diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4b4a751ec..6f9dc35bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 
 - Street Level polish from review: whole-earth coverage dots on the far side of the globe no longer show through it; a 360° or flat filter keeps a dense tile's matching lines instead of losing them to the per-tile cap; lines that lost their ground heights are cast again rather than left draped; a selection made while lines rebuild is applied once they are ready; hovering picks at most every 120 ms; Esc shrinks the expanded viewer wherever focus is, and closing a photo leaves focus in the panel; switching the layer off and on during the first photo load no longer leaves the viewer stuck. Portable panels lift only after a real mouse or pen drag, never on a click or a touch swipe. The MapillaryJS stylesheet now loads with the viewer instead of on every page (about 85 KB less render-blocking CSS). The tile proxy's disk cache is swept of expired tiles and capped at 1 GiB, keeps a cached tile's real age in memory, and refuses zoom levels the app never requests.
 
+- Street Level, second review round: the panel no longer reopens itself on every page load (only a user, voice or tool switch-on or an opening photo opens it, and those automatic opens are never stored); a floating panel is pulled back on-screen when its content grows or the window shrinks, and its header can never be dropped under the command dock or the voice pill; the expanded photo hides in Clean View, recording and the cockpit; closing a photo stops sequence playback; a failed sequence load can be retried and leaves no stale image cones. The tile proxy refuses cross-site requests and has a per-IP limit, runs at most six upstream fetches at once, stops a response past its size cap as it streams, counts empty tiles against its caches and answers other upstream refusals with 502. The panel's collapsed state now travels in share links (`ui` token `t`).
+
 - Add Norway's road cameras from Statens vegvesen as a CCTV pack. The camera
   list is one keyless GeoJSON request to the agency's OGC API view of its
   DATEX 3.1 CCTV table, so no DATEX account is needed. Every working camera
diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
index ac8ed2365..6195f88cb 100644
--- a/SECURITY.md
+++ b/SECURITY.md
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The data proxies under `server/providers/` are written so the browser cannot tur
 - **Sanitized errors** — internal error details are not echoed back to clients.
 - **Coalesced OAuth refresh** and cached successful responses only (OpenSky).
 - **Redacted debug logging.** The voice debug log (`.gev-logs/`, gitignored) strips API keys, bearer tokens, client secrets, and image data URLs before writing.
-- **Cross-site gate on cost/log endpoints.** The cost-bearing (`/api/realtime/token`, `/api/openai/hud-summary`, `/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`) and log (`/api/realtime/debug-log`) endpoints refuse cross-site browser requests: a foreign or opaque `Origin`, a `Sec-Fetch-Site` other than `same-origin`/`none` (this is what blocks an `<img>`/navigation that carries no `Origin`), or any reverse-proxy/CDN forwarding header returns `403`. Non-browser loopback tools (the repo QA harnesses POST the token endpoint with no `Origin`) and the explicit `HOST=0.0.0.0` LAN opt-in keep working — the gate deliberately does not require a loopback remote address; that stricter requirement belongs only to the credential panel (`admitKeySetupRequest`). The Host check (`allowedHosts`, applied by `hostCheckPlugin` ahead of every route, since Vite's own check runs only after plugin middleware) rejects a rebinding `Host` before any handler runs, in every mode, and the gate is defense in depth behind it: the LAN opt-in keeps that check and accepts only IP addresses, `localhost` and names listed in `GEV_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. **Limit:** a name you list there is trusted like the app's own address, so list only names you control.
+- **Cross-site gate on cost/log endpoints.** The cost-bearing (`/api/realtime/token`, `/api/openai/hud-summary`, `/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`), quota-bearing (`/api/mapillary/status`, `/api/mapillary/tiles`, whose tile route also has a per-IP limit) and log (`/api/realtime/debug-log`) endpoints refuse cross-site browser requests: a foreign or opaque `Origin`, a `Sec-Fetch-Site` other than `same-origin`/`none` (this is what blocks an `<img>`/navigation that carries no `Origin`), or any reverse-proxy/CDN forwarding header returns `403`. Non-browser loopback tools (the repo QA harnesses POST the token endpoint with no `Origin`) and the explicit `HOST=0.0.0.0` LAN opt-in keep working — the gate deliberately does not require a loopback remote address; that stricter requirement belongs only to the credential panel (`admitKeySetupRequest`). The Host check (`allowedHosts`, applied by `hostCheckPlugin` ahead of every route, since Vite's own check runs only after plugin middleware) rejects a rebinding `Host` before any handler runs, in every mode, and the gate is defense in depth behind it: the LAN opt-in keeps that check and accepts only IP addresses, `localhost` and names listed in `GEV_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. **Limit:** a name you list there is trusted like the app's own address, so list only names you control.
 - **Full Content-Security-Policy.** The dev and preview servers send a real CSP (`script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' blob:` plus the YouTube, Facebook and X scripts the Nepal event's embedded media loads, with a matching `frame-src` for their players and posts: no inline script and no other script origin; `blob:` covers the object URLs Cesium's bundled workers bootstrap through in the built app), alongside the existing `X-Frame-Options: DENY` and `frame-ancestors 'none'`. `'unsafe-eval'` stays because Knockout, bundled inside Cesium's widgets package, resolves the global object with `eval` at load time and the globe does not initialize without it; styles permit `'unsafe-inline'` and Google Fonts because Vite's dev client injects `<style>` elements.
 
 ## Network exposure — the operator threat model
diff --git a/scripts/package-boundaries.json b/scripts/package-boundaries.json
index e3f39fac7..d10fb0b46 100644
--- a/scripts/package-boundaries.json
+++ b/scripts/package-boundaries.json
@@ -192,10 +192,10 @@
       "server/providers/mapillary/constants.js",
       "server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js",
       "server/providers/mapillary/trim.js",
-      "src/layers/streetLevel/tileMath.js",
-      "server/providers/common/request.js",
-      "src/sources/rateLimit.js",
-      "server/providers/common/rate-limit.js"
+      "server/providers/common/same-site.js",
+      "src/localRequestGate.mjs",
+      "server/providers/common/rate-limit.js",
+      "src/sources/rateLimit.js"
     ],
     "external": ["pbf"]
   },
diff --git a/server/providers/mapillary/constants.js b/server/providers/mapillary/constants.js
index c1e2c1e32..368f5a55c 100644
--- a/server/providers/mapillary/constants.js
+++ b/server/providers/mapillary/constants.js
@@ -39,13 +39,40 @@ export const TILE_DISK_TTL_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
  */
 export const TILE_DISK_SWEEP_INTERVAL_MS = 15 * 60 * 1000;
 export const TILE_DISK_MAX_BYTES = 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+/**
+ * What each cached file costs against TILE_DISK_MAX_BYTES on top of its size:
+ * one filesystem block and its directory entry. An empty (no coverage) tile is
+ * 0 bytes but still a file, so without this ocean tiles would never count.
+ */
+export const TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES = 4096;
 
