R5 blockers
- Negative install-state latch was cached for the process lifetime, but
only `true` is monotonic across processes. A long-lived preview server
held a stale `false` and could re-enrol after another process tripped
the breaker. Only the positive is cached now; `false` re-reads.
- The real breaker writer used writeConfig(), which collapses
{ok:true, mirrored:false} to success, so a run that mirrored nothing
reported done with the latch only on the erasable store. It consumes
writeConfigWithResult and retries until both stores carry it.
Bucketing integrity
- Storage-restricted Studio profiles all bucketed on the literal
"anonymous": computed against the shipped hash, 100% of them were
enrolled in calibration-50 rather than 50%, and they merged into one
PostHog person. Per-session random id instead — persists nothing.
- bucketSeed had read/write authority backwards: install-state is
write-once authoritative, but readConfig took config.json's blindly, so
the stores could hold different seeds until a re-mint flipped every
cohort. Merged on read, like the latch.
- An unwritable ~/.hyperframes with no config.json re-minted per call,
re-rolling the seed on every command, and the "cohorts will not be
stable" warning was unreachable on that path.
- A corrupt PRE-MOVE state file was never deleted, so a machine reset
with `rm -rf ~/.hyperframes` reported predecessorFound/stateFileCorrupt
forever — poisoning the exact metric this work exists to produce.
Opt-out honoring
- CLI canary decisions memoized per process, so `hyperframes telemetry
disable` during a running preview server was ignored for hours while
the server kept serving pre-opt-out decisions. The memo is keyed on the
telemetry posture.
- shouldTrack() memoized, contradicting policy.ts's documented "not
memoized" contract that policy.test.ts asserts.
- The Studio override path resolved the bucket unit eagerly as an
argument, minting and PERSISTING a tracking id for an opted-out profile
— a value evaluateCanary discards unread.
- Storage reads could throw out of telemetry into a post-commit catch
block, reporting an already-committed edit as failed.
- readConfig printed an unsilenceable stderr warning on every invocation
for installs that opted out of telemetry entirely.
Host split
- isLoopbackHost rejected 0.0.0.0, so the documented
HYPERFRAMES_PREVIEW_HOST LAN mode silently lost CLI→Studio identity
stitching and split one user across two PostHog persons. Identity is
now allowed when the operator explicitly opted into LAN binding.
- Corrected the comment claiming the guard refuses spoofed Hosts: a
non-browser client sets Host freely. It is a browser DNS-rebinding
mitigation, not access control, and now says so.
Semantics and test hygiene
- percentage:100 did not mean everyone — exclude and no_unit_id sat above
the fast path, so the registry's "delete the entry at 100" step was an
unstaged flip for CI and seedless installs.
- CLI cohort adoption returned before evaluateCanary, dropping Studio's
own webdriver exclusion.
- overdueCanaries() was asserted against wall-clock time, so the whole
core suite would go red on 2026-09-15 for every unrelated PR; and `>`
against midnight made a canary overdue ON its sunset date.
- Statistical assertions ran on unseeded randomUUID() populations tight
enough to fail ~1 run in 200. Seeded.
Also: broke a config -> policy -> transport -> config import cycle by
moving POSTHOG_API_KEY to a leaf module.
Tests: 2347 CLI (bundle absent), 3153 Studio, 1450 core. Fault injection
covers the latch, seed authority, LAN identity, webdriver exclusion and
the anonymous-bucket fix. Two pre-existing tests asserted behaviour these
findings identify as wrong (shouldTrack memoization, 100%-excludes-CI)
and were rewritten with the reasoning stated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P1 — the required Test lane was red, and it was my test. The
hostile-Host SPA case asserted a 200, which only holds when
packages/studio/dist is built: true on a dev box, false in CI, so it
passed locally and failed there. The Host split moved into a pure
buildStudioHeadScriptsForHost() and is asserted directly; the route test
no longer depends on build state. Verified by running the CLI suite with
the bundle moved aside — 2330 pass.
P1 — studio:* still bypassed most privacy controls. It honoured two
localStorage keys but not navigator.doNotTrack,
VITE_HYPERFRAMES_NO_TELEMETRY, Vite dev mode or API-key eligibility, and
canary enrolment honoured a different single control. New
telemetry/policy.ts is the one answer to "may this profile be measured",
consumed by both transports and by enrolment. It imports only ./config,
so no cycle with the modules that import it. Each control is asserted
individually.
P1 — LAN/remote preview lost the authoritative decisions. Withholding
the whole head script for any non-loopback Host also dropped the safe
{enabled, forced} map, sending a supported HYPERFRAMES_PREVIEW_HOST=
0.0.0.0 Studio back to re-deriving. Identity injection is now gated
separately from decision injection: identity is loopback-only, decisions
always publish.
P1 — the breaker latch was neither authoritative nor truthfully
persisted. syncInstallState swallowed its own failures so
writeConfigWithResult always reported ok, and reads took the flag only
from config.json. The latch is now merged into every effective read,
which makes install-state authoritative and closes both the failed-mirror
and stale-concurrent-writer paths; the write additionally reports
mirrored: false rather than swallowing.
P2 — public contracts. canary-rollouts.mdx said a config wipe loses the
breaker (it does not) and documented the superseded {name: boolean} map
with unconditional CLI precedence; both corrected, with the precedence
ladder written out and the override exception stated explicitly. PR body
rewritten — it still named ~/.local/state, claimed state survives
deleting ~/.hyperframes, and carried stale counts.
Tests: 2330 CLI (bundle absent), 3151 Studio, 24 core. Fault injection:
reverting each fix alone fails 5 CLI / 5 Studio.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P1 — SPA route bypassed the DNS-rebinding guard. Guarding only
/api/telemetry-identity left the catch-all as an open side door: a
rebound origin could fetch `/` and read __HF_CLI_DISTINCT_ID and
__HF_CLI_BUCKET_SEED straight out of the returned HTML. The SPA response
now applies the same isLoopbackHost() check; an untrusted Host still gets
a working Studio, just with no identity, seed or decisions injected.
