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Problem

quest/m3/ts-unsafe/unsafecell.md: rust2-ts refused UnsafeCell::raw_get, from_mut, and replace as unsupported calls. It also refused raw_get(&c) as "a raw pointer to UnsafeCell<T> behind a reference".

Cell::replace, set, take, and update of a tuple or a crate struct rebound the cell's value, so a pointer Cell::as_ptr gave before kept the old object. let c = Cell::new((n, 1)); let p = c.as_ptr(); let old = c.replace((9, 9)); (*p).0 + old.0 gave n + n in TS, 9 + n natively. Cell::swap was refused.

Approach

• raw_get(p): get of the cell p points at. A raw pointer to an UnsafeCell<T> is an rs.Place of where the cell is kept, so it is get(p.v) (ts/src/lower/pointer.rs). A pointer to no memory (null, dangling, or an address arithmetic made) comes back as it is, through rs.rawUnsize, which now passes every pointer ptrNowhere names.
• raw_get(&c): MIR makes _3 = &raw const (*r); raw_get(move _3). A new pass, find_raw_cells (ts/src/lower/mir/mod.rs), finds such a pointer when raw_get reads it once (move or copy, as c as *const _ passes it) and ends the block that made it, with only storage markers between. That assignment stays unlowered, the same way find_halves' temporaries do, and the call lowers to get of the reference's cell. It is judged as get is (made_out_of_step), so a cell assigned again while the pointer may be read is refused. raw_get of any other pointer, and get through a reference that reborrows one ((*p).get()), are judged by each place the pointer may have been made of (raw_origins), following every assignment of it through &raw, references, copies, and casts, and by *p as well where one is unknown, such as null or a parameter, so raw_get(if f { &raw const c } else { ptr::null() }) with c assigned again after is refused too.
• replace(v): ptr::replace of get's pointer. ptr::replace's and ptr::swap's bodies are now shared replace and swap helpers. Where the pointer is the object or array a write lands in, the value read before the write is copied as objectCopy copies (copied_out). One a pointer is the place of is read as on main, so a Box keeps its allocation.
• from_mut(&mut x): Cell::from_mut's one_of, now keyed by owner. A value JS copies is cellOfPlace of its place. An object or array is cellOfPlace(partPlace(obj)), so get points at the object itself and a whole write lands in it. An object a pointer is the place of, such as a Vec, a String, or a pinned Box, is refused with a span: a write through get's pointer lands in it, so a value replace read before would change too, or be a copy at another address. A plain Box is not refused, as it has no object kind: its cell is of the place it is kept in, which a write rebinds. Cell::from_mut does the same for an object or array a pointer is, and keeps cellIn, which reads a copy, for other objects such as a Vec. Every from_mut, slice::from_mut and array::from_mut too, refuses a pinned Box (boxed_object), whose copy is another allocation. So do get_mut and as_mut_unchecked of a cell of one, which lend it as the object a mem::replace through them would copy.
• A whole write through those helpers of a value that keeps cells (keeps_cells: a cell, or a tuple or crate struct a pointer is the object of with a field that keeps cells) writes into each existing rs.Cell in place, through cells at any depth and the cell fields of tuples and structs, so a pointer saved into an inner cell sees the new value. The value read out before gets cells of its own (copy_kept), as does ptr::read's. Memory not written yet, which ptr::write and MaybeUninit::write may fill, has no cell to keep and takes the new one. An assignment through a raw pointer (*c.get() = UnsafeCell::new(2)) writes the same way (ts/src/lower/mir/place.rs), as it read stale too, without a refusal. The write analysis counts Cell's and UnsafeCell's writes, and ptr::write, replace, and swap of such a value, the same way (replace_kept), so a pointer into a kept cell is no longer refused for them. The analysis still counts an assignment through a raw pointer as replacing, which is sound but refuses more than it must. Any other part is still given the new value's, one object deep.
• Cell::replace, set, swap, take, and update of an object or array (ts/src/lower/task.rs) write where as_ptr points through the same replace, swap, read, and write helpers, so an earlier pointer sees the new value. Values JS copies, and values of no bytes, keep cellReplace, cellSet, and cellUpdate. Cell::swap now translates. The write analysis (copy.rs) counts each of these, and UnsafeCell::replace, as a write into the held type, so get copies a value later written in place.
• get and raw_get of a cell of a slice give an rs.RawSlice, not the rs.Slice it holds, which failed type-checking. Only a caller can give one, as translated code can't unsize a cell.
• Also as_ref_unchecked and as_mut_unchecked, stabilized in 1.100 with replace (unsafe_cell_access). They map as into_inner and get_mut do, and are added to lends, keeps, and derives.
• Differential cases: pointers::raw_cells covers each accessor for a number, a struct Rust copies, an object holding an Rc, a tuple, and arrays of bytes and of u16, plus pointers through *const Self fields and MaybeUninit::as_ptr, elements of an array, drop counts across replace, raw_get of null and address pointers, and the allocations of Boxes and Pin<Box>es kept through ptr::replace, ptr::swap, UnsafeCell::replace, UnsafeCell::from_mut, and Cell::swap (ptr::eq(before, &*old)). The new pointers::cell_writes covers each of Cell's five writes on a tuple, a copied struct, an Rc-owning struct, and arrays of bytes and u16, each read back through an earlier as_ptr, and on from_mut cells of a tuple and an array. The new pointers::nested_cells covers UnsafeCell::replace, ptr::replace, ptr::write, ptr::swap, Cell's writes, and assignments through a raw pointer of cells of cells (two and three deep), of a cell of a tuple, a tuple and a struct holding cells, and a Cell of a cell, each read back through a pointer saved into an inner cell; a ptr::read copied out before a write; and ptr::writes into memory not written yet. Writing a kept cell's value by rebinding it again fails 20 of its inputs. The new reject cases alloc::cell_pointer_reassigned and alloc::cell_raw_reassigned (including a pointer to the cell or else null or a parameter) pin reassigned cells, alloc::cell_of_objects the refused from_muts, and alloc::pinned_lent the refused get_mut and as_mut_unchecked. Undoing the in-place Cell writes failed 143 cases and the address case 96 (measured in round 2). Copying a pinned Box out again fails 117 of 5055. Without the slice fix, tsc rejects the output.

