Recording only gated the IL half, so a run with it off still numbered the C# AST
transforms into the shared stepper. That gave one pipeline two numbering scales,
and a step index is only meaningful against the scale it was recorded on: a tree
captured under one and replayed under the other selects a different step. It
also let the crashed-member attribution fire on a counter that had never moved -
a limit of zero matched at every throwing transform and rendered an unrelated
member's ILAst.
The flag now gates both halves, so steps exist exactly when recording is on, and
it lives on the pane instance rather than a static the background decompile read
across threads.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5[1m]:Claude Code
Siegfried Pammer