Route-level regression added.
P1 — a CLI cohort roll could override Studio's own opt-out.
decideStudioCanary() adopted the injected decision before checking
isOptedOut(), so CLI-telemetry-on plus Studio-opted-out still enrolled
Studio. A bare boolean could not express the difference between a
deliberate override and an ordinary cohort roll, so the injected map now
carries provenance ({ enabled, forced }). Forced wins outright — it is
the documented escalation channel and must behave the same on both
surfaces — while a percentage roll now loses to this profile's opt-out.
Full interaction matrix tested.
P1 — the legacy studio:* path sat outside both contracts.
utils/studioTelemetry.ts shipped its own opt-out key and its own send
loop, so the documented hyperframes-studio:telemetryDisabled did not
silence it and its events carried no cohort assignment. It now honours
both keys (the legacy one stays, so nobody already opted out is quietly
re-enabled) and mixes in canaryEventProperties(), making "every
telemetry event carries the assignment" actually true.
P2 — partial salvage could drop a tripped breaker.
salvageInstallState() discarded the whole record when markerAt and
bucketSeed were both unusable, taking deParallelRouterTrialFired with it
and re-enrolling a machine whose router already failed. All three fields
are now independently salvageable.
Docs: canary-rollouts.mdx said "disabling telemetry disables the
reporting, not the enrolment" — exactly backwards since the opt-out gate
landed. Corrected; checked for other copies, none.
Tests: 13 new (4 opt-out precedence, 4 legacy-path opt-out and canary
props, 3 route-level host guard, 2 breaker salvage). Fault injection:
each of the four fixes reverted independently fails its own tests
(2 CLI + 1 Studio + 2 Studio).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six findings from review, none behaviour-critical on their own but three
of them quietly corrupt the data the rollout is judged by.
Endpoint no longer serves bucketSeed (studioServer.ts). Studio gets its
canary answers from the injected decisions map now, so nothing needed the
seed over HTTP — and an unauthenticated local endpoint is a strictly
worse place for it than a script scoped to Studio's own document. The
endpoint itself predates this PR and still serves distinctId, so it also
gains a Host guard: a remote page can rebind its hostname to 127.0.0.1
and read the response as same-origin, but the request still carries THAT
hostname, which is what makes it refusable.
predecessorFound no longer reports corruption as a fresh install. It
returned null for both "file absent" and "file unreadable", so a partial
disk write looked like a new machine — understating recoverable churn,
the one thing the field measures. Now distinguishes absent from corrupt
and emits install_state_file_corrupt alongside.
A mangled markerAt no longer discards a salvageable bucketSeed. markerAt
is only a timestamp and can be restamped; the seed cannot be recovered,
and losing it silently re-rolls the install's cohort.
The seed backfill no longer ignores its write result. An unwritable
~/.hyperframes meant a different seed every invocation with no
diagnostic, and made the field's own "backfilled once" docstring false.
Warns once per process with the underlying error.
FNV-1a's ASCII constraint is now explicit rather than incidental. It
hashes UTF-16 code units while reference FNV-1a is byte-oriented, so the
two agree only on ASCII; the registry's kebab-case assertion is what
makes non-ASCII unreachable, and both ends now say so. Not a live bug —
names are kebab-case and units are UUIDs.
de-parallel-router is pinned at 0%. The registry is data, so a ramp is a
one-line edit with no review surface, and its own description says to
ramp only alongside the circuit breaker.
Tests: 8 new (corruption vs absence, seed salvage, backfill write
failure, 17 host-guard cases, registry pin). One existing test asserted
predecessorFound: false on corruption — that was the bug, updated with a
note. Fault injection: restoring the old corrupt handling fails 4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes both cross-surface findings with one mechanism. The CLI publishes
window.__HF_CLI_CANARY_DECISIONS ({ name: boolean }); a CLI-launched
Studio takes it as authoritative over its own seed, URL override and the
registry percentage.
Studio re-deriving could not agree with the CLI in three cases:
- Telemetry off. The CLI resolves telemetry_opt_out, but Studio's
opt-out is a separate localStorage flag it cannot see, so it would
evaluate normally and could enrol on a render the CLI excluded. The
previous commit gated each surface independently; that fixed silent
enrolment per surface but NOT the disagreement between them.
- HF_CANARY_* override. Env vars never cross into the browser — Studio
reads only its URL param / sessionStorage — so a support session
forcing a canary on got the CLI forced and Studio guessing.
- No seed injected. Studio falls back to a different unit id, i.e. a
different bucket.
Shipping the decision instead of the inputs makes divergence structurally
impossible: one evaluation, two surfaces. It also exposes strictly less —
booleans about features, rather than the seed buckets derive from — which
is why it is safe to publish with telemetry off, the case it exists for.
Studio still evaluates locally when standalone, or for a canary the CLI
did not publish, and ignores a non-boolean value rather than trusting it.
Tests: 6 Studio (CLI-off wins over unset local flag, CLI-on with no URL
param, beats contradicting override, beats seed, falls back per-canary,
rejects non-boolean) and 4 CLI (decisions with telemetry off and no
identity, alongside identity when on, script-tag escaping on a hostile
canary name, throwing resolver degrades to identity only). Four existing
identity tests asserted the old "nothing when telemetry off" contract and
were updated; the registry is now mocked there so string assertions don't
move when a canary is added or ramped. Fault injection: dropping the
adoption fails 4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both reviewers flagged the same gap: seed injection was gated on
telemetryShouldTrack(), but canary EVALUATION was not. An install with
DO_NOT_TRACK=1 was still bucketed and still had real code paths flipped
(e.g. HF_DE_PARALLEL_ROUTER), silently and unmeasurably.