How this divides with raw-behind-ref

This PR does not translate &raw const *r itself. It sees through that pointer only when raw_get, right after, is its one reader, so no pointer is ever made. Every other &raw const *r of an UnsafeCell, such as one kept, passed on, or read later, is still refused (the reject case alloc::cell_pointer_kept pins one made before a call) and stays quest/m3/ts-unsafe/raw-behind-ref.md's. Once that quest lands, raw_get of its pointer works through the general get(p.v) path. find_raw_cells then only makes the output shorter and could be dropped.

Decisions

• Fix Cell's writes after as_ptr here: ✅ in this PR, writing in place through the helper UnsafeCell::replace shares (rejected: a follow-up quest). The maintainer picked this on 2026-11-07.
• Cell::swap: ✅ translate it with the shared swap helper (rejected: leave it refused). The brief listed it among the methods that swap in a new object, but it was refused outright; with the shared helper it costs a few lines.
• Round 3's design checkpoint, where copied_out copied a pinned Box and lost its allocation identity: ✅ narrow the scope. UnsafeCell::from_mut of an object a pointer is the place of is refused with its reason, ptr::replace and ptr::swap read such types without copying, as on main, and the Vec/String from_mut cases are dropped for reject cases and a Box identity case (rejected: copy only types that are their own object, plus Box cases; merge as is with a follow-up). The maintainer picked this on 2026-11-07; recorded in a Design change: comment.
• Which types the refusal covers: ✅ those whose object a whole write lands in (write_in), which are Vec, String, and a pinned Box (rejected: also a plain Box, which the brief named). A plain Box has no object kind, so its cell is of its place and a write rebinds it. The differential case pins its identity through UnsafeCell::from_mut, so refusing it would drop a working translation.
• Cell::from_mut: ✅ refuse it of a pinned Box, keep it of a Vec or String (rejected: refuse all three; leave it as is). Its cellIn copies each read, which loses a pinned Box's identity through replace (as on main) and the new Cell::swap. A String's or Vec<u8>'s copy is unobservable, as comparing pointers to bytes is refused, and lang/conversions covers both.
• The new review session's findings on a pinned Box (round 1 feat(bench): reproducible build-speed benchmark #2, feat(uniffi): import UniFFI and moq's generators #3; round 2 feat(bench): reproducible build-speed benchmark #2): ✅ refuse each new path that would copy one (from_mut of any kind, as_mut_unchecked, and get_mut with it), and suggest a follow-up for the root (rejected: refute them as pre-existing). A differential probe on origin/main showed get_mut, array::from_mut, and a &mut Pin<Box<T>> parameter already lose the allocation through mem::replace, since write_in makes a whole write through any &mut to a pinned Box land in its allocation. The reviewer held that the paths this PR adds need refusing anyway.
• raw_get's provenance (round 1 chore: bootstrap the setup and seed the quest tree #1, round 2 chore: bootstrap the setup and seed the quest tree #1): ✅ follow every assignment of the pointer and judge each place, for raw_get and for get through a reborrowed pointer (rejected: refuse every raw_get of a pointer of unknown provenance, which would refuse raw_get(slot.as_ptr()) and pointers a caller passes). A pointer of unknown provenance is judged by *p, as get through one was on main.
