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Problem

The final proof for push-to-talk (moq-dev/moq#7101) was missing. The subscription, probe, and capture fixes were present, but nothing measured them end to end.

This PR adds that measurement on an ideal path, through the relay, on main with moq-dev/moq#7725's flush-before-cut. Five runs show:

• Publisher and wire are complete. Every submitted frame is encoded, sent, and received. Unmuting costs no catalog round trip, resubscribe, microphone reopen, or new encoder. feat(audio): serve retained audio across a stop, a source failure, and a disable #7725's fix holds: the sub-millisecond tail drop hit 0 of 12 runs.
• The latency goal holds on all 75 separated presses.
• One head was lost at the listener, in 1 of 110 presses. After a 60 s mute, the head's group arrived 4.8 ms behind the next frame's and never reached the decoder.

That head loss is the epic's Goal failing, so the epic stays open with it as its remaining work. The runner now fails on it, and this PR does not close #7101. The latency breakdown is recorded in a new small follow-up quest, quest/m1/push-to-talk-latency.md.

Approach

just test push-to-talk reuses the existing audio-quality and Chromium plumbing. It drives the shipped publish and watch elements with a constant fake-microphone tone, 60 ms Opus at 128 kbit/s, and a fixed 300 ms listener delay. Both elements reach a local relay over WebTransport, with no shaping, loss, or queueing. They use separate sessions: connections pool by URL, and a pooled origin resolves a same-page publication locally. So the listener's URL adds ?role=listener, which the relay ignores, and the driver refuses a run whose two origins match. After setup, 22 measured presses alternate 2 s and 3 s:

• the first after a 5 s mute
• seven with no intervening wait
• seven after 5 s
• seven after 60 s

Nightly runs it.

The page records, on one monotonic clock:

• capture-worklet chunks (the newest at each press)
• WebCodecs encoder and decoder inputs and outputs
• container writes
• arrivals before ordering
• device opens and subscription calls
• new encoders, which would mean a probe or a rebuilt codec
• audio output onsets

The render onset is mapped through context.currentTime, read beside performance.now(), so a late port message moves neither boundary. Projected output comes from getOutputTimestamp. The runner checks that the relay owns its sockets.

Completeness gates the run. It fails on any of:

• a missing head, or a head that arrives but is never decoded
• a submitted frame that never encodes or reaches the container
• a written frame that never reaches the listener
• a reopened capture or subscription
• a new encoder
• a separated utterance with no output

summary.json also reports latency:

• delivery: the slowest frame the onset waited on, from its first sample's capture.
• playout: the rest, up to the render onset.
• path: the head frame from press to projected output, in parts that sum exactly to it: capture, packetization, encode, network, decode, jitter_buffer, render, device. The names follow the audio-quality README's stage names.

There is no latency assertion.

Read moq-dev/moq#7746 and moq-dev/moq#7689 before claiming. Their release-capture policy and catalog-delay changes are not duplicated.

Decisions

Maintainer, 2026-11-03 and 2026-11-04:

1. ✅ Live utterance startup. Quote: "Ignore bufferbloat, we can't ever expect 300ms latency if it takes more than 300ms to deliver a packet."
   • No clocked live start and no new startup machinery.
   • The goal is at most 300 ms of playout on top of the actual one-way delivery time.
2. ✅ Fatal encoder errors while capture stays open. Quote: "I guess re-arm is fine but why are we expecting fatal encoder errors?"
   • We aren't. No push-to-talk run reported one; the runner fails on out.error.
   • No issue reports a publisher encoder failure. The latch came from a review finding, implemented in moq-dev/moq#5441.
   • Per the WebCodecs spec, an encoder fails fatally only three ways:
     • NotSupportedError: a rejected config, which the same settings would hit again.
     • EncodingError: an internal codec error.
     • QuotaExceededError: reclamation. Chromium reclaims only inactive, backgrounded hardware codecs (chromium#40786467), and Opus is software.
   • There is no recovery; a failure stays latched until a device, settings, or source change.
3. ✅ Ideal conditions only. Quote: "merge, don't use random packet loss either, assume ideal conditions."
   • The bufferbloat and 2% loss profiles and the shaper plumbing are removed rather than kept as informational runs. One was excluded from grading and the other was ruled out, so they added nothing.

Measurements

Head 5bdb3036c7 (this branch with origin/main merged, including #7725), Chromium 156.0.8078.4 headless, Linux desktop, five sequential runs on 2026-11-04 UTC. All passed under that head's checks; the head-decoded gate, added afterwards, fails run 3.

