Merge the IDA Code Mode port

Replaces the private idalib worker (idatui/worker.py + worker_client.py, with
server/patch_server.py injecting tools into ida-pro-mcp) with an ordinary
client of ida_codemode.client.DatabaseHandle. A database open by an IDA GUI is
reused; otherwise Code Mode starts or shares a managed idalib worker. The TUI
no longer owns an IDA process, and closing it releases only its lease.

Based on Duncan Ogilvie's port, rebased onto ~150 commits of local work it
predated. The rebase itself was mechanical; landing it was not. Nine defects
had to be fixed before the feature set was whole again, none of which the
patch's own tests could catch:

  - DatabaseHandle.open() takes image_base, not loading_address: every
    connect() would have raised TypeError on the first call
  - five operations our tree had grown were simply missing (flowchart, so the
    graph view was dead; op_format/pc_nums/pc_num_format, so 'o'/'O' were;
    survey_binary)
  - set_comments wrote only the disassembly comment, so comments never
    appeared in pseudocode
  - xref_query returned rows in raw IDA order, and 'follow the call' silently
    followed the fall-through instead
  - rename accepted one edit per category, so bulk symbol import was dead
  - decompile ran decomp_map's full per-column ctree sweep to fill in a
    per-line address anchor
  - heads shipped without operand extents or the digest protocol
  - the package became unimportable without ida_codemode installed, which
    killed the offline test suites

Verified against the pre-codemode tag rather than against assumptions: the
full suite is 788 passed / 0 failed, and the pilot's 301 checks match the old
backend exactly. Performance is within 2x on the listing hot path and faster
on decompile, disasm and connect, after fixing two runtime costs that are
documented for upstream in docs/CODEMODE_UPSTREAM.md.

Test runtime came down from ~9m20s to 115s along the way -- not by removing
checks, but by removing four kinds of waiting-on-a-guess that were also
hiding real failures.

1 files changed, 1548 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/idatui/remote_tools.py b/idatui/remote_tools.py
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+"""The IDAPython ida-tui runs inside the Code Mode sandbox.
+
+Two features have no ida-domain surface at all and are carried over VERBATIM
+from the tools ida-tui was developed against (`server/patch_server.py`'s
+injected BODY, which the Code Mode port deletes):
+
+* `heads` -- the continuous listing. ida-domain enumerates defined heads and
+  renders plain disassembly; the listing also needs coalesced undefined runs,
+  IDA colour-tag spans, PER-OPERAND EXTENTS, function banners, code labels and
+  expanded struct members, plus the digest/`expect` protocol the paging layer
+  uses to skip re-sending a page that has not changed.
+* `op_format` / `pc_nums` / `pc_num_format` -- `o`/`O`. IDA's operand types and
+  Hex-Rays' per-(ea, opnum) numforms are separate sets, and neither is exposed.
+
+Keeping the originals rather than paraphrasing them is deliberate: this is the
+most performance-tuned and most behaviour-sensitive code in the project (the
+span walker is a single regex pass because a per-character loop was the most
+expensive thing the listing did, and the cycle only offers stops that change
+what you see). A re-implementation drifts from it silently.
+
+This file is SOURCE SHIPPED AS TEXT to the database process; it is never
+imported here, because the ida_* modules do not exist in the TUI's interpreter.
+`codemode_client` reads it and prepends it to the relevant snippets. Keep it
+self-contained: no relative imports, nothing beyond what Code Mode provides.
+"""
+# ruff: noqa
+import re as _re
+
+from typing import Annotated  # the extracted tool signatures still carry these
+
+
+class IDAError(Exception):
+    """The MCP host's error type; the tools raise/catch it by name."""
+
+
+def parse_address(addr):
+    """ida_pro_mcp.utils.parse_address: hex/decimal string, int, or a symbol."""
+    if isinstance(addr, int):
+        return addr
+    try:
+        return int(addr, 0)
+    except ValueError:
+        import idaapi
+        ea = idaapi.get_name_ea(idaapi.BADADDR, str(addr).strip())
+        if ea != idaapi.BADADDR:
+            return ea
+        raise IDAError(f"Not found: {addr!r}")
+
+
+#: Byte-identical to ida_pro_mcp.utils._STRING_OR_SPACES_RE: the pseudocode
+#: column coordinates the client holds depend on collapsing exactly the same way.
+_IDATUI_STRING_OR_SPACES_RE = _re.compile(
+    r'"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"'  # double-quoted string
+    r"|'(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*'"  # single-quoted string / char
+    r"|[ \t]{2,}"  # run of 2+ whitespace (outside strings)
+)
+
+
+def compact_whitespace(line: str) -> str:
+    """ida_pro_mcp.utils.compact_whitespace: collapse runs of 2+ spaces/tabs to
+    one, preserving string literals."""
+    stripped = line.lstrip(" \t")
+    if not stripped:
+        return line
+    lead = line[: len(line) - len(stripped)]
+
+    def _repl(m):
+        s = m.group()
+        if s[0] in ('"', "'"):
+            return s  # preserve string content
+        return " "
+
+    return lead + _IDATUI_STRING_OR_SPACES_RE.sub(_repl, stripped)
+
+
+def _idatui_head_row(ea, flags=None):
+    """One flat-listing row for the head at ``ea``: kind (code/data/unknown),
+    byte size, rendered text, and any symbol name.
+
+    ``flags`` lets a caller that already asked for them say so -- the walk in
+    ``heads`` used to fetch them three times per head (here, in _is_unknown from
+    _advance, and again from _rows_for).
+    """
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_lines
+    import ida_name
+
+    f = ida_bytes.get_flags(ea) if flags is None else flags
+    if ida_bytes.is_code(f):
+        kind = "code"
+    elif ida_bytes.is_data(f):
+        kind = "data"
+    else:
+        kind = "unknown"
+    line = ida_lines.generate_disasm_line(ea, 0)
+    text, spans, ops = _idatui_line_parts(line) if line else ("", None, None)
+    row = {
+        "ea": hex(ea),
+        "kind": kind,
+        "size": int(ida_bytes.get_item_size(ea)),
+        "text": text,
+    }
+    if spans is not None:
+        row["spans"] = spans
+        # Where each operand sits in `text`. Comes out of the same tag walk
+        # (free), and is what lets the client show WHICH literal a keypress
+        # would reformat before you press it.
+        if ops:
+            row["ops"] = ops
+    nm = ida_name.get_ea_name(ea)
+    if nm:
+        row["name"] = nm
+    return row
+
+
+import functools as _idatui_functools
+
+
+import os as _idatui_os
+
+
+_IDATUI_LINE_CACHE = int(_idatui_os.environ.get("IDATUI_LINE_CACHE") or 65536)
+
+
+def _idatui_line_parts(line):
+    """``(text, spans, ops)`` for one tagged disassembly line -- memoised.
+
+    A function of the tagged line and nothing else, so the same line always
+    gives the same answer: a rename changes the line, which changes the key.
+    And listings repeat themselves hard -- 196k lines of bash are 53k distinct
+    ones, so a 16k-entry cache serves ~70% of them and takes the per-line cost
+    from 10.4us to 3.9us. This is the most expensive thing the backend does per
+    listing row, and a jump to an address near the end of a big binary walks
+    hundreds of thousands of them.
+
+    ``spans`` is None when the tag walk and the plain text disagree about what
+    the line says (then the text wins and the row renders unhighlighted).
+
+    The returned lists are SHARED between every row that has the same line;
+    treat them as read-only. Pickle notices the sharing too, so a page of
+    repetitive disassembly also serialises smaller.
+    """
+    import ida_lines
+    text = " ".join(ida_lines.tag_remove(line).split())  # collapse the padding
+    spans, ops = _idatui_spans(line)
+    # Built from the SAME line as `text`, then whitespace-collapsed identically,
+    # so the two can never disagree about what the row says.
+    joined = "".join([t for _k, t in spans])
+    if " ".join(joined.split()) != text:
+        return (text, None, None)
+    return (text, spans, ops)
+
+
+def _idatui_head_row(ea, flags=None):
+    """One flat-listing row for the head at ``ea``: kind (code/data/unknown),
+    byte size, rendered text, and any symbol name.
+
+    ``flags`` lets a caller that already asked for them say so -- the walk in
+    ``heads`` used to fetch them three times per head (here, in _is_unknown from
+    _advance, and again from _rows_for).
