diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index f3f932b3f..a219d8357 100644
--- a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website-to-video capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",
diff --git a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index a2f82af21..68eccd40b 100644
--- a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "Write HTML, render video. Compositions, Tailwind v4 styles, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website-to-video capture for HyperFrames.",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
diff --git a/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json b/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
index aa8a20869..830220bff 100644
--- a/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "$schema": "https://cursor.com/schemas/cursor-plugin/plugin.json",
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "displayName": "HyperFrames by HeyGen",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "Write HTML, render video. Compositions, Tailwind v4 styles, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website-to-video capture for HyperFrames.",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
diff --git a/docs/changelog.mdx b/docs/changelog.mdx
index f2e0cd695..e657b4869 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.mdx
+++ b/docs/changelog.mdx
@@ -8,6 +8,57 @@ Recent HyperFrames releases, including user-facing features, fixes, and migratio
 
 {/* New release entries are prepended by `bun run changelog:draft <version> --write`. */}
 
+<Update
+  label="HyperFrames v0.7.54"
+  description="Released - 2026-07-12"
+  tags={["Release", "CLI", "Producer", "Media"]}
+>
+This release hardens the drawElement parallel-capture router with real-traffic safety rails — a machine-RAM floor, worker-count-scaled self-verify, and compile-time gates for ancestor background-images and HDR disk headroom — and extends parallel streaming to the non-drawElement screenshot/BeginFrame paths with cohort telemetry. It also closes a cluster of snapshot/check capture-fidelity gaps: remote fonts are localized and embedded to match the render, `check` now flags text that paints invisibly, and video-injection, canvas-motion, and shader-clone capture issues are surfaced or fixed.
+
+## Features
+
+- **Producer:** Emit eligible_off cohort-sizing signal when parallel-stream router is off ([591235f05](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/591235f05c22fdd31134bd54c33edf8fdbc96702))
+- **CLI:** Capture_parallel_stream telemetry on success and failure paths ([88c21ccd8](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/88c21ccd8b07f18a405ddda895aa503b15be6967))
+- **Producer:** Route eligible parallel screenshot/beginframe renders to streaming ([6d5a7711f](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/6d5a7711f36e534bc0870ebf175ce4ad7e814a07))
+- **Producer:** Routing predicate for non-drawelement parallel streaming ([2416e9bcd](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/2416e9bcd5888420b311a5ee0ae9a52105c5b61d))
+- **CLI:** Preview --browser-no-gpu for gpu-unstable hosts ([3dc08c086](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/3dc08c0868ba053b9bf8b8739947d0864137dac2))
+- **Producer:** Surface beginframe no-damage reuse counters in perf summary and telemetry ([dde3afb72](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/dde3afb72e1b4aa8b1b83e0d342b2c636d2d62ad))
+
+## Fixes
+
+- **CLI:** Only exclude clipped text when a background actually paints the glyphs ([fa902400c](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/fa902400c973df07f17c59aced9332bee33171a9))
+- **CLI:** Read effective text fill by property, not getPropertyValue ([a8fd8562a](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/a8fd8562a8e908c28f4e048e1c9c618a1d1dedc4))
+- **CLI:** Flag text with an effectively transparent fill in check ([9ae84c652](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9ae84c652c15f64c74054ef040c44fdb193d50c8))
+- **CLI:** Distinguish producer-absent from injector failure in font localization ([fc2b90583](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/fc2b905837344a1c4e4bae1ecc9b9a70af1a5c79))
