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Lands the audio quality harness questline: a browser audio playout latency regression fails a run instead of arriving as a bug report.

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Finishing the line

  • Deletes quest/m0/audio-quality-harness/README.md and every reference to it (quest/m0/README.md, the jitter target line, latency ledger, native audio quality, Opus backend).
  • The line's one post-landing step, re-recording test/audio-quality/budgets.json from the nightly runner's first runs (the checked-in budgets were recorded locally), moves into the jitter target's watch quest (quest/m0/audio-jitter-target/watch.md), which already tightens those budgets. It can only happen after this merges, since nightly runs main.

Final review fixes

  • A run that ends inside an underrun now counts it (Ledger.finish(), wired through the tap worklet, driver and replay).
  • Replay no longer stretches a frame over a missing one, and renders to the end of the recording. Traces are version 2 with a required duration; the three checked-in ones were recorded at the default 35 s. Replay budgets tighten slightly for the longer window; totals are unchanged.
  • moq-shaper: verify charges each step phase only its own traffic, and steps no longer take a rate (a rate step reordered queued datagrams; nothing used it).
  • The probe detaches the previous context's renderCapacity listener.

Public API and wire

No wire change and no published API change. js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts is an internal test helper, not exported from @moq/watch. moq-shaper is publish = false.

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…ghtly (#4426)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: fperex <270788582+fperex@users.noreply.github.com>
A relay serves HTTP on the port number it serves QUIC on, and a browser
fetches /certificate.sha256 from it before it dials WebTransport. With
only a UDP socket on the shaper's port that fetch fails, so a browser
cannot be put behind the shaper at all.

`Setup` is a `Config` plus the options it has no field for, and
`Shaper::bind` takes anything that converts into one, so every existing
caller passing a `Config` compiles and behaves as before. Its first option,
`tcp_passthrough`, binds a TCP listener on the port the UDP socket got and
copies each connection to the target untouched. TCP is not impaired: a
reliable transport cannot shed load, so shaping it would measure TCP's
retransmission instead of the profile. The CLI takes it as
`--tcp-passthrough`. Off by default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The uniform jitter draws each datagram's delay on its own, so a later
datagram can overtake an earlier one. A drill wants that, but QUIC reads
the overtake as loss: it retransmits and backs off, and a run meant to
measure a jittery path measures the congestion response instead. On a
5ms delay with 5ms of jitter, that alone dragged a receiver's audio
buffer from 120ms to nearly two seconds.

`Options::jitter_model` picks how `Profile::jitter` is drawn, per
direction, through `Setup::up` and `Setup::down`. `Jitter::Uniform` stays
the default and is unchanged, draws included. `Jitter::Gaussian` treats
`jitter` as a sigma, clamps the draw at zero, and never lets a datagram
leave before the one in front: queueing delay on a FIFO path, which varies
the spacing and never the order. Only `reorder` still overtakes. Its sigma
may exceed the delay, which the uniform model refuses. Box-Muller takes
exactly two draws per datagram, so the other knobs' streams stay aligned.
It counts `delayed` like the uniform model whenever a delay is configured,
so `verify` holds it to the same chance. The CLI takes
`--jitter-model gaussian`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each client flow takes a link of its own each way, with its own seeded
stream, rate limit and queue. That models a path per client. A browser
page is several clients on one path: its own WebTransport session and
its audio worker's, on one access link. There, the second flow's
datagrams wait behind the first's, and a clump holds both.

`Setup::shared` gives every flow one link each way, which is how the
path the audio-quality lane was measured on behaved. A jitter that keeps
the order then keeps it across clients, and one seeded stream and one
rate limit serve them all. The shared links draw the streams the first
flow's would, and a client's treatment now depends on how its datagrams
interleave with the others'. The CLI takes it as `--shared`. Off by
default, so each flow still gets its own.