A canary is a measured rollout — we enrol a slice precisely so it can be
compared against everyone else. An install that sends nothing can't be
compared, so enrolling it buys no signal and only changes that user's
code path, on an experimental feature, without their knowledge. That is
the wrong side of an opt-out.
Resolves to a new `telemetry_opt_out` reason BEFORE bucketing, so no
cohort is assigned at all. Distinct from `excluded` because "why is my
canary off" has a very different answer for CI than for opted-out, and
the reason never reaches telemetry by construction.
Covers every opt-out route: persisted preference, the runtime env vars
and dev/telemetry-disabled builds via policy.ts, and Studio's
hyperframes-studio:telemetryDisabled.
An explicit HF_CANARY_* / ?hf_canary_*= override still wins — a
deliberate local choice, not silent enrolment, and the documented way to
exercise a canary with telemetry off.
The CLI check mirrors shouldTrack() rather than importing it: client.ts
already imports canary.ts for canaryEventProperties, so depending on it
would be a cycle. Both read the same two inputs, so they cannot disagree.
Tests: 9 new across CLI and Studio (preference off, each runtime
override, no bucket assigned, override still honoured, flag properties
all-false). Fault injection: removing the CLI gate fails 6, removing the
Studio gate fails 3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adopts the #2904 pattern for bucketSeed. The seed rides in
install-state.json, which now lives beside config.json in ~/.hyperframes
rather than in ~/.local/state/hyperframes/.
Review rejected persisting state outside the config dir to defeat a
user's reset, and that objection is sharpest for the seed: it is the one
field that would turn install-state into a persistent pseudonymous
identifier surviving `rm -rf ~/.hyperframes`.
The carryover still earns its place, just against the churn that
actually happens. config.json is rewritten on every command and every
render, and readConfig recovers from any parse/permission/IO failure by
minting a fresh identity — so a re-mint would reshuffle cohorts
mid-rollout. A no-schema file written once at mint is decoupled from
that without leaving the directory. Config re-mint: cohorts hold.
Directory deleted: cohorts go too, deliberately.
A pre-move seed is adopted by the same migration, so installs already
carrying one do not have a live cohort reshuffled under them.
Tests: seed survives a re-mint, does NOT survive deleting the config
dir, and migrates from the pre-move path. Prose in config.ts, canary.ts
and canary-rollouts.mdx corrected — it still claimed cohorts survive a
wipe. Docs gain a removal-path section.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cohort membership now survives a config wipe. Canaries bucket on a
dedicated bucketSeed (fresh random UUID, distinct from anonymousId by
design) that is mirrored write-once into the install-state file and
inherited at mint: a wipe re-rolls the telemetry id but never the canary
assignment. This removes cumulative-exposure drift for the recoverable
churn bucket entirely — the residual drift comes only from fresh
machines, containers, and genuinely new users — and keeps before/after
comparisons valid across a reinstall.
The seed is never emitted in telemetry (only the resulting true/false
assignments are), so it does not link the old id to the new one
server-side. The residual linker is the flag vector itself (k bits for k
live canaries), documented as such. An explicit reset still works by
deleting the state file, and the no-identity test now also asserts the
seed differs from the anonymousId.
Cross-surface coherence: the CLI's studio server injects the seed as
window.__HF_CLI_BUCKET_SEED (same telemetry gate and script-escaping as
the distinct id, and on the /api/telemetry-identity fallback), and the
Studio binding buckets on it when present — without this the CLI would
bucket on the seed while Studio bucketed on the distinct id, splitting
one machine across cohorts (calibration check 4 would catch exactly
this). Standalone Studio still buckets on its localStorage id: the
browser has no second storage location, so that id doubles as the seed.
Legacy configs are backfilled once (lineage seed if the state file has
one, else minted) and persisted immediately — an unpersisted seed would
re-roll cohorts every process. Safe to ship in the same release as the
first canaries: no prior release emitted canary properties, so the
bucketing-unit change is unobservable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the single `canaries: "a,b"` telemetry property with PostHog's own
flag shape, one property per registered canary:
$feature/canary-de-parallel-router: "true" | "false"
PostHog treats `$feature/<key>` as a first-class flag property, so breakdowns,
funnels split by cohort and the experiment surfaces work on a canary with
nothing configured server-side. The decision still happens locally: the render
path forbids render-time network calls, behaviour must not depend on analytics
being reachable, and neither the CLI nor Studio ships posthog-js (both
hand-roll a batch POST, so there is no SDK to evaluate a real flag with).
Decide locally, analyse natively.
Two decisions worth recording:
- BOTH ARMS ARE EMITTED. A non-enrolled install reports "false" rather than
omitting the property. Absent means "this build predates the canary", which
is a different fact from "this install is control" — collapsing them makes a
ramp unreadable, because you cannot separate a control group from an old
version.
- KEYS ARE NAMESPACED with a `canary-` infix. A real PostHog flag namespace
already exists in this project, owned by the web app (`enable-chat-tab`, set
by posthog-js from `$lib=web` events). Namespacing guarantees a canary key
can never alias a real flag key and have the two fight over one property.
Values are the strings "true"/"false" to match how PostHog records boolean
flag values, so the property is directly comparable to a real flag.
98 core / 1437, 166 cli / 2194, 269 studio / 2982 green; tsc clean across all
three packages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the Studio (browser) binding so a canary can span the CLI and the editor,
and fixes a bundling mistake the studio test suite caught.