 /** A z14 image tile over a dense city is ~11 MB; anything past this is wrong. */
 export const TILE_MAX_BYTES = 48 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 /** In-memory tile cache budget (bytes) and upstream fetch timeout. */
 export const TILE_MEMORY_BUDGET_BYTES = 96 * 1024 * 1024;
+/**
+ * What each in-memory entry costs against the budget on top of its bytes (the
+ * key, the map entry and the Buffer object), so empty tiles count too.
+ */
+export const TILE_MEMORY_ENTRY_OVERHEAD_BYTES = 1024;
 export const TILE_FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000;
+/**
+ * Upstream tile fetches running at once; further misses queue for a slot. A
+ * view asks for at most 25 tiles, so a few slots keep it quick while a burst
+ * of distinct misses cannot open thousands of buffered requests at once.
+ */
+export const TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY = 6;
+/**
+ * Tile requests per client IP per minute (cache hits included). The app asks
+ * only for tiles it has not loaded yet, at most 9 street + 16 overview tiles
+ * per view after a 320 ms camera debounce (src/layers/streetLevel/providers/
+ * mapillary/policy.js), and the browser keeps each answer for an hour. 600 is
+ * 24 entirely new views a minute, one every 2.5 s, which a person flying the
+ * camera does not reach; it still stops one page from draining the shared
+ * token into Mapillary rate limits that would hold every miss for everyone.
+ */
+export const TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN = 600;
 /**
  * After Mapillary rejects the token (401/403), tile misses are answered from
  * that verdict for this long instead of asking again on every camera move.
diff --git a/server/providers/mapillary/routes.js b/server/providers/mapillary/routes.js
index 7c44c6ae6..f12512976 100644
--- a/server/providers/mapillary/routes.js
+++ b/server/providers/mapillary/routes.js
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import { sameSiteGated } from '../common/same-site.js';
+import { makeRateLimiter, clientKey } from '../common/rate-limit.js';
 import { fetchTile, TileRequestError, TileUpstreamError } from './tiles.js';
-import { mapillaryToken } from './constants.js';
+import { mapillaryToken, TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN } from './constants.js';
 
 function sendJson(res, status, payload) {
   res.statusCode = status;
@@ -16,9 +18,16 @@ function handleStatus(req, res) {
 }
 
 /** GET /api/mapillary/tiles/coverage/{z}/{x}/{y} — cached protobuf tile. */
-async function handleTile(req, res) {
+async function handleTile(req, res, allow) {
   if (req.method !== 'GET')
     return sendJson(res, 405, { error: 'Method not allowed' });
+  if (!allow(clientKey(req))) {
+    res.setHeader('Retry-After', '5');
+    return sendJson(res, 429, {
+      error: 'Too many tile requests',
+      retryAfter: 5,
+    });
+  }
   const match = /^\/(coverage)\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,6})\/(\d{1,6})$/.exec(
     (req.url || '').split('?')[0],
   );
@@ -61,16 +70,30 @@ async function handleTile(req, res) {
           retryAfter,
         });
       }
-      return sendJson(res, error.status >= 500 ? 502 : error.status, {
-        error: error.message,
-      });
+      // Any other refusal is Mapillary's fault, not the client's: an
+      // upstream 400 must not read as a malformed request to this proxy.
+      return sendJson(res, 502, { error: error.message });
     }
     sendJson(res, 502, { error: error?.message || 'Tile fetch failed' });
   }
 }
 
-/** Attach every Mapillary route to a connect-style middleware stack. */
+/**
+ * Attach every Mapillary route to a connect-style middleware stack. Both
+ * refuse cross-site browser requests (server/providers/common/same-site.js):
+ * another page could otherwise spend the user's token, and one Mapillary 429
+ * it provokes holds every tile miss. Tiles are also rate-limited per client
+ * IP (TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN).
+ */
 export function installMapillaryRoutes(middlewares) {
-  middlewares.use('/api/mapillary/status', handleStatus);
-  middlewares.use('/api/mapillary/tiles', handleTile);
+  const allow = makeRateLimiter({
+    windowMs: 60_000,
+    max: TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN,
+    globalMax: TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN * 4,
+  });
+  middlewares.use('/api/mapillary/status', sameSiteGated(handleStatus));
+  middlewares.use(
+    '/api/mapillary/tiles',
+    sameSiteGated((req, res) => handleTile(req, res, allow)),
+  );
 }
diff --git a/server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js b/server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js
index 6da9896db..4d4e92faf 100644
--- a/server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js
+++ b/server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js
@@ -8,9 +8,12 @@ import {
   TILE_DISK_TTL_MS,
   TILE_DISK_SWEEP_INTERVAL_MS,
   TILE_DISK_MAX_BYTES,
+  TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
   TILE_MAX_BYTES,
   TILE_MEMORY_BUDGET_BYTES,
+  TILE_MEMORY_ENTRY_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
   TILE_FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY,
   TILE_KEY_REJECTED_HOLD_MS,
   TILE_RATE_LIMIT_HOLD_MS,
   TILE_RATE_LIMIT_MAX_HOLD_MS,
@@ -108,7 +111,9 @@ export function normalizeTileAddress({ layer, z, x, y }) {
 
 /** @type {Map<string, {bytes: Buffer, at: number}>} insertion-ordered LRU */
 const _memory = new Map();
+/** Charged bytes: every entry's size plus a fixed overhead (empty tiles too). */
 let _memoryBytes = 0;
+const memoryCost = (bytes) => bytes.length + TILE_MEMORY_ENTRY_OVERHEAD_BYTES;
 /**
  * Upstream fetches in progress, shared by every request for the same tile.
  * A flight owns its controller; callers only count as waiters, and the last
@@ -124,7 +129,7 @@ function memoryGet(key) {
   // serving stale (or empty) coverage until eviction.
   if (Date.now() - hit.at > TILE_DISK_TTL_MS) {
     _memory.delete(key);
-    _memoryBytes -= hit.bytes.length;
+    _memoryBytes -= memoryCost(hit.bytes);
     return null;
   }
   // Re-insert to mark as most recently used.
@@ -135,15 +140,15 @@ function memoryGet(key) {
 