To route a shared link's output, a treated datagram carries the socket
and address it leaves by, and `Link::treat` returns a departure without
queueing it, so the link's decisions can be tested without sockets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A paced hop, a Wi-Fi access point or a cellular scheduler bunches
traffic: nothing moves for a while, then several datagrams arrive at
once. That clump is what a receiver's jitter estimate has to see, and no
delay or jitter produces it, since those make datagrams late rather than
together.

`Options::batch` holds each direction's datagrams until `count` are
waiting, or until `window` after the first of them arrived, then sends
the whole batch when its latest datagram would have left, and never before
the batch closed. The delivery task holds it, so on a shared path one
batch fills from every client. A hold counts as `delayed`, once, and
`verify` fails a run whose batches implausibly never held anything,
which a batch of `count` does to all but one datagram in `count`. The CLI
takes `--batch <count> --batch-window <duration>`. Off by default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A path that stays one shape for a whole run cannot show how a receiver
adapts when it changes: a delay that grows, a rate that narrows, loss
that comes and goes. A steady profile measures convergence only.

`Options::steps` is a list of `Step`s, each at a time into the run,
naming the delay, jitter, loss, reorder or rate limit it changes. A step
changes only what it names, so a later one puts a knob back without
restating the rest. Steps count from when forwarding started, so every
flow steps at the same moment. A rate step keeps the old bucket's credit,
or its debt, clipped to the new one, and a limit that was not there
starts full. `bind` refuses steps out of order, a step that changes
nothing, and any step that leaves the profile invalid. Steps have no CLI
flags; a profile file names them. Off by default.

Links now start their bucket and their order floor at the run's start
rather than their first datagram. The bucket reads `full_at.max(now)`
and the floor only ever rises, so an earlier start changes nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A run that has to be repeated, compared, or graded against a budget
needs its path written down under a name, not rebuilt from flags each
time, and the flags cannot say everything anyway: they apply one profile
both ways and have no steps.

`Preset::load` reads a built-in profile by name, or a TOML file by path,
and `Preset::setup` turns it into a `Setup` for an address pair. A file
names itself and its seed, says whether the path is shared, and gives
each direction one table holding its profile and options: delay, jitter,
jitter_model, loss, reorder, rate, batch and steps. Unknown fields are
refused, and so is a direction whose delay varies without naming its
jitter_model, since whether datagrams can overtake each other then
depends on it. The CLI takes `--profile <name or file>` in place of the
flags that shape the path, with `--seed` still overriding the file's.

The built-ins are embedded from profiles/: near-zero, mild, bursty,
step and high-rtt, the audio-quality lane's paths, which keep their
numbers, their in-order gaussian jitter and their shared path; and lossy,
2% loss with 1% of datagrams skipping a 20ms delay, since a reorder here
overtakes by skipping the delay rather than by adding one.

`Rate`, `Jitter`, `Batch` and `Step` derive `Deserialize`, and the crate
now depends on serde, toml and humantime-serde. Cargo.lock gains only
those edges and humantime-serde 1.1.1, the version it had before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A harness grading a run needs the shaper's counters in a form it can
read, and a run that proved nothing (a profile that never acted) has to
be told apart from one that passed. The exit line is prose, and it is
printed only after the verdict, so a failed run leaves nothing to read.

`Counters` and `Stats` derive `Serialize`. The CLI's `--report <file>`
writes `{"profile", "seed", "up", "down"}` at exit, before the verdict,
so a run that fails it still leaves its counters behind; `profile` is the
profile's name, or null when the flags built it. `--report-interval`
prints the same object as one line on stdout each period, which also
survives a shaper killed before it could write the file. Off by default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The delivery task sent datagrams only when its timer fired, even ones
whose departure had already come. tokio rounds a deadline up to the end
of its millisecond, so every datagram waited for the next tick: on
loopback with an empty profile, the shaper added 1.5ms each way where a
forward takes 0.3ms. Every profile carried that on top of its own delay,
so the control profile was not a control, and a batch that filled left a
tick late.

