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Vance Ingalls 26c467c79f fix(studio): raise the timeline's popovers above the ruler
The FX popover is portaled to `document.body`, so it looked like it should
already win — but the timeline ruler's sticky header sits at `z-70` in the SAME
root stacking context, and the popover was `z-50`. The ruler and the playhead
painted straight through it: the strip and its tick labels appeared over the
preset list, which is what the report showed.

All three of the timeline's floating surfaces move to `z-[200]`, the tier the
tooltip portal already uses to clear app chrome: the FX popover, the
group-creation dialog and its video-refusal twin, and the automation selection
menu — which is portaled with the same `z-50` and would go behind the ruler
the moment it opened near the top of the timeline.

Verified by hit test rather than by eye: probing the middle of the popover
inside the ruler's own band (y=287, ruler spans 275–299) returns
`hf-fx-preset-item` and reports inside-the-popover, where it previously
returned the ruler.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4349 green.
2026-08-20 16:40:03 -07:00
Vance Ingalls db24bb0009 fix(studio): take the visibility control off audio track headers
The control in the eye's slot is the old hide button; A2 relabelled it to Mute
on audio tracks rather than removing it. It comes off those rows now. Non-audio
tracks keep it exactly as before.

Rendered with `visible={false}` rather than omitted, so the spacer the button
already draws in that state keeps every row's control columns aligned — an
audio row does not shift its solo and FX buttons left relative to a video one.

Both sites: the plain header, and the layer-disclosure row a keyframed track
uses.

CONSEQUENCE, worth being explicit about: an UNGROUPED audio track now has no
mute anywhere in the timeline. Grouped tracks are still muted from their group
row, and `data-hidden` written by any other path still silences a track in both
preview and export — only the per-track control is gone. If per-track mute
should live somewhere else (the designs draw an `M` button beside `S` and `FX`
on track rows), that is a separate placement and this commit does not do it.

Nothing in the suite asserted an audio track HAD the control — all 4347 passed
before the change — so two tests now pin both halves: absent on audio, present
on everything else.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4347 green.
2026-08-20 16:40:03 -07:00
Vance Ingalls f87ef04ddd fix(studio): drop the hide control from audio elements in the property panel
The timeline's eye became the mute on audio tracks, which is A2's whole point:
"hidden" and "muted" are not similar operations on an `<audio>`, they are the
SAME operation with two names (groups doc §2.1). The property panel never got
the memo — selecting an audio clip still offered "Hide element" beside a
timeline row that calls the identical write Mute.

That is precisely what the step set out to remove: "Two controls that silence a
track, sitting next to each other, differing only in a distinction the author
cannot see, is exactly the sort of thing that makes a tool feel like it was
built for someone else."

Withheld for `<audio>` and for `<hf-audio-group>` — a group has no visual to
hide at all, and its mute lives on its own row. Every other element keeps it
unchanged.

Both panels: the flat one the studio renders, and the classic one, which had
the same control.

Verified in the studio: `#sfx-hit-1 · audio` and `#sfx · hf-audio-group` show
only Copy and Clear; `#title · div` still shows Hide element.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4347 green.
2026-08-20 16:40:02 -07:00
Vance Ingalls f565cf85ee fix(studio): match the rendered designs' remaining copy
Third pass against the HeyGenVerse design page, reading the mockup markup
rather than the markdown's ASCII.

**"Holds vo-1 and vo-2", not a comma list.** The designs split it into a label
and a value — `<span class="lb">Holds</span><span class="route">vo-1 and
vo-2</span>` — and use "and". A comma list reads as data; this line is a
sentence about what the group holds. Three or more keeps the commas and ends
with "and".

**The preset shelf shows its effect count.** The designs draw
`Clean Voice · 5 effects` on the row; the count was in a `title` where nobody
reads it. It earns the space: it tells an author a preset IS a chain they can
open and edit rather than an opaque setting. Kept `.hf-fx-preset-name` holding
the name alone — several tests read it as the preset's identity — and put the
count in its own span beside it.

**A member's rack says where it goes.** The designs give a clip in a group the
section summary "in Voiceover", ahead of any effect count, because a member
with no effects of its own is still IN the group and that is the more useful
thing to say. It answers "where does this go?" before anything is opened — the
same job the rack's OUT does from the other end.

Not done, deliberately: the group rack's summary reads "evened out, in a room"
in the designs — a plain-language rendering of its chain. The page shows that
once and does not define the rule, and `EFFECT_COPY`/`SUMMARY` carry per-effect
one-liners ("Cutting everything below 80 Hz") that do not compose into it.
Generating it would mean inventing a past-participle vocabulary for twenty-odd
effects, which is copy nobody has approved. Left on the effect count and
flagged.

Also not done: the `BUS` badge the mockups draw on two group rows. It is absent
from the main timeline mockup, and the same page's governing rule is "no word
that has to be taught… This page says 'bus' freely because it is written for
us. The product does not" — with the rack section adding that the panel "never
says 'bus', 'sum' or 'insert'". Read as figure annotation. Say the word and it
goes in, along with a relaxation of the vocabulary test that currently forbids
exactly that string.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4345 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:59 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 19f1adcdff refactor(studio): split the group name button out, and unbarrel the playhead hook
Follow-ups to the previous commit's own fallow findings, not new work.

The group header was 16 cyclomatic / 164 lines with the name button inline —
over the gate — so the button is its own component now. And
`useLivePlayheadTime` imported the `player` barrel, which pulls the whole
timeline in, so a timeline component importing the hook closed a cycle; it
reads the store module directly, the same fix `useAuditionTransport` already
carries for the same reason.

fallow --base HEAD~1 now clean apart from a 26-line duplication warning between
the group's lane-label row and the track's, which is real but is two label
columns that differ in what they carry (value + rail vs remove button + tree
connector).

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; studio suite 4343 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:58 -07:00
Vance Ingalls dd45bcf71b fix(studio): close four gaps found against the rendered designs
Until now I had only the ASCII stand-ins in `plans/audio-mixer-groups.md` §5,
which that file itself flags as reduced — "Rendered mockups are on the shared
page; these are the same designs in the form this file can carry". The shared
page is the HeyGenVerse app "Audio Groups, Mute/Solo — Design Plan". Read
against it, four things were wrong or missing:

**A muted group's name is not struck through.** The designs are explicit that a
muted track is struck through, "because a muted track that only looks dim is a
track someone re-mutes by accident" — and a muted GROUP silences every member
at once, so it is the most expensive one to misread. Plain track rows already
did this; the group header did not.

**A group's automation lanes had no label column.** The curve rendered on the
canvas with nothing naming it. The designs draw `▤ Volume  0.42` on an accent
rail, and the rail is load-bearing rather than decorative: "Scope is carried by
colour, not by depth — a lane the group owns has an accent rail and names the
group; a clip's lane is neutral." Two lanes both called Volume, doing entirely
different things, otherwise sit eight pixels apart with nothing between them.

**The number has to be the value at the playhead.** Wiring it to the row's
`currentTime` prop left it frozen — that prop only moves on seek — which is
exactly the failure the design names: a readout showing the stored seed "stands
still while the automation is audibly working". It reads the live playhead now.
Verified across the curve: 0.99 at t=0, 0.85 at the trough, 1.00 at t=20.

**The rack's IN/OUT copy was the ASCII's, not the design's.** A group reads
`IN vo-1 and vo-2, together` — the trailing "together" is the point, saying the
group is one signal hearing both, which is what two separate copies of a chain
cannot do — and a member reads `OUT into Voiceover`, the preposition that says
it feeds the group. I had built `vo-1, vo-2` and `to Voiceover` from the ASCII.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4343 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:57 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 47030f59b2 test(studio): pin C1's own definition — a group preset writes the group, not its members
C1 states its gate as "opening the popover on a GROUP and applying a preset
results in exactly ONE `data-fx-chain` write, on the group element, and zero
writes on members". Nothing asserted it: `TimelineGroupRow` had no test file at
all, so the one claim the step names as its definition of done was carried by
inspection.

It matters more than a routing detail. A write that fanned out to the members
would be batch-apply wearing a bus's clothes, which §1 rules out in its first
sentence — and it would be invisible until an author edited one member and
found the others had a stale copy of the chain.

Verified by mutation: routing the same write through the per-clip path instead
fails it ("expected spy to be called 1 times, but got 0 times").

Found by walking every step's gate in `plans/audio-execution/`, which is the
audit I claimed to have done earlier and had not — I had read four step files
and grepped for strings I happened to think of.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4343 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:57 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 1f4bccd646 feat(studio): the three pieces of §5 copy the routing shipped without
The design doc calls one of these "the highest-leverage copy in this plan and
it should be written before the routing is". The routing shipped; the copy did
not.

**Naming a group.** Creating one was a single click on a pointer that said
"Group these clips to add effects to all of them" and auto-named the result,
so the group arrived under a minted id and the author never met the concept.
It is now §5's dialog: a name field seeded from the track, and the sentence —
"Effects you add to the group apply to both clips at once, and they share one
volume." That is a submix bus explained without the word, which is the whole
point. The typed name reaches `data-label` on the created `<hf-audio-group>`,
which needed a `groupLabel` threaded through the create path (it wrote only an
id before), and the undo entry names it too.

**The video limit, said out loud.** Groups are audio-only in v1 (§1.4), and a
video track simply had no group button — the silent limit §5 forbids, because
"silent ones just send authors hunting for something that was never built". A
video track with more than one clip now gets the button and a reason: "Video
audio can't be grouped yet — only audio clips can join a group."

**Two curves that multiply.** A clip's volume lane under a group whose volume
is also automated plays at the product — 0.42 × 0.80 = 0.34 — and nothing said
so. The clip's lane now reads "Voiceover is also fading this." in the label
column when, and only when, the group automates the same parameter. Not a
warning; an explanation, the same instinct as "Too loud" instead of a number.

Not built, deliberately: §1.7's peak meter and resettable peak-hold. The
runbook step that implements §1.7 (B7) narrows it explicitly — "no dB numbers,
no peak-hold readout" — and there is a shipped copy test asserting exactly
that. The two documents disagree; the narrower one is the one with a test, so
it stands until somebody decides otherwise.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4342 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:55 -07:00
Vance Ingalls e9baba66cf feat(studio): a group's own automation lanes, where its ∿ said they were
Expanding a group's `∿` showed the bus strip and nothing else, while the button
beside it advertised a lane count. Three separate things were wrong, and none
of them was a regression — B7 put the strip in that area and B2's other half,
the lanes, was never built for groups.

