diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/EmitTables.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/EmitTables.cpp
index 5bd989ec..961d09ac 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/EmitTables.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/EmitTables.cpp
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Client {
             RequireClientTablesInstalled(slot);
             ClientSession* session = ClientSession::Active();
             if (session == nullptr) {
+                // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns ClientSession& and runs in the CLIENT - no
+                // session to hand back, no peer bytes, and the latch is a server-session idea.
                 SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::NoClientSession, "MGPipe: Fatal{NoClientSession, \"%s\"} - the remote emit table is "
                         "installed but no ClientSession is active. A slot may not fall through "
                         "to a driver this role does not have",
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/WireTables.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/WireTables.cpp
index 4f96f46c..cafe15b0 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/WireTables.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Client/WireTables.cpp
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Client {
             RequireClientTablesInstalled(row);
             ClientSession* session = ClientSession::Active();
             if (session == nullptr) {
+                // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns ClientSession& and runs in the CLIENT - no
+                // session to hand back, no peer bytes, and the latch is a server-session idea.
                 SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::NoClientSession, "MGPipe: Fatal{NoClientSession, \"%s\"} - the client wire tables are "
                         "installed but no ClientSession is active. A row may not fall through to "
                         "a driver this role does not have",
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.cpp
index 39b37134..c5efd76a 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.cpp
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <atomic>
 #include <cstdarg>
 #include <cstdio>
+#include <mutex>
 
 #include <flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h>
 
@@ -67,29 +68,119 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote {
         MG_Pipe::MGPipeInstallSessionFailHook(&PipeSessionFailAdapter);
     }
 
-    void SessionFail(MGFatalFamily family, const char* fmt, ...) {
+    namespace {
         // The line, formatted exactly as the site's old MGLOG_F would have. Same buffer size and
         // same fallback as WireLogFatal, so a death that used either path reads identically.
+        void FormatFaultLine(char (&line)[512], const char* fmt, va_list args) {
+            const int written = std::vsnprintf(line, sizeof(line), fmt, args);
+            if (written < 0) {
+                std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
+                              "MG_Remote: unformattable Fatal diagnostic (format=%s)", fmt);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // The log line and its stderr echo: Defines.h builds the logger with the console sink
+        // off, so an MGLOG line reaches only the file - and a gtest death matcher reads the
+        // child's stderr. Flushed because abort() does not flush stdio.
+        void LogFaultLine(const char* line) {
+            MGLOG_F("%s", line);
+            std::fputs(line, stderr);
+            std::fputc('\n', stderr);
+            std::fflush(stderr);
+        }
+
+        // The SessionFault frame to whichever peer this process has; defined below SessionFail,
+        // whose body it was until PH-1 (3) gave the latch a second caller.
+        void PublishSessionFault(MGFatalFamily family, const char* line);
+
+        // PH-1 (3): the latch's state. Armed once, by the session child; latched once, by the
+        // first fault. The line is written under the mutex BEFORE the release store that
+        // publishes `g_latched`, so a reader that saw true reads a whole line.
+        std::atomic<bool> g_latchArmed{false};
+        std::atomic<bool> g_latched{false};
+        std::atomic<std::uint64_t> g_latchCount{0};
+        std::mutex g_latchMutex;
+        MGFatalFamily g_latchedFamily = MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption;
+        char g_latchedLine[512] = {};
+    } // namespace
+
+    void ArmSessionLatch() { g_latchArmed.store(true, std::memory_order_release); }
+
+    bool SessionLatchArmed() { return g_latchArmed.load(std::memory_order_acquire); }
+
+    bool SessionLatched() { return g_latched.load(std::memory_order_acquire); }
+
+    MGFatalFamily SessionLatchedFamily() {
+        const std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(g_latchMutex);
+        return g_latchedFamily;
+    }
+
+    const char* SessionLatchedLine() { return g_latchedLine; }
+
+    std::uint64_t SessionLatchCount() { return g_latchCount.load(std::memory_order_relaxed); }
+
+    bool SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily family, const char* fmt, ...) {
         char line[512];
         va_list args;
         va_start(args, fmt);
-        const int written = std::vsnprintf(line, sizeof(line), fmt, args);
+        FormatFaultLine(line, fmt, args);
         va_end(args);
-        if (written < 0) {
-            std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
-                          "MG_Remote: unformattable Fatal diagnostic (format=%s)", fmt);
+
+        // UNARMED IS SessionFail, byte for byte: the inproc server, the client and every unit
+        // death test keep the death they had (FatalFunnel.h's block says why inproc must).
+        if (!g_latchArmed.load(std::memory_order_acquire)) {
+            SessionFail(family, "%s", line);
         }
 
         g_sessionFaultCount.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+        g_latchCount.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+        LogFaultLine(line);
 
-        MGLOG_F("%s", line);
-        // The stderr echo is the half a death test can see: Defines.h builds the logger with the
-        // console sink off, so an MGLOG line reaches only the file - and a gtest death matcher
-        // reads the child's stderr. Flushed because abort() does not flush stdio.
-        std::fputs(line, stderr);
-        std::fputc('\n', stderr);
-        std::fflush(stderr);
+        bool first = false;
+        {
+            const std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(g_latchMutex);
+            if (!g_latched.load(std::memory_order_relaxed)) {
+                std::snprintf(g_latchedLine, sizeof(g_latchedLine), "%s", line);
+                g_latchedFamily = family;
+                g_latched.store(true, std::memory_order_release);
+                first = true;
+            }
+        }
+        if (!first) {
+            // A second fault after the first one latched: the session is already declining, so
+            // this is logged and counted but it neither re-publishes nor replaces the cause.
+            MGLOG_E("MG_Remote server: SessionLatch - a further named fault after the latched one "
+                    "(%s); it is declined with the rest of the session",
+                    FatalFamilyName(family));
+            return false;
+        }
+        // ONE LINE THAT SAYS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, so a log reader can tell a latched end from a
+        // crash without the supervisor's reap line.
+        MGLOG_E("MG_Remote server: SessionLatch{%s} - the first named fault of this session is "
+                "latched; every further record and control op is declined and the session "
+                "closes (exit %d) for the supervisor to serve the next connection (PH-1, "
+                "ID-P7-1)",
+                FatalFamilyName(family), kSessionLatchedExitCode);
+        PublishSessionFault(family, line);
+        return false;
+    }
 
+    void SessionFail(MGFatalFamily family, const char* fmt, ...) {
+        char line[512];
+        va_list args;
+        va_start(args, fmt);
+        FormatFaultLine(line, fmt, args);
+        va_end(args);
+
+        g_sessionFaultCount.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
+
+        LogFaultLine(line);
+        PublishSessionFault(family, line);
+        std::abort();
+    }
+
+    namespace {
+    void PublishSessionFault(MGFatalFamily family, const char* line) {
         // A SessionFault frame to the peer, BEFORE the abort, so the other side's log names the
         // family instead of reading a bare EOF (5.2). Best-effort by nature: this thread is about
         // to die, so a send that blocks or fails changes nothing it could have changed anyway.
@@ -123,8 +214,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote {
             (void)control->SendFrame(
                 MobileGLByteSpan{builder.GetBufferPointer(), builder.GetSize()});
         }
-
-        std::abort();
     }
+    } // namespace
 
 } // namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.h b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.h
index 959de20d..cda1b541 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.h
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.h
@@ -44,9 +44,62 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote {
     void SessionFail(MGFatalFamily family, const char* fmt, ...);
 
     // How many times a session has ended through the funnel this process. Exit gate S8 asserts
-    // this is zero over a whole good run; a test reads it to prove the funnel was reached.
+    // this is zero over a whole good run; a test reads it to prove the funnel was reached. A
+    // latched fault (SessionLatch below) counts here too: it ends the session just as surely.
     ::std::uint64_t SessionFaultCount();
 
+    // ---- PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: THE PER-SESSION LATCH ---------------------------------------
+    //
+    // WHAT IT IS. At a site whose input bytes the PEER wrote, and which already sits in a
+    // function that can say "no" (Bool / MobileGLResult), a named fault no longer has to kill the
+    // process: SessionLatch logs the SAME line SessionFail would (family word and all, so every
+    // `Fatal{` grep, the census and the SessionFault frame read exactly as before), publishes the
+    // SessionFault to the peer, records the FIRST fault (family + line), and RETURNS false. The
+    // site returns failure, the decoder declines, ServerLoop::DrainRing stops applying at its
+    // next check, the apply thread leaves its loop, and ServerMain::RunSession closes the session
+    // cleanly and exits kSessionLatchedExitCode - a named, counted end the supervisor reaps and
+    // then serves the next connection, exactly as P6.5's fork-per-session already does for a
+    // crash (ID-P7-1: "下一连接照常服务" is the supervisor's, not the latch's).
+    //
+    // WHERE IT IS ARMED, AND WHY ONLY THERE. ArmSessionLatch() is called by exactly one site:
+    // ServerMain::RunSession, i.e. the spawn / TCP session child (with or without --serve), whose
+    // process IS the session. Unarmed, SessionLatch IS SessionFail - same line, same abort - and
+    // that is the answer everywhere else, deliberately:
+    //   * INPROC keeps Fatal. CONTRACT-P5's R-2 arms (rules A/B/C, the four honesty arms) are
+    //     Fatal{ProtocolCorruption} in the formal wording, and under inproc the client and the
+    //     server share one process: a latched-but-alive server would leave the client's GL thread
+    //     parked on a barrier in the SAME process with no EOF to wake it, and there is no
+    //     supervisor to serve a "next connection" - the process is the session. So the latch
+    //     changes nothing inproc and every death test stays a death test.
+    //   * THE CLIENT never arms it: a client-side arm of a shared helper (the encoder's honesty
+    //     pass) is a local bug, not a peer's bytes.
+    // The census (scripts/ci/fatal_census.py rule 2) checks SessionLatch calls the way it checks
+    // SessionFail calls: the string must carry its `Fatal{Word` and the word must have a .def row.
+    void ArmSessionLatch();
+    bool SessionLatchArmed();
+    // True once the first fault has latched. One acquire load: DrainRing asks it per record.
+    bool SessionLatched();
+    // The first latched fault - its family and its line, verbatim. Meaningful only once
+    // SessionLatched() is true; the line's storage lives for the process.
+    MGFatalFamily SessionLatchedFamily();
+    const char* SessionLatchedLine();
+    // Every fault this armed process latched or declined after the first (>= 1 once latched).
+    ::std::uint64_t SessionLatchCount();
+
+    // The session child's exit status when its session ended on a latched fault. Distinct from
+    // RunSession's other codes (64-74) so the supervisor's reap line names it; nonzero, so it is
+    // counted in `sessionsFaulted` like every other fault.
+    inline constexpr int kSessionLatchedExitCode = 75;
+
+    // LATCH-OR-DIE. Armed: log + stderr echo + SessionFault (first fault only) + count, then
+    // return false, so a Bool site reads `return SessionLatch(...);`. Unarmed: SessionFail with
+    // the identical line (does not return).
+    bool
+#if defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__clang__)
+        __attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)))
+#endif
+        SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily family, const char* fmt, ...);
+
     // P7 wave 0. Points MG_Pipe's MGPipeSessionFail seam (MG_Pipe/PipeSessionFail.h) at
     // SessionFail, which is what makes the three Magma wire funnels in MG_Backend's renderer
     // publish a SessionFault, bump SessionFaultCount() and appear in the census like every other
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Protocol/SurfaceOpCodec.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Protocol/SurfaceOpCodec.cpp
index aa2ca1f2..9499073f 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Protocol/SurfaceOpCodec.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Protocol/SurfaceOpCodec.cpp
@@ -205,28 +205,40 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote {
     }
 
