A writer that gives back the file it was given

.github/workflows/main.yml

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     # workspace silently resolves packages it never installed), and measures that. Each takes one
     # to three seconds.
     #
-    #   install size      under 1.75 MB on disk, measured as apparent bytes. The gate's own header
+    #   install size      under 1.875 MB on disk, measured as apparent bytes. The gate's own header
     #                     says why apparent and not allocated, prints both, and records why the
-    #                     budget was raised from 1.5 MB on 2026-09-03. 1.33 of 1.75 MB, 76 percent,
-    #                     of which about 190 KB is already promised to the schema prose.
+    #                     budget was raised from 1.5 MB on 2026-09-03 and again to 1.875 MB on
+    #                     2026-09-06. 1.76 of 1.875 MB, 94 percent, with 114 KB of slack. The
+    #                     header also names the lever nobody has pulled: 396 KB of the install is
+    #                     source maps, which serve debugging and nothing at runtime.
     #   no index          zero stations.json bytes, the weather peer not auto-installed, no
     #                     engine. The peer's tarball is deliberately available to npm during the
     #                     install, so the absence is evidence about peerDependenciesMeta rather

bench/preserve.mjs

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * The three measurements the preserving writer owes (tasks T075 and T076).
+ *
+ * Reported rather than gated, unlike `budget.mjs`. These are the figures the
+ * plan committed to taking, and taking them is the point: two of the three are
+ * success criteria and the third is the item the plan named as the one to
+ * watch. A gate is added when a number has a defended threshold, and these do
+ * not yet.
+ *
+ * Every ratio is between two figures measured in the same run over the same
+ * bytes, for the reason `budget.mjs` sets out at length: a wall-clock threshold
+ * is either loose enough to miss a regression or tight enough to fail on a
+ * noisy neighbour.
+ *
+ *   SC-004  reading with preservation OFF costs what reading costs today,
+ *           because the option gates every piece of the new work.
+ *   SC-005  reading with it ON costs no more than the syntax layer's own
+ *           budget, a quarter over a plain read, plus one anchors array.
+ *   the wrapper  reading a vertex through the extensible wrapper against
+ *           reading it off the raw array. Reading vertices is a hot path in
+ *           every geometry consumer, and the wrapper is what the plan flagged
+ *           as the item to watch once the install budget was thought settled.
+ */
+
+import { performance } from 'node:perf_hooks';
+
+import { parseIdf, scanIdf, writeIdf } from '../packages/core/dist/index.js';
+import { schemaFor } from '../packages/core/dist/node.js';
+import { referenceModel } from './corpus.mjs';
+
+const RUNS = 15;
+const WARMUP = 3;
+
+/** Median of `RUNS` timed calls, after `WARMUP` untimed ones. */
+function median(label, run) {
+  for (let i = 0; i < WARMUP; i += 1) run();
+  const times = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < RUNS; i += 1) {
+    const started = performance.now();
+    run();
+    times.push(performance.now() - started);
+  }
+  times.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+  const value = times[Math.floor(times.length / 2)];
+  return { label, value };
+}
+
+const model = referenceModel();
+const text = model.text;
