diff --git a/tests/test_frame_extraction.py b/tests/test_frame_extraction.py
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+"""Parity tests for the frame-native seam (`unfao/frame_extraction.py`).
+
+The golden-equivalence proof the migration relies on: the same data expressed *both* as the
+manager's pandas MultiIndex frame and as a views-frames `PredictionFrame` must yield
+**identical primitives** through the two seams (`extraction` vs `frame_extraction`), so the
+representation-free `delivery/` invariants behave the same on either.
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+
+from views_postprocessing.unfao import extraction, frame_extraction
+from views_postprocessing.unfao.frames import build_prediction_frame
+
+# One dataset, two representations: 3 cells × 2 months (rows deliberately unsorted).
+_ROWS = [(101, 3), (100, 1), (100, 2), (101, 1), (100, 3), (101, 2)]
+_TIME = np.array([t for t, _ in _ROWS], dtype=np.int64)
+_UNIT = np.array([u for _, u in _ROWS], dtype=np.int64)
+
+
+def _pandas_frame() -> pd.DataFrame:
+    idx = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(_ROWS, names=["month_id", "priogrid_gid"])
+    return pd.DataFrame({"pred_ln_sb_best": np.zeros(len(_ROWS))}, index=idx)
+
+
+def _prediction_frame():
+    return build_prediction_frame(np.zeros((len(_ROWS), 1), dtype=np.float32), _TIME, _UNIT)
+
+
+def test_cells_of_parity():
+    df, pf = _pandas_frame(), _prediction_frame()
+    assert frame_extraction.cells_of(pf) == extraction.cells_of(df) == {1, 2, 3}
+
+
+def test_months_of_parity():
+    df, pf = _pandas_frame(), _prediction_frame()
+    np.testing.assert_array_equal(
+        frame_extraction.months_of(pf), extraction.months_of(df)
+    )
+    np.testing.assert_array_equal(frame_extraction.months_of(pf), np.array([100, 101]))
+
+
+def test_months_of_is_int64_ascending():
+    pf = _prediction_frame()
+    out = frame_extraction.months_of(pf)
+    assert out.dtype == np.int64
+    assert list(out) == sorted(out)
diff --git a/views_postprocessing/unfao/frame_extraction.py b/views_postprocessing/unfao/frame_extraction.py
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+"""Frame-native representation seam: extract primitives from a views-frames frame.
+
+The **frame counterpart** to ``extraction.py`` (the pandas seam). It returns the *same*
+primitives — sets of ints, numpy month arrays — so the representation-free
+``views_postprocessing.delivery`` invariants consume them unchanged.
+
+Per the migration design (epic #85): pandas and views-frames do **not** coexist at runtime,
+so these are deliberately **siblings** of the pandas readers in ``extraction.py``, not a
+replacement, and there is **no shared ``Extractor`` Protocol** (a polymorphic interface
+nobody dispatches on would be speculative — YAGNI/ISP). When the forecast interior moves to a
+frame (S3 / #88), the manager calls *these*; the pandas readers stay for the still-pandas
+historical path (gated on C-40 / S7).
+
+Scope: the readers the forecast interior needs — distinct cells and months from the frame's
+index. Deliberately **not** here yet (no speculative code):
+- the pandas→``(N, S)`` sample-array unpacker — added when rusty_bucket (#143) declares the
+  layout (the seam will be *told* the layout, never sniff it);
+- a frame-native ``unmapped_cell_count`` — geographic metadata lives on the pandas enriched
+  frame, not the value frame, until the enrichment moves off pandas (S4 / #89);
+- a frame-native ``drop_months_above`` — the observed-range clip is on the *historical*
+  frame, which is gated on the inbound retirement (S7 / #92).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import numpy as np
+from numpy.typing import NDArray
+
+from views_frames import PredictionFrame
+
+
+def cells_of(frame: PredictionFrame) -> set[int]:
+    """The set of PRIO-GRID cell ids present in the frame (its index ``unit`` axis)."""
+    return {int(x) for x in np.unique(frame.index.unit)}
+
+
+def months_of(frame: PredictionFrame) -> NDArray[np.int64]:
+    """The distinct month ids present in the frame, ascending (its index ``time`` axis)."""
+    return np.unique(np.asarray(frame.index.time, dtype=np.int64))