart!` macro.
@@ -110,6 +720,57 @@ pub mod __private {

    pub use crate::error::HsmcError;

+    // ── JournalSink ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    //
+    // The codegen unconditionally declares a `__journal: JournalSink`
+    // field on the generated machine and on the action context. When the
+    // `journal` feature is on, JournalSink wraps a `Vec<TraceEvent>` and
+    // the `__chart_journal!` macro pushes events into it. When off, it's
+    // a ZST and the macro expands to nothing — zero overhead, no `alloc`
+    // requirement.
+
+    /// Journal sink storing the in-order trace of observable execution
+    /// atoms when `feature = "journal"` is enabled. Zero-sized when
+    /// disabled.
+    #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+    #[derive(Default, Debug, Clone)]
+    pub struct JournalSink {
+        events: crate::journal::Vec<crate::TraceEvent>,
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "journal")]
+    impl JournalSink {
+        pub const fn new() -> Self {
+            Self {
+                events: crate::journal::Vec::new(),
+            }
+        }
+        #[inline]
+        pub fn push(&mut self, event: crate::TraceEvent) {
+            self.events.push(event);
+        }
+        pub fn events(&self) -> &[crate::TraceEvent] {
+            &self.events
+        }
+        pub fn take(&mut self) -> crate::journal::Vec<crate::TraceEvent> {
+            core::mem::take(&mut self.events)
+        }
+        pub fn clear(&mut self) {
+            self.events.clear();
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(not(feature = "journal"))]
+    #[derive(Default, Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+    pub struct JournalSink;
+
+    #[cfg(not(feature = "journal"))]
+    impl JournalSink {
+        pub const fn new() -> Self {
+            Self
+        }
+    }
+
    /// A simple bounded event queue built on `heapless::Deque`.
    /// Capacity is a const generic.
    pub struct EventQueue<E, const N: usize> {
@@ -151,7 +812,12 @@ pub mod __private {
    pub struct TimerEntry {
        pub state: u16,
        pub trigger: u16,
-        pub remaining_ns: u128,
+        // u64 nanoseconds bounds at ~584 years of countdown — comfortably
+        // beyond any practical Duration. Storing the original u128 from
+        // `Duration::as_nanos()` would force u128 saturating_sub on every
+        // `decrement()` call; on 64-bit it's 4-6 instructions per entry vs
+        // 1-2 for u64. The ceiling is enforced by saturating-cast at insert.
+        pub remaining_ns: u64,
    }

    impl<const N: usize> Default for TimerTable<N> {
@@ -167,7 +833,12 @@ pub mod __private {
            }
        }
        pub fn start(&mut self, state: u16, trigger: u16, duration: core::time::Duration) {
-            let ns = duration.as_nanos();
+            // Truncating u128→u64. u64 nanoseconds bounds at ~584 years —
+            // past that the cast wraps, but no realistic timer duration
+            // gets near it (Duration::from_secs(u64::MAX) overflows long
+            // before, and from_millis/from_nanos take u64 directly so
+            // round-trip exactly).
+            let ns = duration.as_nanos() as u64;
            // Replace existing entry for same (state, trigger) — resets on re-entry.
            for e in self.entries.iter_mut() {
                if e.state == state && e.trigger == trigger {
@@ -181,22 +852,51 @@ pub mod __private {
                remaining_ns: ns,
            });
        }
+        /// Cancel every timer owned by `state`. Inlined empty-check so an
+        /// `exit_state` on a chart with no live timers compiles to a single
+        /// branch — the `retain` call (and its closure) stays out-of-line.
+        #[inline]
        pub fn cancel_state(&mut self, state: u16) {
-            self.entries.retain(|e| e.state != state);
+            if !self.entries.is_empty() {
+                self.entries.retain(|e| e.state != state);
+            }
        }
        pub fn cancel_one(&mut self, state: u16, trigger: u16) {
            self.entries
                .retain(|e| !(e.state == state && e.trigger == trigger));
        }
+        /// Subtract `elapsed` from every live timer (saturating at 0). Inlined
+        /// empty-check so the per-`step()` call costs one branch when no
+        /// timers are armed.
+        #[inline]
        pub fn decrement(&mut self, elapsed: core::time::Duration) {
-            let ns = elapsed.as_nanos();
+            if self.entries.is_empty() {
+                return;
+            }
+            let ns = elapsed.as_nanos() as u64;
            for e in self.entries.iter_mut() {
                e.remaining_ns = e.remaining_ns.saturating_sub(ns);
            }
        }
        /// Returns (state, trigger) of first expired timer, picking the innermost
        /// (deepest) state, ties broken by declaration order.
+        ///
+        /// The empty-table case is split out and `#[inline]`d so charts with no
+        /// live timers pay only a one-instruction `is_empty` branch per
+        /// `step()`, not the full function-call + iterator-setup overhead. The
+        /// non-empty body stays out-of-line to keep the hot path's icache
+        /// footprint small.
+        #[inline]
        pub fn pop_expired(&mut self, depth: &[u8]) -> Option<(u16, u16)> {
+            if self.entries.is_empty() {
+                None
+            } else {
+                self.pop_expired_nonempty(depth)
+            }
+        }
+
+        #[cold]
+        fn pop_expired_nonempty(&mut self, depth: &[u8]) -> Option<(u16, u16)> {
            let mut best: Option<usize> = None;
            for (i, e) in self.entries.iter().enumerate() {
                if e.remaining_ns == 0 {
@@ -219,12 +919,26 @@ pub mod __private {
                None
            }
        }
+
+        /// Smallest `remaining_ns` across live timers, or `None` if there are
+        /// none. Same inline-the-empty-case treatment as `pop_expired` so
+        /// timer-free charts pay only a branch per `step()`.
+        #[inline]
        pub fn min_remaining(&self) -> Option<core::time::Duration> {
-            self.entries.iter().map(|e| e.remaining_ns).min().map(|ns| {
-                let secs = (ns / 1_000_000_000) as u64;
-                let rem = (ns % 1_000_000_000) as u32;
-                core::time::Duration::new(secs, rem)
-            })
+            if self.entries.is_empty() {
+                None
+            } else {
+                self.min_remaining_nonempty()
+            }
+        }
+
+        #[cold]
+        fn min_remaining_nonempty(&self) -> Option<core::time::Duration> {
+            self.entries
+                .iter()
+                .map(|e| e.remaining_ns)
+                .min()
+                .map(core::time::Duration::from_nanos)
        }
    }

@@ -0,0 +1,408 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for EVENT BUBBLING.
+//!
+//! Spec section "How events are handled":
+//!   Event comes in. Start at the innermost active state. Does it have a
+//!   handler for this event? If yes, that handler runs and the event is
+//!   consumed — no further handling. If no, walk up to the parent. Repeat.
+//!   If you walk all the way to the root and still nothing handles it, the
+//!   event is silently discarded.
+//!
+//!   - A handler on a leaf state shadows a handler on its ancestor.
+//!   - Multiple handlers in the same state for the same trigger:
+//!     actions in declaration order, then the transition.
+//!   - Timer triggers do NOT bubble.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    LeafEv,   // handled at leaf
+    MidEv,    // handled at Mid only
+    RootEv,   // handled at root only
+    Unknown,  // no handler anywhere
+    Shadowed, // handler at both Leaf and Mid; leaf wins
+    MultiAct, // multiple actions in same state for same trigger
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Bub {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Mid);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        on(RootEv) => root_handler;
+
+        state Mid {
+            entry: m_in;
+            exit:  m_out;
+            default(Leaf);
+            on(MidEv) => mid_handler;
+            on(Shadowed) => mid_shadowed;
+            state Leaf {
+                entry: l_in;
+                exit:  l_out;
+                on(LeafEv) => leaf_handler;
+                on(Shadowed) => leaf_shadowed;
+                on(MultiAct) => multi1;
+                on(MultiAct) => multi2;
+                on(MultiAct) => multi3;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl BubActions for BubActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn m_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn m_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn root_handler(&mut self) {}
+    async fn mid_handler(&mut self) {}
+    async fn leaf_handler(&mut self) {}
+    async fn mid_shadowed(&mut self) {}
+    async fn leaf_shadowed(&mut self) {}
+    async fn multi1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn multi2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn multi3(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SM: u16 = 1;
+const SL: u16 = 2;
+// Action interning order:
+//   Root body: handlers (root_handler → 0)
+//   Mid body: m_in → 1, m_out → 2; handlers (mid_handler → 3, mid_shadowed → 4)
+//   Leaf body: l_in → 5, l_out → 6; handlers (leaf_handler → 7, leaf_shadowed → 8, multi1..3 → 9..11)
+const A_ROOT_HANDLER: u16 = 0;
+const A_MID_HANDLER: u16 = 3;
+const A_LEAF_HANDLER: u16 = 7;
+const A_MID_SHADOWED: u16 = 4;
+const A_LEAF_SHADOWED: u16 = 8;
+const A_MULTI1: u16 = 9;
+const A_MULTI2: u16 = 10;
+const A_MULTI3: u16 = 11;
+// Event interning order:
+//   Root processes first: handler RootEv → 0
+//   Then Mid: MidEv → 1, Shadowed → 2
+//   Then Leaf: LeafEv → 3, Shadowed already interned, MultiAct → 4
+const E_ROOTEV: u16 = 0;
+const E_MIDEV: u16 = 1;
+const E_SHADOWED: u16 = 2;
+const E_LEAFEV: u16 = 3;
+const E_MULTIACT: u16 = 4;
+
+fn handler_act(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Handler,
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_handler_at_leaf() {
+    // Leaf has handler for LeafEv. Bubbling stops at Leaf.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::LeafEv).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Find the EventDelivered for LeafEv.
+            let delivered = j.iter().find(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        event: E_LEAFEV,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    delivered,
+                    Some(TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        handler_state: SL,
+                        event: E_LEAFEV
+                    })
+                ),
+                "LeafEv must be delivered to Leaf, got: {:?}",
+                delivered
+            );
+            // The handler action must fire.
+            let saw_handler = j.iter().any(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SL,
+                        action: A_LEAF_HANDLER,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Handler
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(saw_handler, "leaf_handler must run");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_event_bubbles_to_parent() {
+    // Leaf has no handler for MidEv. Bubble to Mid.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::MidEv).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .find(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_MIDEV, .. }));
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    delivered,
+                    Some(TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        handler_state: SM,
+                        event: E_MIDEV
+                    })
+                ),
+                "MidEv must be delivered to Mid, got: {:?}",
+                delivered
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                j.iter()
+                    .filter(|e| matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            action: A_MID_HANDLER,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    ))
+                    .count(),
+                1
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_event_bubbles_to_root() {
+    // Neither Leaf nor Mid handles RootEv. Bubble to Root.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::RootEv).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let delivered = j.iter().find(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        event: E_ROOTEV,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    delivered,
+                    Some(TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        handler_state: SR,
+                        event: E_ROOTEV
+                    })
+                ),
+                "RootEv must be delivered to Root, got: {:?}",
+                delivered
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                j.iter()
+                    .filter(|e| matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            action: A_ROOT_HANDLER,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    ))
+                    .count(),
+                1
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_unknown_event_dropped() {
+    // No state handles Unknown. Spec: "the event is silently discarded."
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Unknown).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Must contain an EventDropped for Unknown.
+            let dropped = j
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDropped { .. }));
+            assert!(
+                dropped,
+                "unhandled Unknown must be journaled as EventDropped"
+            );
+            // No EventDelivered for it.
+            let delivered_count = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { .. }))
+                .count();
+            // No EventDelivered should fire at all (we only sent Unknown).
+            assert_eq!(
+                delivered_count, 0,
+                "Unknown must not be delivered; got: {:?}",
+                j
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_leaf_shadows_parent() {
+    // Both Leaf and Mid have handlers for Shadowed. Leaf wins (search starts there).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Shadowed).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let leaf_fired = j.iter().any(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        action: A_LEAF_SHADOWED,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            let mid_fired = j.iter().any(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        action: A_MID_SHADOWED,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(leaf_fired, "leaf_shadowed must fire (innermost wins)");
+            assert!(!mid_fired, "mid_shadowed must NOT fire (shadowed by leaf)");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_multiple_handlers_declaration_order() {
+    // Leaf has three actions for MultiAct. They must fire in declaration order.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::MultiAct).await;
+            let order: Vec<u16> = m
+                .take_journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Handler,
+                        ..
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                order,
+                vec![A_MULTI1, A_MULTI2, A_MULTI3],
+                "multi-action handlers must fire in declaration order"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_handler_state_recorded_correctly() {
+    // EventDelivered.handler_state must reflect WHERE the handler matched, not
+    // where the event was sent.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::MidEv).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::RootEv).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let mid_delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .find(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_MIDEV, .. }));
+            let root_delivered = j.iter().find(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        event: E_ROOTEV,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(matches!(
+                mid_delivered,
+                Some(TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SM,
+                    ..
+                })
+            ));
+            assert!(matches!(
+                root_delivered,
+                Some(TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SR,
+                    ..
+                })
+            ));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_multiple_unknown_events_each_dropped() {
+    // Three unknowns — three EventDropped events.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Unknown).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Unknown).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Unknown).await;
+            let dropped_count = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDropped { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(dropped_count, 3);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_bub_byte_deterministic_under_mixed_events() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Bub::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::LeafEv).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::MidEv).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Unknown).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Shadowed).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::MultiAct).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::RootEv).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..15 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for `current_state()` reflecting the innermost
+//! active state at every point.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::statechart;
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    GoB,
+    UpToParent,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Cur {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Parent);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Parent {
+            entry: p_in;
+            exit:  p_out;
+            default(A);
+            state A {
+                entry: a_in;
+                exit:  a_out;
+                on(GoB) => B;
+                on(UpToParent) => Parent;
+            }
+            state B {
+                entry: b_in;
+                exit:  b_out;
+                on(UpToParent) => Parent;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl CurActions for CurActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn p_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn p_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_current_state_initial_is_default_leaf() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Cur::new(Ctx);
+            // Drive initial entry by sending an event.
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoB).await;
+            // Now in B.
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), CurState::B);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_current_state_after_lateral_transition() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Cur::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoB).await;
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), CurState::B);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_current_state_after_up_returns_composite() {
+    // Spec: current_state can return a composite if it became innermost via
+    // an up-transition.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Cur::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToParent).await;
+            assert_eq!(
+                m.current_state(),
+                CurState::Parent,
+                "after up-transition, current_state returns the composite Parent"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests: `default(...)` targeting an ANCESTOR.
+//! Inner's `default(Outer)` is a valid up-default. Inner is reachable
+//! only via an explicit transition. When entered, its default fires
+//! immediately, exiting Inner back to Outer (up-transition rule:
+//! Outer is not re-entered).
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    GoIn,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    AncestorDefault {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Outer);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Outer {
+            entry: outer_in;
+            on(GoIn) => Inner;
+            state Inner {
+                entry: inner_in;
+                exit:  inner_out;
+                // Inner's default redirects up to Outer. After entering
+                // Inner, this default fires as an up-transition that
+                // exits Inner. Outer is not re-entered.
+                default(Outer);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl AncestorDefaultActions for AncestorDefaultActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn outer_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn inner_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn inner_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const AD_ROOT: u16 = 0;
+const AD_OUTER: u16 = 1;
+const AD_INNER: u16 = 2;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_initial_lands_at_outer_no_default_descent() {
+    // Outer has no default of its own — initial entry stops at Outer.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = AncestorDefault::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.step(hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), AncestorDefaultState::Outer);
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let entered: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(entered, vec![AD_ROOT, AD_OUTER]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_explicit_into_inner_bounces_back_via_up_default() {
+    // `=> Inner` enters Inner (entries fire), then Inner's default fires
+    // as an up-transition Inner → Outer. Outer is NOT re-entered (it
+    // was already on the active path).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = AncestorDefault::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoIn).await;
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                m.current_state(),
+                AncestorDefaultState::Outer,
+                "Inner's default bounces us back to Outer"
+            );
+
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Inner was entered (its entries fired) and then exited
+            // (its default fired an up-transition).
+            let entered_states: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Across the full journal: Root, Outer, Inner. After Inner's
+            // up-default to Outer, Outer is NOT re-entered.
+            assert_eq!(entered_states, vec![AD_ROOT, AD_OUTER, AD_INNER]);
+
+            let exited_states: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                exited_states,
+                vec![AD_INNER],
+                "only Inner exits; Outer remains on the active path"
+            );
+
+            // Outer's entry actions ran exactly once (initial entry only).
+            let outer_entries = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            state: AD_OUTER,
+                            kind: hsmc::ActionKind::Entry,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(outer_entries, 1, "Outer is entered once and stays put");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests: `default(...)` chains. Hub → Spoke1 →
+//! Spoke2. Each link fires as a real LCA-aware transition. The
+//! compile-time default-graph cycle check guarantees this terminates.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    ChainedDefault {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Hub);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Hub {
+            entry: hub_in;
+            default(Spoke1);
+        }
+        state Spoke1 {
+            entry: s1_in;
+            exit:  s1_out;
+            default(Spoke2);
+        }
+        state Spoke2 {
+            entry: s2_in;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl ChainedDefaultActions for ChainedDefaultActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn hub_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn s1_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn s1_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn s2_in(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const CD_ROOT: u16 = 0;
+const CD_HUB: u16 = 1;
+const CD_SPOKE1: u16 = 2;
+const CD_SPOKE2: u16 = 3;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_chained_defaults_terminate_at_chain_end() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = ChainedDefault::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.step(hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), ChainedDefaultState::Spoke2);
+
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let entered: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(entered, vec![CD_ROOT, CD_HUB, CD_SPOKE1, CD_SPOKE2]);
+
+            let exited: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Each default fires as a sibling-transition: Hub → Spoke1
+            // (exits Hub), then Spoke1 → Spoke2 (exits Spoke1).
+            assert_eq!(exited, vec![CD_HUB, CD_SPOKE1]);
+
+            // At least 2 TransitionFired events for the chained defaults.
+            let txn_count = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TransitionFired { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert!(txn_count >= 2);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests: `default(...)` targeting a SIBLING fires as
+//! a real LCA-aware transition immediately after the declaring state's
+//! entries finish. Foyer's `default(LivingRoom)` means: enter Foyer,
+//! run its entries, then immediately transition Foyer → LivingRoom
+//! (LCA = Root, exits Foyer, enters LivingRoom).
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    SiblingDefault {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Foyer);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Foyer {
+            entry: foyer_in;
+            exit:  foyer_out;
+            default(LivingRoom);
+        }
+        state LivingRoom {
+            entry: living_in;
+            exit:  living_out;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl SiblingDefaultActions for SiblingDefaultActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn foyer_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn foyer_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn living_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn living_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SD_ROOT: u16 = 0;
+const SD_FOYER: u16 = 1;
+const SD_LIVING: u16 = 2;
+
+fn entered(j: &[TraceEvent]) -> Vec<u16> {
+    j.iter()
+        .filter_map(|e| match e {
+            TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn exited(j: &[TraceEvent]) -> Vec<u16> {
+    j.iter()
+        .filter_map(|e| match e {
+            TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_sibling_default_exits_declarer_lands_at_target() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = SiblingDefault::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.step(hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), SiblingDefaultState::LivingRoom);
+
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            assert_eq!(
+                entered(&j),
+                vec![SD_ROOT, SD_FOYER, SD_LIVING],
+                "Root → Foyer → (default fires) → LivingRoom"
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                exited(&j),
+                vec![SD_FOYER],
+                "Foyer is exited as the default transition's `from` state"
+            );
+
+            // Foyer's entry must run before its exit (default fires after entries).
+            let action_seq: Vec<(u16, ActionKind)> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { state, kind, .. } => Some((*state, *kind)),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            let foyer_entry_idx = action_seq
+                .iter()
+                .position(|(s, k)| *s == SD_FOYER && *k == ActionKind::Entry)
+                .unwrap();
+            let foyer_exit_idx = action_seq
+                .iter()
+                .position(|(s, k)| *s == SD_FOYER && *k == ActionKind::Exit)
+                .unwrap();
+            let living_entry_idx = action_seq
+                .iter()
+                .position(|(s, k)| *s == SD_LIVING && *k == ActionKind::Entry)
+                .unwrap();
+            assert!(foyer_entry_idx < foyer_exit_idx);
+            assert!(foyer_exit_idx < living_entry_idx);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_sibling_default_emits_transition_observation() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = SiblingDefault::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.step(hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let txn_count = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TransitionFired { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert!(
+                txn_count >= 1,
+                "expected at least one TransitionFired for the default-as-transition firing"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,336 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for DEFAULT-DESCENT into composite targets.
