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Part of quest/m1/mock-clock-tests/README.md. Every child of the epic has merged, so the README was its leftover sweep. This PR lands one slice of it and rewrites the README to what remains.

Problem

moq-dev/moq#8081 opted the host-timer guard's offenders out with a bare kio::clock::host_time(), as the Rust burn-down list for this epic. The media, binding, and transport children had already merged by then, so nothing burned their part down. A re-scan on 2026-11-07 found 53 test opt-outs:

• 18 were stale: the test passes under the guard without one (several already ran on start_paused, where the guard never fires).
• 12 still waited on the host clock in process: poll loops on 10 ms sleeps, a 100 ms negative proof, metrics and playlist intervals, and a 2 s token renewal.
• The rest cross real sockets or processes.

Outside Rust, the scan found a 100 ms settle window in demo/carla, and 50 ms "still pending" waits in the C and C++ binding probes. The OBS plugin tests and moq-relay's TCP-only tests also remain; see the README.

Approach

Deleted 18 stale opt-outs. Each test passed 21 runs under KIO_DENY_HOST_TIMERS=1 without its opt-out: moq-hls renditions_wait_for_the_join_interval, estimate_only_catalog_update_keeps_the_rendition, estimated_framerate_keeps_the_rendition, decoder_config_change_rebuilds_the_rendition, a_replacement_importer_keeps_the_offset; moq-ffi a_hidden_route_is_invisible_until_announced and the three follow_*_takeover* tests; moq-video's three encode clock tests and four decode consumer tests; moq-transcode ladder_follows_a_source_resize; moq-cli tcp_only_moq_side_starts_a_server.

Converted 10 tests and kept two opt-outs:

• moq-hls master_lists_only_playable_renditions, a_reconfigure_versions_the_init_url, a_metered_source_counts_only_what_clients_fetch, dash_manifest_turns_static_when_finished: start_paused, like the ~40 tests beside them. The 10 ms "not ready yet" proof now fires only once every task has run. master_lists_only_playable_renditions awaits the rendition's Added event: its old yield_now loop kept the paused runtime busy, so its 5 s timeout could never fire. Two paused siblings with the same loop, a_disabled_rendition_leaves_the_master_and_keeps_its_playlist and the until_finished helper, now park on a 10 ms kio sleep like until_listed.
• moq-cli archive (2), hls::a_failed_import_aborts_its_tracks, play::headless::metrics_write_a_final_sample: start_paused. All of their work runs on the test's runtime, and tokio holds paused time still while spawn_blocking file I/O runs.
• moq-video a_short_stall_skips_only_the_min_delay_decoder: pauses tokio around its 100 ms negative proof, then resumes. Its sibling a_cold_join_whose_live_edge_arrives_first_starts_a_group_earlier already does this. The probe decoder runs on a thread, so the whole test can't run paused.
• moq-ffi video_encoder_follows_a_shrinking_grant keeps its bare opt-out, as main has it. This PR first made the follow thread's applied bitrate a kio::Producer<u64> so the test could await it, but moq-dev/moq#8264 since moved that value into VideoProducer::target, under the rendition's one lock. A channel beside that lock would guard one value with two locks, so the merge takes main's video.rs and the test stays on the list in the README.
• moq-auth renew_refreshes_before_expiry: an installed kio::clock::Manual, which the coordinator reads too, while the HTTP stays real. renew's first poll arms its sleep before any request, so the test polls once, advances two thirds of the TTL, and wall() < expires holds exactly. Before, it waited 2 s and then raced the remaining 1 s.
• moq-auth renew_retries_a_transient_refusal keeps its opt-out. Its backoff sleep is armed only after a real HTTP refusal, with nothing observable in between to advance on. It waits only for progress over real sockets, which the epic keeps on the real clock.

Labeled the real-I/O opt-outs with a trailing reason, as JS already does (hostTime(); // a real HTTP server): moq-tokio's websocket, TCP-failover, and Unix-socket tests, the RTMP/RTSP/SRT bridges, moq-relay's web.rs and shutdown_signal.rs, and the moq-auth retry. A bare host_time(); now marks exactly the tests left to convert, which are moq-relay's seven TCP-only tests.

Outside Rust:

• demo/carla test_a_driver_keeps_the_world_stepping_with_nobody_watching ran _loop() for 100 ms twice, then asserted. Like its sibling test_an_estopped_holder_neither_steps_the_world_nor_keeps_its_lease, it now freezes the loop's clock, runs _loop() as a task, and awaits the hold changing. expect_held moved to module level so both tests share it.
• c/moq/test/probe.c and cpp/moq/test/probe.cpp proved a read still pending by waiting 50 ms, although nothing was written, so it could never resolve. C drops the wait; its later CHECK(!cancelled.done) after the next read still proves the callback never ran. C++ polls with wait_for(0ms), as moq-dev/moq#8086 and moq-dev/moq#8089 did for the same check.

