@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ module.exports = {
     android: {
       package: 'com.callstack.agentdevicelab',
       predictiveBackGestureEnabled: false,
+      softwareKeyboardLayoutMode: 'pan',
     },
   },
 };
@@ -50,6 +50,33 @@ test('formatPortableActionLine preserves inline open runtime hints', () => {
   );
 });
 
+test('open replay script round-trips explicit Android test IME selection', () => {
+  const actions: SessionAction[] = [
+    {
+      ts: Date.now(),
+      command: 'open',
+      positionals: ['Demo'],
+      flags: { testIme: false },
+    },
+    {
+      ts: Date.now(),
+      command: 'open',
+      positionals: ['Demo'],
+      flags: { testIme: true },
+    },
+  ];
+
+  const script = formatReplayScriptForTest(actions);
+  assert.match(script, /open "Demo" --no-test-ime/);
+  assert.match(script, /open "Demo" --test-ime/);
+
+  const parsed = parseReplayScriptDetailed(script).actions;
+  assert.equal(parsed[0]?.flags.testIme, false);
+  assert.equal(parsed[1]?.flags.testIme, true);
+  assert.deepEqual(parsed[0]?.positionals, ['Demo']);
+  assert.deepEqual(parsed[1]?.positionals, ['Demo']);
+});
+
 test('record replay script parses fps, quality, and hide-touches flags', () => {
   const script = 'record start "./capture.mp4" --fps 24 --quality high --hide-touches\n';
   const parsed = parseReplayScriptDetailed(script).actions;
 
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ export function appendOpenActionScriptArgs(
   if (action.flags?.relaunch) {
     parts.push('--relaunch');
   }
+  if (action.flags?.testIme === true) {
+    parts.push('--test-ime');
+  } else if (action.flags?.testIme === false) {
+    parts.push('--no-test-ime');
+  }
   appendRuntimeHintFlags(parts, action.runtime);
 }
 
@@ -61,6 +66,14 @@ export function parseReplayOpenFlags(args: string[]): {
       flags.relaunch = true;
       continue;
     }
+    if (token === '--test-ime') {
+      flags.testIme = true;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (token === '--no-test-ime') {
+      flags.testIme = false;
+      continue;
+    }
     argsWithoutRelaunch.push(token);
   }
   const parsedRuntime = parseReplayRuntimeFlags(argsWithoutRelaunch);
 
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import { test } from 'vitest';
 import type { SnapshotNode } from '@agent-device/kernel/snapshot';
+import * as selectorsFacade from './index.ts';
 import {
   buildSelectorCandidates,
   readReplaySelectorDisplayValue,
   readSelectorExpression,
   resolveRecordedTarget,
   resolveReplaySuggestionCandidate,
-  resolveSelectorChain,
+  resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy,
+  SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES,
 } from './index.ts';
 
 const saveNode: SnapshotNode = {
@@ -177,11 +179,38 @@ test('replay suggestion resolution and display values stay string-only at the fa
   assert.equal(readReplaySelectorDisplayValue('label="Save"'), 'Save');
   assert.equal(readReplaySelectorDisplayValue('label="Save" || label="Draft"'), undefined);
 