Completeness. In each run:

• 904–914 frames were submitted, and every one was encoded, written, and received through the relay.
• 22 of 22 heads arrived.
• Nothing was recreated: no new encoders, subscriptions, or capture reopens.
• The relay log shows two sessions: the publisher announces, and the listener subscribes.

Each release also emits one extra Opus packet, the flush's lookahead tail.

Tail drop: fixed by #7725. It hit 0 of 12 runs since that merge, against 3 of 7 before.

Head lost at the listener: not fixed.

• Run 3, press 20, came after a 60 s mute.
• The head's group 918 and the next frame's group 919 were written at +72 and +73 ms. They arrived reordered: 919 at +187 ms and 918 at +192 ms, about 115 ms in transit against the usual 3 ms.
• The listener decoded 919 at +191.7 ms. Group 918 never reached AudioDecoder.decode, so the utterance played from its second frame, 60 ms late.
• The JS ordered read delivers a group below its cursor as a late backfill. So the head was most likely dropped as late between the read and the decoder. The quest records this, with the read-backfill no-window decision to weigh against holding for the next group after a declared end.

Goal. Playout on top of one-way delivery was 261 ms median and 294 ms max over 75 separated presses, all within 300 ms. Delivery was 84 ms median, 192 ms max.

Remaining latency (the answer to "what's the remaining source of latency?"). These are pooled over the 74 separated presses with a full path, and the parts sum exactly to press → projected output:

Part	Boundaries	Median ms	Max ms
capture	worklet delivery and framing	29	110
packetization	media the head frame still needed after the press	39	60
encode	encoder input to container write	0.8	14
network	write to arrival, through the relay	3.2	15
decode	arrival to decoded PCM	0.7	13
jitter buffer	head's PCM to the first PCM that filled the delay	252	268
render	that PCM to the render onset	21	54
device	render onset to projected output	115	119
total	press to projected output	469	576

The capture/packetization split is approximate, but their 66 ms median sum is exact.

The two biggest contributors:

1. The playout delay, ~300 ms.
   • The ring starts once it holds exactly the delay in decoded PCM (five 60 ms frames), counted from the head's first sample. That's why jitter buffer plus packetization comes to about 291 ms.
   • Knob: <moq-watch> delay. This test fixes it at 300 ms. In "auto", the default, the target is max(measured, advertised) + frame + catalog delay (js/watch/src/audio/latency.ts).
2. Device output, ~115 ms.
   • This matches Chromium's declared baseLatency + outputLatency on this headless Linux host.
   • Knob: the watch AudioContext's latencyHint, already "interactive" (js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts), otherwise the platform. Worth measuring on a real device (macOS) before acting.

Smaller contributors:

• Capture plus render, ~50 ms. Both follow the AudioContext callback cadence on this host. Knob: the capture context's latencyHint (js/publish/src/audio/capture.ts), otherwise the platform.
• The 60 ms Opus frame. The publisher defaults to 20 ms; this test chose 60 ms. Under a fixed delay it is absorbed by the delay, while in "auto" it adds one frame to the target. Knob: frameDuration.

No latency part is clearly a bug:

• Encode and decode take about 1 ms each, and the relay hop about 3 ms.
• The head isn't trimmed as decoder warmup.
• The fixed delay bypasses the jitter estimator. The 46 ms median per-press arrival-lateness spread, which comes from capture bursts rather than the network, would make "auto"'s measured term nonzero on an ideal path. That is the estimator measuring real capture cadence.

An earlier set of five runs had bypassed the relay. Both elements shared one URL, so the pooled origin served the listener in-page, and network read 0.2 ms. Online review caught it. Those runs' completeness and playout are not counted above.

Impact

• Public API: none; this is test tooling and quests. No package versions changed.
• Wire: none.

Alternatives

• Reuse the audio-quality observer, worklet tooling, relay config, and browser launcher rather than adding another workspace or dependencies.
• Keep frame completeness strict and report missing observations explicitly.
• Choices made without asking, for review:
  • Projected device output is reported apart from playout.
  • delivery includes packetization.
  • The latency grade is reported, not asserted.
  • The shaped profiles are removed rather than kept.