Impact

• Public API: none. Wire: none.
• No non-test code changes.
• The quest README is rewritten to the remaining work, and its Rust opt-out rule now matches the JS one.

Alternatives

• Paused tokio for the moq-auth renew tests: rejected. reqwest's 10 s request timeout runs on tokio's clock, so paused time could auto-advance into it while a loopback round trip is in flight.
• A kio API to see when a Manual clock's timer is armed, so the moq-auth retry could convert too: not added, since one progress-wait test is its only consumer.
• Fully paused moq-video and moq-ffi tests: rejected, because their codec and follower threads let paused time skip ahead.
• The OBS plugin tests in this PR: left to the README. They need events from the plugin's worker, and the .#obs shell to verify.

Choices made without asking

• Labeled real-I/O Rust opt-outs with trailing reasons and changed the README's Rust rule to match JS, so the burn-down list is greppable.
• Kept renew_retries_a_transient_refusal on the real clock (see Alternatives).
• Sized the README [L]: moq-dev/moq#8256 deleted its last child, drive-expect-guard.md, so it is a leaf quest again, and its remaining work is the relay's seven TCP-only tests plus the OBS plugin tests. The merge drops the ## Required link to that child.

Validation

• KIO_DENY_HOST_TIMERS=1 just rs test over the 30 changed tests, with moq-video/capture moq-video/openh264 moq-cli/play moq-cli/openh264 so the feature-gated ones ran: --stress-count 20, 20/20 iterations passed.
• just check on head 10cc9ed, after merging origin/main (the rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs conflict with fix(ffi): FFI handles hold one lifecycle state each #8264): passed, 7845 Rust tests plus c, cpp, py, carla, go, dart, kt, and the rest. A first run's c and py lanes failed in seconds because the shared build cache behind target was missing; the rerun passed them.
• just check on head 8f08404, after merging origin/main (README conflict with chore(js): lint rejects expect(clock.drive(...)).rejects/.resolves #8256): passed, 7827 Rust tests plus the c, cpp, carla, go, dart, and other modules.
• KIO_DENY_HOST_TIMERS=1, the four moq-hls tests whose waits changed and the until_finished callers: --stress-count 20, 20/20 passed.
• just check on head f1a70f9, after merging origin/main for the README conflict with quest: quarantine the forged-dial flake and plan three test follow-ups #8241: passed, with 7766 Rust tests plus the c, cpp (probes with and without coroutines), carla, py, go, kt, dart, swift, gh, and quest modules. It also passed on 35e8436.
• demo/carla: pytest tests/test_runtime.py (24 passed) and pyright (0 errors).
• quest check --base origin/main: ok.
• Not run locally: the OBS plugin tests, unchanged here; browser lanes, since this PR changes no JS.

Follow-ups

• The remaining work stays in the epic README: moq-relay's seven TCP-only tests, moq-ffi's video_encoder_follows_a_shrinking_grant, and the OBS plugin tests. No new quests.
• Overlap: moq-dev/moq#8241 merged first; this branch merged it, keeping its drive-expect-guard.md child and leaving its quarantined socket_auth::a_forged_dial_never_connects alone.

Models

Size: XL
Implementer: Claude Code, Claude Opus 5.5, xhigh effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort (iterate, M)
Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh effort

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1be4e-2e1c-7bf3-90d3-a3b0228d4319, round 1
• Head: 10cc9ed
• Base: origin/main at 97c13f1
• Score: 9/10, No actionable defects were found; the clock changes preserve the reviewed behavior, though builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Reviewed 35e8436.

No actionable findings. The conversions keep in-process work on paused time, use an observable bitrate update instead of polling the follower thread, and advance the renewal clock only after its initial sleep is armed. The C/C++ probes retain their post-cancellation assertions without a quiet window, and the Carla test awaits the hold transitions with cleanup in finally. Real-I/O exceptions and the unfinished relay/OBS work remain explicit.

Direction: replacing settle delays with state observations, while separating controllable timers from actual socket/device progress, is sound. The bitrate channel preserves the existing update points and exposes its consumer only to tests.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the complete diff and supporting renewal, follower, cancellation, decode and paused-test paths. No builds, tests, stress runs or platform probes performed; the reported validation is author-provided. Rechecked open/non-draft state, full head and published reviews immediately before this COMMENT.

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ℹ️ Minor suggestions only.

