diff --git a/web/src/location/chat-pin.ts b/web/src/location/chat-pin.ts
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+/*
+ * chat-pin.ts — source 3: the chat-keyboard pin relay (GEO-02).
+ * -----------------------------------------------------------
+ * Telegram has no push channel from chat → WebView, so the app POLLS
+ * GET /api/location with its memory-held Bearer token until the user
+ * taps the request_location keyboard in chat and the bot relays the
+ * pin into TTL KV.
+ *
+ * The poll is BOUNDED (60s): AWAITING PIN can never persist forever —
+ * the bounded poll is what returns the UI to the denied card instead
+ * of wedging (RESEARCH §Pattern 3). requestChatFallback (the ASK VIA
+ * CHAT trigger) POSTs to /api/location-fallback — implemented in plan
+ * 03-01 task 3 Step D as handleLocationFallback. The pathname is a
+ * CONTRACT with 03-01, not a guess; if 03-01 ever renames the route,
+ * both plans change together. The route is gated identically to the
+ * poll: a 401 means the session expired and the caller must
+ * revalidate (D-03) via createSession, not retry blindly — so this
+ * function THROWS rather than silently leaving the user on a card
+ * whose button appears to do nothing.
+ */
+import type { Fix } from "./types.ts";
+
+export const CHAT_PIN_POLL_MS = 2000;
+export const CHAT_PIN_TIMEOUT_MS = 60000;
+
+export async function fetchChatPin(token: string): Promise<Fix | null> {
+  const res = await fetch("/api/location", {
+    method: "GET",
+    headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
+  });
+  if (!res.ok) return null; // 401 (expired session) and 405 both read as "no pin yet"; caller revalidates on the denied path
+  const body: unknown = await res.json();
+  const pin = (body as { pin?: { latitude?: number; longitude?: number; horizontal_accuracy?: number | null } }).pin;
+  if (!pin || typeof pin.latitude !== "number" || typeof pin.longitude !== "number") return null;
+  return {
+    lat: pin.latitude,
+    lng: pin.longitude,
+    accuracyM: pin.horizontal_accuracy ?? null,
+    headingDeg: null,
+    ts: Date.now(),
+    source: "chat-pin",
+  };
+}
+
+export async function pollChatPin(
+  token: string,
+  options: { timeoutMs?: number; pollMs?: number; sleep?: (ms: number) => Promise<void> } = {},
+): Promise<Fix | null> {
+  const timeoutMs = options.timeoutMs ?? CHAT_PIN_TIMEOUT_MS;
+  const pollMs = options.pollMs ?? CHAT_PIN_POLL_MS;
+  const sleep = options.sleep ?? ((ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms)));
+  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
+  while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+    const fix = await fetchChatPin(token);
+    if (fix !== null) return fix;
+    await sleep(pollMs);
+  }
+  return null; // bounded — returns to the denied card, never wedges AWAITING PIN
+}
+
+export async function requestChatFallback(token: string): Promise<void> {
+  const res = await fetch("/api/location-fallback", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
+  });
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error("location-fallback-request-failed");
+}
diff --git a/web/src/location/telegram.ts b/web/src/location/telegram.ts
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+/*
+ * telegram.ts — source 1: the Telegram LocationManager wrapper (GEO-01).
+ * -------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Version-gated (Bot API 8.0+), init()-before-getLocation(), NULL as the
+ * one denial signal (no error object exists), and a hard wrapper timeout
+ * because the API documents no timeout — without it the boot choreography
+ * wedges in ACQUIRING forever on a wedged client (RESEARCH Pitfall 3).
+ *
+ * Staleness (the Android static-fix, Telegram-Mini-Apps issue #56) is a
+ * SEPARATE axis from availability: two byte-identical successive fixes
+ * mean the native cache never refreshed. `looksStale` detects it and
+ * `nudgeAndRetryTelegram` routes it to recovery — one discarded webview
+ * read (the nudge) refreshes the native cache so the NEXT telegram read
+ * returns fresh coordinates — never to a "successful" stale pin.
+ */
+import type { Fix } from "./types.ts";
+import type { TelegramWebAppLike } from "../telegram/webapp.ts";
+
+/** NULL-SAFE by contract: `getWebApp()` returns `TelegramWebAppLike | null`, so
+ *  this must accept null and answer false — Desktop Telegram and the plain
+ *  browser both have no WebApp object at all (issue #77), and a TypeError here
+ *  would crash the boot before the chain can fall through to the next link. */
+export function telegramLocationSupported(wa: TelegramWebAppLike | null): boolean {
+  if (!wa) return false;
+  return typeof wa.isVersionAtLeast === "function" && wa.isVersionAtLeast("8.0");
+}
+
+export async function requestTelegramFix(
+  wa: TelegramWebAppLike,
+  options: { timeoutMs?: number; nowMs?: () => number } = {},
+): Promise<Fix | null> {
+  const timeoutMs = options.timeoutMs ?? 8000;
+  const nowMs = options.nowMs ?? Date.now;
+  const lm = wa.LocationManager;
+  if (!lm) return null; // field absent on sub-8.0 clients — denial signal, not an error
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    let settled = false;
+    const finish = (data: unknown | null): void => {
+      if (settled) return;
+      settled = true;
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+      if (!data) {
+        // getLocation calls back with null when access was NOT granted —
+        // the whole denial class. The chain advances; nothing throws.