     MobileGLResult ServerApplyWireSurfaceOp(const ::MobileGL::Wire::SurfaceOp& op, SurfaceControlFrame* replyOut) {
+        // PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: a latched session answers no further control op. RunSession stops
+        // reading the control connection once it sees the latch; this covers the op it may
+        // already be holding.
+        if (SessionLatched()) return MOBILEGL_ERR_PROTOCOL_MISMATCH;
         SurfaceControlFrame frame;
         const SurfaceWireError error = DecodeWireSurfaceOp(op, &frame);
         if (error != SurfaceWireError::None) {
+            // PH-1 (3): the op's bytes are the peer's. Each of the three refusals latches in an
+            // armed session child and the op is answered with no dispatch; unarmed they die.
             if (error == SurfaceWireError::AndroidNativeWindowArrived) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedSurface,
+                (void)SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedSurface,
                         "MGPipe: Fatal{UnmigratedSurface, \"AndroidNativeWindow@P12\"} - a wire "
                         "SurfaceOp (%s) named an ANativeWindow*, which is a pointer into the "
                         "CLIENT's process and means nothing here. Real window arrival is P12; "
                         "until then the spawn surface path is pbuffer/surfaceless only",
                         ::MobileGL::Wire::EnumNameSurfaceOpKind(op.kind()));
             } else if (error == SurfaceWireError::MetalLayerArrived) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedSurface,
+                (void)SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedSurface,
                         "MGPipe: Fatal{UnmigratedSurface, \"MetalLayer@P12\"} - a wire "
                         "SurfaceOp named a CAMetalLayer* in the CLIENT's process. "
                         "Real window arrival is P12");
             } else {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption,
+                (void)SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption,
                         "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SurfaceOp\"} - a wire surface op "
                         "failed validation: %s (wire kind %u, window kind %u)",
                         SurfaceWireErrorName(error), static_cast<unsigned>(op.kind()),
                         static_cast<unsigned>(op.windowKind()));
             }
+            if (replyOut != nullptr) {
+                *replyOut = SurfaceControlFrame{};
+                replyOut->seq = op.seq();
+                replyOut->ok = false;
+            }
+            return MOBILEGL_ERR_PROTOCOL_MISMATCH;
         }
         const MobileGLResult rc = Server::ServerLoopInstance().RunSurfaceControlFrame(frame);
         if (replyOut != nullptr) *replyOut = frame;
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/PipeApplier.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/PipeApplier.cpp
index 896c1997..78d2d3fe 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/PipeApplier.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/PipeApplier.cpp
@@ -341,7 +341,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // is a protocol fault, because such a client is pacing on this answer and a 0 would
         // acknowledge a frame nobody asked about.
         if (present.FrameSerial == 0 && MGPipeServerPublishesRunAhead()) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"Present.FrameSerial\"} - a run-ahead "
+            // PH-1 (3): latches in an armed session child - no credit is returned for it, the
+            // session closes and the peer's credit wait ends on the hang-up.
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"Present.FrameSerial\"} - a run-ahead "
                     "server was handed present serial 0. The client mints this 1-based and "
                     "waits on it for its credit (CONTRACT-P5E §2.4); returning a credit for "
                     "serial 0 would release a wait that is asking about frame N");
@@ -502,8 +504,11 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
     // slot flipped on the client ahead of its server half aborts BY NAME on the apply thread
     // rather than rendering nothing. Named "(server sink)" in the message so a log reader can
     // tell which half is missing.
-    [[noreturn]] static void ServerUnmigratedVerbFatal(const char* slot) {
-        SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedVerb, "MGPipe: Fatal{UnmigratedVerb, \"%s\"} (server sink: the record crossed and "
+    //
+    // PH-1 (3): the shape is the PEER's (a multi-draw record it chose to send), so in an armed
+    // session child the refusal latches and the verb returns false; unarmed it still dies.
+    static Bool ServerUnmigratedVerbLatch(const char* slot) {
+        return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedVerb, "MGPipe: Fatal{UnmigratedVerb, \"%s\"} (server sink: the record crossed and "
                 "ServerVerbSink has no body for it yet - CONTRACT-P5B.md names the package)",
                 slot);
     }
@@ -567,13 +572,16 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // "both counts are still 0", and it is distinguishable from the narrowing this refuses
         // (a narrowed window carries a non-zero count that is merely too small). The moment
         // either set has been received, the rule binds.
-        void CheckUnitWindows(const MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplierState& st, const char* verb) {
-            if (st.SamplerViewCount == 0 && st.SamplerStateCount == 0) return;
+        //
+        // PH-1 (3): both windows are the PEER's records, so the refusals latch in an armed
+        // session child (false = latched, the verb declines); unarmed they still die.
+        Bool CheckUnitWindows(const MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplierState& st, const char* verb) {
+            if (st.SamplerViewCount == 0 && st.SamplerStateCount == 0) return true;
             const Int maxTouched = MG_Pipe::gPipeInputs.GetMaxTouchedTextureUnit();
-            if (maxTouched < 0) return;
+            if (maxTouched < 0) return true;
             const Uint32 required = static_cast<Uint32>(maxTouched) + 1u;
             if (st.SamplerViewStart != 0 || st.SamplerViewCount < required) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SetSamplerViews.Count\"} - %s applies with "
+                return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SetSamplerViews.Count\"} - %s applies with "
                         "units 0..%d touched, so set_sampler_views must carry Start=0 and Count >= %u "
                         "(CONTRACT-P5E.md §5.3); the applied window is Start=%u Count=%u, which drops "
                         "the sync of at least one texture this draw samples",
@@ -581,13 +589,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
                         st.SamplerViewCount);
             }
             if (st.SamplerStateStart != 0 || st.SamplerStateCount < required) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"BindSamplerStates.Count\"} - %s applies with "
+                return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"BindSamplerStates.Count\"} - %s applies with "
                         "units 0..%d touched, so bind_sampler_states must carry Start=0 and Count >= %u "
                         "(CONTRACT-P5E.md §5.3); the applied window is Start=%u Count=%u, which leaves "
                         "an earlier draw's sampler object on at least one unit",
                         verb, static_cast<int>(maxTouched), required, st.SamplerStateStart,
                         st.SamplerStateCount);
             }
+            return true;
         }
     } // namespace
 #endif
@@ -596,8 +605,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
                                    const MG_Pipe::MGPDrawRange* ranges,
                                    const MG_Pipe::MGHostSpan* userIndices,
                                    const MG_Pipe::MGPDrawIndirect* indirect) {
-        if (userIndices != nullptr) {
-            Wire::CheckDrawUserIndices(info, ranges, *userIndices);
+        if (userIndices != nullptr && !Wire::CheckDrawUserIndices(info, ranges, *userIndices)) {
+            return false; // PH-1 (3): latched (armed session child); unarmed it died inside
         }
         // The witness first, before the backend is consulted, so a unit process with no
         // backend object still sees the wire's fields (PipeApplier.h LastDraw).
@@ -617,7 +626,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
 #if MOBILEGL_BUILD_DISAGGREGATED
         // Ruling 19 / ID-95: the window promise, checked at every draw, before the backend is
         // asked to resolve anything out of the windows.
-        CheckUnitWindows(MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplier(), "draw_vbo");
+        if (!CheckUnitWindows(MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplier(), "draw_vbo")) return false;
 #endif
         const MG_Backend::GlobalBackendFunctionsTable* table = Table("draw_vbo");
         if (table == nullptr) return false;
@@ -694,12 +703,12 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // ---- the multi-draws: the two arrays rebuilt from the ranges (rule C) --------------
         if (info.NumDraws != 1) {
             if (userIndices != nullptr) {
-                ServerUnmigratedVerbFatal(info.IndexSize == 0 ? "MultiDrawArrays+CLIENT_INDICES"
-                                                              : "MultiDrawElements+CLIENT_INDICES");
+                return ServerUnmigratedVerbLatch(info.IndexSize == 0 ? "MultiDrawArrays+CLIENT_INDICES"
+                                                                     : "MultiDrawElements+CLIENT_INDICES");
             }
             if (instanced) {
-                ServerUnmigratedVerbFatal(info.IndexSize == 0 ? "MultiDrawArrays+INSTANCED"
-                                                              : "MultiDrawElements+INSTANCED");
+                return ServerUnmigratedVerbLatch(info.IndexSize == 0 ? "MultiDrawArrays+INSTANCED"
+                                                                     : "MultiDrawElements+INSTANCED");
             }
             const auto n = static_cast<SizeT>(info.NumDraws);
             m_multiCounts.resize(n);
@@ -840,7 +849,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
     Bool ServerVerbSink::OnLaunchGrid(const MG_Pipe::MGPGridInfo& grid) {
 #if MOBILEGL_BUILD_DISAGGREGATED
         // Ruling 19 / ID-95: a dispatch samples through the same unit windows a draw does.
-        CheckUnitWindows(MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplier(), "launch_grid");
+        if (!CheckUnitWindows(MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplier(), "launch_grid")) return false;
 #endif
         const MG_Backend::GlobalBackendFunctionsTable* table = Table("launch_grid");
         if (table == nullptr) return false;
@@ -1164,8 +1173,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // session, so the only legal sequence is 0, 1, 2, ... and the session's own count of
         // accepted resets IS the expected value; anything else means the two ends disagree
         // about how many make-current edges have crossed, which no backend answer can fix.
+        // PH-1 (3): latches in an armed session child (the peer wrote the serial); dies unarmed.
         if (reset.ContextSerial != m_applierResetSerial) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ApplierReset.ContextSerial\"} - the "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ApplierReset.ContextSerial\"} - the "
                     "record carries %llu and this session has accepted %llu reset(s); the "
                     "serial is asserted against the session's own count, not dispatched on "
                     "(one context per session in P5c)",
@@ -1186,13 +1196,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // §1's zero ruling: a null handle means "the object never crossed", and the client
         // emits NOTHING in that case (§5.2) - so a null handle arriving here is corruption,
         // not a no-op.
+        // PH-1 (3): both refusals latch in an armed session child; unarmed they die as before.
         if (MG_Pipe::MGPipeHandleIsNull(death.Handle)) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ObjectDeath.Handle\"} - a null "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ObjectDeath.Handle\"} - a null "
                     "handle never crosses: the client emits nothing for an object its own "
                     "allocator cannot resolve (CONTRACT-P5C.md §5.2)");
         }
         if (death.Kind >= static_cast<Uint32>(MG_Pipe::MGPipeKind::KindCount)) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ObjectDeath.Kind\"} - %u is not an "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ObjectDeath.Kind\"} - %u is not an "
                     "MGPipeKind",
                     static_cast<unsigned>(death.Kind));
         }
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerLoop.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerLoop.cpp
index be672f9a..61416a8d 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerLoop.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerLoop.cpp
@@ -426,6 +426,15 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             if (stopOrForfeit()) break;
             if (signals.EventRingFull->load(std::memory_order_acquire) == 0) DrainRing();
             if (stopOrForfeit()) break;
+            // PH-1 (3): a latched session applies nothing more, so this thread leaves the loop
+            // (and does not spin on a ring whose head is still ahead of a tail DrainRing will no
+            // longer move). The exit path below tears the backend down as for a Stop; the
+            // control connection's owner (ServerMain::RunSession) sees the latch and closes.
+            if (SessionLatched()) {
+                MGLOG_E("MG_Remote server: mgl-srv-apply leaves its loop - the session latched a "
+                        "named fault and declines the rest of the ring (PH-1)");
+                break;
+            }
             if (ready()) continue;
 
