diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b9fb98654..36bd121b6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1157,6 +1157,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "zip 9.1.1",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "craft-web-host"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "git+https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs?rev=2e2312ddaf21bc3d85cd3395d0955c7d239306f6#2e2312ddaf21bc3d85cd3395d0955c7d239306f6"
+dependencies = [
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "web-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "craft-window"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -2121,6 +2130,7 @@ name = "figcraft-web"
 version = "0.15.0"
 dependencies = [
  "base64 0.22.1",
+ "craft-web-host",
  "eframe",
  "egui",
  "figcraft-collab-net",
diff --git a/apps/figcraft-web/Cargo.toml b/apps/figcraft-web/Cargo.toml
index 15f98bee5..7f0b4ded5 100644
--- a/apps/figcraft-web/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apps/figcraft-web/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ figcraft-format = { workspace = true }
 figcraft-ui-egui = { workspace = true }
 figcraft-collab-net = { workspace = true }
 figcraft-text = { workspace = true }
+# The host messages (storytold/craft-libs): one contract and one bridge for the web builds.
+craft-web-host = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "2e2312ddaf21bc3d85cd3395d0955c7d239306f6", version = "0.1.0" }
 base64 = { workspace = true }
 egui = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/apps/figcraft-web/src/host.rs b/apps/figcraft-web/src/host.rs
index 5ed0f683a..1000c1490 100644
--- a/apps/figcraft-web/src/host.rs
+++ b/apps/figcraft-web/src/host.rs
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
 //! Host modes: a page that runs FigCraft (as an `<iframe>`, or in its own document) opens
-//! documents in it and stores what it saves instead of the browser downloading. The same
-//! messages as the other Crafting Apps' bridges.
+//! documents in it and stores what it saves instead of the browser downloading. The messages
+//! and the two transports are `craft-web-host`'s (storytold/craft-libs): the same contract as
+//! the other Craft apps' bridges. This module is FigCraft's part of it.
 //!
-//! ## `?host=parent` — an `<iframe>` (such as a Nextcloud app)
-//!
-//! The framing page and FigCraft talk over `postMessage` between same-origin windows. Messages
-//! are plain objects with a `type`:
-//!
-//! - `figcraft:ready` (to the parent): `{ version }`, sent once the app is running and
-//!   listening; send a file now.
-//! - `figcraft:open` (from the parent): `{ name, bytes }`, bytes an `ArrayBuffer` or
-//!   `Uint8Array`. It opens exactly as a file picked with File › Open or dropped on the window
-//!   would (the app's own open queue, with its "Opening as a new file" card). A payload over the
-//!   browser's own open limit ([`figcraft_ui_egui::browser_can_read`]'s 512 MB) is refused before
-//!   its bytes are copied, and anything malformed is ignored.
-//! - `figcraft:save` (to the parent): `{ name, saveAs, bytes }` (a transferred `ArrayBuffer`) for
-//!   every file the app hands its download service — in host mode nothing reaches the browser's
-//!   downloads. The parent stores it and reports failures itself. `saveAs` says whether the file
-//!   becomes the document's file ([`crate::hostmode::save_as`]):
+//! - `?host=parent` (an `<iframe>`, such as a Nextcloud app) talks to the same-origin parent over
+//!   `postMessage`; `data-host="page"` on the canvas (the page's own document) uses DOM
+//!   `CustomEvent`s on the canvas instead. `?host=parent` wins when both are present.
+//! - `figcraft:ready` (to the host) once the app is running and listening; send a file now.
+//! - `figcraft:open` (from the host): `{ name, bytes }`. It opens exactly as a file picked with
+//!   File › Open or dropped on the window would (the app's own open queue, with its "Opening as
+//!   a new file" card). A payload over the browser's own open limit
+//!   ([`figcraft_ui_egui::browser_can_read`]'s 512 MB) is refused before its bytes are copied,
+//!   and anything malformed is ignored. FigCraft reads whole files, so it says `file: false` in
+//!   `ready` and a host sends `bytes`.
+//! - `figcraft:save` (to the host): `{ name, saveAs, bytes }` for every file the app hands its
+//!   download service; in host mode nothing reaches the browser's downloads. `saveAs` says whether
+//!   the file becomes the document's file ([`crate::hostmode::save_as`]):
 //!   - A Save of the file the host opened, under its own name: `false`.
 //!   - A document file (`.figcraft` or `.json`, the formats `file.save` and `file.saveAs` write)
 //!     under a name the host didn't open — Save As, or a Save of a document the host never sent
@@ -26,31 +24,20 @@
 //!   - Everything else is a copy or export that never becomes the document: `false` — rendered
 //!     images, SVG and PDF, `.fig` copies, and the variables exports (a `.variables.json`
 //!     sidecar's `.json` extension doesn't make it a document).
-//! - `figcraft:dirty` (to the parent): `{ dirty }` whenever unsaved changes appear or go away.
-//! - `figcraft:failed` (to the parent): `{ error }` when the app couldn't start.
-//!
-//! Only the parent window on the page's own origin is heard or answered.
-//!
-//! ## `data-host="page"` — the page's own document
-//!
-//! A page that loads the module into its own document (its own `<canvas id="figcraft_canvas"
-//! data-host="page">`, no iframe) gets the same behaviour over DOM `CustomEvent`s on the canvas
-//! instead of `postMessage`: the same four events outward (`ready`, `save`, `dirty`, `failed`,
-//! with the message fields as the event's `detail`), and the page dispatches `figcraft:open` on
-//! the canvas with `detail: { name, bytes }` to open a document. Events don't bubble, so two
-//! editors on one page can't hear each other, and the canvas is the only target FigCraft
-//! listens on.
+//! - `figcraft:dirty` whenever unsaved changes appear or go away, `figcraft:failed` when the app
+//!   couldn't start.
 //!
 //! In host mode the app starts with no document (the home screen) and the host sends the file to
 //! edit; `?author=` names the user for comments and board notes.
 