-  const resolved = resolveSelectorChain([saveNode], 'id="save"', {
-    platform: 'ios',
-    requireRect: true,
-    requireUnique: true,
-  });
-  assert.equal(resolved?.selector, 'id="save"');
-  assert.equal(typeof resolved?.selector, 'string');
+  const resolved = resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy(
+    [saveNode],
+    'id="save"',
+    SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES.act,
+    { platform: 'ios' },
+  );
+  assert.equal(resolved.kind, 'resolved');
+  assert.equal(resolved.kind === 'resolved' ? resolved.resolution.selector : null, 'id="save"');
+});
+
+/**
+ * #1630 made `resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy` the façade's ONLY resolution
+ * entry: a native caller states its ambiguity contract by naming a policy row
+ * because there is no knob-taking or count-only resolver here to state it
+ * inline with instead.
+ *
+ * This guard is structural on purpose. Restoring either removed lookup is
+ * BEHAVIOURALLY invisible — `findSelectorChainMatch` is equivalent to the
+ * `readAny` row it was migrated to, which is exactly why that migration
+ * preserved semantics — so no fixture-tree assertion can catch a revert
+ * (#1715 review). The absence of the symbol is the only observable.
+ */
+test('the façade exposes no resolver that bypasses the policy matrix', () => {
+  const exported = Object.keys(selectorsFacade);
+  assert.ok(exported.includes('resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy'));
+  assert.ok(!exported.includes('resolveSelectorChain'), 'knob-taking resolver must stay private');
+  assert.ok(
+    !exported.includes('findSelectorChainMatch'),
+    'count-only existence lookup must stay private; `is exists` names the readAny row',
+  );
+  assert.ok(
+    !exported.includes('selectorResolutionKnobs'),
+    'knob derivation must stay private so a call site cannot rebuild a contract from knobs',
+  );
 });
@@ -2,11 +2,8 @@ import type { SnapshotState } from '@agent-device/kernel/snapshot';
 import type { Selector } from './internal/parse.ts';
 import type {
   PolicyResolutionOutcome,
-  SelectorChainMatch,
   SelectorChainMatchList,
   SelectorMatchOptions,
-  SelectorResolution,
-  SelectorResolutionOptions,
 } from './internal/public-resolution-types.ts';
 import { resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy as resolveSelectorChainWithPolicyAst } from './internal/resolve-with-policy.ts';
 import {
@@ -34,9 +31,7 @@ import {
   normalizeIsPositionals,
 } from './internal/predicates.ts';
 import {
-  findSelectorChainMatch as findSelectorChainMatchAst,
   listSelectorChainMatches as listSelectorChainMatchesAst,
-  resolveSelectorChain as resolveSelectorChainAst,
   selectorFailureHint,
   STALE_REF_HINT,
 } from './internal/resolve.ts';
@@ -64,7 +59,6 @@ export type { IsPredicate } from './internal/predicates.ts';
 export type {
   PolicyResolutionOutcome,
   SelectorChainMatchList,
-  SelectorChainMatch,
   SelectorResolution,
 } from './internal/public-resolution-types.ts';
 export { formatSelectorFailure } from './internal/resolve.ts';
@@ -81,7 +75,6 @@ export {
   detectUnknownSelectorKeyToken,
   evaluateIsPredicate,
   findBestMatchesByLocator,
-  findSelectorChainMatch,
   isReadOnlyFindAction,
   normalizeFindActionToken,
   isRoleHintWord,
@@ -99,7 +92,6 @@ export {
   readSelectorExpression,
   resolveRecordedTarget,
   resolveReplaySuggestionCandidate,
-  resolveSelectorChain,
   selectorFailureHint,
   selectorContainsValue,
   splitSelectorFromArgs,
@@ -233,16 +225,6 @@ function validateSelectorExpression(expression: string): void {
   parseSelectorChain(expression);
 }
 
-/** Public façade wrapper that accepts/returns selector text, never an AST. */
-function findSelectorChainMatch(
-  nodes: SnapshotState['nodes'],
-  expression: string,
-  options: SelectorMatchOptions,
-): SelectorChainMatch | null {
-  const result = findSelectorChainMatchAst(nodes, parseSelectorChain(expression), options);
-  return result ? { ...result, selector: result.selector.raw } : null;
-}
-
 /** Public façade wrapper that accepts/returns selector text, never an AST. */
 function listSelectorChainMatches(
   nodes: SnapshotState['nodes'],
@@ -253,37 +235,25 @@ function listSelectorChainMatches(
   return result ? { ...result, selector: result.selector.raw } : null;
 }
 
-/** Public façade wrapper that accepts/returns selector text, never an AST. */
-function resolveSelectorChain(
-  nodes: SnapshotState['nodes'],
-  expression: string,
-  options: SelectorResolutionOptions,
-): SelectorResolution | null {
-  const result = resolveSelectorChainAst(nodes, parseSelectorChain(expression), options);
-  return result ? { ...result, selector: result.selector.raw } : null;
-}
-export {
-  SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES,
-  selectorResolutionKnobs,
-} from './internal/resolution-policy.ts';
-export type {
-  KnobBackedSelectorAmbiguity,
-  SelectorResolutionPolicy,
-} from './internal/resolution-policy.ts';
+export { SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES } from './internal/resolution-policy.ts';
+export type { SelectorResolutionPolicy } from './internal/resolution-policy.ts';
 import type { SelectorResolutionPolicy } from './internal/resolution-policy.ts';
 