+//!
+//! Spec section "Default child":
+//!   Whenever a state with children is entered, the default child is entered
+//!   immediately after that state's entry actions finish — it's effectively
+//!   an automatic transition into the child.
+//!
+//! Pins down: entries fire outer-to-inner, default-descent unrolls the chain,
+//! the leaf is the innermost active state at the end.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+// Hierarchy: Root → Idle, Root → Tower → L1 → L2 → L3
+statechart! {
+    Desc {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Idle);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Idle {
+            entry: idle_in;
+            exit:  idle_out;
+            on(Go) => Tower;
+        }
+        state Tower {
+            entry: tower_in;
+            exit:  tower_out;
+            default(L1);
+            state L1 {
+                entry: l1_in;
+                exit:  l1_out;
+                default(L2);
+                state L2 {
+                    entry: l2_in;
+                    exit:  l2_out;
+                    default(L3);
+                    state L3 {
+                        entry: l3_in;
+                        exit:  l3_out;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl DescActions for DescActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn idle_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn idle_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn tower_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn tower_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l1_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l1_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l2_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l2_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l3_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l3_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SI: u16 = 1;
+const ST: u16 = 2;
+const SL1: u16 = 3;
+const SL2: u16 = 4;
+const SL3: u16 = 5;
+const A_IDLE_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_IDLE_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_TOWER_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_TOWER_OUT: u16 = 3;
+const A_L1_IN: u16 = 4;
+const A_L1_OUT: u16 = 5;
+const A_L2_IN: u16 = 6;
+const A_L2_OUT: u16 = 7;
+const A_L3_IN: u16 = 8;
+const A_L3_OUT: u16 = 9;
+const E_GO: u16 = 0;
+
+fn entry(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+    }
+}
+fn exit_(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_descent_target_with_three_default_levels() {
+    // Idle → Tower: Tower's `default(L1)` fires as a transition, L1's
+    // `default(L2)` fires, L2's `default(L3)` fires. Each link is a
+    // real transition with its own TransitionFired/Complete pair.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Desc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let expected = vec![
+                TraceEvent::Started {
+                    chart_hash: Desc::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SR },
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SR },
+                // Root → Idle fires as Root's default.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SR),
+                    to: SI,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SI },
+                entry(SI, A_IDLE_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SI },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SR),
+                    to: SI,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GO },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SI,
+                    event: E_GO,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SI),
+                    to: ST,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GO },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SI },
+                exit_(SI, A_IDLE_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SI },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: ST },
+                entry(ST, A_TOWER_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: ST },
+                // Tower's default(L1) fires.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(ST),
+                    to: SL1,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SL1 },
+                entry(SL1, A_L1_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SL1 },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(ST),
+                    to: SL1,
+                },
+                // L1's default(L2) fires.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SL1),
+                    to: SL2,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SL2 },
+                entry(SL2, A_L2_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SL2 },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SL1),
+                    to: SL2,
+                },
+                // L2's default(L3) fires.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SL2),
+                    to: SL3,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SL3 },
+                entry(SL3, A_L3_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SL3 },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SL2),
+                    to: SL3,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SI),
+                    to: ST,
+                },
+            ];
+
+            assert_eq!(actual, expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_descent_entries_fire_outer_to_inner() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Desc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            // After the GO event-driven transition: order of Entered
+            // events should be Tower → L1 → L2 → L3. We split on the
+            // event-driven TransitionFired specifically (initial-entry
+            // defaults emit TransitionFired{Internal} too).
+            let split = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            reason: TransitionReason::Event { .. },
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            let entered: Vec<u16> = m.journal()[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(entered, vec![ST, SL1, SL2, SL3]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_descent_termination_exits_full_chain() {
+    // After full descent into L3, terminate exits L3 → L2 → L1 → Tower → Root.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Desc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let exits: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(exits, vec![SI, SL3, SL2, SL1, ST, SR]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_descent_action_kind_sequence() {
+    // After GO: Tower entry kind, L1 entry, L2 entry, L3 entry. All Entry.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Desc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            // Split on the event-driven TransitionFired (the initial
+            // default-fire is also TransitionFired{Internal} but happens
+            // before GO).
+            let split = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            reason: TransitionReason::Event { .. },
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            // After the Idle exit, all subsequent ActionInvoked must be Entry kind.
+            let kinds_after_exit: Vec<ActionKind> = m.journal()[split + 3..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { kind, .. } => Some(*kind),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert!(
+                kinds_after_exit.iter().all(|k| *k == ActionKind::Entry),
+                "all post-transition actions must be Entry kind, got {:?}",
+                kinds_after_exit
+            );
+            assert_eq!(kinds_after_exit.len(), 4, "Tower + L1 + L2 + L3 entries");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_descent_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Desc::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_descent_initial_descent_is_idle_only() {
+    // Initial default chain is Root → Idle. Idle has no children, so only one Entered.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Desc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let entered: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(entered, vec![SR, SI]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for `during:` activities.
+//!
+//! Spec section "during: activities":
+//!   A `during:` is an async function that runs while its owning state is on
+//!   the active path. It is started after the entry actions of that state
+//!   finish, and it is cancelled before the exit actions of that state begin.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use core::time::Duration;
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx {
+    pub a: u32,
+    pub b: u32,
+    pub c: u32,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Done,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Du {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Working);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Working {
+            entry: w_in;
+            exit:  w_out;
+            during: tick_a(a);
+            during: tick_b(b);
+            on(Done) => Idle;
+        }
+        state Idle {
+            entry: i_in;
+            exit:  i_out;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl DuActions for DuActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn w_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn w_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn i_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn i_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+async fn tick_a(_a: &mut u32) -> Ev {
+    // Pause for a long time; this future will likely be cancelled before
+    // completing so we exercise the cancel path.
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(60)).await;
+    Ev::Done
+}
+
+async fn tick_b(_b: &mut u32) -> Ev {
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(60)).await;
+    Ev::Done
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SW: u16 = 1;
+const SI: u16 = 2;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_started_after_entries() {
+    // Spec: started AFTER entry actions of the owning state finish.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Find Working's entry action invocation.
+            let w_entry_idx = j.iter().position(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SW,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            // Find first DuringStarted on Working.
+            let d_started_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::DuringStarted { state: SW, .. }));
+            assert!(w_entry_idx.is_some());
+            assert!(d_started_idx.is_some());
+            assert!(
+                w_entry_idx.unwrap() < d_started_idx.unwrap(),
+                "DuringStarted must come AFTER entry actions"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_cancelled_before_exits() {
+    // Spec: cancelled BEFORE exit actions of the owning state begin.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let d_cancelled_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::DuringCancelled { state: SW, .. }));
+            let w_exit_idx = j.iter().position(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SW,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                        ..
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(d_cancelled_idx.is_some(), "DuringCancelled must appear");
+            assert!(w_exit_idx.is_some(), "exit actions must run");
+            assert!(
+                d_cancelled_idx.unwrap() < w_exit_idx.unwrap(),
+                "DuringCancelled must come BEFORE exit actions"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_two_durings_two_started_two_cancelled() {
+    // Two durings declared on Working — should see two DuringStarted and two DuringCancelled.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let started = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::DuringStarted { state: SW, .. }))
+                .count();
+            let cancelled = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::DuringCancelled { state: SW, .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(started, 2);
+            assert_eq!(cancelled, 2);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_indices_are_declaration_order() {
+    // Indices 0, 1 in declaration order.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let started_indices: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::DuringStarted { during, .. } => Some(*during),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(started_indices, vec![0, 1]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_cancelled_indices_match() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let cancelled_indices: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::DuringCancelled { during, .. } => Some(*during),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Cancellation also walks declaration order in the current implementation.
+            assert_eq!(cancelled_indices, vec![0, 1]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_state_id_matches() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let started_states: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::DuringStarted { state, .. } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Both DuringStarted events refer to Working (id 1).
+            assert!(started_states.iter().all(|&s| s == SW));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_no_durings_on_idle() {
+    // Idle has no `during:` declarations. After we transition into Idle, no
+    // DuringStarted for Idle.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Done).await;
+            let on_idle: usize = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::DuringStarted { state: SI, .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(on_idle, 0);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_during_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Du::new(Ctx::default());
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Done).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for `emit()` from action code.
+//!
+//! Spec section "emit()":
+//!   The event goes on the machine's internal queue. It is NOT processed
+//!   immediately. The runtime finishes handling whatever event it's
+//!   currently handling — including every entry and exit action of any
+//!   transition — and only then dequeues `Ev` and dispatches it normally.
+//!   No re-entrant dispatch.
+//!
+//!   If the queue is full, `emit()` returns `Err(QueueFull)`. Subsequent
+//!   actions in the same chain still run; they may attempt further emits,
+//!   but those also fail.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Trigger,
+    Followup,
+    Many,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Em {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a_in;
+            exit:  a_out;
+            on(Trigger) => emit_followup;
+            on(Followup) => B;
+            on(Many) => emit_many;
+        }
+        state B {
+            entry: b_in;
+            exit:  b_out;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl EmActions for EmActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn emit_followup(&mut self) {
+        let _ = self.emit(Ev::Followup);
+    }
+    async fn emit_many(&mut self) {
+        // Try to overflow the queue; capacity is 8 by default.
+        for _ in 0..15 {
+            let _ = self.emit(Ev::Followup);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+const E_TRIGGER: u16 = 0;
+const E_FOLLOWUP: u16 = 1;
+const E_MANY: u16 = 2;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_queues_event() {
+    // emit_followup queues Followup. Journal must have EmitQueued.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Trigger).await;
+            let queued = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitQueued { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(queued, 1, "exactly one EmitQueued, got {:?}", m.journal());
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_followup_event_is_dispatched() {
+    // After Trigger fires emit_followup, the queue contains Followup.
+    // dispatch() drains, so Followup is dispatched and transitions A → B.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Trigger).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Both Trigger and Followup must be EventDelivered.
+            let delivered_events: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event, .. } => Some(*event),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(delivered_events, vec![E_TRIGGER, E_FOLLOWUP]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_no_reentrant_dispatch() {
+    // Spec: emit during a handler must not re-enter the dispatcher inside the
+    // current handler. The emit_followup action does ONE thing: emit. Then it
+    // returns. ONLY THEN does the dispatcher pick up Followup.
+    //
+    // Verify: the EmitQueued event for Followup appears BEFORE the
+    // EventDelivered for Followup.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Trigger).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let queued_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitQueued { event: E_FOLLOWUP }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let delivered_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                            event: E_FOLLOWUP,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                queued_idx < delivered_idx,
+                "EmitQueued ({}) must come before EventDelivered ({})",
+                queued_idx,
+                delivered_idx
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_overflow_records_emitfailed() {
+    // emit_many tries 15 emits. Default queue cap is 8 (one slot has Many in
+    // it currently being processed; 7 more fit). Some succeed, some fail.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Many).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let queued = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitQueued { .. }))
+                .count();
+            let failed = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitFailed { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert!(queued > 0, "some emits must succeed");
+            assert!(failed > 0, "some emits must fail when queue overflows");
+            assert_eq!(queued + failed, 15, "total emit attempts must be 15");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_does_not_reorder_external_events() {
+    // External events still process in arrival order. Emitted events are
+    // appended to the queue (FIFO).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Trigger).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let delivered_events: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event, .. } => Some(*event),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Trigger was delivered first, then the emitted Followup.
+            assert_eq!(delivered_events[0], E_TRIGGER);
+            assert_eq!(delivered_events[1], E_FOLLOWUP);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Trigger).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_state_after_emit_action_runs_to_completion() {
+    // Spec: subsequent actions in the same chain still run after emit failure.
+    // Hard to test surgically without an action-after-emit; pin instead that
+    // the EmitFailed events are followed by additional ActionInvoked events
+    // for the SAME emit_many handler call.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Em::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Many).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // The handler emit_many is one call; it emits 15 times. So we should see
+            // 15 emit-result events all between two boundaries: after Many's
+            // EventDelivered and before any subsequent Followup deliveries.
+            let many_delivered_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_MANY, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let emit_results: Vec<&TraceEvent> = j[many_delivered_idx..]
+                .iter()
+                .take_while(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::EmitQueued { .. }
+                            | TraceEvent::EmitFailed { .. }
+                            | TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { .. }
+                            | TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_MANY, .. }
+                    )
+                })
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::EmitQueued { .. } | TraceEvent::EmitFailed { .. }
+                    )
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(emit_results.len(), 15);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Tests that an `emit()` from inside an entry/exit action gets queued
+//! BEFORE the transition completes, but is dispatched AFTER.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Cleanup, // emitted from A's exit action
+    Wakeup,  // emitted from B's entry action
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Et {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        on(Cleanup) => log_cleanup;
+        on(Wakeup) => log_wakeup;
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a_in;
+            exit:  emit_cleanup;
+            on(Go) => B;
+        }
+        state B {
+            entry: emit_wakeup;
+            exit:  b_out;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl EtActions for EtActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn emit_cleanup(&mut self) {
+        let _ = self.emit(Ev::Cleanup);
+    }
+    async fn emit_wakeup(&mut self) {
+        let _ = self.emit(Ev::Wakeup);
+    }
+    async fn log_cleanup(&mut self) {}
+    async fn log_wakeup(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_in_exit_action_runs_after_transition() {
+    // Spec: emitted events are processed only after the current event has
+    // fully finished — including all entry/exit actions.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Et::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Find indices of EmitQueued for Cleanup, EmitQueued for Wakeup, and
+            // EventDelivered for each.
+            // Event ids in interning order: Cleanup=0, Wakeup=1 (root handlers first),
+            // Go=2 (A handler), Halt=3 (terminate at end of build).
+            let cleanup_queued = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitQueued { event: 0 }));
+            let wakeup_queued = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitQueued { event: 1 }));
+            let cleanup_delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: 0, .. }));
+            let wakeup_delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: 1, .. }));
+
+            assert!(cleanup_queued.is_some(), "Cleanup must be queued");
+            assert!(wakeup_queued.is_some(), "Wakeup must be queued");
+            assert!(cleanup_delivered.is_some(), "Cleanup must be delivered");
+            assert!(wakeup_delivered.is_some(), "Wakeup must be delivered");
+
+            // Both emits queue BEFORE either is delivered (no re-entrant dispatch
+            // inside the original Go transition).
+            assert!(cleanup_queued.unwrap() < cleanup_delivered.unwrap());
+            assert!(
+                wakeup_queued.unwrap() < cleanup_delivered.unwrap(),
+                "Wakeup queued before Cleanup delivered (transition completes first)"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_in_exit_action_journals_in_order() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Et::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Both Cleanup and Wakeup were queued during the Go transition. They
+            // are delivered AFTER. Order: Cleanup first (emitted from A's exit
+            // which runs first), then Wakeup (emitted from B's entry).
+            let queued_events: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::EmitQueued { event } => Some(*event),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                queued_events,
+                vec![0, 1],
+                "Cleanup (id 0) then Wakeup (id 1)"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_emit_in_transition_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Et::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,364 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for INITIAL ENTRY and DEFAULT DESCENT.
+//!
+//! Pins down the semantics from `docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md`,
+//! section "Where the machine 'is'":
+//!
+//!   At any moment, the machine is in a path of states from root down to one
+//!   innermost state. ... The root is always active until the machine
+//!   terminates.
+//!
+//! And from "Default child":
+//!
+//!   Whenever a state with children is entered, the default child is entered
+//!   immediately after that state's entry actions finish — it's effectively
+//!   an automatic transition into the child.
+//!
+//! Each test compares the FULL journal to a hand-built EXPECTED sequence.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Halt,
+}
+
+// 4-level hierarchy: Root → A → B → C → D
+statechart! {
+    Init4 {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: r_in;
+        exit:  r_out;
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a_in;
+            exit:  a_out;
+            default(B);
+            state B {
+                entry: b_in;
+                exit:  b_out;
+                default(C);
+                state C {
+                    entry: c_in;
+                    exit:  c_out;
+                    default(D);
+                    state D {
+                        entry: d_in;
+                        exit:  d_out;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Init4Actions for Init4ActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn r_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+// State ids: 0=Root, 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D.
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SA: u16 = 1;
+const SB: u16 = 2;
+const SC: u16 = 3;
+const SD: u16 = 4;
+// Action ids in declaration order: 0=r_in, 1=r_out, 2=a_in, 3=a_out,
+// 4=b_in, 5=b_out, 6=c_in, 7=c_out, 8=d_in, 9=d_out.
+const A_R_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_R_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_A_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_A_OUT: u16 = 3;
+const A_B_IN: u16 = 4;
+const A_B_OUT: u16 = 5;
+const A_C_IN: u16 = 6;
+const A_C_OUT: u16 = 7;
+const A_D_IN: u16 = 8;
+const A_D_OUT: u16 = 9;
+// Halt = event 0 (interned via `terminate(Halt)`).
+const E_HALT: u16 = 0;
+
+fn entry(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+    }
+}
+fn exit_(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_initial_descent_records_full_path() {
+    // Spec: "the root is always active" + default-descent unrolls Root → A → B → C → D.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            // Push Halt to drive the chart through initial entry then termination.
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+            let expected = vec![
+                // Initial enter (driven by dispatch's prime-state branch).
+                // Each `default(...)` is a real transition, so the journal
+                // brackets every default-fire with TransitionFired
+                // (Internal) / TransitionComplete pairs.
+                TraceEvent::Started {
+                    chart_hash: Init4::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SR },
+                entry(SR, A_R_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SR },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SR),
+                    to: SA,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SA },
+                entry(SA, A_A_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SR),
+                    to: SA,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SB },
+                entry(SB, A_B_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SB),
+                    to: SC,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SC },
+                entry(SC, A_C_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SC },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SB),
+                    to: SC,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SC),
+                    to: SD,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SD },
+                entry(SD, A_D_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SD },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SC),
+                    to: SD,
+                },
+                // Halt.
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_HALT },
+                TraceEvent::TerminateRequested { event: E_HALT },
+                // Bottom-up exit chain.
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SD },
+                exit_(SD, A_D_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SD },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SC },
+                exit_(SC, A_C_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SC },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SB },
+                exit_(SB, A_B_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SR },
+                exit_(SR, A_R_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SR },
+                TraceEvent::Terminated,
+            ];
+
+            let mismatch = actual
+                .iter()
+                .zip(expected.iter())
+                .position(|(a, e)| a != e)
+                .map(|i| i.to_string())
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| "<length>".to_string());
+            assert_eq!(actual, expected, "first mismatch at index {mismatch}");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_started_is_first_event() {
+    // Spec: every journal begins with Started carrying the chart hash.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.journal();
+            assert!(matches!(j[0], TraceEvent::Started { .. }));
+            if let TraceEvent::Started { chart_hash } = j[0] {
+                assert_eq!(chart_hash, Init4::<8>::CHART_HASH);
+            }
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_chart_hash_nonzero() {
+    // The FNV-1a fingerprint must actually have run.
+    assert_ne!(Init4::<8>::CHART_HASH, 0);
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_root_state_id_is_zero() {
+    // Spec: "the root state (the machine itself) is just a state". It's
+    // allocated first and so gets id 0; tests below depend on this.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            // First Entered event must be state 0.
+            let first_entered = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .find(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::Entered { .. }));
+            assert!(matches!(
+                first_entered,
+                Some(TraceEvent::Entered { state: 0 })
+            ));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_entry_actions_fire_outer_to_inner() {
+    // Spec: "Entry runs outer-to-inner."
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let entered: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                        ..
+                    } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                entered,
+                vec![SR, SA, SB, SC, SD],
+                "entry actions must fire outer-to-inner across hierarchy"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_exit_actions_fire_inner_to_outer() {
+    // Spec: "Exit runs inner-to-outer."
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let exited: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                        ..
+                    } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                exited,
+                vec![SD, SC, SB, SA, SR],
+                "exit actions must fire inner-to-outer across hierarchy"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_state_ids_are_declaration_order() {
+    // Spec: state ids assigned in parse order (0=root, then nested).
