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+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+-- Copyright (c) 2026 Jonathan D.A. Jewell (hyperpolymath) <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>
+--
+||| Flagship semantic proof for Idrisiser (ABI Layer 2).
+|||
+||| Idrisiser's headline promise is to "generate proven-correct wrappers using
+||| Idris2 dependent types".  The canonical such wrapper is a *bounded array
+||| accessor*: a generated function that reads element `i` of an `n`-element
+||| array and is GUARANTEED never to read out of bounds at runtime.
+|||
+||| This module gives that promise a real, machine-checked meaning:
+|||
+|||   1. A faithful model of a length-indexed array (`SafeArray n a` wrapping a
+|||      `Vect n a`) and its total accessor `safeIndex : SafeArray n a -> Fin n
+|||      -> a`.
+|||   2. The headline property `InBounds i n` — inhabited EXACTLY when `i < n`
+|||      (it carries an `LT i n` proof).  The out-of-range case has no
+|||      constructor, and in particular NO index exists into an empty array
+|||      (`Uninhabited (InBounds i 0)`): out-of-range access is unrepresentable.
+|||   3. A sound AND complete decision procedure `decInBounds` returning a real
+|||      `Dec (InBounds i n)`, backed by `Data.Nat.isLT`.
+|||   4. A totality / no-off-by-one fact: the proven index round-trips exactly to
+|||      the requested raw position (`finToNat (toFin ok) = i`), via the
+|||      hand-proved `finToNatNatToFinLT`.  `safeIndex` is total — no error code,
+|||      no partiality.
+|||   5. A certifier into the ABI's `Totality` witness with a soundness proof
+|||      (`certifyBounded` returns `Total` only when the index is genuinely in
+|||      bounds).
+|||   6. A POSITIVE control (an inhabited witness that reads the expected
+|||      element) and NEGATIVE controls (`Not (InBounds 5 3)` and the empty
+|||      array), all machine-checked.
+
+module Idrisiser.ABI.Semantics
+
+import Idrisiser.ABI.Types
+import Data.Fin
+import Data.Nat
+import Data.Vect
+import Decidable.Equality
+
+%default total
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 1. Faithful model
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| A generated bounded-array wrapper: a length-indexed buffer.  The length `n`
+||| is part of the TYPE, so it cannot drift from the data at runtime.
+public export
+record SafeArray (n : Nat) (a : Type) where
+  constructor MkSafeArray
+  buffer : Vect n a
+
+||| The total, never-failing accessor that Idrisiser's codegen emits.  It takes
+||| a *proven* index `Fin n`; there is no error path and no partiality, so the
+||| result is always a genuine element of the array.
+public export
+safeIndex : SafeArray n a -> Fin n -> a
+safeIndex (MkSafeArray xs) i = index i xs
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 2. The headline property: InBounds
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| `InBounds i n` is inhabited exactly when the raw natural index `i` is a
+||| legal index into an `n`-element array, i.e. `i < n`.  The witness carries an
+||| `LT i n` proof, from which a real `Fin n` safe index is computed.
+|||
+||| There is deliberately no constructor for the out-of-range case: when
+||| `i >= n` there is no `LT i n`, so `InBounds i n` cannot be built.
+public export
+data InBounds : (i : Nat) -> (n : Nat) -> Type where
+  MkInBounds : (prf : LT i n) -> InBounds i n
+
+||| Compute the proven safe index from an in-bounds witness.
+public export
+toFin : {i, n : Nat} -> InBounds i n -> Fin n
+toFin (MkInBounds prf) = natToFinLT i {prf}
+
+||| There is NO index at all into an empty array, so any claim that some `i` is
+||| in bounds of a 0-length array is absurd.  This is the formal statement that
+||| out-of-range access is unrepresentable in the model.
+public export
+Uninhabited (InBounds i 0) where
+  uninhabited (MkInBounds prf) = absurd prf
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 3. Sound + complete decision procedure
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| Decide whether raw index `i` is in bounds of an `n`-element array.
+|||
+||| SOUND:    a `Yes` carries a genuine `LT i n` proof.
+||| COMPLETE: a `No` is a real refutation — any `InBounds i n` would yield the
+|||           very `LT i n` that `isLT` has just shown impossible.