 /**
- * Public façade wrapper that accepts selector text and returns selector text —
- * never an AST, in either direction.
+ * The façade's ONLY selector-resolution entry (#1630): every native consumer
+ * of "resolve a selector against the screen" states its contract by naming a
+ * `SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES` row, because there is no knob-taking resolver
+ * here to state it inline with instead. Accepts selector text and returns
+ * selector text — never an AST, in either direction.
  *
  * The return leg is the half that is easy to miss: the parser-side outcome
  * carries the winning `Selector` node inside `resolution`, and returning it
  * unchanged would put a package-private parser object back in every caller's
  * hands through a nested field. The façade's own boundary gate reads exported
  * *names*, so it cannot see that; `selector-wait.ts` reading
  * `outcome.resolution.selector.raw` was the runtime proof it had happened.
- * Flattening here is the same treatment `resolveSelectorChain` above gives
- * `AstSelectorResolution` (#1589).
+ * Flattening here is the same treatment `listSelectorChainMatches` above gives
+ * its own selector node (#1589).
  */
 function resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy(
   nodes: SnapshotState['nodes'],
 
@@ -45,11 +45,14 @@ export type PolicyResolutionOutcome =
   /** No selector alternative matched anything. */
   | { kind: 'none' }
   /**
-   * The node this policy authorizes acting on, plus the full candidate set of
-   * the alternative it came from. Callers that verify identity across
-   * candidates (wait's #1349 landmark check) need the whole set — a policy
-   * that picks one winner must not throw the rest away, or a first impostor
-   * would hide a later genuine match.
+   * The node this policy authorizes acting on, plus the candidate set of the
+   * first matching alternative. Callers that verify identity across candidates
+   * (wait's #1349 landmark check) need the whole set — a policy that picks one
+   * winner must not throw the rest away, or a first impostor would hide a
+   * later genuine match. Those callers use `first-match` rows, where the two
+   * fields describe the same alternative by construction; a uniqueness row can
+   * resolve from a LATER alternative, so pair `matchedNodes` with
+   * `resolution.selector` before reading them as one set.
    */
   | { kind: 'resolved'; resolution: SelectorResolution; matchedNodes: SnapshotNode[] }
   /**
@@ -66,14 +69,6 @@ export type SelectorChainMatchList = {
   matchedNodes: SnapshotNode[];
 };
 
-/** A first-match lookup used by existence checks. */
-export type SelectorChainMatch = {
-  selectorIndex: number;
-  selector: string;
-  matches: number;
-  diagnostics: SelectorDiagnostics[];
-};
-
 /**
  * The options every selector lookup takes. Stated once here rather than inline
  * per function so a façade wrapper and the parser-side function it forwards to
 
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { splitIsSelectorArgs, splitSelectorFromArgs } from './arguments.ts';
 import { buildSelectorChainForNode } from './build.ts';
 import { matchesSelector } from './match.ts';
 import { tryParseSelectorChain } from './parse.ts';
+import { selectorResolutionKnobs } from './resolution-policy.ts';
 import { listSelectorChainMatches, resolveSelectorChain } from './resolve.ts';
 
 /**
@@ -78,6 +79,23 @@ export function readSelectorExpression(
   return { kind: 'expression', expression: split.selectorExpression, rest: split.rest };
 }
 