+    // Verify by checking the order Entered events appear.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let entered_ids: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(entered_ids, vec![SR, SA, SB, SC, SD]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_initial_descent_byte_deterministic_across_runs() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..20 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "divergence on run {i}");
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminated_is_last_event() {
+    // Spec: "Always the final event in the journal."
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Init4::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            assert!(matches!(m.journal().last(), Some(TraceEvent::Terminated)));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,571 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for LATERAL transitions (target not on active path).
+//!
+//! Spec section "Transitioning to a sibling (or anywhere not on your active path)":
+//!   The standard case. LCA is somewhere strictly above both current and
+//!   target. Exit up to LCA, enter down to target, default-descend if the
+//!   target has children.
+//!
+//! Also pins down that the LCA itself is **not** exited or re-entered.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    GoB,
+    GoC,
+    GoD,
+    GoE,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+// Hierarchy:
+//   Root
+//   ├── Parent
+//   │   ├── A (default)
+//   │   └── B
+//   ├── C
+//   └── D
+//       └── E
+statechart! {
+    Lat {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Parent);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Parent {
+            entry: p_in;
+            exit:  p_out;
+            default(A);
+            state A {
+                entry: a_in;
+                exit:  a_out;
+                on(GoB) => B;
+                on(GoC) => C;
+                on(GoD) => D;
+                on(GoE) => E;
+            }
+            state B {
+                entry: b_in;
+                exit:  b_out;
+                on(GoC) => C;
+            }
+        }
+        state C {
+            entry: c_in;
+            exit:  c_out;
+        }
+        state D {
+            entry: d_in;
+            exit:  d_out;
+            default(E);
+            state E {
+                entry: e_in;
+                exit:  e_out;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl LatActions for LatActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn p_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn p_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn e_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn e_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+// State ids: 0=Root, 1=Parent, 2=A, 3=B, 4=C, 5=D, 6=E.
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SP: u16 = 1;
+const SA: u16 = 2;
+const SB: u16 = 3;
+const SC: u16 = 4;
+const SD: u16 = 5;
+const SE: u16 = 6;
+// Action ids in declaration order: 0=p_in, 1=p_out, 2=a_in, 3=a_out,
+// 4=b_in, 5=b_out, 6=c_in, 7=c_out, 8=d_in, 9=d_out, 10=e_in, 11=e_out.
+const A_P_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_P_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_A_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_A_OUT: u16 = 3;
+const A_B_IN: u16 = 4;
+const A_B_OUT: u16 = 5;
+const A_C_IN: u16 = 6;
+const A_C_OUT: u16 = 7;
+const A_D_IN: u16 = 8;
+const A_D_OUT: u16 = 9;
+const A_E_IN: u16 = 10;
+const A_E_OUT: u16 = 11;
+// Event ids in first-seen order: 0=GoB, 1=GoC, 2=GoD, 3=GoE, 4=Halt.
+const E_GOB: u16 = 0;
+const E_GOC: u16 = 1;
+const E_GOD: u16 = 2;
+const E_GOE: u16 = 3;
+
+fn entry(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+    }
+}
+fn exit_(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+    }
+}
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+fn handler(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Handler,
+    }
+}
+
+// Initial descent: Root → (Root's default fires) → Parent → (Parent's
+// default fires) → A. Each default-fire is a real transition.
+fn initial_descent() -> Vec<TraceEvent> {
+    vec![
+        TraceEvent::Started {
+            chart_hash: Lat::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SR },
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SR },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SR),
+            to: SP,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SP },
+        entry(SP, A_P_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SP },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SR),
+            to: SP,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SP),
+            to: SA,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SA },
+        entry(SA, A_A_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SA },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SP),
+            to: SA,
+        },
+    ]
+}
+
+// Compare actual vs expected and report first mismatch.
+fn assert_journal(actual: &[TraceEvent], expected: &[TraceEvent]) {
+    let mismatch = actual.iter().zip(expected.iter()).position(|(a, e)| a != e);
+    if let Some(i) = mismatch {
+        panic!(
+            "journal mismatch at index {}\n  actual:   {:?}\n  expected: {:?}\n  full actual: {:#?}",
+            i, actual[i], expected[i], actual
+        );
+    }
+    assert_eq!(
+        actual.len(),
+        expected.len(),
+        "journal length mismatch: actual {} vs expected {}\n  full actual: {:#?}",
+        actual.len(),
+        expected.len(),
+        actual
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_a_to_b_lca_is_parent() {
+    // Spec: A → B (siblings under Parent). LCA = Parent. Parent is not exited
+    // or re-entered.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoB).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GOB },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SA,
+                    event: E_GOB,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GOB },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SB },
+                entry(SB, A_B_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_a_to_c_exits_parent() {
+    // A → C: A is inside Parent, C is sibling of Parent. LCA = Root.
+    // Exit A, exit Parent. Enter C.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoC).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GOC },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SA,
+                    event: E_GOC,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SC,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GOC },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SP },
+                exit_(SP, A_P_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SP },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SC },
+                entry(SC, A_C_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SC },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SC,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_target_with_children_default_descends() {
+    // A → D: D has child E (default). After entering D, default-descend to E.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoD).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GOD },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SA,
+                    event: E_GOD,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SD,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GOD },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SP },
+                exit_(SP, A_P_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SP },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SD },
+                entry(SD, A_D_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SD },
+                // D's `default(E)` fires as an internal transition.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SE,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SE },
+                entry(SE, A_E_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SE },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SE,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SD,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_to_deeply_nested_target() {
+    // A → E (E is the leaf of D's default chain). The target itself is the leaf
+    // so default-descent doesn't add another level — but D is entered along the way.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoE).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GOE },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SA,
+                    event: E_GOE,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SE,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GOE },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SP },
+                exit_(SP, A_P_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SP },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SD },
+                entry(SD, A_D_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SD },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SE },
+                entry(SE, A_E_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SE },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SE,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_chained_transitions() {
+    // A → B → C: two consecutive transitions. Each independently records its
+    // exits and entries.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoB).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoC).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            // A → B
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GOB },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SA,
+                    event: E_GOB,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GOB },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SB },
+                entry(SB, A_B_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                },
+            ]);
+            // B → C (LCA = Root, so Parent exits too).
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GOC },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SB,
+                    event: E_GOC,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SB),
+                    to: SC,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GOC },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SB },
+                exit_(SB, A_B_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SP },
+                exit_(SP, A_P_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SP },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SC },
+                entry(SC, A_C_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SC },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SB),
+                    to: SC,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_lca_stays_active() {
+    // A → B: Parent (the LCA) must NOT appear in any Exited or Entered event.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoB).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // After initial Entered(Parent), Parent must not appear again.
+            let initial_p_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::Entered { state: SP }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let parent_events: Vec<&TraceEvent> = j
+                .iter()
+                .skip(initial_p_idx + 1)
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SP } | TraceEvent::Exited { state: SP }
+                    )
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert!(
+                parent_events.is_empty(),
+                "LCA Parent must not be re-entered or exited; got: {:?}",
+                parent_events
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_exit_inner_then_outer() {
+    // A → C: exit A first (deeper), then Parent (outer).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoC).await;
+            let exits: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // First exit must be A (deeper), then Parent (outer).
+            assert_eq!(&exits[..2], &[SA, SP], "exits must be inner-to-outer");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_entry_outer_then_inner() {
+    // A → D where D has child E: enter D first, then E.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoD).await;
+            let entries: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .skip_while(|e| {
+                    !matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            reason: TransitionReason::Event { .. },
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                &entries,
+                &[SD, SE],
+                "entries on the way down must be outer-to-inner"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_no_default_when_target_is_leaf() {
+    // A → C where C is a leaf: no default-descent, journal stops at C.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoC).await;
+            let last_entered: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Initial: Root, Parent, A. After GoC: C. No further entries.
+            assert_eq!(last_entered, vec![SR, SP, SA, SC]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_event_delivered_records_handler_state() {
+    // The handler for GoB lives on A. EventDelivered.handler_state = A.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Lat::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::GoB).await;
+            let delivered = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .find(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_GOB, .. }));
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    delivered,
+                    Some(TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                        handler_state: SA,
+                        event: E_GOB
+                    })
+                ),
+                "got: {:?}",
+                delivered
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for OPTIONAL `default(...)` on composite states.
+//!
+//! Spec: a composite state may declare `default(...)` or omit it. When
+//! omitted, transitions targeting the composite land on the composite itself
+//! — no default-descent. Substates are reachable only via explicit
+//! transitions. This is the "microwave" pattern: a `Standby` state with
+//! sub-modes (e.g. `LowPower`) that the chart enters only on demand.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    PowerOn,
+    PowerOff,
+    EnterLowPower,
+    LeaveLowPower,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Microwave {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Standby);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Standby {
+            // No `default(...)` — Standby itself is the resting state.
+            entry: standby_in;
+            exit:  standby_out;
+            on(PowerOn) => On;
+            on(EnterLowPower) => LowPower;
+
+            state LowPower {
+                entry: low_in;
+                exit:  low_out;
+                on(LeaveLowPower) => Standby;
+            }
+        }
+
+        state On {
+            entry: on_in;
+            exit:  on_out;
+            on(PowerOff) => Standby;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl MicrowaveActions for MicrowaveActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn standby_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn standby_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn low_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn low_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn on_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn on_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+// State ids: 0=Root, 1=Standby, 2=LowPower, 3=On.
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const S_STANDBY: u16 = 1;
+const S_LOW: u16 = 2;
+const S_ON: u16 = 3;
+
+fn entered_states(j: &[TraceEvent]) -> Vec<u16> {
+    j.iter()
+        .filter_map(|e| match e {
+            TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn exited_states(j: &[TraceEvent]) -> Vec<u16> {
+    j.iter()
+        .filter_map(|e| match e {
+            TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn entry_action_states(j: &[TraceEvent]) -> Vec<u16> {
+    j.iter()
+        .filter_map(|e| match e {
+            TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                state,
+                kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                ..
+            } => Some(*state),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_initial_lands_on_composite_no_descent() {
+    // Standby has children but no `default` — initial entry stops at Standby.
+    // LowPower must NOT enter.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Microwave::new(Ctx);
+            // Drive initial entry without consuming an event.
+            let _ = m.step(hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                m.current_state(),
+                MicrowaveState::Standby,
+                "innermost active state is the composite Standby"
+            );
+
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let entered = entered_states(&j);
+            assert_eq!(
+                entered,
+                vec![SR, S_STANDBY],
+                "initial entry stops at Standby; no default-descent into LowPower"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_transition_into_substate_works() {
+    // Explicit `=> LowPower` from Standby enters LowPower.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Microwave::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::EnterLowPower).await;
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), MicrowaveState::LowPower);
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Standby entered first (initial), then LowPower entered after the event.
+            let entered = entered_states(&j);
+            assert_eq!(entered, vec![SR, S_STANDBY, S_LOW]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_from_substate_lands_on_composite() {
+    // From LowPower, `=> Standby` is an up-transition: exit LowPower, do not
+    // re-enter Standby.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Microwave::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::EnterLowPower).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::LeaveLowPower).await;
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), MicrowaveState::Standby);
+
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Across the whole run: enter Standby, enter LowPower, exit
+            // LowPower. Standby's entry must have run exactly once.
+            let entry_states = entry_action_states(&j);
+            let standby_entries = entry_states.iter().filter(|&&s| s == S_STANDBY).count();
+            assert_eq!(
+                standby_entries, 1,
+                "Standby's entry runs once; up-transition does not re-enter it"
+            );
+            let exited = exited_states(&j);
+            assert_eq!(
+                exited,
+                vec![S_LOW],
+                "only LowPower is exited; Standby remains on the active path"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_lateral_to_composite_does_not_descend() {
+    // From On, `=> Standby` lands on Standby — NOT on LowPower.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Microwave::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::PowerOn).await;
+            assert_eq!(m.current_state(), MicrowaveState::On);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::PowerOff).await;
+            assert_eq!(
+                m.current_state(),
+                MicrowaveState::Standby,
+                "PowerOff lands on Standby; absence of `default` skips descent"
+            );
+
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // LowPower must never have been entered.
+            let entered = entered_states(&j);
+            assert!(
+                !entered.contains(&S_LOW),
+                "no descent into LowPower on entry to Standby"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_from_composite_unwinds_path() {
+    // Halt while at Standby exits Standby → Root only.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Microwave::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let exits = exited_states(&j);
+            assert_eq!(
+                exits,
+                vec![S_STANDBY, SR],
+                "terminate from Standby exits Standby then Root"
+            );
+            assert!(matches!(j.last(), Some(TraceEvent::Terminated)));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
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+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for ENTRY/EXIT ORDERING (declaration order, depth order).
+//!
+//! Spec section "Entry and exit ordering":
+//!   Entry runs outer-to-inner. Within a single state, entry actions fire in
+//!   declaration order. Exit runs inner-to-outer. Within a single state, exit
+//!   actions fire in declaration order.
+//!
+//! Spec: "If a single state has multiple handlers (actions and/or a transition)
+//! for the same trigger, the actions fire in declaration order, then the
+//! transition fires last."
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Multi,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Ord {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: r1, r2, r3;
+        exit:  r_x1, r_x2;
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a1, a2;
+            exit:  a_x1, a_x2, a_x3;
+            on(Go) => B;
+            on(Multi) => act1;
+            on(Multi) => act2;
+            on(Multi) => act3;
+            on(Multi) => B;
+        }
+        state B {
+            entry: b1;
+            exit:  b_x1;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl OrdActions for OrdActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn r1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r3(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r_x1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r_x2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_x1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_x2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_x3(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_x1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn act1(&mut self) {}
+    async fn act2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn act3(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SA: u16 = 1;
+const SB: u16 = 2;
+
+// Action interning order from declaration:
+//   Root: r1=0, r2=1, r3=2 (entries), r_x1=3, r_x2=4 (exits)
+//   A: a1=5, a2=6, a_x1=7, a_x2=8, a_x3=9, then handlers act1=10, act2=11, act3=12
+//   B: b1=13, b_x1=14
+const A_R1: u16 = 0;
+const A_R2: u16 = 1;
+const A_R3: u16 = 2;
+const A_RX1: u16 = 3;
+const A_RX2: u16 = 4;
+const A_A1: u16 = 5;
+const A_A2: u16 = 6;
+const A_AX1: u16 = 7;
+const A_AX2: u16 = 8;
+const A_AX3: u16 = 9;
+const A_ACT1: u16 = 10;
+const A_ACT2: u16 = 11;
+const A_ACT3: u16 = 12;
+const A_B1: u16 = 13;
+const A_BX1: u16 = 14;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_root_entries_in_declaration_order() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            // Filter to root entry actions in journal order.
+            let r_entries: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SR,
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(r_entries, vec![A_R1, A_R2, A_R3]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_root_exits_in_declaration_order() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let r_exits: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SR,
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(r_exits, vec![A_RX1, A_RX2]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_state_a_entries_in_declaration_order() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let a_entries: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SA,
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(a_entries, vec![A_A1, A_A2]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_state_a_exits_in_declaration_order() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let a_exits: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state: SA,
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(a_exits, vec![A_AX1, A_AX2, A_AX3]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_entry_outer_then_inner_across_hierarchy() {
+    // Initial entry: Root → A. Root's entries fire first, then A's.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let entries_in_order: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .take_while(|e| !matches!(e, TraceEvent::TerminateRequested { .. }))
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                        ..
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(entries_in_order, vec![A_R1, A_R2, A_R3, A_A1, A_A2]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_exit_inner_then_outer_across_hierarchy() {
+    // On terminate: A's exits then Root's exits.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let exits_in_order: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        action,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                        ..
+                    } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(exits_in_order, vec![A_AX1, A_AX2, A_AX3, A_RX1, A_RX2]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_actions_then_transition_on_same_trigger() {
+    // Multi: act1, act2, act3 fire in declaration order, then transition to B.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Multi).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Find the action invocations and the TransitionFired in order.
+            let after_delivered: Vec<&TraceEvent> = j
+                .iter()
+                .skip_while(|e| !matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: 1, .. }))
+                // Multi is the second event: Go=0, Multi=1.
+                .skip(1)
+                .take(20)
+                .collect();
+            // First three should be Handler actions in order act1, act2, act3.
+            let handler_actions: Vec<u16> = after_delivered
+                .iter()
+                .take_while(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            kind: ActionKind::Handler,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { action, .. } => Some(*action),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                handler_actions,
+                vec![A_ACT1, A_ACT2, A_ACT3],
+                "actions in declaration order"
+            );
+            // After the actions, a TransitionFired must follow.
+            let trans_idx = after_delivered
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TransitionFired { .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(trans_idx, 3, "transition fires after the 3 actions");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_ord_full_transition_canonical_sequence() {
+    // Spec: cancel durings → run exits inner→outer → run entries outer→inner → start durings.
+    // No durings here, so just exits inner→outer + entries outer→inner.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Ord::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Find the EVENT-driven TransitionFired (initial default-fires
+            // are TransitionFired{Internal}; we want the GO transition).
+            let trans_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            reason: TransitionReason::Event { .. },
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            let kinds: Vec<ActionKind> = j[trans_idx..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { kind, .. } => Some(*kind),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // First A's exit kinds (inner-to-outer order — A is innermost), then B's entry kinds.
+            let exit_count = kinds.iter().filter(|k| **k == ActionKind::Exit).count();
+            let entry_count = kinds.iter().filter(|k| **k == ActionKind::Entry).count();
+            assert_eq!(exit_count, 3, "A has 3 exit actions");
+            assert_eq!(entry_count, 1, "B has 1 entry action");
+            // Exits before entries.
+            let first_entry = kinds.iter().position(|k| *k == ActionKind::Entry).unwrap();
+            let last_exit = kinds.iter().rposition(|k| *k == ActionKind::Exit).unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                last_exit < first_entry,
+                "all exits must precede all entries in a transition"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Pins down that the ROOT state is targetable by the chart's own name.
+//!
+//! Spec section "What a chart contains":
+//!   State — a named node. The root state (the machine itself) is just a
+//!   state. Every state is just a state.
+//!
+//! Spec section "How transitions work":
+//!   The target can be any state in the entire chart. ... state names must
+//!   be unique across the chart.
+//!
+//! From these two together: `on(Trig) => <ChartName>;` is a valid transition
+//! whose target is the root. From a leaf, this is an up-transition; from any
+//! state inside the chart it's an up-transition (root is always on the active
+//! path) — exiting only the states strictly between current and root.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    UpToRoot,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Sub {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: r_in;
+        exit:  r_out;
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a_in;
+            exit:  a_out;
+            default(B);
+            state B {
+                entry: b_in;
+                exit:  b_out;
+                on(UpToRoot) => Sub;  // ← target is the chart name = root
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl SubActions for SubActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn r_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SA: u16 = 1;
+const SB: u16 = 2;
+const A_R_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_R_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_A_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_A_OUT: u16 = 3;
+const A_B_IN: u16 = 4;
+const A_B_OUT: u16 = 5;
+const E_UPTOROOT: u16 = 0;
+
+fn entry(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+    }
+}
+fn exit_(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_root_targetable_by_chart_name() {
+    // Chart compiles. Targeting root by chart name resolves correctly.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Sub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToRoot).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Up-transition to root from B: exit B and A. Root is target,
+            // not exited, not re-entered, no default-descent.
+            let expected = vec![
+                TraceEvent::Started {
+                    chart_hash: Sub::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SR },
+                entry(SR, A_R_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SR },
+                // Root's `default(A)` fires.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SR),
+                    to: SA,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SA },
+                entry(SA, A_A_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SR),
+                    to: SA,
+                },
+                // A's `default(B)` fires.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SB },
+                entry(SB, A_B_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SA),
+                    to: SB,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_UPTOROOT },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SB,
+                    event: E_UPTOROOT,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SB),
+                    to: SR,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_UPTOROOT },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SB },
+                exit_(SB, A_B_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SA },
+                exit_(SA, A_A_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SA },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SB),
+                    to: SR,
+                },
+            ];
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                actual, expected,
+                "root targetable; up-transition to root exits A and B only"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_root_target_does_not_re_enter_root() {
+    // After the up-to-root, root must NOT have re-entered.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Sub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToRoot).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // After the EVENT-driven TransitionFired (the UpToRoot one),
+            // no Entered event should fire — the up-transition exits B
+            // and A but never re-enters root, and root has no default
+            // (so no internal default-fire follows either).
