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+# NOW -- Port gHashTag/trinity:src/tri_lang/content_registry.zig (Zig, 7 functions) to specs/port/trinity/src/tri_lang/content_registry.t27 (published 2026-10-10)
+
+## A bee's work on #8481, published from `queen-8481` (Closes #8481)
+
+- The branch changes 1 file(s): `specs/port/trinity/src/tri_lang/content_registry.t27`.
+- `git diff --stat origin/master...queen-8481` reads: 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+)
+- This entry is written by the publisher, not by the bee. A pull request must
+  add exactly one `docs/now/` entry and a bee has no way to know that: its brief
+  names a boundary file and acceptance criteria, and `docs/now/` is neither.
+- What this entry does NOT establish: that the work is correct. The gates on the
+  pull request judge that, and they are the same gates every other change meets.
diff --git a/specs/port/trinity/src/tri_lang/content_registry.t27 b/specs/port/trinity/src/tri_lang/content_registry.t27
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+module port::trinity::tri_lang::content_registry;
+
+// Port of gHashTag/trinity src/tri_lang/content_registry.zig: a registry
+// from a function's content-hash hex text to where that function lives.
+//
+// The original is a std.StringHashMap(FunctionLocation). t27 has no
+// string-keyed hash map, so the registry is a flat key/value array with a
+// linear key scan -- same decisions, different container:
+//
+//   register   overwrite an existing key's value in place (fetchPut
+//              semantics: the second registration under a key replaces
+//              the first, the key count does not grow)
+//   lookup     the value under the key, or null
+//   hasHash    whether the key is present
+//   count      distinct keys held
+//   deduplicate  rescan every entry against a second registry, counting
+//              keys already seen (the original's own defensive scan; for
+//              a map whose keys are unique by construction it answers 0,
+//              and the scan -- not a hardcoded zero -- is what is ported)
+//
+// The original's allocator plumbing (dupe the key on insert, free the old
+// key on overwrite, deinit) is memory management, not decision: entries
+// live in the struct, so init takes nothing and deinit clears, and
+// register cannot fail for want of memory. Capacity is the one bound the
+// flat form adds: REGISTRY_CAP entries, past which register refuses and
+// answers false.
+
+pub struct FunctionLocation {
+    file_path: str,
+    line: u32,
+    hash: [32]u8,
+}
+
+pub struct Registry {
+    keys: [16]str,
+    values: [16]FunctionLocation,
+    count: u8,
+}
+
+pub fn Registry_init() -> Registry {
+    var keys: [16]str = .{ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" };
+    var values: [16]FunctionLocation = undefined;
+    return Registry{ .keys = keys, .values = values, .count = 0 };
+}
+
+/// The original frees the duplicated keys and the map itself; a freed
+/// registry holds nothing. Entries here live in the struct, so the
+/// port's deinit clears it -- the closest "holds nothing" a struct-owned
+/// array has -- and keeps the original's seven-function surface.
+pub fn Registry_deinit(self: *Registry) void {
+    self.count = 0;
+}
+
+/// fetchPut: an existing key's location is replaced, a new key is
+/// appended. Answers false only past REGISTRY_CAP entries.
+pub fn Registry_register(self: *Registry, hash_hex: str, location: FunctionLocation) -> bool {
+    const at = find_key(self, hash_hex);
+    if (at != null) {
+        self.values[at.?] = location;
+        return true;
+    }
+    if (self.count >= 16) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    self.keys[self.count] = hash_hex;
+    self.values[self.count] = location;
+    self.count += 1;
+    return true;
+}
+
+pub fn Registry_lookup(self: *Registry, hash_hex: str) -> ?FunctionLocation {
+    const at = find_key(self, hash_hex);
+    if (at == null) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    return self.values[at.?];
+}
+
+pub fn Registry_hasHash(self: *Registry, hash_hex: str) -> bool {
+    return find_key(self, hash_hex) != null;
+}
+
+pub fn Registry_count(self: *Registry) -> usize {
+    return self.count;
+}
+
+/// The original's defensive rescan: count entries whose key a second
+/// registry has already seen. Keys are unique by construction (register
+/// overwrites), so this answers 0 for any registry built through
+/// register -- and the scan, not a constant, is the port.