             const Uint64 waits = m_parks.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_acq_rel) + 1;
@@ -627,11 +636,18 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // the consumer's own m_localTail (Ring.cpp:222-232) - no mutex, no steady_clock, no
         // allocation; `applied == 0` then skips the retire block below entirely. Keep it that
         // way: anything added here runs ~900 times a frame doing nothing.
+        //
+        // PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: THE LATCH CHECK, AT THE TOP AND BEFORE EVERY POP. Once a named fault
+        // has latched (an armed spawn / TCP session child only - unarmed this is one acquire load
+        // of a flag nobody sets), no further record is applied: the rest of the ring is declined
+        // unread, the apply thread leaves its loop, and RunSession closes the session by name.
+        if (SessionLatched()) return 0;
         ServerSession& session = *m_session;
         Transport::SessionConsumer& consumer = session.Consumer();
         PipeApplier& applier = session.Applier();
         Uint64 applied = 0;
         for (;;) {
+            if (SessionLatched()) break;
             bool corrupt = false;
             const bool popped = consumer.ApplyOne(
                 [this, &applier](const Transport::RingRecordView& record) {
@@ -654,10 +670,13 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             if (corrupt) {
                 // Ring.h's own rule: a header the producer could not have written is
                 // Fatal{ProtocolCorruption}, never a retry. Retrying re-reads the same bytes
-                // for ever; skipping desynchronises seq, and seq IS the reply-slot id.
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SEG_CMD record header\"} - the "
+                // for ever; skipping desynchronises seq, and seq IS the reply-slot id. PH-1 (3):
+                // the header is the peer's bytes, so an armed session child latches here and
+                // stops reading the ring - neither a retry nor a skip.
+                (void)SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SEG_CMD record header\"} - the "
                         "consumer refused a record header at applied seq %llu",
                         static_cast<unsigned long long>(consumer.AppliedSeq()));
+                break;
             }
             if (!popped) break;
             ++applied;
@@ -672,12 +691,15 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             // and PipeWireDecoder keeps its own count; a batched publish would move one and not
             // the other, which a single counter could not have told apart (w1-v1 5).
             if (applier.DecoderAppliedSeq() != consumer.AppliedSeq()) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"appliedSeq batched\"} - the "
+                // PH-1 (3): latched, and nothing is retired against a watermark this side no
+                // longer believes.
+                (void)SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"appliedSeq batched\"} - the "
                         "session's watermark is %llu and the decoder applied %llu records. P5 "
                         "forbids batching appliedSeq (R-9): the verb barrier's waiter reads it, "
                         "and a watermark ahead of the decoder promises work that has not run",
                         static_cast<unsigned long long>(consumer.AppliedSeq()),
                         static_cast<unsigned long long>(applier.DecoderAppliedSeq()));
+                return applied;
             }
             // RETIRE. MANDATORY, not optional: RingProducer::FreeBytes() reclaims against
             // retiredTail only, and w1's SEG_STAGE linear allocator reclaims on retiredSeq - so
@@ -917,23 +939,30 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // WindowHandle, so an out-of-range tag is a memory-corruption shape, not bad input -
         // same discipline as the ring's Fatal{ProtocolCorruption} on a header the producer could
         // not have written.
-        MG_Backend::WindowBackend WindowBackendFromFrameValue(Int value) {
+        //
+        // PH-1 (3): false = the refusal latched (an armed spawn / TCP session child, where the
+        // frame's values came off the wire through SurfaceOpCodec). Under spawn the codec has
+        // already mapped the wire WindowKind onto a legal tag, so this arm is defence in depth
+        // there; unarmed it still dies.
+        Bool WindowBackendFromFrameValue(Int value, MG_Backend::WindowBackend* out) {
             if (value < static_cast<Int>(MG_Backend::WindowBackend::Unknown) ||
                 value >= static_cast<Int>(MG_Backend::WindowBackend::WindowBackendCount)) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SurfaceOp.windowBackend\"} - a "
+                return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SurfaceOp.windowBackend\"} - a "
                         "control frame carried window backend tag %d, which names no "
                         "WindowBackend", value);
             }
-            return static_cast<MG_Backend::WindowBackend>(value);
+            *out = static_cast<MG_Backend::WindowBackend>(value);
+            return true;
         }
 
-        MG_Backend::WindowHandle UnpackWindowHandle(const SurfaceControlFrame& frame) {
+        Bool UnpackWindowHandle(const SurfaceControlFrame& frame, MG_Backend::WindowHandle* out) {
             MG_Backend::WindowHandle handle;
-            handle.Backend = WindowBackendFromFrameValue(frame.windowBackend);
+            if (!WindowBackendFromFrameValue(frame.windowBackend, &handle.Backend)) return false;
             handle.Handle = HandleFromToken<void*>(frame.nativeToken);
             handle.Width = static_cast<Uint32>(frame.width);
             handle.Height = static_cast<Uint32>(frame.height);
-            return handle;
+            *out = handle;
+            return true;
         }
 
         // P7 CI. THE TEST LEVER FOR THE CLIENT'S COLD-START BUDGET (ClientSession.cpp,
@@ -1003,8 +1032,13 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             return MOBILEGL_OK;
         }
         case SurfaceControlOp::CreateWindowSurface: {
+            MG_Backend::WindowHandle window;
+            if (!UnpackWindowHandle(frame, &window)) {
+                frame.ok = false;
+                return MOBILEGL_ERR_PROTOCOL_MISMATCH; // PH-1 (3): latched
+            }
             frame.ok = backend->CreateEGLWindowSurface(HandleFromToken<EGLSurface>(frame.surface),
-                                                       UnpackWindowHandle(frame));
+                                                       window);
             // N-3: BackendObject_DirectGLES destroys and recreates the native context to create
             // a DIFFERENT surface, so whatever tuple was bound names a dead context.
             if (frame.ok) ForgetCurrentTuple();
@@ -1103,10 +1137,16 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             ForgetCurrentTuple();
             frame.ok = true;
             return MOBILEGL_OK;
-        case SurfaceControlOp::SetWindowHandle:
-            backend->SetWindowHandle(UnpackWindowHandle(frame));
+        case SurfaceControlOp::SetWindowHandle: {
+            MG_Backend::WindowHandle window;
+            if (!UnpackWindowHandle(frame, &window)) {
+                frame.ok = false;
+                return MOBILEGL_ERR_PROTOCOL_MISMATCH; // PH-1 (3): latched
+            }
+            backend->SetWindowHandle(window);
             frame.ok = true;
             return MOBILEGL_OK;
+        }
         case SurfaceControlOp::InitCapabilities:
             // Inproc-only (f0-egl §4.2): on the wire the ANSWER to this op is the CapsSnapshot
             // frame itself, so there is no SurfaceOp kind for it. The frame channel still has to
@@ -1142,8 +1182,12 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // A kind the switch does not know never legitimately posts (RunSurfaceControlFrame
         // refuses None), so reaching this line means the slot's bytes were not written by the
         // poster at all - the ring's Fatal{ProtocolCorruption} discipline, one channel over.
-        SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SurfaceOp.kind\"} - the control slot held "
+        // PH-1 (3): latched in an armed session child (under spawn SurfaceOpCodec has already
+        // refused an unknown wire kind, so this is defence in depth); unarmed it dies.
+        frame.ok = false;
+        (void)SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"SurfaceOp.kind\"} - the control slot held "
                 "kind %d, which names no dispatchable op", static_cast<int>(frame.kind));
+        return MOBILEGL_ERR_PROTOCOL_MISMATCH;
     }
 
     // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerMain.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerMain.cpp
index 9e132c7d..d1e5c281 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerMain.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerMain.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "../Transport/WireLog.h"
 #include "../Protocol/SurfaceOpCodec.h"
 #include "../Handshake.h"
+#include "../FatalFunnel.h"
 #include "ServerLoop.h"
 #include "ServerSession.h"
 #include "SurfaceControlFrame.h"
@@ -245,6 +246,11 @@ void SendLogAck(void* pointer) {
     MobileGL::MG_ConfigLoader::Init();
     MobileGL::MG_Config::Transport = MobileGL::MG_Config::TransportMode::Spawn;
     MobileGL::MG_Pipe::MGPipeSetServerProcessRole(true);
+    // PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: THIS PROCESS IS THE SESSION, so a named fault on the peer's bytes may end
+    // it cleanly instead of aborting it (FatalFunnel.h's latch block). Armed here and nowhere
+    // else: inproc keeps every Fatal (client and server share that process), and the supervisor
+    // that forked this child never applies a record.
+    ArmSessionLatch();
     // The child bypasses MobileGL::Initialize: arm its own role counters.
     MobileGL::MG_Util::PipeStats::Init();
     const auto backend = static_cast<MobileGL::BackendType>(hello->backendType());
@@ -368,15 +374,26 @@ void SendLogAck(void* pointer) {
     // this child would sit here, holding the supervisor's one session slot, answering every
     // later client Busy. Now each quiet interval asks whether the apply thread is still there;
     // when it is not (forfeit, or a dead data bell), the session takes the ordinary exit below:
-    // Stop, Close, _exit(0). The interval is the supervisor's own accept poll.
+    // Stop, Close, _exit(0). (PH-6 used the supervisor's 250 ms accept poll as the interval; the
+    // PH-1 note below says why the slice is now 100 ms.)
     //
     // ASKED AT THE TOP OF EVERY TURN, NOT ONLY WHEN A WAIT TIMES OUT (PH-6 fix round). A peer that
     // forfeited the reverse channel but keeps TALKING - a LogFlush or a surface op more often than
     // every 250 ms, each of which this loop answers - never let ReceiveFrame time out, so the
     // question was never asked and the session, with the supervisor's one slot, lived as long as
     // the peer kept chattering.
-    constexpr std::uint32_t kControlPollMs = 250;
+    //
+    // PH-1 (3): the same wait is also how a LATCH raised on the apply thread (the decoder, the
+    // applier, DrainRing) ends this loop within one slice while the peer is silent. ReceiveFrame
+    // keeps a partial frame in its reassembler across a timeout, so slicing loses no bytes; a
+    // latched session is then closed below with kSessionLatchedExitCode. The latch is asked
+    // BEFORE the apply thread's liveness because a latch also stops that thread (it leaves its
+    // loop and clears m_running), and the session must be named by its latch, not as a stopped
+    // apply thread. One slice serves both: the latch's 100 ms (PH-6 had 250 ms; the shorter wait
+    // only asks the question more often).
+    constexpr std::uint32_t kControlSliceMs = 100;
     for (;;) {
+        if (SessionLatched()) break;
         if (!loop.Running()) {
             WireLogError("MG_Remote server: pid=%d the apply thread has stopped (%s, %llu event(s) dropped); "
                          "ending the session",
@@ -385,7 +402,7 @@ void SendLogAck(void* pointer) {
             break;
         }
         std::uint64_t size = 0;
-        const auto result = control->ReceiveFrame({buffer.data(), buffer.size()}, &size, kControlPollMs);
+        const auto result = control->ReceiveFrame({buffer.data(), buffer.size()}, &size, kControlSliceMs);
         if (result == MOBILEGL_ERR_TIMEOUT) continue;
         if (result == MOBILEGL_ERR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) { buffer.resize(static_cast<std::size_t>(size)); continue; }
         if (result != MOBILEGL_OK) {
@@ -454,6 +471,9 @@ void SendLogAck(void* pointer) {
         if (!operation) break;
         Server::SurfaceControlFrame reply{};
         (void)ServerApplyWireSurfaceOp(*operation, &reply);
+        // PH-1 (3): an op that latched (its own bytes, or a record the apply thread was on) is
+        // answered by the SessionFault already sent and the close below, not by a reply.
+        if (SessionLatched()) break;
         session.FlushDataProgress();
         if (session.DataLink()) reply.eventHead = session.DataLink()->EventPublishedHead();
         flatbuffers::FlatBufferBuilder builder(256);
@@ -466,11 +486,22 @@ void SendLogAck(void* pointer) {
     loop.Stop();
     // Publish the final server window while log forwarding is still attached.
     MobileGL::MG_Util::PipeStats::Shutdown();
+    // PH-1 (3): a latched session ends HERE, by the same orderly path as a peer's EOF - the apply
+    // thread has already left its loop and destroyed the backend on its own thread (loop.Stop()
+    // joined it), the session closes, and the exit status names the latch so the supervisor
+    // counts it. The first fault's line was logged (and sent as a SessionFault) when it latched.
+    const bool latched = SessionLatched();
+    if (latched) {
+        WireLogError("MG_Remote server: pid=%d session closed on a latched fault (%s; %llu named "
+                     "fault(s) latched or declined); exiting %d for the supervisor to reap - PH-1",
+                     selfPid, FatalFamilyName(SessionLatchedFamily()),
+                     static_cast<unsigned long long>(SessionLatchCount()), kSessionLatchedExitCode);
+    }
     session.Close();
     MobileGL::MG_Util::Debug::SetLogForwarder(nullptr, nullptr);
     // _exit closes control after cleanup/flush; peer EOF is the client's fence.
     std::fflush(nullptr);
-    ::_exit(0);
+    ::_exit(latched ? kSessionLatchedExitCode : 0);
 }
 