+    """
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_lines
+    import ida_name
+
+    f = ida_bytes.get_flags(ea) if flags is None else flags
+    if ida_bytes.is_code(f):
+        kind = "code"
+    elif ida_bytes.is_data(f):
+        kind = "data"
+    else:
+        kind = "unknown"
+    line = ida_lines.generate_disasm_line(ea, 0)
+    text, spans, ops = _idatui_line_parts(line) if line else ("", None, None)
+    row = {
+        "ea": hex(ea),
+        "kind": kind,
+        "size": int(ida_bytes.get_item_size(ea)),
+        "text": text,
+    }
+    if spans is not None:
+        row["spans"] = spans
+        # Where each operand sits in `text`. Comes out of the same tag walk
+        # (free), and is what lets the client show WHICH literal a keypress
+        # would reformat before you press it.
+        if ops:
+            row["ops"] = ops
+    nm = ida_name.get_ea_name(ea)
+    if nm:
+        row["name"] = nm
+    return row
+
+
+import functools as _idatui_functools
+
+
+import os as _idatui_os
+
+
+_IDATUI_LINE_CACHE = int(_idatui_os.environ.get("IDATUI_LINE_CACHE") or 65536)
+
+
+@_idatui_functools.lru_cache(maxsize=_IDATUI_LINE_CACHE)
+def _idatui_line_parts(line):
+    """``(text, spans, ops)`` for one tagged disassembly line -- memoised.
+
+    A function of the tagged line and nothing else, so the same line always
+    gives the same answer: a rename changes the line, which changes the key.
+    And listings repeat themselves hard -- 196k lines of bash are 53k distinct
+    ones, so a 16k-entry cache serves ~70% of them and takes the per-line cost
+    from 10.4us to 3.9us. This is the most expensive thing the backend does per
+    listing row, and a jump to an address near the end of a big binary walks
+    hundreds of thousands of them.
+
+    ``spans`` is None when the tag walk and the plain text disagree about what
+    the line says (then the text wins and the row renders unhighlighted).
+
+    The returned lists are SHARED between every row that has the same line;
+    treat them as read-only. Pickle notices the sharing too, so a page of
+    repetitive disassembly also serialises smaller.
+    """
+    import ida_lines
+    text = " ".join(ida_lines.tag_remove(line).split())  # collapse the padding
+    spans, ops = _idatui_spans(line)
+    # Built from the SAME line as `text`, then whitespace-collapsed identically,
+    # so the two can never disagree about what the row says.
+    joined = "".join([t for _k, t in spans])
+    if " ".join(joined.split()) != text:
+        return (text, None, None)
+    return (text, spans, ops)
+
+
+_IDATUI_SPAN_KINDS = {
+    "insn": ("SCOLOR_INSN", "SCOLOR_KEYWORD", "SCOLOR_ASMDIR", "SCOLOR_MACRO"),
+    "reg": ("SCOLOR_REG",),
+    "num": ("SCOLOR_NUMBER", "SCOLOR_CHAR", "SCOLOR_BINPREF"),
+    "str": ("SCOLOR_STRING",),
+    # NB the real constant names: DATNAME/CODNAME, not "DNAME". Guessing here
+    # fails silently — an unmapped tag renders as plain body text, so symbols
+    # just quietly aren't blue and nothing tells you why.
+    "name": ("SCOLOR_DATNAME", "SCOLOR_CODNAME", "SCOLOR_LOCNAME",
+             "SCOLOR_IMPNAME", "SCOLOR_DEMNAME", "SCOLOR_LIBNAME",
+             "SCOLOR_CNAME", "SCOLOR_DNAME",
+             "SCOLOR_CREF", "SCOLOR_DREF", "SCOLOR_CREFTAIL", "SCOLOR_DREFTAIL"),
+    "seg": ("SCOLOR_SEGNAME",),
+    "cmt": ("SCOLOR_AUTOCMT", "SCOLOR_REGCMT", "SCOLOR_RPTCMT", "SCOLOR_VOIDOP"),
+    "punct": ("SCOLOR_SYMBOL", "SCOLOR_ALTOP", "SCOLOR_HIDNAME"),
+    "err": ("SCOLOR_ERROR",),
+}
+
+
+def _idatui_tag_map():
+    """{tag character: kind}, built once from whatever this IDA actually has."""
+    import ida_lines
+    out = {}
+    for kind, names in _IDATUI_SPAN_KINDS.items():
+        for n in names:
+            v = getattr(ida_lines, n, None)
+            if isinstance(v, str) and v:
+                out[v[0]] = kind
+            elif isinstance(v, int):
+                out[chr(v)] = kind
+    return out
+
+
+_IDATUI_TAGS = None
+
+
+_IDATUI_OPND_TAGS = None
+
+
+_IDATUI_CTL = None   # re: a tag = one of three control chars plus its argument
+
+
+_IDATUI_TAGINFO = None
+
+
+def _idatui_opnd_tag_map():
+    """{tag character: operand index}. IDA wraps each operand of a disassembly
+    line in COLOR_OPND1..8, so the line already says where operand N starts and
+    ends -- no need to re-render operands with print_operand to find out (and
+    the two agree exactly; checked over thousands of instructions)."""
+    import ida_lines
+    out = {}
+    for i in range(1, 9):
+        v = getattr(ida_lines, "COLOR_OPND%d" % i, None)
+        if isinstance(v, int):
+            out[chr(v)] = i - 1
+        elif isinstance(v, str) and v:
+            out[v[0]] = i - 1
+    return out
+
+
+def _idatui_spans(line):
+    """(spans, ops) for a tagged disasm line.
+
+    ``spans`` is [[kind, text], ...] with colour tags resolved; ``ops`` is
+    [[start, end, n], ...], the extent of each operand in the SAME (collapsed)
+    coordinates the row's ``text`` uses -- which is what lets a cursor column
+    name the operand it is standing on.
+
+    Unknown tags become 'text' rather than being dropped: a processor module can
+    emit a colour we don't classify, and losing the characters would corrupt the
+    line."""
+    global _IDATUI_TAGS, _IDATUI_OPND_TAGS, _IDATUI_CTL, _IDATUI_TAGINFO
+    import ida_lines
+    if _IDATUI_TAGS is None:
+        _IDATUI_TAGS = _idatui_tag_map()
+    if _IDATUI_OPND_TAGS is None:
+        _IDATUI_OPND_TAGS = _idatui_opnd_tag_map()
+    if _IDATUI_CTL is None:
+        import re as _re
+        # One capturing split gives [text, tag, text, tag, ..., text] in a
+        # single C pass. A per-character python loop over the line used to be
+        # the most expensive thing the `heads` tool did, and a line is ~54
+        # characters but only ~13 tags -- everything between two tags is already
+        # exactly one span's worth of text.
+        _IDATUI_CTL = _re.compile("([\\x01\\x02\\x03](?s:.))")
+    if _IDATUI_TAGINFO is None:
+        _IDATUI_TAGINFO = {
+            tag: (_IDATUI_TAGS.get(tag, "text"), _IDATUI_OPND_TAGS.get(tag))
+            for tag in set(_IDATUI_TAGS) | set(_IDATUI_OPND_TAGS)}
+    taginfo = _IDATUI_TAGINFO
+    plain_tag = ("text", None)
+    on, off, esc = "\x01", "\x02", "\x03"
+    addr_tag = chr(getattr(ida_lines, "COLOR_ADDR", 0x28))
+    addr_len = int(getattr(ida_lines, "COLOR_ADDR_SIZE", 16))
+    parts = _IDATUI_CTL.split(line)
+    spans, stack = [], []            # stack entries: (kind, operand index|None)
+    kind, opnd = "text", None        # state the current run of text belongs to
+    pend = ""
+    skip = 0                         # characters of an address payload still due
+    i, n = 0, len(parts)
+    while i < n:
+        txt = parts[i]
+        i += 1
+        if skip:
+            if len(txt) <= skip:
+                skip -= len(txt)
+                txt = ""
+            else:
+                txt = txt[skip:]
+                skip = 0
+        if txt:
+            pend += txt
+        if i >= n:
+            break
+        pair = parts[i]
+        i += 1
+        if skip:                     # a tag INSIDE an address payload: 2 chars
+            skip = skip - 2 if skip > 2 else 0
+            continue
+        ch = pair[0]
+        if ch == esc:                # escaped literal: keep the char it guards
+            pend += pair[1]
+            continue
+        tag = pair[1]
+        if ch == on and tag == addr_tag:
+            # An embedded target address, not display text: 16 hex digits that
+            # must not reach the screen. Deliberately NOT a span boundary.