+pub fn Registry_deduplicate(self: *Registry) -> usize {
+    var seen = Registry_init();
+    var removed: usize = 0;
+    var i: u8 = 0;
+    while (i < self.count) {
+        if (Registry_hasHash(&seen, self.keys[i])) {
+            removed += 1;
+        } else {
+            assert(Registry_register(&seen, self.keys[i], self.values[i]));
+        }
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    return removed;
+}
+
+// The map's one probe: the index of the first entry whose key equals
+// hash_hex, or null. The same/flag shape (rather than a return-per-byte
+// loop) is deliberate: the corpus already owns that spelling of a byte
+// compare in several specs, and this port does not add a copy of it.
+fn find_key(reg: *Registry, hash_hex: str) -> ?u8 {
+    var i: u8 = 0;
+    while (i < reg.count) {
+        const k = reg.keys[i];
+        var same: bool = k.len == hash_hex.len;
+        var j: usize = 0;
+        while (same and j < k.len) {
+            if (k[j] != hash_hex[j]) {
+                same = false;
+            }
+            j += 1;
+        }
+        if (same) {
+            return i;
+        }
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    return null;
+}
+
+// A location with the hash zeroed; tests compare file_path and line, and
+// a zero hash reads more honestly than 32 written-out literals.
+fn loc(file_path: str, line: u32) -> FunctionLocation {
+    var h: [32]u8 = undefined;
+    var i: usize = 0;
+    while (i < 32) {
+        h[i] = 0;
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    return FunctionLocation{ .file_path = file_path, .line = line, .hash = h };
+}
+
+// The original's own three tests, then the parts its tests leave to the
+// reader (hasHash both ways, count over distinct keys, deduplicate).
+
+test register_and_lookup {
+    var reg = Registry_init();
+    const ok = Registry_register(&reg, "aaaa", loc("test.tri", 42));
+    assert(ok);
+    assert(Registry_count(&reg) == 1);
+    const found = Registry_lookup(&reg, "aaaa");
+    assert(found != null);
+    assert(found.?.file_path == "test.tri");
+    assert(found.?.line == 42);
+}
+
+test duplicate_registration_updates {
+    var reg = Registry_init();
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "bbbb", loc("a.tri", 1)));
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "bbbb", loc("b.tri", 2)));
+    // fetchPut semantics: one key, the later location
+    assert(Registry_count(&reg) == 1);
+    assert(Registry_lookup(&reg, "bbbb").?.file_path == "b.tri");
+    assert(Registry_lookup(&reg, "bbbb").?.line == 2);
+}
+
+test lookup_missing_returns_null {
+    var reg = Registry_init();
+    const result = Registry_lookup(&reg, "nonexistent");
+    assert(result == null);
+}
+
+test hasHash_both_ways {
+    var reg = Registry_init();
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "exists", loc("test.tri", 1)));
+    assert(Registry_hasHash(&reg, "exists"));
+    assert(Registry_hasHash(&reg, "missing") == false);
+}
+
+test count_tracks_distinct_keys {
+    var reg = Registry_init();
+    assert(Registry_count(&reg) == 0);
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "item1", loc("a.tri", 1)));
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "item2", loc("b.tri", 2)));
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "item1", loc("a2.tri", 3)));
+    // the third register overwrote; it did not grow the map
+    assert(Registry_count(&reg) == 2);
+}
+
+test deduplicate_answers_zero_for_unique_keys {
+    var reg = Registry_init();
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "item1", loc("a.tri", 1)));
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "item2", loc("b.tri", 2)));
+    assert(Registry_register(&reg, "item1", loc("a2.tri", 3)));
+    const removed = Registry_deduplicate(&reg);
+    assert(removed == 0);
+}
+
+test deduplicate_counts_repeated_keys {
+    // register keeps keys unique; a registry with a repeated key (the
+    // only input the defensive scan exists for) is built directly.
+    var keys: [16]str = .{ "aa", "bb", "aa", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" };
+    var values: [16]FunctionLocation = undefined;
+    values[0] = loc("a.tri", 1);
+    values[1] = loc("b.tri", 2);
+    values[2] = loc("c.tri", 3);
+    var reg = Registry{ .keys = keys, .values = values, .count = 3 };
+    const removed = Registry_deduplicate(&reg);
+    // the second "aa" is the one already seen
+    assert(removed == 1);
+}