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just test audio-quality --replays --enforce fails on main against main's own budgets.json. git bisect names moq-dev/moq#8071 (merge 9bf34b2). Reproduced: at 9bf34b20dd^, relay-bbb plays 12.1 player underruns/min and relay-mic-rtt40 plays 7.5. At 9bf34b20dd they're 16.1 and 8.9, and relay-mic moves from 4.0 to 6.1, which its 6.1 ceiling hides.

This PR fixes the media loss that #8071 exposed in the JS ordered read. It re-measures the two replay rows whose remaining difference is the ring's cushion, not lost audio (see Decisions), and plans the merge gate that would have caught this.

Cause

#8071 made Container.Consumer (JS) drop any group that arrives below its cursor, as Rust's container::Consumer does. But JS still moved its cursor by two rules weaker than Rust's. Before #8071, the backfill below the cursor brought back what those rules skipped:

1. Hole skip. JS treated a hole as lost once head.latest - presentedEnd > maxDelay. That only proves the oldest missing content is stale. Groups go out newest first, so a flush's newest group lands just ahead of the rest: the hole is "proven" on its arrival, the cursor jumps, and the groups that land a millisecond later are dropped. In relay-mic-rtt40 at 111.584 s, group 14569 lands 0.5 ms before 14565-14568. The ring had already run dry waiting for 14565, so 80 ms of microphone audio became zero fill. Rust's aged measures the newest content against where the first group past the hole begins. That is where everything missing must end.
2. Age skip once warmed. #checkMaxDelay dropped a blocking group by its own first frame and moved the cursor to the next buffered group, past groups still in flight. In relay-bbb's tune-in, "skipping slow groups 9999 -> 10027" dropped 10017-10024 as they landed. Rust's blocking-group skip waits until the successor's start is a whole budget behind the newest content. JS already applied that rule, but only while warming.

Fix

js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts now uses Rust's bounds for both rules:

• The hole is lost once the first group past it with a timestamp starts maxDelay behind the newest content (aged).
• Once reading began, #checkMaxDelay skips the head only once the first stamped group past it starts a whole budget behind the newest content. It keeps that successor's index across a run of skips, so skipping k unstamped groups ahead of it stays O(k) rather than rescanning for each. Before the first item, the backlog start skip from moq-dev/moq#7518 is unchanged.
• The #paused guard that moq-dev/moq#8123 added to the old hole rule is no longer needed. The head after a pause starts at the live edge, so the new bound waits for the resume group by construction. #paused had no other reader, so it is removed. fix(hang): push-to-talk keeps a head that its next frame overtakes #8123's test passes unchanged in behavior. Its "resumed" step now gives the head a frame a budget past its start, so the new bound proves the hole at once.

Rust is unchanged: the cause was JS-only, and the native player never had it.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#8071 - made JS drop groups below the cursor without moving JS's hole and age skips to Rust's bounds. Those skips depended on the backfill it removed.
• moq-dev/moq#3973 - proved a hole lost from where presentation left off rather than from where the next group begins.

Evidence

The harness's own replay, driven by a diagnostic that records what the consumer delivers and which ring writes land at or past the playhead:

• After this fix, nothing audible is lost compared with 9bf34b20dd^. On relay-bbb the fixed consumer plays a strict superset of what the pre-fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071 consumer played: every frame, plus 14 tune-in frames. On relay-mic-rtt40 and relay-mic, every frame the pre-fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071 consumer played but this one doesn't arrived in the first 600 ms, during the tune-in.
• relay-mic-rtt40, 8.9 → 8.2. Remove from the trace the 393 frames the pre-fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071 consumer delivered but the ring discarded as already behind the playhead (inaudible by construction). The pre-fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071 tree then reads 8.2 underruns/min, target p95 320 ms, and 70.9 discarded ms/min. Those are exactly this branch's numbers. The 7.5 on the budget came from those inaudible stale frames, which reached Sync and pushed the tune-in target to 780 ms. fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071 is right to drop them, and its target p95 (780 → 320) and discarded audio (227 → 71 ms/min) are real improvements.
• relay-bbb, 16.1 (unchanged by this fix). The one extra underrun episode, at 8.46 s, has a different cause: the ring's band trims the ring back to its target once it holds a chunk more. After a burst the ring therefore holds the target or the target plus one chunk, depending on how many writes extended it. At the end of the tune-in burst (232 ms), in-order delivery lands the ring on exactly 9227 samples. The old out-of-order backfill happened to land it one AAC frame (23 ms) higher. That offset survives to 8.46 s, where the next flush arrives 3 ms after the ring runs dry. The tune-in burst exists because the recorder asks the relay for 10 s of backlog, which the README already says makes a trace's tune-in heavier than a player's.
• relay-mic, 4.0 → 6.1 (unchanged by this fix). Same cause. The pre-fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071 tree reads 4.0 with or without its 19 inaudible frames, and this branch plays 12 more frames than it did.

