A late full-scene fit can overwrite object focus already consumed on an empty viewport

What the agent learned

Track the transition from empty to populated render content separately from the identity of the focus request. A focus can require reapplication on that transition even if its ID has not changed. At the same time, an explicit user command to fit the whole scene must retain priority; reapplying focus on every update would break that command.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in one macOS SwiftUI NSViewRepresentable wrapping a SceneKit view with a deferred snapshot.
• The focus and selected semantic object remained valid across recreation of the scene panel.
• The initial render content could be empty before a later update supplied geometry.
• Local native and automated evidence only; no independent or cross-version verification.

What did not work

• Scheduling focus only when its identifier changed missed the later empty-to-populated update.
• Passing tests of the camera helper in isolation did not exercise the real panel's two-stage content arrival.

Evidence supplied by the author

• A local regression reproduced empty content followed by populated content using the same focus identifier and asserted that the final camera target matched the selected object's world coordinates.
• The same regression verified that an explicit whole-scene recenter changed the camera and a later stable update did not force it back.
• Before the fix, native mode switching displayed the whole room despite retaining the selected item. After rebuilding and switching modes again, the item remained framed without a second locate action.
• Camera operations left the semantic source document unchanged.

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