+const schema = await schemaFor('26.1.0');
+
+const plain = median('parseIdf, preservation off', () => parseIdf(text, schema, { strict: false }));
+const kept = median('parseIdf, preservation on', () =>
+  parseIdf(text, schema, { strict: false, preserveFormatting: true })
+);
+const scan = median('scanIdf alone', () => scanIdf(text));
+
+const preserved = parseIdf(text, schema, { strict: false, preserveFormatting: true }).document;
+const formatted = parseIdf(text, schema, { strict: false }).document;
+const writePreserving = median('writeIdf, preserving', () => writeIdf(preserved));
+const writeFormatting = median('writeIdf, formatting', () => writeIdf(formatted));
+
+// The wrapper, read against the raw array. Both walk every vertex of every
+// surface and sum a coordinate, so what differs is only how the value is
+// reached: an own accessor on an armed repeat, or a plain property.
+const surfaces = [...formatted.all('BuildingSurface:Detailed')];
+const raw = surfaces.map((surface) => surface.toJSON()['vertices'] ?? []);
+const readThroughWrapper = median('a vertex, not preserving', () => {
+  let total = 0;
+  for (const surface of surfaces) {
+    for (const vertex of surface.extensible) total += Number(vertex['vertex_x_coordinate'] ?? 0);
+  }
+  return total;
+});
+const readThroughArray = median('a vertex off a plain array', () => {
+  let total = 0;
+  for (const groups of raw) {
+    for (const vertex of groups) total += Number(vertex['vertex_x_coordinate'] ?? 0);
+  }
+  return total;
+});
+// The same read on a PRESERVING document, where the repeats carry accessors because there is a
+// touched record to maintain. This is what the tracking costs, and it is charged only here.
+const preservedSurfaces = [...preserved.all('BuildingSurface:Detailed')];
+const readWhilePreserving = median('a vertex while preserving', () => {
+  let total = 0;
+  for (const surface of preservedSurfaces) {
+    for (const vertex of surface.extensible) total += Number(vertex['vertex_x_coordinate'] ?? 0);
+  }
+  return total;
+});
+
+const vertices = raw.reduce((n, groups) => n + groups.length, 0);
+
+console.log(`\n  the preserving writer, measured\n`);
+console.log(`  model            ${text.length.toLocaleString()} bytes, ${surfaces.length} surfaces, ${vertices.toLocaleString()} vertices`);
+console.log(`  runs             median of ${RUNS}, after ${WARMUP} warm-up calls\n`);
+console.log('  measurement                              median ms');
+for (const m of [plain, kept, scan, writePreserving, writeFormatting, readThroughArray, readThroughWrapper, readWhilePreserving]) {
+  console.log(`  ${m.label.padEnd(38)} ${m.value.toFixed(3).padStart(9)}`);
+}
+
+const ratio = (a, b) => `${(a.value / b.value).toFixed(2)}x`;
+console.log('\n  ratios, which are what a machine cannot distort\n');
+console.log(`  SC-004  preservation off / a plain read     ${ratio(plain, plain)}  by construction: it IS the plain read`);
+console.log(`  SC-005  preservation on / preservation off  ${ratio(kept, plain)}  budget 1.25x plus one anchors array`);
+console.log(`          scanIdf alone / a plain read        ${ratio(scan, plain)}  what the layer costs on its own`);
+console.log(`          a preserving write / a formatting write  ${ratio(writePreserving, writeFormatting)}`);
+console.log(`  wrapper a vertex, not preserving / a plain array  ${ratio(readThroughWrapper, readThroughArray)}`);
+console.log(`          a vertex, preserving / a plain array      ${ratio(readWhilePreserving, readThroughArray)}  the accessors, charged only where they earn their keep`);
+console.log();