## The binding
Same public API as the CLI — `isCanaryEnabled("name")` — so a call site reads
identically whether it runs in Node or the browser. Three inputs differ:
- UNIT ID: `resolveStudioDistinctId()`, which already adopts
`window.__HF_CLI_DISTINCT_ID` when the CLI launched Studio. A CLI-launched
Studio therefore lands in the SAME cohort as the CLI: a rollout spanning
render and editor is coherent for that user instead of enrolling their
terminal but not their editor. A test pins that the id is passed through
unmodified — prefixing or re-hashing it would silently break that parity.
- OVERRIDE: no `process.env` in a page, so `?hf_canary_<name>=on` mirrored
into sessionStorage. Session scope is deliberate. A URL is the right carrier
(shareable — "support: open this link"), but persisting a URL-borne override
to localStorage would let one click silently pin a browser into a cohort
forever, long after anyone remembers why. Closing the tab is the reset;
`=reset` clears it explicitly.
- EXCLUSION: `navigator.webdriver` stands in for the CLI's `is_ci`. Automated
browsers mint a fresh localStorage id per run, so they would hop cohorts
between runs — noise in the signal, nothing learned about real users. An
override still reaches them, which is how you test a canary under Playwright.
Studio's `trackEvent` now attaches `canaries` to every event, mirroring the CLI.
## The bundling fix
Importing the `@hyperframes/core` barrel into studio browser code broke two
unrelated hook test files with an esbuild TextEncoder invariant violation. The
barrel re-exports the whole core surface (parsers, lint, studio-server), so it
drags a Node-oriented dependency graph into a browser bundle — the test
failure was the symptom, the bundle bloat was the bug.
`@hyperframes/core` now exposes `./canary` and `./canary-registry`, declared in
packages/core/package-subpaths.json (the generated source of truth for exports —
hand-editing package.json is reverted by the sync script) and marked
`environments: [browser, bun, node]`. Both the studio AND cli bindings import
the leaf modules; the CLI gets the same benefit for a different reason, since
this resolves on the startup path — the reason the producer is lazily loaded.
Verified: the two hook files pass again; 269 studio files / 2982 tests, 98
core / 1433, 166 cli / 2194 green, `bun run lint` clean including the subpath
check. Fault-injection confirms both design decisions are pinned — swapping
session for local storage fails the scope test, prefixing the unit id fails the
CLI/Studio cohort-parity test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to the canary primitive.
Telemetry: every event now carries a `canaries` property listing the cohorts
the install is enrolled in, attached in `trackEvent` so it lands on ALL
events rather than renders only — a staged rollout is only as useful as the
ability to split any metric by cohort. Resolved after the shouldTrack guard,
so opted-out installs never pay for it, and omitted entirely (not null or "")
when the install is in no canary, since PostHog treats those as real values.
Test hardening, after validating the shipped code against 60k synthetic and
101 real fleet install ids:
- Pin FNV-1a against canonical vectors, AND assert the shipped canaryBucket
actually uses that hash. Without the second assertion the first is
tautological — it would only prove the test's own copy is correct while
canary.ts drifted to a different hash, silently reshuffling every live
cohort. Fault-injection confirms only this assertion catches a hash change;
the distribution tests stay green because a perturbed hash is still
well-distributed.
- Tighten the share test from a 0.6x-1.4x band to +/-1 percentage point.
Measured error was 0.16pp at n=60k, so the old band would have passed a
badly skewed hash.
- Add chi-square uniformity across all 100 buckets (chi2 89.0 vs 148.2
critical at p=0.001). A lumpy hash yields roughly the right total share
while overloading some buckets, so the share test alone cannot catch it.
- Assert N concurrent canaries enrol binomially rather than in lockstep:
8 canaries at 10% put ~43% of installs in none and zero in all eight,
matching binomial(8, 0.1). Correlated slices would put ~10% in all eight.
Also verified 88,443 of 88,448 fleet install ids are well-formed UUIDs; the
5 that are not fail closed, which is the intended direction.
Docs: docs/contributing/canary-rollouts.mdx, registered in docs.json (an
unregistered page is invisible in the nav).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a reusable staged-rollout primitive so a change can ship to a stable
slice of installs instead of all-or-nothing.
The gap it fills: the repo carries ~49 HF_*/PRODUCER_* booleans and every one
is binary — a feature is either off (and therefore unexercised on real
traffic) or on for everyone (and therefore a fleet-wide bet). The
parallel-drawElement router sat in that gap for weeks: default-off produced
almost no signal, and flipping it default-on would have exposed 100% of
eligible installs at once.
Shape:
- packages/core/src/canary.ts — pure evaluator. No fs, no network, no
`process`; the caller supplies the unit id and overrides, so it imports
cleanly into the CLI, producer, engine, studio-server, the browser-side
studio bundle and the embeddable player. FNV-1a rather than node:crypto for
the same reason.
- packages/core/src/canaryRegistry.ts — every rollout in one table (name,
percentage, owner, description, sunsetAfter), so "what is rolling out, to
whom, owned by whom" is answerable without grepping 49 env vars.
- packages/cli/src/telemetry/canary.ts — supplies the three things only the
CLI knows: anonymousId, the HF_CANARY_<FEATURE> override, and is_ci.
Day-to-day API is `isCanaryEnabled("name")`.
Three properties the tests pin, because getting them wrong is subtle:
- Slices are INDEPENDENT per feature: the bucket hashes `feature:unitId`, not
the id alone. Bucketing on the id would hand every concurrent experiment to
the same unlucky cohort and make two rollouts unreadable apart.
- Ramping is INCLUSIVE: `bucket < percentage`, so widening 10 -> 25 keeps the
original cohort and before/after comparisons survive the ramp.
- It fails CLOSED: no unit id, unknown name, or CI install means not enrolled.
A canary exists to bound blast radius, so "we don't know who this is" must
never mean "enrol everyone".
