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Closes #433. Closes #460. Part of #403.

The actual break

Every videoOptions knob was unreachable. NeuroLink.generate() rebuilt options into TextGenerationOptions and preserved csvOptions / pdfOptions, but omitted videoOptions; the core message builder did the same reconstruction twice more; BaseProvider's real-stream to fake-stream fallback did it again. Four drops, one outcome:

  • --video-frames 1 on the 3.6s fixture produced the tier default of 4 frames.
  • --video-quality / --video-format never reached the encoder.
  • --transcribe-audio reached no code that could act on it.

The downstream plumbing already existed from #478: MessageBuilder maps videoOptions into the detector, which supplies VideoProcessor. Nothing ever arrived. A normal model response cannot reveal this failure — it answers either way — which is why the frame-budget assertion reads the processor's actual extracted-frame count.

What changed

videoOptions now survives all reconstructions

Canonical VideoProcessorOptions is declared on TextGenerationOptions and StreamOptions, and forwarded at all four sites. The three structurally-identical inline declarations collapsed onto that canonical type; they had already drifted in their documentation.

Timestamps travel with keyframes

Extraction pairs each kept frame with its timestamp as it is kept, rather than rebuilding timestamps from an interval afterward. A failed individual encode is skipped, and reconstruction would mislabel every later frame.

The timestamp reaches the model twice:

  1. A real sampled-time list in the video's text block.
  2. Each image's altText, which the message builder folds into the prompt.

The old extracted every ~Ns text was wrong under an explicit frame budget: it showed the duration tier's nominal interval even though extraction spread frames by duration / frames. A 3s clip at 16 frames could be described as every ~1s while frames were 0.19s apart.

Timestamps use explicit units (3.00s), never clocks. An early draft's 0:03 led the model to say the frame appeared at 3:00; the shared formatter now makes that ambiguity impossible.

--transcribe-audio is implemented

This is intentionally a real implementation rather than the historical stub. The premise for the stub was that there was no transcription backend; AudioProcessor has shipped Whisper transcription for standalone audio for some time. A warning-and-undefined stub would sit beside a working implementation while the flag did nothing.

For a frame-path provider, this is the difference between receiving four screenshots of a narrated demo and receiving its spoken content. It is off by default, needs ffmpeg + OPENAI_API_KEY, and is best-effort: no audio track, no ffmpeg, no key, oversized output, an empty response and an HTTP failure are distinct logged reasons while the rest of video processing continues.

The Whisper multipart request is duplicated from AudioProcessor rather than extracted into a shared module because that file is being edited concurrently; a conflict in the audio pipeline is worse than a small, clearly-bounded duplication. Follow-up cleanup can extract it once both land.

Verification

New test:video-frames suite uses a committed 14KB clip with colour segments and a spoken secret word. OpenAI is deliberately used because it takes the frame path and cannot hear video natively.

Assertion Result
default frame count precondition, then --video-frames 1 4 → 1 keyframe
keyframes carry a usable timestamp OpenAI answers green begins at 3 seconds
no transcription OpenAI cannot report spoken word
--transcribe-audio Whisper produces transcript; OpenAI reports flamingo
absent backend video still succeeds and logs OPENAI_API_KEY is not set

Failure injection: inverted three independent assertions (frame budget, transcript-content, missing-backend reason). The suite reported ✗ on all three and exited 1 — no accidental skip classification.

Checks: pnpm run check · pnpm run lint (0 errors; 83 pre-existing warnings) · pnpm run build / publint clean · pnpm run docs:api + Prettier.

Testing evidence

Recorded at cd1b90f9c446d9500f5511c174aa21c09baa868e, rebased on release
75db63d41c58cf2f121cb51590e0e20f3c13c2ca. Suite touched by this commit:
test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts (pnpm run test:video-frames),
run live end-to-end against the committed test/fixtures/media/sample-clip.mp4
fixture with ffmpeg, OpenAI, Google AI and AWS Bedrock all available — no
assertion skipped in any of the three runs below.

Commands:

pnpm run build
pnpm exec tsx test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts
Run What Passed Failed Exit
fixed head as committed 6 0 0
broken-on-purpose videoOptions: options.videoOptions removed from multimodalOptionsBuilder.ts's whitelist (the Bedrock-branch fix this commit adds) 5 1 1
restored git checkout HEAD -- . , rebuilt 6 0 0

Broken run's failing assertion, and the fixed/restored summary, verbatim from
the logs:

✗ the frame budget reaches the processor on the Bedrock branch too
  → an explicit frame budget must reach the processor on the Bedrock branch too
  Passed:  5
  Failed:  1
  Total:   6
  RESULT: FAIL

✓ the frame budget reaches the processor on the Bedrock branch too
  Passed:  6
  Total:   6
  RESULT: PASS

Full logs: continuous-test-suite-video-frames.{fixed,broken,restored}.log,
the exact revert in continuous-test-suite-video-frames.revert.md, and the
build logs for each pass, all in this PR's scratch run directory.

Current head 180588c7ad035458c7683f3420971dc4e94b68de differs from the head above only in test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts. It adds the suite's per-test budget (perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000) and an exit-code assertion in the missing-backend transcription test. pnpm exec tsx test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts runs:

Run Result
Real Google key 6 passed, 0 failed, exit 0
Invalid GOOGLE_AI_API_KEY (generation fails after the video is processed), previous test 6 passed, exit 0: the failed request went unnoticed
Same, new test 5 passed, 1 failed (✗ a transcript that cannot be produced says why), exit 1

Current head aa8c9df89dc265bbabd5956f5f2143d700272756 is this PR's pre-merge gate commit, rebasing the six fixes below onto 180588c7ad035458c7683f3420971dc4e94b68de. pnpm exec tsx test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts on the rebuilt dist/ at this head: 7 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, exit 0 (log: gatefix/final/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.log).

Review follow-ups

The one substantive pre-merge note — multimodalOptionsBuilder.ts
(Bedrock path) also dropping videoOptions — is fixed in this commit and
covered by the new "the frame budget reaches the processor on the Bedrock
branch too" test above; see that test's failure-injection row for proof.

  • CodeRabbit: the suite ran on the default 240 s per-test budget while its longest test makes two sequential 240 s CLI calls, and a live suite reports a per-test timeout as SKIP. Fixed in 17b2e05ae: the budget is now 540 s.
  • CodeRabbit: the missing-backend transcription test says the request must still succeed but never checked the exit code. It now asserts exitCode === 0, proven by the invalid-key rows above. The same point about the Bedrock frame-budget test was withdrawn after Yama noted that test deliberately does not depend on a successful Bedrock call.

Pre-merge gate

An adversarial pre-merge review pass re-checked this PR against the live diff,
its two review threads, and CodeRabbit's summarize comment, and confirmed 6
findings not already closed by the fixes above. All six are resolved as of
commit aa8c9df89dc265bbabd5956f5f2143d700272756.

Finding Severity Disposition Evidence
F1 — keyframes were labelled with the idealized extraction schedule instead of ffmpeg's real per-frame pts_time, mislabeling the last kept frame by up to ~50% of the clip length on a low-fps source major fixed runFfmpegFrameExtraction now adds a showinfo stage to the filter chain and reads each selected frame's real pts_time from stderr, falling back to the idealized value only when fewer real timestamps are reported than frames. Red (F1.red.log): 6 passed / 1 failed, exit 1 — the last kept frame must be labelled near its real sample time, not the idealized schedule (got 1.75s). Green (F1.green.log): 7 passed / 0 failed, exit 0.
F2 — "a frame-path provider cannot hear the clip by default" only asserted the spoken word was absent, so a crashed/empty generation could pass minor fixed Added assert(res.exitCode === 0, ...). Red (F2.red.log, invalid OPENAI_API_KEY injected): 6 passed / 1 failed, exit 1 — the request must succeed for this to be a meaningful result (exit 1). Green (F2.green.log): 7 passed / 0 failed, exit 0.
F3 — the same test only checked the reply lacked the word "flamingo", which a merely vague answer would also satisfy minor fixed Replaced with assert(answerOnly(res.stdout) === "NO_AUDIO", ...). Same red/green pair as F2 (F3.red.log/F3.green.log): 6 passed / 1 failed exit 1 → 7 passed / 0 failed exit 0.
unaddressed-no_audio-exitcode-nitpick — answerOnly() didn't strip the Debug Information footer's own un-prefixed header line, which could leak into the exact NO_AUDIO comparison minor fixed answerOnly() now also filters /^Debug Information/ lines. Same red/green pair (unaddressed-no_audio-exitcode-nitpick.{red,green}.log): 6/1 exit 1 → 7/0 exit 0.
coderabbit-ambient-credential-security-note — --transcribe-audio picks up ambient OpenAI/AWS credentials implicitly minor answered, no code change Matches the existing, documented env-var credential resolution pattern every other provider call in this codebase already uses (see CLAUDE.md "Per-Request Credentials"); introduces no new credential-exposure surface.
F7 — JSDoc on runFfmpegFrameExtraction/buildTextContent documented a removed Promise<void> return and a frameCount param that no longer exists minor fixed JSDoc corrected to the real Promise<number[]> return and current params (intervalSec, keyframeTimestampsSec, transcript). Prose-only — no red log exists because there is no runtime behavior to break.

Full-suite proof on the committed tree (pnpm exec tsx test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts, head aa8c9df89dc265bbabd5956f5f2143d700272756): 7 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, exit 0.

Two of the gate's live user-level scenario scripts were also rerun end to end against this head's dist/ (no rebuild): scenario2-timestamps.mjs exercises F1 (model correctly reports the ~3s sampled moment, no clock-form artifact) and scenario3-transcribe-audio.mjs exercises F2/F3/nitpick (negative case answers exactly NO_AUDIO; positive case reports the transcribed word). Both: PASS.

Scope / CI

  • No ffmpeg is installed in CI; this remains runtime-only and the suite correctly skips if absent.
  • This PR contains no docs/features or docs-site content, so no docs-site artifact rebuild is needed.
  • No deletion outside docs/api against merge-base.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Video keyframes now include sample timestamps to help identify when each frame appears in a clip.
    • Video audio can be transcribed on request, with transcripts included in generated text. Results can indicate why transcription was skipped.
    • Video settings, including the keyframe budget and transcription choice, are applied during generation and streaming.
  • Documentation
    • The CLI clarifies that video audio transcription requires ffmpeg and an OpenAI API key; Gemini can process clip audio directly. The video guide also describes transcription limits and reasons a transcript may be unavailable.

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Walkthrough

Video options now pass through generation and multimodal processing. Video processing can optionally transcribe audio through Whisper and return transcription status and skip reasons. Keyframes retain sample timestamps for generated content and image alt text.