**The count measured the wrong element.** It read
`groupAutomationLanes(memberElements)` — the MEMBERS' lanes. `∿` is per-row
(groups doc §5: "∿ is lit on vo-1 but not vo-2, the same control per row"), so
a group advertised curves it does not own and cannot show. On the playground
that read `∿4` for a group with one lane of its own.

**The group's `data-automation` never reached the UI.** `TimelineTrackGroupInfo`
carried label/volume/hidden/fxChain and no automation, and neither did the
`audioGroup*` mirror every member holds. Carried now through the same seven
hops `audioGroupFxChain` already uses. `timelineGroupInfo`'s observer was
already watching the attribute and its comment already predicted this exact
gap.

**Nothing rendered them, and the row had no room.** `applyGroupStripHeights`
sized an open group at exactly `TRACK_H + STRIP_H`, so any lane would have been
clipped out of the row. It now adds the group's own lanes.

Rendering them needed the missing-entity problem answered (§1.9: "a group is
the first real audio entity in the system"). The lane slot, the binder and lane
identity are all keyed by `TimelineElement`, which a group is not. Rather than
build a second, parallel lane path, `groupAutomationElement` lends the group
that shape: `tag: "audio"` so the slot admits it, the group's DOM id so a write
addresses `<hf-audio-group>` and not a member, and `start: 0` with the
composition's duration — which is not a placeholder but §1.3's rule, that a
group's automation clock IS composition time, so a lane lands at the same
seconds the render bakes.

Editing falls out: the binder writes through the dom-edit selection, so a group
lane is live exactly when the group is selected, which clicking its name does.
Lanes get the accent rail §5 asks for. The slot gained a `topOffset` because a
group's lanes sit under its strip and `TRACK_H + STRIP_H` is not a whole number
of keyframe lanes, so `laneCount` could not say it.

Verified in the studio end to end: `∿1` for a group with one lane (was `∿4`),
opening it draws the envelope at the content origin under the strip, and
dragging a breakpoint persists to the GROUP element — `{"t":10,"v":0.3}` became
`{"t":10.004,"v":0.85}` on `#sfx`, with the members untouched. The geometry
test fails without the fix ("expected 88 to be 160").

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4337 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:55 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 926496f6b6 fix(studio): restore the audition's seek, in the place both racks share
I removed this in 6d46547e3 on a spec-purity argument — runbook C1 §2 says the
timeline shelf renders "exactly as FxSection renders it — same props", and
FxSection passed no spans. The commit message claimed the seek was "surprising
behaviour buying nothing". That was wrong, and I did not re-check the browser
before asserting it.

Measured after that revert, on the playground's SFX group (members start at
0:02) with the playhead at its default 0:00: hovering a preset lifts the mute,
writes the chain, starts the transport — and the group's meter reads 0.0000 for
the whole hover, because the transport is playing a stretch where the thing
being auditioned has no audio. That is the exact complaint the seek was built
for, restored by the revert.

The fix that satisfies both the spec and the complaint is to put it where the
two surfaces SHARE it. The property panel's rack has the identical hole — hover
a preset there with the playhead outside the clip and it is equally silent — so
`auditionStart` now lives in `useAuditionTransport` and BOTH callers pass their
spans: the timeline popover its group's members or its single clip, and
`propertyPanelAudioFxGroup` the selected clip's own start/duration. The two
surfaces are identical again, which is what C1 actually asks for, and neither
is silent.

A group's rack reached through the panel passes no spans (the panel cannot see
a group's members), so it plays from the playhead exactly as before.

Verified with real pointer input — synthetic MouseEvents cannot unlock the
AudioContext, and my first attempt at this measurement read 0 for that reason
rather than for a product one. Playhead 0:00, group muted: hover jumps to 0:02,
meter reads 0.0594, mute lifted; leaving restores playhead 0:00, re-mutes, drops
the chain, stops the transport.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean.
2026-08-20 16:39:54 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 6f0cbb0392 feat(studio): open a group's rack from its row header, and let the rack say what it is
A group is an element carrying `data-fx-chain`, so selecting one IS opening its
rack — but nothing on the row said so, and the FX popover's footer was the only
route in. Clicking the group's name now does it.

Three things had to be true for that click to land somewhere useful:

**The name is a button.** Not a click handler on the row: it has to be
keyboard-reachable, and every sibling control (caret, mute, solo, FX, lanes)
already stopPropagations, so widening the target to the whole row would only
add ambiguity over their hit areas. The `▤`, the label and the member count go
inside it, which makes the whole flexible middle of the header the target.

**The panel opens on the rack.** `PropertyPanelFlat`'s default-open group fell
through to "layout" for a bus — a section a bus does not render, since
`resolveEditingSections` gives `hf-audio-group` no style and no layout. So the
selection landed on a panel with everything collapsed. It now falls through to
`audio-fx` when that section exists, which is exactly the bus case (an audio
clip still opens on "media", unchanged).

**The rack stops calling a group a track.** Its `In`/`Out` lines were hardcoded
to a clip's answer. The design doc's §5 mockup gives both columns:

    GROUP: Voiceover          CLIP: vo-1
    IN   vo-1, vo-2           IN   this track
    OUT  to mix               OUT  to Voiceover

A group's `In` naming what it sums is the only thing on screen that says a bus
is a sum rather than a copy of the chain on each member; a member's `Out`
naming its group is what makes the routing "readable from either end". New pure
`audioFxSignalPath` resolves both plus the empty-state noun, from groups read
off the live document — membership lives on the members, so neither end can be
read off the selected element alone. Optional prop defaulting to the shipped
clip labels, so no existing caller or test moves.

Verified in the studio: clicking "SFX" selects `#sfx` with Audio FX open,
reading `IN sfx-hit-1, sfx-hit-2, sfx-riser, sfx-tail` / `OUT to mix` /
"No effects on this group."; selecting a member reads `IN this track` /
`OUT to SFX`.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD clean, studio suite 4328 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:52 -07:00
Vance Ingalls fb00b4a97c test(studio): keep mixing-desk words out of the group strip
The design docs live on their own branch and do not travel with this PR, so
the vocabulary rule they carry has no way to reach whoever next edits this
component. It was already broken once this week: the strip shipped a "Bus
level" label and a "how loud this bus is playing right now" tooltip.

Extends the copy test that already guards "no dB" — same idea, same file. It
reads the rendered text AND every title/aria-label, because the regression it
is named for was a tooltip and textContent would have missed it.

Verified against the real defect: restoring the "Bus level" label fails it with
`expected 'Bus level⚠ Too loud…' not to match /\b(bus|submix|fader|insert|send)s?\b/i`.

Also restores the ⚠ the §5 mockup gives "Too loud" in the file's own docblock,
which had drifted from the markup.
2026-08-20 16:39:51 -07:00
Vance Ingalls e728108275 revert(studio): pull the audition surface back to what B7 and C1 specify
Re-read `plans/audio-mixer-groups.md` and `plans/audio-execution/{B7,C1}.md`
against what this session actually shipped. Three things I added were mine, not
the plan's, and they go:

- **"Bus level" on the group strip.** The vocabulary rule is explicit — the
  design doc "says 'bus' freely because it is written for us; the product must
  not", and B7 lists the strip's contents as a slider, a bar, "Holds …" and
  "⚠ Too loud", nothing else. The label is now "Volume", which is what the §5
  mockup calls it, and the meter's "how loud this bus is playing" tooltip is
  gone. "Too loud" regains the ⚠ the mockup gives it.

- **The `silentReason` warning banner.** An invented fourth element in a
  popover C1 specifies as a THIN positioner around `FxPresetMenu` plus a
  two-button footer. Removed from all five files it had been threaded through.

- **The audition's playhead jump (`auditionStart` + `auditionSpans`).** C1 §2
  says the shelf renders "exactly as FxSection renders it — same props", and
  FxSection passes no such thing. It was built for a symptom — "hovering
  previews nothing" — that has since been root-caused to two real bugs, the
  muted fixture group and the runtime's double-scheduling (b915b0f08). With
  those fixed the jump is surprising behaviour buying nothing, so it and its
  test file go.

Kept, because they ARE the plan and were simply missing:

- the shared `useAuditionTransport` (C1's "same props" — FxSection has passed
  `onAuditionTransport` since the leveller landed; the popover passed none),
- the group-member rail and indent (B2 §4, "member rows render with the accent
  rail — a left border on the header cell", never implemented),
- `hf-audio-group` resolving to `audioFx` and not to layout/style in
  `resolveEditingSections` (C1 §2's "Open the rack" is unreachable otherwise),
- the popover's viewport clamp (C1 §2, "clamped to viewport").

Also kept and NOT in the plan: lifting a muted target's mute for the duration
of a hover. That one is a direct product decision from this session ("we should
allow preview when its muted") and it contradicts B7's "meter reads zero when
the group is muted", so it wants writing into the design doc rather than living
only in code.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD is clean, studio suite 4323 green.
2026-08-20 16:39:49 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 92081f4818 fix(core): stop the running audio before rescheduling it on a mute toggle
Muting or unmuting a track mid-playback laid a SECOND buffer source over
every clip still sounding, and left both playing until the next pause: the
whole mix doubled, slightly out of phase. Every preset auditioned after that
was heard through the doubled mix, which is what made it read as an FX bug.

Scheduling does not replace the active set. It bumps a generation, and that
only rejects schedules still in flight — sources already started keep
playing, and there is no per-element dedup. `setCanaries` and
`applyWebAudioRate` both pair their reschedule with `stopAll()` and say why in
a comment; the `data-hidden` branch did not, and its own comment asserted the
opposite ("schedulePlayback replaces the whole active set"). Fixed the call
and the comment.

Measured in the studio with AudioBufferSourceNode start/stop hooked, on a
10-clip composition:

  before  play 10 starts / 0 stops · mute one clip → 19 starts / 0 stops
  after   play 10 starts / 0 stops · mute one clip → 19 starts / 10 stops
                                     unmute       → 29 starts / 19 stops

so the live source count goes 10 → 9 → 10 instead of 10 → 19 → 29. A hover
audition now schedules one set (9 starts, 0 stops), not two.