Reviewed changes

• 18 stale host_time() opt-outs deleted — tests in moq-hls, moq-ffi, moq-video, moq-transcode, and moq-cli that already pass under KIO_DENY_HOST_TIMERS=1 without one.
• 11 tests moved to mocked time — start_paused for four moq-hls export tests, the moq-cli archive/hls/headless tests, tokio::time::pause() around the moq-video short-stall proof, and an installed kio::clock::Manual for the moq-auth renew test.
• FFI follow wait — applied becomes a kio::Producer<u64> so video_encoder_follows_a_shrinking_grant awaits the follow thread's retune instead of polling it on 10 ms sleeps.
• Real-I/O opt-outs labeled — tokio websocket/TCP/Unix, RTMP/RTSP/SRT, relay web/shutdown_signal, and the auth retry gain trailing reasons; only the relay's seven bare opt-outs remain.
• C/C++/Carla probes — the C pending read drops its 50 ms wait (the post-pump CHECK(!cancelled.done) still proves the cancel), C++ uses wait_for(0ms) as in the merged #8086/#8089, and the Carla test freezes loop.time() and awaits hold transitions.
• Quest README rewritten to the remaining relay and OBS work.

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ℹ️ Merge-only delta; no new findings. The inline note from the prior review still applies.

Reviewed changes

• f1a70f9 merges origin/main (4b18b2c, including #8241) into the branch. Compared with 35e8436, only quest/m1/mock-clock-tests/README.md differs: it keeps #8241's ## Required entry for drive-expect-guard.md and drops the [L] size tag the PR body still mentions. Every other changed file is identical, so the prior review stands unchanged.

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Walkthrough

Tests now use paused or manual time, event-based waits, or immediate pending-state checks in several components. The FFI applied-bitrate state uses a kio watch channel, and tests read or await its values. Real-I/O tests retain host-clock setup, with comments identifying those cases. The mock-clock test plan records remaining conversion work and clock opt-outs.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 35e84

The changes have bounded test-only risk: stalled rendition discovery can now wait for the runner’s termination instead of its five-second timeout. Awaiting rendition events would restore reliable timeout behavior; no production failure was established.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 74.07% 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. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "test: in-process tests stop waiting on the host clock" matches the main change: the PR removes host-clock waits from in-process tests across Rust, C, C++, and Carla, and removes or converts…
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.
Description check		The description is specific and closely tied to the changeset. It explains that the PR removes stale host-timer opt-outs, converts tests to paused Tokio time or awaited events, labels real-I/O opt-out…

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The title "test: in-process tests stop waiting on the host clock" matches the main change: the PR removes host-clock waits from in-process tests across Rust, C, C++, and Carla, and removes or converts host-timer opt-outs. It is specific, concise, and follows a conventional commit style. The title does not mention the README rewrite or the labeling of real-I/O opt-outs, but it does not need to cover every detail.

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The description is specific and closely tied to the changeset. It explains that the PR removes stale host-timer opt-outs, converts tests to paused Tokio time or awaited events, labels real-I/O opt-outs, rewrites the mock-clock quest README, and replaces 50 ms and 100 ms waits in the C, C++, and demo/carla tests. It also lists the affected files, the approach for each group, validation runs, and follow-ups. These details match the raw summary of the files changed, so the check passes.

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Resolution

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 2

cpp/moq/test/probe.cpp: 1

399-399: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

The test does not establish coroutine cancellation.

The next read can receive the frame while an abandoned read remains pending. The latch is destroyed before frame delivery, so the test does not observe whether the abandoned continuation runs.

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Review comment at @cpp/moq/test/probe.cpp at line 399:
Update the probe test around CHECK(!done.wait_for(0ms)) so the cancellation
observation remains alive through frame delivery; ensure the test verifies that
the abandoned read’s continuation does not run after the next read receives the
frame, rather than destroying the latch before delivery.

rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs: 1

7660-7660: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Observe the follower before checking the cap.

The assertion can read the value written by set_bitrate before the follower processes the update. A later over-cap retune could escape the test.

Exercise a follower transition below the cap, then raise the grant above it. Capture the follower’s applied values during the rise and assert that each stays within the cap. Waiting for the existing manual value alone does not establish follower processing.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs at line 7660:
Update the bitrate-cap test around set_bitrate and video.applied_bitrate to
first observe a follower transition below the cap, then raise the grant above
the cap and capture the follower’s applied values during that transition. Assert
every captured value stays within the cap, using synchronization that
establishes the follower processed the update rather than relying only on the
manually written value.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-hls/src/export/mod.rs:
- Line 1231: In the paused-time test marked with #[tokio::test(start_paused =
true)], replace repeated yielding while waiting for video0 with awaiting
rendition change events inside the five-second timeout. Ensure the wait lets the
runtime advance paused time so the timeout can complete if video0 is never
produced.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @cpp/moq/test/probe.cpp:
- Line 399: Update the probe test around CHECK(!done.wait_for(0ms)) so the
cancellation observation remains alive through frame delivery; ensure the test
verifies that the abandoned read’s continuation does not run after the next read
receives the frame, rather than destroying the latch before delivery.