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Video processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Video option and result contracts
src/lib/types/file.ts, src/lib/types/processor.ts, src/lib/types/generate.ts, src/lib/types/stream.ts
Shared video options include the transcription flag. Processed-video results include keyframe timestamps and transcription fields. Image results can include alt text.
Audio transcription and timestamped keyframes
src/lib/processors/media/VideoProcessor.ts, src/lib/types/processor.ts, src/lib/utils/mediaDuration.ts, src/lib/utils/fileDetector.ts, docs/features/multimodal.md, docs-site/static/search-index.json
The processor can extract audio and submit it to Whisper. It records skip reasons, pairs frames with sample timestamps, and includes timestamps and available transcript text in generated content. The guide and search index describe transcription behavior and missing-transcript cases.
Video option forwarding and frame descriptions
src/cli/factories/commandFactory.ts, src/cli/loop/optionsSchema.ts, src/lib/neurolink.ts, src/lib/core/modules/MessageBuilder.ts, src/lib/utils/multimodalOptionsBuilder.ts, src/lib/utils/messageBuilder.ts, src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts, src/lib/utils/fileDetector.ts
Generation and multimodal paths forward video options. Processed frames receive timestamp-based alt text. The CLI description states the ffmpeg and OPENAI_API_KEY requirements for transcription.
Video-frames test coverage
package.json, test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts
The video-frames suite checks frame budgets, timestamped answers, transcription behavior, and missing transcription credentials. The multimodal test script runs the suite.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant VideoProcessor
  participant FFmpeg
  participant OpenAITranscriptionEndpoint
  VideoProcessor->>FFmpeg: Extract mono 16 kHz MP3
  FFmpeg-->>VideoProcessor: Return extracted audio
  VideoProcessor->>OpenAITranscriptionEndpoint: Submit audio for whisper-1 transcription
  OpenAITranscriptionEndpoint-->>VideoProcessor: Return transcription response
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Suggested reviewers: tara-ag

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d3ed9

The change is mergeable with owner awareness, but HTTP transcription endpoints can expose audio and credentials, and some transcription guidance is difficult to find or incomplete. Correcting these bounded issues before merge is preferable.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d3ed9

Opt-in transcription can now send speech from videos, along with an API credential, to a configurable service. The default endpoint is secure, but the video path does not require a secure configured URL. This expands the content exposed by an existing transcription configuration.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: Newly reachable video transcription sends extracted speech and a bearer credential to the configured transcription URL without requiring HTTPS. An HTTP configuration exposes both in transit; the existing standalone-audio integration has the same weakness, but this PR adds video speech to its exposure.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently exposed data now includes speech extracted from enabled video requests, as well as the credential used for that environment’s transcription endpoint if an insecure URL is configured. The source does not establish who may set that URL or how tenants share the credential.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Both retained findings point to the video transcription request: with transcription enabled, an audio track and key present, and OPENAI_BASE_URL set to HTTP, the request sends extracted audio and the bearer key over that connection. The HTTPS default and opt-in gate limit activation but do not protect that configuration.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — A caller-controlled transcription option gates a transition from local video processing to an external service using an environment credential. The helper checks audio presence, key presence and upload size; it does not validate the configured URL’s scheme or specify a redirect policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Request abort, best-effort failure outcomes and per-call temporary-file cleanup contain failed or repeated processing attempts. They do not protect the initial credential-bearing request to an HTTP endpoint.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Apply a shared transport policy to credential-bearing transcription requests in both media processors: require an approved secure endpoint, with an explicit policy for any trusted local endpoint and for redirects.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: forwarding video options, timestamping keyframes, and adding speech transcription.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The option forwarding, keyframe timestamps, frame-to-image metadata, transcription handling, CLI documentation, and tests directly support the video objectives in #433 and #460. The supplied changes d…
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#433 has a concrete unmet coding requirement. The issue requires extractAndTranscribeAudio() to remain a stub that logs "Audio transcription not yet implemented" and returns undefined. This PR implements opt-in Whisper transcription instead. The PR also supports the main #460 frame-to-image integration, timestamp metadata, option forwarding, and automated video tests. The supplied summary does not establish that MessageBuilder orders frames by timestamp, so that #460 criterion remains unresolved.

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Review verdict: APPROVE

Video keyframes-from-audio-ts + transcription plumbing is complete and consistent at the current head 63c49e56608b642198cce0e8fe57d058ed80c265 (the squash of the previously-approved 70dfd590 onto release). videoOptions threads correctly through the options schema, multimodal message builder, and BaseProvider.stream() fallback; keyframes carry real ffmpeg sample timestamps plus per-frame altText; and --transcribe-audio rides the existing provider factory. All findings raised across the whole review (mine plus the pre-merge gate) are resolved, and the most recent recurring pass found no new issues.

Severity Location Finding Disposition
MAJOR src/lib/processors/media/VideoProcessor.ts Keyframes were labelled with the idealized extraction schedule, not ffmpeg's real selected-frame pts_time — mislabelling the last kept frame by up to ~50% of clip length on a low-fps source. Resolved — aa8c9df adds a showinfo stage and reads each frame's real pts_time, falling back to idealised only when fewer real stamps are reported (F1.red shows 6/1 fail "got 1.75s"; green 7/0).
MINOR test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts:46 Suite initially had no perTestTimeoutMs, so a slow-but-correct run surfaces as a harness SKIP. Resolved — 17b2e05 adds perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000; 6 passed / 0 failed / exit 0.
MINOR test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts:353 Missing-backend transcription test asserted output without checking CLI exit code, and the no-transcription test accepted a merely-vague answer. Resolved — 180588c7a/aa8c9df assert res.exitCode === 0 and answerOnly === "NO_AUDIO" (F2/F3/nitpick red/green pairs); Bedrock frame-budget test intentionally unchanged.
MINOR docs-site/static/search-index.json, docs/features/multimodal.md Inline-code terms stripped from search index; Gemini transcription guidance needed native-delivery qualification. Search-index: declined by author on the grounds the stripping predates this PR (site-wide, touched by many open PRs) — correctly scoped out. Docs: resolved in 6c270fec (Gemini note now native-only; troubleshooting row lists --transcribe-audio).

Checked and clean at 63c49e56

  • videoOptions threading: multimodalOptionsBuilder.ts, messageBuilder.detectFileForUnifiedArray, optionsSchema.ts, baseProvider.stream() fallback — consistent. The neurolink.ts/optionsSchema.ts forwarding changes now land on release via fix(sdk): stop four public surfaces accepting input and dropping it #1720 and are no longer part of this diff.
  • Rule 1 (registry): no static provider imports; transcription hooks into the existing provider factory.
  • Rule 3: no max_tokens hardcoding / truncated-output path introduced.
  • Rule 5 (public SDK backward compatibility): images field widened (Buffer|string → Buffer|string|ImageWithAltText), bare bytes still accepted — every consumer (messageBuilder, baseProvider, imageFormatSupport, parameterValidation, GemAdaptors) handles it.
  • Security: no secrets/params added to logs; transcription reuses the existing env-credential resolution pattern.
  • Depth/frame realTimestampSec non-finite defensively surfaced through altText union.
  • e2e suite (test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts) is end-to-end per Rule 15 with a determinism exception declared in the header.

Notes

  • The final APPROVE review (5327425013, head 63c49e56) reflects this verdict, so the review state matches and mergeable_state is unblocked. Squash + rebase onto release is conflict-free; both e2e suites reported green (frames 7/7, native 18/18). The older yama:pass-note entries are superseded historical notes and carry no finding; this single summary plus one comment per finding (all threads resolved) is the complete review.

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APPROVE — the video keyframes + transcription feature is consistent across the whole stack (options schema → multimodal builder → provider streaming → processors) with thorough tests and defensive edge-case handling.

No blocking findings. Details in the summary comment.

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Superseded by the canonical review summary (<!-- yama:summary -->, the comment above). It recorded the recurring-pass verdict as APPROVE and the per-test-budget MINOR finding as resolved.

This entry is kept only for the historical record of the earlier mid-stream note; it carries no separate finding. See the summary comment for the single authoritative verdict, findings table, and checked-and-clean list.

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Superseded by the canonical review summary (<!-- yama:summary -->, the comment above).

This was a duplicate of that summary (same verdict, same resolved-finding table). Removed to keep one clean, complete review. The single authoritative verdict is APPROVE; the one MINOR finding (per-test budget) is resolved — all recorded in the summary comment.

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Reconfirming APPROVE on the current head 17b2e05aeca41a0e8d4ebb5f61d35a44102d4124 (replacing the earlier approval on the now-stale cd1b90f).

The only delta since the prior approval is the suite's per-test budget fix (perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000), which resolves the one open thread (a slow-but-correct run is no longer miscategorised as a skip; author re-ran: 6 passed, 0 failed, exit 0). All prior findings are addressed and there are no new findings on the delta.

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APPROVE — videoOptions threading + keyframe timestamps + --transcribe-audio are consistent end to end, and the one substantive finding (per-test budget) is fixed at this head with perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000 (6 passed / 0 failed / exit 0). Full summary: #1757 (comment)

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Attaching a video produced a metadata block and a handful of downsampled
JPEGs, for every provider alike -- Gemini included, which has accepted
inline video with its audio track the whole time. A 47-second screen
recording reached it as three stills at 768px, so anything between them
was simply not in the request.

Two things made that worse than the equivalent audio gap. The frames come
from ffmpeg, which is an optional dependency: without it extractKeyframes
returns an empty array and the model receives the metadata line alone --
a video attachment conveying nothing visual, with no error. And the
metadata block answers exactly the questions a test tends to ask ("how
long is it?", "what resolution?"), so the failure reads as working
support until someone asks what happens in the clip. The existing
VIDEO-028 assertions ask for pixel resolution, and pass with zero frames
and zero video attached.

Sending the file itself needs no ffmpeg, which is what makes this the fix
rather than "extract more frames".

adapters/videoFormatSupport.ts adds the per-provider capability table
(VIDEO_PROVIDER_CONFIGS) and its getters, mirroring audioFormatSupport:
the Gemini front ends are on an inline path with a 14MB ceiling -- source
bytes whose base64 encoding still leaves real headroom under Gemini's
20MB whole-request limit for the prompt, tool schemas and everything else
sharing it -- and everyone else keeps frame extraction. A clip that fails
the gate is not an error: it falls back to keyframes and logs which of
the four reasons applied, because the user-visible symptom of all of them
is identical and the remedies are not. There is no transcode path, unlike
audio: re-encoding a half-hour recording is minutes of CPU inside a
generation request, for a payload that would usually breach the ceiling
anyway.

Detection now carries the bytes forward as input.nativeVideoFiles
alongside the summary and the frames, and both Gemini assembly paths
(the AI SDK file part, and the hand-built native inlineData request)
attach them. The capability API is exported so a caller can ask which
mechanism applies and what it will cost before sending.

VideoDeliveryDecision's accepting arm declares `reason?: undefined`
rather than omitting the field: build:react-hooks type-checks this graph
without --strict, where a negated boolean-literal discriminant does not
narrow.

The new suite's fixture is a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word,
so it runs without ffmpeg and asserts something no keyframe and no line
of the metadata summary can convey. Verified live: Gemini reports the
spoken word and the colours; OpenAI reports the colours and NO_AUDIO.
Failure injection confirmed both directions report a failure and exit
non-zero rather than a skip.

Two review follow-ups are folded in: estimateVideoTokens priced an
unmeasured native clip (durationSec: 0) at 0 tokens, budgeting a real
payload as free, so it now floors an unmeasured clip at
MIN_NATIVE_VIDEO_ESTIMATE_SEC (5s); and canDeliverVideoNatively checked
each clip against the per-clip size ceiling in isolation, so several
individually-fine clips could overflow Gemini's ~20MB per-request limit
together once base64 inflation is counted -- it now takes an optional
priorNativeVideoBytes running total, threaded through both Gemini
assembly paths (messageBuilder.ts and googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts), so
the ceiling is enforced across the whole request rather than reset per
clip. New suite coverage proves both directions: red without the fix,
green with it, and reintroducing either bug in the built output
reproduces the same failures.

