diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
index a9adb1d4..39af5460 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
@@ -2926,6 +2926,19 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
             // fallback for the drains that have NO object (the readback flush), and it is
             // nulled at both of those events.
             const auto liveHostBase = [&resource, &bufferObject]() -> const Uint8* {
+#if MOBILEGL_BUILD_DISAGGREGATED
+                // M-2 / codex 3 / ID-52 item 3: under an ACTIVE TRANSPORT the server's staged
+                // copy (resource->hostBytes, filled by MGL_SERVER_STAGED_ADOPT in Ops_H_SubData /
+                // Ops_H_FlushRange) is the ONLY authoritative base. Preferring the frontend
+                // object's MappedData() here - which under inproc is always non-null, same process
+                // - meant every reduced-path drain read the CLIENT's shadow and NEVER the server's,
+                // so a corrupt staged upload rendered the frontend's correct bytes and the R-2.5
+                // 0xDD audit could not reach a draw. R-2 / table 3: honest inproc is inproc that
+                // does not read the client object's memory. Under monolith nothing changes.
+                if (MG_Config::Transport != MG_Config::TransportMode::Monolith) {
+                    return resource->hostBytes;
+                }
+#endif
                 if (bufferObject) return bufferObject->MappedData();
                 return resource->hostBytes;
             };
@@ -2942,6 +2955,17 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
                 resource->persistentMapped = false;
                 resource->persistentPtr = nullptr;
                 resource->immutableStorage = false;
+#if MOBILEGL_BUILD_DISAGGREGATED
+                // m-5 / codex 5: OnBackendContextDestroyed ran MGL_SERVER_STAGED_DROP_ALL(), which
+                // frees every server shadow but does NOT null the hostBytes that name them - so a
+                // twin that SURVIVES a context loss (this is the block that repairs it) still
+                // carries a base into the freed allocation. The two other drop sites pair the drop
+                // with something that makes the base unreachable (Ops_H_Destroy retires the twin;
+                // the map-persistent site nulls hostBytes on the next line); DropAll did neither.
+                // Null it here, at the one place a surviving twin is re-armed, so no freed base
+                // reaches glBufferData/glBufferSubData before the next content record refills it.
+                resource->hostBytes = nullptr;
+#endif
             }
 
             // An immutable store nothing maps any more, retired here on the thread that can.
@@ -2977,6 +3001,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
                     resource->storageInitialized = true;
                     resource->pendingRespecify = false;
                     BindBufferId(TempBufferTarget, reused);
+                    // M-3 / codex 4: this is a WHOLE-STORE upload from the base, and under split
+                    // the base is the server shadow (M-2), whose zero-filled bytes past the staged
+                    // coverage are not the application's - uploading them is the silent data loss
+                    // the M-6 ruling forbids. RequireCoverage is a no-op for the legacy arm's
+                    // MappedData() and for a non-copying store; under split it Fatals by name on a
+                    // sparse shadow rather than seeding the driver with zeroes.
+                    MGL_SERVER_STAGED_REQUIRE(*resource, liveHostBase(), 0, poolSize,
+                                              "pool_reuse_whole_store");
                     g_GLESFuncs.glBufferSubData(TempBufferTarget, 0, (GLsizeiptr)poolSize, liveHostBase());
                     if (MG_Util::PipeStats::Enabled()) {
                         MG_Util::PipeStats::AddBytes(MG_Util::PipeStats::ByteClass::StageBuffer,
@@ -3050,8 +3082,21 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
             const Bool shadowHasContent =
                 bufferObject ? bufferObject->HasDefinedContent() : (record->Desc.HasDefinedContent != 0);
             const void* initialData = shadowHasContent ? hostBase : nullptr;
+            // M-3 / codex 4: a RespecifyStorageWith(..., initialData != nullptr) is a WHOLE-STORE
+            // [0, size) upload from the base, so it owes the same coverage the pending-range drain
+            // below owes - the two respecify arms were the readers M-6's "never widened" rule did
+            // not reach. No-op for the legacy arm's MappedData() and for a non-copying store; a
+            // Fatal{StageSnapshotTooNarrow, "respecify_whole_store"} under split when the shadow's
+            // coverage does not span the store, instead of uploading its zero-fill as content.
+            const auto requireWholeStoreCoverage = [&]() {
+                if (initialData != nullptr) {
+                    MGL_SERVER_STAGED_REQUIRE(*resource, static_cast<const Uint8*>(initialData), 0,
+                                              size, "respecify_whole_store");
+                }
+            };
 
             if (resource->pendingRespecify || !resource->storageInitialized || resource->storageSize != size) {
+                requireWholeStoreCoverage();
                 RespecifyStorageWith(*resource, size, usage, initialData, serial);
             } else if (!resource->pendingRanges.empty()) {
                 // Same rule as Ops_H_Readback's, at the draw-time drain: with no frontend object
@@ -3062,6 +3107,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
             } else if (resource->syncedChangeSerial != serial) {
                 // Mutations this backend could not track (the table was unregistered between
                 // contexts); re-upload everything.
+                requireWholeStoreCoverage();
                 RespecifyStorageWith(*resource, size, usage, initialData, serial);
             }
             return resource;
@@ -3113,6 +3159,11 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
                 resource->persistentMapped = false;
                 resource->persistentPtr = nullptr;
                 resource->immutableStorage = false;
+#if MOBILEGL_PIPE_PUSH
+                // m-5 / codex 5: mirror the handle arm - DropAll freed the shadow this base named
+                // on context loss, so a surviving twin repaired here must not carry it forward.
+                resource->hostBytes = nullptr;
+#endif
             }
 
             // An immutable store nothing maps any more: a respecification of a buffer that