Kudzu 0.8.16 - Compiler analysis boundaries

Kudzu 0.8.16 gives source-local descriptors, collection analysis, command specialization, Zustand migration, and route capability planning explicit compiler ownership while preserving generated output and browser behavior.

Highlights

• Adds one deterministic per-source descriptor session for handlers, effects, bindings, list evaluators, and client imports.
• Shares one pure collection expression and selector language across React migration, reactive JSX, effects, and keyed lists.
• Preserves direct setter arithmetic and literal updates as compact command fast paths.
• Moves reduced Zustand migration into a focused analysis and normalization pass.
• Projects rendered route plans through one pure capability manifest before runtime specialization.
• Publishes the Goal A-D continuation packet, version sequence, and performance gates under docs/next-architecture.

Validation

• npm run check passes with 131 generated pages.
• npm test passes 163/163 on Node 25 and Node 22.
• Worker graph remains 907 B raw / 475 B gzip.
• Window graph remains 12,148 B raw / 5,427 B gzip.
• A packed 0.8.16 tarball installs, typechecks, and builds a clean generated starter.

Upgrade

npm install @kudzujs/core@^0.8.16

create-kudzu remains 0.1.101 because its unchanged template already accepts @kudzujs/core@^0.8.15.