 /** `at` is when Mapillary served the bytes (a disk tile's mtime). */
 function memoryPut(key, bytes, at = Date.now()) {
-  if (bytes.length > TILE_MEMORY_BUDGET_BYTES / 2) return;
+  if (memoryCost(bytes) > TILE_MEMORY_BUDGET_BYTES / 2) return;
   const existing = _memory.get(key);
-  if (existing) _memoryBytes -= existing.bytes.length;
+  if (existing) _memoryBytes -= memoryCost(existing.bytes);
   _memory.set(key, { bytes, at });
-  _memoryBytes += bytes.length;
+  _memoryBytes += memoryCost(bytes);
   while (_memoryBytes > TILE_MEMORY_BUDGET_BYTES && _memory.size) {
     const [oldest, entry] = _memory.entries().next().value;
     _memory.delete(oldest);
-    _memoryBytes -= entry.bytes.length;
+    _memoryBytes -= memoryCost(entry.bytes);
   }
 }
 
@@ -166,28 +171,68 @@ async function readDisk(address) {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Background disk work (tile writes and sweeps) not yet settled. Requests
+ * never wait on it; tests settle it before removing a cache directory.
+ * @type {Set<Promise<void>>}
+ */
+const _background = new Set();
+
+/** Track a background task until it settles; it never rejects. */
+function track(task) {
+  const settled = task
+    .catch(() => {})
+    .finally(() => _background.delete(settled));
+  _background.add(settled);
+  return settled;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Disk writes in progress, by cache file: the sequence number of the newest.
+ * @type {Map<string, number>}
+ */
+const _diskWrites = new Map();
+let _diskWriteSeq = 0;
+
+/** Whether a write of this tile's cache file is still in progress. */
+function diskWritePending(address) {
+  return _diskWrites.has(diskPath(address));
+}
+
 /**
  * Write a tile in the background. `at` dates a rewrite of an existing tile
  * with its original fetch time, so the rewrite does not extend its life.
+ * Each write has its own temporary file, and a write that a newer one of the
+ * same tile overtook steps aside instead of renaming over it.
  */
 function writeDisk(address, bytes, at = null) {
   // The sweep after it covers this write's cache root, even if it has moved.
   const root = _diskDir;
   const file = diskPath(address, root);
-  fsp
-    .mkdir(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true })
-    .then(() => fsp.writeFile(`${file}.tmp`, bytes))
-    .then(
-      () => at != null && fsp.utimes(`${file}.tmp`, new Date(), new Date(at)),
-    )
-    .then(() => fsp.rename(`${file}.tmp`, file))
-    .then(() => scheduleSweep(root))
-    .catch((error) =>
-      console.warn(
-        '[Mapillary Proxy] tile cache write failed:',
-        error?.message || error,
-      ),
-    );
+  const seq = ++_diskWriteSeq;
+  const tmp = `${file}.${process.pid}-${seq}.tmp`;
+  const newest = () => _diskWrites.get(file) === seq;
+  _diskWrites.set(file, seq);
+  return track(
+    fsp
+      .mkdir(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true })
+      .then(() => fsp.writeFile(tmp, bytes))
+      .then(() => at != null && fsp.utimes(tmp, new Date(), new Date(at)))
+      .then(() => {
+        if (!newest()) return fsp.rm(tmp, { force: true });
+        return fsp.rename(tmp, file).then(() => scheduleSweep(root));
+      })
+      .catch(async (error) => {
+        await fsp.rm(tmp, { force: true }).catch(() => {});
+        console.warn(
+          '[Mapillary Proxy] tile cache write failed:',
+          error?.message || error,
+        );
+      })
+      .finally(() => {
+        if (newest()) _diskWrites.delete(file);
+      }),
+  );
 }
 
 let _lastSweepAt = 0;
@@ -199,7 +244,7 @@ function scheduleSweep(root) {
   if (_sweeping || Date.now() - _lastSweepAt < TILE_DISK_SWEEP_INTERVAL_MS)
     return;
   _lastSweepAt = Date.now();
-  _sweeping = sweepTileDisk({ root })
+  const sweep = sweepTileDisk({ root })
     .catch((error) => {
       if (_sweepWarned) return;
       _sweepWarned = true;
@@ -209,8 +254,10 @@ function scheduleSweep(root) {
       );
     })
     .finally(() => {
-      _sweeping = null;
+      if (_sweeping === tracked) _sweeping = null;
     });
+  const tracked = track(sweep);
+  _sweeping = tracked;
 }
 
 /** Every file under `dir` with its size and mtime; a missing dir is empty. */
@@ -237,8 +284,10 @@ async function listCacheFiles(dir) {
 