Validation

• just test push-to-talk, five runs through the relay on 5bdb3036c7: four pass under the final analyzer, and run 3 fails with utterance head was not decoded, the defect above. That failure is expected, and nightly will show it intermittently until the quest fixes it.
• bun test ptt-analyze.test.ts: 5 passed, 0 failed. The tests cover:
  • an exact path split;
  • the first frame to fill the delay;
  • a head never received;
  • a head received but never decoded;
  • a re-probe failing while the release flush passes.
• bun test in js/publish: 328 passed, 0 failed (code unchanged here).
• biome check and tsc --noEmit on the measurement client: passed.
• quest check --base origin/main: passed.
• quest gate nix develop --command just ci: passed on 3155ec7f67e308689156fd4da80f4db980b2b132, after a conflict-free merge of origin/main, and earlier on ce6ea0dede.
• bun test ptt-analyze.test.ts and tsc --noEmit re-run after the merge: 5 passed, 0 failed.

Follow-ups

• Planned in this PR at the maintainer's request (2026-11-04): quest/m1/push-to-talk-latency.md.
• Suggested out-of-scope quest: make the shared test harness's HTTP readiness check verify listener ownership. It can accept a different process's response while its own relay is failing to bind. This runner checks ownership explicitly.

Review

• quest review, Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, one session.
• Reviewed head: 3155ec7f67e308689156fd4da80f4db980b2b132.
• Round 1 (8a3f4a5143), one finding: playout was bounded at port-message receipt. Fixed by mapping the render onset through context.currentTime.
• Rounds 2–4 (18250bbaf0, 774548f50c, d2d74e0103): no findings. Round 4 was the design checkpoint; nothing was left to reconsider.
• Round 5 (ce6ea0dede): no findings. It covered the fixes for online review on 18250bbaf0 and 774548f50c, all accepted and fixed:
  • Release flush counted as a probe: new encoders are counted instead, with a test.
  • Passing run lost its evidence: the run is kept by default and its report printed.
  • Dead audio-across-stop link: removed.
  • Listener bypassed the relay: it now has a separate session, and the driver asserts it.
  • Head not gated: the run now fails on a head not received or not decoded, and on any frame not received.
  • filled boundary: it is now the first frame to fill the delay.
  • Quest press-count wording: fixed.
• Round 6 (3155ec7f67): no findings. It covered a merge of origin/main (the quest merge driver resolved quest/m1/README.md; this PR's own files are unchanged) and one online thread on ce6ea0dede, accepted and fixed: the README now describes jitter_buffer as ending at the first PCM that fills the delay, and lists the head-decode and listener-completeness refusals. No code changed.
• Readiness: ready. Nothing in this PR is waiting; the epic's remaining head-loss defect is quest work.

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Design change: following the maintainer's 2026-11-03 decisions ("keep it simple").

1. Live utterance startup. No clocked live start and no new startup machinery. The goal is now at most 300 ms of playout added on top of the actual one-way delivery time, so path queueing (bufferbloat) counts as delivery. ptt-analyze.ts reports delivery, playout, and projected device output per separated press. Both the saved traces and fresh runs on the merged head were re-graded; see the PR body's Measurements.
2. Fatal encoder recovery. Dropped. No push-to-talk run reported an encoder error; the runner fails on out.error. No issue reports a publisher encoder failure; the latch came from a review finding in moq-dev/moq#5441. WebCodecs fails an encoder only on a rejected config (the same settings would fail again), an internal EncodingError, or reclamation. Chromium reclaims only inactive, backgrounded hardware codecs, and Opus is software. The latch stays.

The remaining tail drain is now Required on quest/m1/audio-across-stop.md, which moq-dev/moq#7725 implements: it flushes the codec before a disable's discontinuity. That PR is still open; it had not landed when this was written.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a browser-based push-to-talk test that records audio pipeline events across 22 presses and analyzes available latency measurements. A shell runner starts and verifies a local relay before running the browser driver and analyzer. A new test target and nightly workflow step invoke the test. The change also documents the test and updates quest references with a measured latency breakdown.