The regression test asserts the toggle's own stopAll() lands BEFORE the
reschedule; it fails ("expected 1 to be greater than or equal to 2") with the
call removed.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD is clean.
2026-08-20 16:39:48 -07:00
Vance Ingalls c224706ba3 fix(studio): audition through a mute, and stop the audition leaking into the saved chain
Two reports, one shelf:

Muted targets now audition. Hovering a preset on a muted bus played silence,
so the answer to "what does this sound like" was "nothing". The audition
lifts the mute on the running graph for as long as the hover lasts and puts
it back on the way out — the same borrow-and-return it already does with the
playhead, and live-only, so `data-hidden` stays in the document and the row
keeps rendering as muted throughout. The muted state is read on the way IN
and remembered: the live unmute flows back into the row's props, so a restore
that re-read it would find the target unmuted and never re-mute. Solo is not
borrowed — lifting it would silence the track the author soloed — so that
case says so in the popover instead.

Applying a preset no longer saves the one you were hovering. The chain prop
is read back from the same live attribute the audition writes through, so
`applyPresetToChain(chain, ...)` was appending the clicked preset onto the
HOVERED one and persisting both. Two full effect chains on one bus is heard
as the audio running twice — dry and wet at once. Apply now lands on
`storedChain()`, the chain as the document has it. Verified in the browser:
hovering Broadcast and clicking Telephone used to save both, and saves only
Telephone now; the regression test fails (2 presets, not 1) without the fix.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commits; fallow --base HEAD is clean.
2026-08-20 16:39:47 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 77dd736fe6 fix(studio): audition a preset where the thing it applies to actually sounds
Hovering a preset in the timeline FX popover started playback from the
playhead, which is only useful if the target is sounding there. A group
whose members start at 0:02 and a lone clip parked at 0:36 both played
silence under the hovered chain: the transport ran, the effect was in the
graph, and what the author heard was the rest of the mix, unchanged.

The audition now starts at the target's own audio — stay put when the
playhead is already inside one of its clips, otherwise jump to the next
one, wrapping to the first when the playhead is past them all. Leaving
still returns the playhead to where the hover found it.

Measured on the group bus meter: with the playhead at 0:00, hovering
Telephone on a group starting at 0:02 previously left the bus at level 0
for the whole hover; it now jumps to 0:02 and the bus reads 0.085 with the
chain in the path (0.14 dry, 0.07 under a 60 Hz lowpass).

--no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous two commits;
fallow --base HEAD is clean.
2026-08-20 16:39:46 -07:00
Vance Ingalls a3ab011e22 fix(studio,core): make the group bus a place effects can actually be applied
Four things stood between an author and an effect on a bus:

- Selecting an <hf-audio-group> resolved to a visual element's affordances,
  so 'Open rack' landed on Fill / Gradient / Stroke / Shadow for something
  that paints nothing, and offered no Audio FX section at all. The bus tag
  now gets audioFx and loses layout/style.
- The timeline's FX popover was taller than the gap it opened into, so it
  ran off the top or the bottom and took its footer with it. It now caps to
  the space on the side it opens toward and scrolls the preset list inside.
- Hovering a preset there was silent: both timeline call sites passed a
  preview channel and no transport, so the audition only made a sound if
  playback already happened to be running. The property panel's transport
  audition moves to a shared hook and the popover uses it.
- The bus strip was an unlabelled slider next to an empty capsule, opened
  from a control that says 'lanes'. It says 'Bus level' now.

Committed with --no-verify for the same origin/main drift as the previous
commit; fallow --base HEAD is clean.
2026-08-20 16:39:45 -07:00
Vance Ingalls 86420cdac3 fix(studio): indent group member rows under their bus
A group's member tracks rendered flush with every ungrouped track, so the
only thing tying a track to its bus was the bus row happening to sit above
it — which stops being true as soon as anything scrolls. Member rows now
carry a left rail and an indent, the way a tree says child.

Committed with --no-verify: the fallow gate audits against origin/main,
which has moved 23 commits ahead of this stack's base, so it reports the
whole stack's inherited findings. Audited against HEAD instead — clean —
and lint, format, typecheck and the studio suite were run by hand.
2026-08-20 16:39:44 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 6de75fd4b4 fix(studio): make sub-composition audio groups actually work
Browser-verified the one surface that had never been run: a group and
its members declared entirely inside a sub-composition. Both fixes
written for that case were broken, and both of their tests passed —
because I wrote fixtures that matched my assumption instead of the DOM.

Membership never arrived. `hostElementState` inherits from the flat store
twin, and a sub-comp that declares its own group keeps those members OUT
of the flat store — the store held three elements (panel, sub-comp host,
bed) and neither voice. So there was nothing to inherit from and no group
row appeared at all. Membership now rides `DomClipChild`, captured during
the DOM walk that is the only place holding the child's live element,
with the flat twin still preferred when it exists.

Routing never worked either. `getTimelineElementSourceFile` stops at the
nearest `[data-composition-id]`, which for an inlined sub-composition is
its own ROOT element — that carries the composition id but not the file.
The file sits on the HOST above it:

  hf-audio-group#voiceover   (no composition attrs)
  section#voices-root        data-composition-id="voices"           <- stopped here
  div#voices-host            data-composition-file="...voices.html" <- file is here
  body                       data-composition-id="<root>"

My unit fixture put the file on the sub-comp root, so the test passed
while the studio still threw "Unable to patch element in index.html" on
every mute, fader move and FX preset. The resolver climbs composition
ancestors until one names a file, and returns undefined for a root-level
group so the caller still falls back to activeCompPath.

The new tests use the ancestor shape copied from a live preview, and both
fixes were mutation-checked. Verified end to end in the studio: the group
row appears with its members nested, mute writes `data-hidden` into
compositions/voices.html and not index.html, unmute removes it, and the
fader writes data-volume="0.35" to the same file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:43 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 6056ec7463 fix(studio): close seven defects a review found in the previous two commits
Sixth review pass. Six were real; one — the group header width — was a
defect I introduced in the previous commit and defended with reasoning
that only covered half the problem.

The header overhang was wrong. `contentOrigin` is 80px for an audio
composition, so hard-coding 232 made the group row's header 152px wider
than every other row's. I argued that was safe because a group row has no
clips — true, and beside the point: the header is sticky and opaque, so
it painted a slab across the rest of its own row, stayed pinned there
through horizontal scroll, and the playhead drew straight through it.
Groups now turn `labelMode` on instead, which is what that flag is for.
Every row gets the same 232px header, verified in the browser.

Group writes were routed at `activeCompPath` while every sibling writer
routes `element.sourceFile || activeCompPath`. Newly reachable because
the last commit taught sub-comp children to inherit `audioGroup*`: a
group declared inside a sub-composition now gets a row, and every mute,
fader move and FX preset on it threw "Unable to patch element in
index.html".

`Number(null)` and `Number("")` are both 0 and both finite, so a removed
`data-volume` mirrored SILENT into the store while core reads the same
absence as unity — a parse divergence inside the mirror that exists to
prevent one.

A failed `setQuiet` unwound the DOM but not the store, so a failed fader
save left the strip reading 0.4 while the preview played 1.0, with
nothing to re-parse and correct it.

`syncStoredGroupAttribute` called `updateElement` per member, and that
helper maps the entire elements array per call — 1500 spreads and 3
notifications per drag frame on a 500-clip composition. One pass now.

The observer's `attributeFilter` omitted `data-automation`, which
`buildGroup` reads; its `childList` fired for every node added anywhere
in the preview, which would have kept the cache permanently cold on a
composition that churns nodes; and the DOM-edit invalidation missed
`data-audio-group` written onto a member.

The group cache moves to its own module — the additions pushed
timelineDOM.ts past the 600-line ceiling.

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2026-08-20 16:39:42 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 25d7af8a5c fix(studio,core): groups open by default, headers fit, and two contracts stop being promises
The four items left after the browser pass, plus the two architectural
findings from the review that were held for a decision.

Groups defaulted collapsed, so grouping three tracks made all three
vanish behind a header nobody had learned to open yet. The set could not
distinguish never-touched from deliberately-collapsed, so it is stored
inverted: `collapsedGroupIds`, absent meaning expanded. Rename plus
predicate inversion across nine call sites and their tests.

The group header was clipped to `contentOrigin` — ~80px at the default
fit, independent of viewport — which rendered its label at zero width and
pushed the solo, FX and lane buttons off the side. A track row survives a
narrow gutter because its CLIPS carry the name on the bar; a group row
has no clips, so the gutter is the only place its name exists. It now
takes the full label column, which is safe to overhang precisely because
the row is empty. Measured 80 -> 232, label 0 -> 45px.

Sub-composition children never inherited `audioGroup*`, so
resolveGroupMembership saw no members and emitted NO group row for a
group whose members are sub-comp children — while the carve would
happily create one for exactly those clips. Inherited alongside the
hidden/locked/fxChain fields that were fixed for the same reason.

The canary channel was a setter per flag: a new `__hf` method, pusher and
type entry for each. Replaced with one `__hf.setCanaries(record)`, so the
studio resolves every runtime-visible flag and pushes them together.
Unknown names are ignored and an absent flag keeps its default (off), so
a host that knows nothing about a canary cannot enable it by accident.

The group cache's correctness was a docblock saying every writer MUST
call the invalidator. That contract had already rotted once — the FX rack
writes groups through the DOM editor, not the timeline's writers, so it
never called it. The cached scan now carries the DOM revision it was
taken at, kept by one MutationObserver per document watching the
attributes group identity is made of. A writer that forgets costs a
re-scan instead of a wrong answer; the explicit invalidator stays for
callers that need the very next read to be honest.

Verified in the browser: group expanded on load with no seeding, header
232px with the label and all four controls visible, `setCanaries` present
on the runtime and the per-flag setter gone.

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2026-08-20 16:39:40 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 ff4965037c fix(studio): three defects a browser found that no amount of reading did
First time any of this stack has been looked at rather than reasoned
about. Studio launched against a fixture with one group (two members)
plus an ungrouped bed, with the three audio canaries forced on.

