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Spike 2 (2026-09-14) settled the IMAGE path — ogiZ0b is dispatched once and
answered ~19.7 s later with the finished images, a held response with neither
push nor poll — and corrected its own premise in the process: video does not
share that mechanism. It polls (jwpduf, as29s), so an absence on images is not
an absence on video.
This adds `--mode video` and pre-registers what each outcome will mean, BEFORE
any video data exists. Spike 1 could not prove that ordering and had to say so;
this commit exists so this one can.
The question, narrow on purpose: does anything arrive between jwpduf polls, and
are those polls a client timer or a reaction to something?
uniform gaps -> a client timer we own; latency is ours to tune
gaps collapsing at the end -> something signalled the client; find it before
anyone may call push absent on the video path
Also fixes an instrument bug that the image arm could not expose: request
dispatch time was keyed by URL, and ogiZ0b fired exactly once so nothing
collided. The video arm polls one rpcid for minutes, where two polls sharing a
URL would overwrite each other and hand back an in_flight_s belonging to a
different request. Now keyed on the Playwright Request object. Gaps are also
recorded per rpcid: "jwpduf every 5 s" is a claim about one rpcid's cadence,
and an all-traffic gap list hides it whenever anything else interleaves.
Cost: image arm unchanged at zero Veo credits. The video arm spends REAL
credits — model pinned to veo_3_1_lite (10, the cheapest) and count to x1,
because with model=None the editor submits on whatever tier it last remembered
(#125). Nothing is downloaded.
One t2v generation on ffroliva (veo_3_1_lite, x1, ~10 credits), instrumented end to end. The question spike 2 left open — does anything arrive between jwpduf polls, and are the polls a client timer or a reaction — is answered: a timer. Seven consecutive jwpduf DISPATCH gaps span 10 ms end to end (5.002 5.009 5.011 5.005 5.008 5.001 5.004, mean 5.006, stdev 3.5 ms). The same eight polls' ARRIVAL gaps have stdev 178 ms and a spread of 641 ms — fifty times wider, and pure network jitter. An arrival-only instrument would have said "roughly 5 s, a bit ragged" and could not have told a timer from a reaction. No collapse at completion: the last inter-dispatch gap (5.004) is the first (5.002). The generation finished during the poll dispatched at 53.554, whose own reply carried status 3, and as29s went out 34 ms later — the client reacting to the answer it asked for, not to anything out of band. Nothing inbound between polls. The only non-batchexecute responses in the whole submit->completion window are four GA4 /g/collect beacons (204 No Content) and one play.google.com/log — both OUTBOUND telemetry, and the play.google.com hit sits between two dispatches 5.011 s apart, inside the 10 ms spread of every other pair. Zero WebSocket, zero streaming. Each poll answered in under 0.81 s, so not a long-poll either — unlike the image path's ogiZ0b, held 19.7 s. Push is now measured absent on BOTH generation paths rather than generalised from one, which is the mistake spike 2 caught itself making. Instrument: keying dispatch times on the URL would have destroyed this result — all 8 jwpduf URLs are byte-identical truncated at 200 chars, measured. The pre-run switch to the Request object is what made in_flight_s per-poll real. Separately, this run found protocols keyed at [:300] against events at [:200], so 62 responses including every poll carry no HTTP version; fixed, and no h2/h3 claim is made from this capture. spike_two_domain_protocol_survey.py is unaffected — it truncates both sides at 300.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe survey adds video-mode capture, request timing, mode-specific reporting, and expanded documentation checks. The spike findings document fixed video polling, absent push or streaming traffic, completion handling, and measurement limits. ChangesVideo generation wire survey
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Other Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
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CLI->>run_once: select video mode
run_once->>FlowPage: start video generation
FlowPage->>Playwright: dispatch jwpduf polls
Playwright->>run_once: return timing and poll responses
run_once->>FlowPage: process completion and result retrieval
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8-8: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the image evidence filename pattern.