+- **CLI:** Resolve producer font-localization at runtime so vitest transform doesn't fail ([aa10d4923](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/aa10d49234ed3eb675232ee8e4ba567b4071bb0e))
+- **CLI:** Localize remote fonts in snapshot/check capture to match render ([ad0d2393f](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/ad0d2393fe3209e89292641e5c2f04a45ceec04c))
+- **Media:** Resolve npx without npm_execpath on Windows ([eba9ff9ae](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/eba9ff9ae1e41e9fd4209aca455cc3d8635118b5), [#2236](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2236))
+- **Render:** Scale timeout for long video encodes ([9d91c2a23](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9d91c2a23ee129add021fecea7e3e4d3cbab1f94), [#2244](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2244))
+- **Skills:** Hold frame content through transitions ([687883124](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/687883124f5b0e81c0a15d6a0dd5d7058d756337), [#2235](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2235))
+- **Lint:** Honor data-no-timeline on root compositions ([c18391b98](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/c18391b98c63e3b13c7cb1fd7e0a71478ce94a56), [#2228](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2228))
+- **Producer:** Render -c \<scene\> uses the scene's own duration, not the project's ([6b7431bf4](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/6b7431bf45a2bb93ff1836897e4e606fd8986339), [#2087](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2087))
+- **Hyperframes Media:** Surface the real reason a TTS line failed [P2] ([9c98c1e82](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9c98c1e82ab6b27cd6b5025254539a7f7026b1b3), [#1999](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/1999))
+- **CLI:** Surface video frame-injection failures in snapshot output ([edc0a1624](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/edc0a1624b484cce48b2421110a09dbd8218ae4b))
+- **Shader Transitions:** Pin clones to their measured live box, not composition size ([b3d851d65](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/b3d851d65af7e2d37e50b93983c6e721532224f9))
+- **CLI:** Fold canvas pixel hashes into the frozen-sweep fingerprint ([3338a6f35](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/3338a6f3503e98249b48555303c69c515f40595b))
+- **Shader Transitions:** Pin cloned scene roots to composition dimensions ([9e3ff630f](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9e3ff630f4b6bccd3995b64800429bde0078a841))
+- **Producer:** Disk-headroom gate before hdr raw frame pre-extraction ([9a1afce43](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9a1afce43c7cbca5deb2875b10bb468dd73cc338))
+- **CLI:** Settle post-seek font subset loads before audit screenshots ([8bbd5a649](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/8bbd5a6496f0ac491e5b48956bb1d692dd7dcea5))
+- **Engine:** Densify drawelement self-verify with parallel worker count ([1b95af8bb](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/1b95af8bbba63e914e99eef29f56ec71f9a13551))
+- **Producer:** Withhold de parallel router below a machine ram floor ([ddcd380a1](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/ddcd380a1a2bb563f238f9145413e3533a4bb501))
+- **Producer,engine:** Gate drawelement on ancestor background-image + tail verify sample ([0809c9851](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/0809c98518a9009de2822d3d23ca485afd01fee7))
+
+## Docs & Examples
+
+- **Producer:** Note attempt-scoped beginFrameReuse semantics after partial retries ([2cd8a750e](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/2cd8a750e3b5d9f6ff86f2f99fd16b2699b32a36))
+
+## Internal
+
+- **Producer:** Stop coupling the hdr disk-headroom gate's control flow to error-string matching ([c20e20235](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/c20e20235b01fccec65e12f2d86775930e7e5553))
+
+[View the full commit range](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/compare/v0.7.53...v0.7.54).