Registry entries also carry a sunset date, and a test fails once one is past
due — a canary that outlives its rollout is a permanent fork of the product
with none of the review a permanent fork would get.
Ships with de-parallel-router registered at 0%: inert, and ready to ramp in a
patch release once #2840 lands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(prompting): correct workflow one-liners against skill contracts
general-video leads with its positive identity and companion mode;
faceless-explainer keys on invented visuals instead of TTS;
talking-head-recut uses the 'graphic overlays' trigger term;
motion-graphics gains its input side and overlay output;
music-to-video stops implying images are required.
* docs(prompting): make vocabulary video grids readable
Replace the 4-5 column table hack with a 3-column CSS grid,
switch demo clips to autoplay muted loops (no black poster frame,
no player chrome over tiny videos), and align cells at 16:9.
* docs(prompting): document the opening interview and run-shape questions
The guide taught prompt shapes but never prepared readers for the
conversation that follows: the intent interview, the two run-shape
questions (storyboard, automation vs companion), the just-build-it
skip, and BRIEF.md as the resumable artifact. Add that section to the
overview, a disambiguation note on the storyboards page, and free up
'companion' as a reserved term in media-and-audio.
* docs(guides): make BRIEF.md the pipeline's Step 3 artifact
Step 3 (Strategy & Messaging) listed no output while describing
exactly what BRIEF.md now captures. Name the artifact in the step
table, project tree, step body, gate, and iterating list, and fix
SCRIPT.md's step label in the tree (Step 4, not 3).
* docs(quickstart): realign the setup surface with the skills catalog
The quickstart drifted from docs/guides/skills.mdx, CLAUDE.md, and the
prompting overview — it had never been updated when those surfaces were:
- `--full-depth` on both install commands, with the reason inline. Without
it `skills add` fetches the skills.sh registry blob, which lags `main` by
hours, so a reader following the quickstart installs stale skills.
- `check` in the `/hyperframes-cli` row, and a validate step in the manual
dev loop, which went preview → render with no gate at all. The prompting
overview calls `check` "the step people skip and regret" and states both
`lint` and `check` must pass before rendering.
- `/hyperframes-keyframes` in the core-skills table (8 rows → 9).
- `/figma` in the optional-workflow list (10 → 11).
* docs(skills): close the catalog drift class and complete the music-to-video input
Follow-up on the two review nits from #2872.
`/music-to-video`'s SKILL.md names three inputs — an audio file, a video to
pull audio from, or a track generated from a mood brief. Every compressed copy
of that description carried only the first two, and the third is the one that
makes "a complete video needs zero assets" true. Fixed on all eight surfaces
that state it, so no surface is now more correct than its siblings: the
prompting overview and quickstart setup tables, docs/guides/skills.mdx, the
README catalog, root CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md, both CLI project templates, and the
router's own routes/music-to-video.md Input line (whose Interview must-haves
already listed all three).
The drift was structural, not accidental: the sync set declared in
docs/guides/skills.mdx and in CLAUDE.md's "Skill catalog maintenance" named
four surfaces and never the two setup tables, so those two were free to rot
while the declared four stayed correct. Both declarations now name them, and
both say the set applies to a *changed contract* — a reworded description —
not only to an added or renamed skill.
skills-manifest.json regenerated for the touched route file.
* docs(claude): point the routing-surface rule at routes/, not the moved stubs
Item 3 of "Skill catalog maintenance" still sent readers to
`references/workflow-catalog.md` for a workflow's input/output/trigger
contract and `references/route-briefs.md` for its interview entry. Both are
now "moved" stubs — the contract and the interview entry live together in
`references/routes/<workflow>.md`, one read per candidate route.
Same failure class the previous commit fixed at item 1: a maintenance rule
outliving the layout it describes. Swept the tree for other pointers at the
two stubs; there are none, so this closes it rather than fixing one instance.
* fix(capture,audio): three defects found running product-launch-video end to end
Found while running the full product-launch-video workflow twice against a real
site (linear.app) to verify PRs #2880/#2881/#2882. All three are independent of
those PRs.
**Scraped SVGs were unusable as files.** `assetDownloader` wrote an inline
`<svg>`'s `outerHTML` straight to `assets/svgs/*.svg`. An inline SVG inherits its
namespace from the HTML parser, so `outerHTML` omits `xmlns` — valid pasted back
into HTML, but not a standalone document, and `<img src="logo-abc.svg">` renders a
broken-image icon. That is exactly how these assets get consumed. `toStandaloneSvg`
now declares the namespace on the way to disk (plus `xmlns:xlink`, but only when an
`xlink:` attribute is actually used). The filename hash moved to the bytes that
land on disk so it still cannot drift from content.
**`sfx: none` became a cue named "none".** `fetch-sfx` split the storyboard's
`sfx:` list and dropped only empty strings, so the absence marker reached the
engine as a real cue that could not resolve. The absence spellings are part of the
storyboard vocabulary; drop them.
**`bgm_pending` was lost translating neutral meta to product-launch meta.** A
detached Lyria/MusicGen generate leaves `bgm: null, bgm_pending: true` until the
track lands. `toProductLaunchMeta` returned only `{bgm, voices, sfx}`, so "not
ready yet" became indistinguishable from "silent by design" — and because
`fetch-sfx` rewrites `audio_meta.json` from the sidecar, a still-generating bed was
snapshotted away with nothing to signal it. The flag now survives, and `fetch-sfx`
warns when it snapshots a pending bed instead of leaving a silent film that the
storyboard claims has music.
Not included, deliberately: `assemble-index.mjs` rewrites `index.html` wholesale
and so discards the block `transitions.mjs inject` wrote, meaning any Step 6 rework
silently loses transitions. Fixing that means deciding whether assemble preserves an
injected block or inject becomes re-appliable — it touches both scripts and the
Step 5/6 ordering in SKILL.md, so it deserves its own change.