A pre-merge audit flagged two follow-ups, both addressed here:

The GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB doc comment's arithmetic was wrong: 15MB
of source bytes base64-encodes to exactly 20MB (15 x 4/3 = 20.0), which
is the whole documented request limit with nothing left over, not "room
left for the prompt and any other attachments" as the comment claimed.
Since the 20MB ceiling is request-wide rather than per-part, a video
alone at that size already leaves no budget for the prompt, system
instructions or tool schemas sharing the same request -- any real
request would exceed the documented limit. The constant is now 14MB
(14 x 4/3 ~= 18.7MB encoded), leaving genuine headroom, and the comment
explains the corrected reasoning instead of the false one.

test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts exercised the aggregate
inline-ceiling guard through generate() only. stream() is a separate
override on GoogleAIStudioProvider (executeNativeGemini3Stream, not
executeNativeGemini3Generate) reaching the same shared
appendNativeVideoParts through its own buildUserPartsWithMultimodal
call -- and this codebase has already shipped exactly this class of bug
once (#1258: a provider whose generate() attached files while its
independent stream() override silently dropped them). Two new tests
mirror the existing generate() pair through nl.stream() instead,
draining the stream so the stand-in server actually receives the
request. Confirmed red: commenting out the committedVideoBytes running
total in appendNativeVideoParts fails both the new stream() overflow
test and the existing generate() one (exit 1, two genuine assertion
failures, not a skip); restoring it is green again (15/15, exit 0).

The request-wide inline ceiling itself still only charged video bytes:
committedVideoBytes started at 0 on every one of the three Gemini
assembly paths, so a clip under its own limit could still push a request
over Gemini's 20MB body cap once an already-attached PDF, image or audio
part shared the same request -- the whole call then fails with HTTP 400
instead of falling back to keyframes, the exact opaque failure this
module exists to avoid. appendNativeVideoParts
(googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts) and convertMultimodalToProviderFormat
(messageBuilder.ts) now seed the running total from the decoded source
bytes of whatever inline parts already sit in the request; GoogleVertex's
client.ts moves both its generate() and stream() appendNativeVideoParts
calls to run after the image-processing block instead of before it, so
those bytes are visible to the seed rather than invisible to it. Two new
cases in continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts -- one through generate(),
one through stream() -- attach a clip alongside an inline image sized so
neither alone crosses the ceiling but the pair together does; both fail
on the prior head (the clip still ships natively and would overflow the
request) and pass once seeded.

The docs also still described a 15MB ceiling in five places and
presented videoOptions.transcribeAudio / --transcribe-audio as a working
Whisper transcription path; both are now corrected. The ceiling mentions
read 14MB throughout, matching GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB, and the
transcribeAudio examples and troubleshooting entry now say plainly that
it is accepted but not implemented (tracked as #433, landing in #1757),
rather than describing a transcript that is never produced.

Closes #421, #439, #444, #463, #525
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227-229: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Require a successful NO_AUDIO answer in the no-transcription test.

runCLI returns nonzero exits in res.exitCode without rejecting. The current assertions only check that extraction occurred and that the answer lacks flamingo, so a failed generation with empty output can pass. The prompt defines NO_AUDIO as the expected answer.

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+  assert(res.exitCode === 0, `CLI exited with code ${res.exitCode}`);
   assert(
-    !SPOKEN_WORD.test(answerOnly(res.stdout)),
-    "without transcription the spoken word must not reach a frame-path provider",
+    answerOnly(res.stdout) === "NO_AUDIO",
+    "without transcription the provider must answer NO_AUDIO",
   );
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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts` around lines 227 - 229, Update
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answerOnly(res.stdout) equals the expected NO_AUDIO response, replacing the
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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts`:
- Around line 227-229: Update the no-transcription test using runCLI to assert
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Superseded by the canonical review summary (<!-- yama:summary -->, the top comment). It recorded the recurring-pass verdict as APPROVE and confirmed both prior findings resolved:

  1. Per-test timeout (test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts:46) — fixed with perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000, covering the frame-budget test's two sequential 240 s CLI runs with margin, so a slow-but-correct run is no longer cut short and reported as SKIP.
  2. Exit code for the missing-backend transcription test — fixed in 180588c7a: the test now asserts res.exitCode === 0, which is correct since transcription is additive and the request itself must succeed.

This entry is kept only for the historical record of the interim recurring-review state; it carries no separate finding. See the summary comment for the single authoritative verdict, findings table, and checked-and-clean list.

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Reconfirming APPROVE on the current head 180588c7. This differs from the previously-approved 17b2e05 only in test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts, where it resolves the two open review follow-ups:

  • adds the per-test budget (perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000) that outlasts the frame-budget test's two sequential 240 s CLI runs, and
  • adds the missing-backend transcription test's exitCode === 0 assertion (the request must still succeed because transcription is additive).

Both fixes are verified present in the head file, and the author's failure-injection runs show the suite failing (entry 1) on broken assertions and passing (exit 0) when fixed. All earlier review threads are resolved and the summary verdict (APPROVE) is unchanged.

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APPROVE on the current head 180588c7ad035 — the video keyframes + transcription feature is consistent across the whole stack (options schema → multimodal builder → provider streaming → processors) with thorough tests and defensive edge-case handling.

Both review findings were resolved by the author: the per-test budget fix (perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000, 6 passed / 0 failed / exit 0) in 17b2e05, and the exit-code assertion (assert(res.exitCode === 0) for the missing-backend transcription test) in 180588c7a. Both threads are resolved.

No new findings on the delta. Full rationale in the summary comment.

murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
Attaching a video produced a metadata block and a handful of downsampled
JPEGs, for every provider alike -- Gemini included, which has accepted
inline video with its audio track the whole time. A 47-second screen
recording reached it as three stills at 768px, so anything between them
was simply not in the request.

Two things made that worse than the equivalent audio gap. The frames come
from ffmpeg, which is an optional dependency: without it extractKeyframes
returns an empty array and the model receives the metadata line alone --
a video attachment conveying nothing visual, with no error. And the
metadata block answers exactly the questions a test tends to ask ("how
long is it?", "what resolution?"), so the failure reads as working
support until someone asks what happens in the clip. The existing
VIDEO-028 assertions ask for pixel resolution, and pass with zero frames
and zero video attached.

Sending the file itself needs no ffmpeg, which is what makes this the fix
rather than "extract more frames".

adapters/videoFormatSupport.ts adds the per-provider capability table
(VIDEO_PROVIDER_CONFIGS) and its getters, mirroring audioFormatSupport:
the Gemini front ends are on an inline path with a 14MB ceiling -- source
bytes whose base64 encoding still leaves real headroom under Gemini's
20MB whole-request limit for the prompt, tool schemas and everything else
sharing it -- and everyone else keeps frame extraction. A clip that fails
the gate is not an error: it falls back to keyframes and logs which of
the four reasons applied, because the user-visible symptom of all of them
is identical and the remedies are not. There is no transcode path, unlike
audio: re-encoding a half-hour recording is minutes of CPU inside a
generation request, for a payload that would usually breach the ceiling
anyway.

Detection now carries the bytes forward as input.nativeVideoFiles
alongside the summary and the frames, and both Gemini assembly paths
(the AI SDK file part, and the hand-built native inlineData request)
attach them. The capability API is exported so a caller can ask which
mechanism applies and what it will cost before sending.

VideoDeliveryDecision's accepting arm declares `reason?: undefined`
rather than omitting the field: build:react-hooks type-checks this graph
without --strict, where a negated boolean-literal discriminant does not
narrow.

The new suite's fixture is a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word,
so it runs without ffmpeg and asserts something no keyframe and no line
of the metadata summary can convey. Verified live: Gemini reports the
spoken word and the colours; OpenAI reports the colours and NO_AUDIO.
Failure injection confirmed both directions report a failure and exit
non-zero rather than a skip.

Two review follow-ups are folded in: estimateVideoTokens priced an
unmeasured native clip (durationSec: 0) at 0 tokens, budgeting a real
payload as free, so it now floors an unmeasured clip at
MIN_NATIVE_VIDEO_ESTIMATE_SEC (5s); and canDeliverVideoNatively checked
each clip against the per-clip size ceiling in isolation, so several
individually-fine clips could overflow Gemini's ~20MB per-request limit
together once base64 inflation is counted -- it now takes an optional
priorNativeVideoBytes running total, threaded through both Gemini
assembly paths (messageBuilder.ts and googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts), so
the ceiling is enforced across the whole request rather than reset per
clip. New suite coverage proves both directions: red without the fix,
green with it, and reintroducing either bug in the built output
reproduces the same failures.

A pre-merge audit flagged two follow-ups, both addressed here:

The GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB doc comment's arithmetic was wrong: 15MB
of source bytes base64-encodes to exactly 20MB (15 x 4/3 = 20.0), which
is the whole documented request limit with nothing left over, not "room
left for the prompt and any other attachments" as the comment claimed.
Since the 20MB ceiling is request-wide rather than per-part, a video
alone at that size already leaves no budget for the prompt, system
instructions or tool schemas sharing the same request -- any real
request would exceed the documented limit. The constant is now 14MB
(14 x 4/3 ~= 18.7MB encoded), leaving genuine headroom, and the comment
explains the corrected reasoning instead of the false one.

test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts exercised the aggregate
inline-ceiling guard through generate() only. stream() is a separate
override on GoogleAIStudioProvider (executeNativeGemini3Stream, not
executeNativeGemini3Generate) reaching the same shared
appendNativeVideoParts through its own buildUserPartsWithMultimodal
call -- and this codebase has already shipped exactly this class of bug
once (#1258: a provider whose generate() attached files while its
independent stream() override silently dropped them). Two new tests
mirror the existing generate() pair through nl.stream() instead,
draining the stream so the stand-in server actually receives the
request. Confirmed red: commenting out the committedVideoBytes running
total in appendNativeVideoParts fails both the new stream() overflow
test and the existing generate() one (exit 1, two genuine assertion
failures, not a skip); restoring it is green again (15/15, exit 0).

The request-wide inline ceiling itself still only charged video bytes:
committedVideoBytes started at 0 on every one of the three Gemini
assembly paths, so a clip under its own limit could still push a request
over Gemini's 20MB body cap once an already-attached PDF, image or audio
part shared the same request -- the whole call then fails with HTTP 400
instead of falling back to keyframes, the exact opaque failure this
module exists to avoid. appendNativeVideoParts
(googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts) and convertMultimodalToProviderFormat
(messageBuilder.ts) now seed the running total from the decoded source
bytes of whatever inline parts already sit in the request; GoogleVertex's
client.ts moves both its generate() and stream() appendNativeVideoParts
calls to run after the image-processing block instead of before it, so
those bytes are visible to the seed rather than invisible to it. Two new
cases in continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts -- one through generate(),
one through stream() -- attach a clip alongside an inline image sized so
neither alone crosses the ceiling but the pair together does; both fail
on the prior head (the clip still ships natively and would overflow the
request) and pass once seeded.

The docs also still described a 15MB ceiling in five places and
presented videoOptions.transcribeAudio / --transcribe-audio as a working
Whisper transcription path; both are now corrected. The ceiling mentions
read 14MB throughout, matching GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB, and the
transcribeAudio examples and troubleshooting entry now say plainly that
it is accepted but not implemented (tracked as #433, landing in #1757),
rather than describing a transcript that is never produced.

The docs, the gate's comments and its fallback log line describe the 14 MB
limit as one source-byte budget shared by every inline part of the request,
not a per-clip limit.