• raw_get of a pointer with known and unknown origins (round 3 chore: bootstrap the setup and seed the quest tree #1, finding): ✅ raw_origins returns the known origins along with whether any is unknown; each known one is judged, and *p too when one is unknown (rejected: refuse raw_get of a pointer with any unknown origin). The maintainer picked this on 2026-11-07.
• UnsafeCell::replace of a cell holding a cell (round 3 feat(bench): reproducible build-speed benchmark #2, finding): ✅ write into the existing inner cell in place, in this PR, for cells at any depth and cells in tuples and structs inside the cell, through the write helpers Cell's writes share (rejected: refuse replace when the value holds a cell; merge as is and plan the in-place write as a follow-up). The maintainer picked this on 2026-11-07; recorded in a Design change: comment. It needs no change to how a cell is represented. The same helpers serve ptr::write, ptr::replace, and ptr::swap, so they keep cells too, and the reject cases kept::kept_written and kept::kept_swapped now translate correctly and are dropped.
• CodeRabbit's three findings (review): ✅ each reproduced and fixed, with a differential, reject, or type-check case.

Choices made without asking

• Included as_ref_unchecked and as_mut_unchecked. The quest names only three accessors, but these two are the rest of UnsafeCell's unsafe accessors, stabilized in the same feature as replace, and each was a list entry.
• Handled raw_get(&c) with the narrow MIR pass above rather than translating &raw const *r, as the brief asked.
• ptr::replace and ptr::swap now copy the value read before the write with objectCopy rather than snapshot where the pointer is the object or array, so they hold where a write lands in place whatever the write analysis knows.
• get of a Cell of a tuple or struct now copies it, as the analysis counts Cell's writes into it (copy$tuple2_u8_u8(counts.v)[0] in manual/uninit.ts). That copy is what keeps a value read out from changing under a later in-place write.

Caused by

• moq-dev/rust2#519 - made Cell::as_ptr UnsafeCell::get's pointer, the object a Cell of an object holds, while Cell's writes kept rebinding that value.
• get of a cell of a slice giving an rs.Slice is as old as UnsafeCell::get's mapping.
• moq-dev/rust2#386 - made Cell::from_mut of an object read a copy with cellIn, which gives a pinned Box another allocation.

Impact

• Public API: the translator's output only. UnsafeCell::raw_get, from_mut, replace, as_ref_unchecked, as_mut_unchecked, and Cell::swap now translate. UnsafeCell::from_mut of a Vec, String, or pinned Box is refused. Of a pinned Box, Cell::from_mut, slice::from_mut, array::from_mut, and get_mut are now refused too: each translated on main and lost the allocation through a whole write. get through a raw pointer to a cell assigned again later is refused. A pointer into a cell a value keeps is no longer refused where the only whole writes of it go through Cell's or UnsafeCell's writes or ptr::write, replace, or swap, which now write into the cell in place. Cell's writes of an object or array, Cell::from_mut of one, ptr::replace, and ptr::swap emit different code, and get of a Cell of an object may copy it. Snapshots change in borrows, conversions, dyns, locals, manual, sorts, task/drops, and pointers.
• Runtime: rawUnsize passes any pointer to no memory; cellIn drops its depth argument, as arrays no longer reach it.
• No wire impact.