After each datagram arrives, and each time the timer fires, whatever is
due now leaves now. Nothing leaves before its departure, and the timer
still wakes for the ones that are not due yet. A paused-clock test pins
it: an undelayed round trip takes no time, where before the fix it took
2ms, a tick each way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The crate had no README, and its options are only worth taking with the
reason behind each: why jitter should keep the order, why a page's
sessions share one path, why a batch is not a delay, why TCP passes
through untouched. The README covers upstream's usage and flags, what a
seed fixes and what it does not, each option, the profile file format
and the built-ins, the counters, and the report. The crate docs point
at the options.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6 <noreply@openai.com>
…ram starts a new batch

`verify` now fails when a direction carried traffic but none of it reached
a configured step, so a run that ended early no longer passes as stepped.

A datagram that arrives after a batch's window closed, but before its timer
fired, now releases the closed batch first and starts the next one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A step restating the value already in force left the profile unchanged
yet counted as reached. A batch of one released every datagram on arrival.
Both now fail before binding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t only batch holds

The driver now gives the session and first audio one 20s deadline, short of
the step profile's change at 30s, so a step row never grades only the
post-step path.

`verify` now proves a batch acted from a counter only batches bump, so a
profile delay no longer passes a batch that never changed a departure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A gaussian profile with jitter but no delay passed `verify` even when every
draw clamped to zero, since a zero delay has no chance to act. The uniform
model already refused it as jitter exceeding delay.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…y per PR (#4525)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…o-quality-harness/shaper-profiles

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…questline

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…y-harness/README

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A step counted as reached when it applied, so a quiet stretch could skip
an intermediate phase and still pass verify. Record the phase each link
treats a datagram in and require each step's. Refuse a step at zero, and
treat a step past what the clock can hold as never reached instead of
panicking.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…EADME' into quest/m0/audio-quality-harness/shaper-profiles
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A direction whose traffic started after its first step never saw the
transition, yet verify passed. Require the phase before the first step
alongside each step's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
kixelated and others added 5 commits October 1, 2026 00:07
…shaper-profiles

test(audio-quality): add bursty and step shaper profiles
Picks up #4574's PCR fix. Ports the line's test/audio-quality JS scope into
sh/dispatch.sh, where main moved it, and drops watch.md's Required on the
browser harness, which this line already finished.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
main replaced test/justfile's global positional-arguments with a per-recipe
attribute, so the line's audio-quality recipes dropped every flag and
--replays ran the full browser matrix until CI timed out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keeps both new harnesses (audio-quality and drain) in test/README.md and
bun.lock, regenerating the lockfile with bun install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Delete the line README and its references. The post-landing budget
re-record from nightly moves into the jitter target's watch quest, which
already tightens those budgets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review (head fea8fe4210beaed214f206bce8d2f5f41734ddbd)

Lands the audio quality harness questline: browser matrix + recorded-trace replays + moq-shaper bursty/step/shared/gaussian options, then deletes the questline README and points post-landing budget re-record at the jitter watch quest.

Findings

No blocking correctness issues found in the finish delta or the harness wiring reviewed at this head.

  1. Chromium budgets are currently non-gating (NB, expected). Locally recorded ceilings allow thousands of underruns/min on untreated rows (e.g. chromium-opus-48000-near-zero-* at 4600–6100). Nightly --enforce will not catch real playout regressions until those rows are re-recorded from the runner, as quest/m0/audio-jitter-target/watch.md already requires after this merges. Replay budgets are tight and Audio quality / Replay is green at this head.

  2. Wording ahead of the estimator (NB). quest/m0/README.md says the harness “grades the target nightly.” Sync on this tip is still max(20ms, 1.25 × minRtt) plus rendition jitter; the measured estimator is the watch quest. Fine as “grades playout / auto delay,” slightly ahead if read as the future histogram target.