+</Update>
+
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.7.53"
   description="Released - 2026-07-11"
diff --git a/packages/aws-lambda/package.json b/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
index 8fb311a76..ad6087ee0 100644
--- a/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
+++ b/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/aws-lambda",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "AWS Lambda adapter for HyperFrames distributed rendering — handler, client-side SDK, and CDK construct.",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index 78d7d31bc..91026c3fc 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/cli",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "HyperFrames CLI — create, preview, and render HTML video compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index b7662086a..a5bfd89ce 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/core",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/engine/package.json b/packages/engine/package.json
index 7e68edf0f..c691a7472 100644
--- a/packages/engine/package.json
+++ b/packages/engine/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/engine",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "Seekable web page to video rendering engine (Puppeteer + FFmpeg)",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json b/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
index 9cfa025fd..96009451a 100644
--- a/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
+++ b/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/gcp-cloud-run",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "Google Cloud Run + Workflows adapter for HyperFrames distributed rendering — request handler, client-side SDK, and Terraform module.",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/lint/package.json b/packages/lint/package.json
index 75f7fb889..628f92212 100644
--- a/packages/lint/package.json
+++ b/packages/lint/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/lint",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/parsers/package.json b/packages/parsers/package.json
index 8615c3c3a..583515063 100644
--- a/packages/parsers/package.json
+++ b/packages/parsers/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/parsers",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/player/package.json b/packages/player/package.json
index a674f0fc6..76d55072c 100644
--- a/packages/player/package.json
+++ b/packages/player/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/player",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "Embeddable web component for HyperFrames compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/producer/package.json b/packages/producer/package.json
index 87fc51256..3a655bd2b 100644
--- a/packages/producer/package.json
+++ b/packages/producer/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/producer",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "HTML-to-video rendering engine using Chrome's BeginFrame API",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/sdk/package.json b/packages/sdk/package.json
index 9539cfd17..af5b6c5c5 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/package.json
+++ b/packages/sdk/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/sdk",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "Headless, framework-neutral HyperFrames composition editing engine",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/shader-transitions/package.json b/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
index c4eb41080..559d68e68 100644
--- a/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
+++ b/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/shader-transitions",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "WebGL shader transitions for HyperFrames compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/studio-server/package.json b/packages/studio-server/package.json
index f59b29739..c28da919f 100644
--- a/packages/studio-server/package.json
+++ b/packages/studio-server/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/studio-server",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/studio/package.json b/packages/studio/package.json
index 01c6217d7..ac18e5817 100644
--- a/packages/studio/package.json
+++ b/packages/studio/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/studio",
-  "version": "0.7.53",
+  "version": "0.7.54",
   "description": "",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/releases/v0.7.54.md b/releases/v0.7.54.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..663d7142f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/v0.7.54.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# HyperFrames v0.7.54
+
+Released on 2026-07-12.
+
+This release hardens the drawElement parallel-capture router with real-traffic safety rails — a machine-RAM floor, worker-count-scaled self-verify, and compile-time gates for ancestor background-images and HDR disk headroom — and extends parallel streaming to the non-drawElement screenshot/BeginFrame paths with cohort telemetry. It also closes a cluster of snapshot/check capture-fidelity gaps: remote fonts are localized and embedded to match the render, `check` now flags text that paints invisibly, and video-injection, canvas-motion, and shader-clone capture issues are surfaced or fixed.
+
+## Features
+
+- **Producer:** Emit eligible_off cohort-sizing signal when parallel-stream router is off ([591235f05](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/591235f05c22fdd31134bd54c33edf8fdbc96702))