The writer now creates
generation_wire_image_<profile>_<timestamp>.json. This glob omits theimagemode segment, so it does not locate the cited image-survey output.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/dev/spike_generation_wire_survey.py`:
- Line 326: Update the per-RPC gap calculation associated with per_rpcid_gaps to
use dispatch timestamps from sent_t rather than response timestamps from e["t"],
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In `@docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-generation-wire-no-push-channel.md`:
- Line 8: Update the Evidence glob in the generation wire spike documentation to
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…rness Eight-dimension council on #808 returned four YELLOWs. Every must-fix is addressed; the ones that changed a claim are recorded in the note rather than quietly edited. Claims that did not survive: * "a client timer WE OWN; latency is OURS to tune" was the pre-registered wording, and the data refutes its consequent: the timer is Flow's page's and gflow only observes it. The note said so in its body and then ticked the contradicting row in its own verdict table -- the exact failure that table exists to catch. Corrected in the table, the body, and the script docstring, with the correction stated rather than reworded away. * "a request the client makes cannot be the thing that told it" is false, and contradicts the section above it, where the client IS told by the reply to a request it made. Narrowed to the cadence argument, which is the sound one. * The long-poll verdict row answered for jwpduf only; the pre-registration said "jwpduf (or as29s)". as29s (2.541 s) and YhhmEf (4.301 s) are now reported with why a one-shot fetch that spans no work is not a long-poll. * "done=True, status 3, 1,273,409 bytes" was cited under an Evidence: header to a file that does not contain it -- str(record)[:120] truncates before the terminal fields, so they only ever reached stdout. Sourcing corrected, and the harness now records those fields by name (omitted on the image arm, whose result carries none; named fields also keep the signed video_url out). Instrument: * The new gap table keyed ARRIVAL -- the axis the note itself dismisses as unable to answer the question. Now keyed on dispatch: the same eight polls read stdev 3.5 ms by dispatch and 178 ms by arrival. * --runs defaulted to 2 in both modes, so appending --mode video to the committed image invocation silently doubled a real bill. Now 1 for video, 2 for image. The banner computed that total and printed it rather than preventing it. * Page check-in moved into finally: except Exception does not catch Ctrl-C, and the video arm holds a pooled page for up to poll_timeout_s. * in_flight filtered on truthiness, dropping a reply that rounds to 0.0. The protocol-key fix shipped in dddcf61 had never been RUN. It has now, on the free image arm: 73 of 76 responses attributed (all h3) against 62 unattributed before, which also exercised the finally, the dispatch gaps, the named terminal fields and the new --runs default at zero Veo credits. Also: NOT-measured now names the carriers the detector cannot see at all (worker and service-worker scopes -- this capture loads recaptcha's webworker -- WebTransport, and sub-HTTP frames), which bounds the "no push" half without touching the cadence half; check_doc_links.py audits docs/superpowers/spikes/ whole instead of by allowlist, so the 34 notes it never covered are now gated (63 files, all green); ARCHITECTURE.md and the migrated-host memory carry the two-path result so a future "subscribe instead of polling" proposal meets it.
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In `@docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`:
- Line 440: Update the migrated Flow architecture statement to scope the no-push
conclusion to the measured image and video page captures, stating that no
page-scoped push channel was observed rather than making an absolute
platform-wide claim. Apply the same wording in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md:440-440 and
website/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md:440-440; both sites require direct changes.
In `@docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md`:
- Around line 65-69: Revise the conclusion around the “50× ratio” to state only
that dispatch timing is consistent with a client-side fixed cadence independent
of response-arrival jitter. Remove claims that identify a specific timer API or
exclude all reactive implementations; retain the measured timing comparison and
network-independence inference.
- Around line 190-191: Update the wording in the passage mentioning
Target.setAutoAttach and the free image arm: remove the claim that rerunning
widens surveys `#1` and `#2` retroactively, and state that it extends coverage in
future reruns of those surveys.
- Around line 175-177: Revise the no-push conclusion near the page-target
Network.enable discussion to state only that no push channel was observed on the
instrumented page target during this run. Avoid claiming the video path has no
push channel, and acknowledge that worker, service-worker, WebTransport,
below-HTTP targets, or a future subscription-channel design are outside the
instrument’s evidence.