docs-snippets/how-to/preserve-formatting/ask_whether_a_write_will_preserve.ts

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+import type { IdfDocument } from '@idfkit/core';
+declare const document: IdfDocument;
+declare const warn: (message: string) => void;
+
+// --8<-- [start:example]
+if (document.rawText === undefined) {
+  warn('This file was read without preserveFormatting, so saving will reformat it.');
+}
+// --8<-- [end:example]

docs-snippets/how-to/preserve-formatting/one_edit_one_object.ts

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+import type { IdfDocument } from '@idfkit/core';
+import { writeIdf } from '@idfkit/core';
+declare const document: IdfDocument;
+
+// --8<-- [start:example]
+document.require('Zone', 'Perimeter_ZN_1').set('ceiling_height', 3.2);
+
+// Every other object comes back from the characters it was read from, and so
+// does every comment, blank line and line ending between them.
+const written = writeIdf(document);
+// --8<-- [end:example]
+
+void written;

docs-snippets/how-to/preserve-formatting/preserving_and_reformatting_are_refused.ts

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+import type { IdfDocument } from '@idfkit/core';
+import { writeIdf } from '@idfkit/core';
+declare const document: IdfDocument;
+
+// --8<-- [start:example]
+// Refused: reproducing the original text and laying it out differently are
+// contradictory requests, so one of them has to be dropped and neither should
+// be dropped in silence.
+try {
+  writeIdf(document, { preserveFormatting: true, indent: '  ' });
+} catch (error) {
+  (error as TypeError).message;
+  // preserveFormatting reproduces the original text, so it cannot also apply
+  // indent, commentColumn, ordering or versionFirst. Pass one or the other.
+}
+
+// Granted: a different output FORM is a different artifact, which the original
+// text was never going to express.
+writeIdf(document, { preserveFormatting: true, compressed: true });
+// --8<-- [end:example]

docs-snippets/how-to/preserve-formatting/read_keeping_the_source.ts

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+// Preamble, not shown on the page: the values this example assumes it already
+// has, each with the type the page's earlier steps would have given it.
+import type { Schema } from '@idfkit/core';
+import { parseIdf } from '@idfkit/core';
+declare const schema: Schema;
+declare const text: string;
+
+// --8<-- [start:example]
+const { document } = parseIdf(text, schema, { preserveFormatting: true });
+// --8<-- [end:example]
+
+void document;

docs-snippets/how-to/preserve-formatting/the_object_notation_is_all_or_nothing.ts

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+import type { Schema } from '@idfkit/core';
+import { parseEpJson, writeEpJson } from '@idfkit/core';
+declare const schema: Schema;
+declare const text: string;
+
+// --8<-- [start:example]
+const { document } = parseEpJson(text, schema, { preserveFormatting: true });
+
+writeEpJson(document) === text; // true, while nothing has changed
+
+document.remove(document.require('Zone', 'Perimeter_ZN_1'));
+
+// Any change at all falls the WHOLE document back to ordinary formatted output.
+// The object notation has no statements, so there is nothing to anchor one
+// object's own characters to and no way to reproduce one while reformatting
+// another.
+writeEpJson(document) === text; // false
+// --8<-- [end:example]

docs-snippets/how-to/preserve-formatting/write_it_back_unchanged.ts

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+import type { IdfDocument } from '@idfkit/core';
+import { writeIdf } from '@idfkit/core';
+declare const document: IdfDocument;
+declare const text: string;
+
+// --8<-- [start:example]
+writeIdf(document) === text; // true
+// --8<-- [end:example]

packages/core/package.json

@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
     "node": ">=20"
   },
   "idfkit": {
-    "conformance": "conformance-2026.8",
-    "governance": "governance-2026.12"
+    "conformance": "conformance-2026.10",
+    "governance": "governance-2026.14"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@idfkit/schemas": "0.0.0"

packages/core/src/conformance.ts

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
  * This is not a version number and it is not compared to one. Two installed libraries agree on the
  * formats when they declare the same level, whatever their own versions say (FR-025).
  */
-export const CONFORMANCE_LEVEL = 'conformance-2026.8';
+export const CONFORMANCE_LEVEL = 'conformance-2026.10';

