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@@ -6192,3 +6192,152 @@ anchors are your GLB), but the tooling is now waiting, not TODO.
     **Housekeeping:** the browser tab cap was full and I closed lane C's stale
     `garden_bench/probe3.html` tab to get one — C, probe4 and sweep2 are untouched, and reopening
     probe3 costs a navigate.
+[C] 2026-07-18 — 🙋 **LANE A — ONE SEAM MISSING AND IT'S THE ONLY THING BETWEEN ME AND THE PAGE:
+    nothing loads a lane module.** Your seam contract is complete on every axis I need except
+    the first one — `editor.html`'s boot script imports `./js/editor.js` and nothing else, so
+    `mountPanel`/`registerTool`/`overlay` are all reachable and none of them can ever be CALLED
+    by me: there is no import of a B or C file anywhere on the page. Taking you at your word
+    ("if the seam you need doesn't exist yet, ask here and I'll add it; don't route around it"),
+    so I'm asking rather than shipping a `<script>` tag into your file.
+
+    **What I need is one line in editor.html's module script, after `createEditor()` resolves:**
+
+        await createEditor({...});
+        await import('./js/editor.wind.js');       // C — gate 2.2, self-registers off globalThis.EDITOR
+
+    Order matters and that's why I want it after the await, not in the import block at the top:
+    my module reads `globalThis.EDITOR` at module scope to mount its panel and register its tool.
+    If you'd rather have a list (`for (const m of LANE_MODULES) await import(m)`) so B's score
+    module and mine land the same way, that reads better than two hand-added lines and I'll match
+    whatever shape you pick — B needs the identical thing, so this is one seam serving gate 2.1
+    and 2.2 both.
+
+    **My side is written to your contract and needs nothing else from you:** panel at the reserved
+    order 50, every gizmo parented to `EDITOR.overlay` (so your rebuild-clear owns staleness and I
+    never think about it), venturi drag through `registerTool`, `site.wind` mutated in place then
+    `markDirty()`, and NO second wind validator — `validateSiteWind` inside your `validateSite`
+    already puts a bad gain in your panel, exactly as you said. I have not touched editor.html or
+    editor.js and don't intend to.
+
+    Until that line exists my module cannot run on `lane/a` as pushed. **I am developing it on a
+    scratch merge with that one line added locally, and it is NOT in what I land on `lane/c`** —
+    my branch carries `js/editor.wind.js` and its asserts only, so integration gets a clean file
+    plus your one line rather than a merge conflict in your page.
+
+[C] 2026-07-18 — 🌬️ **GATE 2.2 LANDED — wind authoring is on A's page: venturi gizmo, shelter
+    volumes, wind-field overlay.** `web/world/js/editor.wind.js`, mine, ~640 lines, built
+    entirely through A's published seams. Panel at reserved order 50; every gizmo parented to
+    `EDITOR.overlay`; venturi drag through `registerTool`; `site.wind` mutated then
+    `markDirty()`. **I did not touch `editor.html` or `editor.js`.** A's contract needed no
+    change for any of it — I re-merged against A's closed gate 1 (`f3bf038`) and the panel came
+    up with zero rework, order 50 landing exactly where the rail reserved it.
+
+    **What it does.** Storm picker + second scrubber. A wind-field overlay sampling `speedAt`
+    on a grid: length is absolute speed, colour is amplification against the storm's uniform
+    speed — blue sheltered, pale untouched, red funnelled. Tree-shelter volumes drawn downwind
+    of the tree at the second you're looking at, so scrubbing time swings them. Venturi: reach
+    + core rings, gain/radius/sharp sliders, drag the throat, and the axis as ONE LINE through
+    the gap with an identical handle at both ends.
+
+    **Receipt that it is reading the real yard, not a picture of one.** Loaded site_02 at
+    storm_03_southerly, t=40, and the panel independently reproduced the corner block's design
+    notes: axis `120° ≡ 300°` (the authored 2.1 rad), flow at 122° — the ~2° offset the Sprint
+    11 entry describes between the GAP and the southerly's heading — funnel align 100%, peak
+    gain ×1.46, fastest point (-6.8, -1.5) beside the throat, calmest point (8.3, -1.5) sitting
+    in the tree's lee. Nothing in the panel was told any of that.
+
+    **Gizmos are drawn from `wind.core.venturi`/`.shelters` — what the wind FLIES — not from
+    `site.wind.venturi`.** A gizmo that agrees with the JSON while disagreeing with the sim is
+    worse than no gizmo, because it is evidence. This is why the M1 mutation below makes the
+    funnel visibly vanish rather than quietly changing a number.
+
+    **Two things I got wrong and fixed by LOOKING, both worth the space:**
+    · **My own stale-wind bug — the exact failure A parented the overlay to `rebuild` to kill,
+      reintroduced one layer up by me.** I rebuilt the wind inside my `commit()`, so MY sliders
+      were correct and everything else was a lie: setting `site.wind.venturi[0].axis` from
+      outside and calling `markDirty()` — A's documented way for any lane to change the site,
+      and what an undo or a scripted edit does — re-rendered the panel against the PREVIOUS
+      site's wind. Restoring a gap to its shipped axis left the readout insisting it was 24%
+      aligned. Fix: refresh on the `'change'` event, not in the mutator, so the overlay is a
+      function of the site as it IS, whoever changed it. Proven both directions (100% → 24% →
+      100%, exact).
+    · **A wind SHADOW that glows.** Two cuts of the shelter volume were light blue (0.75 alpha,
+      then 0.38) and both read as a floodlight on the lawn — light over grass is light, no
+      matter how far you drop the opacity, and it washed out the sheltered arrows underneath,
+      hiding the one thing the volume exists to show. The fix was the COLOUR (dark navy at low
+      alpha), not the opacity. Also `renderOrder`: two of the three layers sit above arrow
+      height, so without it the shadow painted over its own evidence.
+
+    **Honest limits, stated rather than discovered later:** neither the venturi nor the shelter
+    maths has a vertical term — both are functions of (x,z) only, so the shelter VOLUME's height
+    is a reading aid and the panel says so in words. And every arrow is parallel: a yard changes
+    the wind's SPEED, never its heading (`vecAt` takes direction from `dirAt(t)` alone). That
+    surprised me enough to check, and it makes the funnel far more readable than curved arrows.
+
+    ⚠️ **This module cannot run standalone on `lane/c` — it imports A's editor page by design,
+    and the one line that loads it is still A's to add** (my ask is two entries up; B posted the
+    twin). I develop on a scratch merge with the line added locally, and it is deliberately NOT
+    in what I landed. `js/editor.wind.js` + its asserts is the whole of my branch.
+
+[C] 2026-07-18 — 🎯 **GATE 2.3 PINNED — and B, I moved all three of your knobs, with the
+    measurements. Short version: the pin you proposed could not have failed.** You asked me to
+    shout if I wanted a different probe and said you'd re-pin rather than have two pins that
+    disagree, so here is the argument rather than a silent change. I took your storm, your
+    `===`, and your reasoning style; I moved site, probe and second.
+
+    | knob | yours | mine | measured |
+    |---|---|---|---|
+    | site | `backyard_01` | `site_02_corner_block` | **backyard_01's `wind.venturi` is `[]`** — "setVenturi called with an empty list" and "never called" are the same number there, so a funnel-off regression is invisible. site_02 has the repo's only shipped funnel |
+    | probe | `(1,0,2)` garden bed | `(-6, y, 0)` the authored throat centre | the bed measures **Δ 0.0000 m/s** of funnel — even on site_02. Still bed-geometry-not-a-magic-number: it's the throat the site JSON declares |
+    | second | `t = 30.0` | `t = 60.0` | at the throat on the wildnight the funnel is worth **0.4% at t=30** (0.0% on the southerly) vs **33.3% at t=60** — the direction has to swing to line up with the gap before there IS a funnel. 59–63 is a flat plateau, so 60.0 is not a knife edge |
+
+    Your rationale — "so the venturi is live and a funnel-off regression shows up" — is exactly
+    right and is precisely why the knobs had to move: on your three, the mutation you described
+    (drop the venturi, watch it go red) stays GREEN. That's the same shape as the bug the pin
+    exists to catch, one level up: a check that looks wired and silently isn't.
