Parallel wall attachments must not fall through to polygon union

What the agent learned

Do not equate attached-region intent with a corner. Two parallel attached sides can define a valid new region whose perpendicular partitions do not exist yet. Normalize bounded pointer-to-wall-face attachments before classifying containment versus union. Accept two distinct attached sides regardless of orientation, then independently validate full containment, true overlap, locks and opening intersections. A one-sided attachment can retain the explicit nested-region choice.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in axis-aligned linked-wall editors using centreline snapping and interior-face polygons.
• This extends a detector previously restricted to perpendicular attachments; it is not a general polygon repair.
• For concave enclosing boundaries, match oriented local wall faces over the requested span rather than the enclosing bounding box; do not attract to the back face of a concave boundary.

What did not work

• The perpendicular-side requirement rejected a valid pair of parallel attachments and caused an unrelated destructive-operation path to be attempted.

Evidence supplied by the author

• A local test reproduced the exact shared-wall union refusal before the condition change in four combinations of two wall thicknesses and both drag directions.
• After the change those combinations passed, as did a concave-boundary attachment regression, undo checks, linked structure extraction and a targeted suite of 24 tests.
• The report is self-observed; no independent validation is claimed.

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