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Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 c2996c8626 feat(studio): the FX panel, generated from the registry (#3022)
* feat(engine): render audio FX in an OfflineAudioContext

Reads `data-fx-chain` off an audio element and runs the chain over the trimmed
WAV before volume automation is baked in — effects should see the raw signal,
and the envelope belongs on their output.

The processing happens in an OfflineAudioContext inside the headless browser
the engine already drives, running the same graph builders the studio previews
with. That is the point of the approach: one implementation per effect, so the
render agreeing with the preview is a property of the architecture rather than
a tolerance to police. Reimplementing each effect as an FFmpeg filter would
mean two implementations to keep in step, and for the dynamics processors and
modulated delays there is no filter that behaves the same way.

`build:audio-fx-runtime` bundles the graph builders into an injectable IIFE,
following the same pattern as the existing runtime artifacts, so the browser
runs exactly the code the studio does.

The page loads from a file:// URL rather than about:blank because AudioWorklet
is only exposed in a secure context — the compressor, limiter, gate and
bitcrush processors would otherwise fail to register with an opaque error.
file:// qualifies and needs no listening socket.

The chain is serialised into the attribute the way colour grading carries its
config, so there is no side-car file to resolve or lose.

An FX failure is fatal for the whole mix rather than a per-track soft failure.
Every other audio failure mode degrades gracefully — the track drops, siblings
continue — but substituting the dry signal for a processed one ships a render
that sounds plausible and is not what the author set up. Since the per-element
work races under Promise.all, an internal AbortController chained off the
caller's signal aborts in-flight siblings before workDir is removed.

* feat(core): voiceover carve analysis

Finds the bands a voice occupies so a music bed can be dipped there, letting
the voice sit in front without ducking the whole track.

Carve is a relationship between two tracks rather than an effect on one, so it
stays out of the FX chain. What it emits is an ordinary chain of peaking
filters, so a carve composes with whatever else is on the track and needs no
separate rendering path.

Selection is weighted toward intelligibility rather than raw voice energy.
Ranking purely by power lands on the fundamental almost every time, because
that is where a voice is loudest — but the masking that actually hurts a
voiceover happens higher up, and dipping 160 Hz mostly just thins the bed. The
bias is a control, not a constant: at 0 it follows raw energy, at 1 it weights
toward 1-3 kHz.

Ranking happens in dB, which matters more than it looks. Speech spreads 20-30 dB
across these bands — it falls off roughly 6 dB per octave above the fundamental
— so a weighting has to be on that scale to move anything at all. A
multiplicative weight of `1 - bias + bias * shaped` is bounded below by
`1 - bias`, capping its influence at 10*log10(1/(1 - bias)): 5.2 dB at the 0.7
default, 3 dB at 0.5. That is no influence against a real voice — every bias
short of ~0.95 would rank exactly like bias 0 and carve the fundamental, the
outcome the bias exists to prevent, while looking decisive against a fixture
whose bands sit 2 dB apart. So the bias is a dB penalty, zero at 2 kHz and worth
up to 30 dB at full strength, and relative cut depths come from a dB difference
rather than a ratio of weighted linear powers.

The bias reweights ranking without overriding the spectrum — a band the voice
has no energy in is not worth carving, and scores -Infinity rather than
competing — so a strongly low-pitched voice can still select low at full bias.
What the tests hold is that biasing never selects lower than the unbiased
ranking, that the DEFAULT bias reaches the presence region on a voice with a
realistic tilt, and that bias 0 still follows raw power exactly.

Includes a radix-2 FFT rather than a dependency; one Welch-style averaged
spectrum over third-octave bands does not justify pulling in a DSP library.

* fix(engine): keep the FX render 16-bit, stereo, and correctly sized

Three defects in the offline FX path, none of which any test could see.

**Float output silently disabled sample-accurate volume automation.** The writer
emitted 32-bit IEEE float; the very next mixer step bakes the volume envelope
into the samples and accepts only 16-bit PCM, returning null otherwise. So
enabling any effect downgraded that track to the ffmpeg expression path — capped
at 32 straight segments, quantising a curved envelope, and on a dense one falling
back to base volume. It now writes 16-bit PCM, clamped rather than wrapped so a
limiter at 0 dB or a resonant filter cannot turn overshoot into a click. A test
asserts the baker accepts the writer's own output and actually fades it.