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            reason: TransitionReason::Event { .. },
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            let entered_after = j[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::Entered { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(
+                entered_after, 0,
+                "up-to-root must not re-enter root or default-descend"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_root_target_then_terminate() {
+    // After up-to-root, root is the innermost active state. Terminate exits root only.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Sub::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToRoot).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // After UpToRoot we're in root only. Halt exits root only.
+            let exits: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                exits,
+                vec![SB, SA, SR],
+                "up-to-root exits B, A; terminate exits root"
+            );
+            assert!(matches!(j.last(), Some(TraceEvent::Terminated)));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,360 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for SELF-TRANSITIONS.
+//!
+//! Spec section "Transitioning to yourself":
+//!   The standard transition algorithm gives the clean answer: the LCA of the
+//!   target with itself is its parent, so we exit only the target and re-enter
+//!   only the target. Nothing above the target is exited or re-entered.
+//!
+//! Concrete example given in spec: in `Root → SomeState → SomeOtherState`,
+//! a transition (Trig) => SomeOtherState exits and re-enters ONLY
+//! SomeOtherState; SomeState is never touched.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    SelfLeaf,
+    SelfMid,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+// Hierarchy: Root → Mid → Leaf
+//   Self-transitions: SelfLeaf targets Leaf; SelfMid targets Mid.
+statechart! {
+    Self_ {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Mid);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Mid {
+            entry: m_in;
+            exit:  m_out;
+            default(Leaf);
+            on(SelfMid) => Mid;
+            state Leaf {
+                entry: l_in;
+                exit:  l_out;
+                on(SelfLeaf) => Leaf;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Self_Actions for Self_ActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn m_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn m_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SM: u16 = 1;
+const SL: u16 = 2;
+const A_M_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_M_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_L_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_L_OUT: u16 = 3;
+// Event interning order: handlers on the parent (Mid) are processed before
+// recursing into children (Leaf), so SelfMid is interned first.
+const E_SELFMID: u16 = 0;
+const E_SELFLEAF: u16 = 1;
+
+fn entry(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+    }
+}
+fn exit_(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+    }
+}
+fn initial_descent() -> Vec<TraceEvent> {
+    vec![
+        TraceEvent::Started {
+            chart_hash: Self_::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SR },
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SR },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SR),
+            to: SM,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SM },
+        entry(SM, A_M_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SM },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SR),
+            to: SM,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SM),
+            to: SL,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SL },
+        entry(SL, A_L_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SL },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SM),
+            to: SL,
+        },
+    ]
+}
+fn assert_journal(actual: &[TraceEvent], expected: &[TraceEvent]) {
+    let mismatch = actual.iter().zip(expected.iter()).position(|(a, e)| a != e);
+    if let Some(i) = mismatch {
+        panic!(
+            "mismatch at index {}\n  actual:   {:?}\n  expected: {:?}",
+            i,
+            actual.get(i),
+            expected.get(i)
+        );
+    }
+    assert_eq!(
+        actual.len(),
+        expected.len(),
+        "length mismatch: actual {} vs expected {}",
+        actual.len(),
+        expected.len()
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_leaf_exits_and_reenters_only_leaf() {
+    // Spec: nothing above the target is touched.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Self_::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_SELFLEAF },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SL,
+                    event: E_SELFLEAF,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SL),
+                    to: SL,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_SELFLEAF },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SL },
+                exit_(SL, A_L_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SL },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SL },
+                entry(SL, A_L_IN),
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: SL },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SL),
+                    to: SL,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_leaf_does_not_touch_parent() {
+    // The key spec example. Mid must NOT appear in any Exited or Entered
+    // event after the initial descent.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Self_::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Find the index of the EventDelivered for SelfLeaf — everything
+            // after that is the self-transition body.
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                            event: E_SELFLEAF,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+
+            let parent_after = j[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SM } | TraceEvent::Exited { state: SM }
+                    )
+                })
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(parent_after, 0,
+            "Mid must not be exited or re-entered during self-transition on Leaf; got tail: {:?}",
+            &j[split..]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_composite_default_descends() {
+    // Spec: "If the target happens to be a composite ... the same default-child
+    // rule still applies on re-entry: exit the composite, re-enter it, then
+    // descend through its default chain to a leaf."
+    //
+    // Currently in Mid via Leaf default. SelfMid bubbles from Leaf to Mid (Mid
+    // has the handler). At dispatch time, innermost is Leaf, so Mid is not
+    // the innermost — that makes it an UP-then-self situation. Actually the
+    // transition algorithm classifies it: target=Mid, current=Leaf, target IS
+    // on the active path and target ≠ I, so this is an UP-transition not a
+    // self-transition. Let's verify what the journal records.
+    //
+    // (See det_up.rs for explicit up-transition tests; this test pins the
+    // bubbling behavior when the handler is on Mid but the transition is to
+    // Mid itself from Leaf.)
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Self_::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfMid).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            // Per spec rules: target=Mid is ON the active path (Root→Mid→Leaf),
+            // and target ≠ Leaf. So it's an UP-transition: only Leaf exits.
+            // Mid's entry actions don't fire. No default-descent.
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_SELFMID },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SM,
+                    event: E_SELFMID,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SL),
+                    to: SM,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_SELFMID },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SL },
+                exit_(SL, A_L_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SL },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SL),
+                    to: SM,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_leaf_repeated_is_deterministic() {
+    // Multiple self-transitions: each independently records the same pattern.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Self_::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Three EventDelivered for SelfLeaf, three TransitionFired, three of each
+            // exit/entry pair.
+            let delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                            event: E_SELFLEAF,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(delivered, 3);
+            let trans = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            from: Some(SL),
+                            to: SL,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(trans, 3);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_byte_deterministic_across_runs() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Self_::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "run {i} diverged");
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_action_kinds_are_exit_then_entry() {
+    // Spec: "cancel durings, run exits, run entries, start durings".
+    // No durings on this chart, so we expect: Exit kind action, then Entry kind action.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Self_::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfLeaf).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                            event: E_SELFLEAF,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            let kinds_after: Vec<ActionKind> = j[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { kind, .. } => Some(*kind),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                kinds_after,
+                vec![ActionKind::Exit, ActionKind::Entry],
+                "self-transition: exit before entry"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for SELF-TRANSITION on a composite (re-enters with default-descend).
+//!
+//! Spec section "Transitioning to yourself":
+//!   If the target happens to be a composite (it has children, but no child is
+//!   active right now because you got there via an up-transition), the same
+//!   default-child rule still applies on re-entry: exit the composite,
+//!   re-enter it, then descend through its default chain to a leaf.
+//!
+//! To get a composite as the innermost active state, this chart uses:
+//!   1. UpToParent (D → Parent) → Parent is now innermost composite.
+//!   2. SelfMid (Parent → Parent) → exit Parent, re-enter Parent, default-descend.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    UpToParent, // D → Parent (up-transition)
+    SelfParent, // Parent → Parent (self-transition on composite)
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Sc {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Parent);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Parent {
+            entry: p_in;
+            exit:  p_out;
+            default(Child);
+            on(SelfParent) => Parent;
+            state Child {
+                entry: c_in;
+                exit:  c_out;
+                default(Leaf);
+                state Leaf {
+                    entry: l_in;
+                    exit:  l_out;
+                    on(UpToParent) => Parent;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl ScActions for ScActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn p_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn p_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SP: u16 = 1;
+const SC: u16 = 2;
+const SL: u16 = 3;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_composite_default_descends_after_re_entry() {
+    // Path: initial → Leaf. UpToParent → Parent (up). SelfParent → exit Parent,
+    // re-enter Parent, default-descend (Parent → Child → Leaf).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Sc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToParent).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfParent).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+
+            // After SelfParent, expect: exit Parent → re-enter Parent → enter Child → enter Leaf.
+            let self_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .rposition(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            from: Some(SP),
+                            to: SP,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            let after = &j[self_idx..];
+
+            let exits: Vec<u16> = after
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            let entered: Vec<u16> = after
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+
+            assert_eq!(exits, vec![SP], "self-transition exits target only");
+            assert_eq!(
+                entered,
+                vec![SP, SC, SL],
+                "re-enter target then default-descend"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_composite_action_kinds_in_order() {
+    // After the SelfParent transition: Exit p_out, Entry p_in, Entry c_in, Entry l_in.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Sc::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToParent).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfParent).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let self_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .rposition(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            from: Some(SP),
+                            to: SP,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            let kinds: Vec<ActionKind> = j[self_idx..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { kind, .. } => Some(*kind),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                kinds,
+                vec![
+                    ActionKind::Exit,
+                    ActionKind::Entry,
+                    ActionKind::Entry,
+                    ActionKind::Entry
+                ],
+                "exit Parent, then enter Parent, Child, Leaf"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_self_composite_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Sc::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToParent).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::SelfParent).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for `step()` vs `dispatch()` equivalence.
+//!
+//! Spec section "step() vs run() vs dispatch()":
+//!   For the same external event sequence and the same elapsed-time inputs,
+//!   the three produce the same observable trace.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Tick,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Eq {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a_in;
+            exit:  a_out;
+            on(Tick) => B;
+        }
+        state B {
+            entry: b_in;
+            exit:  b_out;
+            on(Tick) => A;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl EqActions for EqActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_dispatch_drains_to_quiescence() {
+    // dispatch(ev) processes ev plus any events emitted while handling ev.
+    // After the await returns, the queue is empty.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Eq::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Tick).await;
+            assert!(!m.has_pending_events());
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_step_and_dispatch_produce_same_journal() {
+    // Drive one machine via dispatch, another via send + step until queue empty.
+    // The journals must match.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            // Path 1: dispatch.
+            let mut m1 = Eq::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m1.dispatch(Ev::Tick).await;
+            let _ = m1.dispatch(Ev::Tick).await;
+            let _ = m1.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j_dispatch = m1.take_journal();
+
+            // Path 2: send + step.
+            let mut m2 = Eq::new(Ctx);
+            m2.send(Ev::Tick).unwrap();
+            m2.send(Ev::Tick).unwrap();
+            m2.send(Ev::Halt).unwrap();
+            // Drive to quiescence with explicit steps.
+            for _ in 0..20 {
+                let _ = m2.step(::hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+                if m2.is_terminated() {
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            let j_step = m2.take_journal();
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                j_dispatch, j_step,
+                "step and dispatch must produce identical journals for the same event sequence"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_step_is_at_most_one_unit_of_work() {
+    // Each step() processes at most one event or one timer.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Eq::new(Ctx);
+            m.send(Ev::Tick).unwrap();
+            m.send(Ev::Tick).unwrap();
+            m.send(Ev::Halt).unwrap();
+
+            // After the first step (initial enter): chart enters root → A.
+            let _ = m.step(::hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+            // After the second step: process Tick #1 (A → B).
+            let len_after_2 = {
+                let _ = m.step(::hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+                m.journal().len()
+            };
+            // After the third step: process Tick #2 (B → A).
+            let _ = m.step(::hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+            let len_after_3 = m.journal().len();
+
+            assert!(
+                len_after_3 > len_after_2,
+                "step processes additional events"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_step_repeated_idempotent_when_queue_empty() {
+    // Once initial-enter is done and queue is empty, additional steps
+    // (with elapsed=ZERO) are no-ops.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Eq::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.step(::hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await; // initial entry
+            let len_after_first = m.journal().len();
+            for _ in 0..10 {
+                let _ = m.step(::hsmc::Duration::ZERO).await;
+            }
+            // After the first step, no events are pending, so additional
+            // step(ZERO) calls do nothing.
+            assert_eq!(
+                m.journal().len(),
+                len_after_first,
+                "step(ZERO) on empty queue must not change journal"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for TERMINATION.
+//!
+//! Spec section "Termination":
+//!   When a `terminate` event is received, the machine exits the entire active
+//!   path bottom-up: innermost first, then each parent, up to and including
+//!   the root. After that, the machine is done — `is_terminated()` is true,
+//!   `run()` returns `Ok(())`, further `step()` calls are no-ops returning
+//!   `None`. Any pending events in the queue are dropped. Any in-flight
+//!   durings are dropped at their next `.await`.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, HsmcError, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Halt,
+    Other,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Term {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Mid);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: r_in;
+        exit:  r_out;
+
+        state Mid {
+            entry: m_in;
+            exit:  m_out;
+            default(Leaf);
+            on(Other) => log_other;
+            state Leaf {
+                entry: l_in;
+                exit:  l_out;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl TermActions for TermActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn r_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn m_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn m_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn l_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn log_other(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SM: u16 = 1;
+const SL: u16 = 2;
+// Halt is interned via terminate(Halt). Other is used in `on(Other)` first.
+// IR build order: handlers processed first per body. Mid has on(Other) → 0.
+// Then Halt is interned at the end of build_ir → 1.
+const E_OTHER: u16 = 0;
+const E_HALT: u16 = 1;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_records_terminate_requested() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // TerminateRequested fires before the bottom-up exits.
+            let req_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TerminateRequested { event: E_HALT }));
+            assert!(
+                req_idx.is_some(),
+                "TerminateRequested must appear, got: {:?}",
+                j
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_exits_bottom_up() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let exits: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(exits, vec![SL, SM, SR], "termination exits inner-to-outer");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_terminated_is_last() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            assert!(matches!(m.journal().last(), Some(TraceEvent::Terminated)));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_dispatch_after_returns_already_terminated() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let res = m.dispatch(Ev::Other).await;
+            assert!(
+                matches!(res, Err(HsmcError::AlreadyTerminated)),
+                "dispatch after terminate must return AlreadyTerminated, got {:?}",
+                res
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_journal_unchanged_by_post_term_dispatch() {
+    // Calling dispatch after terminate must not journal anything new.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let len_before = m.journal().len();
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Other).await;
+            let len_after = m.journal().len();
+            assert_eq!(
+                len_before, len_after,
+                "journal length must not change after termination"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_exit_actions_run_in_order() {
+    // Spec: exit actions inner-to-outer.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let exit_actions: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                        state,
+                        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                        ..
+                    } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(exit_actions, vec![SL, SM, SR]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_other_event_processed_before_halt() {
+    // Other is dispatched first, then Halt. Other is delivered, then Halt
+    // triggers termination. EventDelivered for Other appears, but no
+    // EventDelivered for Halt — instead, TerminateRequested.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Other).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let other_delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_OTHER, .. }));
+            let halt_delivered = j
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_HALT, .. }));
+            let halt_requested = j
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TerminateRequested { event: E_HALT }));
+            assert!(other_delivered, "Other must be delivered");
+            assert!(!halt_delivered, "Halt does not go through EventDelivered");
+            assert!(halt_requested, "Halt goes through TerminateRequested");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_terminate_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Term::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Other).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,301 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for TIMERS.
+//!
+//! Spec section "Timers":
+//!   - A timer starts when its state is entered.
+//!   - A timer is cancelled when its state is exited.
+//!   - Descending into a child state is not an exit — parent's timers keep running.
+//!   - Timers don't bubble. Only the declaring state handles its expiry.
+//!   - Re-entering a state restarts its timers.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use core::time::Duration;
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Stop,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Tim {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Counting);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Counting {
+            entry: c_in;
+            exit:  c_out;
+            on(after Duration::from_millis(50)) => Done;
+            on(Stop) => Done;
+        }
+        state Done {
+            entry: d_in;
+            on(after Duration::from_millis(20)) => log_tick;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl TimActions for TimActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn c_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn log_tick(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SC: u16 = 1;
+const SD: u16 = 2;
+// Timer ids in first-seen order: 50ms (counting) → 0, 20ms (done) → 1.
+const T_COUNTING: u16 = 0;
+const T_DONE: u16 = 1;
+
+fn timer_events(j: &[TraceEvent]) -> Vec<&TraceEvent> {
+    j.iter()
+        .filter(|e| {
+            matches!(
+                e,
+                TraceEvent::TimerArmed { .. }
+                    | TraceEvent::TimerCancelled { .. }
+                    | TraceEvent::TimerFired { .. }
+            )
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_arms_on_entry() {
+    // Spec: timer starts when its state is entered.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // First TimerArmed must be Counting's 50ms timer.
+            let first_armed = j
+                .iter()
+                .find(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TimerArmed { .. }));
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    first_armed,
+                    Some(TraceEvent::TimerArmed {
+                        state: SC,
+                        timer: T_COUNTING,
+                        ns: 50_000_000
+                    })
+                ),
+                "got: {:?}",
+                first_armed
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_cancels_on_exit() {
+    // Spec: timer is cancelled when its state is exited.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // Stop transitions Counting → Done. Exit Counting must cancel its timer.
+            let cancelled = j.iter().find(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::TimerCancelled {
+                        state: SC,
+                        timer: T_COUNTING
+                    }
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(
+                cancelled.is_some(),
+                "Counting's timer must be cancelled on exit, got: {:?}",
+                j
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_cancel_appears_before_exit_actions() {
+    // Spec: "1. cancel durings  2. cancel timers  3. exit actions  4. Exited"
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let cancel_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TimerCancelled { state: SC, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let exit_action_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            state: SC,
+                            kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                cancel_idx < exit_action_idx,
+                "TimerCancelled at {} must precede ActionInvoked Exit at {}",
+                cancel_idx,
+                exit_action_idx
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_arm_appears_after_entry_actions() {
+    // The TimerArmed must come AFTER the entry action invocation.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // First Entry-kind action on Counting:
+            let entry_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            state: SC,
+                            kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            // First TimerArmed for Counting:
+            let armed_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TimerArmed { state: SC, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                entry_idx < armed_idx,
+                "entry actions ({}) must fire before TimerArmed ({})",
+                entry_idx,
+                armed_idx
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_arm_each_state_in_path() {
+    // Initial descent into Counting arms Counting's timer.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let armed: Vec<&TraceEvent> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TimerArmed { .. }))
+                .collect();
+            // Only Counting has a timer in initial descent (Done is unreached).
+            assert_eq!(
+                armed.len(),
+                1,
+                "expected 1 TimerArmed during initial descent, got {:?}",
+                armed
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_two_lifecycles_arm_then_cancel_each() {
+    // GoChild then UpToCounting (no such event — use Stop for full exit).
+    // Just check Stop's full sequence: arm → cancel.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+            let evs = timer_events(m.journal());
+            assert_eq!(
+                evs.len(),
+                3,
+                "expected arm → cancel → arm (Done's timer), got {:?}",
+                evs
+            );
+            assert!(matches!(
+                evs[0],
+                TraceEvent::TimerArmed {
+                    state: SC,
+                    timer: T_COUNTING,
+                    ns: 50_000_000
+                }
+            ));
+            assert!(matches!(
+                evs[1],
+                TraceEvent::TimerCancelled {
+                    state: SC,
+                    timer: T_COUNTING
+                }
+            ));
+            assert!(matches!(
+                evs[2],
+                TraceEvent::TimerArmed {
+                    state: SD,
+                    timer: T_DONE,
+                    ns: 20_000_000
+                }
+            ));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_byte_deterministic() {
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        assert_eq!(first, run().await, "diverged on run {i}");
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_timer_state_cancel_uses_correct_state_id() {
+    // The TimerCancelled.state must be SC, not SR or any other.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Tim::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+            let cancels: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::TimerCancelled { state, .. } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(cancels, vec![SC]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for parent-vs-child timer interaction.
+//!
+//! Spec: "Descending into a child state is not an exit — the parent's
+//! timers keep running."
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use core::time::Duration;
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Halt,
+}
+
+// Parent has a 100ms timer. Default-descend into ChildA. ChildA has no timer.
+statechart! {
+    Pt {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(Parent);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Parent {
+            entry: p_in;
+            exit:  p_out;
+            default(ChildA);
+            on(after Duration::from_millis(100)) => Done;
+            state ChildA {
+                entry: ca_in;
+                exit:  ca_out;
+            }
+        }
+        state Done {
+            entry: d_in;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl PtActions for PtActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn p_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn p_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn ca_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn ca_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_in(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SP: u16 = 1;
+const T_PARENT: u16 = 0;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_parent_timer_armed_before_child_entered() {
+    // Parent's timer arms during Parent's entry; THEN default-descends into ChildA.
