quest: plan the Interop latecomer control and TS PSI runs

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Summary

Two follow-ups from #5207, planned with /quest-plan:

• quest/m0/interop-latecomer-control.md [S]: the "lagging latecomer" negative control (from test(media): open each window once playback starts, and prove late join can fail #5173) often fails to make the latecomer miss live. While it fails, CI skips every TS Interop step on every PR. The quest fixes --lag at its cause and makes the Interop steps independent, so one red step never hides another. It is ranked right after TS duration fidelity.
• quest/m1/tstd/psi-runs.md [S]: aligned keyframes on several video PIDs lay identical PAT/PMT runs back to back, overflowing the 512-byte system buffer at 25 Mb/s and up. The quest starts from the author's narrower diff on fix(moq-mux): interleave each TS slot so no PID overruns its transport buffer #5207 and tests against system-buffer fill.

Public API: none (planning only). Wire: none. quest check passes.

Decision paper trail

• Latecomer quest: ✅ Yes, m0 / Yes, m1 / No
• Other fix(moq-mux): interleave each TS slot so no PID overruns its transport buffer #5207 follow-ups: ✅ Repeated PSI groups / Slot layout benchmark / None
• Latecomer scope: ✅ Both halves (fix the control, independent steps) / Control only
• PSI milestone: ✅ m1, in the tstd line / m0 / m2

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Automated review of head 09dfa9ac.

Planning-only PR adding two quests. I checked the claims against main: test/interop/interop.sh:1105 does run --lag --cases late-join --expect-fail "late join reaches live", LIVE_LAG_FRAMES lives in test/interop/clients/js/media.ts:177, aac_program_config_follows_each_table exists in rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/export_test.rs, and the linked ts-duration-fidelity.md exists. No blocking issues.

Non-blocking:

1. interop-latecomer-control.md: "CI skips every TS Interop step" depends on interop.sh running under set -euo pipefail (line 25). Making steps independent means collecting statuses inside the script (or splitting CI steps with if: always()). Worth naming which, since the script already has a || status=$? pattern (~line 921) to reuse.
2. interop-latecomer-control.md: "3 of 4 runs on fix(moq-mux): interleave each TS slot so no PID overruns its transport buffer #5207, and on unrelated PRs" has no links to those runs; adding one or two run URLs would make the starting point checkable.
3. psi-runs.md: the starting diff is cited by a review-comment link only; if that thread is resolved or the branch force-pushed, the context is easy to lose. Consider quoting the key hunk or commit SHA.
4. psi-runs.md uses a raw URL while the rest of quest docs use #NNNN refs; minor consistency.

CI (Check, Test, Quest) still pending.

Verdict: MERGE

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Walkthrough

The changes add two quest documents and link each from its corresponding Required list. One documents the Interop latecomer control issue and planned handling. The other documents PSI run scheduling, a proposed omission and null-padding approach, and related test goals. No implementation changes are described.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 09dfa

The current scheduler is unaffected, but the plan could lead to a future implementation that deprives an aligned video unit of its table-based tune-in point. Clarify the omission rule before this work proceeds.

Pre-merge checks | 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies both planned changes: the Interop latecomer control and TS PSI runs.
Description check		The description accurately summarizes both planning quests, their motivation, scope, and planning-only status.
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @quest/m1/tstd/psi-runs.md:
- Around line 20-21: Revise the PAT/PMT omission rule in the `Schedule::push`
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Merge summary for head 09dfa9ac7c505413a749ec7b8a1b16080003c154.

Planning only: it adds quest/m0/interop-latecomer-control.md and quest/m1/tstd/psi-runs.md, each linked from its parent's Required list. The decisions in the PR body are unchanged.

Reviews:

• Codex: thumbs-up, no findings (the required non-Grok review).
• CodeRabbit: one finding on the PSI omission rule. I disagreed in the thread: the back-to-back drop keeps a tune-in point for every unit, and the suggested rule would block the fix itself.
• Grok's non-blocking notes are left as is. Naming the exact independence mechanism would over-prescribe the plan. The linked fix(moq-mux): interleave each TS slot so no PID overruns its transport buffer #5207 comment holds the full diff inline, so it stays usable after the thread is resolved.

CI: Check, Test, and Quest pass. Public API: none. Wire: none.

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