Checks

  • Stale quest/m0/audio-quality-harness/** links cleared on this tip; Quest job green.
  • Shaper nonzero exit voids the row via analyze (status !== 0 / no down packets); driver cert fetch is Playwright-routed so UDP-only shaping is intentional.
  • replay.ts ring sizing matches buffer.ts (max(rate, latency*2)); default buffer is 0 so consumer maxAge = delay matches Sync.
  • Child #4478 shaper verify/phase work already reviewed MERGE on its own tip; included here unchanged in substance.
  • CI at review time: Replay / Quest / Android / Release JS green; Check/Test still in progress.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed fea8fe4210beaed214f206bce8d2f5f41734ddbd against 80cfa7a722cb769478ec231d5c5ef5e7af494986.

Five P2 findings below: the harness can undercount terminal underruns, replay can fill missing audio and omit trailing outages, and rate/loss steps have inconsistent scheduling/verification.

Direction: splitting deterministic PR replays from real-time nightly browser runs is sensible, as is exercising the real consumer and rings. The trace should retain actual frame lengths and the observation endpoint rather than reconstructing them. Deferring rate-changing steps would also simplify this first landing until queued-departure semantics are covered.

Verification: inspected the diff and surrounding consumer/ring/sync/harness code; ran targeted Node reproductions and shaper arithmetic checks. GitHub's Audio quality replay workflow passed for this SHA. I did not run the full browser/nightly or Rust suites locally; Bun and the Rust toolchain are unavailable.

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/** Gaps closed since the last call. A gap still open is reported once a full quantum ends it. */
take(): Gap[] {
return this.#closed.splice(0, this.#closed.length);
}

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[P2] Finalize an open underrun at the measurement boundary

take() only returns episodes closed by a later full quantum, and neither the browser driver nor replay finalizes the last open episode. A 60 s fixed-250 row ending in 304 ms of missing audio therefore reports zero underruns and passes the current budgets: silence_share is only 0.006 (<0.01), while the missing audio should be 331.6 ms/min (>20). Flush the outstanding episode at shutdown, or count missing samples independently of episode closure, and cover a run that ends mid-underrun.

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Fixed in 2278508. Ledger.finish() closes a gap still open; the tap worklet does it on a finish message the driver sends after its last drain, and the replay client calls it after the last quantum. Covered by a run that ends inside a gap still reports it once finished in quantum.test.ts.

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for (let i = 0; i < starts.length - 1; i++) {
if (starts[i + 1] - starts[i] < MAX_FRAME_MS) {
spans.set(micros(starts[i]), sample(starts[i + 1]) - sample(starts[i]));
}

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[P2] Preserve frame lengths instead of filling short timestamp gaps

Every PTS gap below 100 ms becomes audio in the preceding frame. For a 20 ms Opus source that omits a frame within otherwise continuous group delivery, timestamps 0/20/60/80 make the frame at 20 ms contain 1,920 samples instead of 960, manufacturing the missing 20 ms. A paced trace with a 100 ms target reproduces zero missing samples here versus 960 with the actual frame lengths. This can make a degraded recording pass the replay gate; record each frame's decoded sample count/duration and preserve gaps between frames.

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Fixed in 2278508 without a re-record: every frame is now the trace's median spacing, and only a spacing within half a frame of it tiles to the next start (to absorb rounding). A wider spacing stays missing audio. Regression test: leaves a frame missing inside a group as missing audio in replay.test.ts. Recording each frame's decoded length would be more exact, but every codec here has a fixed frame size, so the median is that size.

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On the follow-up review: agreed the median fails when more than half the spacings are multi-frame (e.g. dropping 2 of every 5). Leaving it there for this PR. Exact lengths need the codec frame duration at the container layer (an Opus TOC parse; js/ has none today), which the jitter target's watch quest already scopes. 7c230c6 adds to that quest: record the duration in the trace and replay it instead of the median. The three checked-in traces have no such pattern, so their budgets are unaffected.