+            skip = addr_len
+            continue
+        if pend:
+            spans.append([kind, pend, opnd])
+            pend = ""
+        if ch == on:
+            stack.append((kind, opnd))
+            kind, o = taginfo.get(tag, plain_tag)
+            if o is not None:
+                opnd = o     # operands nest: an inner colour keeps the operand
+        elif stack:
+            kind, opnd = stack.pop()
+        else:
+            kind, opnd = "text", None
+    if pend:
+        spans.append([kind, pend, opnd])
+    # Collapse IDA's column padding EXACTLY as the plain text does. A run of
+    # spaces can straddle two spans, so the leading space of a span is dropped
+    # when the previous one ended in space — otherwise the spans and `text`
+    # disagree about the line and the row silently loses its highlighting.
+    # ``" ".join(txt.split())`` splits on exactly what str.isspace() calls
+    # whitespace, which is what the character walk this replaces tested.
+    out, prev_space = [], False
+    for kind, txt, opnd in spans:
+        core = " ".join(txt.split())
+        if core == txt:
+            # Nothing to collapse and no edge whitespace -- which is the common
+            # case ("mov", "rax", ", ") and skips both isspace() probes below.
+            prev_space = False
+            out.append([kind, txt, opnd])
+            continue
+        if not core:                 # the span is nothing but padding
+            if not prev_space:
+                prev_space = True
+                out.append([kind, " ", opnd])
+            continue
+        acc = core
+        if txt[0].isspace() and not prev_space:
+            acc = " " + acc
+        if txt[-1].isspace():
+            acc += " "
+        prev_space = acc[-1] == " "
+        out.append([kind, acc, opnd])
+    while out and out[0][1] == " ":
+        out.pop(0)
+    while out and out[-1][1] == " ":
+        out.pop()
+    if out and out[0][1].startswith(" "):
+        out[0][1] = out[0][1].lstrip()
+    if out and out[-1][1].endswith(" "):
+        out[-1][1] = out[-1][1].rstrip()
+    out = [s for s in out if s[1]]
+    # Operand extents, in the coordinates of the collapsed text these spans
+    # spell out. Adjacent spans of the same operand merge, so an operand like
+    # ``[rbp+var_40]`` (five differently-coloured tokens) comes back as ONE
+    # range -- which is the thing a cursor is inside of, and the thing a format
+    # change applies to.
+    ops, pos, cur, start = [], 0, None, 0
+    for _kind, txt, opnd in out:
+        if opnd != cur:
+            if cur is not None and pos > start:
+                ops.append([start, pos, cur])
+            cur, start = opnd, pos
+        pos += len(txt)
+    if cur is not None and pos > start:
+        ops.append([start, pos, cur])
+    text = "".join(t for _k, t, _o in out)
+    trimmed = []
+    for lo, hi, k in ops:                 # don't let a range own trailing space
+        while hi > lo and text[hi - 1].isspace():
+            hi -= 1
+        while lo < hi and text[lo].isspace():
+            lo += 1
+        if hi > lo:
+            trimmed.append([lo, hi, k])
+    return [[k, t] for k, t, _o in out], trimmed
+
+
+def _idatui_rows_digest(rows):
+    """A value that changes whenever any of ``rows`` would render differently.
+
+    Covers everything a client keeps off a row: address, kind, size, the plain
+    text, the symbol name and the colour spans (which is what makes it exact
+    rather than a heuristic -- two lines can collapse to the same text and still
+    be coloured differently).
+
+    Uses the interpreter's own ``hash``, deliberately. It never has to mean
+    anything outside this process: the client stores what a page hashed to when
+    it loaded it and hands the same number back to ask whether the page still
+    hashes to that. One worker, one process, one hash seed.
+    """
+    acc = 0
+    # The per-line render is memoised, so one spans list is shared by every row
+    # that says the same thing -- about 45% of them within a page. Hash each
+    # distinct list once and key that by identity, rather than rebuilding a
+    # tuple of tuples per row (which is the exact cost that was measured and
+    # removed from the client side for the same reason).
+    seen = {}
+    for r in rows:
+        sp = r.get("spans")
+        if sp is None:
+            sh = None
+        else:
+            key = id(sp)
+            sh = seen.get(key)
+            if sh is None:
+                sh = seen[key] = hash(tuple(map(tuple, sp)))
+        acc = hash((acc, r.get("ea"), r.get("kind"), r.get("size"),
+                    r.get("text"), r.get("name"), sh))
+    return acc
+
+
+def _idatui_unknown_row(ea, size):
+    """One collapsed row for a run of ``size`` undefined bytes starting at
+    ``ea``. A single byte is rendered normally (shows its value); a longer run
+    collapses to ``db N dup(?)`` so a big .bss/gap doesn't explode into millions
+    of one-byte rows."""
+    import ida_name
+
+    if size <= 1:
+        return _idatui_head_row(ea)
+    row = {"ea": hex(ea), "kind": "unknown", "size": int(size),
+           "text": f"db {size} dup(?)"}
+    nm = ida_name.get_ea_name(ea)
+    if nm:
+        row["name"] = nm
+    return row
+
+
+def _idatui_struct_member_rows(ea):
+    """Indented member rows for a struct-typed data item at ``ea`` (expansion),
+    or [] if it isn't a struct. Top-level fields only."""
+    import ida_nalt
+    import ida_typeinf
+    import idaapi
+
+    tif = ida_typeinf.tinfo_t()
+    if not (ida_nalt.get_tinfo(tif, ea) and tif.is_udt()):
+        return []
+    udt = ida_typeinf.udt_type_data_t()
+    if not tif.get_udt_details(udt):
+        return []
+    rows = []
+    for m in udt:
+        off = m.begin() // 8
+        try:
+            mtype = m.type._print() or ""
+        except Exception:
+            mtype = ""
+        try:
+            sz = int(m.type.get_size())
+            if sz == idaapi.BADSIZE:
+                sz = 0
+        except Exception:
+            sz = 0
+        name = m.name or ""
+        text = f"+{off:X} {name}" + (f" {mtype}" if mtype else "")
+        rows.append({"ea": hex(ea + off), "kind": "member", "size": sz,
+                     "text": text})
+    return rows
+
+
+def _idatui_func_header_rows(ea):
+    """IDA-style subroutine banner rows shown just before a function's entry."""
+    import ida_funcs
+
+    name = ida_funcs.get_func_name(ea) or "sub_%X" % ea
+    bar = "=" * 15 + " S U B R O U T I N E " + "=" * 15
+    return [
+        {"ea": hex(ea), "kind": "sep", "size": 0, "text": ""},
+        {"ea": hex(ea), "kind": "sep", "size": 0, "text": "; " + bar},
+        {"ea": hex(ea), "kind": "funchdr", "size": 0,
+         "text": name + " proc", "name": name},
+    ]
+
+
+def _idatui_func_footer_rows(ea, func):
+    """End-of-function marker shown just after a function's last item."""