 /**
  * Bound the disk cache: delete tiles past TILE_DISK_TTL_MS, then the oldest
- * until the rest fit in `maxBytes`. Runs in the background after tile writes.
- * @returns {Promise<{removed: number, bytes: number}>} files deleted, bytes kept
+ * until the rest fit in `maxBytes`. Each file is charged its size plus
+ * TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES, so empty tiles count toward the cap.
+ * Runs in the background after tile writes.
+ * @returns {Promise<{removed: number, bytes: number}>} files deleted, charged bytes kept
  */
 export async function sweepTileDisk({
   root = _diskDir,
@@ -246,12 +295,13 @@ export async function sweepTileDisk({
 } = {}) {
   const now = Date.now();
   const files = (await listCacheFiles(root)).sort((a, b) => a.at - b.at);
-  let bytes = files.reduce((sum, { size }) => sum + size, 0);
+  const cost = (size) => size + TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES;
+  let bytes = files.reduce((sum, { size }) => sum + cost(size), 0);
   let removed = 0;
   for (const { file, size, at } of files) {
     if (now - at <= TILE_DISK_TTL_MS && bytes <= maxBytes) break;
     await fsp.rm(file, { force: true });
-    bytes -= size;
+    bytes -= cost(size);
     removed++;
   }
   return { removed, bytes };
@@ -264,8 +314,10 @@ async function fetchUpstream(address, signal) {
   if (held) throw held;
   const url = `${MAPILLARY_TILE_HOST}/${address.upstream}/2/${address.z}/${address.x}/${address.y}?access_token=${encodeURIComponent(token)}`;
   const timeout = AbortSignal.timeout(TILE_FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS);
+  // Aborts the request itself once its body runs past the size cap.
+  const oversize = new AbortController();
   const response = await fetch(url, {
-    signal: signal ? AbortSignal.any([signal, timeout]) : timeout,
+    signal: AbortSignal.any([signal, timeout, oversize.signal].filter(Boolean)),
     headers: { Accept: 'application/x-protobuf' },
   });
   if (response.status === 404 || response.status === 204) {
@@ -293,10 +345,70 @@ async function fetchUpstream(address, signal) {
     await response.body?.cancel().catch(() => {});
     throw new TileUpstreamError(502, 'Mapillary tile exceeds size cap');
   }
-  const bytes = Buffer.from(await response.arrayBuffer());
-  if (bytes.length > TILE_MAX_BYTES)
-    throw new TileUpstreamError(502, 'Mapillary tile exceeds size cap');
-  return bytes;
+  return readCapped(response, () => oversize.abort());
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read a tile body, counting as it arrives: a chunked or compressed response
+ * has no Content-Length to check first, so the request is aborted as soon as
+ * the running total passes TILE_MAX_BYTES rather than after buffering it all.
+ */
+async function readCapped(response, abortRequest) {
+  if (!response.body) return Buffer.alloc(0);
+  const reader = response.body.getReader();
+  const chunks = [];
+  let total = 0;
+  for (;;) {
+    const { done, value } = await reader.read();
+    if (done) break;
+    total += value.byteLength;
+    if (total > TILE_MAX_BYTES) {
+      abortRequest();
+      await reader.cancel().catch(() => {});
+      throw new TileUpstreamError(502, 'Mapillary tile exceeds size cap');
+    }
+    chunks.push(value);
+  }
+  return Buffer.concat(chunks, total);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Upstream fetch slots: at most TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY run at once, and
+ * further flights wait in order. Replaced whole by the test reset.
+ * @type {{active: number, queue: Array<() => void>}}
+ */
+let _slots = { active: 0, queue: [] };
+
+/**
+ * Wait for an upstream fetch slot. Resolves with its release function. A
+ * flight aborted while it waits leaves the queue and never fetches.
+ * @param {AbortSignal} signal
+ * @returns {Promise<() => void>}
+ */
+function acquireUpstreamSlot(signal) {
+  const slots = _slots;
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    if (signal.aborted) return reject(signal.reason);
+    const onAbort = () => {
+      const index = slots.queue.indexOf(grant);
+      if (index !== -1) slots.queue.splice(index, 1);
+      reject(signal.reason);
+    };
+    function grant() {
+      signal.removeEventListener('abort', onAbort);
+      slots.active++;
+      let released = false;
+      resolve(() => {
+        if (released) return;
+        released = true;
+        slots.active--;
+        slots.queue.shift()?.();
+      });
+    }
+    if (slots.active < TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY) return grant();
+    signal.addEventListener('abort', onAbort, { once: true });
+    slots.queue.push(grant);
+  });
 }
 
 /** Strip the layers this proxy never serves for the address's layer spec. */
@@ -328,11 +440,15 @@ export async function fetchTile(request, { signal } = {}) {
   if (disk) {
     // Older cache files may still hold the untrimmed tile: trim and replace,
     // keeping the original fetch time so the tile still expires on schedule.
+    // Concurrent hits on one such tile rewrite it once.
     const bytes = trim(address, disk.bytes);
-    if (bytes !== disk.bytes) writeDisk(address, bytes, disk.at);
+    if (bytes !== disk.bytes && !diskWritePending(address))
+      writeDisk(address, bytes, disk.at);
     memoryPut(address.key, bytes, disk.at);
     return { bytes, source: 'disk', address };
   }
+  // A caller gone while the disk was read must not start a fetch nobody joins.
+  signal?.throwIfAborted();
   let flight = _inFlight.get(address.key);
   const joined = Boolean(flight) && !flight.controller.signal.aborted;
   if (!joined) flight = startFlight(address);
@@ -340,11 +456,17 @@ export async function fetchTile(request, { signal } = {}) {
   return { bytes, source: joined ? 'inflight' : 'upstream', address };
 }
 
-/** Start the one upstream fetch for a tile, owned by the flight itself. */
+/**
+ * Start the one upstream fetch for a tile, owned by the flight itself. It
+ * waits for an upstream slot first; the slot is held until the body is read.
+ */
 function startFlight(address) {
   const controller = new AbortController();
   const flight = { controller, waiters: 0, promise: null };
-  flight.promise = fetchUpstream(address, controller.signal)
+  flight.promise = acquireUpstreamSlot(controller.signal)
+    .then((release) =>
+      fetchUpstream(address, controller.signal).finally(release),
+    )
     .then((raw) => trim(address, raw))
     .then((bytes) => {
       memoryPut(address.key, bytes);
@@ -399,6 +521,20 @@ export function _resetTileMemoryForTest() {
   _memoryBytes = 0;
   _inFlight.clear();
   _upstreamHold = null;
+  _slots = { active: 0, queue: [] };
+}
+
+/** Test seam: how many tiles memory holds and the bytes charged for them. */
+export function _tileMemoryForTest() {
+  return { entries: _memory.size, bytes: _memoryBytes };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Test seam: wait until every background tile write and sweep has settled,
+ * including sweeps those writes start, so a test may remove its cache dir.
+ */
+export async function _settleTileWritesForTest() {
+  while (_background.size) await Promise.allSettled([..._background]);
 }
 
 /** Test seam: keep the disk cache in `dir` (null restores the default). */
diff --git a/src/tooling/mapillaryProvider.test.mjs b/src/tooling/mapillaryProvider.test.mjs
index f1f4ef797..470639707 100644
--- a/src/tooling/mapillaryProvider.test.mjs
+++ b/src/tooling/mapillaryProvider.test.mjs
@@ -10,12 +10,20 @@ import {
   stripTileLayers,
 } from '../../server/providers/mapillary/trim.js';
 import * as tiles from '../../server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js';
+import {
+  TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
+  TILE_MAX_BYTES,
+  TILE_MEMORY_ENTRY_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
+  TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN,
+  TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY,
+} from '../../server/providers/mapillary/constants.js';
 import {
   fetchTile,
   normalizeTileAddress,
   TileRequestError,
   _resetTileMemoryForTest,
   _setTileCacheDirForTest,
+  _settleTileWritesForTest,
 } from '../../server/providers/mapillary/tiles.js';
 