-use std::cell::{Cell, RefCell};
+use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::rc::Rc;
 
+use craft_web_host::web::{FileData, Host, Message};
 use figcraft_ui_egui::FigApp;
-use wasm_bindgen::JsCast as _;
-use wasm_bindgen::JsValue;
-use wasm_bindgen::closure::Closure;
+
+/// The app id in the host messages (`figcraft:ready`).
+const APP: &str = "figcraft";
 
 /// The longest user name taken from `?author=`.
 const MAX_AUTHOR_CHARS: usize = 200;
@@ -59,88 +46,20 @@ const MAX_AUTHOR_CHARS: usize = 200;
 /// `(name, bytes)`.
 pub type OpenQueue = Rc<RefCell<Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>>>;
 
-/// How a host page is reached. The modes behave the same; they differ only in how an event goes
-/// out ([`Transport::send`]) and how an open request comes in ([`Bridge::listen`]).
-#[derive(Clone)]
-enum Transport {
-    /// `?host=parent`: `postMessage` between same-origin windows.
-    Parent { window: web_sys::Window, parent: web_sys::Window, origin: String },
-    /// `data-host="page"`: DOM `CustomEvent`s on the editor's own canvas.
-    Page { canvas: web_sys::HtmlCanvasElement },
-}
-
-impl Transport {
-    /// Hand an event to the host. In parent mode this is a `postMessage` whose object carries a
-    /// `type` field; in page mode a `CustomEvent` of that name on the canvas, whose `detail`
-    /// holds the fields and which never bubbles (two editors on one page must not hear each
-    /// other). `transfer` hands an `ArrayBuffer` to the parent instead of copying it (parent
-    /// mode only; the page's document already shares the buffer's bytes).
-    fn send(&self, event: &str, fields: &[(&str, JsValue)], transfer: Option<&js_sys::ArrayBuffer>) -> Result<(), String> {
-        match self {
-            Transport::Parent { parent, origin, .. } => {
-                let mut message_fields = Vec::with_capacity(fields.len() + 1);
-                message_fields.push(("type", JsValue::from_str(event)));
-                message_fields.extend_from_slice(fields);
-                let message = message(&message_fields).ok_or_else(|| "couldn't build the message".to_string())?;
-                let sent = match transfer {
-                    Some(buffer) => parent.post_message_with_transfer(&message, origin, &js_sys::Array::of1(buffer)),
-                    None => parent.post_message(&message, origin),
-                };
-                sent.map_err(|e| js_error(&e, "couldn't post the message"))
-            }
-            Transport::Page { canvas } => {
-                let detail = message(fields).ok_or_else(|| "couldn't build the event detail".to_string())?;
-                let init = web_sys::CustomEventInit::new();
-                // The builder methods (`bubbles(..)`, `detail(..)`) are deprecated in web-sys
-                // 0.3.106 and fail clippy -D warnings; use the setters.
-                init.set_bubbles(false);
-                init.set_detail(&detail);
-                let custom = web_sys::CustomEvent::new_with_event_init_dict(event, &init).map_err(|e| js_error(&e, "couldn't create the event"))?;
-                // A listener calling `preventDefault` would be the bool; not a send failure.
-                canvas.dispatch_event(&custom).map_err(|e| js_error(&e, "couldn't dispatch the event"))?;
-                Ok(())
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Bridge {
-    transport: Transport,
+    host: Rc<Host>,
     /// The file the host opened, and after a `saveAs` hand-over the document's file: the name a
     /// Save under (`saveAs: false`) is decided against.
     host_file: Rc<RefCell<Option<String>>>,
-    /// The unsaved-changes state last reported to the host.
-    reported: Rc<Cell<Option<bool>>>,
 }
 
