R3 review finding: a string scan of compiled.html — however the regex is
tuned — cannot see elements a composition's own script creates at
runtime. The repo already has a production shape that hits this exactly:
style-10-prod's per-transcript-word caption generator builds one <span>
per word via document.createElement, measuring 2 source tags against
thousands of live nodes after init. That's the same unbounded-undercount
failure class as the earlier <img>/SVG counterexamples, but this one
has no static-scan fix — the elements simply don't exist as tags in the
string.
resolveCompositionElementCount() now prefers the live DOM size, queried
from the probe session that's already running for every render at this
point in the pipeline (its Chrome gets reused for capture on the common
single-worker path, so this costs one extra CDP evaluate, not a browser
launch) once that session's init sequence has completed — session.page
.evaluate(() => document.querySelectorAll("*").length) sees runtime-
generated DOM the source scan never could. countElementTags remains as
the fallback for the rare case with no initialized probe session
(evaluate throws, session absent, or not yet initialized).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(audio): check music energy against final cut
* chore(skills): regenerate skills manifest
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Co-authored-by: James <james.russo@heygen.com>
* fix(producer): keep large local fonts file-backed
* fix(producer): avoid local font file races
* fix(producer): bound local font stream reads
* fix(producer): cache large font file-backed decisions
Both reviewers (Rames, Magi) independently flagged the same thing: by the
time the return statement executes, hadFired is always false — the guard
above already returns early for every case where hadFired was true. The
merge expression wantFired || hadFired || undefined was defensively
correct but misleading; it reads as "OR the two together" when the
function has already established only one of them can be true here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two review-blocking issues from Miguel's R2 pass (both confirmed by
running the counterexamples directly):
1. countElementTags still undercounted unboundedly. The void-element fix
covered HTML tags but SVG elements (<circle/>, <path/>, ...) are
neither closing-tag-shaped nor in the HTML void list, so
"<circle/>".repeat(40000) reported 0 — the same failure class as the
original <img> counterexample, and the exact shape of comp the
measured 1.8x regression case is made of. A 2500 ceiling cannot bound
an error with no bound of its own. Added a third alternative matching
any self-closing tag; verified it doesn't false-positive on the
adversarial minified-JS case (unspaced "<b/c>", which reads like a
tag open but never contains the literal two-char "/>" the alt requires).
2. HF_DE_SHORT_MAX_ELEMENTS=0 (the documented kill switch) still reported
deShortBand: "skipped_elements" for every in-band render instead of
undefined — attributing "comp too large" when the real cause was "band
disabled," which would have polluted the DiD control cohort with
kill-switched renders and made the post-flip read look like the
ceiling was too tight. Extracted the attribution logic into
resolveDeShortBand(), a pure function gated on bandEnabled
(deShortBandMaxElements > 0) as well as decisiveness — and made it
independently unit-testable, since the inline version could only be
exercised by a full render pipeline run.
Also from this review round: the inversion log line could report
"400 frames >= 900" for a band-routed inversion; it now names the floor
that actually decided the render. Tightened shortBand's type to match its
peer fields' unions (workerInversion, parallelRouter) instead of a bare
string. Clarified the tween-count merge docblock, which claimed workers
always agree (semantically true) while the code takes a defensive max
(in case one doesn't) — the two aren't in conflict, but the comment read
as if they were.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## What
- Treat GIF as an alpha-capable output format and capture its frames as RGBA PNGs.
- Encode transparent GIFs with explicit FFmpeg palette semantics: `reserve_transparent=1` and `alpha_threshold=128`.
- Keep page-side shader compositing enabled for GIF while the resulting composite is captured through the RGBA disk-frame path.
- Extend the real render harness to verify decoded GIF alpha and compare a GIF shader-transition frame against the existing MP4 golden.
- Preserve the existing opaque encoder contract: `needsAlpha=false` continues to use JPEG frames without alpha-only palette filters.
## Why
Direct `--format gif` renders silently flattened transparent compositions when frames are captured as JPEG, because the palette encoder receives no alpha plane to preserve.
GIF also needs page-side shader compositing. A blanket `needsAlpha` exclusion disabled that path after enabling RGBA capture, while the layered compositor intentionally excludes GIF. That left shader GIFs on the DOM fallback and produced hard cuts instead of the authored WebGL blend.
## How
- Centralize output alpha detection in `outputNeedsAlpha`, shared by in-process and distributed planning.
- Select PNG or JPEG GIF frame input from the resolved alpha requirement.
- Make palette transparency flags explicit and conditional so the legacy opaque path retains its existing arguments.
- Add an explicit output-format capability for page-side shader compositing: MP4 keeps its opaque streaming path, GIF uses RGBA PNG disk frames, and WebM/MOV/PNG sequence retain their existing paths.