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 77454

The test does not exercise the relay-forwarding path it claims to measure, and parts of its latency breakdown can be misattributed. Correct the measurement path or narrow its claims before merging; adding the head-arrival check would strengthen regression coverage.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Issue #7101 requires a held audio selection while disabled, no resubscribe on unmute, and delivery of the next utterance. The existing js/watch/src/audio/source.ts implementation filters disabled re…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed workflow, test driver, browser measurement module, analyzer, audio-quality documentation, and quest updates support the #7101 end-to-end measurement or its follow-up latency record. The re…
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: adding an ideal-path push-to-talk measurement and breaking down its latency.
Description check		The description is specific and relevant to the changeset. It explains the push-to-talk ideal-path end-to-end measurement, the new test harness (just test push-to-talk, ptt.sh, ptt.ts, ptt-analyze.ts)…

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Issue #7101 requires a held audio selection while disabled, no resubscribe on unmute, and delivery of the next utterance. The existing js/watch/src/audio/source.ts implementation filters disabled renditions from new selection, retains the prior broadcast and track with #hold, and drops the hold when the rendition is removed or the broadcast changes. The PR adds an end-to-end test and analyzer for 22 presses. The checks cover frame completeness, utterance heads, subscription reopens, capture reopens, and new encoders. The proposed holdDisabled API is a possible approach in the issue, not a stated acceptance requirement.

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The changed workflow, test driver, browser measurement module, analyzer, audio-quality documentation, and quest updates support the #7101 end-to-end measurement or its follow-up latency record. The relay ownership check supports test validity. The reviewed changes add no unrelated product API or wire behavior.

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The description is specific and relevant to the changeset. It explains the push-to-talk ideal-path end-to-end measurement, the new test harness (just test push-to-talk, ptt.sh, ptt.ts, ptt-analyze.ts), the relay and Chromium setup, the completeness and latency gates, the measured results, and the removal of the shaped impairment profiles. It also covers the new latency quest document and the deleted push-to-talk README. The description matches the files in the raw summary. The check passes.

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Reviewed head 18250bb against the current main integration.

• P2: Distinguish a live encoder flush from a new probe (test/audio-quality/clients/js/src/ptt.ts:45-47, ptt-analyze.ts:97). The observer records every AudioEncoder.flush() as a probe and the analyzer fails on any such record. #7725 has now merged to main and flushes the live encoder after a disable to preserve its tail, so each normal release is misreported as a repeated probe and the post-fix proof/nightly fails. Track probe encoder instances separately from the live encoder, and test a normal tail flush alongside a real re-probe.
• P2: Preserve or print a successful measurement (test/audio-quality/ptt.sh:76; test/lib/harness.sh:456-457). The analyzer's only summary output is redirected into the run directory, and the shared harness deletes that directory when the command succeeds unless HARNESS_KEEP is set. Running either documented local command normally therefore loses summary.json, traces and the summary log without displaying the results, including a diagnostic run whose completeness failures do not change exit status. Print the report and retain its evidence by default for this measurement, or clearly make retention part of the command, with a successful-run test.
• P3: Reconcile the already-landed tail dependency (quest/m1/push-to-talk/README.md, new Required entry). #7725 merged and removed quest/m1/audio-across-stop.md from main, so the new Required link points at a deleted quest when this branch is updated. Cite the merged PR and keep the required post-fix proof as remaining work instead.

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Important

#7725 has landed since this branch was written: its live-encoder flush is counted as a re-probe, so the new nightly arm fails on every run, and the quest's Required link points at a file #7725 deleted. The documented local command also discards its summary on success.

Reviewed changes

• Push-to-talk harness: just test push-to-talk adds test/audio-quality/ptt.sh, a Playwright driver, and ptt-analyze.ts to drive 22 presses through the real publish and watch elements over moq-shaper.
• Path instrumentation: the page patches WebCodecs, the legacy container producer, Track.Consumer.subscribe, and getUserMedia, and taps the player's output to record inputs, outputs, writes, arrivals, and onsets on the page clock.
• Latency reduction: per separated press it reports delivery, playout, and projected device output; the bufferbloat arm also checks frame completeness and the shaper's throttling/overflow, and the nightly workflow runs that arm.
• Docs and quest: the audio-quality README and the push-to-talk quest record the 2026-11-03 decisions and the measured numbers.

The existing automated review's three findings remain open, and current main now makes the first one unconditional; no additional issues surfaced.

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Design change: following the maintainer's 2026-11-04 answer ("merge, don't use random packet loss either, assume ideal conditions. What's the remaining source of latency?").