Decisions

Decided 2026-11-07 (maintainer, /quest-complete):

1. ✅ Re-measure relay-bbb and relay-mic-rtt40 in this PR, by budgets.json's own rule (a replay ceiling is exactly what it measures). Not chosen: landing as is; fixing the ring trim first.
   • relay-bbb: player_underruns_per_min 12.1 → 16.1, stalled_share 0.017 → 0.025, silence_share 0.016 → 0.02.
   • relay-mic-rtt40: player_underruns_per_min 7.9 → 8.2. The same rule tightens the two keys this fix improved: discarded_ms_per_min 229.3 → 70.9, target_ms_p95 780 → 320.
   • The budget note records the reasoning. Without its never-played stale frames, the old player measured the same 8.2 on rtt40. relay-bbb's gap is one AAC frame of ring-trim depth after the recorder's artificial 10 s backlog burst.
   • relay-mic, re-checked: it measures its ceilings exactly, so the rule leaves it unchanged. The note records its hidden 4.0 → 6.1 move and the same cause.
   • Not changed: bursty-aac's silence_share ceiling of 0.013 was already looser than main's 0.011. It measures 0.010 here, but that row is outside the decision.
2. ✅ Plan the replay gate in this PR, as the [XS] m0 quest quest/m0/ci/audio-replay-gate.md, linked from the CI epic's README. just test audio-quality --replays --enforce joins just ci, so a PR that moves a replay row fails the merge gate.

Alternatives

• Restore the JS backfill below the cursor. It reverses the 2026-10-13 decision in fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071's quest that both languages drop those groups.
• Keep JS's hole shortcut and only make presentedEnd include the last frame's duration. That would happen to clear rtt40's 111.584 s case (a missing group exactly 80 ms behind against an 80 ms budget). But a flush longer than the budget still loses in-flight groups, and Legacy frames carry no duration.
• moq-dev/moq#8123 rejected Rust's measure in JS because a non-sequential resubscribe that loses the group after a stale one would then wait a budget. That cost is real: such a resubscribe now waits up to one max delay, or until live content passes the head by the budget, as Rust does. Since fix(container): ordered reads drop groups below the cursor and start at the publisher's resolved start #8071, the shortcut instead loses audio that is still in flight, and the standing goal is that the two ordered reads agree. This supersedes that alternative. Consumer plays the head once a waited-out gap exceeds the budget now carries live content past the head, so its hole is proven.

Impact

• Public API: none.
• Wire: none.
• Behavior: the JS ordered read (@moq/hang Container.Consumer) skips a hole only once the first group past it starts a max delay behind the newest content. Once warmed, it skips a blocking group only once its successor does. Both match Rust's container::Consumer. A group still in flight within the budget is now delivered instead of dropped, and a hole with no successor content past the budget waits out the max delay.