**Everything was folded to mono.** `prepareAudioTrack` goes out of its way to
emit stereo — its pan filter exists to dodge ffmpeg's 3 dB mono-to-stereo
rematrix — and this folded it, then wrote one channel. So adding a single peaking
EQ collapsed a bed's width and cost ~3 dB in the render, while preview stayed
stereo. Channels now travel as one plane each, through an OfflineAudioContext of
the same width, and come back interleaved.

**Small results decoded the wrong length.** `new Float32Array(buf.buffer)`
discards byteOffset and byteLength, and Node pools small allocations: a 400-byte
payload sits at offset 8 inside an 8 KiB pool, so a clip under ~1024 samples
decoded as 2048 samples of unrelated memory — and the empty-result guard could
not see it. The reader has the mirror-image fix: a float data chunk on an odd
boundary (ffmpeg's pcm_f32le writes fmt(18) + fact, landing `data` at 58) now
copies instead of throwing RangeError on an unaligned view.

The tail limitation is now stated rather than mis-stated: the context is exactly
as long as the input, so a reverb or delay still ringing is cut there. The old
comment claimed the opposite. How far a tail may run past a clip's end changes
the clip's length in the mix, so it is a product decision, not one to make here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(producer): report an FX render failure as an audio error

`processCompositionAudio` reports per-track failures in its result, but an FX
failure it cannot degrade past — a browser that will not launch, a chain that
will not build — rejects instead. `runAudioStage` had no try, so that rejection
escaped to the orchestrator as an unclassified pipeline exception, losing the
stage/owner/retryable classification this stage exists to attach, and skipping
its abort check on the way out.

It now lands in `audioError` alongside every other cause, while an abort still
keeps its own shape rather than being reported as an audio problem.

Not done here: committing the generated `audio-fx-runtime-inline.ts` so a fresh
clone typechecks packages/engine without building first. The bundle is built from
the stub, and the stub changes three times across this stack — so the artifact
differs per branch and would conflict on every restack. Its model,
position-edits-render-inline.ts, is committed only because it is stable. Building
before testing is this monorepo's existing contract (studio's tests need core's
dist too), so the gap is not specific to audio FX and is better closed by a build
ordering gate than by committing a per-branch artifact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(engine): skip the browser FX render cases when there is no browser

CI's `Test` job was red on this PR with four failures, all the same cause:

  Failed to launch the browser process: spawn
  /home/runner/.cache/hyperframes/chrome/chrome-headless-shell

The job installs ffmpeg and no browser, deliberately — every other suite
that needs an external binary already guards on it
(`describe.skipIf(!HAS_FFMPEG)`). These cases were the only ones assuming
a Chrome, so they failed on an absent dependency rather than on anything
about the code.

Guards on `resolveHeadlessShellPath()` — the same resolver
`acquireBrowser` launches through, so the check cannot drift from the
thing it guards the way a hard-coded cache path would. A configured path
that does not exist throws; that is caught and read as "cannot run here".

Checked both directions rather than just the green one: with a browser all
11 cases run and pass, and with `HYPERFRAMES_BROWSER_PATH` pointed at a
missing binary exactly 3 skip and the other 8 still run. A guard that
silently skipped everything would have looked identical in CI.

They keep their value where it exists — every developer machine, and any
job that has run `hyperframes browser ensure`.

Not touched: the CodeQL failure on this PR is a run from 2026-08-07, five
days and several force-pushes stale. None of the 17 open repo alerts are
in files this PR changes; it re-runs on this push.

* chore(engine): suppress the temp-file alert with the reason it is safe

CodeQL flags `writeWav`'s `writeFileSync` as js/insecure-temporary-file
(high) — the one new alert on #3021, and the reason its CodeQL check is
red.

It is a false positive, and the comment says why rather than just silencing
it: `path` is always inside a directory made by `mkdtempSync`, never a
name assembled directly under `tmpdir()`. Both callers are covered — the
browser host page writes into `mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-fx-host-"))`,
and the render output goes to the producer work dir, itself
`mkdtempSync(join(tempRoot, "producer-project-"))`. mkdtemp picks the
random suffix and creates the directory 0700 in one syscall, so the
predictable filename inside it cannot be pre-created or symlinked by
another user, which is the attack the rule is about. The analyzer sees the
dataflow reach `tmpdir()` and not the mkdtemp in between.