+        resolve(null);
+        return;
+      }
+      const loc = data as { latitude: number; longitude: number; horizontal_accuracy?: number; course?: number };
+      resolve({
+        lat: loc.latitude,
+        lng: loc.longitude,
+        accuracyM: loc.horizontal_accuracy ?? null,
+        headingDeg: loc.course ?? null,
+        ts: nowMs(),
+        source: "telegram",
+      });
+    };
+    // The hard timeout (Pitfall 3): init()/getLocation() have no documented
+    // timeout and no error channel — this is the only guarantee the boot
+    // choreography ever leaves ACQUIRING.
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => finish(null), timeoutMs);
+    if (lm.isInited) lm.getLocation(finish);
+    else lm.init(() => lm.getLocation(finish));
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Android cache-detection (issue #56): a device that has MOVED but returns
+ * byte-identical coordinates to sub-centimetre precision is the signature
+ * of the never-refreshing native cache. Only telegram-vs-telegram pairs
+ * qualify — different sources bounding identically is coincidence, not stale.
+ */
+export function looksStale(prev: Fix | null, next: Fix): boolean {
+  if (prev === null || prev.source !== "telegram" || next.source !== "telegram") return false;
+  return haversineMeters(prev, next) < 0.01;
+}
+
+export function haversineMeters(a: Fix, b: Fix): number {
+  const R = 6371008.8;
+  const toRad = (d: number): number => (d * Math.PI) / 180;
+  const dLat = toRad(b.lat - a.lat);
+  const dLng = toRad(b.lng - a.lng);
+  const s =
+    Math.sin(dLat / 2) ** 2 +
+    Math.cos(toRad(a.lat)) * Math.cos(toRad(b.lat)) * Math.sin(dLng / 2) ** 2;
+  return 2 * R * Math.asin(Math.min(1, Math.sqrt(s)));
+}
+
+/**
+ * The Android stale-fix recovery: read telegram once; if the fix is
+ * byte-identical to the last accepted one, perform the nudge — ONE
+ * navigator.geolocation read whose result is DISCARDED (a WebView read
+ * refreshes the native cache the NEXT telegram read then returns, per
+ * issue #56) — then retry telegram. Degrades to "telegram still wins or
+ * the caller falls through" — never crashes, never returns the stale fix.
+ */
+export async function nudgeAndRetryTelegram(
+  wa: TelegramWebAppLike,
+  readWebviewFix: (o?: { timeoutMs?: number }) => Promise<Fix | null>,
+  lastAccepted: Fix | null,
+  options: { timeoutMs?: number; nowMs?: () => number } = {},
+): Promise<Fix | null> {
+  const first = await requestTelegramFix(wa, options);
+  if (first === null) return null;
+  if (!looksStale(lastAccepted, first)) return first;
+  await readWebviewFix({ timeoutMs: 5000 }); // the nudge — result DISCARDED (issue #56)
+  return requestTelegramFix(wa, options);
+}
diff --git a/web/src/location/types.ts b/web/src/location/types.ts
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+/*
+ * types.ts — the phase's shared location contract (D-04, D-05, D-07).
+ * ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ * The single `Fix` shape every acquisition source normalizes to:
+ * `LocationData` (Telegram), `GeolocationPosition` (WebView), and the
+ * bot-relayed chat pin all reduce to these six fields. Freshness lives
+ * IN the fix (ts) — consumers measure age rather than trusting sources
+ * to be fresh (RESEARCH Pitfall 2, the Android static-fix).
+ *
+ * Type-only module: no runtime values that close over Fix instances,
+ * no storage, no imports. D-07: a Fix is a value in memory; nothing
+ * here (or anywhere downstream) may write it to a persistent store.
+ *
+ * The machine states mirror UI-SPEC §Status Strip: validating /
+ * acquiring / live / stale(signal-lost) / denied, plus awaiting-pin —
+ * the D-04 chat-keyboard wait surface (D-06: deliberate card, never
+ * a silent banner).