 // P7 wave 0, Ph slice (1) (ID-P7-1). THE SUPERVISOR OBSERVES AND NAMES A SESSION'S DEATH.
@@ -498,8 +529,11 @@ bool ReapActiveSession(pid_t& active, unsigned long& sessionsFaulted) {
     if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
         const int code = WEXITSTATUS(status);
         if (code != 0) ++sessionsFaulted;
-        WireLogError("MG_Remote server: session pid=%d reaped exit=%d sessionsFaulted=%lu",
-                     reaped, code, sessionsFaulted);
+        // PH-1 (3): a latched session is a named, orderly end - still a fault (counted), and said
+        // as one so the reap line alone tells it from a crash or a refused bring-up.
+        WireLogError("MG_Remote server: session pid=%d reaped exit=%d%s sessionsFaulted=%lu",
+                     reaped, code, code == kSessionLatchedExitCode ? " (latched fault)" : "",
+                     sessionsFaulted);
     } else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
         ++sessionsFaulted;
         WireLogError("MG_Remote server: session pid=%d reaped signal=%d sessionsFaulted=%lu",
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerSession.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerSession.cpp
index a1f000e0..e1c03099 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerSession.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Server/ServerSession.cpp
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         ServerSession& ReverseCallbackOwner(const char* callback) {
             auto* session = ServerSession::Active();
             if (session == nullptr) {
+                // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns ServerSession& - there is no session to hand
+                // back and no honest "declined" reference, and the input is the backend's own
+                // reverse call, not a peer's bytes. Stays Fatal.
                 SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::RoleViolation, "MGPipe: Fatal{RoleViolation, \"%s.session-missing\"} - "
                         "a reverse callback has no accepted session owner", callback);
             }
@@ -432,6 +435,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
                 // The backend handed over a segment-tagged blobref. The ONLY legal shape at
                 // this boundary is the monolith one - Offset is the mapped address, valid
                 // for this call - because the segment copy is THIS function's own job.
+                // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): the blobref is the BACKEND's (a reverse callback with
+                // a void signature and no caller that could act on a decline), and it rides the
+                // ServerSession& above; not a peer's bytes. Stays Fatal.
                 SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"OnBufferWriteback.Seg\"} - the "
                         "writeback producer was handed Seg %u; at the backend boundary the "
                         "blobref names the backend's own mapped bytes (Seg = "
@@ -997,6 +1003,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
     Transport::RingControl& ServerSession::Control() {
         Transport::RingControl* control = m_link->Memory().CmdControl();
         if (control == nullptr) {
+            // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns RingControl& - no honest reference exists before
+            // Accept() mapped SEG_CMD, and this is a call-order invariant, not a peer's bytes.
             SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ServerSession::Control\"} - the control "
                     "page does not exist until Accept() has mapped SEG_CMD");
         }
@@ -1022,6 +1030,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             return *m_externalConsumerBell;
         }
         if (m_transport == nullptr) {
+            // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns Doorbell& - no bell exists to hand back before
+            // Accept(); a call-order invariant, not a peer's bytes.
             SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ServerSession::ConsumerDoorbell\"} - no "
                     "transport; Accept() has not run");
         }
@@ -1031,6 +1041,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
         // P6: SocketTransport's pair. The accessors stay off ITransport by ruling (contract
         // §3.9) precisely so that this stays one switch in one file rather than two virtuals
         // every transport has to invent a home for.
+        // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns Doorbell& for a transport role this build wires no
+        // pair for - a build-shape fact, not a peer's bytes, and no reference to decline with.
         SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedVerb, "MGPipe: Fatal{UnmigratedVerb, \"ServerSession::ConsumerDoorbell\"} - transport "
                 "role %u has no doorbell pair yet; that is P6's SocketTransport",
                 static_cast<unsigned>(m_transport->Role()));
@@ -1041,12 +1053,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Server {
             return *m_externalProducerBell;
         }
         if (m_transport == nullptr) {
+            // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns Doorbell& - as ConsumerDoorbell above.
             SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ServerSession::ProducerDoorbell\"} - no "
                     "transport; Accept() has not run");
         }
         if (m_transport->Role() == Transport::TransportRole::InProcess) {
             return static_cast<Transport::InProcessTransport*>(m_transport)->PeerDoorbell();
         }
+        // @Ph-declined (ID-P7-1): returns Doorbell& - as ConsumerDoorbell above.
         SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::UnmigratedVerb, "MGPipe: Fatal{UnmigratedVerb, \"ServerSession::ProducerDoorbell\"} - transport "
                 "role %u has no doorbell pair yet; that is P6's SocketTransport",
                 static_cast<unsigned>(m_transport->Role()));
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.cpp
index b1c7852a..b633c251 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.cpp
@@ -281,6 +281,17 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         static_assert(sizeof(kWirePayloadBytes) / sizeof(kWirePayloadBytes[0]) ==
                           static_cast<SizeT>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount));
 
+        // PH-1 (3): the pre-gate in DecodeAndApply (AdmitsTheGeneratedGate) asks "shorter than
+        // its own type" with this file's payload list, and the generated MGP_WIRE_CHECK_BOUNDS
+        // asks it with sizeof(MGPWireRec_X). Pinned equal row by row, so a record the pre-gate
+        // admits can never be one the generated gate would still abort on.
+#define MGPW_REC_ROW(Name, Payload)                                                            \
+        static_assert(sizeof(MG_Pipe::MGPWireRec_##Name) ==                                    \
+                          Align8(sizeof(MGPWireRecHeader) + sizeof(MG_Pipe::Payload)),         \
+                      "MGPWireRec_" #Name " and this file's payload row disagree on size");
+        MGPW_FOR_EACH_CALL(MGPW_REC_ROW)
+#undef MGPW_REC_ROW
+
         // The header's Size field is 32 bits by wire contract (Ring.h's kMaxRingCapacity
         // comment). Every count-derived total is checked against this BEFORE it is used, so a
         // corrupt Count can never wrap the arithmetic that is supposed to catch it.
@@ -389,6 +400,18 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                 static_cast<unsigned long long>(got), static_cast<unsigned long long>(expected));
     }
 
+    // PH-1 (3): the same two lines through the latch (PipeWireCodec.h says where each is used).
+    Bool WireProtocolLatch(const char* what, const char* detail) {
+        return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} %s", what,
+                            detail != nullptr ? detail : "");
+    }
+
+    Bool WireProtocolLatchAt(const char* what, Uint64 got, Uint64 expected) {
+        return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} got=%llu expected=%llu",
+                            what, static_cast<unsigned long long>(got),
+                            static_cast<unsigned long long>(expected));
+    }
+
     // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // SegmentTable
     // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -472,22 +495,22 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
     // R-2's honesty arms
     // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-    void CheckBlobIsHonest(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob, const SegmentTable& segments) {
+    Bool CheckBlobIsHonest(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob, const SegmentTable& segments) {
         if (blob.Size == 0) {
             if (blob.Seg != kSegNone || blob.Offset != 0) {
                 // The monolith shape: Seg = None, Offset = a host address, Size = 0. Legal
                 // there, and precisely what must not cross (rule A). Reading it as "absent"
                 // would silently drop the bytes of every record an unconverted emitter sent.
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} a blob with Size 0 "
+                return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} a blob with Size 0 "
                         "declares Seg=%u Offset=%llu; under split a blobref is either fully "
                         "declared or all three fields zero",
                         WireOpName(op), static_cast<unsigned>(blob.Seg),
                         static_cast<unsigned long long>(blob.Offset));
             }
-            return;
+            return true;
         }
         if (blob.Seg == kSegNone) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} Size=%llu with no segment "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} Size=%llu with no segment "
                     "(R-2.3): a non-zero Size must name a real SEG_*",
                     WireOpName(op), static_cast<unsigned long long>(blob.Size));
         }
@@ -511,7 +534,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         // seventh name would be a token nothing else in the tree recognises. The SEGMENT is in
         // the message, which is what has to be greppable.
         if (blob.Seg != kSegStage) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} seg=%u offset=%llu "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} seg=%u offset=%llu "
                     "size=%llu is not SEG_STAGE(%u); every client->server content blob is "
                     "staged whole in SEG_STAGE (contract table 1 groups A/B/C, R-10) and no "
                     "other segment may carry one",
@@ -521,45 +544,47 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                     static_cast<unsigned>(kSegStage));
         }
         if (segments.Resolve(blob.Seg, blob.Offset, blob.Size) == nullptr) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} seg=%u offset=%llu size=%llu "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} seg=%u offset=%llu size=%llu "
                     "does not lie inside that segment (R-2.3)",
                     WireOpName(op), static_cast<unsigned>(blob.Seg),
                     static_cast<unsigned long long>(blob.Offset),
                     static_cast<unsigned long long>(blob.Size));
         }
+        return true;
     }
 
-    void RequireDeclaredBlob(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob, const SegmentTable& segments) {
+    Bool RequireDeclaredBlob(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob, const SegmentTable& segments) {
         if (blob.Size == 0) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} the record's own fields say "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s.blob\"} the record's own fields say "
                     "it carries content and its blob declares none (R-2.2 / rule A)",
                     WireOpName(op));
         }
-        CheckBlobIsHonest(op, blob, segments);
+        return CheckBlobIsHonest(op, blob, segments);
     }
 