- Add `data-no-timeline` to the static transparency fixture so the artifact regression does not wait for a timeline it intentionally does not register.
## Test plan
- [x] RED on base: direct GIF decoded with an opaque corner instead of alpha 0.
- [x] RED on the previous PR head: the real GIF shader-transition frame scored 11.05 dB against the existing golden because neither shader compositor was active.
- [x] `bun test packages/producer/src/services/render/renderFormat.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/encodeStage.test.ts packages/producer/src/services/render/capturePlan.test.ts` — 23 passed.
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer typecheck`
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer build`
- [x] `bun run --filter @hyperframes/producer test:transparency` — WebM, GIF, and PNG sequence alpha assertions passed; GIF shader control/transition frames scored 28.11/26.57 dB against the golden.
- [x] `bun run --cwd packages/producer tsx src/regression-harness.ts page-side-shader-compositor-render-compat --sequential` — all 100 visual checkpoints passed, stream parity passed, and audio correlation was 1.000.
- [x] Changed-file oxlint, oxfmt check, pre-commit checks, and `git diff --check`.
The routing surface the short-comp benchmarks validated is (motion x DOM
size x frames). After the baseline release, fleet telemetry carries DOM
size (composition_element_count) and frames on every render — but the
motion proxy, observability_init_tween_count, has 0% coverage on the
exact renders the band routes: parallel workers' console buffers (and so
the [FrameCapture:INIT] line the summary parses) only propagate to the
orchestrator on FAILURE. Single-worker screenshot renders report it;
the multi-worker clamp bucket never does. Verified against 7d of fleet
data: 35k screenshot renders carry tween counts, 0 of 9,600 band renders.
Fix rides the one channel parallel workers already return on success —
the per-worker CapturePerfSummary. Sessions record initTelemetry on
every init path; the perf summary now carries it; the orchestrator
max-merges across workers (same multi-session semantics the console
parser uses) and feeds it to the observability summary as a structured
fallback, console lines still refining when present.
With this, every band render carries full coordinates — (elements,
tweens, frames, path, speed) — which buys two reads: regressing wild DE
speed against element count on the existing 900+ inversions validates
the bench's 0.50ms/element slope BEFORE the routing flip, and any
post-flip misroute can be reproduced locally by feeding its telemetry
row straight into gen-crossover-comp's knobs (--movers ~ tween count,
--static ~ element count) and re-benching.
(Also drops a now-stale fallow suppression in render.ts — the test-only
reset export it guarded gained real test importers, so the issue it
suppressed no longer exists and the gate flags the leftover.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recut after pre-registering the read exposed two flaws in the first cut:
1. Attribution was wrong. de_short_band keyed on frame count + element
ceiling alone, so a webm render, a compile-gated comp, or a forced
screenshot at 400f reported "applied" while its routing was untouched —
poisoning the measurement cohort with unaffected renders and diluting
any effect toward zero. Now the predicate is evaluated twice (900 floor
vs band floor) and the band is DECISIVE only when the calls disagree:
every other eligibility condition passed and only the floor differed.
The cohort contains exactly the renders whose routing the band decides.
2. A same-release flip is unfalsifiable. composition_element_count ships
WITH the routing change, so the before-period cannot be filtered to the
same cohort as the after-period — the comparison would show a speedup
even if the change did nothing (the after-cohort excludes big comps by
construction; the before-cohort includes them). Routing is therefore
gated behind HF_DE_SHORT_BAND_ROUTE, default OFF: this release computes
and emits the full band decision on every render ("applied" is the
counterfactual "would have inverted"), a follow-up flips the default.
Identical cohort selector on both sides of the boundary, and the
skipped/oversize renders in the same frame band form a concurrent
control — a difference-in-differences that absorbs secular drift
(content mix, version-correlated populations, hardware), which a plain
before/after cannot.
Also: countElementTags now counts HTML void elements. Counting only
closers read an image gallery as a tiny comp and opened the band on
exactly the content most likely to lose it (images skew expensive to
paint). Opening tags stay uncounted — inline scripts' `a < b` would
false-positive. Counter semantics are frozen while the baseline is read:
the distribution the baseline release records must be measured by the
same counter that later gates.
Revert-rate baseline for the pre-registered read, measured over 14d
fleet-wide: the 900+ inversion runs 31,756 inverted / 1,705 reverted =
5.1%. At the benched 1.16-1.24x win and ~1.8x revert cost, expected net
for the band is ~12%. Kill criteria for the flip release: DiD <= 0,
in-band revert rate > 5.1% baseline, or band fallback rate > DE baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two routing surfaces pointed agents at media "policies" and "contracts" without
naming a file. An agent that goes looking and finds nothing fills the gap with
an invented rule.
