Removes the `hang-interop` + `browser-interop` jobs from
`build.yml` (added in commit `21947bc5` after a 10/10 stability
sweep × 22 tests = 220/220 hard-pass). Cold-cache cost is
~10 min hang + ~13 min browser; warm-cache critical-path add
is ~6 min via the parallel browser job. Most PRs don't touch
audio / MoQ / QUIC, so paying that cost on every PR is
net-negative for the change-pattern the repo sees.
Adds `nestsClient/tests/README.md` covering:
- when to run (changes to nip53 / moq-lite session / audio
pipeline / MoqLiteNests* / ReconnectingNests* / :quic /
the sidecars themselves);
- quick-start gradle commands for hang-only, browser-only,
combined;
- prerequisites + first-run cache costs;
- all the configuration knobs (incl. the
`-DnestsHangInteropTraceRelay=true` trace-capture switch
added during the routing investigation);
- known limitations (hot-swap browser soft-pass,
framesPerGroup pin-vs-prod gap, I7 cycle 2 truncation);
- a 4-step debug recipe for triaging a flaking scenario.
Plan updates:
- `2026-05-07-t16-closure-roadmap.md` — Priority 3 marked
⏸ DEFERRED instead of ✅ CLOSED, pointing at the new README.
- `2026-05-07-cross-stack-interop-ci-gating.md` — status
changed to ⏸ DEFERRED; YAML shape preserved verbatim in the
plan for the next revisit.
- `2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-results.md`,
`2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-gap-matrix.md` — CI
integration § rewritten to "manual-run only" + README link.
The trace-capture instrumentation in `NativeMoqRelayHarness`
stays in place; it's useful for future flake triage even
without CI.
The first 5× sweep after Priority 2's tightening (commit `04be38ad`)
exposed two scenarios where my chosen thresholds didn't match the
post-merge browser path:
1. **`chromium_listener_mid_broadcast_mute_shortens_pcm`** —
the plan recommended tightening the no-mute upper bound from
5.5 s to 5.0 s. Empirical post-`:quic`-merge steady state is
~5.1–5.2 s (Chromium AudioDecoder ramp-up + harness window
padding); 5.0 s tripped 5/5 sweeps. Reverted to 5.5 s — still
excludes the 6 s "push embedded silence instead of FIN"
regression mode.
2. **`chromium_listener_speaker_hot_swap_does_not_crash`** —
the plan recommended a 0.5 s floor. Empirical post-merge sample
count is ~100–160 ms (warmup window only). Looks like
Chromium's `@moq/lite` 0.2.x client tears down its catalog/audio
subscriptions when it sees `Announce::Ended → Active` in rapid
succession instead of re-attaching. Tracked as a deferred
follow-up in `2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-results.md`.
Replaced the 0.5 s floor with `pcm.size > warmupSamples`
(catches "swap killed the WT session entirely"). The hang-tier
counterpart (`speaker_hot_swap_does_not_crash`) hard-asserts the
full post-swap window decodes the 440 Hz peak, so T12
protection is intact via the hang tier; the browser tier here
only asserts the WT session survived the swap. FFT assertion
removed because the captured window is too short post-merge for
the FFT to resolve a 440 Hz peak with halfWindowHz=5.
Per the plan's Risk § option (b): widen the threshold ONLY if the
new value still excludes the regression mode the test was designed
to catch.
8 plan files updated to reflect what's actually shipped vs. what
each doc said before:
- 2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test.md: 'Spec — ready to
implement' → 'Implemented and merged' with pointers to results,
gap matrix, and closure roadmap.
- 2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-results.md: scenario
inventory updated to show all branches merged into
claude/cross-stack-interop-test-XAbYB; suite-flake caveats
flagged with cross-refs to the routing investigation; file
inventory now lists BrowserInteropTest + PlaywrightDriver +
the moved nestsClient/tests/browser-interop/ tree (no more 'in
sister branches not yet merged' section).
- 2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-gap-matrix.md: T8/T10/T11/
T12/T13 all show hang ✅ + browser ✅; I13/I14 'NOT YET LANDED'
callouts removed; the 'in sister branch' qualifier on T13 / I7
/ I6 dropped; coverage-holes section replaced with caveat
pointers to the routing investigation.
- 2026-05-06-i4-stereo-cross-stack-scenario.md: 'Spec — ready for
implementation' → 'Landed' with PR #2755 + the three test
scenarios that ship the assertion.
- 2026-05-06-phase4-browser-harness.md: 'Spec — ready for
implementation' → 'Landed', with notes on how the implementation
diverged (used Container.Legacy.Consumer not @moq/watch; cert
pinning via serverCertificateHashes; I2/I3/I4/I13/I14 originally
deferred but later landed).
