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+# effect-view
+
+`effect-view` lets a React function component be described as an Effect program: yield services, create scoped resources, subscribe to reactive state, and turn Effects into React callbacks inside a component body, then convert that description into a normal React function component at a React boundary.
+
+Requires Effect v4 (RC) and React 19.2+. Peer dependencies: `effect`, `react`, `@types/react`. Not tied to `react-dom` — any React renderer works.
+
+When writing effect-view code, use the actual current source and tests in `src/` as ground truth over anything remembered from training — the API is pre-1.0 and still moving. The files below are a concise reference to how each module fits together; read the linked one(s) before writing code that uses that module.
+
+## Core model
+
+1. `ReactRuntime` builds the Effect services available to the UI and exposes them through React context.
+2. `Component.make` defines a component body as an Effect generator.
+3. `Component.withContext` converts a `Component` into a normal React component at a React boundary (app root, router, third-party library). Apply it only there — never between two effect-view components.
+4. Inside another effect-view component, compose children by yielding their `.use` Effect.
+5. Every rendered component instance owns a root `Scope.Scope`, opened on mount and closed on unmount; regular component setup must complete **synchronously** during render unless the component is wrapped with `Async.async`.
+
+## Module index
+
+| Module | Covers |
+|---|---|
+| [ReactRuntime.md](./ai-docs/ReactRuntime.md) | building and providing the application's Effect runtime |
+| [Component.md](./ai-docs/Component.md) | defining components, lifecycle hooks, running Effects from event handlers, providing services |
+| [Async.md](./ai-docs/Async.md) | components that suspend on an asynchronous Effect before rendering |
+| [Memoized.md](./ai-docs/Memoized.md) | skipping re-render/re-computation via `React.memo` |
+| [Lens.md](./ai-docs/Lens.md) | the core read/write state primitive, focusing, where to store state |
+| [View.md](./ai-docs/View.md) | the read-only side of state, `View.useAll` |
+| [Query.md](./ai-docs/Query.md) | cached, reactive, TanStack-Query-style server reads |
+| [QueryClient.md](./ai-docs/QueryClient.md) | the shared cache service backing `Query` |
+| [Mutation.md](./ai-docs/Mutation.md) | user-triggered writes with pending/error state |
+| [Form.md](./ai-docs/Form.md) | the shared schema-driven form model and input hooks |
+| [MutationForm.md](./ai-docs/MutationForm.md) | forms that submit a valid value to a `Mutation` |
+| [LensForm.md](./ai-docs/LensForm.md) | forms that keep a target `Lens` synchronized with a valid draft |
+| [PubSub.md](./ai-docs/PubSub.md) | bridging React-tracked values into an Effect `PubSub` |
+| [Stream.md](./ai-docs/Stream.md) | consuming a raw Effect `Stream` as React state |
+| [SetStateAction.md](./ai-docs/SetStateAction.md) | resolving `React.SetStateAction` values |
+| [ScopeRegistry.md](./ai-docs/ScopeRegistry.md) | internal — component scope lifecycle bookkeeping |
+| [Refreshable.md](./ai-docs/Refreshable.md) | internal — hot-reload integration for dev-server tooling |
+
+## Choosing between async integrations
+
+- One-off async read before rendering → `Async.async`.
+- Cached/shared/refreshable server reads → `Query`.
+- User-triggered writes with observable pending/error state → `Mutation`.
+- Async work in an event handler with no need for `Mutation` state → `Component.useRunPromise`/`useCallbackPromise`.
+- Subscriptions or background work tied to component lifecycle → a scoped fiber forked from `Component.useReactEffect`.
+
+## Common pitfalls
+
+- Never yield an asynchronous Effect directly from a regular (non-`Async`) component body.
+- effect-view hooks are still React hooks under the hood: call them unconditionally, at the top level, in a stable order — never in branches, loops, or after a suspend point.
+- Keep `ReactRuntime` instances and `Layer` references stable; building them during render creates new resources and a new React context every time.
+- `Component.withContext` requires a matching `ReactRuntime.Provider` above it in the tree.