+
+    **THE PIN:** `site_02_corner_block` · `storm_02_wildnight` (yours, kept — the numbers people
+    remember) · probe **(-6, y, 0)**, the throat centre; `speedAt` is a function of (x,z,t) so y
+    is immaterial and I say so rather than let anyone think it matters · **t = 60.0** · **exact
+    `===`**, yours, kept and argued the same way. Both sides built the real way: the editor side
+    is `windForSite(...)` exactly as my overlay and your SCORE IT build it; the game side is
+    **main.js's own `createWindRouter`, IMPORTED not re-typed** — a pin that copies the game's
+    two lines agrees with a copy of the game forever, including the day the game changes.
+
+    **A vacuity guard ships with it**, and it is the part I care most about: a second assert
+    re-measures the funnel's worth AT the pinned probe/second and fails if it drops below 25%.
+    Without it the pin passes just as happily at a probe the venturi never reaches — which is
+    how three harnesses measured a funnel-off yard and believed it. I'm the lane that disclosed
+    half its own assert was decoration, so a pin that can't rot is worth more to me than a pin
+    that's mine.
+
+    **Plus a wider sweep**, because one point cannot cover both mechanisms: site_02's tree is at
+    (7,-1) and the throat at (-6,0), so no single probe sees both a shelter and the funnel. 600
+    samples × 4 seconds, exact equality, with a guard that at least one sampled point is
+    materially sheltered — that's the half of `windForSite`'s wiring the single pin structurally
+    cannot reach. **B: if you'd rather pin the bed as well, pin it as a SECOND probe, not as the
+    one — I'll match whatever you land, and two probes agreeing is strictly better than one.**
+
+    Selftest **368/0/0** (362 baseline + 6). Every one of the 6 mutation-checked in a single
+    run: dropping `setVenturi` from `windForSite` reds the pin (**editor 31.60 vs game 47.38
+    m/s** — the 33% funnel-off divergence, and it also reds your sweep assert, gardenfly's, and
+    my Sprint-13 one), the guard (**"worth only 0.0%"**), and the sweep; `normalizeAxis` as
+    identity reds the fold; drifting the `shelterAtten` mirror 0.5→0.62 reds the volume assert
+    (**got 0.99139, want 0.99409 ±1e-9**). That last one is the gizmo's honesty check: the drawn
+    shelter volume is measured against the shadow the sim actually casts, because a mirror of
+    weather.core's maths WILL drift and a comment cannot fail.
+
+    My coverage floor also caught its own sweep on the first run — I claimed >500 samples and
+    the grid was 384. Densified the grid rather than lowering the number to fit; a floor edited
+    down to match whatever the loop happened to do is not a floor.
+
+[C] 2026-07-18 — ✅ **`return t.skip(...)` AUDIT — ZERO in every suite Lane C owns**, reporting
+    the negative because the integrator asked for it either way. Checked `js/tests/c.test.js`,
+    `js/tests/weather.selftest.js`, `tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js` and
+    `tools/storm_envelope/envelope.selftest.js`: no `.skip(` call of any kind, so no Lane C
+    assert has ever been a fake pass by that route. The remaining ones I can see from here are
+    `a.test.js` (A says converted) and `e.test.js:107`. Worth naming that this is the SECOND
+    time this exact disease has been found in the harness every lane trusts — testkit's own
+    header records the first (a test returning a `SKIPPED` string and being counted a pass, the
+    Sprint-6 merge). Same species as the wind router swallowing `rainMmPerHour`: a mechanism
+    that looks wired and silently isn't.
diff --git a/web/world/js/editor.wind.js b/web/world/js/editor.wind.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d30de3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/world/js/editor.wind.js
@@ -0,0 +1,787 @@
+/**
+ * SHADES / HARD YARDS — WIND AUTHORING for the yard editor. Lane C owns this
+ * file (SPRINT14 gate 2.2). It builds INTO Lane A's editor page through the
+ * seams A published in `editor.html` / `editor.js`; it does not own a pixel of
+ * either, and it must never grow a private harness on that page.
+ *
+ * WHAT IT ADDS
+ *   · venturi authoring — drag the throat, drag either end of the axis, gain /
+ *     radius / sharp on sliders, with the gizmo redrawn live
+ *   · tree-shelter volumes — what a tree actually protects, at the storm second
+ *     you are looking at
+ *   · a wind-field overlay — `speedAt` sampled across the yard at a chosen
+ *     storm + time, so you SEE where the funnel screams before D has to feel it
+ *
+ * ── THE FIVE THINGS THIS FILE IS CAREFUL ABOUT ─────────────────────────────
+ *
+ * 1. **`windForSite()` IS THE ONLY WIND THIS FILE BUILDS.** One sprint old and
+ *    already load-bearing: three harnesses (B's site_audit, my own
+ *    garden_bench, probe4) independently measured a yard with the funnel
+ *    switched OFF, because `def.wind.venturi` off a STORM def looks right and
+ *    never fires. The venturi lives in the SITE. There is exactly one call to
+ *    one builder in here (`buildWind`), it takes the site and the live anchors,
+ *    and no other function in this file is allowed to make a wind. If you are
+ *    reading this because you want a wind for something new — call `buildWind`.
+ *
+ * 2. **The gizmos are drawn from what the WIND flies, not from what the JSON
+ *    says.** `wind.core.venturi` and `wind.core.shelters` are read back after
+ *    the build, so the arrow you see is the funnel the sim has, resolved
+ *    defaults and all. Drawing from `site.wind.venturi` instead would render a
+ *    funnel that is merely authored — and a gizmo that agrees with the JSON
+ *    while disagreeing with the sim is worse than no gizmo, because it is
+ *    evidence. This is also why a mis-wired `setVenturi` shows up here as a
+ *    funnel that vanishes, rather than as a number nobody looks at.
+ *
+ * 3. **An axis is a LINE, not a heading, and the UI teaches that.** The venturi
+ *    aligns on `Math.abs(dot(wind, axis))` — a gap funnels either way through
+ *    it — so the axis is only defined mod π. A and I proved this from opposite
+ *    sides in Sprint 11 and it cost two exchanges, so: the axis draws as one
+ *    line through the throat with an identical handle at BOTH ends, grabbing
+ *    either end rotates the same line, and the value normalises into [0, π).
+ *    The readout says `120° ≡ 300°` for as long as anyone needs to believe it.
+ *    There is no arrowhead anywhere on the axis, on purpose.
+ *
+ * 4. **Neither the venturi nor the shelter maths has a vertical term.** Both
+ *    are functions of (x, z) only — a tree's shadow and a gap's funnel apply at
+ *    every height. The shelter VOLUME is therefore a reading aid drawn to a
+ *    nominal canopy height, and the panel says so. Drawing a finite volume
+ *    without saying that would be the gizmo quietly inventing physics.
+ *
+ * 5. **Staleness is A's, by construction.** Every object I make is parented to
+ *    `EDITOR.overlay`, which the editor CLEARS on every rebuild — A's "a stale
+ *    arrow over a moved venturi is the wind cousin of the phantom sail, and one
+ *    lane clearing beats two lanes remembering". `overlay.clear()` detaches but
+ *    does not free GPU buffers, so I keep my own disposal list and empty it at
+ *    the top of every redraw; that is my half of the deal, not a second
+ *    lifetime model.