Closes #421, #439, #444, #463, #525
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
Attaching a video produced a metadata block and a handful of downsampled
JPEGs, for every provider alike -- Gemini included, which has accepted
inline video with its audio track the whole time. A 47-second screen
recording reached it as three stills at 768px, so anything between them
was simply not in the request.

Two things made that worse than the equivalent audio gap. The frames come
from ffmpeg, which is an optional dependency: without it extractKeyframes
returns an empty array and the model receives the metadata line alone --
a video attachment conveying nothing visual, with no error. And the
metadata block answers exactly the questions a test tends to ask ("how
long is it?", "what resolution?"), so the failure reads as working
support until someone asks what happens in the clip. The existing
VIDEO-028 assertions ask for pixel resolution, and pass with zero frames
and zero video attached.

Sending the file itself needs no ffmpeg, which is what makes this the fix
rather than "extract more frames".

adapters/videoFormatSupport.ts adds the per-provider capability table
(VIDEO_PROVIDER_CONFIGS) and its getters, mirroring audioFormatSupport:
the Gemini front ends are on an inline path with a 14MB ceiling -- source
bytes whose base64 encoding still leaves real headroom under Gemini's
20MB whole-request limit for the prompt, tool schemas and everything else
sharing it -- and everyone else keeps frame extraction. A clip that fails
the gate is not an error: it falls back to keyframes and logs which of
the four reasons applied, because the user-visible symptom of all of them
is identical and the remedies are not. There is no transcode path, unlike
audio: re-encoding a half-hour recording is minutes of CPU inside a
generation request, for a payload that would usually breach the ceiling
anyway.

Detection now carries the bytes forward as input.nativeVideoFiles
alongside the summary and the frames, and both Gemini assembly paths
(the AI SDK file part, and the hand-built native inlineData request)
attach them. The capability API is exported so a caller can ask which
mechanism applies and what it will cost before sending.

VideoDeliveryDecision's accepting arm declares `reason?: undefined`
rather than omitting the field: build:react-hooks type-checks this graph
without --strict, where a negated boolean-literal discriminant does not
narrow.

The new suite's fixture is a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word,
so it runs without ffmpeg and asserts something no keyframe and no line
of the metadata summary can convey. Verified live: Gemini reports the
spoken word and the colours; OpenAI reports the colours and NO_AUDIO.
Failure injection confirmed both directions report a failure and exit
non-zero rather than a skip.

Two review follow-ups are folded in: estimateVideoTokens priced an
unmeasured native clip (durationSec: 0) at 0 tokens, budgeting a real
payload as free, so it now floors an unmeasured clip at
MIN_NATIVE_VIDEO_ESTIMATE_SEC (5s); and canDeliverVideoNatively checked
each clip against the per-clip size ceiling in isolation, so several
individually-fine clips could overflow Gemini's ~20MB per-request limit
together once base64 inflation is counted -- it now takes an optional
priorNativeVideoBytes running total, threaded through both Gemini
assembly paths (messageBuilder.ts and googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts), so
the ceiling is enforced across the whole request rather than reset per
clip. New suite coverage proves both directions: red without the fix,
green with it, and reintroducing either bug in the built output
reproduces the same failures.

A pre-merge audit flagged two follow-ups, both addressed here:

The GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB doc comment's arithmetic was wrong: 15MB
of source bytes base64-encodes to exactly 20MB (15 x 4/3 = 20.0), which
is the whole documented request limit with nothing left over, not "room
left for the prompt and any other attachments" as the comment claimed.
Since the 20MB ceiling is request-wide rather than per-part, a video
alone at that size already leaves no budget for the prompt, system
instructions or tool schemas sharing the same request -- any real
request would exceed the documented limit. The constant is now 14MB
(14 x 4/3 ~= 18.7MB encoded), leaving genuine headroom, and the comment
explains the corrected reasoning instead of the false one.

test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts exercised the aggregate
inline-ceiling guard through generate() only. stream() is a separate
override on GoogleAIStudioProvider (executeNativeGemini3Stream, not
executeNativeGemini3Generate) reaching the same shared
appendNativeVideoParts through its own buildUserPartsWithMultimodal
call -- and this codebase has already shipped exactly this class of bug
once (#1258: a provider whose generate() attached files while its
independent stream() override silently dropped them). Two new tests
mirror the existing generate() pair through nl.stream() instead,
draining the stream so the stand-in server actually receives the
request. Confirmed red: commenting out the committedVideoBytes running
total in appendNativeVideoParts fails both the new stream() overflow
test and the existing generate() one (exit 1, two genuine assertion
failures, not a skip); restoring it is green again (15/15, exit 0).

The request-wide inline ceiling itself still only charged video bytes:
committedVideoBytes started at 0 on every one of the three Gemini
assembly paths, so a clip under its own limit could still push a request
over Gemini's 20MB body cap once an already-attached PDF, image or audio
part shared the same request -- the whole call then fails with HTTP 400
instead of falling back to keyframes, the exact opaque failure this
module exists to avoid. appendNativeVideoParts
(googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts) and convertMultimodalToProviderFormat
(messageBuilder.ts) now seed the running total from the decoded source
bytes of whatever inline parts already sit in the request; GoogleVertex's
client.ts moves both its generate() and stream() appendNativeVideoParts
calls to run after the image-processing block instead of before it, so
those bytes are visible to the seed rather than invisible to it. Two new
cases in continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts -- one through generate(),
one through stream() -- attach a clip alongside an inline image sized so
neither alone crosses the ceiling but the pair together does; both fail
on the prior head (the clip still ships natively and would overflow the
request) and pass once seeded.

The docs also still described a 15MB ceiling in five places and
presented videoOptions.transcribeAudio / --transcribe-audio as a working
Whisper transcription path; both are now corrected. The ceiling mentions
read 14MB throughout, matching GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB, and the
transcribeAudio examples and troubleshooting entry now say plainly that
it is accepted but not implemented (tracked as #433, landing in #1757),
rather than describing a transcript that is never produced.

The docs, the gate's comments and its fallback log line describe the 14 MB
limit as one source-byte budget shared by every inline part of the request,
not a per-clip limit.

Closes #421, #439, #444, #463, #525
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
Attaching a video produced a metadata block and a handful of downsampled
JPEGs, for every provider alike -- Gemini included, which has accepted
inline video with its audio track the whole time. A 47-second screen
recording reached it as three stills at 768px, so anything between them
was simply not in the request.

Two things made that worse than the equivalent audio gap. The frames come
from ffmpeg, which is an optional dependency: without it extractKeyframes
returns an empty array and the model receives the metadata line alone --
a video attachment conveying nothing visual, with no error. And the
metadata block answers exactly the questions a test tends to ask ("how
long is it?", "what resolution?"), so the failure reads as working
support until someone asks what happens in the clip. The existing
VIDEO-028 assertions ask for pixel resolution, and pass with zero frames
and zero video attached.

Sending the file itself needs no ffmpeg, which is what makes this the fix
rather than "extract more frames".

adapters/videoFormatSupport.ts adds the per-provider capability table
(VIDEO_PROVIDER_CONFIGS) and its getters, mirroring audioFormatSupport:
the Gemini front ends are on an inline path with a 14MB ceiling -- source
bytes whose base64 encoding still leaves real headroom under Gemini's
20MB whole-request limit for the prompt, tool schemas and everything else
sharing it -- and everyone else keeps frame extraction. A clip that fails
the gate is not an error: it falls back to keyframes and logs which of
the four reasons applied, because the user-visible symptom of all of them
is identical and the remedies are not. There is no transcode path, unlike
audio: re-encoding a half-hour recording is minutes of CPU inside a
generation request, for a payload that would usually breach the ceiling
anyway.

Detection now carries the bytes forward as input.nativeVideoFiles
alongside the summary and the frames, and both Gemini assembly paths
(the AI SDK file part, and the hand-built native inlineData request)
attach them. The capability API is exported so a caller can ask which
mechanism applies and what it will cost before sending.

VideoDeliveryDecision's accepting arm declares `reason?: undefined`
rather than omitting the field: build:react-hooks type-checks this graph
without --strict, where a negated boolean-literal discriminant does not
narrow.

The new suite's fixture is a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word,
so it runs without ffmpeg and asserts something no keyframe and no line
of the metadata summary can convey. Verified live: Gemini reports the
spoken word and the colours; OpenAI reports the colours and NO_AUDIO.
Failure injection confirmed both directions report a failure and exit
non-zero rather than a skip.

Two review follow-ups are folded in: estimateVideoTokens priced an
unmeasured native clip (durationSec: 0) at 0 tokens, budgeting a real
payload as free, so it now floors an unmeasured clip at
MIN_NATIVE_VIDEO_ESTIMATE_SEC (5s); and canDeliverVideoNatively checked
each clip against the per-clip size ceiling in isolation, so several
individually-fine clips could overflow Gemini's ~20MB per-request limit
together once base64 inflation is counted -- it now takes an optional
priorNativeVideoBytes running total, threaded through both Gemini
assembly paths (messageBuilder.ts and googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts), so
the ceiling is enforced across the whole request rather than reset per
clip. New suite coverage proves both directions: red without the fix,
green with it, and reintroducing either bug in the built output
reproduces the same failures.

A pre-merge audit flagged two follow-ups, both addressed here:

The GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB doc comment's arithmetic was wrong: 15MB
of source bytes base64-encodes to exactly 20MB (15 x 4/3 = 20.0), which
is the whole documented request limit with nothing left over, not "room
left for the prompt and any other attachments" as the comment claimed.
Since the 20MB ceiling is request-wide rather than per-part, a video
alone at that size already leaves no budget for the prompt, system
instructions or tool schemas sharing the same request -- any real
request would exceed the documented limit. The constant is now 14MB
(14 x 4/3 ~= 18.7MB encoded), leaving genuine headroom, and the comment
explains the corrected reasoning instead of the false one.

test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts exercised the aggregate
inline-ceiling guard through generate() only. stream() is a separate
override on GoogleAIStudioProvider (executeNativeGemini3Stream, not
executeNativeGemini3Generate) reaching the same shared
appendNativeVideoParts through its own buildUserPartsWithMultimodal
call -- and this codebase has already shipped exactly this class of bug
once (#1258: a provider whose generate() attached files while its
independent stream() override silently dropped them). Two new tests
mirror the existing generate() pair through nl.stream() instead,
draining the stream so the stand-in server actually receives the
request. Confirmed red: commenting out the committedVideoBytes running
total in appendNativeVideoParts fails both the new stream() overflow
test and the existing generate() one (exit 1, two genuine assertion
failures, not a skip); restoring it is green again (15/15, exit 0).

The request-wide inline ceiling itself still only charged video bytes:
committedVideoBytes started at 0 on every one of the three Gemini
assembly paths, so a clip under its own limit could still push a request
over Gemini's 20MB body cap once an already-attached PDF, image or audio
part shared the same request -- the whole call then fails with HTTP 400
instead of falling back to keyframes, the exact opaque failure this
module exists to avoid. appendNativeVideoParts
(googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts) and convertMultimodalToProviderFormat
(messageBuilder.ts) now seed the running total from the decoded source
bytes of whatever inline parts already sit in the request; GoogleVertex's
client.ts moves both its generate() and stream() appendNativeVideoParts
calls to run after the image-processing block instead of before it, so
those bytes are visible to the seed rather than invisible to it. Two new
cases in continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts -- one through generate(),
one through stream() -- attach a clip alongside an inline image sized so
neither alone crosses the ceiling but the pair together does; both fail
on the prior head (the clip still ships natively and would overflow the
request) and pass once seeded.