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+# Async
+
+Components run synchronously by default (the body must complete without suspending during render). `Async.async` lifts a component so its body may await an asynchronous Effect before returning JSX; React Suspense handles the wait.
+
+```tsx
+import { Effect } from "effect"
+import { Async, Component } from "effect-view"
+
+export const UserCard = Component.make("UserCard")(function* ({ userId }: { readonly userId: string }) {
+ const user = yield* Component.useOnChange(() => loadUser(userId), [userId])
+ return {user.name}
+}).pipe(Async.async)
+```
+
+Render with a fallback (per-use or as a component default):
+
+```tsx
+const User = yield* UserCard.use
+Loading user...} />
+```
+
+```tsx
+.pipe(Async.async, Async.withOptions({ defaultFallback: Loading user...
}))
+```
+
+## Rules
+
+- **Hook ordering**: place every React hook and effect-view hook helper *before* the first operation that may suspend. After a suspend point, the generator continuation runs outside React's synchronous render phase, so no hooks may follow it.
+- An async computation restarts on every render of the component unless memoized: pipe `Memoized.memoized` after `Async.async` to skip re-running when props haven't changed (see `Memoized.md`).
+- The `promise` prop name is reserved on async components (used internally) — do not declare a prop with that name.
+- Async components compare props with `Object.is` by default under `Memoized`, ignoring `fallback`; use `Async.defaultPropsEquivalence` or `Equal.asEquivalence()` for structural comparison when props contain freshly-allocated objects/arrays.
+
+## When to reach for Async vs alternatives
+
+- One-off asynchronous read before rendering → `Async.async`.
+- Cached/shared/refreshable server reads → `Query` (see `Query.md`).
+- User-triggered writes with pending/error state → `Mutation` (see `Mutation.md`).
+- Async work in an event handler with no need for `Mutation` state → `useRunPromise`/`useCallbackPromise` (see `Component.md`).
+- Subscriptions or background work tied to lifecycle → a scoped fiber forked from `useReactEffect`.
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+# Component
+
+Defines a React function component as an Effect program. A `Component` is a description, not yet a React component — cross into React with `Component.withContext` or `.use`.
+
+## Define
+
+```tsx
+import { Effect } from "effect"
+import { Component } from "effect-view"
+
+export const HelloView = Component.make("HelloView")(function* (props: { readonly name: string }) {
+ const message = yield* Effect.succeed(`Hello, ${props.name}`)
+ return {message}
+})
+```
+
+- `Component.make(spanName?)(generatorBody, ...pipeArgs)` — same overloads as `Effect.fn`/`Effect.gen`: a generator body, or a body plus `(_, props) => next` pipeline steps. Passing a `spanName` wraps the body in a tracing span and sets `displayName`.
+- `Component.makeUntraced` is identical but skips the automatic span (still sets `displayName` from the name argument).
+- The component's props type, return type, error channel, and required services (`R`) are all inferred from the generator body.
+
+## Cross into React
+
+```tsx
+export const Hello = HelloView.pipe(Component.withContext(runtime.context))
+// >` that binds the child to the current Effect context/scope and returns a stable function-component reference. Yield it from a parent component body; do not call `withContext` here.
+
+## Lifecycle hooks
+
+Hooks are plain React hooks under the hood: call them unconditionally, at the top level, in the same order every render — never in branches, loops, callbacks, or after a suspend point.
+
+Every rendered component instance gets a root `Scope.Scope`, created on mount and closed on unmount, provided to the whole body. `Effect.addFinalizer`, `Effect.acquireRelease`, `Effect.forkScoped` used directly in the body run against this scope.