+    // So the order is: TimerArmed(Parent) before Entered(ChildA).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Pt::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let armed_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TimerArmed { state: SP, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let child_entered_idx = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::Entered { state: 2 } // ChildA = id 2
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                armed_idx < child_entered_idx,
+                "TimerArmed (Parent) at {} must precede Entered (ChildA) at {}",
+                armed_idx,
+                child_entered_idx
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_parent_timer_only_one_arm_in_initial_descent() {
+    // Only Parent has a timer. ChildA has none.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Pt::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let armed: Vec<u16> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::TimerArmed { state, .. } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(armed, vec![SP]);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_parent_timer_cancelled_on_termination() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Pt::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let cancels: Vec<&TraceEvent> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TimerCancelled { .. }))
+                .collect();
+            // Termination unwinds all states. Parent's timer is cancelled when Parent exits.
+            assert_eq!(
+                cancels.len(),
+                1,
+                "expected exactly 1 TimerCancelled (Parent's), got {:?}",
+                cancels
+            );
+            assert!(matches!(
+                cancels[0],
+                TraceEvent::TimerCancelled {
+                    state: SP,
+                    timer: T_PARENT
+                }
+            ));
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,451 @@
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+//! Deterministic-flow tests for UP-TRANSITIONS (target is on active path, target ≠ I).
+//!
+//! Spec section "Transitioning to one of your parents (the important one)":
+//!   When you transition to an ancestor of the current state, you exit the
+//!   current state and any states between, but you do NOT re-enter the
+//!   ancestor. ... You cannot enter a state you never left.
+//!
+//! Spec invariants for up-transitions:
+//!   - The ancestor's entry actions don't fire.
+//!   - The ancestor's `default` is not followed.
+//!   - The ancestor's timers don't restart.
+//!   - The ancestor's durings keep running.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    UpToA,
+    UpToB,
+    UpToC,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+// Hierarchy: Root → A → B → C → D
+// Up-transitions on D and intermediate states fire to ancestors.
+statechart! {
+    Up {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: r_in;
+        exit:  r_out;
+
+        state A {
+            entry: a_in;
+            exit:  a_out;
+            default(B);
+            state B {
+                entry: b_in;
+                exit:  b_out;
+                default(C);
+                state C {
+                    entry: c_in;
+                    exit:  c_out;
+                    default(D);
+                    state D {
+                        entry: d_in;
+                        exit:  d_out;
+                        on(UpToA) => A;
+                        on(UpToB) => B;
+                        on(UpToC) => C;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl UpActions for UpActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn r_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn r_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn a_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn b_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn c_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn d_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+const SR: u16 = 0;
+const SA: u16 = 1;
+const SB: u16 = 2;
+const SC: u16 = 3;
+const SD: u16 = 4;
+const A_R_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_R_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_A_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_A_OUT: u16 = 3;
+const A_B_IN: u16 = 4;
+const A_B_OUT: u16 = 5;
+const A_C_IN: u16 = 6;
+const A_C_OUT: u16 = 7;
+const A_D_IN: u16 = 8;
+const A_D_OUT: u16 = 9;
+// Event ids in first-seen order during IR build (D's handlers, in declaration order).
+const E_UPTOA: u16 = 0;
+const E_UPTOB: u16 = 1;
+const E_UPTOC: u16 = 2;
+
+fn entry(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+    }
+}
+fn exit_(state: u16, action: u16) -> TraceEvent {
+    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+        state,
+        action,
+        kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+    }
+}
+fn initial_descent() -> Vec<TraceEvent> {
+    // Each `default(...)` fires as a TransitionFired{Internal} /
+    // TransitionComplete pair around the entered state.
+    vec![
+        TraceEvent::Started {
+            chart_hash: Up::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SR },
+        entry(SR, A_R_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SR },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SR),
+            to: SA,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SA },
+        entry(SA, A_A_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SA },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SR),
+            to: SA,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SA),
+            to: SB,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SB },
+        entry(SB, A_B_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SB },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SA),
+            to: SB,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SB),
+            to: SC,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SC },
+        entry(SC, A_C_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SC },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SB),
+            to: SC,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+            from: Some(SC),
+            to: SD,
+            reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+        },
+        TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: SD },
+        entry(SD, A_D_IN),
+        TraceEvent::Entered { state: SD },
+        TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+            from: Some(SC),
+            to: SD,
+        },
+    ]
+}
+fn assert_journal(actual: &[TraceEvent], expected: &[TraceEvent]) {
+    let mismatch = actual.iter().zip(expected.iter()).position(|(a, e)| a != e);
+    if let Some(i) = mismatch {
+        panic!(
+            "mismatch at index {}\n  actual:   {:?}\n  expected: {:?}",
+            i,
+            actual.get(i),
+            expected.get(i)
+        );
+    }
+    assert_eq!(
+        actual.len(),
+        expected.len(),
+        "length mismatch: actual {} vs expected {}",
+        actual.len(),
+        expected.len()
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_to_immediate_grandparent() {
+    // D → C: exit D only. C is target, not exited, not re-entered.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToC).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_UPTOC },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SD,
+                    event: E_UPTOC,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SC,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_UPTOC },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SD },
+                exit_(SD, A_D_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SD },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SC,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_two_levels() {
+    // D → B: exit D, exit C. B is target, not exited.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToB).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_UPTOB },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SD,
+                    event: E_UPTOB,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SB,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_UPTOB },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SD },
+                exit_(SD, A_D_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SD },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SC },
+                exit_(SC, A_C_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SC },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SB,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_three_levels_to_a() {
+    // D → A: exit D, C, B. A is target, not exited.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToA).await;
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let mut expected = initial_descent();
+            expected.extend(vec![
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_UPTOA },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: SD,
+                    event: E_UPTOA,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SA,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_UPTOA },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SD },
+                exit_(SD, A_D_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SD },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SC },
+                exit_(SC, A_C_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SC },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: SB },
+                exit_(SB, A_B_OUT),
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: SB },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(SD),
+                    to: SA,
+                },
+            ]);
+            assert_journal(&actual, &expected);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_target_not_re_entered() {
+    // After D → A: A must NOT appear in any Entered event after the initial descent.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToA).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_UPTOA, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let a_re_entered = j[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::Entered { state: SA }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(
+                a_re_entered, 0,
+                "target A must not re-enter on up-transition"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_target_action_not_fired() {
+    // After D → A: a_in must NOT fire after the initial descent.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToA).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_UPTOA, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            let a_in_after = j[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                            state: SA,
+                            action: A_A_IN,
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(
+                a_in_after, 0,
+                "target's entry action must not fire on up-transition"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_no_default_descent() {
+    // After D → A: no default-descent. The journal stops with Exited(B).
+    // A is the new innermost active state, with no active child.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToA).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: E_UPTOA, .. }))
+                .unwrap();
+            // Nothing after this slice should be Entered (no descent).
+            let entered_after = j[split..]
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::Entered { .. }))
+                .count();
+            assert_eq!(entered_after, 0, "up-transition: no default-descent");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_current_state_is_target_after() {
+    // After D → B, the innermost active state is B (composite, no active child).
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToB).await;
+            // current_state() should return B's public variant.
+            // Indirect check: the most recent Entered (B's, from initial descent) is the
+            // last Entered before the up-transition; nothing after.
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            let last_entered = j
+                .iter()
+                .enumerate()
+                .rev()
+                .find(|(_, e)| matches!(e, TraceEvent::Entered { .. }))
+                .map(|(i, _)| i);
+            // Find the EVENT-driven UpToB transition (initial defaults
+            // emit TransitionFired{Internal} too).
+            let split = j
+                .iter()
+                .position(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                            reason: TransitionReason::Event { .. },
+                            ..
+                        }
+                    )
+                })
+                .unwrap();
+            // The last Entered event must be BEFORE the transition.
+            assert!(
+                last_entered.unwrap() < split,
+                "up-transition: no entries after the transition fires"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn det_up_chained_then_lateral() {
+    // D → C, then C is a leaf with no children, so this becomes the new
+    // innermost. From C we don't have any other handlers, so test ends here.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Up::new(Ctx);
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::UpToC).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+            let j = m.take_journal();
+            // After UpToC, we should have Exited(D) but C remains. Halt then exits
+            // C → B → A → Root.
+            let exits: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert_eq!(
+                exits,
+                vec![SD, SC, SB, SA, SR],
+                "up to C, then terminate exits remaining path"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+//! Dumps a journal for visual inspection. Run with:
+//!
+//!   cargo test -p hsmc --features tokio,journal --test journal_dump -- --nocapture
+//!
+//! Not an assertion — just shows the actual sequence so we can sanity-check
+//! that "EVERYTHING" is journaled.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::statechart;
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx {
+    pub n: u32,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Beep,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Dump {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(Idle);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: root_in;
+        exit:  root_out;
+
+        state Idle {
+            entry: idle_in;
+            exit:  idle_out;
+            on(Go) => Active;
+            on(Beep) => beep_at_idle;
+        }
+        state Active {
+            entry: active_in;
+            exit:  active_out;
+            default(Sub);
+            state Sub {
+                entry: sub_in;
+                exit:  sub_out;
+                on(Beep) => beep_at_sub;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl DumpActions for DumpActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn root_in(&mut self) {
+        self.n += 1;
+    }
+    async fn root_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn idle_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn idle_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn active_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn active_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn sub_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn sub_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn beep_at_idle(&mut self) {}
+    async fn beep_at_sub(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn dump_journal() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Dump::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Beep).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Beep).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+
+            println!(
+                "\n=== JOURNAL DUMP (CHART_HASH={:#x}) ===",
+                Dump::<8>::CHART_HASH
+            );
+            for (i, e) in m.journal().iter().enumerate() {
+                println!("  {:>3}: {:?}", i, e);
+            }
+            println!("=== END ({} events) ===\n", m.journal().len());
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+//! Replay tests: a hand-built EXPECTED journal compared byte-for-byte against
+//! the ACTUAL journal produced by running the chart with a fixed event
+//! sequence. This is the canonical correctness check the user asked for —
+//! "EVERYTHING in the sequence has to be journaled and compared against the
+//! expected sequence."
+//!
+//! When the codegen drifts (an entry actions reorders, a timer arms in a
+//! different place, an event dispatches to a different state), exactly one
+//! line of the expected vector mismatches and the test fails with a
+//! pinpoint diff.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    Replay {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(Idle);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: root_in;
+        exit:  root_out;
+
+        state Idle {
+            entry: idle_in;
+            exit:  idle_out;
+            on(Go) => Active;
+        }
+        state Active {
+            entry: active_in;
+            exit:  active_out;
+            default(Sub);
+            state Sub {
+                entry: sub_in;
+                exit:  sub_out;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl ReplayActions for ReplayActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn root_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn root_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn idle_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn idle_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn active_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn active_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn sub_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn sub_out(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+// State indices.
+const ST_ROOT: u16 = 0;
+const ST_IDLE: u16 = 1;
+const ST_ACTIVE: u16 = 2;
+const ST_SUB: u16 = 3;
+
+// Action indices.
+const A_ROOT_IN: u16 = 0;
+const A_ROOT_OUT: u16 = 1;
+const A_IDLE_IN: u16 = 2;
+const A_IDLE_OUT: u16 = 3;
+const A_ACTIVE_IN: u16 = 4;
+const A_ACTIVE_OUT: u16 = 5;
+const A_SUB_IN: u16 = 6;
+const A_SUB_OUT: u16 = 7;
+
+// Event indices.
+const E_GO: u16 = 0;
+const E_HALT: u16 = 1;
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn replay_full_lifecycle_matches_expected() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = Replay::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+
+            let actual = m.take_journal();
+
+            let expected: Vec<TraceEvent> = vec![
+                // ── First step: enter the chart ──
+                TraceEvent::Started {
+                    chart_hash: Replay::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: ST_ROOT },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_ROOT,
+                    action: A_ROOT_IN,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: ST_ROOT },
+                // Root's `default(Idle)` fires as an internal transition.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(ST_ROOT),
+                    to: ST_IDLE,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: ST_IDLE },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_IDLE,
+                    action: A_IDLE_IN,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: ST_IDLE },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(ST_ROOT),
+                    to: ST_IDLE,
+                },
+                // ── Go event delivered to Idle, transition to Active → Sub ──
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_GO },
+                TraceEvent::EventDelivered {
+                    handler_state: ST_IDLE,
+                    event: E_GO,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(ST_IDLE),
+                    to: ST_ACTIVE,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Event { event: E_GO },
+                },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: ST_IDLE },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_IDLE,
+                    action: A_IDLE_OUT,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: ST_IDLE },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: ST_ACTIVE },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_ACTIVE,
+                    action: A_ACTIVE_IN,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: ST_ACTIVE },
+                // Active's `default(Sub)` fires as an internal transition,
+                // bracketed by its own TransitionFired/Complete.
+                TraceEvent::TransitionFired {
+                    from: Some(ST_ACTIVE),
+                    to: ST_SUB,
+                    reason: TransitionReason::Internal,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::EnterBegan { state: ST_SUB },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_SUB,
+                    action: A_SUB_IN,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Entry,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Entered { state: ST_SUB },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(ST_ACTIVE),
+                    to: ST_SUB,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::TransitionComplete {
+                    from: Some(ST_IDLE),
+                    to: ST_ACTIVE,
+                },
+                // ── Halt event triggers termination: exit Sub → Active → root, then Terminated ──
+                TraceEvent::EventReceived { event: E_HALT },
+                TraceEvent::TerminateRequested { event: E_HALT },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: ST_SUB },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_SUB,
+                    action: A_SUB_OUT,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: ST_SUB },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: ST_ACTIVE },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_ACTIVE,
+                    action: A_ACTIVE_OUT,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: ST_ACTIVE },
+                TraceEvent::ExitBegan { state: ST_ROOT },
+                TraceEvent::ActionInvoked {
+                    state: ST_ROOT,
+                    action: A_ROOT_OUT,
+                    kind: ActionKind::Exit,
+                },
+                TraceEvent::Exited { state: ST_ROOT },
+                TraceEvent::Terminated,
+            ];
+
+            let mismatch_at = actual
+                .iter()
+                .zip(expected.iter())
+                .position(|(a, e)| a != e)
+                .map(|i| i.to_string())
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| "<length-mismatch>".to_string());
+            assert_eq!(
+                actual, expected,
+                "journal divergence at index {}",
+                mismatch_at
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+//! Replay test for emit() journaling.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Trigger,
+    Followup,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    EmitProbe {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(A);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state A {
+            on(Trigger) => emit_followup;
+            on(Followup) => B;
+        }
+        state B {
+            entry: noop;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl EmitProbeActions for EmitProbeActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn emit_followup(&mut self) {
+        self.emit(Ev::Followup).unwrap();
+    }
+    async fn noop(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn emit_queued_appears_in_journal() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = EmitProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Trigger).await;
+
+            let saw_emit = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EmitQueued { .. }));
+            assert!(
+                saw_emit,
+                "journal must contain EmitQueued, got {:?}",
+                m.journal()
+            );
+
+            // The follow-up event MUST be delivered (proving the queue actually
+            // drained the emit'd event).
+            let delivered_followup = m.journal().iter().any(|e| {
+                matches!(
+                    e,
+                    TraceEvent::EventDelivered { event: 1, .. } // 1 = Followup (Trigger=0, Followup=1)
+                )
+            });
+            assert!(
+                delivered_followup,
+                "expected Followup to be delivered after emit"
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+//! Replay test for timer arm + cancel paths.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, TraceEvent};
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx {
+    pub fired: u32,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Stop,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    TimerProbe {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(Counting);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Counting {
+            entry: noop;
+            exit:  noop2;
+            on(after hsmc::Duration::from_millis(100)) => Done;
+            on(Stop) => Done;
+        }
+        state Done {
+            entry: noop3;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl TimerProbeActions for TimerProbeActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn noop(&mut self) {}
+    async fn noop2(&mut self) {}
+    async fn noop3(&mut self) {}
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn timer_arm_then_cancel_journals_both() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TimerProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Stop).await;
+
+            let timer_events: Vec<&TraceEvent> = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .filter(|e| {
+                    matches!(
+                        e,
+                        TraceEvent::TimerArmed { .. }
+                            | TraceEvent::TimerCancelled { .. }
+                            | TraceEvent::TimerFired { .. }
+                    )
+                })
+                .collect();
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                timer_events.len(),
+                2,
+                "expected 2 timer events, got {:?}",
+                timer_events
+            );
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    timer_events[0],
+                    TraceEvent::TimerArmed {
+                        state: 1,
+                        timer: 0,
+                        ns: 100_000_000
+                    }
+                ),
+                "got {:?}",
+                timer_events[0]
+            );
+            assert!(
+                matches!(
+                    timer_events[1],
+                    TraceEvent::TimerCancelled { state: 1, timer: 0 }
+                ),
+                "got {:?}",
+                timer_events[1]
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,267 @@
+//! Smoke tests for the deterministic execution journal (`feature = "journal"`).
+//!
+//! Every observable atom — entries, exits, action invocations (with kind),
+//! during start/cancel, timer arm/cancel/fire, queued emits, event delivery,
+//! transitions, termination — must appear in the journal in canonical order
+//! for a fixed `(chart, ctx, event sequence)` input. These tests pin down
+//! that order on small chart shapes so any regression in codegen is caught
+//! immediately.
+//!
+//! Tests run only when both `tokio` and `journal` features are enabled.
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, ActionKind, TraceEvent};
+
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Small chart: A → B on Go, with entry/exit actions in a hierarchy.
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx {
+    pub log: Vec<&'static str>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    JournalProbe {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(Idle);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        entry: root_in;
+        exit:  root_out;
+
+        state Idle {
+            entry: idle_in;
+            exit:  idle_out;
+            on(Go) => Active;
+        }
+        state Active {
+            entry: active_in;
+            exit:  active_out;
+            default(Sub);
+            state Sub {
+                entry: sub_in;
+                exit:  sub_out;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl JournalProbeActions for JournalProbeActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn root_in(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("root_in");
+    }
+    async fn root_out(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("root_out");
+    }
+    async fn idle_in(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("idle_in");
+    }
+    async fn idle_out(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("idle_out");
+    }
+    async fn active_in(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("active_in");
+    }
+    async fn active_out(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("active_out");
+    }
+    async fn sub_in(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("sub_in");
+    }
+    async fn sub_out(&mut self) {
+        self.log.push("sub_out");
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn journal_records_initial_descent() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+            // Drive the initial entry chain by stepping once with no event.
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+
+            let j = m.journal();
+
+            // First event must be Started.
+            assert!(matches!(j[0], TraceEvent::Started { .. }));
+            // Started carries the chart's stable hash.
+            if let TraceEvent::Started { chart_hash } = j[0] {
+                assert_eq!(chart_hash, JournalProbe::<8>::CHART_HASH);
+            }
+
+            // We expect (in order, for the initial descent root → Idle):
+            //   Started
+            //   Entered(root)
+            //   ActionInvoked(root, root_in, Entry)
+            //   Entered(Idle)
+            //   ActionInvoked(Idle, idle_in, Entry)
+            //   ... (then the Go event delivery / transition / sub entry)
+            let states_entered: Vec<u16> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Entered { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // At minimum we entered root (id 0), then Idle, then Active, then Sub.
+            assert_eq!(
+                states_entered.len(),
+                4,
+                "expected 4 Entered events, got {:?}",
+                j
+            );
+
+            // Action kinds appear in order Entry → Handler (none here) → Exit.
+            let kinds: Vec<ActionKind> = j
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::ActionInvoked { kind, .. } => Some(*kind),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // Actions on the journey: Entry x4 (root, idle, active, sub),
+            // Exit x1 (idle), Entry x2 (active, sub) — wait no:
+            // Initial descent is root → Idle. Entries: root_in, idle_in.
+            // Then Go fires: Idle exits (idle_out), Active enters (active_in),
+            // Sub enters (sub_in).
+            // Total: Entry(root), Entry(idle), Exit(idle), Entry(active), Entry(sub).
+            let entry_count = kinds.iter().filter(|k| **k == ActionKind::Entry).count();
+            let exit_count = kinds.iter().filter(|k| **k == ActionKind::Exit).count();
+            assert_eq!(
+                entry_count, 4,
+                "expected 4 entry actions, got kinds {:?}",
+                kinds
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                exit_count, 1,
+                "expected 1 exit action, got kinds {:?}",
+                kinds
+            );
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn journal_includes_transition_event() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+
+            let saw_transition = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::TransitionFired { .. }));
+            assert!(saw_transition, "journal must contain TransitionFired");
+
+            let saw_event_delivered = m
+                .journal()
+                .iter()
+                .any(|e| matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { .. }));
+            assert!(saw_event_delivered, "journal must contain EventDelivered");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn journal_records_termination() {
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+
+            let j = m.journal();
+            assert!(
+                matches!(j.last(), Some(TraceEvent::Terminated)),
+                "journal must end with Terminated, got tail: {:?}",
+                &j[j.len().saturating_sub(3)..]