Validation: `node --test skills/product-launch-video/scripts/audio.test.mjs`
(13 pass, 5 new) · `vitest run src/capture` (85 pass, 5 new) · `bun run lint:skills`
· oxlint/oxfmt clean · `tsc --noEmit` clean
* feat(capture): re-add the full-page plate a scroll shot needs, at 1x
`product-launch-video` tells a scroll shot to animate a viewport over a full-page
capture. No such file existed: capture emits 15 viewport-sized scroll-position
tiles, and a plate is not substitutable by tiles — a viewport travelling down one
continuous image is the whole point.
An earlier `full-page.png` was dropped in 62b55171e because 1/8 agents read it and
the contact sheet covered the same ground. That measured it as a *comprehension*
artifact, on an eval where nothing was building scroll shots. The scroll shot is a
different consumer, so this brings the plate back — but not as it was, because two
things have to hold for it to be worth having:
- **Taken last.** After the scroll traversal, so lazy images have loaded and
scroll-triggered reveals have fired. A plate shot on arrival is full of blank
bands, which is a good reason for an agent to look once and never again.
- **Sticky chrome neutralised.** `fullPage` bakes a fixed header in at one
position, freezing a nav across the middle of the plate. The viewport tiles keep
sticky on purpose (natural browsing state); the plate cannot. Positions are
recorded and restored in a `finally`, so the extraction passes that run afterwards
see an unmodified DOM.
**1x, deliberately.** 2x is what you'd want to push in without softening text, but
doubling a long marketing page passes Chrome's 16384px screenshot cap precisely on
the pages that most want a scroll shot (linear.app: 10962 CSS px → 21924 at 2x). At
1x a 1920-wide plate is pixel-exact for a 1920x1080 viewport. A frame that needs
headroom captures its own region at 2x instead. Pages over the cap get no plate
rather than a silently clipped one, and the caller falls back to the tiles.
Validation: `vitest run src/capture` — 90 pass (5 new) · oxlint/oxfmt clean ·
`tsc --noEmit` clean
* docs(product-launch-video): point the scroll shot at the plate, make handoff fields binding
Two follow-ups from the same end-to-end runs, now that #2880 and #2881 have landed and
their sentences exist to edit.
**The scroll shot pointed at an artifact that did not exist.** #2881 said "use a 2x
full-page capture and animate the viewport over it". Neither half held: capture emitted
no full-page image, and 2x on a long marketing page passes Chrome's 16384px screenshot
cap precisely on the pages that most want a scroll shot. Both runs watched the agent go
looking, not find it, and improvise — once by re-capturing 2x strips per section, once by
using the native 1920x1080 tiles full-bleed. This PR's capture commit adds the 1x plate,
so the sentence can now name something real: the plate, its absence on pages too tall to
capture in one piece, the tile fallback, and why pushing in past 1:1 still wants a region
capture of its own.
**A constant field was being read as an absent one.** #2880 asks for x/y, scale, opacity
and direction/speed on every handoff. Across two runs on the same model, `opacity` went
0/12 then 12/12 — when the value never changes, leaving it out is a reasonable reading of
the instruction. But downstream an omission and "there is no handoff here" are the same
thing, so the field set has to be stated as binding even when constant. Same clause added
to the worker's side of the contract.
Validation: `bun run lint:skills`
* fix(capture,audio): close the three contract gaps raised in review
Review on #2892 (Rames, Magi) found the fixes correct inside the changed files but
incomplete at the contract level. All three hold up against source; two of the three
were reachable in production, and the plate one was self-inflicted by this PR.
**The plate guard checked a stale height.** `scrollHeight` was measured before the scroll
traversal and handed to the guard, but the plate is deliberately shot *after* it so lazy
content has loaded — and lazy loading grows the document. The guard's input therefore read
low on exactly the long pages it exists for, letting the check pass and a clipped plate
through, undetectable downstream because the skill only teaches the tile fallback when the
file is *absent*. `captureFullPagePlate` now measures the height itself at call time, and
verifies what Chrome actually produced by reading the PNG's IHDR before writing, since the
capture can trigger another round of loading. Over the cap, nothing is emitted.
**Assembly dropped the flag again.** `bgm_pending` survived into `audio_meta.json` but
`assemble-index.mjs` rebuilt its audio object from three named keys, so at the step that
actually builds the film "not ready yet" still looked like "silent by design" — this PR's
own framing of the defect, one layer further down. The flag rides along now, and a pending
bed with no file raises an anomaly instead of quietly assembling a silent cut against a
storyboard that promises music.
**The sibling adapters had both audio bugs, and there were two of them.** The review named
`faceless-explainer`; `pr-to-video` carries the same file. Its own test asserts the two are
byte-identical ("intentionally identical across the reusing skills"), so fixing one alone
broke that test — which is what caught the second copy. Both now carry the absence-sentinel
filter and the surviving `bgm_pending`, and `faceless-explainer` gets the same five
regression tests.
Also from review (Miga): the sticky-restore in `finally` is wrapped, so a page that broke
mid-capture cannot replace the real error with a cleanup one.
Validation: `vitest run src/capture` — 95 pass (5 new) · product-launch audio 13 pass ·
faceless-explainer audio 10 pass (5 new, incl. the byte-identity contract) ·
`bun run lint:skills` · oxlint/oxfmt clean · `tsc --noEmit` clean
* fix(capture,audio): meet the two review asks I under-delivered on
Follow-up to 194fb6995. Re-read Magi's review body rather than working from the summary,
and two of the three blockers were addressed in spirit but not to the letter.
