diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 9e806e29..29aba5e7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ jobs:
           python scripts/mine_report.py --selftest
           python scripts/oracle_compare.py --selftest
           python scripts/metamorphic.py --selftest
+          python scripts/metamorphic_facts.py --selftest
 
   tests:
     name: tests (py${{ matrix.python-version }})
diff --git a/docs/notes/metamorphic.md b/docs/notes/metamorphic.md
index d7b0ed28..c1cfb591 100644
--- a/docs/notes/metamorphic.md
+++ b/docs/notes/metamorphic.md
@@ -49,33 +49,43 @@ text below were caught by codex on the first cut — see PR #45.)
   control flow / borrow blocks and any pair that shares a variable, so it never
   emits an unsound swap.)
 
-### The result so far
+### The result so far — two targets
 
-The whole `.own` corpus (gallery + examples + corpus, 28 programs) is **invariant
-under both transforms** — the expected baseline for a core built on symbol
-identity + dataflow (it *should* be name/order-agnostic). That is a real, if
-modest, robustness result, and the framework now ratchets it. The harness is not
-vacuous: a **teeth test** asserts the (code, line) key actually distinguishes a
-leak from a clean run, and that the transforms genuinely fire.
+**Core (`.own`, `metamorphic.py`).** The whole `.own` corpus (gallery + examples +
+corpus, 28 programs) is **invariant under both transforms** — the expected baseline
+for a core built on symbol identity + dataflow (it *should* be name/order-agnostic).
+
+**Bridge (OwnIR facts, `metamorphic_facts.py`).** The same idea one level down: the
+JSON the extractor emits is a *set of records* (components, their resources, DI
+services, contracts), so **reversing** any record list or **consistently renaming**
+a component/service identifier cannot change which leaks exist. All **18** committed
+fact fixtures (plus a captive-DI set) are invariant under `check_facts` — including
+`DI001` (a singleton capturing a scoped service), which holds under both service
+reordering *and* a consistent rename of the dependency graph. Higher-signal than the
+core, since the bridge carries the incidental complexity (DI graph, finding dedup,
+source-lifetime tiering) — and still dotnet-free.
+
+Both are real, if modest, robustness results, and the framework now ratchets them.
+Neither harness is vacuous: a **teeth test** asserts the code key actually
+distinguishes a leak from a clean run, and that the transforms genuinely fire.
 
 ## Run it
 
 ```sh
-python scripts/metamorphic.py examples corpus   # sweep, report any non-invariance
-python scripts/metamorphic.py --selftest        # corpus invariance + teeth test (CI)
+python scripts/metamorphic.py examples corpus            # core: sweep .own
+python scripts/metamorphic.py --selftest                 # core: invariance + teeth (CI)
+python scripts/metamorphic_facts.py tests/fixtures/ownir # bridge: sweep *.facts.json
+python scripts/metamorphic_facts.py --selftest           # bridge: invariance + teeth (CI)
 ```
 
-`--selftest` runs on every push (CI `script selftests` job), beside the miner and
-oracle selftests.
+Both `--selftest`s run on every push (CI `script selftests` job), beside the miner
+and oracle selftests.
 