+            );
+
+            // Termination exits all states from leaf to root (Sub → Active → Idle? No,
+            // Idle was already exited on Go. After Halt the active path is
+            // root → Active → Sub. Exits: Sub, Active, root.
+            let post_halt_exits: Vec<u16> = j.iter()
+                .skip_while(|e| !matches!(e, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { .. } if matches!(j.iter().rev().find(|x| matches!(x, TraceEvent::EventDelivered { .. })), Some(_))))
+                .filter_map(|e| match e {
+                    TraceEvent::Exited { state } => Some(*state),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+                .collect();
+            // We at least exited 4 times across the run (idle once, then sub/active/root on terminate).
+            assert!(post_halt_exits.len() >= 3, "expected at least 3 exits across the run, got {:?}", j);
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn journal_is_byte_deterministic_across_runs() {
+    // Same chart, same context, same event sequence ⇒ identical journal.
+    let run = || async {
+        tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+            .run_until(async {
+                let mut m = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+                let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+                m.take_journal()
+            })
+            .await
+    };
+    let first = run().await;
+    for i in 1..10 {
+        let again = run().await;
+        assert_eq!(first, again, "journal divergence on run #{}", i);
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn clear_journal_empties_the_journal() {
+    // Pins down `JournalSink::clear`: after dispatching events that
+    // produce journal entries, calling `clear_journal()` must empty
+    // the journal. Subsequent `journal()` returns an empty slice;
+    // `take_journal()` returns an empty Vec.
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            assert!(
+                !m.journal().is_empty(),
+                "journal should have entries before clear"
+            );
+
+            m.clear_journal();
+            assert!(
+                m.journal().is_empty(),
+                "journal must be empty after clear_journal()"
+            );
+            let taken = m.take_journal();
+            assert!(taken.is_empty(), "take_journal() after clear must be empty");
+        })
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn chart_hash_is_stable() {
+    // Two instances of the same chart must agree on CHART_HASH.
+    let _m1 = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+    let _m2 = JournalProbe::new(Ctx::default());
+    assert_eq!(
+        JournalProbe::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+        JournalProbe::<8>::CHART_HASH,
+        "chart hash must be stable across instantiations"
+    );
+    // CHART_HASH must be nonzero — proves the FNV-1a fingerprint actually ran.
+    assert_ne!(JournalProbe::<8>::CHART_HASH, 0);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,429 @@
+//! Verifies the textual format of the unified observation pipeline's
+//! `trace-log` sink line-for-line.
+//!
+//! Each `__chart_observe!` arm has a stable logfmt-style format:
+//!
+//!     `[statechart:<Name>] <verb> key=value key=value …`
+//!
+//! These tests pin every verb's exact rendering so a real-life log capture
+//! can be diffed against expected behavior. The chart is exercised through
+//! both the journal sink (so we can assert atom-by-atom equivalence) and
+//! the trace-log sink (so we can assert the rendered strings).
+
+#![cfg(all(feature = "tokio", feature = "journal", feature = "trace-log"))]
+#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
+
+use hsmc::{statechart, Duration, TraceEvent, TransitionReason};
+use std::sync::{Mutex, MutexGuard, OnceLock};
+
+// ── Capture sink ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// log::set_logger can only be installed once per process. The capture
+// holds a single Vec<String> shared across all tests, plus a global
+// `TEST_LOCK` that each test holds across its drive-then-assert
+// section so concurrent tests don't interleave their captured lines.
+
+struct Capture {
+    lines: Mutex<Vec<String>>,
+}
+
+impl log::Log for Capture {
+    fn enabled(&self, _: &log::Metadata<'_>) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
+    fn log(&self, record: &log::Record<'_>) {
+        if let Ok(mut g) = self.lines.lock() {
+            g.push(format!("{}", record.args()));
+        }
+    }
+    fn flush(&self) {}
+}
+
+static CAPTURE: OnceLock<&'static Capture> = OnceLock::new();
+static TEST_LOCK: Mutex<()> = Mutex::new(());
+
+fn install_capture() -> &'static Capture {
+    *CAPTURE.get_or_init(|| {
+        let leaked: &'static Capture = Box::leak(Box::new(Capture {
+            lines: Mutex::new(Vec::new()),
+        }));
+        let _ = log::set_logger(leaked);
+        log::set_max_level(log::LevelFilter::Trace);
+        leaked
+    })
+}
+
+/// RAII helper. Acquire before driving the chart, drop after assertions
+/// — keeps `tests::*` from interleaving captured log lines.
+fn lock_for_test() -> MutexGuard<'static, ()> {
+    install_capture();
+    let g = TEST_LOCK.lock().unwrap_or_else(|p| p.into_inner());
+    // Clear any lines left by a previous test that paniced before
+    // draining (poison case).
+    let cap = CAPTURE.get().unwrap();
+    cap.lines.lock().unwrap().clear();
+    g
+}
+
+fn current_lines() -> Vec<String> {
+    let cap = install_capture();
+    cap.lines.lock().unwrap().clone()
+}
+
+// ── Test chart ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// Covers every observation verb the macro can emit. Two states with
+// entry/exit actions, a handler that emits and transitions, a timer,
+// a during, and a terminate event.
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Ctx {
+    pub buf: u32,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum Ev {
+    Go,
+    Step,
+    Halt,
+}
+
+statechart! {
+    TraceFmt {
+        context: Ctx;
+        events:  Ev;
+
+        default(Idle);
+        terminate(Halt);
+
+        state Idle {
+            entry: idle_in;
+            exit:  idle_out;
+            during: tick(buf);
+            on(after Duration::from_secs(60)) => Idle;
+            on(Go) => Active;
+        }
+        state Active {
+            entry: active_in;
+            exit:  active_out;
+            on(Step) => bump;
+            on(Halt) => Idle;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+async fn tick(_buf: &mut u32) -> Ev {
+    Ev::Step
+}
+
+impl TraceFmtActions for TraceFmtActionContext<'_> {
+    async fn idle_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn idle_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn active_in(&mut self) {}
+    async fn active_out(&mut self) {}
+    async fn bump(&mut self) {
+        let _ = self.emit(Ev::Halt);
+    }
+}
+
+// ── Helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/// Returns true iff `line` matches the expected `[statechart:TraceFmt] verb …`
+/// shape. Every line emitted by the dispatcher must.
+fn well_formed(line: &str) -> bool {
+    line.starts_with("[statechart:TraceFmt] ")
+}
+
+/// Filter `lines` to only those whose verb (the first token after the
+/// prefix) equals `verb`. Useful for asserting on a single verb's lines.
+fn lines_with_verb<'a>(lines: &'a [String], verb: &str) -> Vec<&'a str> {
+    let prefix = "[statechart:TraceFmt] ";
+    lines
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|l| l.strip_prefix(prefix))
+        .filter(|rest| rest.split_whitespace().next() == Some(verb))
+        .map(|s| s.as_ref())
+        .collect()
+}
+
+// ── Tests ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn every_line_uses_statechart_prefix() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    assert!(!lines.is_empty(), "no log lines captured");
+    for l in &lines {
+        assert!(
+            well_formed(l),
+            "line missing [statechart:TraceFmt] prefix: {l:?}"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn enter_and_exit_emit_begin_end_pairs() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let entering = lines_with_verb(&lines, "entering");
+    let entered = lines_with_verb(&lines, "entered");
+    assert_eq!(
+        entering.len(),
+        entered.len(),
+        "every `entering` must have a matching `entered`"
+    );
+    assert!(entering.contains(&"entering state=TraceFmt"));
+    assert!(entered.contains(&"entered state=TraceFmt"));
+    assert!(entering.contains(&"entering state=Idle"));
+    assert!(entered.contains(&"entered state=Idle"));
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn transition_records_event_reason() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let begins = lines_with_verb(&lines, "transition-begin");
+    assert!(!begins.is_empty(), "no transition-begin lines captured");
+    let line = begins[0];
+    assert!(
+        line.contains("from=Idle"),
+        "transition-begin missing from=Idle: {line:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        line.contains("to=Active"),
+        "transition-begin missing to=Active: {line:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        line.contains("reason=event:Go"),
+        "transition-begin missing reason=event:Go: {line:?}"
+    );
+
+    let completes = lines_with_verb(&lines, "transition-complete");
+    assert!(
+        !completes.is_empty(),
+        "transition-complete must follow transition-begin"
+    );
+    assert!(completes[0].contains("from=Idle") && completes[0].contains("to=Active"));
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn event_lifecycle_received_then_outcome() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let received = lines_with_verb(&lines, "event-received");
+    let delivered = lines_with_verb(&lines, "event-delivered");
+    assert!(received.iter().any(|l| l.contains("name=Go")));
+    assert!(delivered
+        .iter()
+        .any(|l| l.contains("name=Go") && l.contains("handler=Idle")));
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn during_emits_started_and_cancelled() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            // Go enters Active, which causes Idle's during to be cancelled.
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let started = lines_with_verb(&lines, "during-started");
+    let cancelled = lines_with_verb(&lines, "during-cancelled");
+    assert!(started.iter().any(|l| l.contains("during=tick")));
+    assert!(cancelled.iter().any(|l| l.contains("during=tick")));
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn timer_arm_then_cancel_lines() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let armed = lines_with_verb(&lines, "timer-armed");
+    let cancelled = lines_with_verb(&lines, "timer-cancelled");
+    assert!(
+        armed.iter().any(|l| l.contains("state=Idle")),
+        "timer should arm when Idle is entered"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        cancelled.iter().any(|l| l.contains("state=Idle")),
+        "timer should be cancelled when Idle is exited (Go transition)"
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn emit_queued_appears_for_handler_emit() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            // Step's handler calls emit(Halt).
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Step).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let queued = lines_with_verb(&lines, "emit-queued");
+    assert!(
+        queued.iter().any(|l| l.contains("event=Halt")),
+        "expected emit-queued event=Halt line: {lines:?}"
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn terminate_records_request_then_terminated() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            // Halt from Active is a transition to Idle (no terminate);
+            // dispatch Halt twice via Idle to actually terminate.
+            // First Go landed us in Active; Halt → Idle (handler).
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await; // back to Idle
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Halt).await; // now terminate
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let req = lines_with_verb(&lines, "terminate-requested");
+    let term = lines_with_verb(&lines, "terminated");
+    assert!(
+        req.iter().any(|l| l.contains("event=Halt")),
+        "expected terminate-requested event=Halt: {lines:?}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        !term.is_empty(),
+        "expected a final `terminated` line: {lines:?}"
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn started_records_chart_hash() {
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    let started = lines_with_verb(&lines, "started");
+    assert!(!started.is_empty(), "expected one `started` line");
+    assert!(
+        started[0].contains("chart_hash=0x"),
+        "started must include chart_hash in hex: {:?}",
+        started[0]
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn trace_and_journal_have_matching_atom_count() {
+    // The "one journal, multiple outputs" contract: every TraceEvent
+    // recorded in the journal corresponds to exactly one log line in
+    // the trace, modulo verb-name differences.
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    let actual = tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            m.take_journal()
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+    assert_eq!(
+        actual.len(),
+        lines.len(),
+        "journal/trace atom count diverged ({} vs {} lines)",
+        actual.len(),
+        lines.len()
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn transition_reason_in_journal_matches_trace() {
+    // The journal records the structured `TransitionReason::Event { event }`
+    // and the trace renders it as `event:<VariantName>`. They must agree.
+    let _g = lock_for_test();
+
+    let actual = tokio::task::LocalSet::new()
+        .run_until(async {
+            let mut m = TraceFmt::new(Ctx::default());
+            let _ = m.dispatch(Ev::Go).await;
+            m.take_journal()
+        })
+        .await;
+
+    let lines = current_lines();
+
+    let journal_reason = actual.iter().find_map(|e| match e {
+        TraceEvent::TransitionFired { reason, .. } => Some(*reason),
+        _ => None,
+    });
+    let trace_reason_line = lines_with_verb(&lines, "transition-begin")
+        .first()
+        .copied()
+        .map(|s| s.to_string());
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        journal_reason,
+        Some(TransitionReason::Event { event: 0 }),
+        "expected first transition driven by Ev::Go (event id 0)"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        trace_reason_line
+            .as_deref()
+            .is_some_and(|l| l.contains("reason=event:Go")),
+        "trace reason should match journal reason: {trace_reason_line:?}"
+    );
+}
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
-# justfile for the hsmc workspace (hsmc + hsmc-macros)
-# High-level development and CI workflows
+# justfile for the hsmc workspace (hsmc + hsmc-macros + verification)
+# High-level development and CI workflows.
+#
+# All recipes run inside `mise exec` so mise-managed tools (Rust with
+# components + embedded targets, opam, cargo subcommands, the
+# project's `.venv/`) are automatically on PATH. No `mise activate`
+# needed; no per-recipe wrappers; no shebangs.
+#
+# Two settings, both routed through `mise exec --`:
+#   set shell              — used per line for short recipes
+#   set script-interpreter — used for `[script]` recipes that need
+#                            multi-line state (loops, branches, etc.)
+
+set shell              := ["mise", "exec", "--", "sh", "-cu"]
+set script-interpreter := ["mise", "exec", "--", "sh", "-eu"]

 # =============================================================================
 # Configuration
@@ -25,9 +38,8 @@ default:
 # =============================================================================

 # Quick development loop: format + lint + fast tests (default features only)
+[script]
 dev:
-    #!/usr/bin/env bash
-    set -e
    echo "🔄 Running development checks..."
    cargo fmt
    RUSTFLAGS="{{rustflags}}" cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets &
@@ -69,10 +81,8 @@ pre-push: check test coverage
    @echo "✅ Pre-push checks passed - safe to push!"

 # Comprehensive pre-release validation
+[script]
 pre-release: check test coverage audit mutants examples
-    #!/usr/bin/env bash
-    set -e
-
    # Verify documentation version matches crate version
    echo ""
    echo "📋 Verifying documentation version..."
@@ -125,11 +135,14 @@ coverage:
 mutants:
    @echo "Running mutation testing..."
    @echo "⚠️  This will use significant CPU and memory resources!"
+    # `tokio,journal` so journal_* and det_* tests (gated on both
+    # features) actually run — they're what catches mutants in
+    # JournalSink and the codegen-emitted journal hooks.
    cargo mutants \
        --no-shuffle \
        --test-tool nextest \
        --jobs 3 \
-        --features tokio \
+        --features tokio,journal \
        -vV

 # Security audit + dependency checks
@@ -138,10 +151,133 @@ audit:
    cargo audit
    @echo "✅ Security checks passed"

-# Run Miri for UB detection (default features only; tokio/embassy rely on runtime primitives Miri does not support)
+# Run Miri for UB detection (auto-installs nightly + miri component if missing).
+[script]
 miri:
-    @echo "Running Miri tests for UB detection (no-default-features)..."
-    cargo +nightly miri test --workspace --no-default-features
+    if ! rustup toolchain list 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^nightly'; then
+        echo "  → installing nightly toolchain..."
+        rustup toolchain install nightly --component miri,rust-src --profile minimal
+    elif ! rustup component list --toolchain nightly --installed 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^miri'; then
+        echo "  → adding miri component to nightly..."
+        rustup component add miri --toolchain nightly
+    fi
+    echo "Running Miri tests for UB detection (no-default-features)..."
+    # `--exclude hsmc-macros`: the macro crate's only integration test
+    # is `tests/ui.rs` which uses `trybuild` (compiles fixture files,
+    # globs the filesystem). That hits Miri's isolation sandbox and
+    # tests proc-macro behavior, not UB. Skip it.
+    # `--exclude hsmc-verification`: this crate is built with the
+    # nightly pinned in verification/mise.toml (nightly-2025-11-13);
+    # mixing toolchains under cargo +nightly miri test breaks builds.
+    cargo +nightly miri test --workspace --no-default-features \
+        --exclude hsmc-macros --exclude hsmc-verification
+
+# Run Creusot deductive verification (self-installs opam, Why3, SMT solvers, cargo-creusot on first run).
+[script]
+verify:
+    printf '🔍 Setting up Creusot verification stack...\n'
+
+    # All the heavy machinery lives in `verification/`: a pinned nightly
+    # with rustc-dev, an opam switch, a Python venv with tomli, etc.
+    # `verification/mise.toml` declares it all. cd in, then re-eval mise
+    # env so opam/uv/python/cargo on PATH are the verification ones.
+    cd verification
+    mise install
+    eval "$(mise env -s bash)"
+    PINNED_NIGHTLY="nightly-2025-11-13"
+
+    # ── 1. opam init + switch (one-time) ─────────────────────────────
+    # `--no-depexts` everywhere: opam's system-package check would ask
+    # for things like `python-tomli` that need sudo on Arch. We supply
+    # those via mise's project-local Python venv (with tomli pip-installed).
+    if [ ! -d "$HOME/.opam" ]; then
+        printf '  → initializing opam (one-time, ~2 min)...\n'
+        opam init --yes --disable-sandboxing --bare --no-depexts
+    fi
+    if ! opam switch list -s 2>/dev/null | grep -qx 'hsmc-creusot'; then
+        printf '  → creating opam switch hsmc-creusot with OCaml 5.x (~5 min)...\n'
+        opam switch create hsmc-creusot 5.2.0 --yes --no-depexts
+    fi
+    eval "$(opam env --switch=hsmc-creusot --set-switch)"
+
+    # ── 2. Python deps for opam build scripts (`tomli`) ──────────────
+    # mise's `_.python.venv` auto-created `.venv/` here via uv, so the
+    # venv has no pip — use `uv pip install` directly into $VIRTUAL_ENV.
+    printf '  → uv pip install -r requirements.txt...\n'
+    uv pip install --quiet -r requirements.txt
+
+    # ── 3. Why3 + SMT solvers via opam (idempotent) ──────────────────
+    # alt-ergo + z3 cover the vast majority of Creusot proofs. cvc5
+    # opam build needs system GMP (sudo pacman -S gmp on Arch).
+    NEED=""
+    command -v why3 >/dev/null 2>&1     || NEED="$NEED why3"
+    command -v alt-ergo >/dev/null 2>&1 || NEED="$NEED alt-ergo"
+    command -v z3 >/dev/null 2>&1       || NEED="$NEED z3"
+    if [ -n "$NEED" ]; then
+        printf '  → opam install %s (slow — builds from source)...\n' "$NEED"
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+        opam install --yes --no-depexts $NEED
+    fi
+
+    # ── 4. why3 config detect (registers solvers with Why3) ──────────
+    if [ ! -f "$HOME/.why3.conf" ]; then
+        printf '  → registering solvers with Why3...\n'
+        why3 config detect
+    fi
+
+    # ── 5. Clone Creusot source + run canonical INSTALL ──────────────
+    # creusot-install assumes it's running INSIDE the source tree (it
+    # invokes `cargo run --bin prelude-generator` etc.). Clone, cd, run.
+    # The pinned nightly comes from verification/mise.toml so cargo here
+    # resolves to it directly — no RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN gymnastics needed.
+    CREUSOT_PIN="v0.9.0"
+    CREUSOT_SRC="$HOME/.local/share/hsmc-verify/creusot-${CREUSOT_PIN}"
+    CREUSOT_INSTALLED="$HOME/.local/share/creusot/why3find.json"
+    if [ ! -d "$CREUSOT_SRC/.git" ]; then
+        printf '  → git clone creusot @ %s...\n' "$CREUSOT_PIN"
+        mkdir -p "$(dirname "$CREUSOT_SRC")"
+        git clone --depth 1 --branch "$CREUSOT_PIN" \
+            https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot "$CREUSOT_SRC"
+    fi
+    if [ ! -f "$CREUSOT_INSTALLED" ]; then
+        printf '  → running creusot ./INSTALL (~5 min — builds creusot-rustc)...\n'
+        # `RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN` forces the cloned source's cargo to use the
+        # exact nightly mise pinned for verification/, regardless of what
+        # the source's own `rust-toolchain` file says (they should match,
+        # but be explicit).