Suppressed inline rather than dismissed in the UI, so the justification
lives next to the code and the rule stays live for anything added later in
this file. Matches the repo's existing convention — `planV2.ts:222`
carries an `lgtm[js/insecure-temporary-file]` for a different reason on
the same rule.

Correcting myself: I first reported this alert as not real, having
intersected the PR's files against the default-branch alert list, which
does not contain PR-ref alerts. Querying ?ref=refs/pull/3021/merge returns
it straight away.

* test(engine): probe ffmpeg and Chrome instead of assuming them

Two failures on #3021's Test job, both about the environment rather than
the code under test.

**Bare `ffmpeg` is not on PATH in CI.** The 16-bit fixture shelled out to
`execFileSync("ffmpeg", ...)` and died with ENOENT. The job does provide
ffmpeg, through `prepare-ffmpeg-bin`, which is what `getFfmpegBinary()`
resolves — every other ffmpeg-dependent suite in this package already goes
through it. Now this one does too, and the case is `skipIf(!HAS_FFMPEG)`
so a contributor without ffmpeg skips rather than fails.

**The browser guard trusted the wrong thing.** It asked
`resolveHeadlessShellPath()` and treated a returned path as "a browser is
here". CI's cache holds a chrome-headless-shell that resolves and then
fails to spawn — a partial download is indistinguishable from a working
one by `existsSync`, which is all that resolver checks. So the three
browser cases ran anyway and failed on the launch.

It now runs `--version` and requires exit 0, which is the same probe the
ffmpeg suites use: ask the binary, do not infer from the filesystem.

Checked both directions rather than just the green one. With a working
browser all 11 cases run and pass; with `HYPERFRAMES_BROWSER_PATH` pointed
at a binary that exits non-zero — CI's exact situation — exactly 3 skip
and the other 8 still run. A guard that quietly skipped everything would
have looked identical on the CI summary.

* feat(core): register the audio-fx-rack canary at 0%

Lands the rollout switch dark, per the registry's own procedure: "Start at
percentage: 0 and merge that — a canary at 0 is dead code you can land
safely and ramp without a code review."

Declared at the bottom of the stack so every branch above can read it. The
gate itself goes in at wa-4-fx-panel, where the rack first appears.

Scope is deliberate and stated in the description: it gates the AUTHORING
surface only. A composition that already carries `data-fx-chain` still
plays and renders it. A canary should stage who can REACH a feature, not
make an attribute somebody already wrote silently inert — an agent that
writes a chain through the skill would otherwise produce a file whose audio
processing vanishes with no error.

* feat(studio): audio FX panel generated from the registry

Controls for the whole chain: add, remove, reorder, bypass, and every knob each
effect declares.

Nothing in the panel knows what a compressor is. The registry supplies each
parameter's range, step, unit and scale and the panel renders what it finds, so
adding an effect or a knob upstream needs no change here, and the panel cannot
offer a value the renderer would reject — a typed-in figure is clamped into the
declared range on the way through.

Frequency and time controls span three or four decades, so those declare a log
scale and the slider maps exponentially; a linear slider would spend most of
its travel somewhere useless.

Reorder is a first-class control because chain order changes the sound: a
reverb before a compressor is not the same as after.

Carve gets its own block rather than an entry in the add menu, with a picker
for the voice track to listen to. It processes this track based on another one,
which is how a sidechain control works — it lives on the track that changes,
and names the source.

* feat(studio): show the Audio FX section on audio tracks

Adds `audioFx` to the editing-affordances contract and renders the FX panel in
the inspector when an `<audio>` element is selected.

The section is audio-only. A `<video>` carries its sound on a separate
`<audio>` element, so an FX chain on the video would have nothing to process.

Chain and carve settings are written straight back onto the element as
serialised attributes, the way colour grading carries its config, so
persistence is an ordinary attribute write and needs no new server route. A
chain that cannot be parsed renders as empty rather than breaking the panel,
and the attribute is left untouched until the user changes something.

The collapsed group summarises what is on the track ("2 effects + carve") so
the state is visible without expanding it.

Wired into PropertyPanelFlat rather than PropertyPanel: STUDIO_FLAT_INSPECTOR_ENABLED
defaults to true, so the flat inspector is what actually renders.

* refactor(studio): lift audioFxSummary out of PropertyPanelFlat

`PropertyPanelFlat.tsx` is 612 lines here against the repo's 600-line cap,
so the required File size check is red — the sole reason this PR is
blocked. The review says as much: "mechanical fix (~5 min), not a design
problem. Code itself is LGTM."