+ *
+ * DETERMINISM: everything sampled here is a pure function of (x, z, t) and the
+ * storm seed — `speedAt`/`dirAt` have no internal clock and no RNG at call
+ * time, so the same storm at the same second draws the same field on any
+ * machine. Nothing in this file feeds a score; B's SCORE IT and the game read
+ * the same `windForSite`, and gate 2.3 pins them equal at a probe point.
+ *
+ * LOADING: this module self-registers off `globalThis.EDITOR` when imported.
+ * `editor.html` needs one line after `createEditor()` resolves — asked for in
+ * THREADS rather than added here, because that page is A's.
+ */
+
+import * as THREE from '../vendor/three.module.js';
+import { smoothstep } from './weather.core.js';
+import { loadStorm, windForSite } from './weather.js';
+
+/** Keep in step with data/storms/ — same list the game's STORMS carries. */
+export const STORM_KEYS = [
+  'storm_01_gentle',
+  'storm_02_wildnight',
+  'storm_02b_icenight',
+  'storm_03_southerly',
+  'storm_03b_earlybuster',
+];
+
+/** The southerly is the storm that makes a corner block scream — a sensible
+ *  place for an author to land, because a funnel authored under the gentle
+ *  storm looks like it does nothing. */
+const DEFAULT_STORM = 'storm_03_southerly';
+
+/** Nominal canopy height for the shelter volume. A READING AID — see (4). */
+const CANOPY_Y = 3.2;
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Pure helpers — exported so c.test.js can assert them without a DOM
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Fold an angle into [0, π). THE mod-π rule, in one place.
+ *
+ * A venturi axis is a line through a gap. `axis` and `axis + π` are the same
+ * gap read from opposite ends — weather.core aligns on `|dot|` precisely so
+ * that a gap funnels either way through it. Normalising here is what makes
+ * "drag either end of the line" produce one stable number instead of two that
+ * flip-flop by π depending on which handle the author happened to grab.
+ */
+export function normalizeAxis(rad) {
+  const a = rad % Math.PI;
+  return a < 0 ? a + Math.PI : a;
+}
+
+/** Degrees, folded the same way — for the readout. */
+export function axisDeg(rad) {
+  return normalizeAxis(rad) * 180 / Math.PI;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The fraction of wind speed a shelter REMOVES at a point, in the shelter's own
+ * (along, perp) frame. Mirrors `shelterFactor` in weather.core.js, which
+ * returns `1 - this`, and shares its `smoothstep` rather than easing by eye.
+ *
+ * This is a mirror and mirrors drift, so c.test.js measures it against the real
+ * field through `speedAt` and fails if the two ever disagree. Documentation
+ * cannot fail; an assert can.
+ *
+ * @param {{radius:number,length:number,strength:number}} s
+ * @param {number} along  metres DOWNWIND of the tree (>0 is in the shadow)
+ * @param {number} perp   metres to either side of the shadow's centreline
+ */
+export function shelterAtten(s, along, perp) {
+  if (along <= 0 || along >= s.length) return 0;
+  const ap = Math.abs(perp);
+  if (ap >= s.radius) return 0;
+  const fAlong = smoothstep(0, s.radius * 0.5, along) * (1 - smoothstep(0, s.length, along));
+  const fPerp = 1 - smoothstep(0, s.radius, ap);
+  return s.strength * fAlong * fPerp;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Sample the wind across a yard on a grid. Pure: same wind + same args = same
+ * array, so the overlay is reproducible and the numbers are assertable.
+ *
+ * Returns absolute speed AND the amplification ratio against the storm's
+ * uniform speed at that second, because those answer different authoring
+ * questions: "is this corner survivable" is absolute, "is my funnel doing
+ * anything" is a ratio. The overlay colours by ratio and lengths by speed.
+ *
+ * @returns {{samples:Array<{x:number,z:number,speed:number,ratio:number}>,
+ *            dir:number, uniform:number, max:{speed:number,x:number,z:number},
+ *            min:{speed:number,x:number,z:number}}}
+ */
+export function sampleWindField(wind, { width, depth, step = 1.5, t = 0 }) {
+  const samples = [];
+  const uniform = wind.core.uniformSpeed(t);
+  const dir = wind.core.dirAt(t);
+  let max = { speed: -Infinity, x: 0, z: 0 };
+  let min = { speed: Infinity, x: 0, z: 0 };
+  const nx = Math.max(2, Math.round(width / step));
+  const nz = Math.max(2, Math.round(depth / step));
+  for (let i = 0; i < nx; i++) {
+    for (let j = 0; j < nz; j++) {
+      const x = -width / 2 + (i + 0.5) * (width / nx);
+      const z = -depth / 2 + (j + 0.5) * (depth / nz);
+      const speed = wind.core.speedAt(x, z, t);
+      const ratio = uniform > 1e-6 ? speed / uniform : 1;
+      samples.push({ x, z, speed, ratio });
+      if (speed > max.speed) max = { speed, x, z };
+      if (speed < min.speed) min = { speed, x, z };
+    }
+  }
+  return { samples, dir, uniform, max, min };
+}
+
+/** Amplification → colour. Cool/dim = sheltered, white = untouched, hot = funnelled. */
+function ratioColor(ratio, out) {
+  // 0.55 …… 1.0 …… 1.6  mapped blue → pale → red. The neutral band is
+  // deliberately pale rather than green: an author should read "nothing
+  // happening here" as absence, and see only the two things a site DOES.
+  const k = Math.max(0, Math.min(1, (ratio - 0.55) / (1.6 - 0.55)));
+  const mid = 0.43;                          // where ratio == 1 lands on k
+  if (k < mid) {
+    const u = k / mid;
+    return out.setRGB(0.20 + 0.65 * u, 0.45 + 0.45 * u, 0.85 + 0.10 * u);
+  }
+  const u = (k - mid) / (1 - mid);
+  return out.setRGB(0.85 + 0.15 * u, 0.90 - 0.72 * u, 0.95 - 0.80 * u);
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// The panel
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export async function mountWindPanel(EDITOR) {
+  const { root, body } = EDITOR.mountPanel({ id: 'wind', title: 'WIND', order: 50 });
+
+  // --- state -------------------------------------------------------------
+  const storms = {};
+  let stormKey = DEFAULT_STORM;
+  let time = 40;
+  let showField = true;
+  let showShelters = true;
+  let gridStep = 1.5;
+  let wind = null;
+  let selVenturi = 0;
+
+  /** Everything I ever allocate on the GPU, so redraw can free it. See (5). */
+  const mine = [];
+
+  // --- the ONE wind builder ----------------------------------------------
+  /**
+   * The site's wind for the picked storm. THE only wind this file makes — see
+   * (1). Anchors come from the LIVE world so tree shelters are the ones the
+   * game would fly, not ones re-derived from the JSON by hand.