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Comment thread js/watch/src/audio/replay.ts Outdated
let next = 0;

try {
for (let n = 1; first.at + (n - 1) * step <= last.at; n++) {

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[P2] Replay through the recorded observation endpoint

The render loop stops at the last arrival, but record.ts waits for the requested recording duration and serializes no end time. If a 35 s recording receives its last frame at 15 s, the remaining 20 s outage disappears and only the healthy prefix is graded. This defeats the recorder's stated handling of a publisher that goes quiet. Store the observation duration/end in Trace, pass it to replay, and continue rendering through that endpoint even when no more frames arrive.

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Fixed in 2278508. Trace is version 2 with a required duration, record.ts writes it, and replay() takes it and renders through first.at + duration, refusing an arrival past it. The three checked-in traces were all recorded at record.sh's default 35 s (last arrivals 34.85 to 34.97 s), so they carry duration: 35000. Test: renders through the end of the observation, past the last arrival.

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if let Some(rate) = &step.rate {
// Credit accrues at the new rate from the scheduled transition,
// even when no datagram arrived at that instant.
self.full_at = self.refilled(rate, at);
}
step.apply(&mut self.profile);

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[P2] Keep queued departures consistent when stepping the rate

Recomputing full_at leaves already queued Parcel.at deadlines at the old rate. With zero delay/jitter/reorder, an 8,000 bit/s rate, 100-byte burst and 1 s queue, five 100-byte packets at t=0 depart at 0/100/200/300/400 ms. Stepping to 16,000 bit/s at 100 ms schedules a sixth packet for 300 ms, ahead of the fifth packet at 400 ms. A rate-only speed-up thus injects unrequested reordering. Reschedule outstanding rate work or otherwise preserve a consistent FIFO departure schedule, and test actual departures across the step.

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Took the simplification: steps no longer take a rate (2278508). Nothing in the tree steps the rate, and a correct version needs re-timing every queued parcel. A profile that names rate in a step is now refused by deny_unknown_fields.

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let mut missing: Vec<String> = unapplied(&self.setup.config, &stats)
.into_iter()
.map(String::from)
.collect();

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[P2] Verify impairment probability against the phase that handled traffic

unapplied still receives the initial profile and whole-run packet counts. Start upstream loss at 0.02, send one packet that survives, step loss to zero, then send 1,000 packets: both phases were exercised and zero losses is 98% likely, but verification uses 0.98^1001 (about 1.65e-9) and rejects the valid run. Track the probability/counters for each actual phase rather than charging later clean traffic to the initial impairment.

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Fixed in 2278508. Each link counts the datagrams it treated per phase, and verify multiplies each phase's silence probability over only its own traffic. Regression test: a_phase_is_charged_only_its_own_traffic, your exact case.

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Adds a browser audio-quality harness with recording, deterministic replay, analysis, budgets, and CI workflows. Adds replay support to the watch audio path for shared and postMessage rings. Extends moq-shaper with jitter models, batching, timed profile steps, shared links, presets, reports, and verification. Adds profiles, traces, tests, package wiring, and documentation updates.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 22785

Browser measurements can omit trailing underruns and incorrectly pass a budget. Add an explicit finish acknowledgement before merging; deterministic replay uses separate ledger finalization.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 22785

The checked paths concentrate exposure in test processes and CI runners, with read-only repository access and local networking in the browser harness. No introduced security concern was substantiated. Incomplete before-and-after comparison and coverage prevent a minimal-risk conclusion.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated attackable scope is the replay test process and its CI runner, plus local browser-harness networking. These inspected paths do not establish production tenant or data-store exposure; broader exposure remains unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Shaper forwarding destinations come from configured target and original client addresses. Replies are filtered to the configured target, and delivery receives explicit sockets and destinations. Shared-link and directional delivery controls are opt-in through Setup; ordinary Config conversion supplies defaults.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Dropping Shaper aborts forwarding. The CLI verifies on shutdown before dropping it, using separate counter and phase snapshots. The harness waits for the browser driver before sending SIGTERM, but neither sequence provides an explicit atomic final-snapshot barrier. This remains a test-verdict consistency uncertainty, not an established security-boundary failure.
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…te steps

verify held the opening profile's impairments to the whole run's packets,
so a loss stepped off after one surviving datagram failed a valid run.
Each phase now counts its own datagrams and is judged on them.