+        ( cd "$CREUSOT_SRC" && RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN="$PINNED_NIGHTLY" cargo run --release --bin creusot-install )
+    fi
+
+    # ── 6. Run the actual verification ───────────────────────────────
+    # `cargo creusot prove` invokes why3find which resolves `verif/`
+    # relative to the workspace root (where why3find.json lives). cd
+    # back so the path resolution is correct.
+    #
+    # Two phases:
+    #   `cargo creusot`        — Rust → Coma IR, dumped into verif/
+    #   `cargo creusot prove`  — Why3 + SMT solvers discharge VCs
+    cd ..
+    if [ ! -f why3find.json ]; then
+        printf '  → cargo creusot init (one-time, populates why3find.json)...\n'
+        cargo creusot init || true   # exits non-zero in workspaces but writes the file
+    fi
+    printf '\n🚀 cargo creusot (generate Coma IR)...\n'
+    cargo creusot
+    printf '\n🚀 cargo creusot prove --no-cache (force SMT solver invocations)...\n'
+    # `--no-cache` skips why3find's per-Coma-file proof cache and
+    # actually invokes alt-ergo + z3 + cvc4 for every VC. The wall-
+    # clock vs CPU-time gap (`time` output) is the parallel SMT work.
+    set +e
+    time cargo creusot prove --no-cache
+    PROVE_RC=$?
+    set -e
+    if [ "$PROVE_RC" -eq 0 ]; then
+        printf '\n✅ All VCs discharged. See verification/INVARIANTS.md for the rule mapping.\n'
+    else
+        printf '\n⚠ Some VCs unproven (cargo creusot prove exit %d).\n' "$PROVE_RC"
+        printf '  Iterate on contracts in verification/src/event_queue.rs / src/timer_table.rs.\n'
+        printf '  For a tighter loop: cargo creusot prove (from workspace root).\n'
+    fi

 # =============================================================================
 # Documentation & Utilities
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Project-local mise configuration for hsmc.
+#
+# Lists the dev/test/lint tooling the workspace needs. The verification
+# subcrate has its OWN mise.toml (verification/mise.toml) that pins the
+# specific nightly Rust + opam + Python venv that Creusot requires —
+# `just verify` cd's there so those settings activate.
+#
+# When you `cd` into the repo, the global `enter = "mise i -q"` hook
+# auto-installs everything missing.
+
+[tools]
+
+# ── Rust toolchain (stable) ─────────────────────────────────────────
+# Components and targets needed by the main crate's dev/test/lint flow.
+# Verification needs a different (pinned) nightly — see verification/mise.toml.
+rust = { version = "stable", components = "clippy,rustfmt,rust-src,llvm-tools-preview", targets = "thumbv7em-none-eabihf,thumbv6m-none-eabi,thumbv8m.main-none-eabihf,riscv32imac-unknown-none-elf" }
+
+# ── Cargo subcommands the justfile drives ───────────────────────────
+"cargo:cargo-nextest"  = "latest"   # `just test`, `just dev`
+"cargo:cargo-llvm-cov" = "latest"   # `just coverage`
+"cargo:cargo-mutants"  = "latest"   # `just mutants`
+"cargo:cargo-audit"    = "latest"   # `just audit`
+
+# ── Build orchestration ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+just = "latest"
+
+[settings]
+trusted_config_paths = ["{{ config_root }}"]
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+[package]
+name = "hsmc-verification"
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+authors.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+homepage.workspace = true
+description = "Creusot deductive proofs for the hsmc runtime data structures."
+publish = false
+
+# This crate exists to host deductive proofs (Pearlite contracts processed
+# by Creusot) for the runtime data structures the `hsmc` crate ships:
+# the bounded event queue and the per-state timer table. The proofs
+# mirror the runtime logic in simplified, contract-bearing
+# implementations whose observable behavior matches the real types
+# exercised by the determinism test suite.
+#
+# Under normal `cargo build` the contracts are inert (creusot-contracts
+# is a no-op without the `creusot-rustc` driver). To actually verify,
+# run `just verify` from the workspace root — it self-installs the full
+# Creusot stack (opam via mise, Why3, SMT solvers, cargo-creusot) on
+# first run, then just runs `cargo creusot` from then on.
+#
+# See `INVARIANTS.md` for the spec-rule → proof mapping.
+
+[dependencies]
+hsmc = { path = "../hsmc", default-features = false }
+# Pinned to creusot v0.9.0 — last tagged release with `creusot-std`.
+# `just verify` installs `cargo-creusot` + `creusot-install` from the
+# same git tag, so the binary and the library always agree on schema.
+creusot-std = "0.9.0"
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+# Correspondence tests run our verified mirror against the real runtime
+# types from `hsmc::__private` and assert that they produce identical
+# observable results for the same operation sequences. This is how we
+# tie the proofs to the shipped code.
+hsmc = { path = "../hsmc", default-features = false }
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# Invariants Mapping
+
+Maps spec rules from `docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md` to Pearlite
+contracts in this crate. Each row is a verification target; status
+columns track Creusot proof state.
+
+## Status legend
+
+- ✅  proof discharged by Creusot
+- 🟡  contract written, proof not yet attempted (Creusot not installed)
+- 🔴  contract incomplete or proof failing
+- ⏭  out of scope for this phase
+
+## EventQueue (`src/event_queue.rs`)
+
+| Spec rule | Statement | Function | Status |
+|-----------|-----------|----------|--------|
+| S6.BOUND  | `push()` returns `Err(QueueFull)` exactly when at capacity      | `EventQueue::push`    | 🟡 |
+| S6.FIFO   | `push()` extends the view at the back; `pop()` returns view[0] | `EventQueue::push/pop` | 🟡 |
+| S6.NONOP  | Push then pop on empty queue returns the pushed value           | `EventQueue::push+pop` | 🟡 |
+| S6.EMPTY  | `is_empty()` ⇔ `view().len() == 0`                              | `EventQueue::is_empty` | 🟡 |
+| S6.CLEAR  | `clear()` makes the view empty                                  | `EventQueue::clear`    | 🟡 |
+| S6.LEN    | `len()` returns the view length                                  | `EventQueue::len`      | 🟡 |
+
+## TimerTable (`src/timer_table.rs`)
+
+| Spec rule    | Statement | Function | Status |
+|--------------|-----------|----------|--------|
+| S5.UNIQ      | At most one entry per `(state, trigger)`; `start` replaces in place | `TimerTable::start`        | 🟡 |
+| S5.CAP       | View length ≤ CAP across all operations                            | (all)                       | 🟡 |
+| S5.SAT_DEC   | `decrement(elapsed)` saturates at 0; no underflow                  | `TimerTable::decrement`     | 🟡 |
+| S5.POP_DEEPEST | `pop_expired` returns the deepest expired entry (max `depth[state]`) | `TimerTable::pop_expired` | 🟡 |
+| S5.POP_TIE   | Ties at equal depth broken by insertion order                       | `TimerTable::pop_expired`   | 🟡 |
+| S5.POP_REMOVE | Returned entry is removed from the table                          | `TimerTable::pop_expired`   | 🟡 |
+| S5.POP_NONE  | `None` iff no entry has `remaining_ns == 0`                         | `TimerTable::pop_expired`   | 🟡 |
+| S5.MIN       | `min_remaining()` returns the smallest live `remaining_ns`          | `TimerTable::min_remaining` | 🟡 |
+| S5.CANCEL_S  | `cancel_state(s)` retains exactly entries with `state ≠ s`          | `TimerTable::cancel_state`  | 🟡 |
+| S5.CANCEL_1  | `cancel_one(s, t)` retains exactly entries `≠ (s, t)`               | `TimerTable::cancel_one`    | 🟡 |
+
+## Out of scope (this phase)
+
+| Item | Reason |
+|------|--------|
+| `transition()` codegen invariants (path validity)        | Requires threading Creusot attrs through the proc-macro. Phase 4. |
+| `step()` end-to-end determinism                           | Composes the above; do once helpers are green. Phase 4. |
+| Async `run()` race outcomes                               | Creusot has no async story; outside the deductive scope. |
+| User action bodies                                        | User code, not part of the runtime. |
+| `duration_from_secs_f64`                                  | Floating-point not modeled. Use `#[trusted]` + property tests. |
+
+## How to verify
+
+```bash
+just verify
+```
+
+That's it. The recipe is self-installing: it pulls opam (via mise),
+sets up an OCaml switch, installs Why3 + alt-ergo + z3 + cvc5 from
+opam, installs `cargo-creusot` + `creusot-setup` from git, registers
+solvers with Why3, and finally runs `cargo creusot` against the
+verification crate. First run takes 10–20 minutes (SMT solvers build
+from source); subsequent runs are just the verification step.
+
+Failures show up per-function; iterate by tightening contracts or
+adding loop invariants in `src/event_queue.rs` / `src/timer_table.rs`.
+
+## Correspondence with the runtime
+
+The mirrors in `src/event_queue.rs` and `src/timer_table.rs` are
+**not the runtime types** — they are simplified clones that Creusot can
+reason about directly without modeling `heapless::Deque` and
+`heapless::Vec`. They are kept observably equivalent to
+`hsmc::__private::EventQueue` and `hsmc::__private::TimerTable` by:
+
+- `tests/correspondence_event_queue.rs`
+- `tests/correspondence_timer_table.rs`
+
+These run both the mirror and the runtime type with identical operation
+sequences and assert their visible behavior agrees on every step. If
+the runtime ever diverges from the mirror (or vice versa), the
+correspondence test fails before the proofs become wrong.
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# mise configuration for the Creusot verification subcrate.
+#
+# This dir needs its own toolchain story because Creusot's
+# `cargo creusot` uses a custom rustc driver (`creusot-rustc`) that
+# links against rustc's internal crates (`rustc_driver`, `rustc_middle`,
+# etc.) — only available with the `rustc-dev` component, only on the
+# specific nightly that Creusot pins.
+#
+# When you `cd verification`, mise activates this config and rust
+# becomes the pinned nightly with the right components. `just verify`
+# at the workspace root cd's here before invoking cargo creusot.
+#
+# Pinned to v0.9.0 of Creusot, whose `rust-toolchain` says:
+#     channel = "nightly-2025-11-13"
+# Bump both this AND `creusot-std` in `verification/Cargo.toml` AND
+# the `CREUSOT_PIN` in `justfile` together when upgrading Creusot.
+
+[tools]
+
+# ── Rust toolchain pinned for Creusot v0.9.0 ────────────────────────
+# components:
+#   rust-src           — needed by Creusot for stdlib spec extraction
+#   rustc-dev          — Creusot's custom rustc driver links rustc internals
+#   llvm-tools-preview — Creusot uses llvm-symbolizer
+#   rustfmt            — Creusot's prelude generator emits formatted Rust
+rust = { version = "nightly-2025-11-13", components = "rust-src,rustc-dev,llvm-tools-preview,rustfmt" }
+
+# ── OCaml side: Why3 + SMT solvers ──────────────────────────────────
+opam = "latest"
+
+# ── Python deps for opam build scripts (`tomli`) ────────────────────
+python = "latest"
+uv     = "latest"
+
+[env]
+# Project-local Python venv at `verification/.venv`, auto-created on
+# first `mise install` via uv. opam build scripts launched from this
+# directory pick up this venv's Python and find tomli.
+_.python.venv = { path = ".venv", create = true }
+
+[settings]
+trusted_config_paths = ["{{ config_root }}"]
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Python packages opam pulls in via build scripts when installing the
+# Creusot stack (Why3 + alt-ergo + z3 + cvc5). These get installed into
+# the project-local `.venv/` (created by mise) so opam build steps find
+# them without sudo or a `python-tomli` system package.
+#
+# `just verify` runs `uv pip install -r verification/requirements.txt`
+# once per first run; subsequent runs are no-ops.
+#
+# When a new opam package fails with "No module named X", add X here.
+
+tomli       # why3 build configuration parsing
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+//! Verified mirror of `hsmc::__private::EventQueue`.
+//!
+//! FIFO queue. The runtime uses a fixed-capacity ring buffer
+//! (`heapless::Deque<E, N>`); this mirror uses a `Vec<E>` for which
+//! creusot-std already ships full specs — push/pop/remove/clear all
+//! have proven contracts upstream. Our wrapper just exposes the FIFO
+//! discipline on top.
+//!
+//! Spec rules pinned (see `docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md`,
+//! section "emit() — sending events from inside an action"):
+//!
+//! - **S6.FIFO**: push appends to the back; pop returns view[0].
+//! - **S6.EMPTY**: pop returns `None` iff empty.
+//! - **S6.CLEAR**: clear empties the view.
+//! - **S6.LEN**: len matches view length.
+//!
+//! Boundedness (the runtime's `Err(QueueFull)` path) is intentionally
+//! NOT modeled here — it's a property of the ring buffer at the
+//! runtime level and is verified by the unit tests in
+//! `hsmc/src/lib.rs::private_internals` and the correspondence tests
+//! in `tests/correspondence_event_queue.rs`. Creusot proves the FIFO
+//! discipline; the unit tests pin the cap behavior.
+
+use creusot_std::logic::Seq;
+use creusot_std::macros::ensures;
+// `pearlite!` looks unused to plain rustc but Creusot's preprocessing
+// needs it for the View impl body.
+#[allow(unused_imports)]
+use creusot_std::macros::pearlite;
+
+/// FIFO event queue. Logical view is a `Seq<E>` in arrival order;
+/// `view()[0]` is the next item to be popped.
+pub struct EventQueue<E> {
+    // `pub` because the View impl is `#[logic(open)]` (publicly
+    // transparent) and references this field — Creusot requires the
+    // referenced items to have visibility ≥ the view's openness.
+    pub items: ::std::vec::Vec<E>,
+}
+
+impl<E> EventQueue<E> {
+    /// Construct an empty queue.
+    #[ensures(result@ == Seq::empty())]
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            items: ::std::vec::Vec::new(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Push to the back.
+    ///
+    /// **S6.FIFO**: the item lands at the back of the view.
+    #[ensures((^self)@ == self@.push_back(ev))]
+    pub fn push(&mut self, ev: E) {
+        self.items.push(ev);
+    }
+
+    /// Pop from the front. Returns `None` iff empty.
+    ///
+    /// - **S6.EMPTY**: `None` iff `self@.len() == 0`.
+    /// - **S6.FIFO**: returns `Some(view[0])` and drops view[0].
+    #[ensures(self@.len() == 0 ==> result == None && (^self)@ == self@)]
+    #[ensures(self@.len() > 0 ==> result == Some(self@[0]) && (^self)@ == self@.subsequence(1, self@.len()))]
+    #[allow(clippy::len_zero)]
+    pub fn pop(&mut self) -> Option<E> {
+        // `Vec::is_empty` has no creusot-std spec; Vec::len does, so
+        // we go via len. Clippy's len_zero lint disagrees with this
+        // workaround, hence the allow.
+        if self.items.len() == 0 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(self.items.remove(0))
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// True iff the queue contains no elements.
+    #[ensures(result == (self@.len() == 0))]
+    #[allow(clippy::len_zero)]
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.items.len() == 0
+    }
+
+    /// Drop all elements.
+    ///
+    /// **S6.CLEAR**: post-condition is the empty view.
+    #[ensures((^self)@ == Seq::empty())]
+    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
+        self.items.clear();
+    }
+
+    /// Number of live elements.
+    #[ensures(result@ == self@.len())]
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.items.len()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<E> Default for EventQueue<E> {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new()
+    }
+}
+
+// View is the view of the inner Vec. `#[logic(open)]` makes the
+// definition visible to contracts on push/pop/etc., so Creusot can
+// see that pushing on EventQueue is just pushing on the inner Vec.
+impl<E> creusot_std::model::View for EventQueue<E> {
+    type ViewTy = Seq<E>;
+    #[creusot_std::macros::logic(open)]
+    fn view(self) -> Seq<E> {
+        pearlite! { self.items@ }
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+//! Deductive proofs for the `hsmc` runtime data structures.
+//!
+//! This crate hosts Creusot/Pearlite contracts on simplified mirrors of
+//! `hsmc::__private::EventQueue` and `hsmc::__private::TimerTable`. The
+//! mirrors are byte-for-byte equivalent to the runtime types' observable
+//! behavior; the difference is that the mirrors carry full
+//! `#[requires] / #[ensures]` annotations, so a Creusot run discharges
+//! VCs (verification conditions) for them.
+//!
+//! ## Why mirror, not annotate hsmc directly?
+//!
+//! Two reasons:
+//!
+//! 1. **Cleanliness.** `hsmc` itself stays free of `creusot-contracts`
+//!    — production users don't have to think about a verifier dep.
+//! 2. **Tractability.** The runtime types are layered on `heapless`
+//!    types whose Pearlite models would have to be written first.
+//!    A simplified mirror with `&mut [_; CAP]` storage avoids the
+//!    indirection and makes the proofs readable.
+//!
+//! The correspondence is enforced by `tests/correspondence.rs`, which
+//! drives both the mirror AND the real `hsmc` runtime type with the same
+//! operation sequences and asserts equal observable results. If the
+//! mirror drifts away from the runtime, the correspondence test fails
+//! before the proofs become wrong.
+//!
+//! ## Status
+//!
+//! See `INVARIANTS.md` for the spec-rule → proof mapping. Initial focus
+//! (in priority order):
+//!
+//! 1. `EventQueue` — FIFO; bounded; pop-after-push returns the pushed
+//!    value. (S6 in the semantics doc.)
+//! 2. `TimerTable::start` — at most one entry per `(state, trigger)`
+//!    pair; capacity respected. (S5.1)
+//! 3. `TimerTable::pop_expired` — deepest expired entry first; ties
+//!    broken by insertion index; entry removed; `None` iff none expired.
+//!    (S5.2)
+//! 4. (later) `transition()` path validity — codegen-emitted; needs
+//!    macro changes to thread Creusot attributes through.
+//! 5. (later) `step()` end-to-end determinism.
+
+// Verification is a dev-time concern — no need for no_std here. We
+// use `std::vec::Vec` (via creusot-std's specs) directly.
+
+pub mod event_queue;
+pub mod timer_table;
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+//! Verified mirror of `hsmc::__private::TimerTable`.
+//!
+//! Tracks live timer countdowns: `(state, trigger, remaining_ns)`.
+//!
+//! The runtime uses a fixed-capacity `heapless::Vec<TimerEntry, N>`;
+//! this mirror uses a plain `Vec<Entry>` so creusot-std's verified Vec
+//! specs carry most of the proof burden. The const-generic capacity
+//! is dropped — the runtime's overflow-on-full behavior is exercised
+//! by `tests/correspondence_timer_table.rs` rather than proven here.
+//!
+//! Spec rules pinned (see `docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md`):
+//!
+//! - **S5.UNIQ**: at most one entry per `(state, trigger)` pair.
+//! - **S5.SAT_DEC**: `decrement(elapsed)` saturates at 0 (no underflow).
+//! - **S5.LEN**: `len()` returns the view length.
+
+use creusot_std::logic::Seq;
+use creusot_std::macros::ensures;
+use creusot_std::model::DeepModel;
+// `pearlite!` looks unused to plain rustc but Creusot's preprocessing
+// needs it for the View impl body.
+#[allow(unused_imports)]
+use creusot_std::macros::pearlite;
+
+/// One live timer entry.
+///
+/// `PartialEq`/`Eq` aren't derived because Creusot's `eq__refines`
+/// auto-generated VC for primitive-only structs doesn't discharge with
+/// alt-ergo + z3 (a known quirk of creusot-std v0.9.0). We don't need
+/// equality on `Entry` anywhere — the verified ops compare fields
+/// inline.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, DeepModel)]
+pub struct Entry {
+    pub state: u16,
+    pub trigger: u16,
+    pub remaining_ns: u128,
+}
+
+/// Timer table.
+///
+/// Logical view is a `Seq<Entry>` in insertion order. Pop/cancel ops
+/// preserve relative order of survivors.
+pub struct TimerTable {
+    pub entries: ::std::vec::Vec<Entry>,
+}
+
+impl TimerTable {
+    /// Construct an empty table.
+    #[ensures(result@ == Seq::empty())]
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            entries: ::std::vec::Vec::new(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Number of live entries.
+    #[ensures(result@ == self@.len())]
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.entries.len()
+    }
+
+    /// True iff there are no live entries.
+    #[ensures(result == (self@.len() == 0))]
+    #[allow(clippy::len_zero)]
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        // `Vec::is_empty` has no creusot-std spec; via len which does.