+    import ida_funcs
+
+    name = ida_funcs.get_func_name(func.start_ea) or "sub_%X" % func.start_ea
+    return [
+        {"ea": hex(ea), "kind": "funchdr", "size": 0,
+         "text": name + " endp", "name": name},
+        {"ea": hex(ea), "kind": "sep", "size": 0, "text": "; " + "-" * 60},
+    ]
+
+
+def heads(
+    addr: Annotated[str, "Start address or name to walk from"],
+    count: Annotated[int, "Max heads to return (default 200, max 2000)"] = 200,
+    offset: Annotated[int, "Skip first N heads from addr (default 0)"] = 0,
+    end: Annotated[str, "Optional exclusive end address; default = segment end"] = "",
+    back: Annotated[bool, "Walk backwards: return the count heads ENDING just before addr, in forward order"] = False,
+    annotate: Annotated[bool, "Emit IDA-style function boundary banner rows (kind sep/funchdr)"] = False,
+    expect: Annotated[str, "Digest a caller already holds: the rows are omitted when they still hash to it"] = "",
+) -> dict:
+    """Walk item heads from ``addr`` as a flat listing: every head is rendered
+    (code OR data OR undefined) via generate_disasm_line and stepped with
+    next_head/prev_head. Unlike ``disasm`` (code-only, bails at the first data
+    byte) this shows db/dw/dd/... lines for data and undefined regions — IDA's
+    real disassembly view. Address-paged: page forward by re-calling with
+    ``addr`` = the returned cursor.next; page up with ``back=true``."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_segment
+    import idaapi
+
+    count = 2000 if count > 2000 else (1 if count < 1 else count)
+    offset = max(int(offset), 0)
+    try:
+        start = parse_address(addr)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": str(e), "heads": [], "cursor": {"done": True}}
+    seg = ida_segment.getseg(start)
+    if not seg:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": "no segment", "heads": [], "cursor": {"done": True}}
+    lo, hi = seg.start_ea, seg.end_ea
+    if end:
+        try:
+            hi = min(hi, parse_address(end))
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+    rows = []
+    if back:
+        # Collect up to (count+offset) heads strictly before `start`, then take
+        # the window closest to `start`, returned in forward order.
+        walk = []
+        cur = ida_bytes.prev_head(start, lo)
+        while cur != idaapi.BADADDR and cur >= lo and len(walk) < count + offset:
+            walk.append(cur)
+            cur = ida_bytes.prev_head(cur, lo)
+        walk.reverse()
+        chosen = walk[: len(walk) - offset] if offset else walk
+        chosen = chosen[-count:]
+        rows = [_idatui_head_row(e) for e in chosen]
+        first = chosen[0] if chosen else start
+        pea = ida_bytes.prev_head(first, lo)
+        cursor = {"done": True} if pea == idaapi.BADADDR or pea < lo else {"prev": hex(pea)}
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "heads": rows, "cursor": cursor}
+
+    # Walk by item END (not next_head): next_head SKIPS undefined bytes, but a
+    # flat listing must show them (IDA renders undefined as `db ?` lines, and
+    # navigating to an unmarked address must land ON it). Defined items advance
+    # by get_item_end; a run of undefined bytes is COLLAPSED into one row (its
+    # end found in O(1) via next_head, which skips undefined) so a large .bss or
+    # gap doesn't explode into millions of one-byte rows.
+    def _is_unknown_f(f):
+        return not (ida_bytes.is_code(f) or ida_bytes.is_data(f))
+
+    def _run_end(e):
+        """End (exclusive) of the undefined run starting at ``e``."""
+        nh = ida_bytes.next_head(e, hi)
+        return nh if (nh != idaapi.BADADDR and e < nh <= hi) else hi
+
+    def _advance(e, f):
+        if _is_unknown_f(f):
+            return _run_end(e)
+        nxt = ida_bytes.get_item_end(e)
+        return nxt if nxt > e else e + 1
+
+    # The function the walk is currently inside, reused while it stays inside.
+    # get_func is ~0.5us and the walk asks per head; a head is nearly always in
+    # the same function as the one before it. Only ever consulted when ``e``
+    # falls in [start_ea, end_ea), so a tail chunk elsewhere cannot be
+    # misattributed -- checked against get_func over 437k heads of
+    # bash/ls_ttl/echo with zero disagreements.
+    fn_cache = [None]
+
+    def _func_at(e):
+        cur = fn_cache[0]
+        if cur is not None and cur.start_ea <= e < cur.end_ea:
+            return cur
+        cur = idaapi.get_func(e)
+        fn_cache[0] = cur
+        return cur
+
+    def _rows_for(e, f):
+        if _is_unknown_f(f):
+            return [_idatui_unknown_row(e, _run_end(e) - e)]
+        func = _func_at(e) if annotate else None
+        at_start = func is not None and func.start_ea == e
+        out = []
+        if at_start:
+            out.extend(_idatui_func_header_rows(e))
+        row = _idatui_head_row(e, f)
+        if at_start:
+            row = dict(row)
+            row["name"] = None  # the name is shown on the proc header line
+        elif annotate and row.get("kind") == "code" and row.get("name"):
+            # A code label (loc_XXX/jump target) gets its OWN line at depth 0,
+            # like IDA; strip it from the instruction row below.
+            nm = row["name"]
+            out.append({"ea": hex(e), "kind": "label", "size": 0,
+                        "text": nm + ":", "name": nm})
+            row = dict(row)
+            row["name"] = None
+        out.append(row)
+        if row.get("kind") == "data":
+            out.extend(_idatui_struct_member_rows(e))  # expand struct fields
+        if func is not None and ida_bytes.get_item_end(e) >= func.end_ea:
+            out.extend(_idatui_func_footer_rows(e, func))
+        return out
+
+    ea = ida_bytes.get_item_head(start)
+    get_flags = ida_bytes.get_flags
+    for _ in range(offset):
+        if ea >= hi or ea == idaapi.BADADDR:
+            break
+        ea = _advance(ea, get_flags(ea))
+    more = False
+    while ea != idaapi.BADADDR and ea < hi:
+        if len(rows) >= count:
+            more = True
+            break
+        f = get_flags(ea)            # once per head, not once per consumer
+        rows.extend(_rows_for(ea, f))  # a struct head expands into member rows
+        ea = _advance(ea, f)
+    cursor = {"next": hex(ea)} if more else {"done": True}
+    dig = _idatui_rows_digest(rows)
+    out = {"addr": str(addr), "cursor": cursor, "digest": dig, "count": len(rows)}
+    # ``expect`` says "I already hold a page that hashed to this". The rows are
+    # built either way -- generate_disasm_line is the floor and there is no way
+    # to know a line is unchanged without rendering it -- but pickling several
+    # hundred rows with their colour spans, unpickling them and rebuilding Heads
+    # is about 40% of what a page costs, and after a rename almost every page
+    # comes back identical.
+    #
+    # It carries the expected value rather than being a yes/no "digest mode" so
+    # that a page which HAS changed still costs one round trip: asking first and
+    # fetching afterwards made every changed page two.
+    if not (expect and str(dig) == expect):
+        out["heads"] = rows
+    return out
+
+
+_IDATUI_FMT_CYCLE = ("hex", "dec", "bin", "char", "offset", "default")
+
+
+_IDATUI_FMT_SETTABLE = ("hex", "dec", "oct", "bin", "char", "offset", "seg",
+                        "float", "stack", "default")
+
+
+def _idatui_fmt_nibbles():
+    """{format name: IDA operand-type nibble}. Built on call, not at import:
+    this module is injected into a file that is imported before a database is
+    open."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    return {
+        "default": ida_bytes.FF_N_VOID, "hex": ida_bytes.FF_N_NUMH,
+        "dec": ida_bytes.FF_N_NUMD, "char": ida_bytes.FF_N_CHAR,
+        "seg": ida_bytes.FF_N_SEG, "offset": ida_bytes.FF_N_OFF,
+        "bin": ida_bytes.FF_N_NUMB, "oct": ida_bytes.FF_N_NUMO,
+        "enum": ida_bytes.FF_N_ENUM, "forced": ida_bytes.FF_N_FOP,
+        "stroff": ida_bytes.FF_N_STRO, "stack": ida_bytes.FF_N_STK,
+        "float": ida_bytes.FF_N_FLT, "custom": ida_bytes.FF_N_CUST,
+    }
+
+
+def _idatui_fmt_name(nib):
+    for name, v in _idatui_fmt_nibbles().items():
+        if v == nib:
+            return name
+    return "default"
+
+
+def _idatui_op_fmt(ea, n):
+    """The format operand ``n`` of the item at ``ea`` is currently displayed in.
+
+    Reads the nibble IDA keeps per operand rather than guessing from the text --
+    ``1`` renders identically in hex and decimal, so the rendered line cannot
+    answer this."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    F = ida_bytes.get_flags(ea)
+    nib = (F >> ida_bytes.get_operand_type_shift(int(n))) & 0xF
+    return _idatui_fmt_name(nib)
+
+
+def _idatui_op_value(ea, n):
+    """(value, byte width) of operand ``n``, or (None, 0) if it hasn't got one.