 // Every tile these tests cache lands in a throwaway directory, never in the
@@ -23,8 +31,12 @@ import {
 const cacheDir = await fsp.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gev-mly-tiles-'));
 _setTileCacheDirForTest(cacheDir);
 // The directory is not switched back: a background write still landing must
-// never sweep the real cache.
-after(() => fsp.rm(cacheDir, { recursive: true, force: true }));
+// never sweep the real cache. Background writes and sweeps settle first, so
+// none lands in the directory while it is being removed.
+after(async () => {
+  await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
+  await fsp.rm(cacheDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
 const tileFile = ({ z, x, y }, root = cacheDir) =>
   path.join(root, 'coverage', String(z), `${x}-${y}.pbf`);
 const HOUR = 60 * 60 * 1000;
@@ -52,7 +64,11 @@ const exists = (file) =>
     () => false,
   );
 
-/** Mount the plugin and return a caller keyed by route. */
+/**
+ * Mount the plugin and return callers keyed by route. `start` returns at once
+ * with the response, its `close` trigger and the handler's `done` promise;
+ * `call` waits for the handler.
+ */
 function install(plugin, mode = 'configureServer') {
   const routes = new Map();
   plugin[mode]({
@@ -62,10 +78,17 @@ function install(plugin, mode = 'configureServer') {
       },
     },
   });
-  const call = async (route, url = '/', method = 'GET', body) => {
+  const start = (
+    route,
+    url = '/',
+    method = 'GET',
+    body,
+    requestHeaders = {},
+  ) => {
     const handler = routes.get(route);
     assert.ok(handler, `route ${route} is mounted`);
     const headers = {};
+    const resListeners = {};
     const res = {
       statusCode: 200,
       headersSent: false,
@@ -84,13 +107,15 @@ function install(plugin, mode = 'configureServer') {
         this.body = payload;
         this.writableEnded = true;
       },
-      on() {},
+      on(event, fn) {
+        resListeners[event] = fn;
+      },
     };
     const listeners = {};
     const req = {
       url,
       method,
-      headers: {},
+      headers: requestHeaders,
       on(event, fn) {
         listeners[event] = fn;
       },
@@ -98,10 +123,15 @@ function install(plugin, mode = 'configureServer') {
         if (body) yield Buffer.from(body);
       },
     };
-    await handler(req, res);
+    const done = Promise.resolve(handler(req, res));
+    return { res, headers, done, close: () => resListeners.close?.() };
+  };
+  const call = async (...args) => {
+    const { res, headers, done } = start(...args);
+    await done;
     return { ...res, headers };
   };
-  return { routes, call };
+  return { routes, call, start };
 }
 
 const json = (res) => JSON.parse(String(res.body));
@@ -170,8 +200,11 @@ async function withUpstream(answer, run) {
     return answer(calls.length);
   };
   try {
-    await run({ calls, call: install(mapillaryProxy()).call });
+    const { call, start } = install(mapillaryProxy());
+    await run({ calls, call, start });
   } finally {
+    // No background write or sweep (dated by a mocked clock) outlives the test.
+    await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
     globalThis.fetch = savedFetch;
     if (savedToken === undefined) delete process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
     else process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN = savedToken;
@@ -339,15 +372,15 @@ test('a tile held in memory past the 24 h TTL is fetched again', async (t) => {
   const tile = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 3, y: 3 };
   await withDeferredUpstream([tile], async ({ upstream, settle }) => {
     const first = fetchTile(tile);
-    await settle();
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 1, 'the upstream fetch');
     upstream[0].release();
     assert.equal((await first).source, 'upstream');
     assert.equal((await fetchTile(tile)).source, 'memory');
     const now = Date.now();
     t.mock.method(Date, 'now', () => now + 25 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
     const again = fetchTile(tile);
-    await settle();
-    assert.equal(upstream.length, 2, 'neither cache answers a stale tile');
+    // Neither cache answers a stale tile: Mapillary is asked again.
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 2, 'a second upstream fetch');
     upstream[1].release();
     assert.equal((await again).source, 'upstream');
   });
@@ -370,10 +403,8 @@ test('a disk tile keeps its age in memory and through a retrim rewrite (review P
       assert.deepEqual(listTileLayers(first.bytes), ['sequence']);
       // The untrimmed file is replaced by the trimmed tile, still dated when
       // Mapillary served it.
-      await waitFor(
-        async () => (await fsp.stat(file)).size === first.bytes.length,
-        'the trimmed rewrite',
-      );
+      await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
+      assert.equal((await fsp.stat(file)).size, first.bytes.length);
       assert.ok(
         Math.abs((await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs - writtenAt) < 1000,
         'the rewrite keeps the original mtime',
@@ -383,11 +414,8 @@ test('a disk tile keeps its age in memory and through a retrim rewrite (review P
       const later = await fetchTile(address);
       assert.equal(later.source, 'upstream', '25 h old: no cache serves it');
       assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
-      // Let the refetched tile land before the next test moves the cache.
-      await waitFor(
-        async () => (await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs > writtenAt + HOUR,
-        'the refetched tile write',
-      );
+      await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
+      assert.ok((await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs > writtenAt + HOUR);
     },
   );
 });
@@ -399,6 +427,7 @@ async function withCacheDir(run) {
   try {
     await run(dir);
   } finally {
+    await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
     tiles._setTileCacheDirForTest(cacheDir);
     await fsp.rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
@@ -425,8 +454,9 @@ test('the disk sweep evicts the oldest tiles past the size cap (review P2)', asy
     });
     for (const { file, age } of files)
       await writeAged(file, Buffer.alloc(100, age), age * HOUR);
-    const result = await tiles.sweepTileDisk({ maxBytes: 250 });
-    assert.deepEqual(result, { removed: 1, bytes: 200 });
+    const charged = 100 + TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES;
+    const result = await tiles.sweepTileDisk({ maxBytes: 2.5 * charged });
+    assert.deepEqual(result, { removed: 1, bytes: 2 * charged });
     assert.equal(await exists(files[0].file), false, 'the oldest goes first');
     assert.equal(await exists(files[1].file), true);
     assert.equal(await exists(files[2].file), true);
@@ -500,6 +530,7 @@ async function withDeferredUpstream(tiles, run) {
   try {
     await run({ upstream, settle, body });
   } finally {
+    await _settleTileWritesForTest();
     globalThis.fetch = savedFetch;
     if (savedToken === undefined) delete process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
     else process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN = savedToken;
@@ -513,7 +544,7 @@ test('a joined tile request survives the first caller abandoning it', async () =
     const first = new AbortController();
     const second = new AbortController();
     const a = fetchTile(tile, { signal: first.signal });
-    await settle();
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 1, 'the upstream fetch');
     const b = fetchTile(tile, { signal: second.signal });
     await settle();
     assert.equal(upstream.length, 1, 'one upstream request for both');
@@ -534,7 +565,7 @@ test('a joined caller that aborts leaves at once and the first still gets the ti
     const first = new AbortController();
     const second = new AbortController();
     const a = fetchTile(tile, { signal: first.signal });
-    await settle();
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 1, 'the upstream fetch');
     const b = fetchTile(tile, { signal: second.signal });
     await settle();
     second.abort();
@@ -551,7 +582,7 @@ test('the upstream tile fetch is cancelled once every waiter has left', async ()
     const first = new AbortController();
     const second = new AbortController();
     const a = fetchTile(tile, { signal: first.signal });
-    await settle();
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 1, 'the upstream fetch');
     const b = fetchTile(tile, { signal: second.signal });
     await settle();
     first.abort();
@@ -562,13 +593,419 @@ test('the upstream tile fetch is cancelled once every waiter has left', async ()
     assert.equal(upstream[0].aborted, true, 'the last waiter cancels it');
     // A later request for the same tile starts a fresh fetch.
     const again = fetchTile(tile);
-    await settle();
-    assert.equal(upstream.length, 2);
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 2, 'a fresh fetch');
     upstream[1].release();
     assert.equal((await again).source, 'upstream');
   });
 });
 