-    void CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MGHostSpan& span) {
+    Bool CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MGHostSpan& span) {
         if (span.Ptr != nullptr) {
             // Rule B. In one address space this pointer WORKS, which is the whole reason the
             // rule has to be mechanical: an inproc implementation that kept using it is
             // indistinguishable from a correct one until the day it is a second process.
-            WireProtocolFatal("host-span",
-                              "MGHostSpan::Ptr is non-null under split; the encoder writes "
-                              "nullptr and names SEG_STAGE (R-2.1)");
+            return WireProtocolLatch("host-span",
+                                     "MGHostSpan::Ptr is non-null under split; the encoder writes "
+                                     "nullptr and names SEG_STAGE (R-2.1)");
         }
         if (span.Size != 0 && span.Seg == kMGHostSpanSegNone) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("host-span.seg", span.Size, 0);
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("host-span.seg", span.Size, 0);
         }
         if (span.Size == 0 && span.Seg != kMGHostSpanSegNone) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("host-span.size", span.Seg, 0);
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("host-span.size", span.Seg, 0);
         }
+        return true;
     }
 
-    void CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MGHostSpan& span, const SegmentTable& segments) {
-        CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span);
+    Bool CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MGHostSpan& span, const SegmentTable& segments) {
+        if (!CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span)) return false;
         if (span.Size == 0) {
             // Fully absent, and the arms above already proved Seg agrees with that.
-            return;
+            return true;
         }
         // ARM 4, WHICH THE OTHER OVERLOAD CANNOT DO. A span naming a real segment and a run
         // past the end of it used to pass every check and reach WireVerbSink::OnDrawVbo, which
@@ -569,32 +594,34 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         // resolver, reads outside the segment. P5 emits no spans, so this was latent; P8 arms
         // it, which is exactly when nobody will be reading this code.
         if (segments.Resolve(span.Seg, span.Offset, span.Size) == nullptr) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"host-span\"} seg=%u offset=%llu "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"host-span\"} seg=%u offset=%llu "
                     "size=%llu does not lie inside that segment (R-2.3 arm 4)",
                     static_cast<unsigned>(span.Seg),
                     static_cast<unsigned long long>(span.Offset),
                     static_cast<unsigned long long>(span.Size));
         }
+        return true;
     }
 
-    void CheckDrawUserIndices(const MGPDrawInfo& info, const MGPDrawRange* ranges,
+    Bool CheckDrawUserIndices(const MGPDrawInfo& info, const MGPDrawRange* ranges,
                               const MGHostSpan& span) {
         if ((info.Flags & kDrawHasUserIndices) == 0 || (info.Flags & kDrawIsIndirect) != 0 ||
             info.NumDraws != 1 || ranges == nullptr) {
-            WireProtocolFatal("DrawVbo.userIndices.shape",
-                              "a user-index span requires exactly one direct indexed range");
+            return WireProtocolLatch("DrawVbo.userIndices.shape",
+                                     "a user-index span requires exactly one direct indexed range");
         }
         if (info.IndexSize != 1 && info.IndexSize != 2 && info.IndexSize != 4) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("DrawVbo.userIndices.IndexSize", info.IndexSize, 4);
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("DrawVbo.userIndices.IndexSize", info.IndexSize, 4);
         }
         // Client arrays are staged from their first index; Start only addresses an EBO.
         if (ranges[0].Start != 0) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("DrawVbo.userIndices.Start", ranges[0].Start, 0);
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("DrawVbo.userIndices.Start", ranges[0].Start, 0);
         }
         const Uint64 required = static_cast<Uint64>(ranges[0].Count) * info.IndexSize;
         if (required > span.Size) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("DrawVbo.userIndices.extent", required, span.Size);
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("DrawVbo.userIndices.extent", required, span.Size);
         }
+        return true;
     }
 
     // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -625,8 +652,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPVertexBuffers*>(payload);
             if (p.Count > kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs ||
                 static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count > kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetVertexBuffers.Count",
-                                    static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count, kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetVertexBuffers.Count",
+                                           static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count, kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.Count, sizeof(MGPVertexBuffer));
             tails = 1;
@@ -635,8 +662,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         case MGPWireOp::SetSamplerViews: {
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPSamplerViews*>(payload);
             if (static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count > kMGPipeMaxTextureUnits) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetSamplerViews.Count", static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count,
-                                    kMGPipeMaxTextureUnits);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetSamplerViews.Count", static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count,
+                                           kMGPipeMaxTextureUnits);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.Count, sizeof(MGPBoundView));
             tails = 1;
@@ -645,8 +672,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         case MGPWireOp::BindSamplerStates: {
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPSamplerStates*>(payload);
             if (static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count > kMGPipeMaxTextureUnits) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("BindSamplerStates.Count",
-                                    static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count, kMGPipeMaxTextureUnits);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("BindSamplerStates.Count",
+                                           static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count, kMGPipeMaxTextureUnits);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.Count, sizeof(MGPipeHandle));
             tails = 1;
@@ -655,8 +682,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         case MGPWireOp::SetShaderImages: {
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPShaderImages*>(payload);
             if (static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count > kMGPipeMaxImageUnits) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetShaderImages.Count", static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count,
-                                    kMGPipeMaxImageUnits);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetShaderImages.Count", static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count,
+                                           kMGPipeMaxImageUnits);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.Count, sizeof(MGPImageView));
             tails = 1;
@@ -672,14 +699,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // is the arm that turns Count into a byte length, so a forged count has to be
             // refused before it is multiplied rather than after.
             if (p.Class >= kMGPipeShaderBufferClassCount) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetShaderBuffers.Class", p.Class, kMGPipeShaderBufferClassCount);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetShaderBuffers.Class", p.Class, kMGPipeShaderBufferClassCount);
             }
             if (static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count > kMGPipeMaxBufferBindingPoints) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetShaderBuffers.Count", static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count,
-                                    kMGPipeMaxBufferBindingPoints);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetShaderBuffers.Count", static_cast<Uint64>(p.Start) + p.Count,
+                                           kMGPipeMaxBufferBindingPoints);
             }
             if (p.HostSpanCount != 0 && p.HostSpanCount != p.Count) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetShaderBuffers.HostSpanCount", p.HostSpanCount, p.Count);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetShaderBuffers.HostSpanCount", p.HostSpanCount, p.Count);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.Count, sizeof(MGPBufferRange));
             tail1 = TailBytesFor(p.HostSpanCount, sizeof(MGHostSpan));
@@ -709,16 +736,16 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // multiplied.
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPProgramBindings*>(payload);
             if (p.BlockBindingCount > kMGPipeMaxProgramBlockBindings) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetProgramBindings.BlockBindingCount", p.BlockBindingCount,
-                                    kMGPipeMaxProgramBlockBindings);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetProgramBindings.BlockBindingCount", p.BlockBindingCount,
+                                           kMGPipeMaxProgramBlockBindings);
             }
             if (p.SamplerUnitCount > kMGPipeMaxProgramSamplerUnits) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetProgramBindings.SamplerUnitCount", p.SamplerUnitCount,
-                                    kMGPipeMaxProgramSamplerUnits);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetProgramBindings.SamplerUnitCount", p.SamplerUnitCount,
+                                           kMGPipeMaxProgramSamplerUnits);
             }
             if (p.StorageOverrideCount > kMGPipeMaxProgramStorageOverrides) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetProgramBindings.StorageOverrideCount",
-                                    p.StorageOverrideCount, kMGPipeMaxProgramStorageOverrides);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetProgramBindings.StorageOverrideCount",
+                                           p.StorageOverrideCount, kMGPipeMaxProgramStorageOverrides);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.BlockBindingCount, sizeof(Int32));
             tail1 = TailBytesFor(p.SamplerUnitCount, sizeof(MGPProgramSamplerUnit));
@@ -742,10 +769,10 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // scatters attribute values onto the wrong locations.
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPVertexAttribDefaults*>(payload);
             if (p.Count != PopCount32(p.Mask)) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetVertexAttribDefaults.Count", p.Count, PopCount32(p.Mask));
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetVertexAttribDefaults.Count", p.Count, PopCount32(p.Mask));
             }
             if (p.Count > kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetVertexAttribDefaults.Count", p.Count, kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetVertexAttribDefaults.Count", p.Count, kMGPipeMaxVertexAttribs);
             }
             tail0 = TailBytesFor(p.Count, sizeof(MGPAttribValue));
             tails = 1;
@@ -768,7 +795,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // regions, so a non-zero count is a fault rather than a tail.
             const auto& p = *static_cast<const MGPSubData*>(payload);
             if (p.RegionCount != 0) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("BufferSubDataResident.RegionCount", p.RegionCount, 0);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("BufferSubDataResident.RegionCount", p.RegionCount, 0);
             }
             break;
         }
@@ -785,12 +812,12 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // buffer by GL rule - and an indirect draw declares no ranges, because the server
             // never reads the indirect buffer to learn a count and the client has none to send.
             if (userIndices && indirect) {
-                WireProtocolFatal("DrawVbo.Flags",
-                                  "kDrawHasUserIndices and kDrawIsIndirect are exclusive; an "
-                                  "indirect draw's indices come from the bound element buffer");
+                return WireProtocolLatch("DrawVbo.Flags",
+                                         "kDrawHasUserIndices and kDrawIsIndirect are exclusive; an "
+                                         "indirect draw's indices come from the bound element buffer");
             }
             if (indirect && p.NumDraws != 0) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("DrawVbo.NumDraws", p.NumDraws, 0);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("DrawVbo.NumDraws", p.NumDraws, 0);
             }
             if (userIndices) {
                 tail1 = sizeof(MGHostSpan);
@@ -830,7 +857,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         out.TailCount = tails;
         out.TotalBytes = Align8(out.TotalBytes);
         if (out.TotalBytes > kMaxRecordBytesOnTheWire) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("record.Size", out.TotalBytes, kMaxRecordBytesOnTheWire);
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("record.Size", out.TotalBytes, kMaxRecordBytesOnTheWire);
         }
         return true;
     }
@@ -1075,7 +1102,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             MGHostSpan span{};
             std::memcpy(&span, tails[1].Bytes, sizeof(span));
             const auto& info = *static_cast<const MGPDrawInfo*>(payload);
-            CheckDrawUserIndices(info, static_cast<const MGPDrawRange*>(tails[0].Bytes), span);
+            // Encoder side: the latch is armed only in a server session child, so here the
+            // arm dies on a bad shape and its answer carries nothing to act on (PH-1 (3)).
+            (void)CheckDrawUserIndices(info, static_cast<const MGPDrawRange*>(tails[0].Bytes), span);
         }
 
         const Uint64 total = layout.TotalBytes;
@@ -1185,7 +1214,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             for (Uint32 i = 0; i < slots.Count; ++i) {
                 MGPBlobRef blob{};
                 std::memcpy(&blob, bytes + slots.Offset + i * sizeof(MGPBlobRef), sizeof(MGPBlobRef));
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, blob, *m_segments);
+                (void)CheckBlobIsHonest(op, blob, *m_segments); // encoder: unarmed, dies (PH-1 (3))
                 // THE ENCODER MUST NOT ACCEPT A RECORD THE DECODER FATALS ON. w1's ruling that
                 // CreateShaderState's modules travel inside the Reflection archive lived only
                 // in the decoder, so an emitter that declared a per-stage run got a valid seq
@@ -1210,7 +1239,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                 std::memcpy(&span, bytes + at + i * sizeof(MGHostSpan), sizeof(MGHostSpan));
                 // All four arms, including the one that needs the table: a producer that
                 // computed an offset wrongly is caught here rather than on a peer.
-                CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span, *m_segments);
+                (void)CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span, *m_segments); // encoder: unarmed, dies (PH-1 (3))
             }
         }
 