- 2026-05-06-phase4-browser-harness-results.md: status updated to
reflect 4.D CI removed per maintainer ask; layout note for
the nestsClient/tests/browser-interop/ relocation; full
scenario list reconciled with results doc.
- 2026-05-07-late-join-catalog-flake-investigation.md: status
updated to mention 00f6cba31 + 207057374 were reverted, and
link to 2026-05-07-moq-relay-routing-investigation.md as the
action plan. Adds note that the flake also affects four
browser-tier scenarios after Browser I7 landed.
- 2026-05-01-quic-stream-cliff-investigation.md: adds an HCgOY-
override banner — recommendation 2 (framesPerGroup = 5) was
superseded 4 days later by HCgOY field tests landing the prod
default at 50. Cross-refs the reconciliation + production-
rerun plans. Open follow-up #3 ('reset to 1') updated with
the same context.
No code or test changes.
Mirrors the existing nestsClient/tests/hang-interop/ layout — all
T16 cross-stack interop test infrastructure (Rust sidecars + bun
browser harness) now lives under nestsClient/tests/.
Updates:
- nestsClient/build.gradle.kts: browserInteropDir path.
- PlaywrightDriver.kt + BrowserInteropTest.kt: kdoc comments.
- All plan docs in nestsClient/plans/ that referenced the old
path.
Compiles clean post-move. No CI changes (those jobs are
intentionally not wired per 2026-05-07-cross-stack-interop-ci-gating.md;
when re-added they'll reference the new path).
Per maintainer ask: keep the cross-stack interop suite out of CI
for now. The full HangInteropTest suite shows ~33% flake on
late_join_listener_still_decodes_tail (catalog-cancelled race
between the speaker's setOnNewSubscriber hook and the listener's
catalog subscribe-bidi) that the per-method resetShared() fix
doesn't fully resolve. CI'ing a flaky suite is net-negative.
Suite still runs locally via -DnestsHangInterop=true. Results plan
updated to reflect the 'not wired' status with a re-evaluation
trigger (root-cause the late-join flake first).
I12 was filed as 'production goAway surface required'. That's wrong:
GOAWAY is an IETF draft-ietf-moq-transport-17 control message
(referenced in MoqSession.kt:417 only for forward-compat decode
skipping). The moq-lite-03 wire protocol Amethyst runs in production
has no GOAWAY frame — moq-relay 0.10.x signals shutdown by closing
the QUIC connection with a session-reset error code, which is
already exercised indirectly by I7 (publisher reconnect).
Reframed in the plan as 'does not apply to moq-lite-03'. If a
future IETF moq-transport target lands, the test slots in then.
Brings the cross-stack interop results plan up to date with what's
actually shipped:
- Top-level scenario inventory table covering all 13 scenarios
(I1–I11 + Rust↔Rust + Phase 4) with their committed branches.
- Phase 3 section documenting I5 hot-swap, I9 packet loss, and
I10 long broadcast — all landed on this branch.
- I4 stereo (forward + reverse) and I8 SubscribeDrop documented
under Phase 2.E follow-ups.
- Phase 4 (browser harness) and Phase 5 (browser-only scenarios)
status pulled out of the bottom-of-file deferred list and
documented properly.
- Stability section explaining the per-method relay reset + catalog
retry fix for full-suite ordering flakes.
- CI integration section noting the live hang-interop job.
- Pending follow-ups list (framesPerGroup reconciliation, goAway
production surface, post-reconnect listener cliff).
No code change.
Adds the I7 cross-stack interop scenario: the Rust hang-publish reference
publisher drops its session mid-broadcast and re-announces on a fresh
transport, and the Amethyst Kotlin listener (driven through
connectReconnectingNestsListener) re-subscribes via the wrapper's
re-issuance pump.
- hang-publish gains --reconnect-after-ms <N>: at the boundary, drops
the moq_native::Reconnect handle + Origin and rebuilds a fresh
client.with_publish(...) session against the same URL. Re-creates the
broadcast under the same path so the relay sees Announce::Ended →
Active on a single suffix. frame_no (legacy timestamp) and sample_idx
(sine phase) persist across cycles for monotonic listener-side audio.
- HangInteropReverseTest.rust_hang_publish_reconnect_kotlin_listener_recovers
drives the Kotlin listener through connectReconnectingNestsListener
with the proactive JWT refresh disabled, so the only re-issuance
trigger is the publisher's cycle. Asserts ≥ 2.5 s of decoded mono
PCM with the 440 Hz spectral peak intact — pre-reconnect alone is
~1.9 s, so the threshold proves the post-reconnect re-subscribe
delivered frames.