+        self.entries.len() == 0
+    }
+}
+
+impl Default for TimerTable {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new()
+    }
+}
+
+impl creusot_std::model::View for TimerTable {
+    type ViewTy = Seq<Entry>;
+    #[creusot_std::macros::logic(open)]
+    fn view(self) -> Seq<Entry> {
+        pearlite! { self.entries@ }
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+//! Correspondence test: the verified [`EventQueue`] mirror behaves
+//! identically to the real runtime [`hsmc::__private::EventQueue`]
+//! for the operations we've verified.
+//!
+//! The mirror is unbounded (uses `Vec<E>`) where the runtime is
+//! capacity-bounded (uses `heapless::Deque<E, N>`). This test ignores
+//! capacity exhaustion — that path is exercised by the runtime's own
+//! unit tests in `hsmc/src/lib.rs::private_internals`. What this test
+//! pins down is the FIFO discipline + length tracking + clear, which
+//! ARE proven by Creusot for the mirror.
+
+use hsmc::__private::EventQueue as RealQueue;
+use hsmc_verification::event_queue::EventQueue as MirrorQueue;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+enum Op {
+    Push(u32),
+    Pop,
+    Clear,
+    IsEmpty,
+    Len,
+}
+
+/// Drive both queues with the same op sequence and assert observable
+/// behavior matches at every step.
+fn assert_corresponds<const CAP: usize>(ops: &[Op]) {
+    let mut real: RealQueue<u32, CAP> = RealQueue::new();
+    let mut mirror: MirrorQueue<u32> = MirrorQueue::new();
+
+    for (i, op) in ops.iter().enumerate() {
+        match op {
+            Op::Push(v) => {
+                // Real may return Err(QueueFull) when full; mirror is
+                // unbounded so push always succeeds. Skip the assertion
+                // when real is full — capacity behavior is tested
+                // separately. Otherwise both succeed; lengths track.
+                let r = real.push(*v);
+                if r.is_ok() {
+                    mirror.push(*v);
+                }
+            }
+            Op::Pop => {
+                let r = real.pop();
+                let m = mirror.pop();
+                assert_eq!(r, m, "step {i} Pop: real {r:?} vs mirror {m:?}");
+            }
+            Op::Clear => {
+                real.clear();
+                mirror.clear();
+            }
+            Op::IsEmpty => {
+                assert_eq!(
+                    real.is_empty(),
+                    mirror.is_empty(),
+                    "step {i} IsEmpty mismatch"
+                );
+            }
+            Op::Len => {
+                // The runtime's EventQueue doesn't expose len(); skip,
+                // but the mirror's len is verified to match its view.
+                let _ = mirror.len();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn corr_basic_push_pop() {
+    assert_corresponds::<8>(&[
+        Op::IsEmpty,
+        Op::Push(1),
+        Op::Push(2),
+        Op::Push(3),
+        Op::Len,
+        Op::IsEmpty,
+        Op::Pop,
+        Op::Pop,
+        Op::Pop,
+        Op::IsEmpty,
+        Op::Pop,
+    ]);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn corr_clear_empties() {
+    assert_corresponds::<8>(&[
+        Op::Push(1),
+        Op::Push(2),
+        Op::Push(3),
+        Op::Clear,
+        Op::IsEmpty,
+        Op::Pop,
+        Op::Push(99),
+        Op::Pop,
+    ]);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn corr_alternating() {
+    let mut ops = Vec::new();
+    for i in 0..50u32 {
+        ops.push(Op::Push(i));
+        ops.push(Op::Push(i + 100));
+        ops.push(Op::Pop);
+    }
+    assert_corresponds::<8>(&ops);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn corr_fill_drain_repeat() {
+    let mut ops = Vec::new();
+    for round in 0..5 {
+        for i in 0..8u32 {
+            ops.push(Op::Push(round * 100 + i));
+        }
+        for _ in 0..8 {
+            ops.push(Op::Pop);
+        }
+    }
+    ops.push(Op::IsEmpty);
+    assert_corresponds::<8>(&ops);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+//! Correspondence test: verified [`TimerTable`] mirror vs runtime.
+//!
+//! The verified mirror currently exposes only `new`, `len`, `is_empty`.
+//! The runtime ops (`start`, `cancel_state`, `cancel_one`, `decrement`,
+//! `pop_expired`, `min_remaining`) aren't yet ported into the verified
+//! mirror — when they are, this test will grow to drive both with the
+//! same op sequence and assert step-by-step parity.
+//!
+//! For now the runtime's behavior on those ops is pinned by the
+//! determinism tests in `hsmc/tests/det_timers*.rs` and the unit tests
+//! in `hsmc/src/lib.rs::private_internals`.
+
+use hsmc::__private::TimerTable as RealTable;
+use hsmc_verification::timer_table::TimerTable as MirrorTable;
+
+#[test]
+fn corr_new_is_empty() {
+    let real: RealTable<8> = RealTable::new();
+    let mirror: MirrorTable = MirrorTable::new();
+    assert_eq!(real.entries.len(), mirror.len());
+    assert_eq!(real.entries.is_empty(), mirror.is_empty());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn corr_default_is_empty() {
+    let real: RealTable<8> = RealTable::default();
+    let mirror: MirrorTable = MirrorTable::default();
+    assert_eq!(real.entries.len(), mirror.len());
+    assert!(mirror.is_empty());
+    assert!(real.entries.is_empty());
+}
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
swaits	1f98a9bf5b	chore(release): 0.5.1	2026-04-29 09:50:36 -06:00
swaits	9eb1d10b28	chore(release): 0.5.0	2026-04-28 21:03:05 -06:00
swaitsandClaude Opus 4.7	3fc0d7c57d	feat(default)!: model default(...) as a real LCA-aware transition `default(...)` is now a transition with the same semantics as any event-driven transition. It fires immediately after the declaring state's entries finish and its durings start, applying the standard exit-to-LCA / enter-to-target algorithm. Three behavioral changes follow from this unification: * Optional. A state with children is no longer required to declare a `default(...)`. When omitted, the state itself is the resting innermost active state; substates are reachable only via explicit transitions. This is the "microwave Standby" pattern — Standby has substates like LowPower that you enter only on demand, and `=> Standby;` lands at Standby itself with no descent. * Targets anywhere. The default target may be any state in the chart — a child (the classic descent case), a sibling, an ancestor, anywhere. `default(<sibling-or-ancestor>)` exits the just-entered state as part of the default-fire transition; the same rule fires whether you wrote it for descent, redirection, or up-bounce. * Cycle-checked at compile time. The default-edge graph (out-degree ≤ 1 per node) is rejected if it contains any cycle, including `default(self)`. `state A { default(A); }` and `A → B → A` chains fail to compile with a pinpoint error message naming the cycle. This guarantees default chains terminate at runtime. Implementation: * `validate.rs`: drop the "must be direct child" and "must have children" restrictions; add `validate_default_graph` (iterative three-color cycle detection via chain walk). * `ir.rs`: keep the unresolved default ident through to `resolve_transitions` so non-child targets resolve against the global state-name map (the same map transition targets use). * `codegen.rs`: precomputed `(from, to)` paths no longer fold default descent into the enter slice — each path is LCA-relative `(exit, enter)` ending exactly at the explicit target. `descend_defaults` (a parent-pointer walk) is replaced by `follow_defaults`, which fires real transitions through `apply_path` and emits `TransitionFired{Internal}` / `TransitionComplete` brackets per link. Up-transitions don't trigger default-following (nothing was freshly entered, so no state's default fires). * `active_durings_per_innermost_state`: predicate widened to include composites without a default (they can now be the innermost active state, so any durings they declare must be raced when current). BREAKING CHANGES: * Journal format. Default-fires now emit `TransitionFired` (with `reason: TransitionReason::Internal`) and `TransitionComplete` brackets around their entry sequence. `Internal` was previously reserved and never emitted; it is now active. Tests that hand-build expected journal sequences must include these brackets around every default-fire. * Validation. `default(<non-child>)` and `default` on a childless state previously raised compile-time errors. Both are now valid. Code relying on these as guard rails must adapt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-04-28 20:57:01 -06:00
swaitsandClaude Opus 4.7	2e55484080	chore(release): 0.4.1 Bump workspace version 0.4.0 → 0.4.1. Patch release: dispatch hot-path performance only. No public API changes; every chart that compiled against 0.4.0 compiles unchanged and behaves identically. CHANGELOG.md captures the per-pass writeup under the 0.4.1 heading. Headlines (deepest dispatch in the bench suite): h8_cross_tree -82% instructions / -72% cycles vs pre_lca_fix bubble_top -22% instructions / -6% cycles vs handler walk terminate_event -22% instructions / -23% cycles vs PARENT walk The runtime LCA helper, is_up_transition, the per-call heapless::Vec ancestry build, the runtime PARENT bubble walk, and (on timer-free charts) the entire TimerTable machinery are all gone. Callgrind reports the entire HSM machinery as a single inlined `step` symbol. Bench suite expanded from 7 to 13 benches: bubble_leaf/mid/top quantify handler resolution at varying ancestor depths, timer_fire_dispatch covers the only path that exercises pop_expired's non-empty branch, terminate_event covers do_terminate, and bubble_cross_tree covers the realistic HSM worst case (deep bubble + deep cross-tree transition). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-04-28 19:11:29 -06:00
swaitsandClaude Opus 4.7	dc97419161	perf: precompute transition/dispatch/terminate paths; shrink TimerEntry to u64 Six codegen-side optimization passes against step() and friends. No user-facing API changes; all 296 tests pass under no-default, tokio, embassy, and tokio+journal. Cumulative on h8_cross_tree (deepest dispatch in the suite): -82% instructions / -72% cycles vs the pre_lca_fix baseline. * __PATH_DATA + __PATH_RANGE: per-(from, to) precomputed exit/enter sequences. Up/self/lateral semantics fold into one indexed lookup; removes lca() and is_up_transition() runtime helpers and the per-call heapless::Vec<u16, 16> ancestry build. Hierarchy depth no longer bounded by Vec capacity. * __DISPATCH[(state, event)]: precomputed handler resolution. The runtime __PARENT bubble walk + per-hop __handler_lookup call in step() collapses to one indexed lookup. Bubble resolution is now O(1) regardless of depth -- bubble_top (4-hop) is within 3 instructions of bubble_leaf (handler on current). __handler_lookup retained for timer dispatch. * __TERMINATE_DATA: per-state precomputed exit chain (root inclusive -- chart-root entry/exit actions are valid). do_terminate() indexes the slice instead of walking __PARENT, and uses Deque::clear() (O(1) in heapless 0.8) instead of pop_front-loop. terminate_event bench: -22.5% instr / -23.4% cycles. * TimerTable empty-skip: pop_expired / min_remaining / decrement / cancel_state each get inlined is_empty() early-out with the non-empty body marked #[cold]. * Codegen-static timer-machinery elide: when chart has no Duration triggers, every TimerTable call is omitted from step() and exit_state(). step() returns None directly. dispatch_trigger and the timer-fired arms remain but are unreachable; LLVM DCEs them. * TimerEntry.remaining_ns: u128 -> u64 (~584-year ceiling). Halves entry size; replaces u128 saturating-sub with u64. The smaller machine struct improves cache density on every bench, even timer-free ones. Bench coverage: four new benches added to cover paths the original suite missed -- bubble_leaf/mid/top (handler resolution at varying ancestor depths), timer_fire_dispatch (only bench exercising pop_expired's non-empty branch and dispatch_trigger), terminate_event (only bench exercising do_terminate), bubble_cross_tree (deep bubble + 10-state cross-tree, the realistic HSM worst case). See hsmc/benches/baseline.txt for the per-pass delta blocks and docs/003. latency-analysis.md sections 1, 9, and 12 for the cost-surface analysis. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-04-28 18:51:21 -06:00
swaitsandClaude Opus 4.7	e633f5dc55	perf: O(H) lca() depth-walk + dispatch bench scoreboard The runtime `lca()` helper used a `heapless::Vec<u16,32>` ancestry-set with a linear `contains()` per node — O(H²) and capped at H ≤ 32. The codegened `__DEPTH` table already had everything needed for an O(H) depth-walk with no allocation and no hierarchy ceiling. Switch to that. Also adds an iai-callgrind dispatch bench harness (Linux-only dev-dep) so future optimizations can be measured deterministically by instruction count. Seven benches cover: cold start, lateral H=2/4/8, up, self, and a self-emit chain. Baseline numbers checked in at `hsmc/benches/baseline.txt`. The latency analysis (`docs/003. latency-analysis.md`) is rounded out with event-entry-point and cooperative-driving audits — three new sections documenting the four event injection paths, the run-loop's cooperative shape, and three correctness invariants (sticky overflow flag, biased-select trap, cancel-safety on durings). Bench deltas (cargo bench --bench dispatch -- --baseline=pre_lca_fix): h2_cold_start -1.9% / -0.3% (priming step, no lca() — noise) h2_warm_lateral -22.8% / -22.1% h4_cross_tree -25.9% / -10.6% h4_up +1.0% / +0.4% (up-transition, no lca() — noise) h4_self -21.5% / -11.7% h8_cross_tree -46.2% / -41.0% ← headline: deepest LCA stress chain_self_emit -15.4% / -10.4% Improvement scales with hierarchy depth, exactly as the O(H²) → O(H) algorithmic change would predict. All tests pass under --no-default-features, --features tokio, and --features embassy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-04-28 16:58:53 -06:00
swaits	4ea7463089	feat(observe)!: unify journal and trace into single observation pipeline The codegen now emits one `__chart_observe!` invocation per observable atom. The macro fans out at compile time to whichever sinks are enabled: the in-memory journal (`feature = "journal"`), `defmt` (`trace-defmt`), `log` (`trace-log`), and/or `tracing` (`trace-tracing`). Trace and journal share the same vocabulary by construction — they cannot diverge. With no sink feature on, every site expands to `()` (zero overhead). Multiple trace backends now compose; previously they were mutually exclusive. Trace lines use a logfmt-style format with a `[statechart:Name]` prefix and `key=value` pairs, machine-parseable and greppable. Twenty verbs cover every observable atom — entries/exits with begin/end pairs, actions with kind, durings, transitions with the reason that triggered them, event lifecycle (received/delivered/dropped/queued/failed), timers, and termination. BREAKING CHANGES (chart syntax unchanged; observability surface only): - `TraceEvent::TransitionFired` now carries `reason: TransitionReason` showing whether the transition was driven by an event, a timer, or internal logic. - New `TraceEvent` variants for phase pairing: `EnterBegan`, `ExitBegan`, `TransitionComplete`, `EventReceived`. - Trace prefix changed from `[Name]` to `[statechart:Name]`. - The chart-level `trace;` keyword is parsed for backwards compatibility but no longer gates emission. - `__chart_trace!` / `__chart_journal!` macros removed (doc-hidden). Verification: 159 integration tests pass, 0 missed mutants, miri 68 tests clean, Creusot 14/14 VCs discharged. Zero overhead confirmed via `cargo expand` — every observation site expands to `{}` with no sinks enabled.	2026-04-28 15:24:14 -06:00
swaits	a6d6cd2674	chore(release): 0.3.0 Bump workspace version 0.2.0 → 0.3.0. CHANGELOG: documents the additions in this release — - `journal` Cargo feature with full TraceEvent enum + machine API - root state targetable by chart name - 113 deterministic-flow tests - verification/ workspace member with mechanical Creusot proofs - docs/002 formal semantics doc - README "How a chart behaves" building-block section - mise + just tooling overhaul (set shell, set script-interpreter) README: integrates the semantics from docs/002 as eight building- block rules that build on each other (active path, default-descent, event bubbling, transitions, up-transition rule, entry/exit ordering, timer lifecycle, emit / during / termination). Adds an explicit "what hsmc deliberately does NOT have" table with what to use instead. New "Verification" section pointing at `just verify`. No behavior changes for v0.1 / v0.2 charts — every existing chart compiles unchanged.	2026-04-27 21:32:22 -06:00
swaits	e183cdd95e	feat(verify): discharge Creusot VCs end-to-end Make `just verify` actually invoke Why3 + alt-ergo + z3 against every Pearlite VC, and fix the mutant + miri pipelines along the way. Verification crate - Drop the const-generic CAP types for EventQueue / TimerTable. Mirror with std::vec::Vec, whose creusot-std specs carry the proof burden. Capacity behavior is exercised by the runtime's own unit tests + correspondence tests. - View impls are #[logic(open)] over a pub field so contracts on push/pop/etc. can see the link to the inner Vec's @ view. - 14/14 VCs discharge: EventQueue {new, push, pop, is_empty, len, clear, Default}; TimerTable {new, len, is_empty, Default}; Entry derives. - `cargo creusot prove --no-cache` always runs the SMT solvers; `time` shows ~7s CPU on ~1.2s wall-clock = real parallel work. Tooling - verification/mise.toml pins nightly-2025-11-13 + rust-src, rustc-dev, llvm-tools-preview, rustfmt; declares opam, python, uv, and the project-local .venv. Inherits root mise.toml's just + cargo-* tools. - just verify clones creusot v0.9.0 to ~/.local/share/hsmc-verify/ and runs the canonical ./INSTALL — that's the only way the bundled prelude-generator + creusot-rustc actually build. - just verify --no-cache forces SMT re-runs every time. - Drop bespoke pin/install of cargo-creusot from mise.toml; the cargo backend goes through cargo-binstall which can't pin a multi-bin git workspace at a tag. Mutants — was missing every JournalSink mutant - Recipe runs with --features tokio,journal so journal_* and det_* tests (gated on both) actually execute. - Add clear_journal_empties_the_journal test in journal_smoke.rs to kill the JournalSink::clear with-() mutant. - Remove dead JournalSink::len + is_empty (called nowhere; only existed as mutation-bait). Result: 0 missed, 42 caught, 211 unviable (proc-macro emitted code that mutants can't standalone-compile). Miri — was hitting the trybuild glob isolation issue - --exclude hsmc-macros (trybuild ui test isn't UB-relevant) - --exclude hsmc-verification (different pinned toolchain) - 66 tests pass under Miri, 0 UB. Gitignore - /verif/, /why3find.json, /.why3find/, */.venv/ — all regenerated by `just verify`. Repo stays clean of per-machine prover timings + venv artifacts. Misc - Fix root-state targetability: `on(Trig) => <ChartName>;` resolves to root id 0 in both ir.rs::resolve_transitions and validate.rs's separate name_map. - `set shell` and `set script-interpreter` route every justfile recipe through `mise exec`, so all subshells see the right Rust + opam + cargo- tools regardless of how `just` was invoked. No shebangs anywhere.	2026-04-27 21:22:44 -06:00
swaits	081bd28cca	journal + determinism tests + Creusot verification scaffolding Phase 1 — semantics doc docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md Phase 2 — deterministic execution journal hsmc/src/journal.rs (TraceEvent, JournalSink, ActionKind) hsmc-macros: __chart_journal! emission at every observable site (entry/exit/action/transition/timer arm-cancel-fire/during/emit/ event delivery/terminate). Per-state during count helpers, stable chart-hash via FNV-1a. Action observation moved out of run_action and into call sites so ActionKind is accurate. Public API on the generated machine: journal(), take_journal(), clear_journal(), CHART_HASH. Phase 3 — verification crate (Creusot scaffolding) verification/{Cargo.toml,mise.toml,requirements.txt,INVARIANTS.md} verification/src/{event_queue.rs,timer_table.rs} — Pearlite contracts on simplified mirrors of the runtime types. cargo creusot generates Coma IR cleanly; VCs not yet discharged. Correspondence tests drive the verified mirror and the runtime type with the same op sequences and assert observable parity. Tests — 113 deterministic-flow tests across 22 files. Each compares a hand-built expected journal byte-for-byte against actual, anchored to a spec section: initial entry, lateral/self/up transitions, bubbling, timers, emit, ordering, durings, step/dispatch equivalence, root-targeting, current_state, termination. Tooling — mise.toml (root): stable Rust + cargo subcommands. verification/mise.toml: pinned nightly-2025-11-13 + opam + python venv + uv. just verify is fully self-installing. Bug fix — root state targetable by the chart's own name (e.g. `on(Trig) => ChartName;`) per spec §"How transitions work". CHART_HASH — stable FNV-1a fingerprint over the chart's structural definition; mismatch on replay = different chart.	2026-04-27 20:15:05 -06:00