+- **CLI:** Capture_parallel_stream telemetry on success and failure paths ([88c21ccd8](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/88c21ccd8b07f18a405ddda895aa503b15be6967))
+- **Producer:** Route eligible parallel screenshot/beginframe renders to streaming ([6d5a7711f](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/6d5a7711f36e534bc0870ebf175ce4ad7e814a07))
+- **Producer:** Routing predicate for non-drawelement parallel streaming ([2416e9bcd](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/2416e9bcd5888420b311a5ee0ae9a52105c5b61d))
+- **CLI:** Preview --browser-no-gpu for gpu-unstable hosts ([3dc08c086](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/3dc08c0868ba053b9bf8b8739947d0864137dac2))
+- **Producer:** Surface beginframe no-damage reuse counters in perf summary and telemetry ([dde3afb72](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/dde3afb72e1b4aa8b1b83e0d342b2c636d2d62ad))
+
+## Fixes
+
+- **CLI:** Only exclude clipped text when a background actually paints the glyphs ([fa902400c](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/fa902400c973df07f17c59aced9332bee33171a9))
+- **CLI:** Read effective text fill by property, not getPropertyValue ([a8fd8562a](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/a8fd8562a8e908c28f4e048e1c9c618a1d1dedc4))
+- **CLI:** Flag text with an effectively transparent fill in check ([9ae84c652](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9ae84c652c15f64c74054ef040c44fdb193d50c8))
+- **CLI:** Distinguish producer-absent from injector failure in font localization ([fc2b90583](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/fc2b905837344a1c4e4bae1ecc9b9a70af1a5c79))
+- **CLI:** Resolve producer font-localization at runtime so vitest transform doesn't fail ([aa10d4923](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/aa10d49234ed3eb675232ee8e4ba567b4071bb0e))
+- **CLI:** Localize remote fonts in snapshot/check capture to match render ([ad0d2393f](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/ad0d2393fe3209e89292641e5c2f04a45ceec04c))
+- **Media:** Resolve npx without npm_execpath on Windows ([eba9ff9ae](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/eba9ff9ae1e41e9fd4209aca455cc3d8635118b5), [#2236](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2236))
+- **Render:** Scale timeout for long video encodes ([9d91c2a23](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9d91c2a23ee129add021fecea7e3e4d3cbab1f94), [#2244](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2244))
+- **Skills:** Hold frame content through transitions ([687883124](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/687883124f5b0e81c0a15d6a0dd5d7058d756337), [#2235](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2235))
+- **Lint:** Honor data-no-timeline on root compositions ([c18391b98](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/c18391b98c63e3b13c7cb1fd7e0a71478ce94a56), [#2228](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2228))
+- **Producer:** Render -c <scene> uses the scene's own duration, not the project's ([6b7431bf4](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/6b7431bf45a2bb93ff1836897e4e606fd8986339), [#2087](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/2087))
+- **Hyperframes Media:** Surface the real reason a TTS line failed [P2] ([9c98c1e82](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9c98c1e82ab6b27cd6b5025254539a7f7026b1b3), [#1999](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/1999))
+- **CLI:** Surface video frame-injection failures in snapshot output ([edc0a1624](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/edc0a1624b484cce48b2421110a09dbd8218ae4b))
+- **Shader Transitions:** Pin clones to their measured live box, not composition size ([b3d851d65](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/b3d851d65af7e2d37e50b93983c6e721532224f9))
+- **CLI:** Fold canvas pixel hashes into the frozen-sweep fingerprint ([3338a6f35](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/3338a6f3503e98249b48555303c69c515f40595b))
+- **Shader Transitions:** Pin cloned scene roots to composition dimensions ([9e3ff630f](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9e3ff630f4b6bccd3995b64800429bde0078a841))
+- **Producer:** Disk-headroom gate before hdr raw frame pre-extraction ([9a1afce43](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9a1afce43c7cbca5deb2875b10bb468dd73cc338))
+- **CLI:** Settle post-seek font subset loads before audit screenshots ([8bbd5a649](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/8bbd5a6496f0ac491e5b48956bb1d692dd7dcea5))
+- **Engine:** Densify drawelement self-verify with parallel worker count ([1b95af8bb](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/1b95af8bbba63e914e99eef29f56ec71f9a13551))
+- **Producer:** Withhold de parallel router below a machine ram floor ([ddcd380a1](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/ddcd380a1a2bb563f238f9145413e3533a4bb501))
+- **Producer,engine:** Gate drawelement on ancestor background-image + tail verify sample ([0809c9851](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/0809c98518a9009de2822d3d23ca485afd01fee7))
+
+## Docs & Examples
+
+- **Producer:** Note attempt-scoped beginFrameReuse semantics after partial retries ([2cd8a750e](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/2cd8a750e3b5d9f6ff86f2f99fd16b2699b32a36))
+
+## Internal
+
+- **Producer:** Stop coupling the hdr disk-headroom gate's control flow to error-string matching ([c20e20235](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/c20e20235b01fccec65e12f2d86775930e7e5553))
+
+## Full changelog
+
+https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/compare/v0.7.53...v0.7.54