+// ── Route: success path, refusals, gate and limiter (review gekh) ──
+
+/** Every header value and the body, as text, for a token-leak check. */
+const leakText = (res) =>
+  [
+    ...Object.values(res.headers).map(String),
+    Buffer.isBuffer(res.body) ? res.body.toString('latin1') : String(res.body),
+  ].join('\n');
+
+test('the tile route serves a trimmed protobuf tile, then from memory (review gekh P0)', async () => {
+  const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 9, y: 9 };
+  await fsp.rm(tileFile(address), { force: true });
+  const upstream = tile([
+    { name: 'sequence' },
+    { name: 'image', payload: Buffer.alloc(4000, 1) },
+  ]);
+  await withUpstream(
+    () =>
+      new Response(upstream, {
+        status: 200,
+        headers: { 'content-type': 'application/x-protobuf' },
+      }),
+    async ({ calls, call }) => {
+      const res = await call('/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/9/9');
+      assert.equal(res.statusCode, 200);
+      assert.equal(res.headers['content-type'], 'application/x-protobuf');
+      assert.equal(res.headers['cache-control'], 'public, max-age=3600');
+      assert.equal(res.headers['x-gev-cache'], 'upstream');
+      assert.ok(Buffer.isBuffer(res.body));
+      assert.deepEqual(listTileLayers(res.body), ['sequence']);
+      assert.deepEqual(res.body, tile([{ name: 'sequence' }]));
+      assert.doesNotMatch(leakText(res), /MLY\|/);
+      const again = await call('/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/9/9');
+      assert.equal(again.statusCode, 200);
+      assert.equal(again.headers['x-gev-cache'], 'memory');
+      assert.deepEqual(again.body, res.body);
+      assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+for (const status of [204, 404])
+  test(`an empty upstream tile (${status}) is a 204 with no body (review gekh P0)`, async () => {
+    const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 10, y: status };
+    await fsp.rm(tileFile(address), { force: true });
+    await withUpstream(
+      () => new Response(null, { status }),
+      async ({ call }) => {
+        const res = await call(
+          '/api/mapillary/tiles',
+          `/coverage/14/10/${status}`,
+        );
+        assert.equal(res.statusCode, 204);
+        assert.equal(res.body, undefined);
+        assert.equal(res.headers['content-type'], 'application/x-protobuf');
+        assert.equal(res.headers['x-gev-cache'], 'upstream');
+        assert.doesNotMatch(leakText(res), /MLY\|/);
+      },
+    );
+  });
+
+test('closing the response mid-flight aborts the upstream fetch (review gekh P0)', async () => {
+  const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 11, y: 11 };
+  await withDeferredUpstream([address], async ({ upstream }) => {
+    const { start } = install(mapillaryProxy());
+    const pending = start('/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/11/11');
+    await waitFor(() => upstream.length === 1, 'the upstream fetch');
+    assert.equal(upstream[0].aborted, false);
+    pending.close();
+    await pending.done;
+    assert.equal(upstream[0].aborted, true, 'the last waiter left');
+    assert.equal(pending.res.writableEnded, false, 'nothing is written');
+  });
+});
+
+for (const status of [400, 410, 422])
+  test(`an upstream ${status} is a 502, not the client's fault (review gekh)`, async () => {
+    await withUpstream(
+      () => new Response('{}', { status }),
+      async ({ call }) => {
+        const res = await call('/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/12/12');
+        assert.equal(res.statusCode, 502);
+        assert.deepEqual(json(res), {
+          error: `Mapillary tiles HTTP ${status}`,
+        });
+      },
+    );
+  });
+
+test('cross-site requests are refused on both routes; the app itself passes (review gekh)', async () => {
+  await withUpstream(
+    () => new Response(tile([{ name: 'sequence' }]), { status: 200 }),
+    async ({ calls, call }) => {
+      const host = 'localhost:5173';
+      const refused = [
+        { host, 'sec-fetch-site': 'cross-site' }, // <img>, navigation
+        { host, 'sec-fetch-site': 'same-site' },
+        { host, origin: 'https://evil.example' }, // fetch from another page
+        { host, origin: 'null' }, // sandboxed frame
+        { host, 'x-forwarded-for': '203.0.113.9' }, // through a proxy
+      ];
+      for (const headers of refused)
+        for (const [route, url] of [
+          ['/api/mapillary/status', '/'],
+          ['/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/13/13'],
+        ]) {
+          const res = await call(route, url, 'GET', undefined, headers);
+          assert.equal(
+            res.statusCode,
+            403,
+            `${route} ${JSON.stringify(headers)}`,
+          );
+        }
+      assert.equal(calls.length, 0, 'Mapillary is never asked');
+      const app = {
+        host,
+        origin: `http://${host}`,
+        'sec-fetch-site': 'same-origin',
+      };
+      const status = await call(
+        '/api/mapillary/status',
+        '/',
+        'GET',
+        undefined,
+        app,
+      );
+      assert.equal(status.statusCode, 200);
+      assert.deepEqual(json(status), { configured: true });
+      const res = await call(
+        '/api/mapillary/tiles',
+        '/coverage/14/13/14',
+        'GET',
+        undefined,
+        { host, 'sec-fetch-site': 'same-origin' }, // a same-origin GET has no Origin
+      );
+      assert.notEqual(res.statusCode, 403);
+      assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+test('the tile route answers 429 past its per-IP budget (review gekh)', async () => {
+  const saved = process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
+  delete process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
+  try {
+    const { call } = install(mapillaryProxy());
+    for (let i = 0; i < TILE_ROUTE_MAX_PER_MIN; i++) {
+      const res = await call('/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/1/2');
+      assert.equal(res.statusCode, 503, `request ${i + 1} is within budget`);
+    }