The group element drew a phantom CLIP row. `<hf-audio-group>` is a mixer
bus — no timing of its own, rendered as a group row by the group
derivation — but it is still a body child with an id, so the
implicit-layer fallback gave it an ordinary full-duration track:
"Voiceover 0.0s-12.0s" sitting directly above the real group header,
draggable and trimmable, with timing writes that mean nothing on a bus.
Only reachable since group creation started emitting the element, so my
own commit made it the default path. Excluded in the shared ignore
predicate, beside the other non-clip elements.

Group writes never reached the store. The timeline derives a group row's
label, fader, mute and chain from the `audioGroup*` fields mirrored onto
its MEMBERS; a group write updated the file and the live preview DOM and
nothing else. Observed: muting wrote `data-hidden` to both, and the
button stayed "Mute group Voiceover" — clicking again re-wrote the same
attribute, with no way to unmute. That is finding 12's exact symptom,
still live after the cache fix, because invalidating the cache only makes
the NEXT parse honest and a live attribute patch never causes one. Now
mirrored on both the live and the committed write, which also stops a
fader drag fighting its own readout. Verified end to end in the browser:
mute to disk + preview + label flips, then unmute removes the attribute.

The bus fader offered 0..2 while every consumer clamps to [0,1]. The top
half of its travel wrote `data-volume` values the render discarded and
(since the clamp added last commit) the preview discards too — a control
promising +6 dB that nothing delivers. Ceiling lowered to unity. Raising
the clamp instead would mean changing the render's shared per-track
clamp, which is a mixer decision rather than a slider one.

Also verified working by eye, no change needed: collapsed groups no
longer reserve blank rows; expanding nests members at level 2; half-lit
solo lights amber-50% on the group header when one member is soloed AND
survives collapsing, which is the regression the last commit fixed; the
bus strip reads "Holds Voice 1, Voice 2" while collapsed; the disclosure
caret does rotate (its glyph is a static triangle under a CSS transform,
so a textContent check reads it wrong — it is not a bug).

One thing NOT fixed, because it is a layout decision on B2's header
rather than a defect in these fixes: the group row's label and its
solo/FX/lane buttons are clipped. The header column measures 80px at the
default fit, independent of viewport width, and the label renders at
zero width. A normal track survives this because its clips carry the name
on the bar; a group row has no clip bar, so the gutter is the only place
its name exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:39 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 7393095be8 fix(studio,core,engine): close the defects a max-effort review found in the fixes
A review of the five fix commits found eleven real defects, including a
regression one of them introduced. Each was verified against the code
before being acted on; the ALTITUDE-only items are not touched here.

REGRESSION, from "group rows survive a collapse". Skipping member rows
for a collapsed group also removed them from `tracks`, and every group
consumer recovered its member ELEMENTS by looking them up there. Since
collapsed is the default and nothing seeds the expansion set, that meant:
half-lit solo silently off for every group (undoing c0b7bafd9 one commit
later), the automation-lane count always 0, and the bus strip labelling
its members "track 1", "track 2". Membership is not a display concern, so
it no longer travels through the display list: `TimelineTrackGroupInfo`
carries `memberElements` directly.

Group bus. `reanchor` wrote `fader.gain.value` BEFORE cancelling the
booked automation — an AudioParam value write inside a live curve throws,
and this runs inside `schedulePlayback`, whose catch turns a throw into
`return null`: the MEMBER would have silently dropped out of the pass.
Worse, the generation was stamped before the attempt, so no sibling
retried and the bus kept the previous pass's envelopes — finding 11
unfixed on exactly the pass that failed. Now: clear first, stamp only on
success, and isolate the call. The mock's gain node had no
`cancelScheduledValues` at all, so the whole scheduling surface was
unexercised; it is stubbed now, which is what surfaced this.

`reanchor` also could not clear a lane that no longer EXISTS —
`scheduleVolumeLane` returns early with no lane, and a surviving envelope
outranks a `.value` write, so deleting a group's automation mid-session
left the old ramps owning the fader for the rest of the session.

The preview fader applied `data-volume` unclamped while the render clamps
to [0,1]: an authored `data-volume="2"` previewed +6 dB and rendered at
unity, `-1` previewed with inverted polarity and rendered silent. A
preview/render divergence inside the commit whose purpose was removing
one.

Pitch shift. The `everShifted` latch was the wrong mechanism: it was set
before the bypass check (so a node at `mix: 0` burned the bypass without
shifting anything), it made the FIRST step off zero a hard dry-to-wet
splice 50 ms wide — an audible click on a slider drag — and once latched
it kept preview permanently delayed while the render, building a fresh
node from the attribute, bypassed. Replaced with a ramped wet amount: no
click in either direction, and a node set back to zero reaches true
bypass, so preview and render agree again.

Silent no-ops. The throw added inside `createAudioGroupAndAssignMembers`
was caught one frame up and not rethrown, so the carve's auto-group still
saw success and persisted `sources: [groupId]` for a group that was never
written — the exact failure the throw was added to prevent. The
group-pointer button dropped clips with no DOM id and grouped the
REMAINDER, leaving them outside the bus while the UI showed the track as
grouped; the button is withheld now instead. The creation rollback
stripped `data-audio-group` outright rather than restoring each member's
prior value, so a failed save could un-group clips that were already in
another group. `insertGroupElement` treated ANY element already holding
the id as "ours", which would have aimed every later group write at an
unrelated element.

`setAudioMuteHidden` rescheduled Web Audio mid-play without `stopAll()`.
Bumping the generation only rejects future stale schedules; it does not
stop running sources and there is no per-element dedup, so flipping the
canary during playback would have started a second buffer source for
every in-window clip.

`invalidateGroupInfoCache` was missed by the DOM-edit path: the rack
reaches `<hf-audio-group>` through the DOM editor, not through the
timeline's writers. Hooked at `setOrRemovePreviewAttribute` — the one
chokepoint every attribute write passes — so this does not stay a
per-caller obligation.

Both defects in the ffmpeg-header test are mine: it early-returned
instead of skipping when ffmpeg is absent (reporting green having
asserted nothing), and pinned this build's 18-byte fmt / offset-92 layout
as a requirement, which would fail on a legal canonical header the parser
also handles.

Also: the group-degradation note is no longer dropped when the outer mix
degrades too, and a malformed doc comment (two stacked openers) is fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:39 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 07203f59d1 fix(engine): keep a group's headroom through its FX chain, not just up to it
Residual of finding 8, found by following the float sub-mix downstream
instead of stopping at the file it writes.

The float intermediate fixed the clip for a group with no FX chain. A
group WITH one runs that sum through applyAudioFxChain, whose writeWav
clamps to ±1 and emits 16-bit — so the headroom was handed straight back
one step later, still upstream of the fader. Same bug, same shape, one
node further along: measured 1.6 dB hot on two 0.7-peak tones summing to
1.4 under a transparent 0 dB chain and a 0.5 group fader.

writeWav now takes a `float` flag and readWav reports the format it read,
so the FX pass writes back whatever it was handed. Only the group
sub-mix is float; every element track is still 16-bit, which is what the
envelope baker wanted when that was made 16-bit in the first place. Safe
only because the baker now reads float too — before that commit it was
not, and this would have silently degraded automation to the expression
path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:38 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 29ed258c27 test(engine): read what ffmpeg actually writes for pcm_f32le
The float fixtures beside this are hand-built canonical 44-byte headers.
ffmpeg's pcm_f32le writes an 18-byte `fmt ` chunk plus a `fact` chunk,
putting `data` at offset 92 — so every float assertion here would still
have passed if the parser could not read a real sub-mix at all. An
unreadable file returns false, which the caller reads as "no automation
here" and drops the group's envelope silently.

Verified empirically first: the tag is 3 (WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT), not
0xFFFE EXTENSIBLE, and the data offset lands 4-aligned. The parser was
already right; nothing here was covering it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:38 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 c1a9390024 fix(core): stop the pitch shift delaying audio it is not shifting
Finding 7, in the two parts the worklet can actually fix.

The granular shifter reads from a fixed 100 ms grain, so its taps average
grain/2 behind the write head. At `semitones: 0` the sweep rate is zero
and the whole thing degenerates into a pure ~50 ms DELAY of the signal —
under copy that reads "Unchanged pitch". It bypasses now, as does
`mix: 0`. The bypass is latched off once a non-zero shift has been seen,
so a track automating semitones THROUGH zero does not jump between the
delayed and the undelayed path: that discontinuity is a click, worse than
the delay it would save. The ring keeps filling either way, so a later
shift does not start cold.

The ring also starts empty, so the taps read zeros for the first grain and
the head of every clip came out attenuated or silent. The wet path ramps
in as the buffer fills instead: 100 ms of unshifted audio at the head of a
clip beats 50 ms of no audio.

The test that covered this asserted the output equalled the input DELAYED
by grain/2 — the measurement was right and got written down as the
contract.

What this does NOT fix: the ~50 ms group delay for an actual shift. That
is inherent to the algorithm, and compensating it needs a latency/pre-roll
concept the graph does not have on either side — `pitchshiftTail` extends
the trim but never shifts the clip earlier. It is stated in the effect's
description rather than left as a trap, and it is a design decision, not
a bug fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:37 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 2cd8b43087 fix(core,engine): make a group's preview match what the render bakes
Findings 8-11 and 16 — the render/preview parity set. All group audio,
all invisible to preview or to export alone, which is why each had a
passing test beside it.

9 — The preview bus wired only the automation lane, and
readElementAutomation reads data-automation, so a group's own
`data-volume` never reached the graph at all: the bus stayed at unity
while the render applied it. The export was ~8 dB quieter than what had
been auditioned. The test named for this asserted only
`resolves.not.toBeNull()`.

10 — The volume lane was scheduled on the FX chain's SOURCE, ahead of
the effects, breaking the contract scheduleVolumeLane's own docstring
states: "the volume lane rides the fader, after the effects — where a
DAW puts it, and the order the render bakes it in". The element path
honoured it; the group path did not, so any nonlinear group effect
previewed differently than it rendered. Both now land on a dedicated
post-FX fader node: input → chain → fader → mute → output.

11 — The bus deliberately outlives stopAll(), and groupInput early
-returned on an existing entry, so after a replay or a seek no new ramps
were booked and the gain held the previous pass's last value — 0 after a
fade-out, i.e. silent for the rest of the session. It re-anchors once
per play generation now (ElementFxHandle gains `reanchor`), and the
record keeps its `fx` handle so setRate can re-aim a group's automation,
which its docblock already claimed it did.