@@ -1445,7 +1474,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         return t_activeDecoder->ApplyChecked(op, record, size);
     }
 
-    void PipeWireDecoder::NoteResolvedRun(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob) {
+    Bool PipeWireDecoder::NoteResolvedRun(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob) {
         // UNREACHABLE NOW, AND LOUD RATHER THAN SILENT. This used to `return`, and that made
         // the audit's bookkeeping quietly optional: a record naming a non-SEG_STAGE carrier
         // was applied AND recorded nothing, so PoisonedStageBytes() stayed zero and rule C's
@@ -1455,7 +1484,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         // the audit has stopped covering the carrier, which is the same failure as no audit at
         // all - the reason the run-count overflow just below is a Fatal too.
         if (blob.Size == 0 || blob.Seg != kSegStage) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} the audit was asked to record a "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} the audit was asked to record a "
                     "resolved run with seg=%u size=%llu; only declared SEG_STAGE(%u) runs "
                     "reach the poison fill (R-2.5)",
                     WireOpName(op), static_cast<unsigned>(blob.Seg),
@@ -1466,24 +1495,28 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // LOUD, NOT A SILENT DROP. This array is what the 0xDD fill covers, and a poison
             // that quietly stopped covering a run is the same failure as no poison at all -
             // rule C's only mechanical control going dark without a line in the log.
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} more than %llu SEG_STAGE runs in "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} more than %llu SEG_STAGE runs in "
                     "one record; the audit fill would stop covering them",
                     WireOpName(op),
                     static_cast<unsigned long long>(sizeof(m_resolved) / sizeof(m_resolved[0])));
         }
         m_resolved[m_resolvedCount++] = blob;
+        return true;
     }
 
+    // PH-1 (3): nullptr ONLY when a named fault latched (an armed session child); every caller
+    // returns false on it. Unarmed, each arm below still dies by name and this never returns null.
     const void* PipeWireDecoder::ResolveOrFatal(MGPWireOp op, const MGPBlobRef& blob) {
-        RequireDeclaredBlob(op, blob, *m_segments);
+        if (!RequireDeclaredBlob(op, blob, *m_segments)) return nullptr;
         const void* bytes = m_segments->Resolve(blob.Seg, blob.Offset, blob.Size);
         if (bytes == nullptr) {
             // RequireDeclaredBlob already ran the same arithmetic, so reaching here means the
             // table moved under us rather than that the record is wrong. Same Fatal either
             // way: there is no recovery from a segment that stopped covering its own runs.
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("segment-resolve", blob.Offset, blob.Size);
+            (void)WireProtocolLatchAt("segment-resolve", blob.Offset, blob.Size);
+            return nullptr;
         }
-        NoteResolvedRun(op, blob);
+        if (!NoteResolvedRun(op, blob)) return nullptr;
         return bytes;
     }
 
@@ -1513,6 +1546,36 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         m_resolvedCount = 0;
     }
 
+    namespace {
+        // PH-1 (3): THE GENERATED GATE'S TWO PEER-REACHABLE DEATHS, ASKED FIRST AND BY NAME, in
+        // an armed session child only. MGP_WIRE_CHECK_BOUNDS (MG_Pipe/generated/PipeWire.inc)
+        // aborts on an opcode no row names and on a record shorter than its own type or not
+        // 8-aligned, through MGPipeWireProtocolFatal - a line with no `Fatal{` marker, in a file
+        // gen_pipe.py owns (fatal_census.py's FUNNEL_SITES records that debt). Both operands are
+        // the ring header's `kind` and `size`, which the peer writes, so a session child asks the
+        // same two questions here first and a failure latches by name; whatever reaches the
+        // generated gate then passes it by construction (MGPW_REC_ROW pins the sizes equal).
+        // Unarmed - inproc, the unit cases - this admits everything and the generated gate keeps
+        // its old death line for line.
+        Bool AdmitsTheGeneratedGate(MGPWireOp op, Uint64 size) {
+            if (!SessionLatchArmed()) return true;
+            const SizeT index = static_cast<SizeT>(op);
+            if (index == 0 || index >= static_cast<SizeT>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount)) {
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("opcode", static_cast<Uint64>(op),
+                                           static_cast<Uint64>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount));
+            }
+            WireRecordLayout minimum{};
+            (void)MGPipeWireRecordLayout(op, nullptr, minimum);
+            // Its own word, not the layout's "record.Size": the two refusals are different
+            // questions (shorter than the type vs. past the wire's 32-bit Size), and a log line
+            // - and PeerLatchTest's first-Fatal check - has to be able to tell them apart.
+            if (size < minimum.TotalBytes || (size % 8) != 0) {
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("record.Minimum", size, minimum.TotalBytes);
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+    } // namespace
+
     Bool PipeWireDecoder::DecodeAndApply(const Transport::RingRecordView& record) {
         if (!Valid()) {
             WireProtocolFatal("PipeWireDecoder::DecodeAndApply", "no control page or segment table");
@@ -1533,15 +1596,18 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
 
         m_resolvedCount = 0;
         m_lastAcceptanceKnown = false;
-        PipeWireDecoder* previous = t_activeDecoder;
-        t_activeDecoder = this;
-        // The generated gate first, ALWAYS: MGPipeApplyWireRecord owns the per-opcode
-        // `size >= sizeof(MGPWireRec_X)` check, because that is the half that follows from the
-        // opcode alone and therefore belongs to the generator. It then calls back into
-        // ApplyChecked through the hook, which owns the half that needs the payload. The hook
-        // was installed once, at construction.
-        const Bool applied = MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplyWireRecord(op, base, size, size);
-        t_activeDecoder = previous;
+        Bool applied = false;
+        if (AdmitsTheGeneratedGate(op, size)) {
+            PipeWireDecoder* previous = t_activeDecoder;
+            t_activeDecoder = this;
+            // The generated gate first, ALWAYS: MGPipeApplyWireRecord owns the per-opcode
+            // `size >= sizeof(MGPWireRec_X)` check, because that is the half that follows from the
+            // opcode alone and therefore belongs to the generator. It then calls back into
+            // ApplyChecked through the hook, which owns the half that needs the payload. The hook
+            // was installed once, at construction.
+            applied = MG_Pipe::MGPipeApplyWireRecord(op, base, size, size);
+            t_activeDecoder = previous;
+        }
 
         PoisonResolvedRuns();
 
@@ -1576,16 +1642,24 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         const auto* base = static_cast<const Uint8*>(record);
         const void* payload = base + sizeof(MGPWireRecHeader);
 
+        // PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: FROM HERE ON EVERY NAMED FAULT ON A PEER'S BYTES LATCHES. In an armed
+        // session child each arm below logs its unchanged `Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, "..."}` line
+        // and returns false, and so does this function: the record is declined, DrainRing sees
+        // the latch before the next one, and the session closes by name. Unarmed (inproc, unit
+        // cases) every arm still dies exactly as it did.
         WireRecordLayout layout{};
-        if (!MGPipeWireRecordLayout(op, payload, layout)) {
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("opcode", static_cast<Uint64>(op),
-                                static_cast<Uint64>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount));
+        const SizeT opIndex = static_cast<SizeT>(op);
+        if (opIndex == 0 || opIndex >= static_cast<SizeT>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount)) {
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("opcode", static_cast<Uint64>(op),
+                                       static_cast<Uint64>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount));
         }
+        // With the opcode known, false here means a count bound in the layout latched.
+        if (!MGPipeWireRecordLayout(op, payload, layout)) return false;
         // THE TAIL CROSS-CHECK (BRIEF §5 w1). The generated gate proved `size >= sizeof(the
         // record type)`; it CANNOT SEE THE TAIL, so this is the first thing that holds a
         // record declaring Count = 4000 while carrying 8 bytes to its own arithmetic.
         if (size != layout.TotalBytes) {
-            SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} the record declares Size=%llu and "
+            return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"%s\"} the record declares Size=%llu and "
                     "its own count fields describe %llu bytes (fixed payload %llu + tails "
                     "%llu/%llu/%llu)",
                     WireOpName(op), static_cast<unsigned long long>(size),
@@ -1656,7 +1730,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                             base + sizeof(MGPWireRecHeader) + offsetof(MGPCaps, FormatCapabilities) +
                                 i * sizeof(MGPBlobRef),
                             sizeof(MGPBlobRef));
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, blob, *m_segments);
+                if (!CheckBlobIsHonest(op, blob, *m_segments)) return false;
             }
             return false;
 
