diff --git a/mobile/.gitignore b/mobile/.gitignore
index fc97af19a22..7fdf3640809 100644
--- a/mobile/.gitignore
+++ b/mobile/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ node_modules/
 src/terminal/terminal-webview-engine.generated.ts
 src/terminal/terminal-webview-engine-css.generated.ts
 src/terminal/terminal-webview-document-script.generated.ts
+src/terminal/terminal-webview-document-factory.generated.ts
 src/components/pr-sidebar/mermaid-webview-engine.generated.ts
 .expo/
 dist/
diff --git a/mobile/.oxlintrc.json b/mobile/.oxlintrc.json
index aa73bfe8583..09b9d7cae16 100644
--- a/mobile/.oxlintrc.json
+++ b/mobile/.oxlintrc.json
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 {
   "$schema": "./node_modules/oxlint/configuration_schema.json",
   "extends": ["../.oxlintrc.json"],
-  "ignorePatterns": ["src/terminal/terminal-webview-engine.generated.ts"],
+  "ignorePatterns": [
+    "src/terminal/terminal-webview-engine.generated.ts",
+    "src/terminal/terminal-webview-document-factory.generated.ts"
+  ],
   "rules": {
     "react-hooks/exhaustive-deps": "off",
     "react/no-unescaped-entities": "off",
diff --git a/mobile/scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs b/mobile/scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs
index f62d6beab6e..1b8664a595f 100644
--- a/mobile/scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs
+++ b/mobile/scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs
@@ -154,6 +154,19 @@ export async function emitTerminalDocumentModule(modulePath) {
 
 const documentDirectory = path.join(import.meta.dirname, '..', 'src', 'terminal', 'document')
 
+const GENERATED_HEADER =
+  `// Generated by scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs. Do not edit.\n` +
+  `// The source is mobile/src/terminal/document/, in the order\n` +
+  `// scripts/terminal-document-module-order.mjs pins.`
+
+export const TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_MODULE_PATH = path.join(
+  import.meta.dirname,
+  '..',
+  'src',
+  'terminal',
+  'terminal-webview-document-factory.generated.ts'
+)
+
 export const TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_SCRIPT_PATH = path.join(
   import.meta.dirname,
   '..',
@@ -229,8 +242,8 @@ export async function emitDocumentedTerminalModule(moduleName) {
 }
 
 /**
- * The document's whole script: one factory whose body is every module in the order the document
- * had, the call sequence that starts them, and the handle that stops them again.
+ * The factory's body: every module in the order the document had, the call sequence that starts
+ * them, the handle that stops them again, and the return. Shared by both artifacts (ruling 23).
  *
  * Ruling 22. The concatenation already gave the modules one function scope with one local `scope`;
  * naming that scope a function is what makes it the shape both hosts run. Every call gets its own
@@ -238,7 +251,7 @@ export async function emitDocumentedTerminalModule(moduleName) {
  * claim on the page — a second terminal is a second call. The native document is this function and
  * one call with no argument, which is what it has always been.
  */
-export async function buildTerminalDocumentScript() {
+export async function buildTerminalDocumentFactoryBody() {
   const emitted = []
   // The scope object goes first: every module below reads it, and the document is one function
   // scope, so it has to exist before any of them run. It is the only part of the emitted script
@@ -271,25 +284,62 @@ export async function buildTerminalDocumentScript() {
     `${INDENT}}`
   ]
   return [
-    `function ${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}(${HOST_PARAMETER}) {`,
     ...emitted,
     ...calls,
     ...stopBody,
-    `${INDENT}return { send: handleMsg, stop: stop };`,
+    `${INDENT}return { send: handleMsg, stop: stop };`
+  ].join('\n')
+}
+
+/** The document's script, as the native WebView carries it: the factory, then the one call. */
+export async function buildTerminalDocumentScript() {
+  const body = await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryBody()
+  return [
+    `function ${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}(${HOST_PARAMETER}) {`,
+    body,
     `}`,
     `${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}();`
   ].join('\n')
 }
 
+/**
+ * The same factory, as a module the page imports.
+ *
+ * Ruling 23: one emitted body, two wrappers. The page cannot run the native script — building a
+ * function from a string needs `eval`, which its policy refuses — and it cannot run the modules
+ * either, because they are one singleton and the whole point of the factory is a scope per call.
+ * So it imports this, whose body is the native factory's body line for line; the artifact test
+ * holds the two equal, which is how the byte golden ends up pinning this file too.
+ *
+ * `@ts-nocheck` covers exactly one generated file. Every line below is esbuild output from a module
+ * that was type-checked at its source, with its `declare global` blocks and type re-exports already
+ * erased and its constants already substituted; the one line a caller reads is the signature, and
+ * the generator writes that with its types.
+ */
+export async function buildTerminalDocumentFactoryModule() {
+  const body = await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryBody()
+  return [
+    GENERATED_HEADER,
+    '// @ts-nocheck -- ruling 23: the body is emitted text, type-checked at each source module.',
+    `import type { TerminalDocument, TerminalDocumentHost } from './document/document-host-seams'`,
+    '',
+    `export function ${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}(`,
+    `${INDENT}${HOST_PARAMETER}: TerminalDocumentHost`,
+    `): TerminalDocument {`,
+    body,
+    `}`,
+    ''
+  ].join('\n')
+}
+
 async function main() {
   const script = await buildTerminalDocumentScript()
   await writeFile(
     TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_SCRIPT_PATH,
-    `// Generated by scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs. Do not edit.\n` +
-      `// The source is mobile/src/terminal/document/, in the order\n` +
-      `// scripts/terminal-document-module-order.mjs pins.\n` +
-      `export const TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_SCRIPT = ${JSON.stringify(script)}\n`
+    `${GENERATED_HEADER}\nexport const TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_SCRIPT = ${JSON.stringify(script)}\n`
   )
+  // One run writes both, so the page's factory can never be a build behind the WebView's.
+  await writeFile(TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_MODULE_PATH, await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryModule())
 }
 