Moves `audioFxSummary` to `audioFxSummary.ts`, the same file a later
branch creates for it. Deliberately the smallest cut that clears the cap
rather than the whole `AudioFxGroup` extraction: every later commit in the
stack edits AudioFxGroup, so moving it here would collide with each of
them, while almost nothing touches this function.

595 lines.

* feat(studio): put the audio FX rack behind its canary

Gates the rack on `isCanaryEnabled("audio-fx-rack")`, which is registered
at 0% — so the whole 47-PR stack can land without showing anyone a feature
that has not been measured yet.

The gate sits on the AUTHORING surface and nowhere else. The runtime and
the render still honour a `data-fx-chain` already on an element, so a
composition written through the skill or by `carve.mjs` keeps its
processing rather than going silently dry for anyone outside the cohort. A
canary should stage who can REACH a feature, not make an attribute somebody
already wrote stop working with no error.

Gated at the panel rather than in `resolveEditingSections`: the affordance
resolver is a pure function in core describing what an element CAN support,
and rollout state is not a property of an `<audio>` tag.

Pinned the 0% with a test, and checked it fails at 25 — a ramp should have
to break something that says "this ships dark" out loud.

One gap, stated rather than papered over: the gate itself has no unit test.
I wrote one and deleted it, because `PropertyPanel.test.tsx`'s harness
never renders the Audio FX group for its audio fixture even with the gate
removed — so the test passed for the wrong reason in the off case and could
not pass at all in the on case. A test that cannot fail for the right
reason is worse than none. Verifying the gate needs the panel harness to
mount that section first, which is its own change.

* fix(studio): drop the FX panel's dead __testables export

Fallow audit flagged it — no test imports the module.

* fix(core,studio): clear the remaining Fallow audit findings on the FX panel

- Split FxSection's per-node row into FxNodeRow + FxNodeControls so the
  CRAP score (31.6, threshold 30) splits across two smaller units instead
  of moving wholesale with one extraction.
- Dedupe the repeated "open the add menu, read its items" block in
  propertyPanelFxSection.test.tsx into openAddMenuItems().
- Merge build-audio-fx-runtime.ts and build-position-edits-render.ts into
  one build-inline-artifact.ts, config-selected by CLI arg — the two
  scripts were a byte-for-byte clone save for names.
- Exempt canary.test.ts's rawFnv (a deliberate independent
  reimplementation used to cross-check canaryBucket, per its own
  docstring) and the property-panel test files' shared renderInto/mount
  scaffolding (pre-existing across 9 files, 2 outside this stack) in
  .fallowrc.jsonc, consistent with this file's existing exemptions for
  the same class of intentional/pre-existing duplication.

* fix(ci): allowlist the build-script consolidation in the no-main-deletions guard

build-audio-fx-runtime.ts and build-position-edits-render.ts were merged into
build-inline-artifact.ts to kill a fallow duplication finding; the deletion
guard flagged that as an accidental loss since main still has both originals.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 13:34:08 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Fable 5 19defeabfe feat(core,cli): ship the DE parallel router fleet-wide — remove the canary gate
Deletes the `de-parallel-router` canary entry and the `isCanaryEnabled` guard
in render.ts together, leaving the producer's default-ON in place. Net effect
for users: the parallel drawElement router is on for everyone again.

## Why, and why not a ramp

Gating at 5% was itself the regression. Measured 2026-08-08, the day after
v0.7.101 shipped the canary: fleet router exposure fell from 3.13-4.25% of
non-CI renders to **0.13%**, roughly 25x, because out-of-cohort installs are
explicitly disarmed and #2840 deleted the everyone-armed trial in the same
change. 2,537 installs lost a feature they already had. Severity is speed
only, never output, and nothing is persisted to disk.

PR #2840's body claimed "the canary does not make exposure smaller; it makes
it chosen and revertible." That was true of the end state and false of the
first step. This lands the end state.

Entry and guard go together deliberately: at >=100 the evaluator
short-circuits ahead of the CI/seedless exclusions, so removing only the entry
would have flipped whatever still resolved false at deletion time, unstaged.