Alternatives

• Make a raw pointer to UnsafeCell<T> the rs.Cell itself (Pointee::Object). That would turn every &raw const *r of a cell into r, but it changes every existing *const UnsafeCell pointer, and it is raw-behind-ref's general case.
• Making the pointer an alias slot. Rejected: a dereference of an alias still projects .v through the raw pointer's Pointee::Place, which would read past the cell.
• Keep cellIn for every Cell::from_mut and write Cell's objects through it. Rejected: cellIn reads a copy, so as_ptr and an in-place write would reach the copy, not the borrowed value.
• Write a Cell in place only where the program calls as_ptr on its type. Rejected: it needs a second analysis pass for a copy that only types written in place pay.

Follow-ups

• Plan: keep a pinned Box's allocation through a whole write through any &mut to it. write_in treats a Pin<Box<T>> of an object as one a whole write lands in, so mem::replace through a &mut Pin<Box<T>> parameter gives back a copy, another allocation (ptr::eq(before, &*old) false). This PR refuses the paths it touches. mem::replace through a &mut Pin<Box<T>> parameter still translates with the copy. Recommend planning it, as a silent mistranslation.

• Plan: count an assignment through a raw pointer of a value that keeps cells as writing into those cells in the write analysis, as ptr::write is counted. The lowering already writes in place; counting it would let kept::kept_read, kept_boxed, kept_called, kept_object, atomic_swapped, atomic_exchanged, parts::tuple_part, and nested_part translate, each of which needs a differential case. Recommend planning it, as those are refusals of programs the translation now handles.

• Plan: keep a value's cells through a whole write through a &mut or a Box (Object.assign) and through mem::replace, swap, and take (replaceIn), which write one object deep and give a nested cell another rs.Cell. Those cases are refused where the analysis sees a pointer into a part. Not probed here: a cell of a cell written whole through a &mut parameter while a pointer into the inner cell lives. Recommend planning it, to probe that case first.

Validation

• just ci on 95f8bbdf4 (origin/main merged at fd62edf): lint, quest check (50 documents ok), just ts check, 8 unit tests, 89 fixture tests (including reject, reject_census, and spans), and 10 runtime tests passed.

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Review

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• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1b6b2-0ea6-7b20-9c2a-5ea36c05be5f, round 1
• Head: 540749578009, named in full once a round reports no findings
• Base: origin/main at 6e0ce8a
• Score: 8/10, Two confirmed semantic defects remain at the specified head; full native differential validation was blocked by the read-only sandbox.
• Findings, open until the next round settles them:
  • Medium, ts/src/lower/pointer.rs:1459: [P2] Snapshot non-cell fields when copying cell-containing values
  • Medium, ts/src/lower/pointer.rs:906: [P2] Defer raw_get projection until the pointee is accessed

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Reviewed head 9f0ad6b4b8029bf96ae4e302f21d88849fd9e7da against base 777c50c1028039f8f3bab7aa6737fa4ca347edfe.

No actionable findings in the current delta. The raw-cell shortcut requires a single definition/use in the call's own block and only storage markers/Nops between pointer creation and raw_get. The same-block guard now precedes statement slicing, and the new kept-pointer rejection case covers the previously reported cross-block failure. Other raw pointers continue through the general cell-location projection.

The shared replace helper snapshots the old value before writing, uses the existing in-place object/array writes, and returns the undropped old value. UnsafeCell::from_mut retains object identity via partPlace while the existing Cell path keeps its copying getter. The new fixture/snapshots exercise scalar, struct, tuple and array accessors, pointers retained across replacement, borrowed places, and Rc-backed drop counts. I also checked the lending/origin bookkeeping and unchanged runtime helpers those mappings use.

Direction: retain the narrow shortcut and differential/rejection coverage; no code changes requested. The separate Cell::replace aliasing issue documented in the description is outside this delta and is not claimed fixed here.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review. I did not run quest context, compilation, differential tests, mutation tests, runtime tests or CI, and have not independently verified the reported passes. GitHub currently reports mergeable=false, so integration still needs resolution/rechecking. This is not a passing-build or merge-readiness claim.