+
+| Hook | Purpose | Scope | Closes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| body | produce rendered output | component root scope | unmount |
+| `useOnMount(() => effect)` | compute + cache once | component root scope | unmount |
+| `useOnChange(() => effect, deps)` | recompute on deps change | new scope per dep set | deps change / unmount |
+| `useReactEffect(() => effect, deps?)` | post-commit side effect (`Effect.useEffect` analog) | new scope | deps change / unmount |
+| `useReactLayoutEffect(() => effect, deps?)` | pre-paint side effect | new scope | deps change / unmount |
+| `useLayer(layer, options?)` | build + provide a `Layer`, returns its `Context` | new scope tied to layer identity | layer ref changes / unmount |
+
+```tsx
+const state = yield* Component.useOnMount(() =>
+ Effect.gen(function* () {
+ yield* Effect.addFinalizer(() => Effect.log("disposed"))
+ return Lens.fromSubscriptionRef(yield* SubscriptionRef.make(0))
+ }),
+)
+```
+
+- Setup passed to `useOnMount`/`useOnChange`/`useLayer` must complete **synchronously** in a regular component (it runs during render). Wrap the component with `Async.async` to allow suspending setup.
+- `useReactEffect`/`useReactLayoutEffect` setup must also start synchronously but may `Effect.forkScoped` async work into the hook's own scope.
+- `useRunSync`/`useRunPromise`/`useCallbackSync`/`useCallbackPromise` do not create a new scope; they capture the component root scope (and any extra services you request) by default.
+
+## Run Effects from event handlers
+
+```tsx
+const runPromise = yield* Component.useRunPromise() // or useRunPromise()
+ void runPromise(saveUser(user))}>Save
+```
+
+- `useRunSync()` — only for Effects guaranteed to complete synchronously.
+- `useRunPromise()` — for Effects that may suspend/sleep/fetch.
+- `useCallbackSync(f, deps)` / `useCallbackPromise(f, deps)` — memoized variants (same deps semantics as `React.useCallback`) for passing stable callbacks to children.
+- Both runners provide `Scope.Scope` automatically; add extra services with an explicit type argument (`useRunPromise()`).
+
+## Provide services
+
+Static layer, one instance per mounted component, disposed on unmount:
+
+```tsx
+const GreetingViewLive = GreetingView.pipe(Component.provide(GreetingService.layer))
+```
+
+Layer built from render-time state (props/context), provided to children explicitly:
+
+```tsx
+const layer = React.useMemo(() => Layer.succeed(GreetingService, {...}), [props.greeting])
+const context = yield* Component.useLayer(layer)
+const Greeting = yield* Effect.provide(GreetingView.use, context)
+return `; `None` until decoding succeeds |
+| `issues` | Standard Schema issues scoped to this form's path |
+| `isValidating` | whether schema decoding is currently running |
+| `canCommit` | whether the root has a valid value and is ready to commit |
+| `isCommitting` | whether a mutation or target write is in progress |
+
+There is no separate "field" type — a field is just a `Form` focused on part of its parent.
+
+## Focus into subforms
+
+```tsx
+const displayNameField = Form.focusObjectOn(form, "displayName")
+const contactForm = Form.focusObjectOn(form, "contact")
+const emailField = form.pipe(Form.focusObjectOn("contact"), Form.focusObjectOn("email"))
+```
+
+- `Form.focusObjectOn` (struct key), `Form.focusArrayAt` (array index), `Form.focusTupleAt` (tuple index), `Form.focusChunkAt` (Chunk index). All are dual API: data-first, or curried for chaining through nested paths with `pipe`.
+- A focused form exposes `encodedValue`/`value`/`issues` scoped to that path; `isValidating`/`canCommit`/`isCommitting` stay connected to the root form.
+- Focus once (e.g. at component setup), not on every render.
+
+## Bind a subform to an input
+
+```tsx
+const input = yield* Form.useInput(emailField, { debounce: "250 millis" })
+ }>()("CounterState") {
+ static readonly layer = Layer.effect(CounterState, Effect.gen(function* () {
+ const count = Lens.fromSubscriptionRef(yield* SubscriptionRef.make(0))
+ return { count } as const
+ }))
+}
+```
+
+## Write
+
+```tsx
+yield* Lens.update(state.count, n => n + 1)
+yield* Lens.set(state.count, 0)
+```
+
+## Lens.useState — read/write tuple for controlled inputs
+
+Use when a JSX API wants React's `[value, setValue]` shape (controlled `{user.name}
+}).pipe(Async.async, Memoized.memoized)
+```
+
+- Default comparison is `Object.is` per prop (React.memo default), except on `Async` components where `fallback` is excluded from the comparison by default.