@@ -1781,13 +1855,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                 // chunk table computes it from the mask the record itself carries.
                 const Uint64 expected =
                     static_cast<Uint64>(MGPipePipelineChunkBlobBytes(desc.ChunkMask));
-                RequireDeclaredBlob(op, desc.Blob, *m_segments);
+                if (!RequireDeclaredBlob(op, desc.Blob, *m_segments)) return false;
                 if (desc.Blob.Size != expected) {
-                    WireProtocolFatalAt("CreateRenderState.Blob", desc.Blob.Size, expected);
+                    return WireProtocolLatchAt("CreateRenderState.Blob", desc.Blob.Size, expected);
                 }
                 chunks = ResolveOrFatal(op, desc.Blob);
-            } else {
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, desc.Blob, *m_segments);
+                if (chunks == nullptr) return false;
+            } else if (!CheckBlobIsHonest(op, desc.Blob, *m_segments)) {
+                return false;
             }
             MGPipeApplyCreateRenderState(desc, chunks);
             return true;
@@ -1807,6 +1882,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // (PipeApply.cpp:1990-1999) and is the model every other row copies; the decoder
             // adds only what the applier cannot see, which is that the bytes exist at all.
             const void* blob = ResolveOrFatal(op, desc.Blob);
+            if (blob == nullptr) return false;
             MGPipeApplyCreateVertexElements(desc, blob);
             return true;
         }
@@ -1825,12 +1901,13 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // and borderColorForm must survive BYTE FOR BYTE, because all three colour
             // representations are always numerically populated and it is the only thing that
             // says which one the backend must use (MGPipeTypes.h:425-428).
-            RequireDeclaredBlob(op, desc.Parameters, *m_segments);
+            if (!RequireDeclaredBlob(op, desc.Parameters, *m_segments)) return false;
             if (desc.Parameters.Size != sizeof(MobileGL::SamplerParameters)) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("CreateSamplerState.Parameters", desc.Parameters.Size,
-                                    sizeof(MobileGL::SamplerParameters));
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("CreateSamplerState.Parameters", desc.Parameters.Size,
+                                           sizeof(MobileGL::SamplerParameters));
             }
             const void* bytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, desc.Parameters);
+            if (bytes == nullptr) return false;
             // Copied into a local rather than reinterpret_cast in place: the staged run is
             // 8-aligned by the ring, but SamplerParameters is a frontend type and this file
             // may not assume its alignment requirement is one the ring happens to satisfy.
@@ -1868,9 +1945,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // archive - and then the archive has to stop carrying generatedSpirv, in the same
             // change, or the two disagree.
             for (Uint32 i = 0; i < 6; ++i) {
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, desc.Spirv[i], *m_segments);
+                if (!CheckBlobIsHonest(op, desc.Spirv[i], *m_segments)) return false;
                 if (desc.Spirv[i].Size != 0) {
-                    SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"CreateShaderState.Spirv[%u]\"} "
+                    return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"CreateShaderState.Spirv[%u]\"} "
                             "declares %llu bytes; under split the modules travel inside the "
                             "Reflection archive and the six per-stage runs stay undeclared",
                             static_cast<unsigned>(i),
@@ -1878,6 +1955,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                 }
             }
             const void* archiveBytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, desc.Reflection);
+            if (archiveBytes == nullptr) return false;
             // P5e (pg), gap G-A: DECODED ONTO THE HEAP AND HANDED TO THE RECORD, not onto this
             // stack. Before P5e these were two locals that died at the closing brace and the
             // applier kept only the descriptor, so every reflection question the program twin
@@ -1893,10 +1971,13 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             if (!MG_State::GLState::DecodeProgramArchive(static_cast<const Uint8*>(archiveBytes),
                                                          static_cast<SizeT>(desc.Reflection.Size),
                                                          *archive)) {
-                WireProtocolFatal("CreateShaderState.Reflection",
-                                  "DecodeProgramArchive refused the archive - a truncated "
-                                  "stream, a codec version mismatch, a struct-size mismatch, or "
-                                  "a stage list that does not match the modules it frames");
+                // PH-5's ArchiveVector bound (ProgramArtifactsCodec.cpp) refuses here too: a
+                // vector count whose immediate allocation exceeds the archive's remaining bytes
+                // makes DecodeProgramArchive answer false.
+                return WireProtocolLatch("CreateShaderState.Reflection",
+                                         "DecodeProgramArchive refused the archive - a truncated "
+                                         "stream, a codec version mismatch, a struct-size mismatch, or "
+                                         "a stage list that does not match the modules it frames");
             }
             MGPipeApplyCreateShaderState(desc, &archive->Link, &archive->Spirv, archive);
             return true;
@@ -1917,13 +1998,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             if (dyn.ChunkMask != 0) {
                 const Uint64 expected =
                     static_cast<Uint64>(MGPipeDynamicChunkBlobBytes(dyn.ChunkMask));
-                RequireDeclaredBlob(op, dyn.Blob, *m_segments);
+                if (!RequireDeclaredBlob(op, dyn.Blob, *m_segments)) return false;
                 if (dyn.Blob.Size != expected) {
-                    WireProtocolFatalAt("SetDynamicState.Blob", dyn.Blob.Size, expected);
+                    return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetDynamicState.Blob", dyn.Blob.Size, expected);
                 }
                 chunks = ResolveOrFatal(op, dyn.Blob);
-            } else {
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, dyn.Blob, *m_segments);
+                if (chunks == nullptr) return false;
+            } else if (!CheckBlobIsHonest(op, dyn.Blob, *m_segments)) {
+                return false;
             }
             MGPipeApplySetDynamicState(dyn, chunks);
             return true;
@@ -1983,7 +2065,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                     // ALL FOUR ARMS, the segment-range one included: this row and DrawVbo are
                     // the only two host-span carriers in the catalogue, and an out-of-segment
                     // span used to pass every check here.
-                    CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span, *m_segments);
+                    if (!CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span, *m_segments)) return false;
                 }
             }
             MGPipeApplySetShaderBuffers(*static_cast<const MGPShaderBuffers*>(payload),
@@ -2029,7 +2111,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                     std::memcpy(&entry, reinterpret_cast<const Uint8*>(overrides) +
                                             i * sizeof(MGPProgramStorageOverride),
                                 sizeof(MGPProgramStorageOverride));
-                    CheckHostSpanIsHonest(entry.Name, *m_segments);
+                    if (!CheckHostSpanIsHonest(entry.Name, *m_segments)) return false;
                     // THE NUL IS THE CLIENT'S AND IS CHECKED, not assumed: the emitter stages
                     // the name with its terminator (ProgramEmit.h), and a span whose last byte
                     // is not 0 would make the applier's String(const char*) walk off the end of
@@ -2039,9 +2121,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                         m_segments->Resolve(entry.Name.Seg, entry.Name.Offset, entry.Name.Size));
                     if (entry.Name.Size == 0 || name == nullptr ||
                         name[entry.Name.Size - 1] != '\0') {
-                        WireProtocolFatal("SetProgramBindings.StorageOverrides.Name",
-                                          "an override name span is empty or is not "
-                                          "NUL-terminated; the applier copies it as a C string");
+                        return WireProtocolLatch("SetProgramBindings.StorageOverrides.Name",
+                                                 "an override name span is empty or is not "
+                                                 "NUL-terminated; the applier copies it as a C string");
                     }
                     overrideNames.push_back(name);
                 }
@@ -2061,6 +2143,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // program's GlobalUboSize, which this record does not carry). Under rule A it
             // stops being inert for the first time, which is the whole point of arming Size.
             const void* bytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, rec.Blob);
+            if (bytes == nullptr) return false;
             MGPipeApplySetGlobalConstants(rec, bytes);
             return true;
         }
@@ -2101,12 +2184,13 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // rather than ">=" is what makes a client built against an older block a loud
             // mismatch instead of a silently short read of CapabilityBits.
             const auto& rec = *static_cast<const MGPResidualValueState*>(payload);
-            RequireDeclaredBlob(op, rec.Blob, *m_segments);
+            if (!RequireDeclaredBlob(op, rec.Blob, *m_segments)) return false;
             if (rec.Blob.Size != sizeof(ResidualValueBlock)) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetResidualValueState.Blob", rec.Blob.Size,
-                                    sizeof(ResidualValueBlock));
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetResidualValueState.Blob", rec.Blob.Size,
+                                           sizeof(ResidualValueBlock));
             }
             const void* bytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, rec.Blob);
+            if (bytes == nullptr) return false;
             ResidualValueBlock block{};
             std::memcpy(&block, bytes, sizeof(block));
             MGPipeApplySetResidualValueState(block);
@@ -2128,7 +2212,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
                     Uint64(rec.UnionBox.X) + rec.UnionBox.W > rec.LevelWidth ||
                     Uint64(rec.UnionBox.Y) + rec.UnionBox.H > rec.LevelHeight ||
                     Uint64(rec.UnionBox.Z) + rec.UnionBox.D > rec.LevelDepth))
-                WireProtocolFatal("ResourceSubData.LevelExtent", "invalid full image extent or dirty box");
+                return WireProtocolLatch("ResourceSubData.LevelExtent", "invalid full image extent or dirty box");
             // Rule A arms both halves. The buffer half already declared a real size in
             // monolith and is cross-checked at PipeApply.cpp:702; THE TEXTURE HALF DECLARED 0
             // (TextureEmit.h:1265-1267, on the grounds that the byte count was "the server's
@@ -2145,7 +2229,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             const Bool boxIsWhole =
                 rec.UnionBox.W != 0 && rec.UnionBox.H != 0 && rec.UnionBox.D != 0;
             if (!namesABuffer && !boxIsEmpty && !boxIsWhole) {
-                SessionFail(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ResourceSubData\"} the union box "
+                return SessionLatch(MGFatalFamily::ProtocolCorruption, "MGPipe: Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"ResourceSubData\"} the union box "
                         "%ux%ux%u has a zero extent on some axes and not others; a box is "
                         "either empty or whole",
                         rec.UnionBox.W, rec.UnionBox.H, rec.UnionBox.D);
@@ -2155,8 +2239,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             const void* bytes = nullptr;
             if (carriesContent) {
                 bytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, rec.Blob);
-            } else {
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, rec.Blob, *m_segments);
+                if (bytes == nullptr) return false;
+            } else if (!CheckBlobIsHonest(op, rec.Blob, *m_segments)) {
+                return false;
             }
             noteAcceptance(MGPipeApplyResourceSubData(
                 rec, bytes, reinterpret_cast<const MGPSubRegion*>(tailAt(0))));
@@ -2168,10 +2253,12 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // kOptional is a CAPABILITY question under split, not a null-pointer one: the
             // client gates on kCapResidentSubData through the caps mirror before it emits
             // (R-8). By the time a record is here, the answer was already yes.
-            const void* bytes = MGPipeSubDataBufferSize(rec) != 0 ? ResolveOrFatal(op, rec.Blob)
-                                                                  : nullptr;
-            if (bytes == nullptr) {
-                CheckBlobIsHonest(op, rec.Blob, *m_segments);
+            const void* bytes = nullptr;
+            if (MGPipeSubDataBufferSize(rec) != 0) {
+                bytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, rec.Blob);
+                if (bytes == nullptr) return false;
+            } else if (!CheckBlobIsHonest(op, rec.Blob, *m_segments)) {
+                return false;
             }
             MGPipeApplyBufferSubDataResident(rec, bytes);
             return true;
@@ -2241,16 +2328,17 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             MGHostSpan span{};
             if ((info.Flags & kDrawHasUserIndices) != 0) {
                 if (layout.TailCount != 2 || layout.TailBytes[1] != sizeof(MGHostSpan)) {
-                    WireProtocolFatalAt("DrawVbo.userIndices", layout.TailBytes[1],
-                                        sizeof(MGHostSpan));
+                    return WireProtocolLatchAt("DrawVbo.userIndices", layout.TailBytes[1],
+                                               sizeof(MGHostSpan));
                 }
                 std::memcpy(&span, tailAt(1), sizeof(span));
                 // ALL FOUR ARMS. WireVerbSink's header promises OnDrawVbo "a DECODED,
                 // VALIDATED argument list"; without the segment-range arm a span whose run
                 // left SEG_STAGE reached the sink and that promise was false. P5b's d1 is what
                 // arms this path (client-side index arrays staged whole, CONTRACT-P5B.md d1).
-                CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span, *m_segments);
-                CheckDrawUserIndices(info, reinterpret_cast<const MGPDrawRange*>(tailAt(0)), span);
+                if (!CheckHostSpanIsHonest(span, *m_segments)) return false;
+                if (!CheckDrawUserIndices(info, reinterpret_cast<const MGPDrawRange*>(tailAt(0)), span))
+                    return false;
                 userIndices = &span;
             }
             // P5b d1: the indirect block, in the span's place. The layout already refused a
@@ -2259,8 +2347,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             MGPDrawIndirect indirectBlock{};
             if ((info.Flags & kDrawIsIndirect) != 0) {
                 if (layout.TailCount != 2 || layout.TailBytes[1] != sizeof(MGPDrawIndirect)) {
-                    WireProtocolFatalAt("DrawVbo.indirect", layout.TailBytes[1],
-                                        sizeof(MGPDrawIndirect));
+                    return WireProtocolLatchAt("DrawVbo.indirect", layout.TailBytes[1],
+                                               sizeof(MGPDrawIndirect));
                 }
                 std::memcpy(&indirectBlock, tailAt(1), sizeof(indirectBlock));
                 indirect = &indirectBlock;
@@ -2326,17 +2414,18 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
             // (rule C).
             const auto& rec = *static_cast<const MGPStorageBlockBinding*>(payload);
             constexpr Uint64 kMaxBlockNameBytes = 4096;
-            RequireDeclaredBlob(op, rec.Name, *m_segments);
+            if (!RequireDeclaredBlob(op, rec.Name, *m_segments)) return false;
             if (rec.Name.Size > kMaxBlockNameBytes) {
-                WireProtocolFatalAt("SetStorageBlockBinding.Name", rec.Name.Size, kMaxBlockNameBytes);
+                return WireProtocolLatchAt("SetStorageBlockBinding.Name", rec.Name.Size, kMaxBlockNameBytes);
             }
             const void* bytes = ResolveOrFatal(op, rec.Name);
+            if (bytes == nullptr) return false;
             char name[kMaxBlockNameBytes + 1];
             std::memcpy(name, bytes, static_cast<SizeT>(rec.Name.Size));
             name[rec.Name.Size] = '\0';
             if (name[rec.Name.Size - 1] != '\0') {
-                WireProtocolFatal("SetStorageBlockBinding.Name",
-                                  "the staged block name is not NUL-terminated; Size is strlen + 1");
+                return WireProtocolLatch("SetStorageBlockBinding.Name",
+                                         "the staged block name is not NUL-terminated; Size is strlen + 1");
             }
             return m_verbs != nullptr && m_verbs->OnSetStorageBlockBinding(rec, name);
         }
@@ -2386,8 +2475,8 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
         case MGPWireOp::kInvalid:
         case MGPWireOp::kOpCount:
         default:
-            WireProtocolFatalAt("opcode", static_cast<Uint64>(op),
-                                static_cast<Uint64>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount));
+            return WireProtocolLatchAt("opcode", static_cast<Uint64>(op),
+                                       static_cast<Uint64>(MGPWireOp::kOpCount));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.h b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.h
index 1c961561..d327655d 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.h
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Remote/Wire/PipeWireCodec.h
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
     [[noreturn]] void WireProtocolFatal(const char* what, const char* detail);
     [[noreturn]] void WireProtocolFatalAt(const char* what, Uint64 got, Uint64 expected);
 