 impl Bridge {
-    /// The parent bridge for `?host=parent`. `None` when the page isn't framed (there is no
-    /// parent to talk to), so opening that URL directly stays the normal app with downloads, or
-    /// when the parent is on another origin: messages only go to this origin, so the browser
-    /// would drop every save without an error while the document showed as saved.
-    pub fn new() -> Option<Self> {
-        let window = web_sys::window()?;
-        let parent = window.parent().ok().flatten()?;
-        if js_sys::Object::is(&parent, &window) {
-            return None;
-        }
-        let origin = window.location().origin().ok()?;
-        // An opaque origin (a `file://` page in some browsers) can't be a `postMessage` target.
-        if origin == "null" {
-            return None;
-        }
-        // Reading another origin's location throws, which is `None` too.
-        if parent.location().origin().ok()? != origin {
-            return None;
-        }
-        Some(Self { transport: Transport::Parent { window, parent, origin }, host_file: Rc::default(), reported: Rc::default() })
-    }
-
-    /// The page bridge for `data-host="page"`: the host page runs FigCraft in its own document
-    /// and hears the editor's DOM `CustomEvent`s on this canvas.
-    pub fn for_page(canvas: &web_sys::HtmlCanvasElement) -> Self {
-        Self { transport: Transport::Page { canvas: canvas.clone() }, host_file: Rc::default(), reported: Rc::default() }
+    /// The bridge for this page, or `None` when FigCraft isn't hosted: no `?host=parent` and no
+    /// `data-host="page"` on the canvas, an unframed `?host=parent` page (it stays the normal app
+    /// with downloads), or a parent on another origin.
+    pub fn connect(canvas: &web_sys::HtmlCanvasElement) -> Option<Self> {
+        Some(Self { host: Rc::new(Host::connect(APP, canvas)?), host_file: Rc::default() })
     }
 
     /// Hear the files the host sends, and queue each one on `opens` for the app's own open path
@@ -148,37 +67,11 @@ impl Bridge {
     /// opens like a dropped one).
     pub fn listen(&self, opens: OpenQueue, ctx: egui::Context) {
         let host_file = self.host_file.clone();
-        match &self.transport {
-            Transport::Parent { window, parent, origin } => {
-                let parent = parent.clone();
-                let origin = origin.clone();
-                let on_message = Closure::<dyn FnMut(web_sys::MessageEvent)>::new(move |event: web_sys::MessageEvent| {
-                    if event.origin() != origin || !event.source().is_some_and(|s| js_sys::Object::is(&s, &parent)) {
-                        return;
-                    }
-                    let data = event.data();
-                    if string(&data, "type").as_deref() != Some("figcraft:open") {
-                        return;
-                    }
-                    deliver_open(&opens, &ctx, &host_file, &data);
-                });
-                if window.add_event_listener_with_callback("message", on_message.as_ref().unchecked_ref()).is_ok() {
-                    // The listener lives as long as the page.
-                    on_message.forget();
-                }
+        self.host.listen(move |message| {
+            if let Message::Open { name, data } = message {
+                deliver_open(&opens, &ctx, &host_file, &name, &data);
             }
-            Transport::Page { canvas } => {
-                let on_open = Closure::<dyn FnMut(web_sys::Event)>::new(move |event: web_sys::Event| {
-                    // A plain `Event` of the same name carries no detail; only a `CustomEvent`.
-                    let Some(open) = event.dyn_ref::<web_sys::CustomEvent>() else { return };
-                    deliver_open(&opens, &ctx, &host_file, &open.detail());
-                });
-                if canvas.add_event_listener_with_callback("figcraft:open", on_open.as_ref().unchecked_ref()).is_ok() {
-                    // The listener lives as long as the page.
-                    on_open.forget();
-                }
-            }
-        }
+        });
     }
 