- skills/hyperframes/SKILL.md: "Load its media-treatment policy" now names
references/media-treatments.md and states the policy governs how footage is
treated, never whether media may be used.
- skills/general-video/SKILL.md: "adoption, resolution, provider, provenance,
and reuse contracts" now names references/resolve.md and
references/setup-providers.md. Drops "provenance", which is ledger
bookkeeping in operations.md, not a contract to follow.
- The scaffolded project templates carried the same unnamed pointer and ship to
every hyperframes init; both updated and kept byte-identical.
31% of fleet renders (24h, v0.7.78+) are DE-eligible comps clamped to
parallel screenshot purely because they sit under the 900-frame inversion
floor — the median fleet render is ~250-600 frames, below every DE entry
threshold. This opens a 250-899 frame band, gated on composition size.
Measured, not assumed. A controlled sweep (fixed synthetic content,
{250,400,600,900}f, single-DE vs parallel-screenshot-W4, 3 reps, capture
mode verified per row, AC power, load-gated) showed single-DE winning
1.16-1.24x at every size — but only for content in constant motion. A
follow-up 2x2 found motion and DOM size pull in OPPOSITE directions, so
neither alone predicts the winner (ratio = ss4/de1, >1 means DE wins):
24 movers / 0 nodes -> 1.05
320 movers / 0 nodes -> 1.24
320 movers / 7000 nodes -> 1.09
24 movers / 7000 nodes -> 0.96
24 movers / 20000 nodes -> 0.71
24 movers / 40000 nodes -> 0.55
DE's wall-clock scales ~0.50ms/element against parallel screenshot's
~0.22ms — drawElement repaints the whole tree per frame while fan-out
amortizes it — so the downside is NOT bounded and a bare floor drop would
have handed a 1.8x regression to large comps. Since motion only ever helps
DE, an element ceiling calibrated at the lowest-motion case is safe at
every motion level; crossover there is ~3.9k, and the default sits at 2500.
The predicate is untouched; the call site picks the floor. Above the
ceiling, or at 900+ frames, behaviour is bit-identical to today — the
change can only add inversions in the new band, never remove one.
Instrumentation, since this ships at full exposure rather than cohorted:
`composition_element_count` on EVERY render (the fleet distribution of the
gate variable is unknown — without it we cannot tell whether 2500 opens the
band for most short comps or almost none, nor re-derive the threshold from
real content), and `de_short_band` = applied | skipped_elements, unset when
the frame count made the band irrelevant, so a fleet perf shift is
attributable to this change rather than to content mix.
Safety is unchanged and already proven on this path: per-frame PSNR
self-verify with screenshot fallback, exactly as the 900+ band has shipped
default-on. Knobs: HF_DE_SHORT_MIN_FRAMES, HF_DE_SHORT_MAX_ELEMENTS (0
disables the band).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DE parallel-router breaker's tripped state lived in the same config
file as the install id, so the most common identity reset — deleting
~/.hyperframes — also re-enrolled the machine into an experimental path
that had already failed on it.
Mirror exactly two facts into a machine-local state file
(~/.local/state/hyperframes/install-state.json) that a config wipe does
not touch:
- markerAt: written unconditionally on every install, so the fraction of
fresh mints that find it directly measures recoverable id churn
(config wiped, machine persisted) vs unrecoverable (fresh
machine/container/new user). Emitted as install_predecessor_found on
telemetry events; absent (not false) on configs predating the field.
- deParallelRouterTrialFired: a breaker tripped by a previous install
stays tripped for the new one. Config corruption takes the same mint
path, so it survives that too.
The file deliberately holds NO identity — no anonymousId, no counters.
A wiped config still gets a fresh id unconditionally; only the safety
fact about the machine survives. Sync happens inside writeConfig so no
breaker write site can forget it; failures are swallowed (telemetry
must never break the CLI) but leave the memo unset so a later write
retries. `hyperframes telemetry` lists the state path for transparency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An expanded sub-composition child row is built from a manifest clip, which
carries none of the host element's attributes, so data-hidden never reached
it. The eye on that row therefore always reported the element visible: the
first click hid it, and every click after wrote data-hidden again instead of
removing it. The element could not be shown again, not even after a reload,
because the attribute was already in the source.
The flat store element for the same child is built with its host element, so
the child row inherits hidden, timelineLocked and timelineRole from it.
Right-clicking a motionPath waypoint in the preview overlay opened Chrome's
own context menu on top of the editor: the handler returned before
preventDefault for every node that was not an x/y keyframe. Both node kinds
now open Studio's menu. A waypoint has no percentage of its own, so Move to
Playhead is hidden and Delete acts on the path index, matching the hover x
badge; Delete is withheld entirely on a two-anchor arc, where the writer
refuses the removal and the entry would silently do nothing.
Vance Ingalls