+- Override with `Memoized.withOptions({ propsEquivalence })`, e.g. `Equal.asEquivalence()` for full structural equality on immutable data. Supplying `propsEquivalence` replaces the default entirely (so `fallback` is included again for `Async` components unless you exclude it yourself).
+- Most useful paired with `Async.async`, where an unmemoized child otherwise restarts its async computation and closes/reopens its dependency scope on every parent render.
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+# Mutation
+
+effect-view's counterpart to TanStack Query mutations: user-triggered asynchronous work (save, delete, upload, send) as an Effect. No cache, no reactive key, no automatic execution — it runs only when called.
+
+| TanStack Mutation | effect-view |
+|---|---|
+| mutation variables | the input key `K` |
+| `mutationFn` | `f: (key: K) => Effect` |
+| mutation result | `mutation.state`, a `View>` |
+| `isPending` | `result.waiting` |
+| `mutateAsync` | `mutation.mutate(key)` |
+| start without awaiting | `mutation.mutateView(key)` |
+
+## Create
+
+```tsx
+import { Mutation } from "effect-view"
+
+const mutation = yield* Component.useOnMount(() =>
+ Mutation.make({ f: (input: InviteInput) => sendInvite(input) }),
+)
+```
+
+`Mutation.make({ f })` is an Effect constructor, not a hook — create each instance once (`Component.useOnMount` for component-owned, an Effect service for shared) and keep it stable. `f` keeps its full `Effect` type; required services are captured from the creation context, so callbacks don't reconstruct dependencies. Fibers belong to the creation scope and are interrupted if that scope closes while running.
+
+## AsyncResult state
+
+`mutation.state` starts `Initial` (`waiting: false`); calling `mutate`/`mutateView` sets `waiting: true`, then publishes `Success` or `Failure`.
+
+```tsx
+import { AsyncResult } from "effect/unstable/reactivity"
+
+const [result] = yield* View.useAll([mutation.state])
+
+AsyncResult.match(result, {
+ onInitial: ({ waiting }) => (...),
+ onFailure: ({ cause, previousSuccess, waiting }) => (...), // cause: Cause
+ onSuccess: ({ value, waiting }) => (...),
+})
+```
+
+`waiting` is independent of the result tag: after one success, starting another call keeps the value visible while `waiting: true`; if that call fails, the failure can retain `previousSuccess`. Failures carry a full `Cause`.
+
+## mutate vs mutateView
+
+| Method | Returns | Use for |
+|---|---|---|
+| `mutate(key)` | the final `Success`/`Failure` | an Effect workflow that needs the outcome |
+| `mutateView(key)` | a live per-call `View>` | a UI callback that just starts the work |
+
+```tsx
+const runPromise = yield* Component.useRunPromise()
+void runPromise(Effect.gen(function* () {
+ const result = yield* mutation.mutate(input)
+ if (AsyncResult.isSuccess(result)) yield* Effect.log(`Saved ${result.value.id}`)
+}))
+```
+
+```tsx
+const runSync = yield* Component.useRunSync()
+const state = runSync(mutation.mutateView(input)) // a View for this specific call
+```
+
+The mutation Effect never fails with `E` itself — it captures the operation's `Exit` and always resolves to a final `AsyncResult.Success`/`Failure`.
+
+## Reactive metadata
+
+| Member | Meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `state` | latest mutation state, shared `View` |
+| `latestKey` | most recent input, `Option` |
+| `latestFinalResult` | latest completed success/failure, `Option` |
+| `fiber` | most recently started mutation fiber, `Option` |
+
+## Concurrency
+
+Starting a mutation does not interrupt an earlier one — calls can overlap, each with its own `mutateView` state; `mutation.state` reflects whichever update arrived last. For a single submit button, disabling while `result.waiting` is usually enough. Use per-call `mutateView` Views (e.g. per uploaded file) when concurrent operations each need their own progress indicator.