A rate step left already queued departures at the old rate, so a speed-up
reordered datagrams. Nothing steps the rate, so steps no longer take one.

The two socket-based step tests run on the wall clock, since a paused
clock can jump a step boundary while a datagram is in the kernel.

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…ing's end

A gap only closed on the next full quantum, so a run ending mid-underrun
never reported it. The tap and the replay now close it at the end.

Replay stretched a frame over any gap under 100 ms, filling a frame that
never arrived, and stopped at the last arrival, cutting a trailing
outage. Frames are now the trace's median spacing, and traces carry the
duration they observed (version 2) so replay renders through it. The
three checked-in traces were all recorded at record.sh's default 35 s.
Replay budgets tighten to the longer window; the totals are unchanged.

Also detach the previous context's renderCapacity listener on a new root.

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Push since fea8fe42: two correctness fixes — (1) terminal underruns are closed at end-of-run (tap/probe/driver + replay ledger), traces are v2 with duration, replay renders through the observation and no longer stretches gaps under 100 ms into frames; (2) shaper verify charges each step phase only its own traffic, and rate steps are removed (queued departures would reorder under a new rate). Prior wording NB fixed (grades playout).

Findings

No blocking issues in this delta.

  1. Chromium budgets still non-gating (NB, unchanged). Locally recorded ceilings remain loose; nightly re-record after merge is still the watch-quest step. Replay budgets were re-pinned for the longer window and Audio quality / Replay is green at this head.

  2. Wall-clock step verify tests (NB, watch for flakes). a_step_no_datagram_saw_is_unapplied / a_profile_no_datagram_saw_before_its_step_is_unapplied dropped start_paused for a real reason (paused time can jump past a step while a datagram is still in the kernel). Margins are 100 ms / 250 ms on localhost UDP — usually fine, but a heavily loaded runner that delays the first treat past the first step could mis-fire the expected phase error. Worth a glance if Check starts flaking those two.

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  • Prior NB “grades the target” → “grades playout” in quest/m0/README.md.
  • step.toml only steps delay (no rate field left to break under deny_unknown_fields).
  • Phase packet counts feed unapplied silence; unit test covers clean traffic after loss steps off.
  • Trace v2 + duration: 35000 on all three checked-in traces; client replay.ts requires version 2.
  • renderCapacity listener is detached on a new root (avoids load contamination across graph rebuilds).
  • CI at review: Replay / Quest / Release JS green; Check/Test and platform jobs still running.

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Reviewed 2278508bb4541459f642e7ef7bffa05f852c1a60, the two-commit delta since fea8fe4210beaed214f206bce8d2f5f41734ddbd.

The observation endpoint and both shaper findings are addressed. Ledger.finish() now counts the original terminal gap correctly. I also reproduced the finish-acknowledgement race already reported: an in-flight periodic report resolves the promise before the final gap arrives. No duplicate inline added.

The earlier frame-length finding remains partially addressed at replay.ts:158–165. Dropping frames 1 and 3 from every five-frame group of a 20 ms source makes the median 40 ms. Both rings then report zero missing audio over a 7 s interior window; the same consumer/rings with actual 960-sample frames report 134,400 missing samples (2.8 s). The isolated-drop regression passes, but frame lengths still need to be recorded independently of arrival spacing.

Direction: removing rate steps is a sound simplification; retain the explicit observation endpoint and finish the acknowledgement/frame-length fixes.