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Walkthrough

The translator adds UnsafeCell pointer mappings for raw access, mutable-reference access, and replacement. MIR analysis tracks qualifying raw cell pointers and lowers their access calls. New pointer-language fixtures cover cell access and mutation paths, and a rejection fixture checks a raw pointer to UnsafeCell behind a reference.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9f0ad

Some newly supported UnsafeCell operations can produce invalid TypeScript, throw on null pointers, or read stale values after cell replacement. Resolve these correctness gaps before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title "feat(ts): translate UnsafeCell's raw accessors" names the main change. The PR adds translation of UnsafeCell::raw_get, from_mut, replace, as_ref_unchecked, and as_mut_unchecked in the TypeS…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 92.31% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description covers the UnsafeCell accessor changes and related fixtures. It also describes changes not shown in the supplied file summaries.

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The title "feat(ts): translate UnsafeCell's raw accessors" names the main change. The PR adds translation of UnsafeCell::raw_get, from_mut, replace, as_ref_unchecked, and as_mut_unchecked in the TypeScript lowering, with a new MIR pass for raw_get(&c) and a differential fixture. The title is short, single-sentence, and specific to the primary change, so it passes.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

Nitpick comments: 1

ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/caller.ts: 1

23-26: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Add a nonzero reference-based raw_get operation.

The explicit scripts use only zero for this branch, so its XOR writes do not change the cells. Adding 8 exercises nonzero writes, including the observed second wide-array element.

Suggested fix

-	[0, 9, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
+	[0, 8, 9, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],

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Review comment at @ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/caller.ts around lines 23 - 26:
Update the explicit script sequence in the caller fixture to add the nonzero
reference-based raw_get operation before its existing raw_get operation,
preserving the surrounding instruction sequence and exercising nonzero XOR
writes.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @ts/src/lower/mir/mod.rs:
- Around line 1467-1469: Update the `behind_ref && next` shortcut before it
inserts into `raw_cells` and `joined` to account for whole-cell assignments
after `UnsafeCell::raw_get`; only retain the shortcut when it preserves the
pointer’s observed cell, otherwise allow the raw-pointer assignment and lifetime
validation to proceed normally.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/pointer.rs:
- Around line 519-522: Update the `cell_pointer` closure to convert slice
pointees to the appropriate `rs.RawSlice` using the existing raw-slice helper,
rather than returning the stored `rs.Slice`. Preserve the current handling of
`Pointee::Place`, `Pointee::Array`, and other pointee kinds.
- Around line 858-862: Update the UnsafeCell.raw_get mapping around cell_pointer
to preserve a null input before accessing the cell’s v member, so null pointers
are returned unchanged and non-null pointers retain the existing pointee
handling.

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Review comments at @ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/caller.ts:
- Around line 23-26: Update the explicit script sequence in the caller fixture
to add the nonzero reference-based raw_get operation before its existing raw_get
operation, preserving the surrounding instruction sequence and exercising
nonzero XOR writes.

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• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/expected/pointers.Slots.ts
• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/expected/pointers.ts
• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/lib.rs
• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/pointers.rs
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• ts/src/lower/lend.rs
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Incremental review of a0ebb88 against base e7a02cf, following review 5809666328 at 9f0ad6b.

[P2] Preserve allocation identity when moving boxed values out
The open issue already recorded in the PR's Waiting section is still present at ts/src/lower/pointer.rs:1204. copied_out uses objectCopy(p.v) whenever write_in(ty) succeeds. write_in explicitly erases Box and Pin wrappers, so this also copies the allocation behind a Box or Pin instead of moving its handle. ptr::replace then returns a different allocation, and ptr::swap copies both sides. For example, retaining a pointer to a nonzero-sized tuple inside a pinned box, replacing the Pin<Box<_>> through its raw slot pointer, then comparing that pointer with the returned old box's pointee should preserve identity in Rust; this path returns a fresh JS array. This is a regression in the shared pointer operations, not only a limitation of the new UnsafeCell API. Keep handle moves distinct from copying an in-place value and add boxed/pinned-box replace and swap regression coverage. The documented narrower-scope option can address this without expanding the new cell representation.