## Both stated blockers are void

- **≤4-CPU / Docker coverage gap.** Docker renders never use drawElement — 0
  of 4,281 across every CPU tier, software GL gates it out — and the router
  requires it. No percentage could ever expose Docker, so no ramp closes that
  gap. ≤4 CPUs yields ~42 drawElement candidates in three days.
- **PRINFRA-372.** Its signature has hits on 0.4.12, 0.4.37, 0.6.52, 0.6.93,
  0.6.109 and 0.6.110 — versions predating drawElement (v0.7.38) and therefore
  this router. It is real, still live on 0.7.101, and belongs to the
  screenshot/beginframe path. 11 reproduction runs across four configurations
  on the enriched profile (darwin/arm64 25.5.0) came back clean.

## Safety unchanged

The per-install circuit breaker and the per-render self-verify are untouched;
`HF_DE_PARALLEL_ROUTER=false` remains the user-facing kill switch. Post-canary
data at 14 days: >8 CPUs 3.02% revert (177/5,857), 5-8 CPUs 2.40% (6/250) —
consistent with the 2.75-3.16% baseline.

Revert path is now a code revert rather than a registry edit. That is the
trade this shape accepts in exchange for one release instead of two.

## Corrects two claims that shipped wrong

`~17x jump in exposure onto <=4 CPUs / Docker` overstated the reach, and
`~11% of installs already route` was an OUTCOME (the share clearing
eligibility and the old 25-render cap), not an exposure setting — read as a
rollout knob it inverts the arithmetic, which is how gating at 5% came to cut
exposure rather than ramp it. Both are recorded in render.ts so they are not
reintroduced.

## Tests

Removed the core wiring assertion and the two CLI canary-gating tests, which
pinned a gate that no longer exists. Added the inverse guarantee in its place:
an ordinary install must come out of the breaker with the var UNSET so the
producer default applies — writing "false" there is precisely what disarmed
the fleet at 5%.

core 1701 passing, cli 2491 passing, studio canary 29 passing. The 2 failures
in play.test.ts reproduce on clean origin/main and are unrelated (#3114 area).
oxlint and oxfmt clean.

Note: telemetry for this rollout stops with the entry — `$feature/canary-de-parallel-router`
and `canary_reason_de_parallel_router` are emitted from the registry, so the
`Ramp —` tiles and the exposure-floor alert on PostHog dashboard 1918875 go
blank once this ships. Watch drawElement engagement on 1807532 instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 14:10:25 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 4a2514232b feat(cli,core): ramp the default-on router through the canary
Rebased onto main (was 308 behind) and gated the new default-on behaviour on
the de-parallel-router canary, at 5%.

Default-ON without a ramp is a ~17x exposure jump: from ~6% of eligible
renders today to all of them, landing on profiles the opt-in trial never
covered (<=4 CPUs and Docker, ~12% of eligible renders between them).
0.7.60-0.7.64 is why that matters — every unclamped render reverted for five
consecutive releases and nobody noticed.

The gate reuses the breaker's own disarm: non-enrolled installs get an
explicit HF_DE_PARALLEL_ROUTER=false, because with default-ON polarity
deleting the var means ON. Setting the registry percentage to 0 is therefore
a full fleet-wide revert with no release.

Today's ~11% of installs routing is emergent — the product of eligibility
rules and a capped trial — so it drifts with fleet composition and cannot be
turned off without shipping. The point of the canary is that the number
becomes chosen and revertible, not that it is smaller.

Also replaces the registry test that pinned the percentage to 0. Its intent
was 'ramp only alongside the circuit breaker', but pinning 0 blocks the ramp
forever and never checks the wiring it names. It now asserts the wiring
directly, and fails if either the canary gate or the breaker consult is
removed.

Hold at 5% until PRINFRA-372 resolves: --workers auto crashes every worker on
macOS arm64 while --workers 1 is clean, and the router forces 3 workers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 15:10:47 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 076657a639 feat(core,cli): emit the canary decision reason alongside the assignment
The calibration contract deferred this until the stability check came back
dirty. It did: the first fleet read found 304 installs (1.08%) reporting both
values for a canary whose percentage never moved, and the genuinely anomalous
ones could not be separated from a developer toggling HF_CANARY_*, because the
assignment alone is identical in both cases.

resolveCanary has always computed the reason and canaryEventProperties dropped
it. Now every canary emits canary_reason_<name> beside its assignment.

Deliberately outside the $feature/ namespace: PostHog treats those as flag
values, and a non-boolean there would corrupt the flag's own breakdowns.

