diff --git a/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/context.rs b/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/context.rs
index b122f673d1..d818ba660b 100644
--- a/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/context.rs
+++ b/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/context.rs
@@ -989,6 +989,21 @@ impl<'a> ContextImpl<'a> {
 			..*self
 		}
 	}
+
+	/// The promote half of decompose-and-promote: derives the context for the
+	/// content of one copy at a pushed structure level. `copy` becomes the
+	/// enclosing level's index (held in `frame`, which the caller owns for the
+	/// derived context's scope) and `inner` is the content's lane within that
+	/// copy. The structure node computes `copy`/`inner` from its own
+	/// extent-driven decomposition of the current lane.
+	pub fn push_level<'s>(&self, frame: &'s mut IndexLink<'s>, copy: u64, inner: u64) -> ContextImpl<'s>
+	where
+		'a: 's,
+	{
+		frame.index = copy;
+		frame.outer = self.index.outer;
+		self.promoted(frame, inner)
+	}
 }
 
 impl Ctx for ContextImpl<'_> {}
diff --git a/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/node.rs b/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/node.rs
index 514cccb75b..f49c801652 100644
--- a/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/node.rs
+++ b/node-graph/libraries/core-types/src/node.rs
@@ -181,6 +181,20 @@ pub trait Node<Input> {
 		GPoll::Final(Extent::Free)
 	}
 
+	/// The count of items at one absolute nesting level (innermost `0`). The
+	/// leveled primitive a structure node overrides to report a pushed level's
+	/// size; the scalar base is one item at every level. Uncertainty rides the
+	/// `GPoll` status axis, as with [`extent`](Node::extent).
+	fn extent_at(&self, _input: &Input, _level: u8) -> GPoll<Extent> {
+		GPoll::Final(Extent::Exactly(1))
+	}
+
+	/// The node's domain depth (number of nesting levels; `0` = scalar), baked
+	/// into the record layout at wiring.
+	fn depth(&self) -> u8 {
+		self.layout().depth
+	}
+
 	/// Introspection access to node-resident records; `None` for ordinary nodes.
 	fn serialize(&self) -> Option<std::sync::Arc<dyn std::any::Any + Send + Sync>> {
 		None
@@ -252,6 +266,10 @@ where
 		(**self).extent(input)
 	}
 
+	fn extent_at(&self, input: &Input, level: u8) -> GPoll<Extent> {
+		(**self).extent_at(input, level)
+	}
+
 	fn serialize(&self) -> Option<std::sync::Arc<dyn std::any::Any + Send + Sync>> {
 		(**self).serialize()
 	}
@@ -282,6 +300,10 @@ where
 		(**self).extent(input)
 	}
 
+	fn extent_at(&self, input: &Input, level: u8) -> GPoll<Extent> {
+		(**self).extent_at(input, level)
+	}
+
 	fn serialize(&self) -> Option<std::sync::Arc<dyn std::any::Any + Send + Sync>> {
 		(**self).serialize()
 	}
@@ -312,6 +334,10 @@ where
 		(**self).extent(input)
 	}
 
+	fn extent_at(&self, input: &Input, level: u8) -> GPoll<Extent> {
+		(**self).extent_at(input, level)
+	}
+
 	fn serialize(&self) -> Option<std::sync::Arc<dyn std::any::Any + Send + Sync>> {
 		(**self).serialize()
 	}