+
+    The value is what decides which formats are OFFERED: a character constant
+    for 0x38A9 or an offset to an unmapped address are stops worth skipping."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_ua
+
+    F = ida_bytes.get_flags(ea)
+    if ida_bytes.is_code(F):
+        insn = ida_ua.insn_t()
+        if ida_ua.decode_insn(insn, ea) <= 0:
+            return None, 0
+        try:
+            op = insn.ops[int(n)]
+        except Exception:
+            return None, 0
+        if op.type == ida_ua.o_void:
+            return None, 0
+        v = op.value if op.type == ida_ua.o_imm else op.addr
+        try:
+            size = int(ida_ua.get_dtype_size(op.dtype))
+        except Exception:
+            size = 0
+        return int(v), size
+    size = int(ida_bytes.get_item_size(ea))
+    read = {1: ida_bytes.get_byte, 2: ida_bytes.get_word,
+            4: ida_bytes.get_dword, 8: ida_bytes.get_qword}.get(size)
+    if read is None:
+        return None, size
+    try:
+        return int(read(ea)), size
+    except Exception:
+        return None, size
+
+
+def _idatui_printable(v):
+    """Whether ``v`` would actually render as a character constant. IDA accepts
+    op_chr on anything and then prints the number anyway, so a cycle that offers
+    'char' for 0x18 has a stop where nothing visibly happens."""
+    if v is None or v < 0 or v > 0xFFFFFFFF:
+        return False
+    bs, x = [], int(v)
+    while True:
+        bs.append(x & 0xFF)
+        x >>= 8
+        if not x:
+            break
+    return all(0x20 <= b <= 0x7E or b in (9, 10, 13) for b in bs)
+
+
+def _idatui_offset_worth(v):
+    """Whether 'offset' is worth OFFERING as a cycle stop for value ``v``.
+
+    Making an offset is not free: IDA invents a dummy name at the target
+    (``off_18``) and that name STAYS once you cycle past it. So the ring only
+    stops there when the target is already something you could name -- a symbol,
+    a function, or an item something else references. In a PIE at base 0 half
+    the small constants in a function are 'mapped' (they land in the ELF
+    header); ``sub rsp, 18h`` is not a reference and must not offer to become
+    one on the way past.
+
+    An explicit request still converts anything mapped: that's a decision, not a
+    keypress that happened to land here. After it, the target HAS a name, so the
+    ring includes the stop from then on."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_name
+
+    return bool(v and ida_bytes.is_mapped(v) and ida_name.get_ea_name(v))
+
+
+def _idatui_op_candidates(ea):
+    """Operand indices at ``ea`` whose display format is worth changing.
+
+    Immediates and displacements -- the literals. Deliberately NOT:
+
+    * branch targets (o_near/o_far), or every jump on the listing would offer to
+      become a bare number, on a view you navigate by label;
+    * memory references (o_mem), e.g. x86-64's RIP-relative ``lea rdi, name``.
+      IDA prints those from the reference, not from the operand's number format,
+      so setting one is accepted and changes nothing on screen -- a keypress
+      that appears to do nothing is worse than one that says it can't.
+
+    An explicit ``n`` still reaches them; this is what a bare cursor picks."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_ua
+
+    F = ida_bytes.get_flags(ea)
+    if ida_bytes.is_data(F):
+        return [0]              # a data item's value is operand 0
+    if not ida_bytes.is_code(F):
+        return []               # undefined bytes: IDA refuses a format outright
+    insn = ida_ua.insn_t()
+    if ida_ua.decode_insn(insn, ea) <= 0:
+        return []
+    want = (ida_ua.o_imm, ida_ua.o_displ)
+    out = []
+    for i in range(len(insn.ops)):
+        op = insn.ops[i]
+        if op.type == ida_ua.o_void:
+            break
+        if op.type in want:
+            out.append(i)
+    return out
+
+
+def _idatui_op_spans(ea, text):
+    """[(start, end, n)] -- where each operand sits inside ``text`` (the
+    whitespace-collapsed line the TUI shows), so a cursor column can name the
+    operand it is standing on.
+
+    Read out of IDA's own COLOR_OPND markers on the line, which is both free
+    (the line is generated anyway) and exact. print_operand is kept as a
+    fallback for a processor module that emits no operand markers -- it agrees
+    with the tags where both exist, but it re-renders every operand to say so.
+    """
+    import ida_lines
+    import ida_ua
+
+    line = ida_lines.generate_disasm_line(ea, 0)
+    if line:
+        _spans, ops = _idatui_spans(line)
+        if ops:
+            return [tuple(o) for o in ops]
+
+    out, pos = [], 0
+    for n in range(8):
+        try:
+            raw = ida_ua.print_operand(ea, n)
+        except Exception:
+            raw = None
+        if not raw:
+            continue
+        op = " ".join(ida_lines.tag_remove(raw).split())
+        if not op:
+            continue
+        i = text.find(op, pos)
+        if i < 0:                      # duplicated operand text (mov eax, eax)
+            i = text.find(op)
+        if i < 0:
+            continue
+        out.append((i, i + len(op), n))
+        pos = i + len(op)
+    return out
+
+
+def _idatui_line_text(ea):
+    import ida_lines
+    line = ida_lines.generate_disasm_line(ea, 0)
+    return " ".join(ida_lines.tag_remove(line).split()) if line else ""
+
+
+def _idatui_op_text(ea, text, n):
+    """How operand ``n`` reads on the line, for a message that names it."""
+    for lo, hi, i in _idatui_op_spans(ea, text):
+        if i == int(n):
+            return text[lo:hi].strip()
+    return ""
+
+
+def _idatui_apply_fmt(ea, n, fmt):
+    """Set operand ``n``'s display format. Returns (ok, error)."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_offset
+    import idaapi
+
+    n = int(n)
+    if fmt == "default":
+        return bool(ida_bytes.clr_op_type(ea, n)), ""
+    if fmt == "offset":
+        base = ida_offset.calc_offset_base(ea, n)
+        if base in (idaapi.BADADDR, None) or base < 0:
+            base = 0
+        return bool(ida_offset.op_plain_offset(ea, n, base)), ""
+    fn = {"hex": ida_bytes.op_hex, "dec": ida_bytes.op_dec,
+          "oct": ida_bytes.op_oct, "bin": ida_bytes.op_bin,
+          "char": ida_bytes.op_chr, "seg": ida_bytes.op_seg,
+          "float": ida_bytes.op_flt, "stack": ida_bytes.op_stkvar}.get(fmt)
+    if fn is None:
+        return False, (f"can't set {fmt!r} from a name alone"
+                       if fmt in _idatui_fmt_nibbles() else
+                       f"unknown format {fmt!r}")
+    return bool(fn(ea, n)), ""
+
+
+def op_format(
+    addr: Annotated[str, "Address of the instruction or data item"],
+    mode: Annotated[str, "cycle | back | show | hex | dec | oct | bin | char | offset | stack | default"] = "cycle",
+    col: Annotated[int, "Cursor column inside the rendered line (-1: first literal)"] = -1,
+    n: Annotated[int, "Operand index; -1 derives it from ``col``"] = -1,
+) -> dict:
+    """Change how a literal is DISPLAYED (IDA's 'o' family): hex, decimal,
+    binary, character, or an offset to the address it names.
+
+    The value in the bytes never changes -- only the representation IDA renders
+    and remembers. ``cycle``/``back`` step the stops that make sense for THIS
+    operand: 'char' is skipped unless the value prints as one, 'offset' unless
+    the target is already named, so no press is ever a no-op you have to press
+    again. ``show`` reports without changing anything.
+
+    A format the ring can't hold (a stack variable, an enum) is reported in
+    ``warn`` on the way out, with what to do about it -- ``mode`` takes any of
+    the names above outright, which is also how you put one back.
+
+    Which operand: ``n`` if given, else the one under ``col`` (a column in the
+    whitespace-collapsed line, as ``heads`` renders it), else the first literal
+    on the line."""
+    import ida_bytes
+
+    try:
+        ea = ida_bytes.get_item_head(parse_address(addr))
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": str(e)}
+
+    before = _idatui_line_text(ea)
+    cands = _idatui_op_candidates(ea)
+    n = int(n)
+    if n < 0:
+        n = -1
+        if int(col) >= 0:
+            for lo, hi, i in _idatui_op_spans(ea, before):
+                if not (lo <= int(col) < hi):
+                    continue
+                if i in cands:
+                    n = i
+                    break
+                # The cursor IS on an operand, just not one with a format. The
+                # client highlights what the cursor is on, so quietly moving to
+                # a different operand would make that highlight a lie -- say
+                # which one can be changed instead.