- Around line 158-160: Revise the visibility-delay statement to clarify that the
poll interval only bounds the wait until the next status request; detection may
lag by up to one interval plus the status poll, 2.541-second as29s fetch, and
result-processing latency.
- Around line 173-174: Update the documentation near the per-request HTTP
version note to remove any unsupported chunked-transfer claim, and state only
that no content-length header was observed, matching the evidence recorded by
spike_generation_wire_survey.py.
In `@scripts/dev/spike_generation_wire_survey.py`:
- Line 354: Update the timestamp collection identified by ts so dispatch
timestamps are sorted before any gap calculations, preserving response-arrival
ordering only for operations that explicitly require it. Use the existing
rpcid-filtered polls data and ensure overlapping, out-of-order requests cannot
produce negative or incorrect dispatch gaps.
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| All three now live as standalone modules under `src/gflow_cli/api/transports/experimental/` (`evaluate_fetch.py` / `bearer.py` / `sapisidhash.py`), preserved for reference and future iteration. None survives Google's anti-bot stack for mutation/generation endpoints, so the production path is `ui_automation`. | ||
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| **The migrated `flow.google.com` host (#639, v0.67.0).** Google is moving accounts off `labs.google` onto `flow.google.com`, a rewritten frontend with a different widget toolkit and a `batchexecute` wire instead of `aisandbox-pa` REST. `src/gflow_cli/api/transports/migrated_composer.py` drives that editor for text-to-video, local-file image-to-video/reference-to-video, text-to-image, and local-file image-to-image — still through the same real-Chrome Playwright session — by operating the composer UI and then *observing* the app's own replies. Video uses `YhhmEf`/`eb1hJf`/`MZZa6b` submit plus `jwpduf`/`as29s` status/result; image uses synchronous `ogiZ0b` replies carrying signed JPEG URLs. Local files go through the editor's own `maseQ` upload and the resulting media ids are asserted in the outgoing submit body before the run is trusted (`WireFormatError` otherwise). The migrated page owns image reCAPTCHA minting; the client skips the labs token path so moved accounts no longer fail with `RecaptchaError` on the root grid. `GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOST` routes between the two (`auto` keeps migrated images on moved accounts and uses labs for them on unmoved accounts; `--project` is required on the migrated path); unsupported UUID/entity/instruction/Imagen-4 image forms still fail before submit. Recon: `docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-08-migrated-image-submit-wire.md`. | ||
| **The migrated `flow.google.com` host (#639, v0.67.0).** Google is moving accounts off `labs.google` onto `flow.google.com`, a rewritten frontend with a different widget toolkit and a `batchexecute` wire instead of `aisandbox-pa` REST. `src/gflow_cli/api/transports/migrated_composer.py` drives that editor for text-to-video, local-file image-to-video/reference-to-video, text-to-image, and local-file image-to-image — still through the same real-Chrome Playwright session — by operating the composer UI and then *observing* the app's own replies. Video uses `YhhmEf`/`eb1hJf`/`MZZa6b` submit plus `jwpduf`/`as29s` status/result; image uses synchronous `ogiZ0b` replies carrying signed JPEG URLs. **Both mechanisms are measured, and neither is a push channel**: `ogiZ0b` is one response held open ~19.7 s, while `jwpduf` is a fixed 5.00 s timer owned by *Flow's page* — gflow observes it and adds no traffic, so the interval is a floor we read rather than a latency knob we hold, and "subscribe instead of polling" is refuted on both paths (`docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-generation-wire-no-push-channel.md`, `docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md`). Local files go through the editor's own `maseQ` upload and the resulting media ids are asserted in the outgoing submit body before the run is trusted (`WireFormatError` otherwise). The migrated page owns image reCAPTCHA minting; the client skips the labs token path so moved accounts no longer fail with `RecaptchaError` on the root grid. `GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOST` routes between the two (`auto` keeps migrated images on moved accounts and uses labs for them on unmoved accounts; `--project` is required on the migrated path); unsupported UUID/entity/instruction/Imagen-4 image forms still fail before submit. Recon: `docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-08-migrated-image-submit-wire.md`. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Scope the no-push conclusion to the capture.