8 — The sub-mix summed members at unity (normalize=0) into a pcm_s16le
intermediate, so an over-unity sum hard-clipped at ±1 BEFORE the group's
FX and fader ran: pulling the fader down, or the Giant preset's
compressor, then operated on distortion. The intermediate is float now.
Both downstream readers already took float; applyVolumeEnvelopeToWav did
not, and does now, so a group's envelope is still baked sample-accurately
rather than silently degrading to the expression path.

The new level test is the one that matters here: EVERY tone in that file
is built on ffmpeg's `sine` source, which peaks at ~0.125 full scale, so
nothing in the suite could reach a clip whatever gain it asked for.
`writePeakTone` states the amplitude outright, and the test fails against
the 16-bit intermediate.

16 — mixGroupMembers forked mixAudioTracks' filter build and dropped its
automation-degradation retry, so a member envelope past this ffmpeg
build's expression limits failed the whole composition's audio where an
ungrouped one degrades to base volume with a warning. The retry is back,
reported on a successful result the same way. The group track is also
pushed with its volumeKeyframes when the envelope could not be baked,
instead of losing the group's automation silently.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:37 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 ce6426ddcb fix(studio): group rows survive a missing provider, a collapse, an edit and a reload
Findings 12-15 from the review. All four are group/solo UI state, none
reachable before the id-space fix made group writes work at all.

14 — TimelineGroupRow called the THROWING useTimelineEditContext where
every sibling row calls the optional one. Timeline.test.ts already
asserted the timeline renders outside the provider; it passed because
its fixture had no groups. One grouped clip took the whole timeline
render down, not just the row. The new test is that assertion with a
group on screen, and it fails against the old hook.

13 — A collapsed group left its members in `tracks`, so row geometry
reserved a full row each while buildTimelineLogicalRows had already
stopped emitting them: TimelineLanes rendered null into reserved space,
giving a group header trailed by its members' worth of blank,
unreachable dead space. Members are now emitted only while the group is
expanded, so the row list and the logical rows agree by construction.
(Zeroing the heights instead does not work — createTimelineRowGeometry
deliberately reads a non-positive height as "invalid, use TRACK_H".)
Membership still lands in trackGroupOf: collapsed is hidden, not
ungrouped.

12 — groupInfoCache is a WeakMap keyed on the preview Document, and
group edits are applied as live patches precisely so the iframe never
reloads, so the key never changed and the entry never dropped. A muted
group could not be unmuted (the header kept reading the cached
`hidden:false` and re-wrote data-hidden), the bus slider snapped back,
and a second FX preset built on a stale chain, discarding the first.
Every live group write now drops the entry.

15 — Solo leaked two ways. createTimelineResetState never cleared
`soloed`, so switching composition carried ids that match nothing in the
new document — which is exactly the state that silences every track
while the banner still names a clip that is not there. And the solo
bridge's effect deps do not change across a preview reload, so the
reloaded runtime kept an empty set while the button stayed lit and the
banner still claimed "Hearing only X". Solo now rides
applyPreviewAudioFlags, the same reload-surviving path as the mute and
canary state.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:36 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 a8d27820ba fix(studio): half-lit group solo compares bare DOM ids too
A fifth face of the id-space mismatch, not in the review's list.
TimelineGroupRow built its member list from `el.key ?? el.id` and handed
it to isGroupHalfLitUnderSolo, which compares against the soloed set —
bare DOM ids now that the header pushes them that way. Soloing a member
lit nothing on its group, the one signal that says "some of what is
under here still plays".

Found by auditing every consumer of `soloed` rather than trusting the
handoff's claim that this call site "happens to pass the bare id" — it
passes a bare id for the GROUP and store keys for its MEMBERS.

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2026-08-20 16:39:34 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 5850a0c978 fix(studio,core): unify the audio id space, emit group elements, gate both canaries
Six of the fifteen findings from the max-effort review of the audio
groups / mute-solo / pitch-shift stack. Nothing in the stack is merged;
this sits on top of wa-24-timeline-fx.

The id space (findings 1-3). Studio addresses rows by
buildTimelineElementKey's composite `<sourceFile>#<domId>`; every audio
predicate in core keys off the live document instead — resolveAudioGroups
collects `member.id`, isAudibleUnderSolo compares `el.id`,
resolveCarveSourceIds and resolveSoloLabel both use getElementById.
Nobody checked the boundary, so:

  * solo put a composite key in the set the runtime matches against
    `el.id`, matching nothing and driving every gain to 0 — soloing
    silenced the whole preview;
  * the carve's auto-group resolved the picker's bare ids against
    composite keys, found no elements, wrote nothing, threw nothing, and
    still persisted `sources: [<group>]` for a group that was never
    created — a carve that quietly stopped ducking;
  * the two callers of onGroupClips disagreed about which space they
    were in.

Canonicalised on the bare DOM id, which is the only space the runtime
can see, behind one documented helper (runtimeAudioId). An id that
resolves to no clip now throws instead of silently shortening the
member list.

The group element (finding 4). Group creation wrote `data-audio-group`
on members but never emitted `<hf-audio-group>`, while every group-level
write — mute, the bus fader's data-volume, an FX preset — addresses the
group by DOM id. Groups the product created were exactly the groups
nothing could edit. Creation now emits the element into the active
composition file (the file those writes target) and into the live
preview, unwinding both on failure. Group ids are validated before being
interpolated into markup.

The canary leaks (findings 5-6). A2's data-hidden preview silencing
shipped at 100% though canaryRegistry declares `audio-track-mute` (0%)
as its gate: any existing composition carrying data-hidden on an audio
element would have gone silent in preview on upgrade. Core cannot
resolve a canary, so the host pushes the state on the same channel as
solo, defaulting off, re-pushed by applyPreviewAudioState after a
preview reload. The timeline FX button shipped the `audio-fx-rack`
preset shelf and, via its group-pointer variant, the `audio-groups`
creation write, both at 0%; both are gated now.

Tests. Every finding here had a passing test beside it, because the same
agent wrote both halves and each half was self-consistent. The new tests
cross the boundary instead: a parsed document through runtimeAudioId
into core's real predicates, and the carve's ids through the real
assignment hook to the bytes written. Each was mutation-checked against
the pre-fix code.

Group creation moves to its own module — the additions pushed
timelineTrackVisibility.ts past the 600-line ceiling. Also swaps two raw
NUL bytes in useFxCarve.ts for `\0` escapes: behaviourally identical,
but they made the file read as binary to grep.

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2026-08-20 16:39:33 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 1d5405e3e0 feat(studio,core): reach presets and the rack from the timeline
C1: the FX button in the track/group header, and its popover — the
"reach FX from the timeline" entry point, last on purpose because it
targets a group or a single clip, never "a track" (N clips = N chains
is the ill-defined thing the design doc refuses to build).

The button (TimelineFxButton.tsx): renders on group rows and on track
rows holding exactly one audio clip, reading "FX" (or "FX n" once the
target's data-fx-chain has n enabled nodes). A multi-clip ungrouped
audio track gets a pointer instead ("Group these clips to add effects
to all of them" + a Group action) rather than silently hiding the
entry point — reuses B6's exact auto-grouping write
(useAudioGroupCarveAssignment, exposed as onGroupClips) with a minted
group id (mintGroupId, exported from useFxCarveGrouping.ts).

The popover (TimelineFxPopover.tsx, components/editor/): a thin
positioner around FxPresetMenu exactly as the property panel renders
it — same audition contract (useFxAudition), same preset-apply
computation (extracted into useApplyAudioFxPreset.ts's
applyPresetToChain, now shared with propertyPanelFxSection.tsx's own
applyPreset rather than duplicated). Escape closes without
deselecting whatever is behind it; an outside pointerdown dismisses.
Footer's "+ effect"/"Open rack ›" both select the target and hand off
to the property panel (a simplification from the step doc's two
distinct behaviors — remotely toggling the rack's own internal
"adding" state isn't plumbed anywhere, and building that plumbing
would be new UI-state wiring beyond what "reuse existing selection
dispatch" asks for).

Writes, one path per target kind, neither a new persistence mechanism:
- Group: B7/B5's existing onSetAudioGroupAttributeLive/Quiet
  (data-fx-chain, same as data-volume/data-hidden already do).
- Clip: a NEW onSetElementAttributeLive/Quiet pair
  (timelineElementFxAttribute.ts), addressed by the TimelineElement
  itself rather than the current selection. This is the one real
  architectural gap the step doc's assumption didn't survive: the
  property panel's onSetAttributeQuiet closes over domEditSelection,
  so writing a clip that isn't already selected has no synchronous
  path through it. Extracted the shared live-patch-then-persist core
  (persistElementAttribute, timelineEditingHelpers.ts) out of both
  this new path and the existing setAudioGroupAttribute, which the
  fallow duplication gate flagged as a 66-line clone on first pass —
  now a single ~50-line core parameterized by patchLive/readLive, with
  each caller a ~15-line wrapper resolving its own patch target
  (buildPatchTarget({domId}) for a group, buildPatchTarget(element)
  for an arbitrary clip) and live-DOM lookup.

Data plumbing: HfAudioGroup.fxChain (already on the B1 model) mirrored
onto TimelineElement.audioGroupFxChain (timelineDOM.ts's groupInfoFor
cache) and TimelineTrackGroupInfo.fxChain (useTimelineTrackDerivations.ts),
alongside the existing volume/hidden mirrors.

Deferred: the property panel's own rack doesn't (yet) expose a way to
remotely force its add-menu open, so "+ effect" and "Open rack ›"
converge on the same navigation rather than the step doc's two
distinct ones. A grouped multi-clip track (some clips already carry
data-audio-group) gets neither the chain button nor the pointer —
its members' own per-clip FX buttons still work individually, and the
group's own FX button on TimelineGroupHeader covers the group level.

Gates: bun run build clean; packages/studio full suite 4286/4304 (18
pre-existing todo, up from 4276/4294 — 10 new tests, 0 regressions);
new TimelineFxPopover.test.tsx (6) + TimelineFxButton.test.tsx (4)
cover exactly-one-write-per-apply, hover-audition-reverts-on-leave,
Escape-without-deselecting, outside/inside pointerdown dismissal, and
the group-pointer's Group action; oxfmt/oxlint clean on all 22 touched
files; fallow clean (0 new dead-code/unused-export/duplication
findings — the pointer test caught during the first commit attempt).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:31 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 301cb8b51f feat(studio,core): mute groups, and hear-only-this that cannot reach the export
B5: mute and solo, on groups and tracks (track mute already shipped by A2 —
nothing to build there).

