Figures were positioned by hand-written offsets. Every gap was a magic number tuned against the content that happened to be there, so a label that grew two characters landed on the next tensor, and two stages started from two different x shared no rail. Both failures compile cleanly. Replace it with a cursor. Objects placed with an empty coordinate argument reserve their own width -- including a stack's offset sheets and a bracket's overhang -- and gaps are declared once (\stgutter, \strowgap, \stblockgap). The gap belongs to the object that follows it and the first object in a band gets none, so every band starts flush on a shared rail and gap=0pt states that two shards tile exactly. \stlink makes a connector's label a flow object, which is what removes the label-wider-than-its-arrow failure entirely. \stcol is a vertical sub-flow for a split along the contracted axis. \strow declares its height, so an object that does not fit -- or a column that does not add up to what it declared, and is therefore drawn off-center -- becomes a package warning, which build.sh fails on. Absolute placement is unchanged: passing a coordinate takes the original code path, and \sttrack folds a hand-placed node back into the cursor. All three golden examples and the new tests/flow.tex are converted and build clean.
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# Pre-delivery checklist
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A clean `build.sh` proves only that TeX was happy. Nothing below is checked by the compiler.
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Work through it against the rendered PNG. Any mandatory violation means redraw, not patch.
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## 1. Math (before looking at the picture)
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- [ ] Every shape recomputed independently from the source formula or code.
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- [ ] Block multiplication, broadcasting, reductions and sharding algebra verified.
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- [ ] Axis identities that the figure asserts actually hold in the numbers drawn
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(`d = h·d_h`, `Σ_e n_e = T·k`, shards summing to the parent).
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## 2. Semantics ledger
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- [ ] Every discrete or overloaded symbol has one type, domain and range.
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- [ ] Score, index and mask are three distinct objects in three distinct grammars.
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- [ ] Producer-to-consumer chain closed: scores → indices → gather/mask → values.
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- [ ] Shared selectors drawn once, with the reuse axis marked.
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## 3. Geometry ledger
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- [ ] Equal shapes have identical faces everywhere.
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- [ ] `a×a` is square; every transpose physically swaps the face.
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- [ ] Both occurrences of each contracted axis have the same edge length.
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- [ ] Shards tile their parent exactly; concat reverses split; elisions use an ellipsis.
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## 4. Full-size visual audit
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Open the PNG at 100 %. Most of the first three items are automatic under the flow layout;
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they still need looking at, because the cursor only guarantees that objects do not *push*
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into each other, not that the figure reads correctly.
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- [ ] No absolute coordinate that a `\strow`/`\stcol` could have expressed. Every remaining
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hand-placed node is wrapped in `\sttrack`.
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- [ ] `\sttopformula` called after the bands, so the formula is centered on the real figure.
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- [ ] No forbidden intersection, tangency, clipping or occlusion — including stack offset
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sheets, brackets, arrow labels and the meaning box.
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- [ ] Every connector's white label underlay covers only its own connector.
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- [ ] No connector crosses a box that is not its endpoint.
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- [ ] Symbols and shapes sit on two flat lanes per row; stage headings share a left rail.
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- [ ] Top zone compact (≤2 formula lines, no shape underbraces).
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- [ ] Bottom box: one column, ≤3 rows, no overflow, no shrunken type.
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- [ ] Signature outside the box, one line, names what the figure actually shows, not clipped
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and not visually dominant.
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- [ ] Structural support exact: known zeros unfilled, masks and diagonals exactly right.
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## 5. Thumbnail audit
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Open `*-thumb.png` (360 px).
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- [ ] ≤4 active hue families per row plus gray; each role keeps one hue across stages.
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- [ ] Base colors still muted, not saturated.
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- [ ] Three visibly separated lightness levels where values vary; nothing is uniform pastel.
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- [ ] Borders neutral, not tensor-colored.
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- [ ] Dense texture reads as noise, not as stripes, checkerboard or a symmetric motif.
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- [ ] The main structural claim of the figure is still legible at this size.
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## 6. Delivery
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- [ ] PNG preview shown.
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- [ ] Short mechanism explanation in prose.
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- [ ] `.tex` source and vector artifact (PDF/SVG) linked.
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- [ ] Any degraded path stated explicitly — no CJK font, no `pdftocairo`, fallback renderer,
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inferred shapes or conventions.
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