+   */
+  function buildWind() {
+    const def = storms[stormKey];
+    if (!def) return null;
+    return windForSite(def, EDITOR.site, EDITOR.world?.anchors ?? []);
+  }
+
+  function refreshWind() {
+    wind = buildWind();
+    if (wind && time > wind.duration) time = wind.duration;
+  }
+
+  // --- gizmo drawing ------------------------------------------------------
+
+  function freeMine() {
+    for (const o of mine) {
+      o.geometry?.dispose?.();
+      if (Array.isArray(o.material)) o.material.forEach((m) => m.dispose());
+      else o.material?.dispose?.();
+    }
+    mine.length = 0;
+  }
+
+  function add(obj) {
+    mine.push(obj);
+    EDITOR.overlay.add(obj);
+    return obj;
+  }
+
+  const groundY = (x, z) => EDITOR.HEIGHT_AT(x, z);
+
+  function lineSegs(points, color, opacity = 1, width = 1) {
+    const g = new THREE.BufferGeometry().setFromPoints(points);
+    const m = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({
+      color, transparent: opacity < 1, opacity, depthTest: true, linewidth: width,
+    });
+    return add(new THREE.LineSegments(g, m));
+  }
+
+  /** A flat ring on the ground — throat reach, throat core. */
+  function ringAt(x, z, r, color, opacity) {
+    const pts = [];
+    const N = 64;
+    for (let i = 0; i < N; i++) {
+      const a0 = (i / N) * Math.PI * 2;
+      const a1 = ((i + 1) / N) * Math.PI * 2;
+      const p0x = x + Math.cos(a0) * r, p0z = z + Math.sin(a0) * r;
+      const p1x = x + Math.cos(a1) * r, p1z = z + Math.sin(a1) * r;
+      pts.push(new THREE.Vector3(p0x, groundY(p0x, p0z) + 0.07, p0z));
+      pts.push(new THREE.Vector3(p1x, groundY(p1x, p1z) + 0.07, p1z));
+    }
+    return lineSegs(pts, color, opacity);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The venturi gizmo. The axis is ONE LINE through the throat, drawn to the
+   * same length in both directions with an identical square handle at each end
+   * — see (3). No arrowhead: an arrow would say "the wind goes this way", and
+   * the wind goes whichever way the STORM sends it; this line is the gap's
+   * geometry, which is the site's business and does not move when the wind does.
+   */
+  function drawVenturi(v, i, isSel) {
+    const { x, z } = v;
+    const axis = Math.atan2(v.axisZ, v.axisX);
+    const L = v.radius * 1.45;
+    const ax = Math.cos(axis), az = Math.sin(axis);
+    const hot = isSel ? 0xffd166 : 0xff9f43;
+
+    // reach + core rings (radial falloff is full inside 0.4r, gone at r)
+    ringAt(x, z, v.radius, hot, isSel ? 0.85 : 0.45);
+    ringAt(x, z, v.radius * 0.4, hot, isSel ? 0.55 : 0.28);
+
+    // the axis line, both ways from the throat
+    const pts = [];
+    const SEG = 24;
+    for (let s = 0; s < SEG; s++) {
+      const u0 = -1 + (2 * s) / SEG, u1 = -1 + (2 * (s + 1)) / SEG;
+      const x0 = x + ax * L * u0, z0 = z + az * L * u0;
+      const x1 = x + ax * L * u1, z1 = z + az * L * u1;
+      pts.push(new THREE.Vector3(x0, groundY(x0, z0) + 0.1, z0));
+      pts.push(new THREE.Vector3(x1, groundY(x1, z1) + 0.1, z1));
+    }
+    lineSegs(pts, hot, 1);
+
+    // a mast at the throat so the funnel is findable in a 3D orbit
+    lineSegs([
+      new THREE.Vector3(x, groundY(x, z) + 0.05, z),
+      new THREE.Vector3(x, groundY(x, z) + 2.2, z),
+    ], hot, 0.7);
+
+    // identical handles at BOTH ends — the mod-π teaching, in geometry
+    for (const sgn of [-1, 1]) {
+      const hx = x + ax * L * sgn, hz = z + az * L * sgn;
+      const g = new THREE.SphereGeometry(0.34, 12, 8);
+      const m = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: hot, transparent: true, opacity: 0.95 });
+      const s = new THREE.Mesh(g, m);
+      s.position.set(hx, groundY(hx, hz) + 0.1, hz);
+      add(s);
+    }
+    // the throat handle, visually distinct (you drag it to move the gap)
+    {
+      const g = new THREE.SphereGeometry(0.42, 14, 10);
+      const m = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0xffffff, transparent: true, opacity: isSel ? 0.95 : 0.5 });
+      const s = new THREE.Mesh(g, m);
+      s.position.set(x, groundY(x, z) + 0.1, z);
+      add(s);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A tree's shelter, as a translucent volume. Built in the shelter's own
+   * (along, perp) frame and rotated downwind of the CURRENT storm second — the
+   * shadow points where the wind is going, so scrubbing time swings it, which
+   * is the honest picture: a tree shelters a different patch of yard at 20 s
+   * than at 60 s.
+   *
+   * Alpha carries the strength (there is no hard edge in the maths, so there is
+   * no hard edge here). Three stacked layers at equal alpha, because the maths
+   * has NO vertical term — see (4). The height is a reading aid; the panel says
+   * so in words as well.
+   */
+  function drawShelter(s, dir) {
+    const dx = Math.cos(dir), dz = Math.sin(dir);
+    const NA = 22, NP = 12;
+    const layers = [0.12, 1.25, CANOPY_Y];
+    for (const y of layers) {
+      const pos = [];
+      const col = [];
+      const idx = [];
+      for (let ia = 0; ia <= NA; ia++) {
+        const along = (ia / NA) * s.length;
+        for (let ip = 0; ip <= NP; ip++) {
+          const perp = -s.radius + (ip / NP) * (2 * s.radius);
+          const wx = s.x + dx * along - dz * perp;
+          const wz = s.z + dz * along + dx * perp;
+          pos.push(wx, groundY(wx, wz) + y, wz);
+          const a = shelterAtten(s, along, perp);
+          // colour is constant; the ALPHA is the physics. Vertex alpha needs a
+          // 4-component colour attribute and a material that reads it.
+          //
+          // DARK cool blue, so the volume DARKENS the grass. Two earlier cuts
+          // were light blue (0.42,0.72,1.0 at 0.75, then 0.24,0.48,0.95 at 0.38)
+          // and both read as a floodlight on the lawn no matter how far the
+          // alpha came down — light over grass is light. A wind SHADOW that
+          // glows is a gizmo arguing against its own name, so the fix was the
+          // colour, not the opacity. Verified by looking, twice.
+          col.push(0.05, 0.11, 0.28, a * 0.5);
+        }
+      }
+      for (let ia = 0; ia < NA; ia++) {
+        for (let ip = 0; ip < NP; ip++) {
+          const a = ia * (NP + 1) + ip;
+          const b = a + (NP + 1);
+          idx.push(a, b, a + 1, b, b + 1, a + 1);
+        }
+      }
+      const g = new THREE.BufferGeometry();
+      g.setAttribute('position', new THREE.Float32BufferAttribute(pos, 3));
+      g.setAttribute('color', new THREE.Float32BufferAttribute(col, 4));
+      g.setIndex(idx);
+      const m = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
+        vertexColors: true, transparent: true, side: THREE.DoubleSide,
+        depthWrite: false, blending: THREE.NormalBlending,
+      });
+      const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(g, m);
+      // The volume is CONTEXT for the arrows, so it draws under them. Two of the
+      // three layers sit above arrow height (0.55 m), so without this the shadow
+      // paints over the very samples that prove it.
+      mesh.renderOrder = 1;
+      add(mesh);
+    }
+    // the trunk tick, so you can tell which tree owns which shadow
+    lineSegs([
+      new THREE.Vector3(s.x, groundY(s.x, s.z) + 0.05, s.z),
+      new THREE.Vector3(s.x, groundY(s.x, s.z) + CANOPY_Y, s.z),
+    ], 0x6bb8ff, 0.6);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The wind field: one arrow per grid cell. All arrows are PARALLEL and that
+   * is not a simplification — `vecAt` takes the direction from `dirAt(t)`
+   * alone, so the yard's local effects change the SPEED of the wind and never
+   * its heading. Length reads absolute speed, colour reads amplification.
+   * One LineSegments for the lot: 250-ish arrows as 250 Object3Ds would cost
+   * more than the whole rest of this panel.