• just test push-to-talk now runs on an ideal local path only: both elements reach the relay directly. The bufferbloat and 2% loss profiles and the shaper plumbing are removed rather than kept as informational runs.
• With origin/main merged (moq-dev/moq#7725's flush-before-cut), five runs were complete. No tail drop occurred (0 of 6 runs, against 3 of 7 before), and playout stayed within 300 ms of delivery on all 75 separated presses. So the push-to-talk epic is deleted as finished, and this PR closes moq-dev/moq#7101.
• feat(audio): serve retained audio across a stop, a source failure, and a disable #7725's live encoder flushes at every release, so a repeated probe is now detected as a newly constructed AudioEncoder rather than as a flush.
• The analyzer splits each press into capture, packetization, encode, network, decode, jitter buffer, render, and device spans, which sum exactly to press → projected output. Median total: 466 ms. The main contributors are the 300 ms playout delay and ~115 ms of device output. The breakdown and knobs live in the new quest/m1/push-to-talk-latency.md, which leaves the choice of knob open.

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Reviewed head 774548f.

• P2: Force the measured media through the relay (test/audio-quality/clients/js/src/ptt.ts:105–114). Publisher and watcher now use the same URL and default pooled connection. That pool shares a local origin and resolves a same-page publication locally, so checking both handles report WebTransport does not show the media crossed the relay. The ideal-path measurement and network attribution can pass without exercising the actual publisher-to-relay-to-viewer path. Use separate connection origins or pages and assert the media crossed the relay, then rerun the proof.
• P2: Fail when the listener misses an utterance's head (test/audio-quality/clients/js/ptt-analyze.ts:87–91, 125–135). firstReceived is reported but never checked, and a missing head decode only makes path null. If the first frame is dropped but a later tone frame is audible, this no-loss run still succeeds and can claim the start was preserved. Gate the ideal-path proof on the head reaching the listener/decoder and on expected frame completeness, with a missing-head regression.

The flush/probe false positive and stale required link are addressed. The previously reported successful-run evidence loss remains: the local command still redirects the report to a directory removed on success.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of the measurement, connection pool, analyzer and prior findings. I did not run the measurement or tests.

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test/audio-quality/clients/js/ptt-analyze.ts: 1

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Fail the analyzer when an utterance head is not received.

firstReceived is computed for every press, but no failure check reads it. A run where the head frame never reaches the listener still exits 0 when later frames produce an audible onset. The gate checks head encoding but not head arrival. Adding the arrival check gives the same coverage for delivery.

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 if (presses.some((press) => !press.submitted || !press.firstEncoded)) failures.push("utterance head was not encoded");
+if (presses.some((press) => !press.firstReceived)) failures.push("utterance head was not received");

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Add a failure check in the analyzer’s press-validation flow that rejects any
press with firstReceived false, alongside the existing utterance-head encoding
check, so a missing head frame causes the run to fail even when later frames
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The Vite server starts before launch, but the cleanup try/finally starts only after launch succeeds. A browser-launch failure therefore leaves the server without an explicit close.

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Review comments at @quest/m1/push-to-talk-latency.md:
- Line 16: Update the latency note’s run-count sentence to state that there were
five runs of 22 presses each, with 15 separated presses per run and 75 separated
presses total. Keep the surrounding context unchanged.

Review comments at @test/audio-quality/clients/js/ptt-analyze.ts:
- Around line 61-67: Update the filled selection logic over input and decoded to
choose the frame that first fills the delay, rather than the newest frame
decoded before audible.rendered. Preserve the correct jitter_buffer/render
boundary split for the press while keeping their sum equal to onset.

Review comments at @test/audio-quality/clients/js/src/ptt.ts:
- Line 116: Update the watcher setup around watch.setAttribute so watch does not
use publish.url as its connection origin; route it through a distinct relay
session and ensure ptt.hang is received through that relay. If this test cannot
exercise relay forwarding, remove relay-coverage claims from the test and its
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rejects any press with firstReceived false, alongside the existing
utterance-head encoding check, so a missing head frame causes the run to fail
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The ideal-path harness bypasses the relay: the publisher and watcher share one pooled connection, so the media resolves locally and the network stage plus the "through the relay" claims do not hold. The completeness gate also never checks that the utterance head reached the receiver, despite the README saying it does.

Reviewed changes

• Ideal-path measurement: just test push-to-talk drops the shaper and reproduction modes, drives both elements at one relay URL, and reports a path breakdown (capture, packetization, encode, network, decode, jitter buffer, render, device) that sums to press-to-output.
• New taps: the page now records decoder inputs/outputs and the newest captured chunk before each press, and tracks encoder construction (a probe or rebuild) instead of treating every live flush as a probe.
• Completeness gate: shaper and bitrate checks are gone; the run fails on missing encoder inputs, an unencoded head, an unreached container, capture reopen, a new encoder or subscription, or a separated utterance with no output.
• Quest: the push-to-talk epic is deleted as finished, its latency breakdown moves to quest/m1/push-to-talk-latency.md and the m1 index, and the README records the ideal-path results.