Other follow-up fixes inspected: raw_get's shortcut now applies the cell lifetime check, slice-valued cells produce RawSlice, and rawUnsize preserves null/dangling/address-only pointers before projection. The Cell write path and copy analysis now account for in-place object/array updates. No additional independent finding identified in those changes.

Direction: settle the recorded scope decision and fix the shared-helper regression before treating this as ready; the prior no-findings review does not cover this newly introduced behavior.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static, base-aware comparison and inspection of the lowering/runtime helpers and changed fixtures. The allocation-identity issue is independently supported by those code paths but was not executed here. No build, differential or mutation tests, runtime tests or CI were run; reported passes were not independently reproduced.

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Design change: narrowing the scope, as the maintainer picked on 2026-11-07 at round 3's design checkpoint.

• UnsafeCell::from_mut of an object a pointer is the place of (a Vec, a String, a pinned Box) is refused with a span: a write through get's pointer lands in the object, so a value replace read out before would change too, or be a copy at another address.
• ptr::replace and ptr::swap read such types without copying again, as on main, so a pinned Box keeps its allocation (ptr::eq(before, &*old)).
• Cell::from_mut of a pinned Box is refused too, as its cellIn copy loses the allocation through replace and the new Cell::swap. Of a Vec or String it keeps translating.
• A plain Box is not refused: it has no object kind, so its UnsafeCell::from_mut cell is its place, which a write rebinds. A differential case pins that identity.
• The Vec/String from_mut cases are replaced by the reject case alloc::cell_of_objects and Box/Pin<Box> identity cases in pointers::raw_cells.

Rejected: copying only types that are their own object, plus Box cases; merging as is with a follow-up.

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Incremental review of 8e5d534bc7d988d9da6789d2435ef7c4a0f665c8 against base 33fa28d44897b72b403b182cd42bbe9862344936, following 5810487373. The base merge was separated from the branch's fixes.

The previous Box/Pin allocation-identity finding is addressed: copied_out no longer copies the allocation for a Pointee::Place, and the new fixtures compare retained pointers after replacement and swapping. The narrowed from_mut and mutable-accessor refusals cover the direct pinned-box paths.

Two blockers already recorded in this PR's Waiting section remain, independently corroborated by the source rather than presented as new discoveries:

• P2: Keep known origins when another origin is unknown. call.rs:1460–1469 discards all accumulated places when one branch is a parameter or otherwise unknown. Lines 358–360 then validate only *p. Choosing between &raw const c and a supplied pointer, calling raw_get, then assigning a new cell to c can therefore leave the returned pointer reading the old value on the local branch. Retain the known places plus an unknown-origin flag, validate both, and add the mixed-origin rejection case.
• P2: Preserve or refuse nested cell storage during replacement. pointer.rs:864–868 accepts UnsafeCell<UnsafeCell<u32>>::replace. A pointer from (*c.get()).get() retains the inner rs.Cell, but replacement assigns a different inner object to the outer cell's v. That pointer still reads 1 after replacing with an inner cell containing 2. The new accessor exposes an existing slot-rebinding limitation. Refuse the unsupported nested-cell case with a source span, including reachable equivalent cell writes, or preserve its storage identity; pin the chosen behavior with a regression case.

Direction: keep the allocation fix and resolve these recorded stale-read cases before landing. No additional independent finding established.

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[kixelated]

Design change: following the maintainer's 2026-11-07 picks on round 3's checkpoint.

• raw_get: raw_origins now returns the known origins plus whether any is unknown. Each known origin is judged for reassignment, and *p is still judged when one is unknown. alloc::cell_raw_reassigned gains a pointer to c or else ptr::null(), and one to c or else a parameter.
• Nested cells: a whole write through the shared pointer helpers (UnsafeCell::replace, Cell's writes, ptr::write, ptr::replace, ptr::swap) of a value that keeps cells writes into each existing rs.Cell in place. That covers cells at any depth and the cell fields of tuples and structs. The old value and ptr::read's copy get cells of their own. Memory not written yet takes the new cell. The write analysis counts these writes the same way, so kept::kept_written and kept::kept_swapped now translate correctly and leave the reject fixture. New differential case: pointers::nested_cells. No change to how a cell is represented was needed.

The next review starts with quest review --new.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with high effort)