The measurement excludes worker/service-worker traffic and WebTransport. The absolute wording can be read as a platform-wide guarantee. State that no page-scoped push channel was observed in the measured image and video captures.
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md#L440-L440: replace the absolute no-push claim with the scoped observation.website/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md#L440-L440: apply the same scoped wording to the published copy.
Based on the PR objectives, this result is limited to the capture scope.
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In `@docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` at line 440, Update the migrated Flow architecture
statement to scope the no-push conclusion to the measured image and video page
captures, stating that no page-scoped push channel was observed rather than
making an absolute platform-wide claim. Apply the same wording in
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| **That 50× ratio is what excludes the competing explanation.** If each poll were sent in | ||
| *response* to something — the previous reply, or a server ticking its own 5 s boundary — | ||
| the sending times would inherit that thing's jitter, so dispatch spacing would be at least | ||
| as ragged as arrival spacing (σ ≈ 178 ms). It is 3.5 ms. A clock the network cannot | ||
| perturb is a local clock. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Limit the timer conclusion to what dispatch timing proves.
The 50× ratio supports a client-side schedule that is independent of response arrival jitter. It does not identify setInterval or exclude every reactive implementation. A recursive setTimeout or deadline-based scheduler can produce the same gaps. Use “consistent with a client-side fixed cadence” unless the timer API is measured.
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In `@docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md`
around lines 65 - 69, Revise the conclusion around the “50× ratio” to state only
that dispatch timing is consistent with a client-side fixed cadence independent
of response-arrival jitter. Remove claims that identify a specific timer API or
exclude all reactive implementations; retain the measured timing comparison and
network-independence inference.
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| **The timer is not ours to tune.** It is a floor we read: a finished video becomes visible | ||
| up to one poll interval late, and no gflow-side change moves that while we observe the | ||
| page's own traffic. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Qualify the visibility-delay claim.
The poll interval bounds the wait until the next status request, not the time until the finished video becomes visible. The status poll and the 2.541-second as29s fetch add latency after that wait. State that detection can lag by up to one interval plus request and result-processing latency.
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In `@docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md`
around lines 158 - 160, Revise the visibility-delay statement to clarify that
the poll interval only bounds the wait until the next status request; detection
may lag by up to one interval plus the status poll, 2.541-second as29s fetch,
and result-processing latency.
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| - **Per-request HTTP version in this run** — see the instrument note below. No h2/h3 claim is | ||
| made from this capture. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Remove the unsupported “chunked transfer” claim
spike_generation_wire_survey.py records only the absence of content-length; it does not record Transfer-Encoding. The capture cannot establish chunked transfer. Report only that no content-length was observed.
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In `@docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md`
around lines 173 - 174, Update the documentation near the per-request HTTP
version note to remove any unsupported chunked-transfer claim, and state only
that no content-length header was observed, matching the evidence recorded by
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| - **Carriers the instrument cannot see at all.** The detector binds `page.on(...)` plus a | ||
| **page-target** `Network.enable` with no auto-attach, so a channel opened somewhere other | ||
| than the page's own context would not appear. Named explicitly, because "zero WebSocket |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Scope the no-push conclusion to the observed targets.
This instrument listens on the page target without auto-attach, and the document lists worker, service-worker, WebTransport, and below-HTTP blind spots. The evidence supports “no push channel observed on the instrumented page target during this run,” not an unqualified absence on the video path. It also cannot refute a future design that adds a subscription channel.
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In `@docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md`
around lines 175 - 177, Revise the no-push conclusion near the page-target
Network.enable discussion to state only that no push channel was observed on the
instrumented page target during this run. Avoid claiming the video path has no
push channel, and acknowledge that worker, service-worker, WebTransport,
below-HTTP targets, or a future subscription-channel design are outside the
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| # request predates the listener, and those fall back to arrival. | ||
| per_rpcid_gaps: dict[str, list[float]] = {} | ||
| for rpcid in {str(e["rpcid"]) for e in polls}: | ||
| ts = [e.get("sent_t", e["t"]) for e in polls if e["rpcid"] == rpcid] |
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mapfile -t reports < <(fd -HI -t f 'generation_wire_video_.*\.json' . || true)
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echo "No video survey reports found under the repository."