 ## Follow-ups (where the bug-finding power grows)
 
-- **More sound transforms** — dead-branch wrapping for statements that bind no
-  later-used name; a redundant borrow/`use`; statement reorder into nested bodies.
-- **OwnIR-fact target** — mutate the JSON facts (reorder a component's resource
-  records, rename component/event/handler symbols) and re-run `check_facts`. The
-  bridge has more incidental complexity than the core, so this is higher-signal —
-  and still dotnet-free.
+- **More sound transforms** — core: dead-branch wrapping for statements that bind
+  no later-used name, a redundant borrow/`use`, reorder into nested bodies; bridge:
+  splitting independent components, or inserting a no-op released record.
 - **C# source target** — mutate `.cs` (rename locals, reorder members) → re-run
   the extractor → check. This tests the *extractor*, where the syntactic-FP bugs
   actually lived — but it needs the Roslyn frontend, so it is CI-only.
diff --git a/scripts/metamorphic_facts.py b/scripts/metamorphic_facts.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db8a0337
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/metamorphic_facts.py
@@ -0,0 +1,298 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Metamorphic testing for the Own.NET OwnIR bridge (`check_facts`) — analyzer QA.
+
+The sibling of `scripts/metamorphic.py`, one level down: instead of mutating `.own`
+source it mutates the **OwnIR facts** (the JSON the C# extractor emits) and asserts
+the bridge's diagnostics are invariant. The facts are *sets of records* — components,
+their resources, DI services, contracts — so reordering them, or consistently
+renaming an identifier, cannot change *which* leaks exist. If `check_facts`'s
+verdict moves, the bridge is order/name-sensitive where it must not be. Higher
+signal than the core harness: the bridge carries the incidental complexity (the DI
+captive-dependency graph, finding dedup, source-lifetime tiering).
+
+Sound transforms (v1), each meaning-preserving:
+  - **reverse**: reverse a list of records — the top-level component/service/function
+    lists, a component's resource list, a service's deps. Independent records commute.
+  - **rename**: consistently rename a component/service identifier at the fact
+    graph's *identifier* sites only (a `name`/`source_type` field, a `deps` entry) —
+    alpha-equivalence over the fact graph. Semantic literals (a `lifetime`, a
+    `source` kind, an `event`/`handler`) are never touched, so a name equal to such
+    a literal stays sound.
+
+Compared on the **multiset of diagnostic codes** (not lines — same reasoning as the
+core harness: a record's line is intrinsic, but order/name must not move a *code*).
+
+dotnet-free: drives the same bridge entry the CLI uses — `check_facts(load(path))`.
+
+Usage:
+  metamorphic_facts.py <file-or-dir> ...   # sweep *.facts.json; report non-invariance
+  metamorphic_facts.py --selftest
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import copy
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from ownlang.ownir import OwnIRError, check_facts, load
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from collections.abc import Iterator
+
+_LIST_KEYS = ("components", "services", "functions")
+# Fact-graph sites that hold a component/service *identifier* (vs a semantic literal
+# like a `lifetime` or a `source` kind). A rename only ever touches these.
+_NAME_KEYS = ("name", "source_type")   # scalar identifier fields
+_DEP_KEY = "deps"                       # a list of identifier references
+
+
+def code_key(facts: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    """The sorted multiset of diagnostic codes `check_facts` produces — the property
+    a meaning-preserving fact rewrite must not change."""
+    return tuple(sorted(d.code for d in check_facts(facts)))
+
+
+def _strings(node: Any) -> set[str]:
+    """Every string value anywhere in the facts (to pick a guaranteed-fresh rename)."""
+    if isinstance(node, str):
+        return {node}
+    if isinstance(node, dict):
+        return set().union(set(), *(_strings(v) for v in node.values()))
+    if isinstance(node, list):
+        return set().union(set(), *(_strings(v) for v in node))
+    return set()
+
+
+def _rename_id(node: Any, old: str, new: str) -> Any:
+    """A deep copy of `node` with the identifier `old` renamed to `new` only at the
+    fact graph's *identifier* sites — a component/service `name`, a `source_type`
+    reference, or an entry of a `deps` list. A semantic literal under any other key
+    (a `lifetime`, a `source` kind, an `event`/`handler`/`file`) is left untouched,
+    so the rename stays meaning-preserving even if a name equals such a literal."""
+    if isinstance(node, dict):
+        out: dict[str, Any] = {}
+        for k, v in node.items():
+            if k in _NAME_KEYS and v == old:
+                out[k] = new
+            elif k == _DEP_KEY and isinstance(v, list):
+                out[k] = [new if x == old else x for x in v]
+            else:
+                out[k] = _rename_id(v, old, new)
+        return out
+    if isinstance(node, list):
+        return [_rename_id(x, old, new) for x in node]
+    return node
+
+
+def reverse_variants(facts: dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[tuple[str, dict[str, Any]]]:
+    """Reverse each list of records: the top-level component/service/function lists,
+    each component's resource list, and each service's deps. Records are a set, so
+    their order is not meaning. Each variant reverses its *own* (deep-copied) list,
+    never aliasing the source graph."""
+    for key in _LIST_KEYS:
+        seq = facts.get(key)
+        if isinstance(seq, list) and len(seq) > 1:
+            v = copy.deepcopy(facts)
+            v[key] = list(reversed(v[key]))
+            yield (f"reverse {key}", v)
+    comps = facts.get("components")
+    if isinstance(comps, list):
+        for i, c in enumerate(comps):
+            subs = c.get("subscriptions") if isinstance(c, dict) else None
+            if isinstance(subs, list) and len(subs) > 1:
+                v = copy.deepcopy(facts)
+                v["components"][i]["subscriptions"] = list(
+                    reversed(v["components"][i]["subscriptions"]))
+                yield (f"reverse components[{i}].subscriptions", v)
+    svcs = facts.get("services")
+    if isinstance(svcs, list):
+        for i, s in enumerate(svcs):
+            deps = s.get("deps") if isinstance(s, dict) else None
+            if isinstance(deps, list) and len(deps) > 1:
+                v = copy.deepcopy(facts)
+                v["services"][i]["deps"] = list(reversed(v["services"][i]["deps"]))
+                yield (f"reverse services[{i}].deps", v)
+
+
+def _identifiers(facts: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
+    """Component + service names — the identifiers safe to consistently rename."""
+    out: list[str] = []
+    for key in ("components", "services"):
+        seq = facts.get(key)
+        if isinstance(seq, list):
+            out += [r["name"] for r in seq
+                    if isinstance(r, dict) and isinstance(r.get("name"), str)]
+    return out
+
+
+def rename_variants(facts: dict[str, Any]) -> Iterator[tuple[str, dict[str, Any]]]:
+    """One variant per component/service name, consistently renamed to a fresh name
+    at the fact graph's identifier sites. The verdict must not depend on the name."""
+    used = _strings(facts)
+    for name in _identifiers(facts):
+        fresh = f"{name}_mr"
+        while fresh in used:
+            fresh += "x"
+        yield (f"rename {name}->{fresh}", _rename_id(facts, name, fresh))
+
+
+_TRANSFORMS = (reverse_variants, rename_variants)
+
+
+def violations(facts: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
+    """Every metamorphic violation for one *validated* fact set (the caller loads it
+    through `ownir.load`): a meaning-preserving variant whose code multiset differs
+    from the original. Empty == invariant."""
+    base = code_key(copy.deepcopy(facts))
+    out: list[str] = []
+    for transform in _TRANSFORMS:
+        for label, variant in transform(facts):
+            try:
+                got = code_key(variant)
+            except Exception as e:  # a crash on a valid variant is itself a finding
+                out.append(f"{label}: variant raised {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
+                continue
+            if got != base:
+                out.append(f"{label}: base={list(base)} variant={list(got)}")
+    return out
+
+
+def sweep(paths: list[str]) -> int:
+    """Run the harness over every *.facts.json under the given files/dirs. Returns a
+    process exit status: 0 only if at least one file loaded and every loaded fact set
+    is invariant; 1 on any violation, any load error, or an empty input set (so a
+    sweep that evaluated nothing is not a false green)."""
+    files: list[Path] = []
+    for p in paths:
+        pp = Path(p)
+        files.extend(sorted(pp.rglob("*.facts.json")) if pp.is_dir() else [pp])
+    bad = load_errors = loaded = 0
+    for f in files:
+        try:
+            facts = load(str(f))  # the real pipeline's entry — validates the schema
+        except (OSError, OwnIRError) as e:
+            print(f"{f}: cannot load ({e})")
+            load_errors += 1
+            continue
+        loaded += 1
+        vs = violations(facts)
+        if vs:
+            bad += 1
+            print(f"\n{f.name}: {len(vs)} violation(s):")
+            for v in vs:
+                print(f"  - {v}")
+    print(f"\nmetamorphic-facts: {loaded - bad}/{loaded} loaded fact set(s) invariant "
+          f"under {len(_TRANSFORMS)} transform class(es).")