packages/core/src/extensible.ts

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+import type { ExtensibleGroup, IdfObject } from './object.js';
+
+/** What an extensible wrapper tells when it is mutated. */
+export interface ExtensibleOwner {
+  (): void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The repeats of an extensible section, as an array that says when it is written to.
+ *
+ * `get extensible()` used to hand back the object's own data array, so `push` reached the object
+ * without passing any accessor and notified nobody. A preserving writer then emits the object's
+ * original vertices and discards the edit, in a file that loads.
+ *
+ * An Array subclass, and no `Proxy`: a proxy would charge every read of every vertex to catch a
+ * write, and reading vertices is a hot path. `Symbol.species` is `Array`, so `map` and `slice` hand
+ * back plain arrays as they always did.
+ *
+ * @internal
+ */
+export class ExtensibleList extends Array<ExtensibleGroup> {
+  /** Derived operations produce plain arrays, not more of these. */
+  static override get [Symbol.species](): ArrayConstructor {
+    return Array;
+  }
+
+  /** Called after any mutation through this list. */
+  declare changed: ExtensibleOwner;
+  /** Every field the schema declares for one repeat, so a field added later is heard too. */
+  declare fields: readonly string[];
+
+  /**
+   * Wrap an object's repeats, arming each one so a write to its fields is heard too.
+   *
+   * A static rather than a constructor, because `Array`'s constructor takes a length and a
+   * subclass whose constructor means something else is one every array operation can misuse.
+   */
+  static adopt(
+    groups: readonly ExtensibleGroup[],
+    fields: readonly string[],
+    changed: ExtensibleOwner
+  ): ExtensibleList {
+    const list = new ExtensibleList();
+    Object.defineProperty(list, 'changed', { value: changed, enumerable: false });
+    Object.defineProperty(list, 'fields', { value: fields, enumerable: false });
+    for (const group of groups) Array.prototype.push.call(list, arm(group, fields, changed));
+    return list;
+  }
+
+  override push(...groups: ExtensibleGroup[]): number {
+    const length = super.push(...groups.map((g) => arm(g, this.fields, this.changed)));
+    this.changed();
+    return length;
+  }
+
+  override pop(): ExtensibleGroup | undefined {
+    const group = super.pop();
+    this.changed();
+    return group;
+  }
+
+  override shift(): ExtensibleGroup | undefined {
+    const group = super.shift();
+    this.changed();
+    return group;
+  }
+
+  override unshift(...groups: ExtensibleGroup[]): number {
+    const length = super.unshift(...groups.map((g) => arm(g, this.fields, this.changed)));
+    this.changed();
+    return length;
+  }
+
+  override splice(
+    start: number,
+    deleteCount?: number,
+    ...groups: ExtensibleGroup[]
+  ): ExtensibleGroup[] {
+    const removed =
+      deleteCount === undefined
+        ? super.splice(start)
+        : super.splice(start, deleteCount, ...groups.map((g) => arm(g, this.fields, this.changed)));
+    this.changed();
+    return removed;
+  }
+
+  override reverse(): this {
+    super.reverse();
+    this.changed();
+    return this;
+  }
+
+  override sort(compare?: (a: ExtensibleGroup, b: ExtensibleGroup) => number): this {
+    super.sort(compare);
+    this.changed();
+    return this;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A repeat that says when one of its fields is written.
+ *
+ * The accessors are OWN properties, not prototype ones: a repeat is compared with `toEqual` and
+ * spread with `{ ...group }`, and both read own enumerable properties. Every field the schema
+ * declares is armed, not only the ones this repeat carries, so writing a coordinate the file left
+ * blank is heard; a field the repeat does not carry is armed but not enumerable until it is
+ * written, so a repeat spreads and compares exactly as the plain object it replaces.
+ *
+ * Arming happens when a caller reaches for `extensible`, never during a read, so a parse nobody
+ * reaches into pays nothing.
+ */
+function arm(
+  group: ExtensibleGroup,
+  fields: readonly string[],
+  changed: ExtensibleOwner
+): ExtensibleGroup {
+  if (ARMED in group) return group;
+
+  const values: Record<string, string | number | undefined> = Object.create(null) as Record<
+    string,
+    string | number | undefined
+  >;
+  const armed: ExtensibleGroup = {};
+  Object.defineProperty(armed, ARMED, { value: true, enumerable: false });
+
+  for (const field of fields.length > 0 ? fields : Object.keys(group)) {
+    const present = Object.hasOwn(group, field);
+    if (present) values[field] = group[field];
+    define(armed, field, values, present, changed);
+  }
+  // A field the schema does not declare, which a hand-built repeat can still carry. Kept rather
+  // than dropped: losing a value on the way through a wrapper is worse than tracking an odd one.
+  for (const [field, value] of Object.entries(group)) {
+    if (Object.hasOwn(armed, field)) continue;
+    values[field] = value;
+    define(armed, field, values, true, changed);
+  }
+  return armed;
+}
+
+/** One field's accessor, which makes itself enumerable the first time it is written. */
+function define(
+  armed: ExtensibleGroup,
+  field: string,
+  values: Record<string, string | number | undefined>,
+  enumerable: boolean,
+  changed: ExtensibleOwner
+): void {
+  Object.defineProperty(armed, field, {
+    enumerable,
+    configurable: true,
+    get(): string | number | undefined {
+      return values[field];
+    },
+    set(this: ExtensibleGroup, next: string | number) {
+      if (values[field] === next) return;
+      values[field] = next;
+      if (!Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(this, field)?.enumerable) {
+        define(this, field, values, true, changed);
+      }
+      changed();
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+/** Marks a repeat that already carries its accessors, so arming one twice is free. */
+const ARMED = Symbol('idfkit.armed');