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fi
python - "${reports[@]}" <<'PY'
import json
import sys
for path in sys.argv[1:]:
report = json.load(open(path, encoding="utf-8"))
for run in report.get("runs", []):
by_rpc = {}
for event in run.get("events", []):
if event.get("rpcid") and event.get("sent_t") is not None:
by_rpc.setdefault(event["rpcid"], []).append(
(event["sent_t"], event["t"])
)
for rpcid, pairs in by_rpc.items():
dispatches = [sent for sent, _ in pairs]
if dispatches != sorted(dispatches):
print(f"{path}: run={run.get('run')} rpcid={rpcid}: response order differs from dispatch order")
for sent, response_t in pairs:
if any(later_sent < response_t for later_sent, _ in pairs if later_sent > sent):
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by_rpc = {}
for event in run.get("events", []):
if event.get("rpcid") and event.get("sent_t") is not None:
by_rpc.setdefault(str(event["rpcid"]), []).append(
(event["sent_t"], event["t"])
)
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f" run={run.get('run')} rpcid={rpcid} "
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)
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for rpcid, pairs in by_rpc.items():
dispatches = [sent for sent, _ in pairs]
overlap = any(
later_sent < response_t
for sent, response_t in pairs
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if later_sent > sent
)
print(
f" run={run.get('run')} rpcid={rpcid} "
f"responses={len(pairs)} dispatch_sorted={dispatches == sorted(dispatches)} "
f"overlap={overlap}"
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Verify response ordering before using dispatch gaps.
polls is ordered by response arrival, but this line reads dispatch timestamps. If two requests for the same RPC overlap and complete out of order, this produces a negative or incorrect gap. Sort ts before calculating gaps unless the page guarantees one in-flight request per RPC.
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
mapfile -t reports < <(fd -HI -t f 'generation_wire_video_.*\.json' . || true)
if ((${`#reports`[@]} == 0)); then
echo "No video survey reports found under the repository."
exit 0
fi
python - "${reports[@]}" <<'PY'
import json
import sys
for path in sys.argv[1:]:
report = json.load(open(path, encoding="utf-8"))
for run in report.get("runs", []):
by_rpc = {}
for event in run.get("events", []):
if event.get("rpcid") and event.get("sent_t") is not None:
by_rpc.setdefault(event["rpcid"], []).append(
(event["sent_t"], event["t"])
)
for rpcid, pairs in by_rpc.items():
dispatches = [sent for sent, _ in pairs]
if dispatches != sorted(dispatches):
print(f"{path}: run={run.get('run')} rpcid={rpcid}: response order differs from dispatch order")
for sent, response_t in pairs:
if any(later_sent < response_t for later_sent, _ in pairs if later_sent > sent):
print(f"{path}: run={run.get('run')} rpcid={rpcid}: overlapping requests observed")
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In `@scripts/dev/spike_generation_wire_survey.py` at line 354, Update the
timestamp collection identified by ts so dispatch timestamps are sorted before
any gap calculations, preserving response-arrival ordering only for operations
that explicitly require it. Use the existing rpcid-filtered polls data and
ensure overlapping, out-of-order requests cannot produce negative or incorrect
dispatch gaps.