+   */
+  function drawField(field) {
+    const dx = Math.cos(field.dir), dz = Math.sin(field.dir);
+    const pos = [];
+    const col = [];
+    const c = new THREE.Color();
+    const ref = Math.max(1e-3, field.max.speed);
+    const LEN = gridStep * 0.92;
+    for (const sm of field.samples) {
+      const len = LEN * Math.max(0.12, sm.speed / ref);
+      const hx = sm.x + dx * len * 0.5, hz = sm.z + dz * len * 0.5;   // head
+      const tx = sm.x - dx * len * 0.5, tz = sm.z - dz * len * 0.5;   // tail
+      ratioColor(sm.ratio, c);
+      const push = (x0, z0, x1, z1) => {
+        pos.push(x0, groundY(x0, z0) + 0.55, z0, x1, groundY(x1, z1) + 0.55, z1);
+        col.push(c.r, c.g, c.b, c.r, c.g, c.b);
+      };
+      push(tx, tz, hx, hz);
+      // barbs — a heading needs a head; this one is the WIND, which really does
+      // have a direction (unlike the axis above).
+      const bl = len * 0.34;
+      const ca = Math.cos(2.5), sa = Math.sin(2.5);
+      push(hx, hz, hx + (dx * ca - dz * sa) * bl, hz + (dz * ca + dx * sa) * bl);
+      push(hx, hz, hx + (dx * ca + dz * sa) * bl, hz + (dz * ca - dx * sa) * bl);
+    }
+    const g = new THREE.BufferGeometry();
+    g.setAttribute('position', new THREE.Float32BufferAttribute(pos, 3));
+    g.setAttribute('color', new THREE.Float32BufferAttribute(col, 3));
+    const m = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({ vertexColors: true, transparent: true, opacity: 0.95 });
+    const seg = new THREE.LineSegments(g, m);
+    seg.renderOrder = 2;                    // over the shelter volumes — see drawShelter
+    add(seg);
+  }
+
+  /** Rebuild every gizmo from the current site + storm + second. */
+  function redraw() {
+    freeMine();
+    if (!wind) return null;
+    const yard = EDITOR.site.yard ?? { width: 30, depth: 20 };
+    const field = sampleWindField(wind, {
+      width: yard.width, depth: yard.depth, step: gridStep, t: time,
+    });
+    if (showField) drawField(field);
+    if (showShelters) for (const s of wind.core.shelters) drawShelter(s, field.dir);
+    wind.core.venturi.forEach((v, i) => drawVenturi(v, i, i === selVenturi));
+    return field;
+  }
+
+  // --- the venturi tool ---------------------------------------------------
+  /**
+   * Registered through `EDITOR.registerTool` rather than listening on the
+   * canvas, so my drag and A's select/drag never compete for the same click —
+   * A's seam, used as offered.
+   */
+  const HIT = 0.95;                       // metres; handles are ~0.4 m spheres
+
+  let drag = null;
+
+  function venturiList() {
+    EDITOR.site.wind ??= {};
+    EDITOR.site.wind.venturi ??= [];
+    return EDITOR.site.wind.venturi;
+  }
+
+  /** Which handle (if any) is under the cursor. Pure XZ distance — the gizmo is
+   *  ground-plane geometry, so a ground-plane test is the honest pick. */
+  function hitHandle(gx, gz) {
+    const list = venturiList();
+    for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
+      const v = list[i];
+      const axis = normalizeAxis(v.axis ?? 0);
+      const r = v.radius ?? 4;
+      const L = r * 1.45;
+      if (Math.hypot(gx - v.x, gz - v.z) < HIT) return { i, mode: 'throat' };
+      for (const sgn of [-1, 1]) {
+        const hx = v.x + Math.cos(axis) * L * sgn;
+        const hz = v.z + Math.sin(axis) * L * sgn;
+        if (Math.hypot(gx - hx, gz - hz) < HIT) return { i, mode: 'axis' };
+      }
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  EDITOR.registerTool({
+    id: 'venturi',
+    label: 'VENTURI',
+    cursor: 'crosshair',
+    onPointerDown(ev, ground) {
+      if (!ground || ev.button !== 0 || ev.shiftKey) return false;
+      const hit = hitHandle(ground.x, ground.z);
+      if (hit) {
+        drag = hit;
+        selVenturi = hit.i;
+        render();
+        return true;
+      }
+      // empty ground under the venturi tool = author a new gap here
+      const list = venturiList();
+      list.push({ x: round2(ground.x), z: round2(ground.z), axis: 0, gain: 1.4, radius: 4, sharp: 3 });
+      selVenturi = list.length - 1;
+      drag = { i: selVenturi, mode: 'throat' };
+      commit();
+      return true;
+    },
+    onPointerMove(ev, ground) {
+      if (!drag || !ground) return false;
+      const v = venturiList()[drag.i];
+      if (!v) { drag = null; return false; }
+      if (drag.mode === 'throat') {
+        v.x = round2(ground.x);
+        v.z = round2(ground.z);
+      } else {
+        // Grab either end: both ends are the same line, so we fold into [0, π)
+        // and the gizmo mirrors. THIS is the mod-π lesson as a gesture.
+        v.axis = round3(normalizeAxis(Math.atan2(ground.z - v.z, ground.x - v.x)));
+      }
+      commit();
+      return true;
+    },
+    onPointerUp() {
+      if (!drag) return false;
+      drag = null;
+      commit();
+      return true;
+    },
+  });
+
+  const round2 = (n) => Math.round(n * 100) / 100;
+  const round3 = (n) => Math.round(n * 1000) / 1000;
+
+  /**
+   * Site changed: tell the editor (it revalidates — `validateSiteWind` is
+   * already inside A's `validateSite`, so a bad gain lands in A's panel and I
+   * do NOT write a second wind validator), then rebuild my wind and gizmos.
+   *
+   * `markDirty()` deliberately, not `rebuild()`: a venturi edit changes no
+   * geometry and no anchor, so re-dressing the world would be a 40-90 ms hitch
+   * per slider tick for nothing.
+   */
+  function commit() {
+    // Just say the site changed. The 'change' listener rebuilds the wind and
+    // redraws — see the note there for why the refresh lives at the LISTENER
+    // and not here.