+/**
+ * A replay policy states its ambiguity contract per request rather than per
+ * caller, so it names an ambiguity KIND from the same vocabulary the static
+ * matrix uses and derives its engine knobs through the same function (#1630) —
+ * `selectorResolutionKnobs` stays the only place `requireUnique` and
+ * `disambiguateAmbiguous` are named.
+ */
+function recordedTargetResolutionOptions(policy: ReplayRecordedTargetPolicy) {
+  return {
+    platform: policy.platform,
+    ...selectorResolutionKnobs({
+      ambiguity: policy.allowDisambiguation ? 'disambiguate' : 'fail-closed',
+      requireRect: policy.requireRect,
+    }),
+  };
+}
+
 /** Resolve a recorded target and return the winning node plus its same-alternative domain. */
 export function resolveRecordedTarget(
   expression: string,
@@ -86,12 +104,7 @@ export function resolveRecordedTarget(
 ): ReplayRecordedTargetResolution {
   const chain = tryParseSelectorChain(expression);
   if (!chain) return { kind: 'unresolved', reason: 'parse-invalid', matchedNodes: [] };
-  const resolved = resolveSelectorChain(nodes, chain, {
-    platform: policy.platform,
-    requireRect: policy.requireRect,
-    requireUnique: true,
-    disambiguateAmbiguous: policy.allowDisambiguation,
-  });
+  const resolved = resolveSelectorChain(nodes, chain, recordedTargetResolutionOptions(policy));
   if (resolved) {
     const matchedNodes = nodes.filter((node) => {
       if (policy.requireRect && !node.rect) return false;
@@ -147,12 +160,7 @@ export function resolveReplaySuggestionCandidate(
 ): ReplaySuggestionCandidateMatch | undefined {
   const chain = tryParseSelectorChain(candidate);
   if (!chain) return undefined;
-  const resolved = resolveSelectorChain(nodes, chain, {
-    platform: policy.platform,
-    requireRect: policy.requireRect,
-    requireUnique: true,
-    disambiguateAmbiguous: policy.allowDisambiguation,
-  });
+  const resolved = resolveSelectorChain(nodes, chain, recordedTargetResolutionOptions(policy));
   if (!resolved) return undefined;
   return { node: resolved.node, basis: classifySuggestionBasis(resolved.selector) };
 }
 
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { test } from 'vitest';
+import { SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES, selectorResolutionKnobs } from './resolution-policy.ts';
+
+/**
+ * `selectorResolutionKnobs` is package-private (#1630): the façade exports no
+ * resolver that accepts `requireUnique`/`disambiguateAmbiguous`, so this is the
+ * only place in the repo that names them and the only place a knob-vs-row
+ * mismatch can be introduced. The row-level BEHAVIOR each mapping produces is
+ * pinned separately, through the public interface, in
+ * src/commands/interaction/runtime/__tests__/resolution-policy-parity.test.ts.
+ */
+test('knobs stay consistent with the ambiguity each knob-backed row names', () => {
+  for (const [name, policy] of Object.entries(SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES)) {
+    if (policy.ambiguity === 'reject-candidates') continue;
+    const knobs = selectorResolutionKnobs(policy);
+    assert.equal(knobs.requireRect, policy.requireRect, name);
+    if (policy.ambiguity === 'first-match') {
+      assert.equal(knobs.requireUnique, false, name);
+    } else {
+      assert.equal(knobs.requireUnique, true, name);
+      assert.equal(knobs.disambiguateAmbiguous, policy.ambiguity === 'disambiguate', name);
+    }
+  }
+});
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ import type { SelectorResolutionOptions } from './public-resolution-types.ts';
  *
  * Scope, deliberately narrow: this matrix declares the **ambiguity contract
  * and the rect requirement**, and nothing else. Both are consumed by
- * `resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy` and pinned behaviorally in
- * resolution-policy-parity.test.ts, so a row that stops matching its
+ * `resolveSelectorChainWithPolicy` — the one door native callers have, since
+ * the package façade exports no knob-taking resolver — and pinned behaviorally
+ * in resolution-policy-parity.test.ts, so a row that stops matching its
  * documented semantics fails a test.
  *
  * The surrounding pipeline stages — occlusion, the off-screen guard,
@@ -82,8 +83,11 @@ export const SELECTOR_RESOLUTION_POLICIES = {
 } as const satisfies Record<string, SelectorResolutionPolicy>;
 
 /**
- * The engine knobs a knob-backed policy row stands for. `reject-candidates`
- * rows are rejected at the type level — that contract is enforced by caller
+ * The engine knobs a knob-backed policy row stands for, and the only place in
+ * the repo that names `requireUnique`/`disambiguateAmbiguous` (#1630): the
+ * façade exports no resolver that accepts them, so a caller cannot restate an
+ * ambiguity contract as knobs even by accident. `reject-candidates` rows are
+ * rejected at the type level — that contract is enforced by caller
  * classification, not by these knobs.
  */
 export function selectorResolutionKnobs(