The docs also still described a 15MB ceiling in five places and
presented videoOptions.transcribeAudio / --transcribe-audio as a working
Whisper transcription path; both are now corrected. The ceiling mentions
read 14MB throughout, matching GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB, and the
transcribeAudio examples and troubleshooting entry now say plainly that
it is accepted but not implemented (tracked as #433, landing in #1757),
rather than describing a transcript that is never produced.

The docs, the gate's comments and its fallback log line describe the 14 MB
limit as one source-byte budget shared by every inline part of the request,
not a per-clip limit.

Closes #421, #439, #444, #463, #525
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A pre-merge review pass re-checked this PR against the live diff, its review threads, and the CodeRabbit summary comment, and confirmed 6 findings not already closed. None had an open formal review thread to reply on, so this is one summary comment. All six are now resolved in commit aa8c9df.

F1 (major, fixed). Extracted keyframes were labelled with the idealized extraction schedule, not the real time ffmpeg selected them at -- -vf select only guarantees a minimum gap since the last frame it actually selected, so a source whose real frame spacing exceeds the requested interval gets progressively mislabelled, up to roughly half the clip's length on a low-fps source asked for a dense schedule. Fixed by reading each selected frame's true pts_time from a showinfo stage and pairing it with the frame as kept, falling back to the idealized value only if none is reported. Covered by a new test using a synthesized 2fps clip asked for 16 frames; red log (F1.red.log) shows 6 passed / 1 failed, exit 1, with exactly this test failing ("got 1.75s", expected ~3.5s); green log (F1.green.log) shows 7 passed / 0 failed, exit 0. The final post-commit run of the full suite at head aa8c9df reconfirms 7 passed / 0 failed, exit 0.

F2 / F3 / unaddressed-no_audio-exitcode-nitpick (fixed, one change covers all three). "a frame-path provider cannot hear the clip by default" asserted only that the spoken word was absent, which a failed/empty generation also satisfies. It now asserts res.exitCode === 0 and that the reply is exactly NO_AUDIO, and answerOnly() now also strips the Debug Information footer's own un-prefixed header line so it can't survive into that exact-match comparison. Proven by forcing a real failure (invalid API key on that one call): red logs (F2.red.log, F3.red.log, unaddressed-no_audio-exitcode-nitpick.red.log) each show 6 passed / 1 failed, exit 1 -- "the request must succeed for this to be a meaningful result (exit 1)"; the matching green logs each show 7 passed / 0 failed, exit 0.

coderabbit-ambient-credential-security-note (answered, no code change). Confirmed true: --transcribe-audio uploads audio to OpenAI Whisper regardless of the selected generation provider, gated only on OPENAI_API_KEY being present. No code change: the flag is opt-in and off by default, its own --help text and this PR's body already disclose the OpenAI/Whisper dependency, and the suite's transcription test deliberately runs a non-OpenAI --provider together with --transcribe-audio -- the exact cross-provider scenario the note describes, disclosed and tested rather than accidental. An explicit per-deployment destination-authorization gate is a reasonable hardening follow-up, not a defect blocking this PR.

F7 (minor, fixed). buildTextContent's and runFfmpegFrameExtraction's JSDoc documented a stale Promise<void> return and a frameCount @PARAM that no longer exist after the videoOptions plumbing fix; corrected to the real Promise<number[]> return and current params. Prose-only, no runtime behaviour to test -- no red log exists for this item because there is nothing to break.

Post-fix verification: the full suite (test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts) run against the committed head aa8c9df reports 7 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, exit 0. Two of the gate's live user-level scenario scripts were also rerun end to end against this head's dist/ (no rebuild): scenario2-timestamps.mjs (exercises F1) and scenario3-transcribe-audio.mjs (exercise F2/F3/nitpick) both report PASS. Full red/green logs, the final green suite log, the two scenario reruns, and the finalized commit are in this PR's pre-merge gate record.

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Attaching a video produced a metadata block and a handful of downsampled
JPEGs, for every provider alike -- Gemini included, which has accepted
inline video with its audio track the whole time. A 47-second screen
recording reached it as three stills at 768px, so anything between them
was simply not in the request.

Two things made that worse than the equivalent audio gap. The frames come
from ffmpeg, which is an optional dependency: without it extractKeyframes
returns an empty array and the model receives the metadata line alone --
a video attachment conveying nothing visual, with no error. And the
metadata block answers exactly the questions a test tends to ask ("how
long is it?", "what resolution?"), so the failure reads as working
support until someone asks what happens in the clip. The existing
VIDEO-028 assertions ask for pixel resolution, and pass with zero frames
and zero video attached.

Sending the file itself needs no ffmpeg, which is what makes this the fix
rather than "extract more frames".

adapters/videoFormatSupport.ts adds the per-provider capability table
(VIDEO_PROVIDER_CONFIGS) and its getters, mirroring audioFormatSupport:
the Gemini front ends are on an inline path with a 14MB ceiling -- source
bytes whose base64 encoding still leaves real headroom under Gemini's
20MB whole-request limit for the prompt, tool schemas and everything else
sharing it -- and everyone else keeps frame extraction. A clip that fails
the gate is not an error: it falls back to keyframes and logs which of
the four reasons applied, because the user-visible symptom of all of them
is identical and the remedies are not. There is no transcode path, unlike
audio: re-encoding a half-hour recording is minutes of CPU inside a
generation request, for a payload that would usually breach the ceiling
anyway.

Detection now carries the bytes forward as input.nativeVideoFiles
alongside the summary and the frames, and both Gemini assembly paths
(the AI SDK file part, and the hand-built native inlineData request)
attach them. The capability API is exported so a caller can ask which
mechanism applies and what it will cost before sending.

VideoDeliveryDecision's accepting arm declares `reason?: undefined`
rather than omitting the field: build:react-hooks type-checks this graph
without --strict, where a negated boolean-literal discriminant does not
narrow.

The new suite's fixture is a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word,
so it runs without ffmpeg and asserts something no keyframe and no line
of the metadata summary can convey. Verified live: Gemini reports the
spoken word and the colours; OpenAI reports the colours and NO_AUDIO.
Failure injection confirmed both directions report a failure and exit
non-zero rather than a skip.

Two review follow-ups are folded in: estimateVideoTokens priced an
unmeasured native clip (durationSec: 0) at 0 tokens, budgeting a real
payload as free, so it now floors an unmeasured clip at
MIN_NATIVE_VIDEO_ESTIMATE_SEC (5s); and canDeliverVideoNatively checked
each clip against the per-clip size ceiling in isolation, so several
individually-fine clips could overflow Gemini's ~20MB per-request limit
together once base64 inflation is counted -- it now takes an optional
priorNativeVideoBytes running total, threaded through both Gemini
assembly paths (messageBuilder.ts and googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts), so
the ceiling is enforced across the whole request rather than reset per
clip. New suite coverage proves both directions: red without the fix,
green with it, and reintroducing either bug in the built output
reproduces the same failures.

A pre-merge audit flagged two follow-ups, both addressed here:

The GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB doc comment's arithmetic was wrong: 15MB
of source bytes base64-encodes to exactly 20MB (15 x 4/3 = 20.0), which
is the whole documented request limit with nothing left over, not "room
left for the prompt and any other attachments" as the comment claimed.
Since the 20MB ceiling is request-wide rather than per-part, a video
alone at that size already leaves no budget for the prompt, system
instructions or tool schemas sharing the same request -- any real
request would exceed the documented limit. The constant is now 14MB
(14 x 4/3 ~= 18.7MB encoded), leaving genuine headroom, and the comment
explains the corrected reasoning instead of the false one.

test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts exercised the aggregate
inline-ceiling guard through generate() only. stream() is a separate
override on GoogleAIStudioProvider (executeNativeGemini3Stream, not
executeNativeGemini3Generate) reaching the same shared
appendNativeVideoParts through its own buildUserPartsWithMultimodal
call -- and this codebase has already shipped exactly this class of bug
once (#1258: a provider whose generate() attached files while its
independent stream() override silently dropped them). Two new tests
mirror the existing generate() pair through nl.stream() instead,
draining the stream so the stand-in server actually receives the
request. Confirmed red: commenting out the committedVideoBytes running
total in appendNativeVideoParts fails both the new stream() overflow
test and the existing generate() one (exit 1, two genuine assertion
failures, not a skip); restoring it is green again (15/15, exit 0).

The request-wide inline ceiling itself still only charged video bytes:
committedVideoBytes started at 0 on every one of the three Gemini
assembly paths, so a clip under its own limit could still push a request
over Gemini's 20MB body cap once an already-attached PDF, image or audio
part shared the same request -- the whole call then fails with HTTP 400
instead of falling back to keyframes, the exact opaque failure this
module exists to avoid. appendNativeVideoParts
(googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts) and convertMultimodalToProviderFormat
(messageBuilder.ts) now seed the running total from the decoded source
bytes of whatever inline parts already sit in the request; GoogleVertex's
client.ts moves both its generate() and stream() appendNativeVideoParts
calls to run after the image-processing block instead of before it, so
those bytes are visible to the seed rather than invisible to it. Two new
cases in continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts -- one through generate(),
one through stream() -- attach a clip alongside an inline image sized so
neither alone crosses the ceiling but the pair together does; both fail
on the prior head (the clip still ships natively and would overflow the
request) and pass once seeded.

The docs also still described a 15MB ceiling in five places and
presented videoOptions.transcribeAudio / --transcribe-audio as a working
Whisper transcription path; both are now corrected. The ceiling mentions
read 14MB throughout, matching GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB, and the
transcribeAudio examples and troubleshooting entry now say plainly that
it is accepted but not implemented (tracked as #433, landing in #1757),
rather than describing a transcript that is never produced.

The docs, the gate's comments and its fallback log line describe the 14 MB
limit as one source-byte budget shared by every inline part of the request,
not a per-clip limit.

`convertMultimodalToProviderFormat`'s video branch (messageBuilder.ts) built an AI-SDK-shaped `{type:"file"}` part that no real Gemini request ever read: both `GoogleAIStudioProvider.generate()` and `GoogleVertexProvider.generate()` fully override `generate()` and never call `super.generate()`, and `BaseProvider.stream()`'s early-multimodal build is reached but its result is only consulted by `hasVideoFrames()`, which inspects keyframe images, not the video part. The sole real assembly path is the hand-built `inlineData` request in `googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts`'s `appendNativeVideoParts`. The dead block, and the helper it alone used, are removed.

`supportsNativeVideo` (and `canDeliverVideoNatively`, `getVideoProviderConfig`) took only a provider string, so every Vertex alias was hardcoded to report native video support even for a Claude model — `GoogleVertexProvider` routes any model id containing "claude" to the native Anthropic SDK, where video is ignored. All three are exported from the package's public surface, so this was reachable by any SDK caller directly, not only through internal routing. They now take an optional `model` parameter; a Vertex alias paired with a Claude-like model id resolves to the frame-extraction row instead of Gemini's, and omitting `model` preserves the prior behaviour exactly. `messageBuilder.ts` and `googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts` thread `model` through every call site.

`appendDetectedFileResult` still reads a video's bytes into memory regardless of the destination provider's capability, and that is deliberate: the bytes never reach the wire (the separate, later capability gate already excludes them from any request that can't use them), so there is no externally observable difference a test could assert on.

`test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts` gains one case for the Claude-on-Vertex fix; the suite passes 18/18. Failure injection confirms both fixes: reverting either one on its own reproduces the corresponding failure, and restoring it returns the suite to green.

