Agreement with the first path carries the current partition's actual
stored-target descent. Before comparing a node, agreed is level - 1.
- descent : st.eqlevFirst = agreed → DescentAt ctx st.firsttc base root level numcells st
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Bookkeeping that can only lower agreement retains an aligned descent.
Comparing a code activates exactly the pending history of its node.
Classification does not change the aligned partition or its comparison.
Testing whether a partition is cheap changes only the cheap boundary.
A surviving target choice agrees with the recorded first-path target.
Individualization prepares the next pending history, for either parent-sweep flag.
Recovery bounds first-code agreement by the receiving frame.
A child that cannot restore an earlier divergence retains the parent history on recovery.
An actual off-path child return has precisely the divergence and frame properties required to recover its parent's aligned history.