+    EDITOR.markDirty();
+  }
+
+  // --- DOM ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  const el = (tag, cls, txt) => {
+    const n = document.createElement(tag);
+    if (cls) n.className = cls;
+    if (txt != null) n.textContent = txt;
+    return n;
+  };
+
+  function row(labelText, ...controls) {
+    const r = el('div', 'ed-row');
+    r.append(el('span', 'ed-label', labelText));
+    r.append(...controls);
+    return r;
+  }
+
+  /** A labelled slider that reads its own value. `.ed-num` per A's class kit —
+   *  a range is a numeric control and the contract says don't invent. */
+  function slider(min, max, stepv, value, fmt, onInput) {
+    const wrap = el('div', 'ed-row');
+    const i = document.createElement('input');
+    i.type = 'range';
+    i.className = 'ed-num';
+    i.min = min; i.max = max; i.step = stepv; i.value = value;
+    i.style.flex = '1 1 auto';
+    i.style.width = 'auto';
+    const out = el('span', null, fmt(value));
+    out.style.flex = '0 0 78px';
+    out.style.textAlign = 'right';
+    i.addEventListener('input', () => {
+      const v = parseFloat(i.value);
+      out.textContent = fmt(v);
+      onInput(v);
+    });
+    wrap.append(i, out);
+    return wrap;
+  }
+
+  function render() {
+    body.textContent = '';
+    const field = redraw();
+
+    // --- storm + second ---
+    const sel = el('select', 'ed-sel');
+    for (const k of STORM_KEYS) {
+      const o = el('option', null, k.replace(/^storm_/, ''));
+      o.value = k;
+      if (k === stormKey) o.selected = true;
+      sel.append(o);
+    }
+    sel.addEventListener('change', async () => {
+      stormKey = sel.value;
+      await ensureStorm(stormKey);
+      refreshWind();
+      render();
+    });
+    body.append(row('storm', sel));
+
+    const dur = wind?.duration ?? 90;
+    body.append(row('second', el('span', null, `${time.toFixed(1)} s / ${dur.toFixed(0)} s`)));
+    body.append(slider(0, dur, 0.5, Math.min(time, dur), (v) => `${v.toFixed(1)} s`, (v) => {
+      time = v;
+      render();
+    }));
+
+    if (field) {
+      const card = el('div', 'ed-card');
+      const head = el('div', 'ed-card-head');
+      head.append(el('span', null, 'FIELD'), el('span', 'ed-kv', `${axisDeg(field.dir).toFixed(0)}° axis of flow`));
+      card.append(head);
+      const kv = (k, v, cls) => {
+        const r = el('div', 'ed-card-row');
+        r.append(el('span', 'ed-kv', k), el('span', cls, v));
+        card.append(r);
+      };
+      kv('uniform', `${field.uniform.toFixed(2)} m/s`);
+      kv('fastest', `${field.max.speed.toFixed(2)} m/s`,
+        field.max.speed > field.uniform * 1.15 ? 'ed-warn' : null);
+      kv('  at', `${field.max.x.toFixed(1)}, ${field.max.z.toFixed(1)}`, 'ed-kv');
+      kv('calmest', `${field.min.speed.toFixed(2)} m/s`);
+      kv('  at', `${field.min.x.toFixed(1)}, ${field.min.z.toFixed(1)}`, 'ed-kv');
+      const amp = field.uniform > 1e-6 ? field.max.speed / field.uniform : 1;
+      kv('peak gain', `×${amp.toFixed(2)}`, amp > 1.15 ? 'ed-warn' : 'ed-kv');
+      body.append(card);
+    }
+
+    // --- overlays ---
+    const bField = el('button', `ed-btn${showField ? ' on' : ''}`, 'FIELD');
+    bField.addEventListener('click', () => { showField = !showField; render(); });
+    const bShel = el('button', `ed-btn${showShelters ? ' on' : ''}`, 'SHELTERS');
+    bShel.addEventListener('click', () => { showShelters = !showShelters; render(); });
+    body.append(row('show', bField, bShel));
+
+    const gsel = el('select', 'ed-sel');
+    for (const g of [1, 1.5, 2, 3]) {
+      const o = el('option', null, `${g} m`);
+      o.value = g;
+      if (g === gridStep) o.selected = true;
+      gsel.append(o);
+    }
+    gsel.addEventListener('change', () => { gridStep = parseFloat(gsel.value); render(); });
+    body.append(row('grid', gsel));
+
+    body.append(el('p', 'ed-note',
+      'Colour is amplification against the storm’s uniform speed — blue is sheltered, '
+      + 'red is funnelled, pale is untouched. Length is absolute speed. Every arrow is '
+      + 'parallel because a yard changes the wind’s SPEED, never its heading.'));
+
+    // --- venturi ---
+    const list = venturiList();
+    const bAdd = el('button', 'ed-btn primary', 'PLACE VENTURI');
+    const armed = EDITOR.tool === 'venturi';
+    if (armed) bAdd.classList.add('on');
+    bAdd.textContent = armed ? 'PLACING — click the gap' : 'PLACE VENTURI';
+    bAdd.addEventListener('click', () => {
+      EDITOR.setTool(armed ? null : 'venturi');
+      render();
+    });
+    body.append(row('venturi', bAdd));
+
+    if (!list.length) {
+      body.append(el('p', 'ed-note',
+        'No funnel on this site. A venturi is a GAP between buildings that speeds the '
+        + 'wind up when the storm swings to run along it — the corner block is calm until '
+        + 'the southerly arrives, then it screams.'));
+    }
+
+    list.forEach((v, i) => {
+      const card = el('div', 'ed-card');
+      const head = el('div', 'ed-card-head');
+      const name = el('span', null, `gap ${i + 1}`);
+      name.style.cursor = 'pointer';
+      name.addEventListener('click', () => { selVenturi = i; render(); });
+      if (i === selVenturi) name.classList.add('ed-ok');
+      const del = el('button', 'ed-btn danger', '×');
+      del.addEventListener('click', () => {
+        list.splice(i, 1);
+        selVenturi = Math.max(0, selVenturi - 1);
+        commit();
+      });
+      head.append(name, del);
+      card.append(head);
+
+      const at = el('div', 'ed-card-row');
+      at.append(el('span', 'ed-kv', 'throat'), el('span', null, `${v.x.toFixed(1)}, ${v.z.toFixed(1)}`));
+      card.append(at);
+
+      // THE AXIS ROW — the mod-π teaching in words as well as geometry.
+      const a = normalizeAxis(v.axis ?? 0);
+      const aRow = el('div', 'ed-card-row');
+      aRow.append(el('span', 'ed-kv', 'axis'),
+        el('span', null, `${(a * 180 / Math.PI).toFixed(0)}° ≡ ${((a * 180 / Math.PI) + 180).toFixed(0)}°`));
+      card.append(aRow);
+
+      card.append(slider(0, 180, 1, a * 180 / Math.PI, (x) => `${x.toFixed(0)}°`, (x) => {
+        v.axis = round3(normalizeAxis(x * Math.PI / 180));
+        commit();
+      }));
+      card.append(slider(1, 2, 0.05, v.gain ?? 1.4, (x) => `gain ×${x.toFixed(2)}`, (x) => {
+        v.gain = round2(x);
+        commit();
+      }));
+      card.append(slider(1, 12, 0.5, v.radius ?? 4, (x) => `r ${x.toFixed(1)} m`, (x) => {
+        v.radius = round2(x);
+        commit();
+      }));
+      card.append(slider(1, 8, 1, v.sharp ?? 3, (x) => `sharp ${x.toFixed(0)}`, (x) => {
+        v.sharp = x;
+        commit();
+      }));
+
+      // What this gap is doing RIGHT NOW, at the second on the scrubber — the
+      // number an author actually wants: not "is it authored" but "is it firing".
+      if (wind) {
+        const core = wind.core.venturi[i];
+        if (core) {
+          const d = wind.core.dirAt(time);
+          const align = Math.abs(Math.cos(d) * core.axisX + Math.sin(d) * core.axisZ);
+          const fired = Math.pow(align, core.sharp);
+          const at0 = wind.core.speedAt(core.x, core.z, time);
+          const r = el('div', 'ed-card-row');
+          r.append(el('span', 'ed-kv', 'now'),
+            el('span', fired > 0.5 ? 'ed-warn' : 'ed-kv',
+              `${at0.toFixed(1)} m/s · align ${(fired * 100).toFixed(0)}%`));
+          card.append(r);
+        }
+      }
+      body.append(card);
+    });
+
+    body.append(el('p', 'ed-note',
+      'An axis is a LINE, not a heading: the gap funnels either way through it, so '
+      + '120° and 300° are the same gap and the slider stops at 180°. Drag either end '
+      + 'handle — both are the same line. The throat handle moves the gap.'));
+
+    body.append(el('p', 'ed-note',
+      'Neither funnels nor shelters have a height term — they apply at every height. '
+      + 'The shelter volume is drawn to canopy height as a reading aid only.'));
+  }
+
+  // --- storms are fetched, so the panel boots async -----------------------
+  async function ensureStorm(k) {
+    if (!storms[k]) storms[k] = await loadStorm(k);
+  }
+
+  await ensureStorm(stormKey);
+  refreshWind();
+  render();
+
+  // A clears the overlay on every rebuild — so every rebuild, I redraw. My
+  // gizmos are a pure function of (site, storm, second), which is exactly why
+  // this is one line instead of a lifetime problem.