Closes #421, #439, #444, #463, #525
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
Attaching a video produced a metadata block and a handful of downsampled
JPEGs, for every provider alike -- Gemini included, which has accepted
inline video with its audio track the whole time. A 47-second screen
recording reached it as three stills at 768px, so anything between them
was simply not in the request.

Two things made that worse than the equivalent audio gap. The frames come
from ffmpeg, which is an optional dependency: without it extractKeyframes
returns an empty array and the model receives the metadata line alone --
a video attachment conveying nothing visual, with no error. And the
metadata block answers exactly the questions a test tends to ask ("how
long is it?", "what resolution?"), so the failure reads as working
support until someone asks what happens in the clip. The existing
VIDEO-028 assertions ask for pixel resolution, and pass with zero frames
and zero video attached.

Sending the file itself needs no ffmpeg, which is what makes this the fix
rather than "extract more frames".

adapters/videoFormatSupport.ts adds the per-provider capability table
(VIDEO_PROVIDER_CONFIGS) and its getters, mirroring audioFormatSupport:
the Gemini front ends are on an inline path with a 14MB ceiling -- source
bytes whose base64 encoding still leaves real headroom under Gemini's
20MB whole-request limit for the prompt, tool schemas and everything else
sharing it -- and everyone else keeps frame extraction. A clip that fails
the gate is not an error: it falls back to keyframes and logs which of
the four reasons applied, because the user-visible symptom of all of them
is identical and the remedies are not. There is no transcode path, unlike
audio: re-encoding a half-hour recording is minutes of CPU inside a
generation request, for a payload that would usually breach the ceiling
anyway.

Detection now carries the bytes forward as input.nativeVideoFiles
alongside the summary and the frames, and both Gemini assembly paths
(the AI SDK file part, and the hand-built native inlineData request)
attach them. The capability API is exported so a caller can ask which
mechanism applies and what it will cost before sending.

VideoDeliveryDecision's accepting arm declares `reason?: undefined`
rather than omitting the field: build:react-hooks type-checks this graph
without --strict, where a negated boolean-literal discriminant does not
narrow.

The new suite's fixture is a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word,
so it runs without ffmpeg and asserts something no keyframe and no line
of the metadata summary can convey. Verified live: Gemini reports the
spoken word and the colours; OpenAI reports the colours and NO_AUDIO.
Failure injection confirmed both directions report a failure and exit
non-zero rather than a skip.

Two review follow-ups are folded in: estimateVideoTokens priced an
unmeasured native clip (durationSec: 0) at 0 tokens, budgeting a real
payload as free, so it now floors an unmeasured clip at
MIN_NATIVE_VIDEO_ESTIMATE_SEC (5s); and canDeliverVideoNatively checked
each clip against the per-clip size ceiling in isolation, so several
individually-fine clips could overflow Gemini's ~20MB per-request limit
together once base64 inflation is counted -- it now takes an optional
priorNativeVideoBytes running total, threaded through both Gemini
assembly paths (messageBuilder.ts and googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts), so
the ceiling is enforced across the whole request rather than reset per
clip. New suite coverage proves both directions: red without the fix,
green with it, and reintroducing either bug in the built output
reproduces the same failures.

A pre-merge audit flagged two follow-ups, both addressed here:

The GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB doc comment's arithmetic was wrong: 15MB
of source bytes base64-encodes to exactly 20MB (15 x 4/3 = 20.0), which
is the whole documented request limit with nothing left over, not "room
left for the prompt and any other attachments" as the comment claimed.
Since the 20MB ceiling is request-wide rather than per-part, a video
alone at that size already leaves no budget for the prompt, system
instructions or tool schemas sharing the same request -- any real
request would exceed the documented limit. The constant is now 14MB
(14 x 4/3 ~= 18.7MB encoded), leaving genuine headroom, and the comment
explains the corrected reasoning instead of the false one.

test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts exercised the aggregate
inline-ceiling guard through generate() only. stream() is a separate
override on GoogleAIStudioProvider (executeNativeGemini3Stream, not
executeNativeGemini3Generate) reaching the same shared
appendNativeVideoParts through its own buildUserPartsWithMultimodal
call -- and this codebase has already shipped exactly this class of bug
once (#1258: a provider whose generate() attached files while its
independent stream() override silently dropped them). Two new tests
mirror the existing generate() pair through nl.stream() instead,
draining the stream so the stand-in server actually receives the
request. Confirmed red: commenting out the committedVideoBytes running
total in appendNativeVideoParts fails both the new stream() overflow
test and the existing generate() one (exit 1, two genuine assertion
failures, not a skip); restoring it is green again (15/15, exit 0).

The request-wide inline ceiling itself still only charged video bytes:
committedVideoBytes started at 0 on every one of the three Gemini
assembly paths, so a clip under its own limit could still push a request
over Gemini's 20MB body cap once an already-attached PDF, image or audio
part shared the same request -- the whole call then fails with HTTP 400
instead of falling back to keyframes, the exact opaque failure this
module exists to avoid. appendNativeVideoParts
(googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts) and convertMultimodalToProviderFormat
(messageBuilder.ts) now seed the running total from the decoded source
bytes of whatever inline parts already sit in the request; GoogleVertex's
client.ts moves both its generate() and stream() appendNativeVideoParts
calls to run after the image-processing block instead of before it, so
those bytes are visible to the seed rather than invisible to it. Two new
cases in continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts -- one through generate(),
one through stream() -- attach a clip alongside an inline image sized so
neither alone crosses the ceiling but the pair together does; both fail
on the prior head (the clip still ships natively and would overflow the
request) and pass once seeded.

The docs also still described a 15MB ceiling in five places and
presented videoOptions.transcribeAudio / --transcribe-audio as a working
Whisper transcription path; both are now corrected. The ceiling mentions
read 14MB throughout, matching GEMINI_INLINE_VIDEO_MAX_MB, and the
transcribeAudio examples and troubleshooting entry now say plainly that
it is accepted but not implemented (tracked as #433, landing in #1757),
rather than describing a transcript that is never produced.

The docs, the gate's comments and its fallback log line describe the 14 MB
limit as one source-byte budget shared by every inline part of the request,
not a per-clip limit.

`convertMultimodalToProviderFormat`'s video branch (messageBuilder.ts) built an AI-SDK-shaped `{type:"file"}` part that no real Gemini request ever read: both `GoogleAIStudioProvider.generate()` and `GoogleVertexProvider.generate()` fully override `generate()` and never call `super.generate()`, and `BaseProvider.stream()`'s early-multimodal build is reached but its result is only consulted by `hasVideoFrames()`, which inspects keyframe images, not the video part. The sole real assembly path is the hand-built `inlineData` request in `googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts`'s `appendNativeVideoParts`. The dead block, and the helper it alone used, are removed.

`supportsNativeVideo` (and `canDeliverVideoNatively`, `getVideoProviderConfig`) took only a provider string, so every Vertex alias was hardcoded to report native video support even for a Claude model — `GoogleVertexProvider` routes any model id containing "claude" to the native Anthropic SDK, where video is ignored. All three are exported from the package's public surface, so this was reachable by any SDK caller directly, not only through internal routing. They now take an optional `model` parameter; a Vertex alias paired with a Claude-like model id resolves to the frame-extraction row instead of Gemini's, and omitting `model` preserves the prior behaviour exactly. `messageBuilder.ts` and `googleNativeGemini3/utils.ts` thread `model` through every call site.

`appendDetectedFileResult` still reads a video's bytes into memory regardless of the destination provider's capability, and that is deliberate: the bytes never reach the wire (the separate, later capability gate already excludes them from any request that can't use them), so there is no externally observable difference a test could assert on.

`test/continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts` gains one case for the Claude-on-Vertex fix; the suite passes 18/18. Failure injection confirms both fixes: reverting either one on its own reproduces the corresponding failure, and restoring it returns the suite to green.

Closes #421, #439, #444, #463, #525
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Rebased onto release after #1742 (native Gemini video delivery) merged. Two real conflicts, both resolved as unions: package.json now chains test:video-native and test:video-frames in test:multimodal, and fileDetector.ts keeps #1742's durationSec carry, written against this PR's video local.

#1742 also added docs/features/multimodal.md text describing --transcribe-audio as an accepted no-op pending this PR. This commit corrects it: the docs now describe the Whisper path (whisper-1, OPENAI_API_KEY, ffmpeg, the Spoken Audio (transcribed) section, Whisper's 25 MB limit) and the No transcript for <file>: <reason> warning, and the troubleshooting row names the real causes. #1742's warnIfVideoTranscriptionRequested "not implemented yet" warning is removed by this PR's own change, with no remaining reference.

On the merged tree: continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts 7/7 (including the live transcription test), continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts 18/18. An independent review confirmed the rebased patch differs from the previously reviewed one only by these resolutions and the doc correction.

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🟡 Minor · Reject non-loopback HTTP transcription endpoints and HTTP redirects. · VideoProcessor.ts:985-987

src/lib/processors/media/VideoProcessor.ts:985-987
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Reject non-loopback HTTP transcription endpoints and HTTP redirects.

OPENAI_BASE_URL supports proxy and custom endpoints, and the repository uses loopback HTTP endpoints in tests. Do not require HTTPS for every custom endpoint.

When a non-loopback http: endpoint is configured, this request sends the audio and bearer key in cleartext. fetch follows redirects by default, so also reject redirects that downgrade an HTTPS upload to HTTP. Keep loopback HTTP endpoints allowed.

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In `@src/lib/processors/media/VideoProcessor.ts` around lines 985 - 987, Update
the transcription request that uses baseUrl to reject non-loopback http:
endpoints while continuing to allow loopback HTTP; disable automatic redirect
following and reject redirects to http: so HTTPS uploads cannot be downgraded.

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In `@docs-site/static/search-index.json`:
- Line 3902: Update the search-index generator to preserve inline-code contents
when stripping Markdown formatting, rather than removing the text inside
backticks; then regenerate the index so searches for terms such as whisper-1,
OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENAI_BASE_URL, and “No transcript for” match their relevant
records.

In `@docs/features/multimodal.md`:
- Around line 514-515: Qualify the Gemini guidance in the “No transcript for”
warning so it applies only to native delivery; oversized clips using frame
fallback need `--transcribe-audio` to preserve speech. Add `--transcribe-audio`
as an alternative in the guidance that lists transcription options.

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In `@src/lib/processors/media/VideoProcessor.ts`:
- Around line 985-987: Update the transcription request that uses baseUrl to
reject non-loopback http: endpoints while continuing to allow loopback HTTP;
disable automatic redirect following and reject redirects to http: so HTTPS
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Approving at the current head 6c270fec. All review findings are resolved with matching red/green suite proof (7 passed, 0 failed, exit 0), the single summary comment records the complete verdict, and no open review threads remain.

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APPROVE on the current head 6c270fec6d186e5a905669995ce8638a6e9f096f — the video keyframes + transcription feature is consistent across the whole stack (options schema → multimodal builder → provider streaming → processors) with thorough e2e tests and defensive edge-case handling.

Since the prior approval (180588c7), the delta is the pre-merge-gate fixes and the post-#1742 rebase: the MAJOR keyframe real-pts_time labelling fix (aa8c9df), the exit-code/NO_AUDIO assertion hardening, the docstring corrections, and the Gemini docs qualification — all verified green (frames 7/7, native 18/18) at this head. The search-index inline-code point was correctly scoped out by the author (site-wide behaviour predating this PR).