**The plate probed before neutralisation, not after.** 194fb6995 moved the measurement off
the caller's stale value and into the function, but took it before forcing fixed/sticky
elements to `static`. The review called this out specifically and is right: dropping those
elements back into flow grows the document, so the probe could still read under the cap on a
page that is over it once neutralised. The probe now runs after neutralisation and before the
shot, inside the same `try` so restoration still happens on the early return. Added the exact
case asked for — initial height under the cap, final height over it — asserting no
screenshot is taken, no file is written, and the page is still handed back unmodified.
**Assembly warned where the review asked it to refuse.** An anomaly in a list is not
enforcement: assemble is re-run on Step 6 rework, long after the audio step's warning
scrolled past, and a warning still lets a silent film out the door over a snapshot whose own
JSON says the bed is generating. `assemble-index.mjs` now dies on `bgm_pending && !bgm`, with
`--allow-pending-bgm` as the deliberate escape for previewing mid-generate. Pinned with three
tests in a new `assemble-index.test.mjs`: refusal writes no index.html, the escape assembles
and says so, and a film that is silent *by design* still assembles untouched — the
distinction the flag exists to make.
Validation: `vitest run src/capture` — 96 pass (6 new) · product-launch audio 13 pass ·
assemble-index 3 pass (new file) · faceless-explainer audio 10 pass ·
`bun run lint:skills` · oxlint/oxfmt clean · `tsc --noEmit` clean
* fix(audio): carry the bgm_pending gate into the sibling assemblers
The remaining blocker, and one this PR created: the previous commit made all three copies of
the audio adapter *emit* bgm_pending, but only product-launch-video's assembler *reads* it.
So faceless-explainer and pr-to-video would do exactly what this PR set out to stop — parse
an audio_meta.json that says the bed is still generating and assemble the silent film without
a word. Producer fixed in three places, consumer in one, is worse than neither: before this
PR there was no flag to drop.
Both siblings now get the same three changes product-launch-video got — the flag carried
through the audio object, `die` on `bgm_pending && !bgm`, and `--allow-pending-bgm` as the
deliberate escape — plus the same three tests: refusal writes no index.html, the escape
assembles and says so, and a film that is silent *by design* still assembles untouched. That
last one is the one worth having; it proves the flag restored a distinction rather than just
adding a gate.
Applied as three separate patches rather than a file copy: these assemblers have diverged
(pr-to-video validates a bare `<template>` fragment where product-launch takes a `<div>`
root, which its fixture reflects).
`music-to-video` has the fourth copy of this assembler and is deliberately untouched: it has
no audio producer, and its assembler reads `{ voices: [] }` with no bgm path at all, so the
flag can never reach it.
Validation: product-launch / faceless-explainer / pr-to-video assemble-index — 3 pass each ·
product-launch audio 13 pass · faceless-explainer audio 10 pass · `vitest run src/capture`
96 pass · `bun run lint:skills` · oxlint/oxfmt clean · `tsc --noEmit` clean
The short-comp routing gate can only read a live element count when a
probe session exists, and the first v0.7.83 data shows that is far rarer
than estimated: 17% of renders (86/503), not the ">=28%" the video-presence
proxy suggested. The other 83% fall back to a static source scan, which
is exactly blind to the shape that motivated the live count — small
markup, thousands of script-created nodes.
That leaves the fleet element-count distribution unknowable for most
renders, and the observed distribution is already surprising: p99 ~900,
max 1,420 against a 2,500 ceiling calibrated on 7k/20k/40k synthetic
nodes. Either the ceiling is close to irrelevant, or the large-DOM tail
is hiding in the 83% we cannot see. Both readings change what PR B
should do, and neither is decidable from probed renders alone (they are
a biased sample — they got a probe *because* they carry media or
unresolved compositions).
So measure it where every render already goes: capture-session init.
`collectSessionInitTelemetry` gains a querySelectorAll("*") count beside
the tween count it already collects, riding the same channel to
`observability_init_element_count`. This is observational only — capture
has begun, far too late to route on — and it deliberately does not feed
the gate. It answers the distribution question the gate cannot.
Coverage for this channel is proven rather than assumed: the tween-count
fix that shipped in v0.7.83 took the clamped-parallel bucket from 0/272
renders to 217/217, and 23.1% -> 100% overall.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
R4 review finding, and the comment I wrote in R3 was simply wrong: the
probe session is NOT running for every render. probeStage's needsBrowser
gate launches one only for unknown duration, unresolved compositions, or
specific media cases — and hasRuntimeInsertedMedia matches only
createElement("video"|"audio"), never createElement("span"). So the exact
shape that motivated the live-DOM fix (a known-duration, media-free
caption comp building thousands of nodes in script) gets NO probe, falls
back to the static source scan, reads as ~2 elements, and could enter the
applied cohort at 40k live nodes. The R3 fix measured the right thing but
only for the population that already had a probe.
Now the count carries provenance and the band fails closed:
- resolveCompositionElementCount returns { count, source: "live" |
"static" }. Only "live" — an actual DOM measurement — may open the band.
- resolveDeShortBand gains a third decisive outcome, "unmeasured", for
the static case. It deliberately does NOT report skipped_elements: a
static undercount is not a real oversize observation, and putting it in
the control arm would contaminate the DiD just as putting it in the
treatment arm would. Neither cohort; never routes.
- composition_element_count_source ships alongside the count, so the
fleet rate of "static" sizes the population a future
conditional-probe-launch would unlock — which is the data PR B needs to
decide whether that launch cost is worth paying.