+
+## Updating queries after a mutation
+
+Mutations never auto-invalidate `Query` caches — compose it explicitly:
+
+```tsx
+const result = yield* updatePost.mutate(input)
+if (AsyncResult.isSuccess(result)) {
+ yield* posts.invalidateCacheEntry(["post", result.value.id] as const)
+ yield* posts.refreshView // invalidation alone does not refetch
+}
+```
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+# MutationForm
+
+A root form (implements `Form.Form`, see `Form.md`) that owns a local encoded draft and passes the valid decoded value to a `Mutation` when `submit` runs. Use for registration, checkout, search — any workflow with an explicit submit action.
+
+```tsx
+import { Effect } from "effect"
+import { Component, MutationForm, View } from "effect-view"
+
+const form = yield* Component.useOnMount(() =>
+ MutationForm.make({
+ schema: ProfileSchema,
+ initialEncodedValue: { displayName: "", age: "", contact: { email: "" } },
+ f: ([profile]) => Effect.log(`Creating ${profile.displayName}, age ${profile.age}`),
+ }).pipe(MutationForm.thenRun),
+)
+
+const [canCommit, isCommitting] = yield* View.useAll([form.canCommit, form.isCommitting])
+const runPromise = yield* Component.useRunPromise()
+
+ void runPromise(form.submit)}>
+ {isCommitting ? "Creating..." : "Create profile"}
+
+```
+
+- `MutationForm.make({ schema, initialEncodedValue, f })` constructs the form; `f` receives the decoded value(s) as its mutation input (`profile.age` is a number even though the input edited a string). `MutationForm.thenRun` starts initial validation in the current scope.
+- Create once and keep stable — the usual home is `Component.useOnMount`.
+- `form.submit` runs the mutation only when the form can currently commit; schema issues block submission before the mutation ever runs.
+- Focus into subforms/fields with `Form.focusObjectOn`/`focusArrayAt`/etc. (see `Form.md`) and bind them to inputs with `Form.useInput`.
+
+## Example: schema-owned date conversion
+
+```tsx
+class DateTimeUtcFromZoned extends Schema.transformOrFail(Schema.DateTimeZonedFromSelf, Schema.DateTimeUtcFromSelf, {
+ strict: true,
+ decode: input => ParseResult.succeed(DateTime.toUtc(input)),
+ encode: DateTime.setZoneCurrent,
+}) {}
+
+export class DateTimeUtcFromZonedInput extends Schema.transformOrFail(Schema.String, DateTimeUtcFromZoned, {
+ strict: true,
+ decode: (input, _options, ast) => Effect.flatMap(DateTime.CurrentTimeZone, timeZone =>
+ Option.match(DateTime.makeZoned(input, { timeZone, adjustForTimeZone: true }), {
+ onSome: ParseResult.succeed,
+ onNone: () => ParseResult.fail(new ParseResult.Type(ast, input, "Enter a valid date and time")),
+ })),
+ encode: value => ParseResult.succeed(DateTime.formatIsoZoned(value).slice(0, 16)),
+}) {}
+```
+
+An `(), PubSub.shutdown))
+```
+
+`PubSub.useFromReactiveValues(values: DependencyList)` creates a scoped, unbounded `PubSub` on mount and publishes `values` to it every time the dependency array changes (skipping publish once the PubSub has been shut down). Useful for bridging a set of React-tracked reactive values into an Effect `Stream`-based consumer inside the component's scope.
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+# Query
+
+effect-view's take on TanStack Query: reactive query keys, cached results, stale times, background refresh, window-focus refetching, cache invalidation — but the query function is an `Effect` and the observable state is a `View`.