Full findings table and checked-and-clean list in the <!-- yama:summary --> comment. Approving this change.

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APPROVE — video-frames-to-keyframes transcription. All prior findings are resolved at this head (70dfd590); the canonical summary comment carries the full disposition table, checked-and-clean list, and security bar. Rebase onto release is conflict-free with both e2e suites green (frames 7/7, native 18/18). No new issues in this pass.

…nscribe speech

Every knob under `videoOptions` was unreachable. `NeuroLink.generate()`
now forwards it into `TextGenerationOptions` (#1720), but
`core/modules/MessageBuilder` rebuilds the same options twice more, and
`baseProvider`'s real-stream to fake-stream fallback once, and all three
dropped the field.

So `--video-frames 2` on a four-second clip produced the tier default of
four frames, `--video-quality` and `--video-format` never reached the
encoder, and `--transcribe-audio` reached no code at all. The plumbing at
the far end has been correct since #478 -- the message builder hands
videoOptions to the detector, which hands it to the processor. Nothing ever
arrived. The failure is invisible from a passing generation, because the
model answers either way; it shows up only if you count the frames.

`videoOptions` is now forwarded at those three sites. Its inline
declarations on `GenerateOptions`, `TextGenerationOptions` and
`StreamOptions` collapse onto `VideoProcessorOptions`, which is what they
were already assignable to -- they had begun to drift in what they
documented, and one still described transcription as unimplemented.

Keyframes now carry the moment they were sampled at (#460). Extraction pairs
each frame with its timestamp as the frame is kept rather than deriving the
schedule afterwards, because an individual frame whose encode fails is
skipped and a reconstructed schedule mislabels every frame after it. The
timestamps reach the model twice: as a list in the video's text block, and
as per-frame alt text, which the message builder folds into the prompt.

The text block's old "extracted every ~Ns" line was also wrong whenever a
caller passed `frames`: it printed the duration tier's interval while
extraction had used duration/budget. A 3s clip asked for 16 frames was
described as "every ~1s" with the frames 0.19s apart.

Timestamps are formatted as explicit units, not a clock, for the reason
mediaDuration's header already gives -- and this is not hypothetical: an
earlier draft labelled frames "0:03" and the model reported the green frame
as appearing at "3:00".

`extractAndTranscribeAudio` (#433) is implemented rather than stubbed. The
issue asked for a stub on the grounds that no transcription backend existed;
one does -- AudioProcessor has shipped Whisper transcription for standalone
audio for some time -- so a method logging "not yet implemented" would be
dead code beside a working implementation of the same thing. It matters for
the frame-extraction providers specifically: they cannot hear a clip at all,
so a recorded standup arrives as four screenshots. Off by default, and
best-effort throughout: no audio track, no ffmpeg, no key, an oversized
track or a failed call each return a distinct reason and leave the rest of
the pipeline intact.

The Whisper call is reproduced rather than shared with AudioProcessor: that
file is being edited concurrently, and a merge conflict in the audio
pipeline is worse than fifty duplicated lines. Worth removing once both land.

Verified live on a committed 14KB clip carrying a spoken word: `--video-frames 1`
now yields one frame where the default yields four; OpenAI, which cannot
hear video, reports the spoken word with --transcribe-audio and NO_AUDIO
without it; and with no transcription backend the skip is reported by name
rather than presenting as a silent clip. Failure injection on three
assertions confirmed each reports a failure and exits non-zero, not a skip.

`multimodalOptionsBuilder`, used only by the Amazon Bedrock provider, had
the same drop as the other four sites: it whitelisted `csvOptions`,
`pdfOptions` and `imageOptions` but omitted `videoOptions`, so
`--video-frames`/`--video-quality`/`--video-format`/`--transcribe-audio`
never reached `VideoProcessor` on the Bedrock branch even though the video
file itself did. Added `videoOptions: options.videoOptions` to that
whitelist so the Bedrock branch carries the same options as the other four
sites. Covered by a new test, "the frame budget reaches the processor on
the Bedrock branch too", in test/continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts,
which asserts an explicit `--video-frames 1` budget reaches the processor
on the Bedrock branch by counting extracted frames from the debug log.

The suite's per-test budget is 540 s, so its longest test (two sequential
240 s CLI calls) is never cut short and reported as a skip.
The missing-backend transcription test also asserts the CLI exited 0,
since transcription is additive and the request itself must succeed.

Keyframe timestamps now come from ffmpeg's actual per-frame sample times
instead of the idealized `duration / frames` schedule used to build the
request: `runFfmpegFrameExtraction` adds a `showinfo` stage to the same
filter chain and reads each selected frame's real `pts_time` from stderr,
pairing every keyframe with its true sample time and falling back to the
idealized value only when ffmpeg reports fewer real timestamps than frames
-- the `-vf select` filter only guarantees a minimum gap since the last
frame it actually selected, so a source fps lower than the requested
density otherwise mislabels every later frame by a compounding amount, up
to roughly half the clip's length on a low-fps source asked for a dense
schedule. Covered by the new "keyframe timestamps reflect ffmpeg's real
sample times, not the ideal schedule" test, which forces the mismatch with
a 2fps fixture asked for 16 frames. The no-transcription frame test now
also asserts the CLI exited zero and that the answer matches the requested
`NO_AUDIO` reply exactly, rather than only checking the spoken word was
absent, which a crashed or empty generation satisfied just as well;
`answerOnly` strips the `Debug Information` footer's own un-prefixed header
line (logged as an embedded newline rather than a new timestamped line) so
it can no longer survive into that comparison. `buildTextContent`'s JSDoc
now documents its real parameters instead of a removed one.

docs/features/multimodal.md described `--transcribe-audio` as an accepted
no-op waiting on this change; it now describes the Whisper path, what it
needs, and the `No transcript for` warning that names why a transcript was
not produced.

Closes #433, #460
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APPROVE on the current head 63c49e56608b642198cce0e8fe57d058ed80c265 — the video keyframes + transcription feature is consistent across the whole stack (options schema → multimodal builder → provider streaming → processors) with thorough e2e tests and defensive edge-case handling.

This bring the APPROVE verdict onto the post-squash/rebase head so mergeable_state is unblocked. The head is the squash+rebase of the previously-approved 70dfd590 onto release: the delta removes the neurolink.ts/optionsSchema.ts forwarding changes (now landed on release via #1720) and settles the search-index/doc regeneration to its final form. The core video feature files are identical to what was approved.

All review threads are resolved:

  • Per-test timeout → fixed (perTestTimeoutMs: 540_000, 17b2e05).
  • Exit-code assertion → fixed for the missing-backend transcription test (180588c7a); Bedrock frame-budget test intentionally unchanged (yama push-back accepted, CodeRabbit withdrew).
  • Search-index inline-code stripping → correctly scoped out by author (site-wide behaviour predating this PR).
  • Gemini docs transcription guidance → fixed (6c270fec, native-delivery qualification).

No new findings on this pass. Full findings table and checked-and-clean list in the <!-- yama:summary --> comment above.

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Rebased onto release after #1720 merged. #1720 independently fixed one of the four videoOptions drop sites this PR targets (buildGenerateTextOptions in neurolink.ts) and added an inline videoOptions field to TextGenerationOptions. The merge left that field declared twice, so the resolution keeps this PR's videoOptions?: VideoProcessorOptions (same four fields) and removes the inline copy, whose doc still called transcription unimplemented. It also drops this PR's duplicate comment at the neurolink.ts site. The commit message now credits #1720 for that site and describes the remaining three.

On the merged tree: continuous-test-suite-video-frames.ts 7/7, continuous-test-suite-video-native.ts 18/18. An independent review confirmed each type declares videoOptions once and every forwarding site carries it exactly once.

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…ript to the model

Closes the AUDIO epic's remaining intake gaps. The pipeline was mostly
built already — FileDetector routed audio to AudioProcessor, which spoke
to Whisper — but three seams dropped what they carried.

selectProvider(): auto-selection tries OpenAI, Google, then Azure by
credential presence, and a caller-pinned backend is validated rather than
silently swapped for another one. Google and Azure delegate to the
existing STT handlers under voice/providers/ via dynamic import.

now threaded detectAndProcess -> processFile -> processAudioFile ->
AudioProcessor.processFile.

Three option allowlists rebuild options field by field:
buildGenerateTextOptions in neurolink.ts and both multimodalOptions blocks
in core/modules/MessageBuilder.ts. All three already carry videoOptions
(#1720, #1757) but dropped audioOptions, so a caller's transcription
backend, model and language never reached AudioProcessor. audioOptions is
now declared on TextGenerationOptions and forwarded in all three.

processAudioFile returned detection.metadata untouched, discarding what
the processor had just produced. Adds duration, language,
transcriptionLength and transcriptionProvider. transcriptionLength
distinguishes 0 (a backend ran and found no speech) from absent (nothing
was attempted).

language and duration Whisper returned were parsed and thrown away. Both
are now surfaced on ProcessedAudio. Also honours the caller's language,
model and prompt on the Whisper request.

models answered "I cannot listen to audio" with the transcript sitting in
the prompt above. Both system-prompt builders now say so — the text-only
branch via the file-handling augmentation, the multimodal branch via its
own file-type list, which names "audio files (transcribed)".

Test: continuous-test-suite-audio-transcription.ts, 10 cases, offline
(every HTTP leg mocked). Asserts against the outgoing provider request,
which is the only place "the option arrived" and "the transcript reached
the model" are observable from outside generate(). The transcript carries
a random token absent from the prompt, so the audio assertions cannot
pass without transcription having actually flowed through.

The video regression asserts a NON-DEFAULT value, because a dropped
option and a correct default are indistinguishable — which is how this
survived unnoticed. A 6s clip defaults to ~6 keyframes; the test asks for
2 and requires exactly 2. That case needs ffmpeg, which CI deliberately
lacks, so it skips there; a second case covers CI by proving the bag
crosses all three allowlists without ffmpeg. Reverting the three
one-line forwards turns both red.

Each negative assertion is preceded by a precondition proving the run
happened. Audio fixture is a hand-built PCM WAV — makeWavFile needs no
ffmpeg.

Review follow-ups: an empty-but-successful transcript from Google/Azure
(and the OpenAI empty-string path) used to fall through the same
`skipped()` helper as "no backend ran", clearing transcriptionProvider
and making FileDetector omit transcriptionLength even though the
provider had answered. skipped() now takes an optional provider label so
an empty result that actually reached a backend still reports
transcriptionLength: 0 instead of looking identical to "never attempted".
Pinned by a processAudio() case on the shipped processors entry: a
Whisper call that returns empty text must still report openai-whisper.
Also documents audioOptions.prompt as OpenAI/Whisper-only (Google and
Azure ignore it) and clarifies that transcriptionLanguage falls back to
the caller's requested language when the backend reports none.

Also corrects the audioOptions.provider doc comment in
src/lib/types/generate.ts: an unavailable or unrecognised pinned
transcription backend is never swapped for another one — no transcript
is produced, and the selection reason is logged as a warning. The prior
wording claimed the reason was reported on the result, but GenerateResult
carries no such field for generate() callers; AudioProcessor logs it and
stores it on ProcessedAudio, which FileDetector.processAudioFile drops
before it reaches the result. Documentation-only; no behavioural test
applies.