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[kixelated]

Design change: correcting the previous one. The push-to-talk epic is not finished, and this PR no longer closes #7101.

• Online review found the earlier ideal runs bypassed the relay: one URL meant one pooled origin, which served the listener in-page. The listener now has its own session (?role=listener), and the driver asserts distinct origins.
• Five reruns through the relay were complete at the publisher and on the wire. Playout stayed within 300 ms on all 75 separated presses. The tail drop is gone with feat(audio): serve retained audio across a stop, a source failure, and a disable #7725, at 0 of 12 runs.
• But in 1 of 110 presses, after a 60 s mute, the head's group arrived 4.8 ms behind the next frame's group and never reached the decoder. The utterance played from its second frame.
• The epic quest is restored with that defect and its evidence as remaining work, and the runner now fails on a head received but not decoded. The latency follow-up quest takes the relay numbers: median press → projected output is 469 ms, mainly the 300 ms delay and ~115 ms of device output.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head ce6ea0d, following 774548f.

The separate listener session and origin check address the relay bypass; the report is now printed and retained. The new gates catch missing heads and frames absent at the raw arrival observer.

[P2] Check every utterance frame reaches the decoder. test/audio-quality/clients/js/ptt-analyze.ts:144-147 checks decoding only for each head; the all-frame check stops at the separate raw arrival observer. A later frame can arrive there but be discarded by the player's ordering check before AudioDecoder.decode (js/watch/src/audio/decoder.ts:730), leaving a 60 ms hole while the head, later tone and all current gates pass. Compare every submitted utterance frame against the recorded decoder inputs, handling the codec's flush output separately, and add a regression that removes a non-head frame after arrival.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the delta, connection pool, observer, analyzer and player ordering path. I did not run the measurement or tests.

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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor doc update inline. The prior relay-bypass, head-reception, and evidence-retention findings are all fixed at this head.

Reviewed changes

• Rerouted the watcher onto its own ?role=listener session and asserted distinct connection origins, so the ideal-path media now crosses the relay.
• Gated the analyzer on head reception, head decode, written-frame reception, and added the five analyzer tests; re-split jitter_buffer at the first PCM that fills the delay.
• Kept the run evidence by default (HARNESS_KEEP=1) and teed the printed latency/path/completeness report.
• Updated the m1 index, the kept push-to-talk epic (lost head), the latency quest (469 ms over 74 separated presses), and the audio-quality README.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Corrected the audio-quality README's jitter_buffer description to end at the first PCM that fills the playout delay.
• Added the head-not-received, head-not-decoded, and written-frame-not-received refusals to the README list, matching the analyzer gates.
• Merged origin/main, which only brings main's m1-index entries; no PR-owned behavior changed.

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The check suite failure was infrastructure, not this PR, so the branch is unchanged.

Diagnosis. Run 41777407147 attempt 1 failed at ci: check biome (just biome's bun install --frozen-lockfile). The install's root postinstall (js/libav build) nix-builds moq-libav, which fetches ffmpeg-9.0.tar.xz from ffmpeg.org. That download failed four times with curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer, so the derivation and bun install exited 1 before Biome ever ran:

error: Cannot build '/nix/store/xg86k28z5w9q2xqlix6al8smcbl2k958-ffmpeg-9.0.tar.xz.drv'.
...
trying https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-9.0.tar.xz
curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
error: cannot download ffmpeg-9.0.tar.xz from any mirror
...
error: recipe `biome` failed on line 137 with exit code 1

The same ffmpeg-9.0.tar.xz derivation built successfully minutes later on another runner (e.g. run 41777783793 passed check biome at 05:17:15 after a 210 s download), which confirms the transient mirror failure.

Verification that the PR is clean.

• bun biome check --error-on-warnings . over the whole repo: Checked 2240 files, exit 0.
• bun test test/audio-quality/clients/js/ptt-analyze.test.ts: 5 pass, 0 fail.
• Every other step in the run (check js, test js, check markdown, check gh, test gh, check quest) passed.

Action. Nothing to fix and no code changes to push. A re-run is already in progress (attempt 2, started 05:20:06); it should pass once ffmpeg.org cooperates. The only durable mitigation is an infra one (mirror or cache nix.moq.dev for the js/libav fixed-output sources), which is outside this PR's scope.

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