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…not a channel Every survey in this series bound page.on(...). A service worker's fetches are reported on the BrowserContext instead, so a page-scoped zero cannot tell "no such traffic" from "traffic on a surface I never bound" -- which is exactly what the no-push claim rested on. Rather than argue it, bind both and diff them: whatever the context saw and the page did not IS the blind spot. Two $0 image runs, identical results. 3 responses per run reach the context and never the page: ~1.4s play.google.com/log?format=json&hasfast=true&authuser=0 ~3.9s www.google.com/recaptcha/enterprise/reload?k=... ~4.0s www.google.com/recaptcha/enterprise/clr?k=... application/binary Plus one dedicated worker, recaptcha/enterprise/webworker.js -- the carrier the council named, confirmed present rather than hypothesised. So surveys #1 and #2 and this note's own video run each missed three responses, and their "0 WebSocket" figures were narrower than they read. Both sibling notes now say so. What does NOT change: none of the three is a channel (two reCAPTCHA endpoints and a logging sink, all short request/response), and with the wider listener plus Network.webTransport* registered for the first time in this series, the count is still zero WebSocket, SSE and WebTransport. The conclusion stands on a wider surface than it was argued on. Target.setAutoAttach was deliberately NOT used: flattened child sessions arrive with a sessionId Playwright's connection does not route to a CDPSession, so those events would be dropped silently -- a detector that looks armed and is not, which is the one failure mode this series keeps guarding against. Traffic strictly inside a worker's scope stays unmeasured, and is named as such. Also names the third-party host census once, because ogads-pa has now been re-derived as "not Flow" in three separate notes. None of these should ever be blocked or route-aborted: gflow has no such machinery -- no host registry, no block list, the only context.route() being a narrow generation-payload interception -- and that absence is correct. This project's premise is that Google's stack rejects browsers advertising automation, so suppressing a beacon every real Chrome session sends is itself the anomaly. The census was page-scoped on its first run and therefore reproduced the very bug context_only exists to expose: it omitted play.google.com, the host whose identity was the open question. Fixed to count both, and re-run at $0 to prove it -- the host is absent from the census in run A and present in run B.
The video run predates the context-level listener added in the previous commit, so "the only non-batchexecute responses" means the only ones the PAGE saw. In the two runs where the wider listener ran, all three context-only responses land at t≈1.4-4.0s during page load -- well outside this run's poll window of 18.97-56.60 -- which makes it unlikely they fall between polls, not proven. Says which, and names the video run with the §6 listener as what would settle it.
Summary
Closes the last open question from the 2026-09-14 protocol spikes, and the only one that costs credits.
Spike 2 settled the image path (
ogiZ0bheld open ~19.7 s — one response, no push, no poll) and then corrected its own premise: video uses a poll loop (jwpduf,as29s), a different mechanism, so an absence on images was never an absence on video. This measures video directly.One t2v generation on
ffroliva(veo_3_1_lite, x1, ~10 credits), full submit→completion lifecycle instrumented.What was measured
jwpdufdispatch gapsjwpdufarrival gapsjwpdufin flightogiZ0bheld 19.7 s)as29sdispatchedjwpdufreplybatchexecuteresponses are 4 GA4/g/collectbeacons (204 No Content) and oneplay.google.com/log— both outbound telemetry, and the latter sits between two dispatches 5.011 s apart, inside the 10 ms spread of every other pair.Push is now measured absent on both generation paths rather than generalised from one.
Process
8d4502bband pushed before the run; the data landed indddcf61d. Spike 1 could not prove that ordering and had to say so.Council review — 8 dimensions, 4 YELLOW, all must-fixes applied in
38b2b5fbD0 🟢 · D2 🟢 · D3 🟢 · D5 🟢 · D14 🟢 · D1 🟡 · D4 🟡 · D9 🟡 · D13 🟡
Claims that did not survive review, corrected rather than quietly edited:
jwpdufonly; the pre-registration said "jwpduf(oras29s)".as29s(2.541 s) andYhhmEf(4.301 s) are now reported, with why a one-shot fetch spanning no work is not a long-poll.Evidence:to a file that does not hold them.done=True/ 1,273,409 bytes came from stdout;str(record)[:120]truncates before the terminal fields (grep -c 1273409→ 0). Sourcing corrected, and the harness now records those fields by name — which also keeps the signedvideo_urlout of the capture.--runsdefaulted to 2 in both modes, so appending--mode videoto the committed image invocation silently doubled a real bill; the banner computed that total and printed it rather than preventing it. Now 1 for video, 2 for image.finally—except Exceptiondoes not catch Ctrl-C, and the video arm holds a pooled page for up topoll_timeout_s.Instrument bugs: one prevented, one found, one now run