+                where = before[lo:hi].strip()
+                alt = (f"; the literal on this line is operand {cands[0]} "
+                       f"({_idatui_op_text(ea, before, cands[0])})"
+                       if cands else "")
+                return {"addr": hex(ea), "n": i, "text": before,
+                        "error": f"operand {i} ({where}) has no format to "
+                                 f"change{alt}"}
+        if n < 0:
+            if not cands:
+                F = ida_bytes.get_flags(ea)
+                why = ("no literal on this line to reformat"
+                       if ida_bytes.is_code(F) or ida_bytes.is_data(F) else
+                       "undefined bytes have no format to change -- define "
+                       "them first ('d' makes data, 'c' makes code)")
+                return {"addr": hex(ea), "text": before, "error": why}
+            n = cands[0]
+
+    cur = _idatui_op_fmt(ea, n)
+    value, width = _idatui_op_value(ea, n)
+    mapped = value is not None and value != 0 and ida_bytes.is_mapped(value)
+    # The ring is a property of the OPERAND, not of what you last pressed: every
+    # stop is one that changes what you see for this value, and it is the same
+    # ring at every step, so a lap always comes home.
+    choices = [f for f in _IDATUI_FMT_CYCLE
+               if (f != "char" or _idatui_printable(value))
+               and (f != "offset" or _idatui_offset_worth(value))]
+    # A stack variable is deliberately NOT a stop: ``[rbp+var_40]`` is a frame
+    # member, not a way of writing a number, and IDA's own "is this a stack
+    # variable" test isn't exposed to Python here (calc_stkvar_struc_offset
+    # happily answers for ``[r14+8]`` too, which would put a bogus stop in the
+    # ring). Leaving one is reported instead, with the command that undoes it.
+    lossy = cur not in choices and cur != "default"
+
+    mode = str(mode or "cycle").lower()
+    if mode == "show":
+        return {"addr": hex(ea), "n": n, "format": cur, "prev": cur,
+                "choices": choices, "text": before, "before": before,
+                "value": None if value is None else hex(value),
+                "width": width, "applied": False}
+    if mode in ("cycle", "back"):
+        step = 1 if mode == "cycle" else -1
+        if cur in choices:
+            want = choices[(choices.index(cur) + step) % len(choices)]
+        else:
+            # Standing on a format the ring can't hold (an enum names a type a
+            # nibble doesn't record): enter the ring at its end, don't skip a
+            # stop working out where we "would have" been.
+            want = choices[0] if step > 0 else choices[-1]
+    else:
+        want = mode
+        if want not in _idatui_fmt_nibbles():
+            return {"addr": hex(ea), "n": n, "text": before,
+                    "error": f"unknown format {mode!r}; one of "
+                             + ", ".join(_IDATUI_FMT_SETTABLE)}
+        if want == "offset" and not mapped:
+            return {"addr": hex(ea), "n": n, "text": before, "format": cur,
+                    "error": (f"{'0x%x' % value if value is not None else 'this operand'}"
+                              " isn't a mapped address -- an offset to it would"
+                              " invent a name for nothing")}
+
+    ok, err = _idatui_apply_fmt(ea, n, want)
+    if err:
+        return {"addr": hex(ea), "n": n, "text": before, "format": cur,
+                "error": err}
+    got = _idatui_op_fmt(ea, n)
+    out = {"addr": hex(ea), "n": n, "prev": cur, "format": got,
+           "requested": want, "applied": bool(ok), "choices": choices,
+           "before": before, "text": _idatui_line_text(ea),
+           "value": None if value is None else hex(value), "width": width}
+    if not ok:
+        out["error"] = f"IDA refused {want} on operand {n}"
+    elif lossy:
+        out["warn"] = (
+            f"operand {n} was {cur} and the ring has no stop there -- "
+            + (f"'{cur}' sets it again" if cur in _IDATUI_FMT_SETTABLE else
+               f"{cur} names a type this can't put back, reassign it by hand"))
+    return out
+
+
+_IDATUI_PC_FMT_CYCLE = ("hex", "dec", "oct", "char", "default")
+
+
+def _idatui_compact(line):
+    """The ida-pro-mcp whitespace collapse the pseudocode is served through, so
+    a column in what the client SHOWS can be mapped back to Hex-Rays' line.
+
+    DEVIATION FROM THE EXTRACTED ORIGINAL, deliberately: this used to be
+    ``from ida_pro_mcp.ida_mcp.utils import compact_whitespace`` inside a
+    try/except, with a plain ``[ \\t]{2,}`` regex as the fallback. Under Code
+    Mode ida_pro_mcp is not installed in the database process, so BOTH halves
+    of that were wrong:
+
+    * the import failed on every call, and a failed import is never cached, so
+      each one re-searched the whole of sys.path -- 422 failures per pc_nums
+      call, which was the majority of its runtime;
+    * the fallback collapses runs of spaces INSIDE STRING LITERALS, which the
+      real function preserves. Pseudocode columns are served in these
+      coordinates, so a line containing a string with two spaces would have put
+      every literal's mark, and every reformat, on the wrong column.
+
+    The module-level shim above is byte-identical to the original regex, so
+    call it directly.
+    """
+    return compact_whitespace(line)
+
+
+def _idatui_compact_col(plain, compact, col):
+    """The inverse of ``_idatui_uncompact_col``: a column in Hex-Rays' own line,
+    expressed in the collapsed line the client shows."""
+    j = 0
+    for i in range(min(int(col), len(plain))):
+        if j < len(compact) and plain[i] == compact[j]:
+            j += 1
+    return j
+
+
+def _idatui_uncompact_col(plain, compact, col):
+    """Map a column in the collapsed line back to the same character in the
+    original. The transform only ever DELETES spaces, so walking both in step
+    and skipping what vanished is exact."""
+    i = 0
+    for j in range(min(int(col), len(compact))):
+        c = compact[j]
+        while i < len(plain) and plain[i] != c:
+            i += 1
+        i += 1
+    return min(i, max(len(plain) - 1, 0))
+
+
+_IDATUI_LIT_CHARS = frozenset("0123456789abcdefABCDEFxXuUlL")
+
+
+def _idatui_lit_extent(plain, x):
+    """The [start, end) of the literal token containing column ``x``.
+
+    Hex-Rays says WHICH item a column belongs to, but not how wide the printed
+    literal is -- and it attributes neighbouring punctuation to the same item,
+    so ``if ( a1 > 1 )`` reports the closing paren as part of the number. The
+    identity comes from the ctree; the extent is the run of literal characters
+    around the column, which cannot reach a ``)`` or a space."""
+    if x >= len(plain):
+        return None
+    if plain[x] == "'":                       # a character constant: '-'
+        end = plain.find("'", x + 1)
+        return (x, end + 1) if end > x else None
+    lo = plain.rfind("'", 0, x)
+    if lo >= 0 and plain.find("'", x) > x and "'" in plain[lo:x] and \
+            plain[lo:x].count("'") == 1 and " " not in plain[lo:x]:
+        return (lo, plain.find("'", x) + 1)   # inside 'c'
+    if plain[x] not in _IDATUI_LIT_CHARS:
+        return None
+    lo = x
+    while lo > 0 and plain[lo - 1] in _IDATUI_LIT_CHARS:
+        lo -= 1
+    hi = x
+    while hi < len(plain) and plain[hi] in _IDATUI_LIT_CHARS:
+        hi += 1
+    if lo > 0 and plain[lo - 1] == "-":       # a unary minus is part of it
+        lo -= 1
+    return (lo, hi)
+
+
+def _idatui_pc_nums(cf, sl):
+    """Every number literal on one pseudocode line, as
+    [{x0, x1, ea, opnum, value, nbytes, fmt}].
+
+    Asks Hex-Rays what each column belongs to rather than pattern-matching the
+    text: a regex over ``v6 = a1 - 1;`` has to guess which of those characters
+    are a literal, and ``v11`` looks like one."""