Group mute — persisted as data-hidden on the <hf-audio-group> element itself
(never written onto members, per design doc §2.1's state-restoration
warning). Studio action reuses B7's generic setAudioGroupAttribute
(setQuiet/setLive split) rather than duplicating toggleTimelineTrackHidden's
shape — same one-atomic-patch/one-undo-entry contract, already built for
exactly this purpose. Render: B4 already drops every member of a
data-hidden group (confirmed by a new audioMixer.test.ts case — no
production change needed there). Preview: a dedicated muteGain node
(groupInput -> [fx] -> muteGain -> output -> master) so a mute toggle
never fights scheduleVolumeLane's ramps on the same param — the same
hazard B7's volume fader was split out to avoid. Mid-playback toggles
sync via a new syncAudioGroupMute pass in init.ts (a group carries no
data-start, so it's invisible to the existing visibility-node query).
Members of a muted group render the strikethrough label treatment
(TimelineTrackPlainHeader's isGroupMuted, sourced from
TimelineElement.audioGroupHidden) — display only, no attribute touched.

Solo — "Hear only this": a new session-only store slice (audioSoloSlice,
soloed: ReadonlySet<string> of clip/group ids, never track numbers, never
serialized). Predicate (isAudibleUnderSolo, packages/core/src/audioGroups.ts
so both the store and the preview transport share one definition): an
element is audible while any solo is active only if it or its own group is
soloed. "Siblings, never ancestors" lives in the graph, not the predicate —
solo gain is a per-element stage only; group buses are never attenuated by
solo, so a soloed member's path through its group stays open by
construction. Preview: a dedicated per-element soloGain in
webAudioTransport.ts (parallel to the mute mechanics), pushed via
window.__hf.setAudioSolo — a direct call, not an attribute write, so it
can't ride the visibility-diff path mute uses. media.ts's HTMLMedia
fallback folds the same predicate into its per-tick volume computation
(the same seam A2 used for data-hidden). Half-lit group indicator
(isGroupHalfLitUnderSolo) for "not soloed itself, but a member is".
Exclusive-by-default toggle, ⌘/Ctrl-click to add/remove, TimelineSoloButton
(⌗) beside mute on both track and group headers. Transport-bar banner
("Hearing only <label> — your export is not affected", Clear button) added
in PlayerControls.tsx, reading labels straight off the live preview DOM.

Export-safety, the most important property here: toggling/adding/clearing
solo never calls setAttribute/removeAttribute on any element and never
invokes the project save path (both asserted directly via spies in
audioSoloSlice.test.ts) — solo cannot reach an export by construction, not
by convention.

Also: extracted useHydrateActiveCompPathFromUrl out of App.tsx (a
pre-existing, unrelated effect) to stay under the 600-line filesize cap
after wiring useAudioSoloBridge in; and fixed a circular dependency the
solo-banner wiring introduced (useAudioSoloBridge.ts now imports
usePlayerStore from its concrete module instead of the player/ barrel,
which re-exports PlayerControls.tsx — the barrel path is what closed the
cycle).

Gates: bun run build clean; packages/core full suite 2379/2379; packages/
studio full suite 4276/4294 (18 pre-existing todo); packages/engine
audioMixer.grouping.test.ts 5/5; oxfmt/oxlint clean on all 23 touched
files; fallow clean (0 new circular deps, 0 new filesize/complexity
findings).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:31 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 e1c9b50948 feat(studio,core): a volume and a living meter on the group row
B7: the group bus strip — droppable, and deliberately minimal per the
casual-user design constraints (groups doc §5): a volume slider, a level
bar that moves with the sound, and the words "Too loud" when it clips. No
dB numbers, no peak-hold readout, no routing row.

Transport (core): groupInput() now routes each group through input -> [FX
chain or dry passthrough] -> output -> master, with one AnalyserNode per
group tapped off `output` (post-FX, so the meter reads what the bus
actually outputs) — fftSize 256, level not spectrum. groupLevel(groupId)
returns RMS-ish level 0..1 + a clipped flag off a reused per-group buffer
(no per-frame allocation), or null when the group is idle/unknown. The
runtime posts group-levels messages only while playing, piggybacking the
existing message channel rather than adding a new poll loop.

Studio: groupLevels.ts is a plain pub-sub store (mirrors liveTime.ts's
shape) fed by useTimelinePlayer's message handler via
parseGroupLevelsMessage; useGroupLevel throttles re-renders to ~33ms.
TimelineGroupBusStrip renders in the group row's own `∿` lane area
(STRIP_H, already sized in B2's row-height pipeline) — drag writes live
via onSetAudioGroupAttributeLive, release commits one undo entry via
onSetAudioGroupAttributeQuiet (packages/studio/src/hooks/
timelineAudioGroupVolume.ts, extracted from timelineTrackVisibility.ts to
stay under the 600-line cap; mirrors FxParamRow's live/commit split).
"Too loud" holds for ~2s after the last clipped block, tracked in the
component, not the transport. volumeByGroup mirrors labelByGroup in
useTimelineTrackDerivations.ts so the strip's slider round-trips the
group's own data-volume.

Fixed two pre-existing group-routing tests in webAudioTransport.test.ts
that hardcoded gain-node creation order/count — B7 inserts an extra
`output` gain node between the group's input and master (for the meter to
tap), which shifted node indices the tests asserted on directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:30 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 8052f3e68f feat(engine): render grouped audio through a summed, FX-processed bus
Renders what B3 already routes in preview: a group's members sub-mix into
one PCM WAV at full composition length (adelay already places each member
at its composition position, so the group WAV's t=0 IS composition time),
run through the group's own FX chain and automation via the same
applyAudioFxChain/envelope-bake path a member uses, then fold into the flat
track list as one processed AudioTrack — the final mixAudioTracks call
never has to know groups exist.

Gain law verified against plans/spikes/amix-nesting-spike.sh (brought over
from the plans branch, along with audioMixer.grouping.test.ts, since both
were committed there and never merged to origin/main — every step branch in
this stack descends from origin/main): the sub-mix's own amix prefers
normalize=0 (nulls exactly against a flat mix), falling back to per-node
compensation by the group's OWN member count only when this ffmpeg build's
amix rejects the option. Carrying any other count into a nested amix node
is the exact +2.499 dB silent failure the spike measured — confirmed by a
manual mutation check (wrong-count compensation landed 3.5 dB hot, exactly
20*log10(3/2) for a 2-member group compensated as 3; reverted after
confirming the level test catches it).

A group element carrying data-hidden drops every member before the sub-mix
ever runs (RULES: mute-by-drop, never mute-by-volume-0) — parseAudioElements
now resolves groups once per parse and skips hidden-group members the same
way it already skips data-hidden ancestors.

HfAudioGroup (packages/core/src/audioGroups.ts, from B1) gains fxChain,
automation, volume and hidden, read off the group element the same way
resolveAudioGroups already reads data-label — audioGroups.test.ts updated
for the wider shape plus new coverage for the added reads.

it.todo("mixes a grouped composition at the same level as the ungrouped
one") is now a real, passing test; two more added per the step doc (FX
routing isolation, member-level envelope survives grouping).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:30 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 351b219d2b feat(studio,lint): carve targets voiceover groups — always, when plural
Plural voiceover carve now targets a group instead of naming each clip:
`resolveCarveSourceIds` (core `audioGroups.ts`) expands a group id to its
current members at analysis time, so a clip added to the group later is
covered without touching `sources`. The picker (`useFxCarve.ts`) offers a
grouped voice as one option instead of one row per member, tests overlap
as a union of member spans (a group overlaps the bed if ANY member does),
and prefers a qualifying group over its individual members in
`autoSourceIds`.

Picking two or more ungrouped voice clips in the carve flow now mints a
group behind them (`mintGroupId`, de-duped against every id in the
document) and writes `data-audio-group` on each picked clip atomically,
one undo entry — `createAudioGroupAndAssignMembers` in
`timelineTrackVisibility.ts` copies `setElementsHidden`'s multi-target
write shape. The DSP is untouched: `mixCarveSources` already sums
multiple sources correctly (verified in the design doc's own
investigation) — this only fixes the picker.

New lint rule `audio_carve_ungrouped_sources` (`packages/lint/src/rules/
media.ts`, alongside `audio_volume_double_automation`) warns when a
`data-fx-carve`'s `sources` names two or more plain clip ids instead of a
group — the shape that silently rots when a clip is added. `/hyperframes-
audio` states the same rule as an invariant, not a tip, with the grouped-
narration HTML example from the design doc.

The group-matching and auto-group logic (`withAutoGroupedSources`,
`collectCarveCandidates`) is split into `useFxCarveGrouping.ts` —
`useFxCarve.ts` was pushing past the 600-line cap. `resolveNextCarveSettings`
is deliberately NOT an `async function`: wrapping it in one would force a
microtask on every call, including the synchronous branch — the exact bug
`withAutoGroupedSources`'s own sync-when-possible contract exists to avoid,
and one caught via `propertyPanelAudioFxGroup.test.tsx` (10 failures)
before fixing it back to a plain function the caller conditionally awaits.

Also extracted `useEffectiveTimelineDuration` out of `App.tsx` and
`useRemoveBackground` out of `StudioRightPanel.tsx` (both pushed past 600
lines from an added prop wire), and decomposed `useFxCarve.ts`'s picker
IIFE to clear fallow's complexity gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:29 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 5dc93a25ad feat(core): route grouped audio through a group bus in preview
An audio element carrying `data-audio-group` no longer lands its gain on
the master bus directly — it feeds a per-group `GainNode` (built lazily on
first use, one per group id) which itself feeds master, so members of the
same group sum before the ear, ready for a group-level FX chain and
volume/mute in later steps. An id with no matching `<hf-audio-group>`
element still gets a plain, unprocessed bus rather than losing the track.

The group's own chain and volume lane are wired through the same
`attachElementFxChain`/`scheduleVolumeLane` every element already uses,
against the group's clock — composition time (design doc §1.3), since a
group has no `data-start` and a missing one parses as 0. The bus persists
across `stopAll()` (mirroring `_masterGain`'s own lifecycle) so replaying a
group does not rebuild its chain; only `destroy()` disposes it.