+public export
+decInBounds : (i : Nat) -> (n : Nat) -> Dec (InBounds i n)
+decInBounds i n = case isLT i n of
+  Yes prf   => Yes (MkInBounds prf)
+  No  contra => No (\(MkInBounds prf) => contra prf)
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 4. Totality / no-off-by-one fact
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| The proven index lands exactly on the requested raw position: converting an
+||| `LT i n` proof to a `Fin n` and back to a `Nat` returns `i`.  Proved by
+||| induction on the `LT` witness — no `believe_me`, no `assert`.
+public export
+finToNatNatToFinLT : (i : Nat) -> (prf : LT i n) ->
+                     finToNat (natToFinLT i {prf}) = i
+finToNatNatToFinLT Z     (LTESucc _) = Refl
+finToNatNatToFinLT (S k) (LTESucc p) = cong S (finToNatNatToFinLT k p)
+
+||| For any proven index into any array, the index the accessor uses round-trips
+||| back to the requested raw position `i`.  This is the "no off-by-one, no
+||| runtime failure" guarantee: `safeIndex` reads precisely slot `i`.
+public export
+safeIndexUsesExactSlot : {i, n : Nat} -> (arr : SafeArray n a) ->
+                         (ok : InBounds i n) -> finToNat (toFin ok) = i
+safeIndexUsesExactSlot arr (MkInBounds prf) = finToNatNatToFinLT i prf
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 5. Certifier into the ABI Totality witness
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| Certify a candidate (raw index, length) pair: `Total` when the generated
+||| accessor is provably never-failing for that index, `Covering` otherwise.
+public export
+certifyBounded : (i : Nat) -> (n : Nat) -> Totality
+certifyBounded i n = case decInBounds i n of
+  Yes _ => Total
+  No  _ => Covering
+
+||| Soundness of the certifier: it returns `Total` only when the index really
+||| is in bounds (so the generated wrapper really is failure-free).
+public export
+certifyBoundedSound : (i : Nat) -> (n : Nat) ->
+                      certifyBounded i n = Total -> InBounds i n
+certifyBoundedSound i n eq with (decInBounds i n)
+  certifyBoundedSound i n eq   | Yes ok = ok
+  certifyBoundedSound i n Refl | No  _ impossible
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 6. Controls
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| A concrete 3-element array used by the controls.
+public export
+demoArray : SafeArray 3 String
+demoArray = MkSafeArray ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"]
+
+||| POSITIVE control: index 2 is in bounds of a 3-element array (explicit,
+||| inhabited witness carrying a real `LT 2 3` proof).
+public export
+idx2InBounds : InBounds 2 3
+idx2InBounds = MkInBounds (LTESucc (LTESucc (LTESucc LTEZero)))
+
+||| The positive control actually reads the expected element through the total
+||| accessor.  Concrete, so it reduces by `Refl`.
+public export
+demoReadsGamma : safeIndex Semantics.demoArray (toFin Semantics.idx2InBounds) = "gamma"
+demoReadsGamma = Refl
+
+||| The positive control's proven index round-trips to raw position 2.
+public export
+idx2RoundTrips : finToNat (toFin Semantics.idx2InBounds) = 2
+idx2RoundTrips = Refl
+
+||| NEGATIVE control: index 5 is NOT in bounds of a 3-element array — a
+||| machine-checked refutation of the bad case (no `LT 5 3` exists).
+public export
+idx5OutOfBounds : Not (InBounds 5 3)
+idx5OutOfBounds (MkInBounds prf) = absurd prf
+
+||| NEGATIVE control: there is no index at all into an empty array.
+public export
+noIndexIntoEmpty : Not (InBounds i 0)
+noIndexIntoEmpty = absurd
diff --git a/src/interface/abi/idrisiser-abi.ipkg b/src/interface/abi/idrisiser-abi.ipkg
index b781fb7..ea9b663 100644
--- a/src/interface/abi/idrisiser-abi.ipkg
+++ b/src/interface/abi/idrisiser-abi.ipkg
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ modules = Idrisiser.ABI.Types
         , Idrisiser.ABI.Layout
         , Idrisiser.ABI.Foreign
         , Idrisiser.ABI.Proofs
+        , Idrisiser.ABI.Semantics