Review comments at @rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs:
- Line 7660: Update the bitrate-cap test around set_bitrate and
video.applied_bitrate to first observe a follower transition below the cap, then
raise the grant above the cap and capture the follower’s applied values during
that transition. Assert every captured value stays within the cap, using
synchronization that establishes the follower processed the update rather than
relying only on the manually written value.

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• c/moq/test/probe.c
• cpp/moq/test/probe.cpp
• demo/carla/sim/tests/test_runtime.py
• quest/m1/mock-clock-tests/README.md
• rs/moq-auth/src/mesh/contract_tests.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/archive.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/hls.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/main.rs
• rs/moq-cli/src/play/headless.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs
• rs/moq-hls/src/export/mod.rs
• rs/moq-hls/src/import.rs
• rs/moq-relay/src/web.rs
• rs/moq-relay/tests/integration/shutdown_signal.rs
• rs/moq-rtmp/src/server.rs
• rs/moq-rtsp/src/client.rs
• rs/moq-srt/src/server.rs
• rs/moq-tokio/src/server.rs
• rs/moq-tokio/src/tcp.rs
• rs/moq-tokio/src/websocket.rs
• rs/moq-transcode/src/lib.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/decode/consumer.rs
• rs/moq-video/src/encode/producer.rs

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[kixelated]

Replies to the two CodeRabbit nitpicks in this review, both declined:

• cpp/moq/test/probe.cpp:399: this PR only changes the pending check from wait_for(50ms) to wait_for(0ms). The latch was destroyed before the next frame with the 50 ms wait too, so what the block proves is unchanged. Cancellation is still proven by the next block: its fresh read_one receives the co_await frame, which an abandoned read that stayed registered would have taken first.
• rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs:7660: the test's cap is reservation.rate(), asserted synchronously at Some(1_000_000) after the 3 Mbps estimate. The follow thread retunes only to what that reservation grants, so it can't apply above the cap. The PR only swaps applied_bitrate() to read the new kio::Consumer; the test's structure is as on main.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head 8f08404, focusing on substantive changes since 35e8436 and separating merged-main changes. No new actionable findings.

The HLS waits now let paused time advance instead of keeping the runtime runnable with yield loops. The initial rendition wait uses the cursor's Added event, whose replay behavior also covers discovery before subscription. The disabled-rendition and finished-playlist waits retain bounded failure paths while parking between checks.

Verification limits: GitHub source/diff review, including rendition-cursor semantics and the affected tests; no builds, tests or stress runs performed.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Paused HLS waits now park instead of spinning — master_lists_only_playable_renditions awaits the rendition's Added event (the cursor replays the current set, and video0 is the only rendition) rather than a yield_now poll loop, so its 5 s timeout can fire; the disabled-rendition wait and until_finished now use a 10 ms kio::clock::sleep, matching their siblings.
• Quest README picks up main's [L] size tag and drops the ## Required link to the deleted drive-expect-guard.md child; no dangling references remain.
• Merge-only remainder — 2add86022 is a clean merge of origin/main (net branch delta and the other 22 files unchanged), so the prior review stands for them.

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Correction to my earlier reply: after merging moq-dev/moq#8264, this PR no longer touches rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs or the two bitrate tests in rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs. They are as on main, so the set_bitrate_caps_a_later_bandwidth_grant nitpick is outside this diff. video_encoder_follows_a_shrinking_grant keeps its bare host_time() and is listed in the quest README as remaining work.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed 10cc9ed incrementally from 8f08404, accounting for merged main. No actionable findings.

The conflict resolution preserves main's single-lock video rendition/follower state instead of reintroducing the separate applied-bitrate channel. The shrinking-grant test returns to main's host-time polling and matching scalar accessor; the quest explicitly restores its event-based conversion to remaining work. Other previously reviewed clock conversions are unchanged. This narrows the completed conversion scope rather than claiming that test now uses mocked time.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since the prior pullfrog review at 8f08404: the branch merged origin/main (7e4f118d, including the moq-mux timeline → sync move) and resolved the rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs conflict in favour of main, plus the README's new follow-up bullet.

• moq-ffi follower conversion dropped — the merge takes main's video.rs (#8264), so the applied target stays in VideoProducer under the rendition's one lock and video_encoder_follows_a_shrinking_grant keeps its opt-out, matching its new README entry.
• rs/moq-ffi/src/video.rs leaves the diff — the PR is now 23 files, and no reference to the removed kio::Producer<u64> or store() helper remains; the surviving set_bitrate test asserts against main's u64 applied_bitrate().
• Merge preserves the earlier conversions — main's edits to play/headless.rs, test.rs, and hls/import.rs merge with the PR's start_paused conversions and deleted opt-outs intact, and merge^2..merge is exactly the 23-file PR diff (+119/−114), so the branch ships nothing beyond it.

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