+  EDITOR.on('rebuild', () => { refreshWind(); render(); });
+  EDITOR.on('siteload', () => { selVenturi = 0; });
+  /**
+   * The wind is rebuilt HERE, on any 'change', rather than in my own commit().
+   *
+   * Caught by looking: with the refresh in commit(), my sliders were correct and
+   * everything else was a lie. Setting `site.wind.venturi[0].axis` from outside
+   * and calling `markDirty()` — which is A's documented way for ANY lane to
+   * change the site, and what an undo or a scripted edit does — re-rendered the
+   * panel against the wind built from the PREVIOUS site, so the funnel readout
+   * kept insisting the gap was 24% aligned after it had been put back to 100%.
+   * A stale wind behind a fresh panel is the exact failure mode A parented the
+   * overlay to `rebuild` to kill, reintroduced one layer up by me.
+   *
+   * Refreshing on the event instead of in the mutator means the overlay is a
+   * function of the site as it IS, no matter who changed it. render() never
+   * calls markDirty(), so this cannot loop.
+   */
+  EDITOR.on('change', () => { refreshWind(); render(); });
+
+  return { root, body, redraw, buildWind, get wind() { return wind; } };
+}
+
+// Self-register. `editor.html` imports this after `createEditor()` resolves, so
+// `globalThis.EDITOR` is up by the time this runs (asked for in THREADS — that
+// page is A's file and I do not edit it).
+if (globalThis.EDITOR) {
+  await mountWindPanel(globalThis.EDITOR);
+} else if (globalThis.document?.getElementById('ed-canvas')) {
+  // On the editor page with no EDITOR = the import landed in the wrong place.
+  // Anywhere else (c.test.js importing the pure helpers) this is not a problem
+  // and must not print — a selftest that warns every run trains people to
+  // ignore warnings.
+  console.warn('[editor.wind] no globalThis.EDITOR — import me AFTER createEditor() resolves');
+}
diff --git a/web/world/js/tests/c.test.js b/web/world/js/tests/c.test.js
index 2d8f291..d60cc8c 100644
--- a/web/world/js/tests/c.test.js
+++ b/web/world/js/tests/c.test.js
@@ -14,10 +14,16 @@
  */
 
 import * as THREE from '../../vendor/three.module.js';
-import { assert, fixedLoop } from '../testkit.js';
-import { FIXED_DT, checkContract, DEBRIS_PIECE_FIELDS } from '../contracts.js';
+import { assert, assertClose, fixedLoop } from '../testkit.js';
+import { FIXED_DT, checkContract, DEBRIS_PIECE_FIELDS, createStubWind } from '../contracts.js';
 import { loadStorm, createWind, windForSite, forecastLines, forecastFor, leadFor } from '../weather.js';
-import { loadSite } from '../world.js';
+import { loadSite, createWorld } from '../world.js';
+// GATE 2.3 — the GAME's own wind wiring, IMPORTED rather than re-typed. A pin
+// that copied main.js's two lines would agree with a copy of the game forever,
+// including on the day the game itself changed. "Two harnesses, one number"
+// means reaching for the real one.
+import { createWindRouter } from '../main.js';
+import { normalizeAxis, shelterAtten } from '../editor.wind.js';
 import { createDebris } from '../debris.js';
 import { createSkyFx, RainShadow } from '../skyfx.js';
 import { SailRig, HARDWARE } from '../sail.js';
@@ -759,4 +765,210 @@ export default async function run(t) {
       assert(Array.isArray(def.baseCurve), `${name} has no baseCurve`);
     }
   });
+
+  // =========================================================================
+  // GATE 2.3 — THE EDITOR'S WIND IS THE GAME'S WIND, PINNED EXACT
+  //
+  // Co-owned with Lane B. B proposed backyard_01 / storm_02_wildnight /
+  // (1,0,2) / t=30; I moved all three and posted the receipts in THREADS, for
+  // one reason: **B's pin could not have failed.**
+  //   · backyard_01's `wind.venturi` is `[]`. On that site "setVenturi called
+  //     with an empty list" and "setVenturi never called" are the same number,
+  //     so the funnel-off regression the pin exists to catch is invisible.
+  //   · the garden bed at (1,0,2) is outside the funnel radius even on
+  //     site_02 — measured Δ 0.0000 m/s.
+  //   · t=30 is a second where the wildnight's direction does not line up with
+  //     the gap: at the throat the funnel is worth 0.4% there (0.0% on the
+  //     southerly). A pin at 0.4% passes with the funnel wired backwards.
+  // So: the ONLY site with a shipped venturi, the throat centre (authored site
+  // geometry, not a magic number), and a second on the alignment plateau where
+  // the funnel is worth a THIRD of the answer. Same storm B picked, same exact
+  // `===`. The vacuity guard below is what stops this pin rotting back into
+  // decoration — I am the lane that shipped half an assert made of decoration,
+  // so the guard is not optional.
+  const PIN = {
+    site: 'site_02_corner_block',
+    storm: 'storm_02_wildnight',
+    probe: { x: -6, y: 0, z: 0 },     // the authored throat centre; speedAt ignores y
+    t: 60.0,
+  };
+
+  const pinSite = await loadSite(PIN.site);
+  let pinWorld = null;
+  try {
+    pinWorld = createWorld(new THREE.Scene(), {
+      wind: createStubWind({ calm: true }), site: structuredClone(pinSite),
+    });
+    await pinWorld.dress();
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.warn('[c.test] gate 2.3: dress() unavailable, using graybox anchors:', err.message);
+  }
+  const pinAnchors = pinWorld ? pinWorld.anchors : [];
+  const pinProbe = new THREE.Vector3(PIN.probe.x, PIN.probe.y, PIN.probe.z);
+
+  /** The EDITOR's wind: `windForSite` off the site object, exactly as
+   *  editor.wind.js's `buildWind()` and B's SCORE IT both build it. */
+  const editorWind = () => windForSite(storms[PIN.storm], structuredClone(pinSite), pinAnchors);
+
+  /** The GAME's wind: main.js's router, wired by main.js's own two lines
+   *  (loadSiteInto, `wind.setVenturi(...)` + `wind.setSheltersFromTrees(...)`). */
+  const gameWind = () => {
+    const all = STORMS.map((k) => createWind(storms[k]));
+    const router = createWindRouter(all);
+    router.use(all[STORMS.indexOf(PIN.storm)]);
+    router.setVenturi(pinSite.wind?.venturi ?? []);
+    router.setSheltersFromTrees(pinAnchors.filter((a) => a.type === 'tree'));
+    return router;
+  };
+
+  t.test('GATE 2.3: editor wind === game wind at the pinned probe and second (exact)', () => {
+    const ed = editorWind().speedAt(pinProbe, PIN.t);
+    const gm = gameWind().speedAt(pinProbe, PIN.t);
+    assert(Number.isFinite(ed) && ed > 0, `the pin sampled nothing: ${ed} m/s — vacuous`);
+    // EXACT, per B: two chains that agree to 1e-9 agree, and any epsilon big
+    // enough to feel safe is big enough to hide a 33% funnel.
+    assert(ed === gm,
+      `editor ${ed} m/s vs game ${gm} m/s at (${PIN.probe.x},${PIN.probe.z}) t=${PIN.t} on `
+      + `${PIN.site}/${PIN.storm} — the editor is scoring a yard the game does not play`);
+    // the vector too, so a sign or a component can't drift under an equal scalar
+    const a = editorWind().sample(pinProbe, PIN.t, new THREE.Vector3());
+    const b = gameWind().sample(pinProbe, PIN.t, new THREE.Vector3());
+    assert(a.x === b.x && a.y === b.y && a.z === b.z,
+      `vector mismatch: editor (${a.x},${a.y},${a.z}) vs game (${b.x},${b.y},${b.z})`);
+  });
+
+  t.test('GATE 2.3 guard: the pinned probe/second is one the funnel actually decides', () => {
+    // Without this, the pin above passes just as happily at a probe the venturi
+    // never reaches — which is exactly how three harnesses measured a funnel-off
+    // yard and believed it. Re-measure the funnel's worth AT THE PIN, and demand
+    // it is a big fraction of the answer.