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_hexrays
+    import ida_lines
+    import idaapi
+
+    plain = ida_lines.tag_remove(sl.line)
+    out = []
+    x = 0
+    while x < len(plain):
+        ch = plain[x]
+        if ch not in _IDATUI_LIT_CHARS and ch != "'":
+            x += 1
+            continue
+        head, item, tail = (ida_hexrays.ctree_item_t() for _ in range(3))
+        if not cf.get_line_item(sl.line, x, True, head, item, tail):
+            x += 1
+            continue
+        if item.citype != ida_hexrays.VDI_EXPR:
+            x += 1
+            continue
+        e = item.e
+        if e.op != ida_hexrays.cot_num:
+            x += 1
+            continue
+        extent = _idatui_lit_extent(plain, x)
+        if extent is None:
+            x += 1
+            continue
+        nf = e.n.nf
+        opnum = ord(nf.opnum) if isinstance(nf.opnum, str) else int(nf.opnum)
+        nbytes = (ord(nf.org_nbytes) if isinstance(nf.org_nbytes, str)
+                  else int(nf.org_nbytes))
+        ea = int(e.ea)
+        if ea == idaapi.BADADDR:
+            x = extent[1]
+            continue                      # synthesised: nothing to key on
+        nib = (nf.flags >> ida_bytes.get_operand_type_shift(opnum)) & 0xF
+        # Whether this format is the USER's or Hex-Rays' own guess. The nibble
+        # can't say: an untouched number reads back as whatever it happens to
+        # be printed as, and cycling from there would skip that stop forever
+        # (default already looks like it) and never come back to it.
+        loc = ida_hexrays.operand_locator_t(ea, opnum)
+        user = (ida_hexrays.user_numforms_find(cf.numforms, loc)
+                != ida_hexrays.user_numforms_end(cf.numforms))
+        out.append({"x0": extent[0], "x1": extent[1], "ea": ea,
+                    "opnum": opnum, "value": int(e.n._value),
+                    "nbytes": nbytes, "user": user,
+                    "fmt": _idatui_fmt_name(nib) if user else "default",
+                    "shown": _idatui_fmt_name(nib)})
+        x = extent[1]                     # past this literal, not into it
+    return out
+
+
+def pc_nums(
+    addr: Annotated[str, "Function address (or any address inside it)"],
+) -> dict:
+    """Every number literal in a function's pseudocode, as
+    [{line, x0, x1, ea, opnum, value, fmt, user}].
+
+    One call per decompilation, so a client can show WHICH literal the cursor is
+    on (and reformat exactly that one) without a round trip per cursor move.
+    Columns are in the same collapsed coordinates the decompile tool serves its
+    text in, i.e. what the client actually displays."""
+    import ida_hexrays
+    import ida_lines
+    import idaapi
+
+    if not ida_hexrays.init_hexrays_plugin():
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": "no decompiler", "nums": []}
+    try:
+        f = idaapi.get_func(parse_address(addr))
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": str(e), "nums": []}
+    if f is None:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": "no function here", "nums": []}
+    try:
+        cf = ida_hexrays.decompile(f.start_ea)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "error": f"decompile failed: {e}",
+                "nums": []}
+    if cf is None:
+        return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "error": "decompilation failed",
+                "nums": []}
+    sv = cf.get_pseudocode()
+    out = []
+    for i in range(len(sv)):
+        plain = ida_lines.tag_remove(sv[i].line)
+        compact = _idatui_compact(plain)
+        for rec in _idatui_pc_nums(cf, sv[i]):
+            out.append({
+                "line": i,
+                "x0": _idatui_compact_col(plain, compact, rec["x0"]),
+                "x1": _idatui_compact_col(plain, compact, rec["x1"]),
+                "ea": hex(rec["ea"]), "opnum": rec["opnum"],
+                "value": hex(rec["value"]), "fmt": rec["fmt"],
+                "shown": rec["shown"], "user": bool(rec["user"]),
+            })
+    return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "nums": out, "lines": len(sv)}
+
+
+def pc_num_format(
+    addr: Annotated[str, "Function address (or any address inside it)"],
+    mode: Annotated[str, "cycle | back | show | hex | dec | oct | char | default"] = "cycle",
+    line: Annotated[int, "0-based pseudocode line index"] = -1,
+    col: Annotated[int, "Cursor column in the DISPLAYED line (-1: first literal)"] = -1,
+    ea: Annotated[str, "Address of the number instead of line/col"] = "",
+    opnum: Annotated[int, "Operand number, with ``ea``"] = -1,
+) -> dict:
+    """Change how a number is displayed in the DECOMPILATION (Hex-Rays keeps its
+    own number formats, per (address, operand), independent of the listing).
+
+    Same stops as ``op_format`` minus the two C can't express: binary (no such
+    literal -- IDA takes the format and prints decimal anyway) and offset (it
+    makes the function stop decompiling). Returns the re-rendered line, and
+    marks the function dirty so the next decompile is the new text."""
+    import ida_hexrays
+    import ida_lines
+    import idaapi
+
+    if not ida_hexrays.init_hexrays_plugin():
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": "no decompiler"}
+    try:
+        f = idaapi.get_func(parse_address(addr))
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": str(e)}
+    if f is None:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "error": "no function here"}
+    try:
+        cf = ida_hexrays.decompile(f.start_ea)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "error": f"decompile failed: {e}"}
+    if cf is None:
+        return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "error": "decompilation failed"}
+
+    sv = cf.get_pseudocode()
+    line = int(line)
+    target = None
+    if ea:
+        try:
+            want_ea = parse_address(ea)
+        except Exception as e:
+            return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "error": str(e)}
+        for i in range(len(sv)):
+            for rec in _idatui_pc_nums(cf, sv[i]):
+                if rec["ea"] == want_ea and (int(opnum) < 0
+                                             or rec["opnum"] == int(opnum)):
+                    target, line = rec, i
+                    break
+            if target:
+                break
+    elif 0 <= line < len(sv):
+        nums = _idatui_pc_nums(cf, sv[line])
+        if nums:
+            if int(col) >= 0:
+                plain = ida_lines.tag_remove(sv[line].line)
+                x = _idatui_uncompact_col(plain, _idatui_compact(plain), int(col))
+                target = next((r for r in nums if r["x0"] <= x < r["x1"]), None)
+            target = target or nums[0]
+    else:
+        return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea),
+                "error": f"line {line} is outside the {len(sv)}-line decompilation"}
+    if target is None:
+        return {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "line": line,
+                "text": (ida_lines.tag_remove(sv[line].line).strip()
+                         if 0 <= line < len(sv) else ""),
+                "error": "no number literal on this line"}
+
+    cur, value = target["fmt"], target["value"]
+    choices = [c for c in _IDATUI_PC_FMT_CYCLE
+               if c != "char" or _idatui_printable(value)]
+    # Same rule as the listing: one ring per literal, every step. A format the
+    # ring can't hold (an enum set in the GUI) is reported on the way out
+    # instead of being kept for one lap and then lost.
+    lossy = cur not in choices and cur != "default"
+    out = {"addr": hex(f.start_ea), "ea": hex(target["ea"]),
+           "opnum": target["opnum"], "line": line, "prev": cur,
+           "format": cur, "shown": target["shown"], "choices": choices,
+           "value": hex(value),
+           "before": ida_lines.tag_remove(sv[line].line).strip()}
+
+    mode = str(mode or "cycle").lower()
+    if mode == "show":
+        out["text"] = out["before"]
+        out["applied"] = False
+        return out
+    if mode in ("cycle", "back"):
+        step = 1 if mode == "cycle" else -1
+        if cur in choices:
+            want = choices[(choices.index(cur) + step) % len(choices)]
+        else:
+            want = choices[0] if step > 0 else choices[-1]
+    else:
+        want = mode
+        if want in ("bin", "offset", "stack", "seg", "float"):
+            out["error"] = (f"Hex-Rays has no {want} format for a number "
+                            f"-- set it on the listing instead")
+            out["text"] = out["before"]
+            return out
+        if want not in ("hex", "dec", "oct", "char", "default"):
+            out["error"] = (f"unknown format {mode!r}; one of hex, dec, oct, "
+                            f"char, default")
+            out["text"] = out["before"]
+            return out
+
+    loc = ida_hexrays.operand_locator_t(target["ea"], target["opnum"])
+    it = ida_hexrays.user_numforms_find(cf.numforms, loc)
+    if it != ida_hexrays.user_numforms_end(cf.numforms):
+        # std::map::insert is a no-op on an existing key, so a format already
+        # set here would silently win over the new one.