Two of the six wire values are immediately useful beyond override attribution.
'excluded' identifies CI installs, which today have to be dropped by joining
on is_ci — conflating them with out_of_cohort is what made the first accuracy
read look like a significant failure (9.22% against a 10% target) when it was
not. 'no_unit_id' surfaces the fails-closed corner.

The reason is optional on the core helper so existing callers are unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 13:57:08 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 6f0df2640b fix(cli,studio,core): close five R5 telemetry and canary findings
- A long-lived preview cached its telemetry posture in two places
  (readConfig and shouldTrack). Running `telemetry disable` in another
  terminal left it resolving canaries and injecting the CLI id for hours.
  Both caches are now dropped together at a request boundary.
- Studio minted and shipped a telemetry id for every render regardless of
  the browser profile's opt-out, and the server emitted the outcome under
  CLI policy, which cannot see localStorage or DNT. The browser now sends
  an explicit telemetryOptOut, distinct from an old client's omission.
- Any non-empty HYPERFRAMES_PREVIEW_HOST disabled the DNS-rebinding guard,
  so even a loopback bind accepted a hostile Host. The guard now holds for
  loopback binds and, on a LAN bind, admits only names this machine
  answers on.
- sunsetAfter had no reader of the current date. A scheduled workflow runs
  scripts/check-canary-sunset.ts weekly, so a failure lands on the
  rollout's owner rather than on an unrelated PR author.
- The install-state seed memo outlived `rm -rf ~/.hyperframes`,
  resurrecting a cleared cohort. Removed; it only saved a read on a
  readConfig cache miss.

Docs updated for the Host rule and the 100% exclusion carve-out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 17:21:41 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 3f69a2c635 fix(cli,core,studio): close 15 review findings + 2 R5 blockers
R5 blockers
- Negative install-state latch was cached for the process lifetime, but
  only `true` is monotonic across processes. A long-lived preview server
  held a stale `false` and could re-enrol after another process tripped
  the breaker. Only the positive is cached now; `false` re-reads.
- The real breaker writer used writeConfig(), which collapses
  {ok:true, mirrored:false} to success, so a run that mirrored nothing
  reported done with the latch only on the erasable store. It consumes
  writeConfigWithResult and retries until both stores carry it.

Bucketing integrity
- Storage-restricted Studio profiles all bucketed on the literal
  "anonymous": computed against the shipped hash, 100% of them were
  enrolled in calibration-50 rather than 50%, and they merged into one
  PostHog person. Per-session random id instead — persists nothing.
- bucketSeed had read/write authority backwards: install-state is
  write-once authoritative, but readConfig took config.json's blindly, so
  the stores could hold different seeds until a re-mint flipped every
  cohort. Merged on read, like the latch.
- An unwritable ~/.hyperframes with no config.json re-minted per call,
  re-rolling the seed on every command, and the "cohorts will not be
  stable" warning was unreachable on that path.
- A corrupt PRE-MOVE state file was never deleted, so a machine reset
  with `rm -rf ~/.hyperframes` reported predecessorFound/stateFileCorrupt
  forever — poisoning the exact metric this work exists to produce.

Opt-out honoring
- CLI canary decisions memoized per process, so `hyperframes telemetry
  disable` during a running preview server was ignored for hours while
  the server kept serving pre-opt-out decisions. The memo is keyed on the
  telemetry posture.
- shouldTrack() memoized, contradicting policy.ts's documented "not
  memoized" contract that policy.test.ts asserts.
- The Studio override path resolved the bucket unit eagerly as an
  argument, minting and PERSISTING a tracking id for an opted-out profile
  — a value evaluateCanary discards unread.
- Storage reads could throw out of telemetry into a post-commit catch
  block, reporting an already-committed edit as failed.
- readConfig printed an unsilenceable stderr warning on every invocation
  for installs that opted out of telemetry entirely.

Host split
- isLoopbackHost rejected 0.0.0.0, so the documented
  HYPERFRAMES_PREVIEW_HOST LAN mode silently lost CLI→Studio identity
  stitching and split one user across two PostHog persons. Identity is
  now allowed when the operator explicitly opted into LAN binding.
- Corrected the comment claiming the guard refuses spoofed Hosts: a
  non-browser client sets Host freely. It is a browser DNS-rebinding
  mitigation, not access control, and now says so.