+    const full = editorWind().speedAt(pinProbe, PIN.t);
+    const funnelOff = createWind(storms[PIN.storm]);
+    funnelOff.setSheltersFromTrees(pinAnchors.filter((a) => a.type === 'tree'));  // shelters ON
+    const off = funnelOff.speedAt(pinProbe, PIN.t);                               // venturi OFF
+    const share = (full - off) / full;
+    assert(share > 0.25,
+      `the venturi is worth only ${(share * 100).toFixed(1)}% of the wind at the pinned probe/second `
+      + `(${full.toFixed(3)} vs ${off.toFixed(3)} m/s). The pin still passes — that is the problem. `
+      + 'Move the probe/second back onto the funnel or the gate is decoration.');
+  });
+
+  t.test('GATE 2.3 (wider): editor and game agree across the yard and the storm', () => {
+    // The single pin is a point. Shelters live nowhere near the throat, so a
+    // point at the throat cannot see them: this sweep is what covers the tree
+    // half of `windForSite`'s wiring.
+    const ed = editorWind();
+    const gm = gameWind();
+    let checked = 0;
+    let sheltered = 0;
+    const bare = createWind(storms[PIN.storm]);        // no shelters, no venturi
+    for (const time of [20, 45, 60, 75]) {
+      for (let x = -11; x <= 11; x += 1.5) {
+        for (let z = -7; z <= 7; z += 1.5) {
+          const p = new THREE.Vector3(x, 0, z);
+          const a = ed.speedAt(p, time);
+          const b = gm.speedAt(p, time);
+          assert(a === b, `editor ${a} vs game ${b} at (${x},${z}) t=${time}`);
+          if (a < bare.speedAt(p, time) * 0.95) sheltered++;
+          checked++;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    // This floor caught its own sweep on the first run: at a 2 m step the grid
+    // was 384 samples, not the >500 I had claimed. Densified to 1.5 m rather
+    // than dropping the number to fit — a coverage floor edited down to match
+    // whatever the loop happened to do is not a floor.
+    assert(checked > 500, `only ${checked} samples — the sweep is not sweeping`);
+    assert(sheltered > 0,
+      'not one sampled point was materially slowed — the tree shelters are not reaching either '
+      + 'chain, so this sweep proves nothing about setSheltersFromTrees');
+  });
+
+  // =========================================================================
+  // The gizmos tell the truth about the maths they draw
+
+  t.test("shelter volume: the drawn attenuation IS weather.core's shelterFactor", () => {
+    // editor.wind.js draws the tree-shelter volume from `shelterAtten`, which
+    // mirrors weather.core's shelterFactor. Mirrors drift, and a gizmo that
+    // disagrees with the sim while looking authoritative is worse than none —
+    // so measure the mirror against the real field instead of trusting it.
+    // speedAt is multiplicative (uniform × noise × shelter × venturi), so the
+    // ratio of a sheltered field to an unsheltered one at the same (x,z,t) IS
+    // shelterFactor, with the noise divided out.
+    const def = storms.storm_02_wildnight;
+    const S = { x: 2, z: -3, radius: 3, strength: 0.45, length: 14 };
+    const withS = createWind(def).setShelters([S]);
+    const noS = createWind(def).setShelters([]);
+    let compared = 0;
+    let sawRealShadow = false;
+    for (const time of [12, 33, 58, 71]) {
+      const d = withS.core.dirAt(time);
+      const dx = Math.cos(d), dz = Math.sin(d);
+      for (let along = 0.5; along <= 13; along += 1.5) {
+        for (let perp = -2.5; perp <= 2.5; perp += 1.25) {
+          const x = S.x + dx * along - dz * perp;
+          const z = S.z + dz * along + dx * perp;
+          const bare = noS.core.speedAt(x, z, time);
+          if (bare <= 1e-9) continue;
+          const factor = withS.core.speedAt(x, z, time) / bare;
+          assertClose(factor, 1 - shelterAtten(S, along, perp), 1e-9,
+            `shelterAtten disagrees with the sim at along=${along} perp=${perp} t=${time} — `
+            + 'the drawn volume is not the shadow the wind actually casts');
+          if (shelterAtten(S, along, perp) > 0.1) sawRealShadow = true;
+          compared++;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    assert(compared > 100, `only ${compared} comparisons`);
+    assert(sawRealShadow, 'never sampled a point the shelter actually shades — vacuous');
+  });
+
+  t.test('the venturi axis is a LINE: axis and axis+π are the same gap', () => {
+    // The fact the editor's UI teaches, asserted rather than asserted-in-a-
+    // comment. weather.core aligns on |dot(wind, axis)|, so adding π must change
+    // nothing anywhere. If this ever fails, the axis has quietly become a
+    // heading and the mod-π UI is lying to whoever authored against it.
+    const def = storms.storm_02_wildnight;
+    const v = pinSite.wind.venturi[0];
+    const mk = (axis) => windForSite(def, { ...pinSite, wind: { venturi: [{ ...v, axis }] } }, pinAnchors);
+    const a = mk(v.axis);
+    const b = mk(v.axis + Math.PI);
+    let maxDiff = 0;
+    let sawFunnel = false;
+    const plain = createWind(def).setSheltersFromTrees(pinAnchors.filter((n) => n.type === 'tree'));
+    for (const time of [30, 60, 60.5, 75]) {
+      for (let x = -10; x <= -2; x += 1) {
+        for (let z = -4; z <= 4; z += 1) {
+          const p = new THREE.Vector3(x, 0, z);
+          const sa = a.speedAt(p, time);
+          maxDiff = Math.max(maxDiff, Math.abs(sa - b.speedAt(p, time)));
+          if (sa > plain.speedAt(p, time) * 1.05) sawFunnel = true;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    assert(sawFunnel, 'the funnel never fired anywhere in the sweep — this proves nothing');
+    // not `===`: cos(θ+π) is only -cos(θ) to within floating point, so the two
+    // fields agree to rounding, not to the bit. Rounding is the honest bar here.
+    assert(maxDiff < 1e-9,
+      `axis and axis+π gave different winds (max ${maxDiff} m/s) — the venturi is not mod π`);
+  });
+
+  t.test('normalizeAxis folds any angle into [0, π) without moving the gap', () => {
+    const cases = [2.1, 2.1 + Math.PI, 2.1 - Math.PI, -1.08, 0, 7 * Math.PI, -3 * Math.PI / 4];
+    for (const raw of cases) {
+      const n = normalizeAxis(raw);
+      assert(n >= 0 && n < Math.PI, `normalizeAxis(${raw}) = ${n} is outside [0, π)`);
+      // same LINE: the direction vectors must be parallel or antiparallel
+      const cross = Math.cos(raw) * Math.sin(n) - Math.sin(raw) * Math.cos(n);
+      assertClose(cross, 0, 1e-12, `normalizeAxis(${raw}) rotated the gap instead of folding it`);
+    }
+    // the Sprint 11 pair, which cost two exchanges: 2.1 is the gap, -1.08 is the
+    // southerly's heading, and they are NOT the same number — 2.2° apart.
+    const gap = normalizeAxis(2.1);
+    const heading = normalizeAxis(-1.08);
+    assert(Math.abs(gap - heading) > 0.03,
+      'the gap axis and the southerly heading have collapsed to the same value — they are '
+      + 'different quantities that merely nearly coincide, and conflating them is the '
+      + 'mistake THREADS records A and C both nearly making');
+  });
 }