+
+| TanStack Query | effect-view |
+|---|---|
+| `QueryClient` | `QueryClient` Effect service (see `QueryClient.md`) |
+| `queryKey` | a reactive key supplied as a `View` |
+| `queryFn` | `f: (key: K) => Effect` |
+| `useQuery` result | `query.state`, a `View>` |
+| `isFetching` | `result.waiting` |
+| `refetch` | `query.refresh` / `query.refreshView` |
+| `invalidateQueries` | `query.invalidateCache` / `invalidateCacheEntry` |
+
+## Provide a QueryClient
+
+```tsx
+import { Layer } from "effect"
+import { QueryClient, ReactRuntime } from "effect-view"
+
+const AppLive = Layer.empty.pipe(
+ Layer.provideMerge(QueryClient.layer({
+ defaultStaleTime: "30 seconds",
+ defaultRefreshOnWindowFocus: true,
+ cacheGcTime: "5 minutes",
+ })),
+)
+export const runtime = ReactRuntime.make(AppLive)
+```
+
+## Create and run a query
+
+```tsx
+import { Effect, Schema, SubscriptionRef } from "effect"
+import { HttpClient } from "effect/unstable/http"
+import { Component, Lens, Query, View } from "effect-view"
+
+const [postId, query] = yield* Component.useOnMount(() =>
+ Effect.gen(function* () {
+ const key = Lens.fromSubscriptionRef(yield* SubscriptionRef.make(["post", 1 as number] as const))
+
+ const query = yield* Query.make({
+ key,
+ staleTime: "1 minute",
+ f: ([, id]) =>
+ HttpClient.HttpClient.pipe(
+ Effect.andThen(client => client.get(`https://example.com/posts/${id}`)),
+ Effect.andThen(res => res.json),
+ Effect.andThen(Schema.decodeUnknownEffect(Post)),
+ ),
+ }).pipe(Query.thenRun)
+
+ return [Lens.focusTupleAt(key, 1), query] as const
+ }),
+)
+```
+
+- `Query.make({ key, f, staleTime?, refreshOnWindowFocus?, keyEquivalence? })` constructs the query; `Query.thenRun` starts watching `key` in the current scope.
+- Create each query once and keep it stable — the usual home is `Component.useOnMount` (component-owned) or an Effect service (shared across components). Change the key, don't recreate the query, when input changes.
+- Keys use Effect equality by default (`keyEquivalence` overrides it). A tuple key plays the same role as `['post', id]` in TanStack Query.
+- `f` keeps its full `Effect` type: required services, schema decoding, retries, tracing all compose normally. The context is captured at creation time.
+- Changing the key interrupts the previous in-flight request; a fresh cached success or a new run for the new key follows.
+
+## Render AsyncResult
+
+`query.state: View>` where `QueryState = { key: K; result: AsyncResult }`.
+
+```tsx
+import { AsyncResult } from "effect/unstable/reactivity"
+
+const [state] = yield* View.useAll([query.state])
+
+AsyncResult.match(state.result, {
+ onInitial: ({ waiting }) => waiting ? Loading...
: Not loaded.
,
+ onFailure: ({ cause, previousSuccess, waiting }) => (/* cause: Cause, previousSuccess: Option */),
+ onSuccess: ({ value, waiting }) => (/* value: A, waiting: refreshing in background */),
+})
+```
+
+`waiting` is independent of the result tag: a background refresh keeps a `Success` successful (with its value) while `waiting: true`; a failed refresh can retain `previousSuccess`. Failures carry a full `Cause` (typed errors, defects, interruption), not just `E`.
+
+## Refresh, fetch, invalidate
+
+| Method | Behavior |
+|---|---|
+| `fetch(key)` | fetch a specific key, wait for its final state |
+| `fetchView(key)` | start fetching a key, return immediately as a live state `View` |
+| `refresh` | resolve the current key again, wait for its final state |
+| `refreshView` | resolve the current key again, return immediately as a live `View` |
+| `invalidateCacheEntry(key)` | remove the cached success for one key |
+| `invalidateCache` | remove every cached success for this query |
+
+The `*View` variants suit synchronous UI callbacks (`runSync(query.refreshView)`); the non-`View` variants suit Effect workflows waiting on the outcome. **Invalidating does not refetch by itself** — follow with `refreshView`, a key change, or a later natural fetch.
+
+```ts
+import { Schedule } from "effect"
+
+const query = yield* Query.make(options).pipe(
+ Query.thenRun,
+ Query.withScheduledRefresh(Schedule.spaced("5 minutes").pipe(Schedule.upTo({ times: 3 }))),
+)
+```
+
+`Query.withScheduledRefresh(schedule)` forks a refresh fiber tied to the surrounding scope; cache/`staleTime` rules still apply.
+
+## Staleness and lifetime
+
+- `staleTime` (per query, falls back to `QueryClient` default): how long a successful result satisfies a fetch without re-running `f`. A stale entry stays available as previous data while it refreshes.