     /// `?author=`: the host's name for the user signs comments and board notes.
@@ -190,12 +83,12 @@ impl Bridge {
     }
 
     pub fn post_ready(&self) {
-        let _ = self.transport.send("figcraft:ready", &[("version", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").into())], None);
+        let _ = self.host.post_ready(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), false);
     }
 
     /// The app couldn't start (no WebGPU or WebGL2, for example): let the host say so.
     pub fn post_failed(&self, error: &str) {
-        let _ = self.transport.send("figcraft:failed", &[("error", error.into())], None);
+        let _ = self.host.post_failed(error, None);
     }
 
     /// Hand a file the app would otherwise download to the host; `false` when nothing was
@@ -204,10 +97,7 @@ impl Bridge {
         let name = file_name(path);
         let host_file = self.host_file.borrow().clone();
         let save_as = crate::hostmode::save_as(&name, host_file.as_deref());
-        // `figcraft:save` carries the bytes as an `ArrayBuffer`; the parent bridge transfers it.
-        let buffer = js_sys::Uint8Array::from(bytes).buffer();
-        let fields: [(&str, JsValue); 3] = [("name", name.as_str().into()), ("saveAs", save_as.into()), ("bytes", buffer.clone().into())];
-        let sent = self.transport.send("figcraft:save", &fields, Some(&buffer)).is_ok();
+        let sent = self.host.post_save(&name, bytes, None, save_as).is_ok();
         // After a Save As hand-over the host has the new file: the next Save of it sends its name
         // with `saveAs: false`. A failed send changes nothing, so a retry is still a Save As.
         if sent && save_as {
@@ -216,63 +106,33 @@ impl Bridge {
         sent
     }
 
-    /// Report unsaved changes when they appear or go away, not every frame.
+    /// Report unsaved changes when they appear or go away, not every frame (the crate does not
+    /// repeat a state it already reported).
     pub fn set_dirty(&self, dirty: bool) {
-        if self.reported.get() != Some(dirty) && self.transport.send("figcraft:dirty", &[("dirty", dirty.into())], None).is_ok() {
-            self.reported.set(Some(dirty));
-        }
+        self.host.post_dirty(dirty);
     }
 }
 
-/// The file an open message or event carries, queued for the app's own open path, or nothing when
-/// the payload isn't one (no bytes, or over the open limit).
-fn deliver_open(opens: &OpenQueue, ctx: &egui::Context, host_file: &RefCell<Option<String>>, data: &JsValue) {
-    let name = crate::hostmode::open_name(string(data, "name").as_deref());
-    let Some(bytes) = payload_bytes(data, &name) else { return };
+/// The file an open message carries, queued for the app's own open path, or nothing when the
+/// payload isn't one (a `File` the app doesn't read, or over the open limit).
+fn deliver_open(opens: &OpenQueue, ctx: &egui::Context, host_file: &RefCell<Option<String>>, name: &str, data: &FileData) {
+    let name = crate::hostmode::open_name(name);
+    let FileData::Bytes(array) = data else {
+        log::warn!("host file {name} came as a File; FigCraft reads bytes only; not opened");
+        return;
+    };
+    if figcraft_ui_egui::browser_can_read(&name, data.size()).is_err() {
+        log::warn!("host file {name} is too large to open in the browser; not opened");
+        return;
+    }
     // The document's file is now the one the host sent: a Save of it under this name is
     // `saveAs: false`.
     *host_file.borrow_mut() = Some(name.clone());
-    opens.borrow_mut().push((name, bytes));
+    opens.borrow_mut().push((name, array.to_vec()));
     ctx.request_repaint();
 }
 