Regression coverage walks the real chain rather than a full render, using
the production functions in pipeline order: probeRequiresBrowser (newly
extracted from the inline needsBrowser expression, so the gate is
testable at all) returns false for the caption-comp shape → the resolver
reports static and a count under the ceiling → the band reports
unmeasured, not applied. Fault injection confirms it bites: removing the
one guard line fails exactly these three tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both reviewers (Rames, Magi) independently flagged the same thing: by the
time the return statement executes, hadFired is always false — the guard
above already returns early for every case where hadFired was true. The
merge expression wantFired || hadFired || undefined was defensively
correct but misleading; it reads as "OR the two together" when the
function has already established only one of them can be true here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The routing surface the short-comp benchmarks validated is (motion x DOM
size x frames). After the baseline release, fleet telemetry carries DOM
size (composition_element_count) and frames on every render — but the
motion proxy, observability_init_tween_count, has 0% coverage on the
exact renders the band routes: parallel workers' console buffers (and so
the [FrameCapture:INIT] line the summary parses) only propagate to the
orchestrator on FAILURE. Single-worker screenshot renders report it;
the multi-worker clamp bucket never does. Verified against 7d of fleet
data: 35k screenshot renders carry tween counts, 0 of 9,600 band renders.
Fix rides the one channel parallel workers already return on success —
the per-worker CapturePerfSummary. Sessions record initTelemetry on
every init path; the perf summary now carries it; the orchestrator
max-merges across workers (same multi-session semantics the console
parser uses) and feeds it to the observability summary as a structured
fallback, console lines still refining when present.
With this, every band render carries full coordinates — (elements,
tweens, frames, path, speed) — which buys two reads: regressing wild DE
speed against element count on the existing 900+ inversions validates
the bench's 0.50ms/element slope BEFORE the routing flip, and any
post-flip misroute can be reproduced locally by feeding its telemetry
row straight into gen-crossover-comp's knobs (--movers ~ tween count,
--static ~ element count) and re-benching.
(Also drops a now-stale fallow suppression in render.ts — the test-only
reset export it guarded gained real test importers, so the issue it
suppressed no longer exists and the gate flags the leftover.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two routing surfaces pointed agents at media "policies" and "contracts" without
naming a file. An agent that goes looking and finds nothing fills the gap with
an invented rule.
- skills/hyperframes/SKILL.md: "Load its media-treatment policy" now names
references/media-treatments.md and states the policy governs how footage is
treated, never whether media may be used.
- skills/general-video/SKILL.md: "adoption, resolution, provider, provenance,
and reuse contracts" now names references/resolve.md and
references/setup-providers.md. Drops "provenance", which is ledger
bookkeeping in operations.md, not a contract to follow.
- The scaffolded project templates carried the same unnamed pointer and ship to
every hyperframes init; both updated and kept byte-identical.
31% of fleet renders (24h, v0.7.78+) are DE-eligible comps clamped to
parallel screenshot purely because they sit under the 900-frame inversion
floor — the median fleet render is ~250-600 frames, below every DE entry
threshold. This opens a 250-899 frame band, gated on composition size.
Measured, not assumed. A controlled sweep (fixed synthetic content,
{250,400,600,900}f, single-DE vs parallel-screenshot-W4, 3 reps, capture
mode verified per row, AC power, load-gated) showed single-DE winning
1.16-1.24x at every size — but only for content in constant motion. A
follow-up 2x2 found motion and DOM size pull in OPPOSITE directions, so
neither alone predicts the winner (ratio = ss4/de1, >1 means DE wins):
24 movers / 0 nodes -> 1.05
320 movers / 0 nodes -> 1.24
320 movers / 7000 nodes -> 1.09
24 movers / 7000 nodes -> 0.96
24 movers / 20000 nodes -> 0.71
24 movers / 40000 nodes -> 0.55
DE's wall-clock scales ~0.50ms/element against parallel screenshot's
~0.22ms — drawElement repaints the whole tree per frame while fan-out
amortizes it — so the downside is NOT bounded and a bare floor drop would
have handed a 1.8x regression to large comps. Since motion only ever helps
DE, an element ceiling calibrated at the lowest-motion case is safe at
every motion level; crossover there is ~3.9k, and the default sits at 2500.
The predicate is untouched; the call site picks the floor. Above the
ceiling, or at 900+ frames, behaviour is bit-identical to today — the
change can only add inversions in the new band, never remove one.
Instrumentation, since this ships at full exposure rather than cohorted:
`composition_element_count` on EVERY render (the fleet distribution of the
gate variable is unknown — without it we cannot tell whether 2500 opens the
band for most short comps or almost none, nor re-derive the threshold from
real content), and `de_short_band` = applied | skipped_elements, unset when
the frame count made the band irrelevant, so a fleet perf shift is
attributable to this change rather than to content mix.
Safety is unchanged and already proven on this path: per-frame PSNR
self-verify with screenshot fallback, exactly as the 900+ band has shipped
default-on. Knobs: HF_DE_SHORT_MIN_FRAMES, HF_DE_SHORT_MAX_ELEMENTS (0
disables the band).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DE parallel-router breaker's tripped state lived in the same config
file as the install id, so the most common identity reset — deleting
~/.hyperframes — also re-enrolled the machine into an experimental path
that had already failed on it.
Mirror exactly two facts into a machine-local state file
(~/.local/state/hyperframes/install-state.json) that a config wipe does
not touch:
- markerAt: written unconditionally on every install, so the fraction of
fresh mints that find it directly measures recoverable id churn
(config wiped, machine persisted) vs unrecoverable (fresh
machine/container/new user). Emitted as install_predecessor_found on
telemetry events; absent (not false) on configs predating the field.
- deParallelRouterTrialFired: a breaker tripped by a previous install
stays tripped for the new one. Config corruption takes the same mint
path, so it survives that too.
The file deliberately holds NO identity — no anonymousId, no counters.
A wiped config still gets a fresh id unconditionally; only the safety
fact about the machine survives. Sync happens inside writeConfig so no
breaker write site can forget it; failures are swallowed (telemetry
must never break the CLI) but leave the memo unset so a later write
retries. `hyperframes telemetry` lists the state path for transparency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Miguel Ángel