diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/exec/GraphExecutionContext.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/exec/GraphExecutionContext.kt
index c52a076b..e20ee89c 100644
--- a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/exec/GraphExecutionContext.kt
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/exec/GraphExecutionContext.kt
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ public interface GraphExecutionContext : ExecutionContext, TrainingExecutionCont
     public val tapeStack: TapeStack
 
     /**
-     * Whether operations should be recorded
+     * Whether operations should be recorded. Overrides [ExecutionContext.isRecording] so modules
+     * can route eager-vs-trace without depending on the graph module.
      */
-    public val isRecording: Boolean get() = currentTape?.isRecording == true
+    override val isRecording: Boolean get() = currentTape?.isRecording == true
 
 
     /**
diff --git a/skainet-lang/skainet-lang-core/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/context/ExecutionContext.kt b/skainet-lang/skainet-lang-core/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/context/ExecutionContext.kt
index acca44e6..042cf722 100644
--- a/skainet-lang/skainet-lang-core/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/context/ExecutionContext.kt
+++ b/skainet-lang/skainet-lang-core/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/context/ExecutionContext.kt
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ public interface ExecutionContext {
     public val phase: Phase
     public val inTraining: Boolean get() = phase == Phase.TRAIN
 
+    /**
+     * Whether this context is currently *recording* a trace/graph (vs. plain eager execution).
+     * Defaults to `false` (eager); the graph/tape context overrides it. Modules with an eager
+     * fast-path that bypasses `ops.*` (e.g. RoPE's raw-array interleaved rotation) can check this
+     * to emit a graph-traceable `ctx.ops.*` path instead when recording, so they export to
+     * StableHLO while keeping the fast path for eager inference.
+     */
+    public val isRecording: Boolean get() = false
+
     public val tensorDataFactory: TensorDataFactory
 
     /**