codemode: carry over the listing + operand-format tools, and stop reshipping them

This closes the five operations the port was missing and restores the listing's
own tooling instead of a re-implementation of it.

idatui/remote_tools.py is the port's IDAPython island: `heads` (the continuous
listing) and `op_format`/`pc_nums`/`pc_num_format` (`o`/`O`), extracted verbatim
from the BODY that server/patch_server.py used to inject. They are real, diffable
source shipped to the database process as text, not string literals, because this
is the most performance-tuned and behaviour-sensitive code in the project.

Why carry `heads` over rather than keep the port's version: the port's rewrite
emitted no per-operand extents ("ops"), so no keypress could show which literal
it would reformat (opfmt_highlight had no two-operand row to find); it had no
digest/`expect` support, so every page was re-sent after any edit; and its span
walk was the per-character loop ours had already been rewritten out of. It also
dropped struct-member expansion sizing and the func banner/label rows' exact
shapes.

The library is installed ONCE per database process (sys.modules, keyed by a hash
of the source) and then called by name. Code Mode's execute_python builds a fresh
namespace per call, so a library exec'd inline is rebuilt every time and its
module-level caches thrown away -- the per-line render lru_cache in particular,
which the perf work sized to 65536 entries. Installing it once took `heads`
count=200 from 181ms to 92ms; the cache reports 211 hits on a second call where
it previously reported none. (Extraction footgun recorded: ast FunctionDef.lineno
points at `def`, not at the decorators, so a naive slice silently drops
@lru_cache.)

Also ported: flowchart, survey_binary, and the xref contract.

Live pilot suite on targets/echo: 301 passed, 0 failed -- identical to master.

Known, quantified, and NOT fixed here: Code Mode's transport is much slower than
the unix-socket worker for the listing's paging. heads count=200 is 2.6ms on
master vs 92ms here, count=500 is 6.3ms vs 214ms. Roughly half of that is
to_jsonable + HTTP framing per call and is inherent to the architecture; the
empty round trip alone is 2ms. The digest/`expect` path (unchanged pages) is the
main mitigation and is restored.

1 files changed, 1367 insertions, 0 deletions

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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."""
+    try:
+        from ida_pro_mcp.ida_mcp.utils import compact_whitespace
+        return compact_whitespace(line)
+    except Exception:
+        import re as _re
+        stripped = line.lstrip(" \t")
+        lead = line[: len(line) - len(stripped)]
+        return lead + _re.sub(r"[ \t]{2,}", " ", stripped)
+
+
+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