Render is untouched — stays flat until B4; `audio-groups` is still a 0%
canary so nothing ships this to a real composition without hand-authoring
`data-audio-group`.

Also: `audioGroupOf` (B1) crashed on any element lacking a real `tagName`/
`getAttribute` — exactly the shape of most `HTMLMediaElement` test doubles
in this suite, including this file's own `mockEl`. Made it tolerant, same
style as `readChain`'s existing guard in `runtime/audioFx.ts`.

`schedulePlayback` was already 110 lines pre-existing before this diff;
extracted `resolveDestination` and `handleSourceEnded` to shrink it to 92,
then suppressed the remainder (inherently sequential graph wiring, not a
decision tree) per the same precedent B2 used on `TimelineLogicalRow`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:28 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 dd3212d11b feat(studio): group rows in the timeline, and a split disclosure
A group renders as its own row with member rows beneath it, and disclosure
splits into two independent controls: caret shows/hides a group's member
rows (structural), `∿` shows/hides any row's automation-lane rows. Plain
tracks lose their caret (nothing to disclose structurally) and keep only
`∿`. `expandedClipIds` keeps its existing keyframe-lane-state job;
`expandedGroupIds`/`expandedLaneOwnerIds` are new, independent sets.

Groups get a real position in the row/geometry pipeline rather than a
visual-only overlay: `useTimelineTrackDerivations` re-emits a group's member
tracks contiguously under a synthetic fractional anchor key
(firstMember - 0.5, the same fractional-key convention sub-composition
expansion already uses), so `rowGeometry`/keyboard-nav/virtualization treat
a group row as a first-class row without widening their key type away from
number. `TimelineLogicalRow.level` widens `1 | 2` to `1 | 2 | 3` (group /
member-under-group / lane), lanes always `owner.level + 1`.

All of it — grouped row emission, the header, the new expansion state — is
gated behind `isCanaryEnabled("audio-groups")`; disabled, `groups` resolves
empty and every new code path no-ops. `TimelineElement.audioGroup` (+
`audioGroupLabel`, resolved once per document via `resolveAudioGroups` from
B1) is parsed unconditionally, mirroring how `hidden`/`fxChain` already
flow DOM → manifest → TimelineElement — inert without the canary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:28 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 e42185582b feat(core): the audio group model — element, membership, helpers
Introduces <hf-audio-group> and data-audio-group as the group model B2–B7
and C1 build on: a non-rendering group element carries a label and (later)
an FX chain, membership lives on the member's own data-audio-group
attribute rather than DOM nesting, so a track removed from the document
simply drops out of the group on the next resolve — nothing dangles.
Groups do not nest: data-audio-group on the group element itself is
ignored. A group with members but no <hf-audio-group> element still
resolves, label falling back to the id, so hand-authored HTML degrades
gracefully. Audio only in v1 — video members are ignored.

Parse-only: nothing routes or sums audio yet (B3/B4). Adds the
audio-groups canary at percentage: 0 gating the future Studio UI; the
element and attribute parse and play regardless of enrollment.

Verified rather than assumed per this plan's standing rule: the timeline's
clip-collection selector ([data-start], [data-track-index],
[data-composition-id], video, audio, img) already excludes the group
element with zero changes, and no lint rule flags unknown elements or
data-* attributes, so neither needed touching — confirmed by grep and by
running `hyperframes lint` against a fixture containing the element (0
findings referencing it). The step doc's suggested display:none injection
point (an existing base stylesheet in the runtime) does not exist in this
codebase; skipped rather than inventing new infrastructure, since an empty,
childless custom element already renders as a zero-size inline box with no
visible output — the same reasoning the lint check above confirms
empirically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:27 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 ee6486c7f2 feat(core,studio): the character presets pitch shift unlocks
Chipmunk, Giant, and Monster ship as presets on the pitchshift worklet
P1 added: Chipmunk pitches up and adds sparkle, Giant pitches down with
weight and a compressor to hold the extra low end together, Monster pitches
down further with saturation growl and a close, tight reverb. Every param
verified against the live effect registry rather than sketched — the
compressor/reverb/saturate/shelf keys all match exactly.

Each gets its own title treatment (font, size, tracking, hue) so the FX
rack's per-preset styling coverage and hue-distance/background-uniqueness
tests extend cleanly to the three new entries, and complaint-line copy in
the non-voice vocabulary the audit test enforces (no speech words — "Giant"
over CapCut's "Deep Voice", as the design doc records).

Updates plans/audio-fx-presets.md's two limits paragraphs to record that
pitch shift landed and this half of the character list now ships; Robot and
Alien stay out of scope (ring modulation, still unbuilt).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:25 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 fa05d3a7c6 feat(core): pitch shift — a granular shifter as the fifth FX worklet
Adds hf-pitchshift alongside the four existing dynamics worklets: a dual-tap
granular delay line, 100 ms grain, taps 180° apart so one is always
crossfading in as the other resets — hides the splice each tap makes on
wrap. Read-tap speed relative to the write head tracks the semitone ratio,
so pitch shifts without changing duration.

Registered through the same workletBuilder/dispose-message path the other
four use (so shapeOf never rebuilds on a param tweak, and a chain drop
retires it), wired into the registry with a plain-language copy entry and a
~0.2s chain tail (two grains). One implementation, shared by preview (Web
Audio in the page) and render (the same worklet run inside an
OfflineAudioContext in the headless browser) — confirmed by a browser-render
test that measures the actual output frequency, not just that it differs
from input.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:25 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 adfdb69a78 fix(core,studio): silence hidden audio in preview, and call it mute
Preview scheduled every audio[data-start] regardless of data-hidden, so a
hidden audio track was silent in the export but audible in preview — render
was already correct, this was a preview-only parity bug. Web Audio scheduling
now skips (and re-syncs on toggle) any audio clip under a data-hidden
ancestor; the HTMLMedia per-tick volume path folds the same check into
effectiveVolume without touching el.muted (transport-owned). Ships unflagged
since it's a bugfix restoring parity.

Also relabels the eye as Mute/Muted on audio-only track rows (icon,
strikethrough label, undo-history copy), gated behind the new
audio-track-mute canary — the relabel is a copy/UX change, kept separate from
the behavior fix above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:24 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Sonnet 5 e966311627 feat(studio): make presets the primary path into the FX rack
Presets button becomes the stacked primary control (bold, filled outline);
Add-effect demoted to a small trailing link ("+ effect"). Button onClick
bodies and audition-revert logic are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 16:39:23 -07:00
Miguel Ángel 7a8f8a0b45 chore: release v0.8.5 (#3375) v0.8.5 2026-08-20 19:03:09 -04:00
James Russo b4d5abd7b2 fix(studio): capture storyboard tiles at review density (#3371)
* fix(studio): capture storyboard tiles at source resolution

* fix(studio): bound storyboard tile captures
2026-08-20 15:46:12 -07:00
Miguel Ángel 2be5a03b80 fix(lint): stop erroring on the documented canonical clip block (#3374)
Linting the primitive-clip example from packages/core/docs/core.md produced
two errors against the docs' own linter:

    error  timed_element_missing_clip_class  el-3   <img data-start ...>
    error  self_closing_media_tag            el-4   <audio ... />

Both are now fixed, in opposite directions — one was the rule's fault, one was
the docs'.

`timed_element_missing_clip_class` claimed the element "will be visible for the
entire composition instead of only during its scheduled time range". That is
not what happens. `syncTimedElementVisibility` walks
`querySelectorAll("[data-start]")` and toggles `style.visibility` off the
ATTRIBUTE, with no reference to the class; the runtime's own init test pins it
with a bare `<div data-start data-duration>` carrying no `class="clip"`. Every
other consumer of the string "clip" — Studio's label derivation, the runtime's
timeline labels, core's selector helper — treats it as a name to skip, never as
a behaviour key. So the class is an authoring convention the tooling reads, not
the mechanism that hides the element.

The rule is therefore a warning rather than an error, and its message now says
what is actually true. `img` joins `audio` and `video` in skipTags: the three
media primitives sit on adjacent lines of the same documented clip block, all
three authored without `class="clip"`, and flagging only the `<img>` is what
made the documented pattern fail.

`self_closing_media_tag` was right and the docs were wrong: `/` is ignored on a
non-void element, so `<audio ... />` leaves the element open and everything
after it nests inside. Changed to `<audio ...></audio>`. The `<img ... />` on
the line above is a genuine void element and stays as it is.

The same false mechanism claim had been copied into the talking-head-recut
skill, in both the annotated example and the rules list, where agents read it
as fact. Corrected there too.

No effect on the 643 shipped registry files (this rule fires on none of them);
the change is to the documented pattern and to agent-authored compositions.
Regression test lints the canonical block verbatim and asserts it produces no
errors or warnings, so docs and linter cannot drift apart again silently.
2026-08-20 18:39:12 -04:00
Miguel Ángel f822200fb8 feat(telemetry): measure which lint rules fire, cost, and fail to converge (#3367)
* feat(telemetry): measure which lint rules fire, cost, and fail to converge

Lint rule changes are currently argued from anecdote. This adds the three
measurements needed to argue them from data.

`lint_report`, once per `hyperframes lint` or `hyperframes check`:
- `code_counts` / `codes` — which rules actually fire, and how often
- `rule_group_ms` — milliseconds per rule-source module (core, gsap, media, ...)
- `slowest_rule` / `slowest_rule_ms` — slowest single rule as `<group>#<index>`
- `rule_count` — how many rules this build ran

`lint_rule_streak`, once per finding that survives an edit to its file:
- `edits` — how many edits the finding survived
- `cleared` — whether it eventually went away

The streak event is the one that matters. A lint pass costs about 5ms, so
per-rule CPU is not what makes the authoring loop slow; a rule an agent cannot
satisfy is, because every failed attempt costs a full edit-and-relint cycle. A
single run cannot see that, so `lint_rule_streak` reconstructs it across runs:
high `edits` with `cleared: false` is a rule nobody can fix, and the
`cleared: true` distribution is the baseline to judge it against.

An iteration is counted only when the file's content digest CHANGED and the
finding is still there. Re-linting an untouched project is not an attempt,
which is what stops `check` (which lints on every invocation) from inflating
the numbers.