+- `cacheGcTime` (on `QueryClient`): entries unused for `staleTime + cacheGcTime` are evicted.
+- `refreshOnWindowFocus` (per query, falls back to `QueryClient` default): re-resolves the current key on window focus. Requires the optional `@effect/platform-browser` package; without it, the option is silently ignored (rest of the API works normally). Also a no-op outside browser environments.
+
+## The Effect touch
+
+Request fibers belong to the creation scope and are interrupted on unmount, key replacement, or scope closure. Results are `View`s usable outside React too. Mutations do not auto-invalidate queries — compose it explicitly (see `Mutation.md`).
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/QueryClient.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/QueryClient.md
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+# QueryClient
+
+The Effect service that owns the shared cache used by `Query` (see `Query.md`). Add it once to the application runtime.
+
+```tsx
+import { Layer } from "effect"
+import { QueryClient, ReactRuntime } from "effect-view"
+
+const AppLive = Layer.empty.pipe(
+ Layer.provideMerge(QueryClient.layer({
+ defaultStaleTime: "30 seconds", // default: "0 minutes"
+ defaultRefreshOnWindowFocus: true, // default: true
+ cacheGcTime: "5 minutes", // default: "5 minutes"
+ })),
+)
+export const runtime = ReactRuntime.make(AppLive)
+```
+
+- `QueryClient.layer(options?)` builds the service and forks its background garbage-collection loop into the layer's scope.
+- Individual queries may override `staleTime` and `refreshOnWindowFocus`; unset options fall back to these client defaults.
+- `cacheGcTime` controls how long a stale, unaccessed cache entry is kept before eviction (checked periodically, not per-request).
+- You normally interact with the cache only indirectly, through the `Query` instances built against this client — there is no need to reach into `QueryClientService` methods directly in application code.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/ReactRuntime.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/ReactRuntime.md
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+# ReactRuntime
+
+Owns a managed Effect runtime and exposes it to a React subtree through context. Every effect-view application has exactly one root runtime per independent Effect context tree.
+
+## Create and provide
+
+```tsx
+import { Layer } from "effect"
+import { ReactRuntime } from "effect-view"
+
+const AppLive = Layer.empty // add application layers here
+
+export const runtime = ReactRuntime.make(AppLive)
+```
+
+```tsx
+import { StrictMode } from "react"
+import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client"
+import { ReactRuntime } from "effect-view"
+import { runtime } from "./runtime"
+import { App } from "./App"
+
+createRoot(document.getElementById("root")!).render(
+
+ Starting...}>
+
+ ,
+)
+```
+
+- `ReactRuntime.make(layer, memoMap?)` builds a `ManagedRuntime` and a `React.Context` in one value. Define it at module scope — never inside a render.
+- `ReactRuntime.Provider` builds the runtime layer (which can suspend, hence `fallback`), makes the resulting context available via React context, and disposes the managed runtime on unmount.
+- With a router, keep the provider above the router provider. Put a React error boundary above it if runtime construction can fail.
+
+## Rules
+
+- One runtime instance per app (or per independent subtree that needs its own root context).
+- `ReactRuntime.Provider` only supplies context; it never builds automatically at other boundaries — `Component.withContext` reads it explicitly.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/Refreshable.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/Refreshable.md
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+# Refreshable
+
+**Low-level module for development-server integrations** (e.g. `@effect-view/vite-plugin`'s hot-reload support). Not used directly in application code.
+
+`Refreshable.attach(component, cell)` connects a `Component` descriptor to a mutable "refresh cell" (`Refreshable.makeCell(component, signature, forceReset)`) that a dev-server integration updates as source files change. The attached component renders through a stable wrapper that swaps in the cell's current implementation on each update, using `React.useSyncExternalStore` to trigger a re-render and, when `signature` changes or `forceReset` is set, remounting the component (via a changed `key`) to discard React state that can no longer be trusted to match the new code.