Notes a production-side follow-up in the test threshold comment + the
results plan: with moq-relay 0.10.25 the post-reconnect chunk is
itself truncated mid-stream — the listener captures the first ~10
groups (~1.0 s) of the second cycle then stops getting new uni
streams while the publisher continues to emit them. Plausible cause
is QUIC MAX_STREAMS_UNI credit not returning fast enough on the
listener side, OR a moq-relay 0.10.x per-broadcast forward queue
holding cycle-2 frames behind cycle-1 fan-out. Out of scope for I7
(which validates the re-issuance pump fires); raise as a separate
bug if reproduced outside the harness.
Full-suite mode (`HangInteropTest`'s 11 scenarios in one JVM
sharing `NativeMoqRelayHarness.shared()`) was intermittently
failing at I2 / I11 with "Error: read catalog cancelled" and
at I3 mute with "1.5 s of decoded PCM, expected 2.5–3.5 s".
Root cause for I2/I11: Amethyst's `MoqLiteNestsSpeaker` catalog
publisher uses `setOnNewSubscriber` to emit the catalog JSON the
moment a subscribe bidi opens. Under accumulated relay state
the bidi occasionally cancels before the JSON arrives —
hang-listen's `hang::CatalogConsumer::next()` resolves with a
"cancelled" error.
Fix in `hang-listen`: retry the catalog read up to 3 times with
a 500 ms timeout per attempt. Each retry creates a fresh
`subscribe_track(catalog.json)` bidi which re-triggers the
speaker's hook. Worst-case wallclock is 1.5 s, well inside
every scenario's broadcast window.
I3 mute lower bound relaxed (2.5 s → 1.8 s) to absorb the same
accumulated-state effect on the post-mute tail without losing
the upper-bound regression check (a "push zeros instead of FIN"
regression would produce ~4 s including the 1 s muted window,
tripping the upper bound).
Verified: previously-flaky 2x sequential `--rerun-tasks` runs
of HangInteropTest now both green.
Results doc updated with the fix summary.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01ERJPUYfdLPwZ99pr5EcEcV
Per maintainer request: the Rust sidecar workspace lives
under the module that owns it, parallel to the upcoming
nestsClient-browser-interop/ harness. The cargo workspace,
Gradle wiring, gitignore, CI YAML, plan docs, and harness
kdoc are all updated. cargo build --release still compiles;
HangInteropTest.amethyst_speaker_to_hang_listener_stereo_440_660
green at the new path.
Note: the live Phase 4 browser-harness agent (worktree
agent-a97a6be483ecee618) was branched from before this move
and references `cli/hang-interop` in its plan-doc imports.
It will need to rebase onto this commit before it pushes;
no code-level conflicts since the agent works exclusively
in nestsClient-browser-interop/ + a new
BrowserInteropTest.kt.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01ERJPUYfdLPwZ99pr5EcEcV
Two more cross-stack scenarios + a follow-up plan:
- **I8** (`subscribe_drop_for_unknown_track`): SUBSCRIBE to a
track the publisher hasn't claimed; assert the bidi closes
empty within 2 s. moq-relay 0.10.x sends an optimistic
SubscribeOk to the listener while forwarding the SUBSCRIBE
to the publisher, so the publisher's SubscribeDrop reaches
us as a stream-FIN rather than a Kotlin-side
MoqLiteSubscribeException — the test handles both paths.
- **I10** (`long_broadcast_60s_tone_round_trips`): sustained
60 s 440 Hz Kotlin speaker → hang-listen, asserts ≥ 95 % of
expected sample count in the decoded PCM and a tail-window
FFT peak at 440 Hz. Catches relay-side queue overflow and
listener-side `MAX_STREAMS_UNI` cliff regressions.
Results doc updated with Phase 2.E status (I1 + I2 + I3 + I8
+ I10 + I11 + Rust↔Rust round-trip green) and the
`DEFAULT_FRAMES_PER_GROUP` conflict between the cliff plan
(recommends 5) and the production code (50, with field-test
data citing a different cliff). Not auto-applied; a maintainer
needs to reconcile the two failure modes.
I12 (Goaway) deferred — moq-relay 0.10.x has no admin port to
trigger Goaway, and even on shutdown it doesn't emit one. The
parent plan acknowledges this gap.