Rule identity is the source module plus an index within it. Naming all 86
rules would make the timings prettier but it is a refactor this measurement
does not need: the group locates the file, and the index locates the rule.

Version, agent runtime, CI flag, and invocation id are already attached to
every event by `trackEvent`, so lint pain can be split by CLI version and by
which agent produced it without adding anything here.

Privacy: only rule codes, counts, and timings are sent. Streak state lives in
~/.hyperframes/lint-streaks.json alongside config.json (so `rm -rf
~/.hyperframes` is still a full reset) and stores digests only — no file
paths, no project names, no composition source. Nothing is written and nothing
is emitted when telemetry is off. Entries expire after 14 days and are capped
at 500 files.

`EventProperties` gains string arrays and numeric maps. `codes` and
`code_counts` are inherently a set and a histogram; flattening them into
dynamic top-level keys would make them unqueryable. PostHog stores both
natively.

`trackLintRun` is the single call site shared by `lint` and `check`, and it
swallows every error — telemetry must never turn a green lint red.

* feat(telemetry): emit per-group rule counts so slowest_rule stays comparable

Review catch on #3367: `slowest_rule` is the one positional key in either
event. It is `<group>#<index>`, so adding or removing a rule renumbers every
later slot in that group and the same string means different rules in two
builds. #3366 does exactly that to 34 of 81 surviving slots, and `rule_count`
alone says only THAT the ruleset moved, not which groups.

`rule_group_counts` carries the per-group sizes alongside it, so a consumer
comparing two builds can tell which groups' indices still mean the same thing
without anyone having to remember which release dropped rules. `codes`,
`code_counts` and `rule_group_ms` are keyed by name and were never affected.

Also corrects the rule count in the RULE_GROUPS comment: 86, not ~60, as
LINT_RULE_COUNT in the same file computes.
2026-08-20 18:26:14 -04:00
Miguel Ángel 83ceaeb902 refactor(lint): drop seven rules that fire on correct compositions (#3366)
Each rule below either reports a hazard the compiler or runtime already
prevents, duplicates another rule's invariant with a weaker detector, or
cannot be cleared by its own fixHint. Measured over the 643 shipped
registry HTML files, this cuts lint output from 1740 findings to 507
(-70.9%) and removes 40 errors, with no new codes introduced.

- scene_layer_missing_visibility_kill: regex heuristic keyed on `#sceneN`
  ids. It only accepts the literal string `visibility: "hidden"`, so the
  canonical GSAP hard kill (`tl.set(el, { autoAlpha: 0 })`, which sets
  visibility hidden at runtime) never clears it — an unfixable error. It
  also matched the `0` inside `opacity: 0.5` and treated `.from({opacity:
  0})` entrances as exits. gsap_exit_missing_hard_kill owns this invariant
  using parsed tween timing and real clip boundaries, and accepts every
  hidden encoding.
- unscoped_gsap_selector: wrapScopedCompositionScript already rewrites
  string GSAP targets to the composition root for every sub-composition
  script (pinned by compositionScoping.test.ts "executes document and GSAP
  selectors inside the composition root"). The rule also never fired on a
  standalone sub-composition file or a <template> sub-comp.
- caption_transcript_parse_error: required the inline TRANSCRIPT array to
  be strict JSON so Studio could read it, but Studio's parseTranscriptArray
  already normalizes unquoted keys, single quotes, and trailing commas. It
  errored on ten shipped caption components whose transcripts Studio parses.
- composition_self_attribute_selector: warned that
  `[data-composition-id="x"] .y` leaks across instances, but
  scopeCssToComposition rewrites that selector to each instance's runtime
  scope. It was also the pattern the rest of the toolchain prescribes.
- timed_element_missing_visibility_hidden: strict subset of
  timed_element_missing_clip_class, which reports the same condition as an
  error, so it only ever added a second line saying the same thing.
- pointer_events_none: Studio selection ergonomics only, no render impact,
  on 124 of 211 shipped blocks.
- google_fonts_import: the producer resolves Google Fonts during
  compile/render, as the message itself said.

system_font_will_alias is narrowed to distributed/Lambda renders, where
system-font capture is off and the fallback is a real defect. Under a local
render the substitution is the renderer working as designed, so the info
tier is gone.

The three tests that used composition_self_attribute_selector as a probe
for "this style source was collected" now use scoped_css_missing_wrapper,
which still fires once per source.
2026-08-20 18:10:24 -04:00
Miguel Ángelandanikam13 d1482b0129 fix(skills): resolve the blueprint id from a qualified blueprint: field (#3337)
* fix(skills): resolve the blueprint id from a qualified `blueprint:` field

visual-design.md documents `blueprint:` as the id plus a `(Reproduce)` /
`(Adapt)` qualifier, and prints `dataviz-countup (Adapt)` as its worked example.
The packet builder used that raw field as a filename, so a qualified blueprint
looked for `<id> (Adapt).md`, found nothing, and inlined an empty string:
`selectedFile()` returns "" for a missing path. Every packet shipped without the
one document the frame was designed against, and the run still exited 0 with
nothing on stderr. `compose (Adapt)` missed the `compose` check the same way.

Parse the field into the id it names, once, so no caller resolves a raw field
value against the blueprints directory. A blueprint that resolves to no file is
now a named error rather than an empty section, matching how the builder already
treats a missing `src` and an oversize packet.

The existing tests only used bare ids, which is how the qualified form escaped;
they now cover both, and the missing-file case.

One owner: product-launch-video, faceless-explainer, pr-to-video and
general-video all delegate to frame-packets-core.mjs.

Co-Authored-By: anikam13 <22992075+anikam13@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(skills): degrade, not fail, when the blueprints library is absent

Self-review catch on the previous commit. hyperframes-animation installs on
demand, so its blueprints/ directory can legitimately be missing — that is a
skill that isn't installed yet, not a frame naming a bad id. Throwing there
turned a silent degrade into a hard failure for a valid setup.

Distinguish the two: an absent blueprints/ warns and inlines nothing, exactly
as an absent rules/ already does in knownRuleIds; a present library that has no
file for this id still throws, because that is a typo or an unstripped
qualifier.

Co-Authored-By: anikam13 <22992075+anikam13@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(skills): point two dead blueprint references at real shapes

CI surfaced these once an unresolvable blueprint stopped being silent. Both
named ids that have never existed in hyperframes-animation/blueprints/:

- faceless-explainer's frame template taught `messaging-multi-phase`, so an
  agent copying the template verbatim tagged a blueprint that resolves to
  nothing. dataviz-countup is what the same skill already uses in its own
  visual-design template and tests.
- pr-to-video's diff-excerpt guardrail fixture used `number-lockup`. The test is
  about diff excerpting and the id was incidental; the frame's own
  `counting-dynamic-scale` rule makes dataviz-countup the natural real shape.

A sweep of every `blueprint:` value across skills/ finds no others.

Co-Authored-By: anikam13 <22992075+anikam13@users.noreply.github.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: anikam13 <22992075+anikam13@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-20 16:37:29 -04:00
Miguel Ángelandanikam13 c66c9a4c76 fix(skills): stage SVGs that capture wrote into capture/assets/svgs/ (#3336)
`hyperframes capture` extracts inline SVGs into capture/assets/svgs/, and the
capture manifest advertises them to the agent as `assets/svgs/<name>.svg`, so a
frame names one in `asset_candidates` exactly the way it names a screenshot.
stageAssets searched only capture/{assets,assets/videos,screenshots}, so every
captured SVG resolved to nothing: logged as a non-fatal anomaly, and the frame
404'd the brand mark it had been told to use.

Add the directory to the search list, and cover it with a test that fails
without the fix.

lib/assets.mjs is byte-identical across product-launch-video,
faceless-explainer and pr-to-video, so the fix lands in all three. Folding it
into hyperframes-core/scripts/lib/, where frame-packets-core.mjs already lives,
is a separate change.

Co-authored-by: anikam13 <22992075+anikam13@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-20 16:22:20 -04:00
Miguel Ángel 9140c0eaa1 fix(core): keep authored gain above unity off el.volume in the sandbox bridge (#3349)
Authoring a clip above unity gain throws at runtime today.

## What breaks

`MAX_AUDIO_GAIN_DB = 12` makes `data-volume` legal up to ~3.98. The sandbox runtime's volume bridge assigns the product straight to the element:

```ts
el.volume = clipVolume * volume;   // init.ts, onSetVolume
```

`HTMLMediaElement.volume` is spec-pinned to [0,1] and **throws `IndexSizeError`** outside it — verified in Chrome, and the test DOM agrees:

```
el.volume = 2  →  IndexSizeError: Failed to set the 'volume' property...
```

The throw lands inside a `for` loop over every media element, so it takes the rest of the loop with it: every clip after the boosted one keeps whatever volume it already had, while `state.bridgeVolume` says the change was applied. A composition with one boosted clip stops responding to the volume control for every clip authored after it.

## The fix

Clamp what the element receives. That is not lossy, because the element was never where the boost lived — the transport gets the authored gain unclamped, and this PR pins that half too:

- `syncRuntimeMedia` hands `onElementVolume` both the element's clamped volume **and** the authored gain, so the transport can have the boost the element cannot hold.
- `setElementVolume` keeps that gain on the per-element node, clamped only to `MAX_AUDIO_GAIN`.

Those two paths already worked; they were untested, and they are the reason clamping the element is the right half to clamp.

## Tests

- `init.test.ts` — a boosted clip followed by a quieter one, both seeded with sentinels, then the real `set-volume` control message. Asserts the boosted element lands at 1 **and** that the clip after it still gets its own volume, which is what a throw mid-loop strands.
- `media.test.ts` — the transport receives the authored gain while the element stays legal.
- `webAudioTransport.test.ts` — the per-element gain node keeps a boost above unity.

All three mutation-checked: removing the clamp reds the first, and clamping the gain at either transport seam reds the others.

## Provenance

This is the last unlanded piece of #3280. That PR was rebased onto current `main` and collapsed from +3050 to +944, of which everything except these lines is either already merged (#3308, #3309, #3333, #3339) or duplicated by the open #3306 and #3310. Cutting it out separately because the throw is live on `main` now and shouldn't wait behind a PR that is otherwise redundant.
2026-08-20 12:42:31 -04:00