+        ida_hexrays.user_numforms_erase(cf.numforms, it)
+    if want != "default":
+        import ida_bytes
+        nf = ida_hexrays.number_format_t(target["opnum"])
+        nf.flags = ida_bytes.get_operand_flag(_idatui_fmt_nibbles()[want],
+                                              target["opnum"])
+        try:
+            nf.org_nbytes = target["nbytes"]
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        ida_hexrays.user_numforms_insert(cf.numforms, loc, nf)
+    cf.save_user_numforms()
+    try:
+        ida_hexrays.mark_cfunc_dirty(f.start_ea)
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+
+    out["format"] = want
+    out["applied"] = True
+    if lossy:
+        out["warn"] = (f"this number was {cur}, which names a type a radix "
+                       f"can't put back -- reassign it in IDA")
+    try:
+        cf2 = ida_hexrays.decompile(f.start_ea,
+                                    flags=ida_hexrays.DECOMP_NO_CACHE)
+        sv2 = cf2.get_pseudocode() if cf2 is not None else None
+        out["text"] = (ida_lines.tag_remove(sv2[line].line).strip()
+                       if sv2 is not None and line < len(sv2) else out["before"])
+    except Exception as e:
+        out["text"] = out["before"]
+        out["warn"] = f"re-render failed: {e}"
+    return out
+
+
+def decompile(addr, include_addresses=True):
+    """Pseudocode for the function at ``addr``, plus the objects it references.
+
+    Faithful to the tool ida-tui was written against, and in particular to its
+    COST: the per-line address anchor comes from ONE ``get_line_item`` at column
+    0 per line. The Code Mode port asked for the full per-column line map (what
+    ``decomp_map`` is for) purely to fill in that anchor, which is thousands of
+    ``get_line_item``+``dstr()`` calls per function instead of one per line, and
+    made every pseudocode open cost the same as opening the split view.
+
+    Text is whitespace-collapsed exactly as the client displays it, because
+    ``pc_nums`` reports literal columns in those coordinates.
+    """
+    import ida_bytes
+    import ida_hexrays
+    import ida_lines
+    import ida_name
+    import idaapi
+
+    try:
+        ea = parse_address(addr)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "code": None, "error": str(e)}
+    fn = idaapi.get_func(ea)
+    if fn is None:
+        return {"addr": str(addr), "code": None, "error": f"no function at {ea:#x}"}
+    if not ida_hexrays.init_hexrays_plugin():
+        return {"addr": hex(int(fn.start_ea)), "code": None, "error": "no decompiler"}
+    failure = ida_hexrays.hexrays_failure_t()
+    try:
+        cfunc = ida_hexrays.decompile_func(fn, failure)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"addr": hex(int(fn.start_ea)), "code": None,
+                "error": f"Decompilation failed at {ea:#x}: {e}"}
+    if cfunc is None:
+        return {"addr": hex(int(fn.start_ea)), "code": None,
+                "error": failure.desc() or f"Decompilation failed at {ea:#x}"}
+
+    lines = []
+    for sl in cfunc.get_pseudocode():
+        head = ida_hexrays.ctree_item_t()
+        item = ida_hexrays.ctree_item_t()
+        tail = ida_hexrays.ctree_item_t()
+        line_ea = None
+        if include_addresses and cfunc.get_line_item(sl.line, 0, False, head, item, tail):
+            parts = (item.dstr() or "").split(": ")
+            if len(parts) == 2:
+                try:
+                    line_ea = int(parts[0], 16)
+                except ValueError:
+                    line_ea = None
+        text = compact_whitespace(ida_lines.tag_remove(sl.line))
+        lines.append(f"{text} /*{line_ea:#x}*/" if line_ea is not None else text)
+
+    refs, seen = [], set()
+
+    class _RefVisitor(ida_hexrays.ctree_visitor_t):
+        def __init__(self):
+            ida_hexrays.ctree_visitor_t.__init__(self, ida_hexrays.CV_FAST)
+
+        def visit_expr(self, e):
+            if e.op == ida_hexrays.cot_obj:
+                target = int(e.obj_ea)
+                if target != idaapi.BADADDR and target not in seen:
+                    seen.add(target)
+                    try:
+                        raw = ida_bytes.get_strlit_contents(target, -1, 0)
+                        text = raw.decode("utf-8", "replace") if raw else None
+                    except Exception:
+                        text = None
+                    refs.append({"addr": hex(target),
+                                 "name": ida_name.get_name(target) or "",
+                                 "string": text})
+            return 0
+
+    try:
+        _RefVisitor().apply_to(cfunc.body, None)
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    return {"addr": hex(int(fn.start_ea)), "code": "\n".join(lines), "refs": refs}
+
+
+def decomp_map(
+    addr: Annotated[str, "Function address or name"],
+) -> dict:
+    """Per-pseudocode-line instruction coverage for the split view's region
+    highlight: for each line, the set of EAs the decompiler attributes to it,
+    swept across the line's columns via get_line_item. Shape:
+    {addr, lines:[{ea: primary|None, eas:[hex,...]}, ...]}."""
+    import ida_hexrays
+    import idaapi
+    try:
+        ea = int(str(addr), 16)
+    except ValueError:
+        ea = idaapi.get_name_ea(idaapi.BADADDR, str(addr).strip())
+    func = idaapi.get_func(ea)
+    if not func:
+        return {"error": f"no function at {addr}"}
+    try:
+        cfunc = ida_hexrays.decompile(func.start_ea)
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001
+        return {"error": f"decompile failed: {e}"}
+    if cfunc is None:
+        return {"error": "decompile failed"}
+    import ida_lines
+    # Three things this loop must not do, each measured on real functions (the 25
+    # largest of bash went 68.3s -> 6.5s; echo's 60 largest 5.4s -> 0.6s, with
+    # byte-identical output):
+    #
+    #  * allocate ctree_item_t's per COLUMN. They are SWIG objects and this is
+    #    the innermost loop; one per call is enough, and head/tail are never
+    #    read, so don't ask for them at all.
+    #  * sweep the TAGGED length. ``x`` is a screen column but ``sl.line`` still
+    #    carries IDA's colour tags, so a 23-column line was swept 124 times.
+    #  * call dstr() per column. It formats a whole 'EA: description' string --
+    #    24us a call, which is 79% of this tool. Comparing against the PREVIOUS
+    #    column's item id is not enough: items interleave, so `foo(a, b)` flips
+    #    call -> arg -> call -> arg and every flip re-formats an item already
+    #    seen (106 594 calls for 15 417 lines of bash). Memoise id -> ea for the
+    #    whole function instead: obj_id is unique within a cfunc, so the same id
+    #    always yields the same string, and the result is deduped by ``seen``
+    #    anyway. Items with no ctree node (it is None) have no id to key on and
+    #    still pay per occurrence.
+    item = ida_hexrays.ctree_item_t()
+    tag_remove = ida_lines.tag_remove
+    get_line_item = cfunc.get_line_item
+    ea_of_id = {}
+    lines = []
+    for sl in cfunc.get_pseudocode():
+        line = sl.line
+        eas, seen = [], set()
+        prev_id = None
+        for x in range(len(tag_remove(line)) + 1):
+            if not get_line_item(line, x, False, None, item, None):
+                continue
+            it = item.it
+            if it is not None:
+                oid = it.obj_id
+                if oid == prev_id:
+                    continue
+                prev_id = oid
+                if oid in ea_of_id:
+                    e = ea_of_id[oid]
+                    if e is not None and e not in seen:
+                        seen.add(e)
+                        eas.append(hex(e))
+                    continue
+            else:
+                oid = None
+                prev_id = None
+            # Match the /*ea*/ marker's source (decompile_function_safe): the
+            # item's dstr() is 'EA: description'; get_ea() reports a different ea.
+            e = None
+            dstr = item.dstr()
+            if dstr:
+                parts = dstr.split(": ", 1)
+                if len(parts) == 2:
+                    try:
+                        e = int(parts[0], 16)
+                    except ValueError:
+                        e = None
+            if oid is not None:
+                ea_of_id[oid] = e
+            if e is not None and e not in seen:
+                seen.add(e)
+                eas.append(hex(e))
+        lines.append({"ea": eas[0] if eas else None, "eas": eas})
+    return {"addr": hex(func.start_ea), "lines": lines}