Semantics and test hygiene
- percentage:100 did not mean everyone — exclude and no_unit_id sat above
  the fast path, so the registry's "delete the entry at 100" step was an
  unstaged flip for CI and seedless installs.
- CLI cohort adoption returned before evaluateCanary, dropping Studio's
  own webdriver exclusion.
- overdueCanaries() was asserted against wall-clock time, so the whole
  core suite would go red on 2026-09-15 for every unrelated PR; and `>`
  against midnight made a canary overdue ON its sunset date.
- Statistical assertions ran on unseeded randomUUID() populations tight
  enough to fail ~1 run in 200. Seeded.

Also: broke a config -> policy -> transport -> config import cycle by
moving POSTHOG_API_KEY to a leaf module.

Tests: 2347 CLI (bundle absent), 3153 Studio, 1450 core. Fault injection
covers the latch, seed authority, LAN identity, webdriver exclusion and
the anonymous-bucket fix. Two pre-existing tests asserted behaviour these
findings identify as wrong (shouldTrack memoization, 100%-excludes-CI)
and were rewritten with the reasoning stated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:27:37 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 31361b8e5b fix(cli,core): close the remaining canary review findings
Six findings from review, none behaviour-critical on their own but three
of them quietly corrupt the data the rollout is judged by.

Endpoint no longer serves bucketSeed (studioServer.ts). Studio gets its
canary answers from the injected decisions map now, so nothing needed the
seed over HTTP — and an unauthenticated local endpoint is a strictly
worse place for it than a script scoped to Studio's own document. The
endpoint itself predates this PR and still serves distinctId, so it also
gains a Host guard: a remote page can rebind its hostname to 127.0.0.1
and read the response as same-origin, but the request still carries THAT
hostname, which is what makes it refusable.

predecessorFound no longer reports corruption as a fresh install. It
returned null for both "file absent" and "file unreadable", so a partial
disk write looked like a new machine — understating recoverable churn,
the one thing the field measures. Now distinguishes absent from corrupt
and emits install_state_file_corrupt alongside.

A mangled markerAt no longer discards a salvageable bucketSeed. markerAt
is only a timestamp and can be restamped; the seed cannot be recovered,
and losing it silently re-rolls the install's cohort.

The seed backfill no longer ignores its write result. An unwritable
~/.hyperframes meant a different seed every invocation with no
diagnostic, and made the field's own "backfilled once" docstring false.
Warns once per process with the underlying error.

FNV-1a's ASCII constraint is now explicit rather than incidental. It
hashes UTF-16 code units while reference FNV-1a is byte-oriented, so the
two agree only on ASCII; the registry's kebab-case assertion is what
makes non-ASCII unreachable, and both ends now say so. Not a live bug —
names are kebab-case and units are UUIDs.

de-parallel-router is pinned at 0%. The registry is data, so a ramp is a
one-line edit with no review surface, and its own description says to
ramp only alongside the circuit breaker.

Tests: 8 new (corruption vs absence, seed salvage, backfill write
failure, 17 host-guard cases, registry pin). One existing test asserted
predecessorFound: false on corruption — that was the bug, updated with a
note. Fault injection: restoring the old corrupt handling fails 4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 16:38:11 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 a1682e1228 feat(core): emit canary assignments as PostHog flag properties
Replaces the single `canaries: "a,b"` telemetry property with PostHog's own
flag shape, one property per registered canary:

    $feature/canary-de-parallel-router: "true" | "false"

PostHog treats `$feature/<key>` as a first-class flag property, so breakdowns,
funnels split by cohort and the experiment surfaces work on a canary with
nothing configured server-side. The decision still happens locally: the render
path forbids render-time network calls, behaviour must not depend on analytics
being reachable, and neither the CLI nor Studio ships posthog-js (both
hand-roll a batch POST, so there is no SDK to evaluate a real flag with).
Decide locally, analyse natively.

Two decisions worth recording:

- BOTH ARMS ARE EMITTED. A non-enrolled install reports "false" rather than
  omitting the property. Absent means "this build predates the canary", which
  is a different fact from "this install is control" — collapsing them makes a
  ramp unreadable, because you cannot separate a control group from an old
  version.

- KEYS ARE NAMESPACED with a `canary-` infix. A real PostHog flag namespace
  already exists in this project, owned by the web app (`enable-chat-tab`, set
  by posthog-js from `$lib=web` events). Namespacing guarantees a canary key
  can never alias a real flag key and have the two fight over one property.