+ */
+
+export type FixSource = "telegram" | "webview" | "chat-pin";
+
+export type Fix = {
+  /** degrees — WGS-84 as the sources report them */
+  lat: number;
+  lng: number;
+  /** horizontal accuracy in metres; null when the source did not report one */
+  accuracyM: number | null;
+  /** heading in degrees or null — the UI hides the cone on null (no guess) */
+  headingDeg: number | null;
+  /** ms epoch of the ACCEPTANCE moment — this drives FIX Ns AGO telemetry */
+  ts: number;
+  source: FixSource;
+};
+
+export type LocationState =
+  | { kind: "idle" }
+  | { kind: "validating" }
+  | { kind: "acquiring"; since: number }
+  | { kind: "awaiting-pin"; since: number }
+  | { kind: "live"; fix: Fix }
+  | { kind: "stale"; fix: Fix }
+  | { kind: "denied"; reason: "no-permission" | "unsupported" | "timeout" };
+
+/** KL map default (AGENTS.md region focus: Kuala Lumpur metro). [lng, lat]. */
+export const KL_CENTER: [number, number] = [101.6958, 3.1513];
diff --git a/web/src/location/webview.ts b/web/src/location/webview.ts
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+/*
+ * webview.ts — source 2: navigator.geolocation inside the WebView, and the
+ * Android freshness nudge's reading hand (D-04, D-05).
+ * -------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * maximumAge: 0 is load-bearing — D-05 requires the freshest fix, and a
+ * cached position would silently defeat the freshness axis (the whole
+ * point of the nudge is to force a NEW read, not to re-read a cache).
+ * Success AND timeout both resolve; the error callback resolves null so
+ * the chain advances instead of rejecting. Timeout present for the same
+ * reason as the telegram wrapper: wedging ACQUIRING is never acceptable.
+ */
+import type { Fix } from "./types.ts";
+
+export function webviewLocationSupported(): boolean {
+  return typeof navigator !== "undefined" && typeof navigator.geolocation?.getCurrentPosition === "function";
+}
+
+export function readWebviewFix(options: { timeoutMs?: number; nowMs?: () => number } = {}): Promise<Fix | null> {
+  const timeoutMs = options.timeoutMs ?? 8000;
+  if (!webviewLocationSupported()) return Promise.resolve(null); // Desktop Telegram, plain browsers without permission
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    let settled = false;
+    const done = (fix: Fix | null): void => {
+      if (settled) return;
+      settled = true;
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+      resolve(fix);
+    };
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => done(null), timeoutMs);
+    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
+      (pos) =>
+        done({
+          lat: pos.coords.latitude,
+          lng: pos.coords.longitude,
+          accuracyM: pos.coords.accuracy ?? null,
+          headingDeg: pos.coords.heading ?? null,
+          ts: (options.nowMs ?? Date.now)(),
+          source: "webview",
+        }),
+      () => done(null), // denial / unavailability = null; the chain's normal signal (no error object escapes)
+      { enableHighAccuracy: true, timeout: timeoutMs, maximumAge: 0 },
+    );
+  });
+}
diff --git a/web/src/telegram/webapp.ts b/web/src/telegram/webapp.ts
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+/*
+ * webapp.ts — the ONE narrow typed accessor for window.Telegram.WebApp
+ * (D-11, RESEARCH §Standard Stack note).
+ * -------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * `@types/telegram-web-app` is deliberately NOT a dependency (plan 03-01
+ * dropped it): this hand-rolled `TelegramWebAppLike` IS the contract —
+ * every test fake, the D-11 harness mock, and the production clients
+ * satisfy exactly these ~12 members. The official 500-member `WebApp`
+ * type would force each fake to stub ~50 members.
+ *
+ * getWebApp() may honestly return NULL (plain browser, no Telegram) —
+ * that null is the contract the location chain must handle. All
+ * `Telegram.WebApp.*` calls must originate from the app's own document
+ * (Bot API 10.2 origin restriction).
+ */
+export interface TelegramWebAppLike {
+  initData: string;
+  colorScheme?: "light" | "dark";
+  themeParams?: { header_bg_color?: string };
+  version?: string;
+  platform?: string;
+  safeAreaInset?: { top: number; bottom: number; left: number; right: number };
+  contentSafeAreaInset?: { top: number; bottom: number; left: number; right: number };
+  isVersionAtLeast(version: string): boolean;
+  close(): void;
+  onEvent?(event: string, cb: () => void): void;
+  offEvent?(event: string, cb: () => void): void;
+  BackButton?: { show(): void; hide(): void; onClick(cb: () => void): void; offClick(cb: () => void): void };
+  LocationManager?: {
+    isInited: boolean;
+    isLocationAvailable?: boolean;
+    isAccessRequested?: boolean;
+    isAccessGranted?: boolean;
+    init(cb: () => void): void;
+    getLocation(cb: (data: unknown | null) => void): void;
+    openSettings?(): void;
+  };
+}
+
+export function getWebApp(): TelegramWebAppLike | null {
+  const w = window as unknown as { Telegram?: { WebApp?: TelegramWebAppLike } };
+  return w.Telegram?.WebApp ?? null;
+}