-/// The `bytes` of an open message or event as owned bytes, refused over the browser's own open
-/// limit ([`figcraft_ui_egui::browser_can_read`]) before they are copied. `bytes` is an
-/// `ArrayBuffer` or `Uint8Array`.
-fn payload_bytes(data: &JsValue, name: &str) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
-    let bytes = js_sys::Reflect::get(data, &JsValue::from_str("bytes")).ok()?;
-    let len = if let Some(array) = bytes.dyn_ref::<js_sys::Uint8Array>() {
-        array.length() as f64
-    } else {
-        bytes.dyn_ref::<js_sys::ArrayBuffer>()?.byte_length() as f64
-    };
-    if figcraft_ui_egui::browser_can_read(name, len).is_err() {
-        log::warn!("host file {name} is too large to open in the browser; not opened");
-        return None;
-    }
-    Some(if let Some(array) = bytes.dyn_ref::<js_sys::Uint8Array>() { array.to_vec() } else { js_sys::Uint8Array::new(&bytes).to_vec() })
-}
-
 /// The last component of `path`, or the whole of it when there is none.
 fn file_name(path: &str) -> String {
     std::path::Path::new(path).file_name().map(|n| n.to_string_lossy().to_string()).unwrap_or_else(|| path.to_string())
 }
-
-/// A message object or `CustomEvent` detail with the given fields, or `None` if one couldn't be
-/// built (a field that isn't a valid property name, say).
-fn message(fields: &[(&str, JsValue)]) -> Option<js_sys::Object> {
-    let m = js_sys::Object::new();
-    for (key, value) in fields {
-        js_sys::Reflect::set(&m, &JsValue::from_str(key), value).ok()?;
-    }
-    Some(m)
-}
-
-fn string(data: &JsValue, key: &str) -> Option<String> {
-    js_sys::Reflect::get(data, &JsValue::from_str(key)).ok()?.as_string()
-}
-
-/// A `JsValue` error as a string, after `what` went wrong.
-fn js_error(e: &JsValue, what: &str) -> String {
-    format!("{what}: {}", e.as_string().unwrap_or_else(|| format!("{e:?}")))
-}
diff --git a/apps/figcraft-web/src/hostmode.rs b/apps/figcraft-web/src/hostmode.rs
index 54cfbcbc2..a06c745f4 100644
--- a/apps/figcraft-web/src/hostmode.rs
+++ b/apps/figcraft-web/src/hostmode.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 //! Pure host-mode rules, shared by the bridge ([`crate::host`]) and testable without a browser
-//! (like [`crate::query`]): what opts a page into hosting FigCraft in its own document, the name
-//! the bridge fills in when an open request has none, and whether a handed-over file becomes the
-//! document's file.
-
-/// The one `data-host` value that opts a page in: the exact string `"page"`.
-pub const PAGE_HOST: &str = "page";
+//! (like [`crate::query`]): the name the bridge fills in when an open request has none, and whether
+//! a handed-over file becomes the document's file. Which pages host the app is `craft-web-host`'s.
 
 /// The file name used when an open request carries no usable one.
 pub const DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME: &str = "Untitled.figcraft";
@@ -19,17 +15,14 @@ const DOC_EXTS: &[&str] = &["figcraft", "json"];
 /// document, so its extension alone can't tell the `saveAs` decision.
 const VARIABLES_SIDECAR: &str = ".variables.json";
 
-/// Does this `data-host` value ask for page host mode? Only the exact value [`PAGE_HOST`] counts;
-/// anything else is ignored, so the page host mode stays opt-in. `?host=parent`, the parent
-/// bridge's URL opt-in, is answered before this is asked.
-pub fn page_host_requested(data_host: Option<&str>) -> bool {
-    data_host == Some(PAGE_HOST)
-}
+/// The name `craft-web-host` gives an open request that carries no usable one (it cleans a host's
+/// name and falls back to this).
+const NAMELESS: &str = "document";
 
-/// A usable file name for an open request: the host's name when it isn't blank, else the
-/// [`DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME`].
-pub fn open_name(name: Option<&str>) -> String {
-    name.filter(|n| !n.trim().is_empty()).unwrap_or(DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME).to_string()
+/// A usable file name for an open request: the cleaned name the crate hands over, or
+/// [`DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME`] when the host sent none.
+pub fn open_name(name: &str) -> String {
+    if name == NAMELESS { DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME.to_string() } else { name.to_string() }
 }
 
 /// Whether the file `name` becomes the document's own file when handed over (`saveAs: true`),
@@ -61,20 +54,10 @@ mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
     #[test]
-    fn only_the_exact_page_value_opts_in() {
-        assert!(page_host_requested(Some("page")));
-        for off in [None, Some(""), Some("Page"), Some("PAGE"), Some(" page"), Some("page "), Some("parent")] {
-            assert!(!page_host_requested(off), "{off:?} must keep the page host mode off");
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn open_names_fall_back_to_the_default_when_blank() {
-        assert_eq!(open_name(Some("Poster.figcraft")), "Poster.figcraft");
-        assert_eq!(open_name(Some(" Poster.figcraft ")), " Poster.figcraft ", "a name with its spacing is kept");
-        assert_eq!(open_name(Some("")), DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME);
-        assert_eq!(open_name(Some("   ")), DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME);
-        assert_eq!(open_name(None), DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME);
+    fn open_names_fall_back_to_the_default_when_the_host_sent_none() {
+        assert_eq!(open_name("Poster.figcraft"), "Poster.figcraft");
+        assert_eq!(open_name("Poster 2.json"), "Poster 2.json");
+        assert_eq!(open_name("document"), DEFAULT_OPEN_NAME, "what the crate says for a missing or blank name");
     }
 