+    const over = await call('/api/mapillary/tiles', '/coverage/14/1/2');
+    assert.equal(over.statusCode, 429);
+    assert.equal(over.headers['retry-after'], '5');
+    assert.deepEqual(json(over), {
+      error: 'Too many tile requests',
+      retryAfter: 5,
+    });
+    const status = await call('/api/mapillary/status');
+    assert.equal(status.statusCode, 200, 'the status route is not limited');
+  } finally {
+    if (saved === undefined) delete process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
+    else process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN = saved;
+  }
+});
+
+// ── Tile cache and upstream bounds (review gekh) ──
+
+test('concurrent disk hits on an untrimmed tile rewrite it once, keeping its age (review gekh)', async (t) => {
+  const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 14, y: 14 };
+  const file = tileFile(address);
+  await writeAged(
+    file,
+    tile([
+      { name: 'sequence' },
+      { name: 'image', payload: Buffer.alloc(4000, 1) },
+    ]),
+    23 * HOUR,
+  );
+  const writtenAt = (await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs;
+  const writeFile = fsp.writeFile;
+  const writes = [];
+  t.mock.method(fsp, 'writeFile', (target, ...rest) => {
+    if (String(target).startsWith(file)) writes.push(String(target));
+    return writeFile.call(fsp, target, ...rest);
+  });
+  const warn = t.mock.method(console, 'warn', () => {});
+  await withUpstream(
+    () => assert.fail('a disk hit never asks Mapillary'),
+    async () => {
+      const hits = await Promise.all([1, 2, 3].map(() => fetchTile(address)));
+      for (const hit of hits) {
+        assert.equal(hit.source, 'disk');
+        assert.deepEqual(listTileLayers(hit.bytes), ['sequence']);
+      }
+      await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
+    },
+  );
+  assert.equal(writes.length, 1, 'one rewrite for three hits');
+  assert.equal(warn.mock.callCount(), 0);
+  const stat = await fsp.stat(file);
+  assert.equal(stat.size, tile([{ name: 'sequence' }]).length);
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(stat.mtimeMs - writtenAt) < 1000, 'no fresh 24 h of life');
+});
+
+test('a rewrite overtaken by a fresh tile write steps aside cleanly (review gekh)', async (t) => {
+  const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 15, y: 15 };
+  const file = tileFile(address);
+  await writeAged(
+    file,
+    tile([
+      { name: 'sequence' },
+      { name: 'image', payload: Buffer.alloc(4000, 1) },
+    ]),
+    23 * HOUR,
+  );
+  const writtenAt = (await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs;
+  // Hold the retrim's re-dating step until the fresh write has landed.
+  const utimes = fsp.utimes;
+  let held = null;
+  let release;
+  const gate = new Promise((resolve) => (release = resolve));
+  t.mock.method(fsp, 'utimes', async (target, ...rest) => {
+    if (String(target).startsWith(file)) {
+      held = String(target);
+      await gate;
+    }
+    return utimes.call(fsp, target, ...rest);
+  });
+  const warn = t.mock.method(console, 'warn', () => {});
+  const fresh = tile([{ name: 'sequence' }, { name: 'overview' }]);
+  await withUpstream(
+    () => new Response(fresh, { status: 200 }),
+    async ({ calls }) => {
+      assert.equal((await fetchTile(address)).source, 'disk');
+      await waitFor(() => held, 'the retrim write');
+      // Two hours on, the disk copy is past its 24 h: Mapillary is asked.
+      _resetTileMemoryForTest();
+      const now = Date.now();
+      t.mock.method(Date, 'now', () => now + 2 * HOUR);
+      assert.equal((await fetchTile(address)).source, 'upstream');
+      assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+      await waitFor(
+        async () => (await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs > writtenAt + HOUR,
+        'the fresh tile write',
+      );
+      release();
+      await tiles._settleTileWritesForTest();
+    },
+  );
+  assert.equal(warn.mock.callCount(), 0, 'no ENOENT from a shared temp file');
+  assert.deepEqual(await fsp.readFile(file), fresh, 'the fresh tile stays');
+  assert.ok((await fsp.stat(file)).mtimeMs > writtenAt + HOUR);
+  const left = await fsp.readdir(path.dirname(file));
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    left.filter((name) => name.endsWith('.tmp')),
+    [],
+    'no temporary file is left behind',
+  );
+});
+
+test('at most a few upstream fetches run at once; a queued abort never fetches (review gekh)', async () => {
+  const addresses = Array.from(
+    { length: TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY + 2 },
+    (_, i) => ({
+      layer: 'coverage',
+      z: 13,
+      x: 100 + i,
+      y: 100,
+    }),
+  );
+  await withDeferredUpstream(addresses, async ({ upstream, settle }) => {
+    const controllers = addresses.map(() => new AbortController());
+    const begin = (i) =>
+      fetchTile(addresses[i], { signal: controllers[i].signal });
+    // Fill every slot first, so the two extra misses are the ones that wait.
+    const results = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY; i++) results.push(begin(i));
+    await waitFor(
+      () => upstream.length === TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY,
+      'every slot in use',
+    );
+    const queued = TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY;
+    const aborted = queued + 1;
+    results.push(begin(queued), begin(aborted));
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(upstream.length, TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY, 'the rest wait');
+    controllers[aborted].abort();
+    await assert.rejects(results[aborted], { name: 'AbortError' });
+    upstream[0].release();
+    await waitFor(
+      () => upstream.length === TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY + 1,
+      'the queued miss taking the freed slot',
+    );
+    assert.match(upstream.at(-1).url, new RegExp(`/13/${100 + queued}/100\\?`));
+    for (const call of upstream) call.release();
+    for (const result of results.slice(0, aborted))
+      assert.equal((await result).source, 'upstream');