+    // PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: THE SAME TWO LINES, THROUGH THE LATCH. Byte-identical to the two above
+    // (same `Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, "<what>"}` wording), but through MG_Remote::SessionLatch:
+    // in the spawn / TCP session child the fault latches and these RETURN false, so the decode
+    // path declines the record and the session closes by name; everywhere else (inproc, the
+    // client, a unit case) SessionLatch is SessionFail and these do not return. Used ONLY on the
+    // decode path, where the bytes are the peer's - an encoder-side check is a local bug and
+    // keeps the [[noreturn]] spelling.
+    Bool WireProtocolLatch(const char* what, const char* detail);
+    Bool WireProtocolLatchAt(const char* what, Uint64 got, Uint64 expected);
+
     // R-2.3 arms 1-4 over one record's blobref. Split only; a monolith emission is exempt by
     // construction because it never reaches this layer.
     //
@@ -128,11 +138,15 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
     // destination range, GlobalUboSize, the stage mask), which this signature does not see.
     // RequireDeclaredBlob below is arm 2, and the decoder's per-op arm calls it exactly where
     // the payload says content is implied.
-    void CheckBlobIsHonest(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob,
+    //
+    // PH-1 (3): EVERY HONESTY ARM NOW ANSWERS. `true` = honest; `false` = a named fault latched
+    // (armed session child only - unarmed, the arm dies exactly as before and never returns
+    // false). A decode-path caller returns on false; an encoder-side caller may discard it.
+    Bool CheckBlobIsHonest(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob,
                            const SegmentTable& segments);
     // R-2.3 arm 2: the record's other fields say it carries content, so the blob must be
     // declared. Fatal on an absent blob, then CheckBlobIsHonest on a present one.
-    void RequireDeclaredBlob(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob,
+    Bool RequireDeclaredBlob(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob,
                              const SegmentTable& segments);
     // R-2.3 arms 1 and 3 for MGHostSpan. P5's reduced path should produce ZERO host spans
     // (kCapNeedsHostIndexBytes / kCapNeedsHostUboBytes are both 0 in P5, table 0), so this
@@ -142,17 +156,18 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
     // run PAST THE END OF IT passes this function. Use the overload below on any path that has
     // a table; this one exists because c0 shipped the signature and other packages compile
     // against it.
-    void CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MG_Pipe::MGHostSpan& span);
+    Bool CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MG_Pipe::MGHostSpan& span);
     // All four arms. Arm 4 is the one the signature above cannot express: a span is only
     // honest if its Offset+Size actually lies inside the segment it names, and the promise
     // WireVerbSink's header makes - that OnDrawVbo is handed a VALIDATED argument list - is
     // false without it. Latent in P5 (nothing emits a span) and armed at P8, which is exactly
     // when nobody will be reading this file.
-    void CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MG_Pipe::MGHostSpan& span, const SegmentTable& segments);
+    Bool CheckHostSpanIsHonest(const MG_Pipe::MGHostSpan& span, const SegmentTable& segments);
 
     // A legal segment run must also contain every index the draw will consume. Shared by
     // the encoder, decoder and sink so a direct sink call cannot bypass the extent gate.
-    void CheckDrawUserIndices(const MG_Pipe::MGPDrawInfo& info,
+    // PH-1 (3): answers like the arms above (false = latched).
+    Bool CheckDrawUserIndices(const MG_Pipe::MGPDrawInfo& info,
                               const MG_Pipe::MGPDrawRange* ranges,
                               const MG_Pipe::MGHostSpan& span);
 
@@ -199,7 +214,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
     // `payload` must already be known to hold at least the op's payload struct - that is what
     // MGP_WIRE_CHECK_BOUNDS proves, and this function is only ever called after it. Returns
     // false for an opcode outside the catalogue; a count past its own GL bound is Fatal,
-    // because a decoder holding such a record has nothing safe left to do with it.
+    // because a decoder holding such a record has nothing safe left to do with it - and in an
+    // armed session child (PH-1 (3)) that Fatal latches instead and this returns false too, which
+    // is why the decoder asks the opcode question itself before calling.
     Bool MGPipeWireRecordLayout(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const void* payload, WireRecordLayout& out);
 
     // The catalogue's own spelling of an opcode, for a Fatal line. Out of range is "<opcode>".
@@ -722,8 +739,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Remote::Wire {
 
     private:
         Bool ApplyChecked(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const void* record, Uint64 size);
+        // nullptr only when the session latched a named fault (PH-1 (3)); unarmed it dies.
         const void* ResolveOrFatal(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob);
-        void NoteResolvedRun(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob);
+        Bool NoteResolvedRun(MG_Pipe::MGPWireOp op, const MG_Pipe::MGPBlobRef& blob);
         void PoisonResolvedRuns();
         // The ONLY way this class answers a record. Fatals if `op` carries no kReplySlot -
         // see LastAcceptanceKnown() for why that is a Fatal and not a log line.
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Test/Wire/ServerSpawnTest.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Test/Wire/ServerSpawnTest.cpp
index 8a7e0838..39c6c156 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Test/Wire/ServerSpawnTest.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Test/Wire/ServerSpawnTest.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 //   the boundary               before the data plane needs it.
 
 #include <MG_Remote/Client/ClientSession.h>
+#include <MG_Remote/FatalFunnel.h>
 #include <MG_Remote/Server/ServerLoop.h>
 #include <MG_Remote/Server/ServerSpawn.h>
 #include <MG_Remote/Transport/Doorbell.h>
@@ -290,12 +291,20 @@ TEST(ServerSpawnTest, ARawPeerMutatesARecordAfterTheClientEncoderAcceptedIt) {
         }
     }
     ASSERT_EQ(reaped, MOBILEGL_OK) << "server did not reject the mutated record promptly";
-    EXPECT_EQ(exitCode, -SIGABRT) << "the malformed opcode did not reach the server decoder";
+    // PH-1 (3): the opcode is the peer's byte, so the session child LATCHES by name (the
+    // decoder's pre-gate asks the generated gate's question first) and closes with
+    // kSessionLatchedExitCode instead of aborting in MGPipeWireProtocolFatal, whose line carries
+    // no `Fatal{` marker at all. Red-once: drop AdmitsTheGeneratedGate and this reads -SIGABRT and
+    // "protocol corruption applying <unknown opcode>" again.
+    EXPECT_EQ(exitCode, MobileGL::MG_Remote::kSessionLatchedExitCode)
+        << "the malformed opcode did not latch the session by name";
     const std::string log = MobileGL::MG_Util::Debug::ReadRoleLogs(logBase.c_str());
-    EXPECT_NE(log.find("protocol corruption applying"), std::string::npos)
-        << "the server process exited without the protocol corruption diagnostic";
-    EXPECT_NE(log.find("unknown opcode"), std::string::npos)
-        << "the malformed opcode was not identified in the server log";
+    EXPECT_NE(log.find("Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, \"opcode\"} got=65535"), std::string::npos)
+        << "the server process exited without the named opcode fault";
+    EXPECT_NE(log.find("SessionLatch{ProtocolCorruption}"), std::string::npos)
+        << "the fault was not latched";
+    EXPECT_EQ(log.find("protocol corruption applying"), std::string::npos)
+        << "the record reached the generated gate's unnamed death";
     client.Stop();
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/ci/fatal_census.py b/scripts/ci/fatal_census.py
index 29507bb0..9d429adb 100644
--- a/scripts/ci/fatal_census.py
+++ b/scripts/ci/fatal_census.py
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ THE FOUR RULES, spelled out rather than inferred:
 
   1. an abort's `Fatal{Word` marker is within kMarkerWindow lines above it, OR the abort is
      exempted by FUNNEL_FILES / FUNNEL_SITES;
-  2. every WireLogFatal / SessionFail call carries a `Fatal{` in its format string - a funnel that
-     accepted an unmarked string would launder exactly what rule 1 refuses;
+  2. every WireLogFatal / SessionFail / SessionLatch call carries a `Fatal{` in its format string -
+     a funnel that accepted an unmarked string would launder exactly what rule 1 refuses (PH-1 (3)
+     added SessionLatch, the per-session latch-or-die twin of SessionFail);
   3. every family word found in the perimeter has a row in FatalFamilies.def. a6's finding was a
      30-word vocabulary against a 7-value wire enum; the .def is the projection that bounds the
      divergence, and a word with no row projects onto nothing at all;
@@ -173,6 +174,12 @@ WIRE_LOG_FATAL_CALL = re.compile(r"WireLogFatal\s*\(")
 # and it reported MG_Pipe's own seam - whose callers carry the word exactly as SessionFail's do -
 # for being a SessionFail call with no word in its DECLARATION.
 SESSION_FAIL_CALL = re.compile(r"(?<![A-Za-z0-9_])SessionFail\s*\(")
+# PH-1 (3), ID-P7-1: the per-session latch (FatalFunnel.h SessionLatch) is SessionFail's
+# latch-or-die twin - unarmed it IS SessionFail, armed it logs the same line and returns - so its
+# calls are held to the same rule: the string carries its `Fatal{Word`, and rule 3 then holds the
+# word to FatalFamilies.def. Without this, converting a site from SessionFail to SessionLatch
+# would quietly take it out of the census.
+SESSION_LATCH_CALL = re.compile(r"(?<![A-Za-z0-9_])SessionLatch\s*\(")
 FAMILY_ROW = re.compile(r"^\s*X\(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)\s*,", re.MULTILINE)
 REFUSE_ENUM = re.compile(r"enum\s+RefuseCode\s*:[^{]*\{(.*?)\}", re.DOTALL)
 ENUM_VALUE = re.compile(r"^\s*([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)\s*=", re.MULTILINE)
@@ -302,7 +309,8 @@ def census():
             # Rule 2: every WireLogFatal / SessionFail call carries a family word in its string.
             # window covers its continuation lines.
             for index, line in enumerate(lines):
-                if not (WIRE_LOG_FATAL_CALL.search(line) or SESSION_FAIL_CALL.search(line)):
+                if not (WIRE_LOG_FATAL_CALL.search(line) or SESSION_FAIL_CALL.search(line) or
+                        SESSION_LATCH_CALL.search(line)):
                     continue
                 window = "\n".join(lines[index:index + kMarkerWindow])
                 if not MARKER.search(window):