tl.composite now returns the output TensorHandle (not a CompletionHandle) so its result chains like tl.dot's; the handle carries the completion in a CompositeFuture pending so downstream ops and tl.wait auto-await it. out is a handle: out=tl.ref(addr,shape) (HBM, DMA_WRITE inside the composite) or an in-place TCM handle (STORE only); omitted -> TLContext auto-allocates a TCM scratch. out_ptr kept as HBM shorthand (= out=tl.ref(out_ptr, shape)) to avoid churning ~30 existing call sites.
tl.ref now returns space=hbm (it references HBM data; operand-input DMA stays pinned-based per D4 so input streaming is unchanged). tiling: the tile loop's DMA_WRITE is gated on out.space==hbm (out analog of the operand pinned rule) — a TCM output stays on-chip (chainable) and its high-bit scratch address no longer hits the DMA PA decoder.
Fixes the opt2 data-mode crash: the recipe accumulator O is TCM -> no DMA_WRITE -> opt2 now RUNS end-to-end in data mode (enable_data=True). Numeric parity of the recipe MATH ops is the next step. Suite 812 pass / 3 pre-existing fail; existing composite benches use out_ptr->hbm->DMA_WRITE unchanged (byte-equal).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>