+
+If you are writing a bundler/dev-server integration for effect-view, this is the API to build on. Otherwise, ignore this module.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/ScopeRegistry.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/ScopeRegistry.md
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+++ b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/ScopeRegistry.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# ScopeRegistry
+
+**Internal module — not part of the application-facing API.** Do not use this directly in application code; it exists to support `Component`'s lifecycle hooks (`Component.useScope` and everything built on it).
+
+`ScopeRegistry` is an Effect service (auto-provided by `ReactRuntime.make` via `ReactRuntime.preludeLayer`) that tracks the `Scope.Scope` associated with each mounted component instance: `register` creates one, `commit` marks it as "React has committed this render" (cancelling its abandonment timeout), and `release` schedules it for closure after `finalizerExecutionDebounce` once the owning component/dependency-set unmounts. A background loop closes scopes whose debounce has elapsed and force-closes any scope left uncommitted past `scopeCommitTimeout` (guards against an abandoned render, e.g. one thrown away by React Strict Mode or a Suspense retry).
+
+Relevant only if you're building low-level tooling around effect-view's rendering internals.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/SetStateAction.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/SetStateAction.md
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+++ b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/SetStateAction.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# SetStateAction
+
+A single helper for resolving React's `SetStateAction` (`S | ((prev: S) => S)`) against a previous value — the same logic `React.useState`'s setter applies internally.
+
+```ts
+SetStateAction.value(setStateAction, prevState) // dual API, also curried: SetStateAction.value(prevState)(setStateAction)
+```
+
+Used internally by `Lens.useState` to support functional updates (`setValue(prev => prev + 1)`); rarely needed directly in application code unless you're building a custom hook that accepts a `React.SetStateAction`.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/Stream.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/Stream.md
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+# Stream
+
+Re-exports Effect's `Stream` module in full (`export * from "effect/Stream"`) and adds one component hook for consuming a stream as React state.
+
+```tsx
+const latest = yield* Stream.use(someStream) // Effect, never, R>
+const latest = yield* Stream.use(someStream, initialValue) // Effect, never, R>
+```
+
+`Stream.use(stream, initialValue?)` subscribes to `stream` for the component's lifetime (via a scoped fiber forked in a post-commit effect) and returns the latest emitted value as React state, deduped with strict equality. Without `initialValue` the result starts as `Option.none()` until the first emission; with one, it starts as `Option.some(initialValue)`.
+
+Prefer `View.useAll` (see `View.md`) when the source is already a `View`/`Lens` — reach for `Stream.use` when you have a raw Effect `Stream` to observe directly.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/View.md b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/View.md
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+++ b/packages/effect-view/ai-docs/View.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# View
+
+The read-only side of the state model: a current value plus a stream of changes. Every `Lens` (see `Lens.md`) is a `View`; things like `Query`/`Mutation` state and derived/mapped state are also exposed as `View`.
+
+`effect-view` re-exports the full `View` module from [`effect-lens`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/effect-lens/v/beta) and adds one React hook, `View.useAll`.
+
+## View.useAll — bind Views into render output
+
+```tsx
+const [count, doubled] = yield* View.useAll([state.count, state.doubled])
+```
+
+- Reads the current values during render, then subscribes via a scoped stream and updates React state when any of them changes.
+- This is the default way to read a `Lens` from a component, since `Lens` is a `View`.
+- Pass `{ equivalence }` to control when a combined change across all supplied views is considered meaningful (defaults to comparing the tuple element-wise with `Equal.strictEqual()`).
+
+```tsx
+const doubled = View.map(count, n => n * 2) // derive a read-only View
+```
+
+Use plain `View` values (rather than `Lens`) for anything a component should only observe, never write — e.g. derived/computed state exposed by a service.
diff --git a/packages/effect-view/package.json b/packages/effect-view/package.json
index f005083..ab48410 100644
--- a/packages/effect-view/package.json
+++ b/packages/effect-view/package.json
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@
"type": "module",
"files": [
"./README.md",
+ "./AGENTS.md",
"./src/**/*.ts",
"./dist/**/*.js",
"./dist/**/*.js.map",
- "./dist/**/*.d.ts"
+ "./dist/**/*.d.ts",
+ "./ai-docs/**/*.md"
],
"license": "MIT",
"repository": {