+    if not loaded:
+        print("metamorphic-facts: no loadable *.facts.json inputs")
+    return 1 if (bad or load_errors or not loaded) else 0
+
+
+def _selftest() -> int:
+    fails: list[str] = []
+    repo = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+
+    # 1) Robustness: every committed fact fixture must load *through the validator*
+    #    and be invariant. A fixture that no longer loads is a loud failure.
+    fix = repo / "tests" / "fixtures" / "ownir"
+    files = sorted(fix.rglob("*.facts.json")) if fix.exists() else []
+    bad: list[str] = []
+    for f in files:
+        try:
+            facts = load(str(f))
+        except OwnIRError as e:
+            bad.append(f"{f.name}: does not load ({e})")
+            continue
+        vs = violations(facts)
+        if vs:
+            bad.append(f"{f.name}: {vs[0]}")
+    if not files:
+        fails.append("no .facts.json fixtures found to sweep")
+    elif bad:
+        fails.append(f"fixtures not all loadable+invariant: {len(bad)} file(s), e.g. {bad[0]}")
+
+    # 2) Teeth: the code key must distinguish a leak from a clean run.
+    leak = {"module": "M", "components": [{"name": "Vm", "file": "Vm.cs",
+            "subscriptions": [{"event": "b.X", "handler": "h", "line": 5, "released": False}]}]}
+    clean = {"module": "M", "components": [{"name": "Vm", "file": "Vm.cs",
+             "subscriptions": [{"event": "b.X", "handler": "h", "line": 5, "released": True}]}]}
+    if code_key(leak) == code_key(clean):
+        fails.append("teeth: code key does not distinguish a leak from a clean run")
+    if "OWN001" not in code_key(leak):
+        fails.append("teeth: expected OWN001 on the leak fixture")
+
+    # 3) The transforms fire on a fact set that admits them, and a two-component +
+    #    multi-service (captive-DI) set is invariant under reorder and rename.
+    multi = {"module": "M",
+             "components": [
+                 {"name": "A", "file": "A.cs", "subscriptions": [
+                     {"event": "b.X", "handler": "hx", "line": 5, "released": False},
+                     {"event": "b.Y", "handler": "hy", "line": 6, "released": False}]},
+                 {"name": "B", "file": "B.cs", "subscriptions": [
+                     {"event": "b.Z", "handler": "hz", "line": 7, "released": True}]}],
+             "services": [
+                 {"name": "Sender", "lifetime": "singleton", "file": "S.cs", "line": 1,
+                  "deps": ["Db"]},
+                 {"name": "Db", "lifetime": "scoped", "file": "S.cs", "line": 2, "deps": []}]}
+    if sum(1 for _ in reverse_variants(multi)) < 2:
+        fails.append("expected >=2 reverse variants")
+    if sum(1 for _ in rename_variants(multi)) < 2:
+        fails.append("expected >=2 rename variants")
+    if violations(multi):
+        fails.append(f"multi-component/service set should be invariant: {violations(multi)}")
+
+    # 4) rename stays sound when an identifier collides with a semantic literal: a
+    #    service *named* "scoped" must not have its `lifetime: "scoped"` rewritten.
+    collide = {"module": "M", "components": [],
+               "services": [{"name": "scoped", "lifetime": "scoped", "file": "S.cs",
+                             "line": 1, "deps": []}]}
+    collide_ok = False
+    for _lbl, mod in rename_variants(collide):
+        svcs = mod.get("services")
+        if isinstance(svcs, list) and svcs and isinstance(svcs[0], dict):
+            collide_ok = svcs[0].get("lifetime") == "scoped"
+    if not collide_ok:
+        fails.append("rename clobbered a semantic literal (lifetime) that equals a name")
+
+    # 5) The harness drives the real pipeline (load -> check_facts), so a
+    #    schema-invalid fact set (a future ownir_version) is rejected at the gate,
+    #    not silently swept as "invariant" (codex #46).
+    fd, p = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".facts.json")
+    try:
+        with os.fdopen(fd, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+            json.dump({"ownir_version": 999, "module": "M", "components": []}, fh)
+        try:
+            load(p)
+            fails.append("load() should reject a future ownir_version")
+        except OwnIRError:
+            pass
+    finally:
+        os.unlink(p)
+
+    for msg in fails:
+        print(f"METAMORPHIC-FACTS SELFTEST FAIL: {msg}")
+    total = 8
+    print(f"metamorphic-facts selftest: {total - len(fails)}/{total} checks passed "
+          f"(swept {len(files)} fixture(s))")
+    return 1 if fails else 0
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
+    if argv == ["--selftest"]:
+        return _selftest()
+    if not argv or any(a.startswith("-") for a in argv):
+        print(__doc__)
+        return 2
+    return sweep(argv)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv[1:]))