url[:200]— and all 8jwpdufURLs are byte-identical at that truncation, measured. Every poll would have overwritten the previous one's dispatch time, makingin_flight_swrong for seven of eight. Now keyed on the PlaywrightRequestobject.protocolskeyed aturl[:300]against events aturl[:200]— 62 responses, including every poll, carried no HTTP version. No h2/h3 claim is made from the video capture.spike_two_domain_protocol_survey.pyis not affected (both sides at 300), so survey docs: add autonomous bug-fix and lessons-capture rules to agent reasoning style #1's h3 counts stand — verified independently by D9.h3) against 62 unattributed before, and the same run exercised thefinally, the dispatch-keyed gaps, the named terminal fields and the new--runsdefault. Zero Veo credits.Blind spot: measured before merge, and it was real
Every survey in this series bound
page.on(...). A service worker's fetches are reported on the BrowserContext instead, so a page-scoped zero cannot distinguish "no such traffic" from "traffic on a surface I never bound" — which is what the no-push claim rested on. Both listeners were bound at once and diffed: whatever the context saw and the page did not is the blind spot.Two
$0image runs, identical results — 3 responses per run reach the context and never the page:Plus one dedicated worker,
recaptcha/enterprise/webworker.js— the carrier D1 named, confirmed present rather than hypothesised.This corrects the record. Surveys #1 and #2 and this PR's own video run each missed three responses; their "0 WebSocket" figures were narrower than they read, and both sibling notes now say so.
It does not change the conclusion. None of the three is a channel (two reCAPTCHA endpoints and a logging sink, all short request/response), and with the wider listener plus
Network.webTransport*registered for the first time in this series, the count is still zero WebSocket, SSE and WebTransport.Target.setAutoAttachwas deliberately not used: flattened child sessions arrive with asessionIdPlaywright's connection does not route to aCDPSession, so those events would drop silently — a detector that looks armed and is not, the one failure mode this series keeps guarding against. Traffic strictly inside a worker's scope stays unmeasured and is named as such.The census fix, and why it is in this PR. The third-party host census was page-scoped on its first run and therefore reproduced the exact bug
context_onlyexists to expose: it omittedplay.google.com, the host whose identity was the open question. Fixed to count both surfaces and re-run at$0to prove it — absent from the census in run A, present in run B.On
play.google.com/log— named, not mappedThere is no third-party host registry, block list or filter anywhere in
src/; the onlycontext.route()is a narrow generation-payload interception. That absence is correct and this PR does not change it:ogads-pa.clients6.google.comhas now been re-derived as "not Flow" in three separate notes, and that is the actual recurring cost.Also in this PR
check_doc_links.pynow auditsdocs/superpowers/spikes/whole instead of by hand-maintained allowlist. Every spike note ever written was outside the gate; all 34 pass, so nothing is grandfathered. 29 → 63 files gated.docs/ARCHITECTURE.mdand themigrated-host-driver-wire-lessonsmemory carry the two-path result, so a future "subscribe instead of polling" proposal meets the measurement.recaptcha/enterprise/webworker.js),WebTransport, and sub-HTTP frames. That bounds the "no push" half, not the cadence half — and settling it is $0 (Target.setAutoAttach+ the free image arm), which also widens surveys docs: add autonomous bug-fix and lessons-capture rules to agent reasoning style #1 and docs: add autonomous bug-fix and lessons-capture rules to agent reasoning style #2 retroactively.Test plan
generate_website_docs --check— green (mirror regenerated for the ARCHITECTURE edit)ruff check src tests+ruff format --check src tests— green; touchedscripts/files linted and formatted separatelypyright src— 0 errorspytest tests/test_documentation_gate.py tests/scripts/ tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py— 293 passedcheck_doc_links.py— 63 files, all resolved (it now actually covers the new notes)dddcf61d, including SonarCloudsrc/moved, so there is no gflow behaviour here to regress; atests/e2e/twin would be a ~10-credit test asserting a wire timing no runtime code consumes. No e2e test is owed. (Framing credited to D4, which argued it both ways.)