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(
+      upstream.length,
+      TILE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY + 1,
+      'the aborted miss never reached Mapillary',
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+test('a caller gone while the disk cache is read starts no upstream fetch (review gekh)', async () => {
+  const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 13, x: 120, y: 100 };
+  await withDeferredUpstream([address], async ({ upstream, settle }) => {
+    const controller = new AbortController();
+    const pending = fetchTile(address, { signal: controller.signal });
+    controller.abort(); // fetchTile is still reading the disk cache
+    await assert.rejects(pending, { name: 'AbortError' });
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(upstream.length, 0, 'Mapillary is not asked');
+  });
+});
+
+test('empty tiles are charged against the memory budget (review gekh)', async () => {
+  const addresses = [16, 17, 18].map((x) => ({
+    layer: 'coverage',
+    z: 14,
+    x,
+    y: 16,
+  }));
+  for (const address of addresses)
+    await fsp.rm(tileFile(address), { force: true });
+  await withUpstream(
+    () => new Response(null, { status: 204 }),
+    async () => {
+      for (const address of addresses)
+        assert.equal((await fetchTile(address)).bytes.length, 0);
+      assert.deepEqual(tiles._tileMemoryForTest(), {
+        entries: 3,
+        bytes: 3 * TILE_MEMORY_ENTRY_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
+      });
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+test('empty tile files count toward the disk cap (review gekh)', async () => {
+  await withCacheDir(async (dir) => {
+    const files = [3, 2, 1].map((age) => ({
+      file: tileFile({ z: 13, x: age, y: age }, dir),
+      age,
+    }));
+    for (const { file, age } of files)
+      await writeAged(file, Buffer.alloc(0), age * HOUR);
+    const result = await tiles.sweepTileDisk({
+      maxBytes: 2 * TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
+    });
+    assert.deepEqual(result, {
+      removed: 1,
+      bytes: 2 * TILE_DISK_FILE_OVERHEAD_BYTES,
+    });
+    assert.equal(await exists(files[0].file), false, 'the oldest goes first');
+    assert.equal(await exists(files[2].file), true);
+  });
+});
+
+test('a body past the size cap aborts the upstream request as it streams (review gekh)', async () => {
+  const address = { layer: 'coverage', z: 14, x: 19, y: 19 };
+  await fsp.rm(tileFile(address), { force: true });
+  const MB = 1024 * 1024;
+  const chunk = new Uint8Array(MB);
+  let pulled = 0;
+  let cancelled = false;
+  let upstreamSignal = null;
+  const savedFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  const savedToken = process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
+  process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN = 'MLY|test|token';
+  _resetTileMemoryForTest();
+  // Chunked, no Content-Length: only a running count can see it is too big.
+  globalThis.fetch = async (_url, { signal } = {}) => {
+    upstreamSignal = signal;
+    const body = new ReadableStream({
+      pull(controller) {
+        controller.enqueue(chunk);
+        pulled += chunk.byteLength;
+        if (pulled >= TILE_MAX_BYTES + 8 * MB) controller.close();
+      },
+      cancel() {
+        cancelled = true;
+      },
+    });
+    return new Response(body, { status: 200 });
+  };
+  try {
+    await assert.rejects(fetchTile(address), {
+      name: 'TileUpstreamError',
+      status: 502,
+      message: 'Mapillary tile exceeds size cap',
+    });
+    assert.equal(upstreamSignal.aborted, true, 'the request is aborted');
+    assert.equal(cancelled, true, 'the body is cancelled');
+    assert.ok(
+      pulled <= TILE_MAX_BYTES + 2 * MB,
+      `stopped after ${pulled} bytes`,
+    );
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = savedFetch;
+    if (savedToken === undefined) delete process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN;
+    else process.env.MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN = savedToken;
+    _resetTileMemoryForTest();
+  }
+});
+
 // ── Tile trimming (relocated from server/providers/mapillary/trim.test.mjs) ──
 /** Build a minimal MVT: layers with a name, a version and one opaque feature. */
 function tile(layers) {
diff --git a/src/tooling/streetLevelQa.test.mjs b/src/tooling/streetLevelQa.test.mjs
index 97d9b366b..a8aceab5e 100644
--- a/src/tooling/streetLevelQa.test.mjs
+++ b/src/tooling/streetLevelQa.test.mjs
@@ -1,34 +1,24 @@
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import test from 'node:test';
+import { createApplicationStreetLevel } from '../app/layers/streetLevel.js';
 import {
   fixtureTile,
   EXPECTED_PROVIDERS,
   isCollapsed,
-  RAIL_ORDER,
-  VIEWPORTS,
 } from '../../scripts/qa-street-level.mjs';
 
-test('the QA harness exercises both review viewports', () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    VIEWPORTS.map((v) => `${v.width}x${v.height}`),
-    ['1440x900', '1280x800'],
-  );
+test('the harness expects exactly the providers the app registers, in chip order', () => {
+  // Any method a provider asks its source for is a no-op: only ids matter.
+  const source = new Proxy({}, { get: () => () => {} });
+  const layer = createApplicationStreetLevel({
+    surface: null,
+    sources: { mapillary: source },
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual([...EXPECTED_PROVIDERS], [...layer.providerIds]);
 });
 
-test('the harness expects exactly the registered providers', () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(EXPECTED_PROVIDERS, ['mapillary']);
-});
-
-test('rail order puts Street Level between CCTV and Context', () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(RAIL_ORDER, [
-    'pp-toggles',
-    'cctv-panel',
-    'weather-panel',
-    'recent-imagery-panel',
-    'street-level-panel',
-    'global-context-panel',
-  ]);
+test('a panel reads as collapsed only with the collapsed class', () => {
   assert.equal(isCollapsed(['panel-collapsible', 'collapsed']), true);
   assert.equal(isCollapsed(['panel-collapsible']), false);
 });