 if (process.argv[1] === import.meta.filename) {
diff --git a/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-factory-artifacts.test.ts b/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-factory-artifacts.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..901041f04c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-factory-artifacts.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import {
+  buildTerminalDocumentFactoryBody,
+  buildTerminalDocumentFactoryModule,
+  buildTerminalDocumentScript,
+  TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_MODULE_PATH,
+  TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME
+} from '../../../scripts/build-terminal-document-script.mjs'
+
+/**
+ * The two artifacts the generator writes, held to one body (ruling 23).
+ *
+ * The WebView gets a string it loads; the page gets a module it imports, because building a
+ * function from that string needs `eval` and the page's policy refuses it. Two files is the cost of
+ * that, and the risk is the obvious one: they drift, and the terminal on the page stops being the
+ * terminal on the phone while every other test stays green. So the wrappers are stripped and the
+ * remainder compared byte for byte, which is also what makes the byte golden pin the page's file.
+ */
+
+/** What is left of the native script once its declaration line, closing brace and call are gone. */
+function nativeFactoryBody(script: string): string {
+  const open = `function ${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}(host) {\n`
+  const close = `\n}\n${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}();`
+  expect(script.startsWith(open), 'the native script opens with the factory').toBe(true)
+  expect(script.endsWith(close), 'the native script ends with the closing brace and the call').toBe(
+    true
+  )
+  return script.slice(open.length, script.length - close.length)
+}
+
+/** What is left of the page module once its header, directive, import and signature are gone. */
+function pageFactoryBody(module: string): string {
+  const open = `): TerminalDocument {\n`
+  const at = module.indexOf(open)
+  expect(at, 'the page module declares the annotated signature').toBeGreaterThan(0)
+  const close = '\n}\n'
+  expect(module.endsWith(close), 'the page module ends with the closing brace').toBe(true)
+  return module.slice(at + open.length, module.length - close.length)
+}
+
+describe('the two terminal document artifacts', () => {
+  it('carry the same factory body, byte for byte', async () => {
+    const body = await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryBody()
+    expect(nativeFactoryBody(await buildTerminalDocumentScript())).toBe(body)
+    expect(pageFactoryBody(await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryModule())).toBe(body)
+  })
+
+  it('is on disk as the generator would write it now', async () => {
+    // The page's file is gitignored and built by postinstall, so a tree whose modules moved after
+    // the last build would import yesterday's document. The native script's staleness is already
+    // caught by the byte golden; this is the same reading for the file beside it.
+    const onDisk = await readFile(TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_MODULE_PATH, 'utf8')
+    expect(onDisk).toBe(await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryModule())
+  })
+
+  it('gives the page a factory it can call and no call of its own', async () => {
+    // A trailing call would start a document as the module was imported, which is the parse-time
+    // work ruling 20 removed — and on the page it would run before any host element existed.
+    const module = await buildTerminalDocumentFactoryModule()
+    expect(module).toContain(`export function ${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}(`)
+    expect(module).not.toContain(`\n${TERMINAL_DOCUMENT_FACTORY_NAME}();`)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-host-seams.ts b/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-host-seams.ts
index f3a697294ad..8b18bf4dc86 100644
--- a/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-host-seams.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/terminal/document/document-host-seams.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ export type TerminalDocumentHostSeams = {
  */
 export type TerminalDocumentHost = Partial<TerminalDocumentHostSeams>
 
+/**
+ * A running document: the two things a host can do to one it has started.
+ *
+ * `send` is the router the WebView already reached through its message listener, which the page
+ * calls directly. `stop` runs every module's stop and takes back the frames the document is owed;
+ * the page's dispose calls it, and the WebView never does.
+ */
+export type TerminalDocument = {
+  send: (message: Record<string, unknown>) => void
+  stop: () => void
+}
+
 declare global {
   interface Window {
     ReactNativeWebView?: { postMessage: (message: string) => void }
diff --git a/mobile/src/terminal/terminal-webview-consumer-census.test.ts b/mobile/src/terminal/terminal-webview-consumer-census.test.ts
index 9e93e3c9f9c..14b4542d796 100644
--- a/mobile/src/terminal/terminal-webview-consumer-census.test.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/terminal/terminal-webview-consumer-census.test.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ const ALLOWED_INSIDE_TERMINAL = new Set([
   'terminal-webview-html.ts',
   'terminal-webview-html.web.ts',
   // Test scaffolding that runs the WebView's own document text; it is not shipped in either build.
-  'terminal-webview-mouse-test-harness.ts'
+  'terminal-webview-mouse-test-harness.ts',
+  // Generated, and it *is* the document: its body is the modules' own emitted text (ruling 23).
+  // Its one import is the host contract the signature is written against.
+  'terminal-webview-document-factory.generated.ts'
 ])
 
 const FORBIDDEN_ABOVE_THE_CONTRACT = [