Tests

• New, each failing with its rule reverted to main's:
  • a newest-first flush past a hole delivers the groups landing behind its newest (consumer.holes.test.ts): the hole rule.
  • a blocking group is kept until its successor starts a budget behind the newest (consumer.skips.test.ts): the age rule.
  • a blocking group ages out past an unstamped successor (consumer.skips.test.ts): the age bound is the first stamped group past the head, as Rust's poll_next_group.
• Adjusted to the Rust bound, each keeping its point:
  • Consumer plays the head once a waited-out gap exceeds the budget (Legacy): live content carries on past the head.
  • Consumer reads a gap when retiring an open group: the successor sits a budget behind.
  • Consumer raises a malformed group an age skip passes after the track finished: the later group spans the budget.
  • the head after a declared end is waited for: the resumed head spans the budget.
  • Consumer measures each skip's span over every group left: now before the first read. Once reading began, the successor bound implies the span, since min <= successor.start.

Validation

• bun test in js/hang (548 pass) and js/watch (530 pass), and tsc --noEmit in js/hang.
• just test audio-quality --replays --enforce on the re-measured budgets: passes. Before the re-measure, it failed only on the four ceilings in decision 1.
• quest gate just ci on 8d83767, ce7584f, and e0ce3c7: passed.
• On 3ba4e2b (successor cache, holes tests restore the clock in a nested finally): bun test src/container/ in js/hang (184 pass); just test audio-quality --replays --enforce passes with every replay row equal to its budget, so budgets.json is unchanged. quest gate just ci passed every module except test js, whose one failure, a connection samples the transport only while a reservation reads the estimate in js/net/src/connection/bandwidth.test.ts, also fails with origin/main (ded9eb5) checked out in the same worktree. It depends on the order bun runs the files in, which follows the directory: a fresh checkout of main passed 3 of 3 runs, while this worktree failed 3 of 3 on main and on this branch. This PR leaves js/net untouched.
• Not run: the live browser and native audio-quality rows and just test push-to-talk, which run nightly. The native rows use the Rust consumer, which this PR does not change.

Follow-ups

• The replay merge gate is planned in this PR (decision 2). Nothing else is suggested.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, S)

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• Head: 3ba4e2b
• Base: origin/main at ded9eb5
• Score: 9/10, Source review found no actionable defects and supports landing, but builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

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No actionable findings. Measuring a hole from the first stamped group beyond it, and a blocking group from its stamped successor, avoids treating a newest-first arrival as proof that the rest of the flush is stale. This matches the relevant Rust age-bound logic while preserving startup reach, monotonic hole expiry, pressure handling and terminal draining. The regressions cover delayed lower groups, unstamped successors and declared-end resumption.

Direction: keep the shared bound rather than restoring delivery below the cursor. The recorded decision to remeasure the two replay rows is explicit; the proposed replay merge gate remains follow-up work, not a check installed by this PR.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the consumer, changed regressions, corresponding Rust skip paths, budget changes and gate plan. No tests, replay measurements, browser/native playback, or quest commands run. The claimed audio-quality diagnosis and exact remeasured ceilings were not independently reproduced. Rechecked open/non-draft state, full head and published reviews immediately before posting.

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The consumer changed its age-skip and hole-promotion checks, and its tests now cover related timing and ordering cases. CI documentation adds deterministic audio replays with enforcement as a required check. Audio replay budget notes and ceilings were updated for two remeasured replays.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to e0ce3

Catch-up across many unstamped groups can interrupt browser playback. Resolve the repeated scanning before merging, and correct the test cleanup and replay-check documentation.

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Review comments at @js/hang/src/container/consumer.holes.test.ts:
- Around line 359-360: Update the test’s `await reading` flow so
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Review comments at @js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:
- Around line 588-589: Cache the next stamped successor in the skip loop around
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Review comments at @quest/m0/ci/audio-replay-gate.md:
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• Cached skip successor — #checkMaxDelay now remembers the first stamped group past the head and only rescans when a skip lands on it, keeping a run of unstamped groups linear without changing which group bounds the skip.
• Clock-safe test teardown — the seven holes tests now close the installed manual clock in a finally, so a rejecting reader can no longer leak it into later tests.
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No new actionable findings. The stamped-successor index is retained across head removals and decremented with each shift; it is searched again once that successor becomes the head. This preserves the age bound while avoiding repeated successor scans across a run of unstamped groups. The hole tests now uninstall their Manual clock even if awaiting the reader fails.

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