     #[test]
diff --git a/apps/figcraft-web/src/web.rs b/apps/figcraft-web/src/web.rs
index 12fb6af5e..69042ce06 100644
--- a/apps/figcraft-web/src/web.rs
+++ b/apps/figcraft-web/src/web.rs
@@ -32,18 +32,12 @@ pub fn start() {
             log::error!("missing <canvas id=\"{CANVAS_ID}\">");
             return;
         };
-        // Host modes: `?host=parent`, a same-origin page framing FigCraft, opens documents in it
-        // and stores what it saves (`host`); unframed there is no parent, so that URL on its own
-        // stays the normal app with downloads. `data-host="page"` on the canvas opts a page in
-        // instead: it runs FigCraft in its own document and talks over DOM `CustomEvent`s on the
-        // canvas (`host`).
-        let bridge = if query_param("host").as_deref() == Some("parent") {
-            crate::host::Bridge::new()
-        } else if crate::hostmode::page_host_requested(canvas.get_attribute("data-host").as_deref()) {
-            Some(crate::host::Bridge::for_page(&canvas))
-        } else {
-            None
-        };
+        // Host modes (`craft-web-host`): `?host=parent`, a same-origin page framing FigCraft, opens
+        // documents in it and stores what it saves (`host`); unframed there is no parent, so that URL
+        // on its own stays the normal app with downloads. `data-host="page"` on the canvas opts a
+        // page in instead: it runs FigCraft in its own document and talks over DOM `CustomEvent`s on
+        // the canvas.
+        let bridge = crate::host::Bridge::connect(&canvas);
         let app_bridge = bridge.clone();
         // Files the host sends, on their way into the app's own open queue each frame.
         let opens: crate::host::OpenQueue = std::rc::Rc::default();
diff --git a/packaging/web/README.md b/packaging/web/README.md
index 4b501f29e..b5b702941 100644
--- a/packaging/web/README.md
+++ b/packaging/web/README.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ unsaved changes. Two opt-in transports carry the same messages:
 
 | Message | Direction | Fields |
 |---|---|---|
-| `figcraft:ready` | app → page | `version`: the app is running and listening; send a file now |
+| `figcraft:ready` | app → page | `version`, `appVersion`: the app is running and listening; send a file now |
 | `figcraft:open` | page → app | `name`, `bytes` (an `ArrayBuffer` or `Uint8Array`): open like File › Open (a payload over the browser open limit of 512 MB is refused; anything malformed is ignored) |
 | `figcraft:save` | app → page | `name`, `saveAs`, `bytes` (a transferred `ArrayBuffer`): every file the app would otherwise download. The page stores it and reports failures itself. `saveAs` says whether the file becomes the document's file: `false` after Save of the file the page sent, under its own name; `true` for a document file (`.figcraft`, `.json`) under a name the page didn't send — Save As, or a Save of a document the page never sent — after which the next Save carries that name with `false`; `false` for copies and exports that don't become the document (rendered images, SVG, PDF, `.fig` copies, the variables exports) |
 | `figcraft:dirty` | app → page | `dirty`: unsaved changes appeared or went away |
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ await init({ module_or_path: "./figcraft-web-<hash>_bg.wasm" });
   present it takes precedence, so a same-origin framed page uses the parent bridge, while an
   unframed or cross-origin page gets no bridge and keeps normal downloads.
 
+The messages and both transports are the shared contract of [`craft-web-host`](https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/tree/main/crates/web-host) (storytold/craft-libs#420), the same for every Craft app: its README lists every message, including `saved`, with the compatibility notes. In `figcraft:ready`, `version` is the contract's (`"1"`) and `appVersion` is this app's release. FigCraft reads bytes, so a host sends `bytes`, not a `File`.
+
 ### Trust and limits
 
 - **Who is trusted.** In page host mode the page and FigCraft share one document, so any script on the page can drive the app: open files in it and receive what it saves. Use this mode only for a page you control. The iframe mode (`?host=parent`) answers only the parent window, on the page's own origin.