Verification: targeted Node ledger/tap checks and all 12 current replay-test equivalents passed using the real consumer/rings. Audio quality / Replay passed for this SHA. Full browser/nightly and Rust suites were not run locally; Bun and Rust are unavailable.

A periodic report already in flight resolved finish() before the worklet
closed the open gap, so the final sample could still miss it. The finish
answer is now marked and only it resolves.

Also hand exact replay frame lengths to the jitter target's watch quest,
which brings the codec frame duration to the container.

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Push since 2278508: closes the remaining finish race — a periodic tap report already in flight could resolve finish() before the worklet closed the open gap. TapReport.finished is set only on the worklet's answer to "finish", and only that report resolves. Watch quest notes that median-spacing replay needs a real codec frame duration once the container exposes it.

Findings

No blocking issues in this delta.

  1. Chromium budgets still non-gating (NB, unchanged). Locally recorded ceilings remain loose; nightly re-record after merge is still the watch-quest step.

  2. Wall-clock step verify flake risk (NB, unchanged). a_step_no_datagram_saw_is_unapplied / a_profile_no_datagram_saw_before_its_step_is_unapplied still use real-time margins on localhost UDP.

Checks

  • Prior Ledger.finish path kept: worklet still calls #ledger.finish() before #report(true); probe awaits tap finish then samples so take() sees the closed gap.
  • Periodic #report() defaults finished: false; main-thread sets reported before postMessage("finish"), so the answer cannot arrive first.
  • Docs-only watch.md addition is accurate for current median-spacing replay (no false claim of present codec duration).
  • CI at review: checks still queued/in progress on this head (Replay / platform / Quest / etc.).

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Reviewed 7c230c6b8656ecbfe3b967adc98428f4f78b79b8, the one-commit delta since 2278508bb4541459f642e7ef7bffa05f852c1a60. No new correctness findings in this delta.

The finish-acknowledgement race is fixed by tap.ts:60–64 and tap-worklet.ts:24–34. A queued periodic report now leaves finish() pending; the explicit acknowledgement delivers the terminal gap before resolution.

The frame-length finding remains a known limitation, explicitly deferred in watch.md:86–90, rather than fixed in replay. Direction: the acknowledgement is the right fix; retain recorded codec/sample lengths as the follow-up needed before trusting replay to preserve sustained-loss gaps.

Verification: targeted Node checks executed the current tap/worklet/ledger with mocked Web Audio and controllable message queues. The old resolver reproduced the race; the new code preserved a 304 ms terminal gap exactly once, and full-audio/startup-silence cases passed. Audio quality / Replay passed for this SHA; other CI remains in progress. Full browser/nightly and Rust suites were not run locally.

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Merge summary

Finishes the audio quality harness questline (#4426, #4478, #4525) and deletes its quest.

Changes since the final review started

  • Quest: line README deleted and unlinked everywhere; the post-landing budget re-record (nightly runner) moves to quest/m0/audio-jitter-target/watch.md.
  • A run that ends inside an underrun now counts it (Ledger.finish(), acknowledged by the tap worklet, called by the driver and the replay).
  • Replay renders to the end of the recording (Trace v2 with duration) and no longer stretches a frame over a missing one. Replay budgets tightened for the longer window; totals unchanged.
  • moq-shaper: per-phase verify; steps no longer take a rate; socket step tests on the wall clock.
  • Probe drops the previous context's renderCapacity listener.

Decisions

  • Rate steps removed instead of re-timing queued parcels: nothing used them.
  • Exact replay frame lengths deferred to the watch quest, which brings the codec frame duration to the container. The median spacing is exact for the checked-in traces.

Follow-ups

  • Re-record budgets.json from the nightly runner's first runs (in the watch quest).
  • the_burst_counts_the_datagram_itself in moq-shaper failed once locally under load: a 4 ms wall-clock margin between two UDP sends.

CI green at 7c230c6b8656ecbfe3b967adc98428f4f78b79b8. Enabling auto-merge on that SHA.

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