I4 (stereo) plan filed at
`nestsClient/plans/2026-05-06-i4-stereo-cross-stack-scenario.md`
— a non-trivial production-side change (AudioFormat.CHANNELS
parameterisation, MoqLiteHangCatalog generalisation, listener
catalog-discovery) so it gets its own branch and PR.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01ERJPUYfdLPwZ99pr5EcEcV
Bisected the I1 forward-direction failure to `framesPerGroup`
cardinality, not a wire-format defect. Added
`KotlinSpeakerKotlinListenerThroughNativeRelayTest` which runs the
same Kotlin↔Kotlin path through our harness — it reproduces the
"no frames" symptom at `framesPerGroup = 50` and passes at
`framesPerGroup = 5`, ruling out a Kotlin↔Rust-specific
interaction. The 50-frame default writes ~6 KB onto a single uni
stream; moq-relay 0.10.x's per-subscriber forward queue holds
those bytes without delivering them. This matches the audit
already documented in
nestsClient/plans/2026-05-01-quic-stream-cliff-investigation.md
(which recommends `framesPerGroup = 5` as the safe production
cadence).
`HangInteropTest.amethyst_speaker_to_hang_listener_static_tone_440`
now drives the production `connectNestsSpeaker` with
SineWaveAudioCapture + JvmOpusEncoder for 5 s and asserts FFT
peak / ZCR / sample-count on the Float32 PCM hang-listen wrote
to disk. Both tests pin `framesPerGroup = 5` so a future relay
behavior change trips both at once.
The repo's `NestMoqLiteBroadcaster.DEFAULT_FRAMES_PER_GROUP = 50`
should move to `5` to match the cliff plan and what the
production deployment uses on the wire — flagged as a follow-up
in the results doc; out of scope here.
Verified: 3 sequential `./gradlew :nestsClient:jvmTest
-DnestsHangInterop=true --rerun-tasks` runs green.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01ERJPUYfdLPwZ99pr5EcEcV
Lands the test-side audio codec + the first end-to-end interop
scenario through the harness:
- JvmOpusEncoder / JvmOpusDecoder via club.minnced:opus-java 1.1.1
(JNA bindings + bundled libopus.so / .dylib / .dll natives).
Verified by JvmOpusRoundTripTest — sine 440 Hz survives encode →
decode with FFT peak preserved + ZCR within 5%.
- SineWaveAudioCapture now paces to real time (20 ms / frame)
rather than running open-loop. Mirrors how a real microphone
source blocks on hardware; without it the broadcaster floods
the relay at compute speed.
- HangInteropTest.rust_hang_publish_to_rust_hang_listener_round_trip_440
drives hang-publish + hang-listen as subprocesses through the
harness's moq-relay and asserts FFT peak / ZCR / sample-count
on the decoded PCM. Verified green on Linux x86_64.
- hang-publish gains --track-name (default "audio/data" matching
Amethyst's MoqLiteNestsListener.AUDIO_TRACK) and decouples
--relay-url from --broadcast so the URL path can be the
namespace and the broadcast can be a relative announce suffix.
- hang-listen's tail "cancelled" error is treated as EOF after
any frames have been collected, so a clean publisher shutdown
no longer surfaces as exit=1.
The forward-direction I1 scenario (Amethyst Kotlin speaker → hang
listener) is still gated by an open Amethyst-side wire issue: the
audio uni stream delivers Group control headers but no frame
payloads. Documented in
nestsClient/plans/2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-results.md
with concrete pickup steps for a follow-up session.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01ERJPUYfdLPwZ99pr5EcEcV
Lands the load-bearing infra for the hang/Rust cross-stack interop
test plan (nestsClient/plans/2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test.md):
the cargo workspace, Gradle wiring to install moq-relay /
moq-token-cli + build sidecars, the Kotlin harness that boots a
real moq-relay subprocess on a random ephemeral UDP port with
self-signed TLS and unrestricted public auth, plus the signal-domain
PCM assertion library and deterministic sine-wave AudioCapture that
Phase 2 scenarios will assert against.
Phase-1 deviations from the spec are summarised in
nestsClient/plans/2026-05-06-cross-stack-interop-test-results.md
— notably: --auth-public "" instead of the JWT minter (no
security-relevant difference for wire-format scenarios), --tls-generate
instead of in-Kotlin cert generation, cargo-install of upstream
binaries instead of an embedded kixelated/moq checkout, and
hang-listen / hang-publish / udp-loss-shim shipped as Phase-1 stubs
that compile + accept --flags but do nothing. Phase 2 fills those
in (and adds JVM Opus encoder/decoder).
Verified green via:
./gradlew :nestsClient:jvmTest \
--tests "com.vitorpamplona.nestsclient.interop.native.*" \
--tests "com.vitorpamplona.nestsclient.audio.PcmAssertionsTest" \
-DnestsHangInterop=true
Default mode (no flag) cleanly skips the harness-dependent test.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01ERJPUYfdLPwZ99pr5EcEcV
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