Also fixes five follow-on gaps in this same intake path. Google backend
availability now recognizes GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (a
service-account key file), matching what GoogleSTT.isConfigured() already
accepted on its own — a caller pinning google previously saw it rejected
as unconfigured even with a valid credential file present. When
transcription is skipped, the reason is now actually inlined into the
text the model receives (via AudioProcessor.buildTextContent's new
skippedReason parameter), rather than leaving the model to guess despite
AUDIO_TRANSCRIPTION_INSTRUCTIONS already promising it would be there. The
multimodal branch's file-type list no longer claims audio is
"(transcribed)" unconditionally — the same label fired whether or not a
transcript actually existed — and now reads "(transcript may be
unavailable)". optionsSchema's audioOptions exclusion comment no longer
claims --audio-* CLI flags exist; none are defined in commandFactory.ts,
and the comment now says so (SDK-only, via GenerateOptions.audioOptions).
The standalone processAudio() export's declared parameter type is widened
from ProcessOptions to ProcessOptions & AudioProcessorOptions, matching
what it already forwards to processFile() and accepts at runtime, so
callers can pass provider/transcriptionModel/language/prompt without a
type error. Test: continuous-test-suite-audio-transcription.ts gains
cases for each of these — a Google service-account-only environment, the
skip reason appearing in both the auto-select-exhausted and
pinned-unavailable prompts, the corrected multimodal label in both the
has-transcript and no-backend cases, the optionsSchema/commandFactory.ts
comment consistency, and a compiler-checked processAudio() call against
the widened options type.
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…ript to the model

Closes the AUDIO epic's remaining intake gaps. The pipeline was mostly
built already — FileDetector routed audio to AudioProcessor, which spoke
to Whisper — but three seams dropped what they carried.

selectProvider(): auto-selection tries OpenAI, Google, then Azure by
credential presence, and a caller-pinned backend is validated rather than
silently swapped for another one. Google and Azure delegate to the
existing STT handlers under voice/providers/ via dynamic import.

now threaded detectAndProcess -> processFile -> processAudioFile ->
AudioProcessor.processFile.

Three option allowlists rebuild options field by field:
buildGenerateTextOptions in neurolink.ts and both multimodalOptions blocks
in core/modules/MessageBuilder.ts. All three already carry videoOptions
(#1720, #1757) but dropped audioOptions, so a caller's transcription
backend, model and language never reached AudioProcessor. audioOptions is
now declared on TextGenerationOptions and forwarded in all three.

processAudioFile returned detection.metadata untouched, discarding what
the processor had just produced. Adds duration, language,
transcriptionLength and transcriptionProvider. transcriptionLength
distinguishes 0 (a backend ran and found no speech) from absent (nothing
was attempted).

language and duration Whisper returned were parsed and thrown away. Both
are now surfaced on ProcessedAudio. Also honours the caller's language,
model and prompt on the Whisper request.

models answered "I cannot listen to audio" with the transcript sitting in
the prompt above. Both system-prompt builders now say so — the text-only
branch via the file-handling augmentation, the multimodal branch via its
own file-type list, which names "audio files (transcribed)".

Test: continuous-test-suite-audio-transcription.ts, 14 cases, offline
(every HTTP leg mocked). Asserts against the outgoing provider request,
which is the only place "the option arrived" and "the transcript reached
the model" are observable from outside generate(). The transcript carries
a random token absent from the prompt, so the audio assertions cannot
pass without transcription having actually flowed through.

The video regression asserts a NON-DEFAULT value, because a dropped
option and a correct default are indistinguishable — which is how this
survived unnoticed. A 6s clip defaults to ~6 keyframes; the test asks for
2 and requires exactly 2. That case needs ffmpeg, which CI deliberately
lacks, so it skips there; a second case covers CI by proving the bag
crosses all three allowlists without ffmpeg. Reverting the three
one-line forwards turns both red.

Each negative assertion is preceded by a precondition proving the run
happened. Audio fixture is a hand-built PCM WAV — makeWavFile needs no
ffmpeg.

Review follow-ups: an empty-but-successful transcript from Google/Azure
(and the OpenAI empty-string path) used to fall through the same
`skipped()` helper as "no backend ran", clearing transcriptionProvider
and making FileDetector omit transcriptionLength even though the
provider had answered. skipped() now takes an optional provider label so
an empty result that actually reached a backend still reports
transcriptionLength: 0 instead of looking identical to "never attempted".
Pinned by a processAudio() case on the shipped processors entry: a
Whisper call that returns empty text must still report openai-whisper.
Also documents audioOptions.prompt as OpenAI/Whisper-only (Google and
Azure ignore it) and clarifies that transcriptionLanguage falls back to
the caller's requested language when the backend reports none.

Also corrects the audioOptions.provider doc comment in
src/lib/types/generate.ts: an unavailable or unrecognised pinned
transcription backend is never swapped for another one — no transcript
is produced, and the selection reason is logged as a warning. The prior
wording claimed the reason was reported on the result, but GenerateResult
carries no such field for generate() callers; AudioProcessor logs it and
stores it on ProcessedAudio, which FileDetector.processAudioFile drops
before it reaches the result. Documentation-only; no behavioural test
applies.

Also fixes five follow-on gaps in this same intake path. Google backend
availability now recognizes GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (a
service-account key file), matching what GoogleSTT.isConfigured() already
accepted on its own — a caller pinning google previously saw it rejected
as unconfigured even with a valid credential file present. When
transcription is skipped, the reason is now actually inlined into the
text the model receives (via AudioProcessor.buildTextContent's new
skippedReason parameter), rather than leaving the model to guess despite
AUDIO_TRANSCRIPTION_INSTRUCTIONS already promising it would be there. The
multimodal branch's file-type list no longer claims audio is
"(transcribed)" unconditionally — the same label fired whether or not a
transcript actually existed — and now reads "(transcript may be
unavailable)". optionsSchema's audioOptions exclusion comment no longer
claims --audio-* CLI flags exist; none are defined in commandFactory.ts,
and the comment now says so (SDK-only, via GenerateOptions.audioOptions).
The standalone processAudio() export's declared parameter type is widened
from ProcessOptions to ProcessOptions & AudioProcessorOptions, matching
what it already forwards to processFile() and accepts at runtime, so
callers can pass provider/transcriptionModel/language/prompt without a
type error. Test: continuous-test-suite-audio-transcription.ts gains
cases for each of these — a Google service-account-only environment, the
skip reason appearing in both the auto-select-exhausted and
pinned-unavailable prompts, the corrected multimodal label in both the
has-transcript and no-backend cases, the optionsSchema/commandFactory.ts
comment consistency, and a compiler-checked processAudio() call against
the widened options type.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
…ript to the model

Closes the AUDIO epic's remaining intake gaps. The pipeline was mostly
built already — FileDetector routed audio to AudioProcessor, which spoke
to Whisper — but three seams dropped what they carried.

selectProvider(): auto-selection tries OpenAI, Google, then Azure by
credential presence, and a caller-pinned backend is validated rather than
silently swapped for another one. Google and Azure delegate to the
existing STT handlers under voice/providers/ via dynamic import.

now threaded detectAndProcess -> processFile -> processAudioFile ->
AudioProcessor.processFile.

Three option allowlists rebuild options field by field:
buildGenerateTextOptions in neurolink.ts and both multimodalOptions blocks
in core/modules/MessageBuilder.ts. All three already carry videoOptions
(#1720, #1757) but dropped audioOptions, so a caller's transcription
backend, model and language never reached AudioProcessor. audioOptions is
now declared on TextGenerationOptions and forwarded in all three.

processAudioFile returned detection.metadata untouched, discarding what
the processor had just produced. Adds duration, language,
transcriptionLength and transcriptionProvider. transcriptionLength
distinguishes 0 (a backend ran and found no speech) from absent (nothing
was attempted).

language and duration Whisper returned were parsed and thrown away. Both
are now surfaced on ProcessedAudio. Also honours the caller's language,
model and prompt on the Whisper request.

models answered "I cannot listen to audio" with the transcript sitting in
the prompt above. Both system-prompt builders now say so — the text-only
branch via the file-handling augmentation, the multimodal branch via its
own file-type list, which names "audio files (transcribed)".

Test: continuous-test-suite-audio-transcription.ts, 14 cases, offline
(every HTTP leg mocked). Asserts against the outgoing provider request,
which is the only place "the option arrived" and "the transcript reached
the model" are observable from outside generate(). The transcript carries
a random token absent from the prompt, so the audio assertions cannot
pass without transcription having actually flowed through.

The video regression asserts a NON-DEFAULT value, because a dropped
option and a correct default are indistinguishable — which is how this
survived unnoticed. A 6s clip defaults to ~6 keyframes; the test asks for
2 and requires exactly 2. That case needs ffmpeg, which CI deliberately
lacks, so it skips there; a second case covers CI by proving the bag
crosses all three allowlists without ffmpeg. Reverting the three
one-line forwards turns both red.

Each negative assertion is preceded by a precondition proving the run
happened. Audio fixture is a hand-built PCM WAV — makeWavFile needs no
ffmpeg.

Review follow-ups: an empty-but-successful transcript from Google/Azure
(and the OpenAI empty-string path) used to fall through the same
`skipped()` helper as "no backend ran", clearing transcriptionProvider
and making FileDetector omit transcriptionLength even though the
provider had answered. skipped() now takes an optional provider label so
an empty result that actually reached a backend still reports
transcriptionLength: 0 instead of looking identical to "never attempted".
Pinned by a processAudio() case on the shipped processors entry: a
Whisper call that returns empty text must still report openai-whisper.
Also documents audioOptions.prompt as OpenAI/Whisper-only (Google and
Azure ignore it) and clarifies that transcriptionLanguage falls back to
the caller's requested language when the backend reports none.

Also corrects the audioOptions.provider doc comment in
src/lib/types/generate.ts: an unavailable or unrecognised pinned
transcription backend is never swapped for another one — no transcript
is produced, and the selection reason is logged as a warning. The prior
wording claimed the reason was reported on the result, but GenerateResult
carries no such field for generate() callers; AudioProcessor logs it and
stores it on ProcessedAudio, which FileDetector.processAudioFile drops
before it reaches the result. Documentation-only; no behavioural test
applies.

Also fixes five follow-on gaps in this same intake path. Google backend
availability now recognizes GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (a
service-account key file), matching what GoogleSTT.isConfigured() already
accepted on its own — a caller pinning google previously saw it rejected
as unconfigured even with a valid credential file present. When
transcription is skipped, the reason is now actually inlined into the
text the model receives (via AudioProcessor.buildTextContent's new
skippedReason parameter), rather than leaving the model to guess despite
AUDIO_TRANSCRIPTION_INSTRUCTIONS already promising it would be there. The
multimodal branch's file-type list no longer claims audio is
"(transcribed)" unconditionally — the same label fired whether or not a
transcript actually existed — and now reads "(transcript may be
unavailable)". optionsSchema's audioOptions exclusion comment no longer
claims --audio-* CLI flags exist; none are defined in commandFactory.ts,
and the comment now says so (SDK-only, via GenerateOptions.audioOptions).
The standalone processAudio() export's declared parameter type is widened
from ProcessOptions to ProcessOptions & AudioProcessorOptions, matching
what it already forwards to processFile() and accepts at runtime, so
callers can pass provider/transcriptionModel/language/prompt without a
type error. Test: continuous-test-suite-audio-transcription.ts gains
cases for each of these — a Google service-account-only environment, the
skip reason appearing in both the auto-select-exhausted and
pinned-unavailable prompts, the corrected multimodal label in both the
has-transcript and no-backend cases, the optionsSchema/commandFactory.ts
comment consistency, and a compiler-checked processAudio() call against
the widened options type.
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