Values are the strings "true"/"false" to match how PostHog records boolean
flag values, so the property is directly comparable to a real flag.

98 core / 1437, 166 cli / 2194, 269 studio / 2982 green; tsc clean across all
three packages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 15:14:58 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 df1521a0b6 feat(cli): attach canary cohort to telemetry, harden canary tests, document
Follow-up to the canary primitive.

Telemetry: every event now carries a `canaries` property listing the cohorts
the install is enrolled in, attached in `trackEvent` so it lands on ALL
events rather than renders only — a staged rollout is only as useful as the
ability to split any metric by cohort. Resolved after the shouldTrack guard,
so opted-out installs never pay for it, and omitted entirely (not null or "")
when the install is in no canary, since PostHog treats those as real values.

Test hardening, after validating the shipped code against 60k synthetic and
101 real fleet install ids:

- Pin FNV-1a against canonical vectors, AND assert the shipped canaryBucket
  actually uses that hash. Without the second assertion the first is
  tautological — it would only prove the test's own copy is correct while
  canary.ts drifted to a different hash, silently reshuffling every live
  cohort. Fault-injection confirms only this assertion catches a hash change;
  the distribution tests stay green because a perturbed hash is still
  well-distributed.
- Tighten the share test from a 0.6x-1.4x band to +/-1 percentage point.
  Measured error was 0.16pp at n=60k, so the old band would have passed a
  badly skewed hash.
- Add chi-square uniformity across all 100 buckets (chi2 89.0 vs 148.2
  critical at p=0.001). A lumpy hash yields roughly the right total share
  while overloading some buckets, so the share test alone cannot catch it.
- Assert N concurrent canaries enrol binomially rather than in lockstep:
  8 canaries at 10% put ~43% of installs in none and zero in all eight,
  matching binomial(8, 0.1). Correlated slices would put ~10% in all eight.

Also verified 88,443 of 88,448 fleet install ids are well-formed UUIDs; the
5 that are not fail closed, which is the intended direction.

Docs: docs/contributing/canary-rollouts.mdx, registered in docs.json (an
unregistered page is invisible in the nav).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 15:14:35 -07:00
Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 3aea786687 feat(core): percentage-based canary rollouts
Adds a reusable staged-rollout primitive so a change can ship to a stable
slice of installs instead of all-or-nothing.

The gap it fills: the repo carries ~49 HF_*/PRODUCER_* booleans and every one
is binary — a feature is either off (and therefore unexercised on real
traffic) or on for everyone (and therefore a fleet-wide bet). The
parallel-drawElement router sat in that gap for weeks: default-off produced
almost no signal, and flipping it default-on would have exposed 100% of
eligible installs at once.

Shape:

- packages/core/src/canary.ts — pure evaluator. No fs, no network, no
  `process`; the caller supplies the unit id and overrides, so it imports
  cleanly into the CLI, producer, engine, studio-server, the browser-side
  studio bundle and the embeddable player. FNV-1a rather than node:crypto for
  the same reason.
- packages/core/src/canaryRegistry.ts — every rollout in one table (name,
  percentage, owner, description, sunsetAfter), so "what is rolling out, to
  whom, owned by whom" is answerable without grepping 49 env vars.
- packages/cli/src/telemetry/canary.ts — supplies the three things only the
  CLI knows: anonymousId, the HF_CANARY_<FEATURE> override, and is_ci.
  Day-to-day API is `isCanaryEnabled("name")`.

Three properties the tests pin, because getting them wrong is subtle:

- Slices are INDEPENDENT per feature: the bucket hashes `feature:unitId`, not
  the id alone. Bucketing on the id would hand every concurrent experiment to
  the same unlucky cohort and make two rollouts unreadable apart.
- Ramping is INCLUSIVE: `bucket < percentage`, so widening 10 -> 25 keeps the
  original cohort and before/after comparisons survive the ramp.
- It fails CLOSED: no unit id, unknown name, or CI install means not enrolled.
  A canary exists to bound blast radius, so "we don't know who this is" must
  never mean "enrol everyone".

Registry entries also carry a sunset date, and a test fails once one is past
due — a canary that outlives its rollout is a permanent fork of the product
with none of the review a permanent fork would get.

Ships with de-parallel-router registered at 0%: inert, and ready to ramp in a
patch release once #2840 lands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 15:13:56 -07:00