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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 (ogiZ0b held 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

video run 1
WebSocket events 0
streaming content-types 0
jwpduf dispatch gaps 5.002, 5.009, 5.011, 5.005, 5.008, 5.001, 5.004 s — mean 5.006, stdev 3.5 ms, spread 10 ms
jwpduf arrival gaps mean 5.007, stdev 178 ms, spread 641 ms (network jitter, 50× wider)
jwpduf in flight 0.441–0.809 s — not a long-poll (cf. ogiZ0b held 19.7 s)
as29s dispatched 0.034 s after the last jwpduf reply
  • It is a fixed timer, and it is Flow's page that holds it — gflow observes and adds no traffic, so the 5 s interval is a floor we read, not a latency knob we tune.
  • Only dispatch timing shows this. If each poll were sent in response to something, its send times would inherit that thing's jitter — σ would be ≥178 ms. It is 3.5 ms. A clock the network cannot perturb is a local clock.
  • No collapse near completion — last inter-dispatch gap equals the first.
  • Nothing inbound between polls. The only non-batchexecute responses are 4 GA4 /g/collect beacons (204 No Content) and one play.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

  • The pre-registration is provably prior this time. The video arm and its five pre-registered readings were committed in 8d4502bb and pushed before the run; the data landed in dddcf61d. Spike 1 could not prove that ordering and had to say so.
  • Spike 2's "the video path remains unmeasured for push" is marked superseded in place; survey docs: add autonomous bug-fix and lessons-capture rules to agent reasoning style #1 now links forward to both successors.

Council review — 8 dimensions, 4 YELLOW, all must-fixes applied in 38b2b5fb

D0 🟢 · D2 🟢 · D3 🟢 · D5 🟢 · D14 🟢 · D1 🟡 · D4 🟡 · D9 🟡 · D13 🟡

Claims that did not survive review, corrected rather than quietly edited:

  1. The note ticked a pre-registered row whose consequent its own body refutes. The pre-registration read "a client timer we own; latency is ours to tune"; the body says the timer is Flow's. Fixed in the table, the body and the docstring, with the correction stated — a ✅ contradicting the body is the exact failure that table exists to catch.
  2. "A request the client makes cannot be the thing that told it" is false, and contradicts §2 where the client is told by the reply to a request it made. Narrowed to the cadence argument.
  3. The long-poll 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 spanning no work is not a long-poll.
  4. Numbers cited under 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 signed video_url out of the capture.
  5. The new gap table keyed arrival — the axis the note itself dismisses as unable to answer the question. Re-keyed on dispatch.
  6. --runs defaulted to 2 in both modes, so appending --mode video to 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.
  7. 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.

Instrument bugs: one prevented, one found, one now run

  • Prevented (before the run): dispatch times were keyed by url[:200] — and all 8 jwpduf URLs are byte-identical at that truncation, measured. Every poll would have overwritten the previous one's dispatch time, making in_flight_s wrong for seven of eight. Now keyed on the Playwright Request object.
  • Found by this run: protocols keyed at url[:300] against events at url[: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.py is 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.
  • Now run, at $0. D1's must-fix: that protocol fix had shipped unexercised. The free image arm now attributes 73 of 76 responses (all h3) against 62 unattributed before, and the same run exercised the finally, the dispatch-keyed gaps, the named terminal fields and the new --runs default. 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 $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 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.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 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_only exists to expose: it omitted play.google.com, the host whose identity was the open question. Fixed to count both surfaces and re-run at $0 to prove it — absent from the census in run A, present in run B.

On play.google.com/log — named, not mapped

There is no third-party host registry, block list or filter anywhere in src/; the only context.route() is a narrow generation-payload interception. That absence is correct and this PR does not change it:

  • Never block or route-abort these. This project's premise is that Google's stack rejects browsers advertising automation. Suppressing a beacon every real Chrome session sends is itself the anomaly.
  • No registry. One member is an abstraction with one implementation.
  • Named once instead, in a census table in the spike note — because ogads-pa.clients6.google.com has 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.py now audits docs/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.md and the migrated-host-driver-wire-lessons memory carry the two-path result, so a future "subscribe instead of polling" proposal meets the measurement.
  • NOT-measured now names what the detector cannot see at all: worker and service-worker scopes (this capture loads 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

  • All five hygiene gates + generate_website_docs --check — green (mirror regenerated for the ARCHITECTURE edit)
  • ruff check src tests + ruff format --check src tests — green; touched scripts/ files linted and formatted separately
  • pyright src — 0 errors
  • pytest tests/test_documentation_gate.py tests/scripts/ tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py — 293 passed
  • check_doc_links.py — 63 files, all resolved (it now actually covers the new notes)
  • Analyser validated against spike 2's existing image capture first — reproduces that note's published numbers exactly (19.687 / 19.841 s in flight, next-longest 1.023 / 1.286 s)
  • All CI checks green on dddcf61d, including SonarCloud
  • Step 1b (MCP↔CLI parity): N/A — no CLI leaf, option, exit code or user-facing string touched.
  • Iron Law: the law's trigger is a command, a feature, or a Flow surface, and this drives one — but its demand is "a run, against the real thing, that you watched", which is literally this PR's deliverable. Nothing under src/ moved, so there is no gflow behaviour here to regress; a tests/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.)

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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The 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.

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Video generation wire survey

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Video capture and timing instrumentation
scripts/dev/spike_generation_wire_survey.py
The survey adds video execution, request-based timing, protocol attribution, per-RPC gaps, mode-specific defaults, terminal result fields, and cleanup in finally.
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docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-video-poll-is-a-fixed-client-timer.md, docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-generation-wire-no-push-channel.md
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docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, website/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/superpowers/memory/migrated-host-driver-wire-lessons.md, docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-14-two-domain-protocol-survey.md
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8-8: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the image evidence filename pattern.

The writer now creates generation_wire_image_<profile>_<timestamp>.json. This glob omits the image mode segment, so it does not locate the cited image-survey output.

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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
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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`.

**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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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
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Comment on lines +65 to +69
**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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minimal, and validate.

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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Comment on lines +158 to +160
**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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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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minimal, and validate.

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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Comment on lines +173 to +174
- **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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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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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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minimal, and validate.

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
spike_generation_wire_survey.py.

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Comment on lines +175 to +177
- **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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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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fi

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        by_rpc = {}
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                )
        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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if ((${`#reports`[@]} == 0)); then
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import json
import sys
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                    (event["sent_t"], event["t"])
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                f"  run={run.get('run')} rpcid={rpcid} "
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            )
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                    (event["sent_t"], event["t"])
                )
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                later_sent < response_t
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                for later_sent, _ in pairs
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            )
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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")
PY
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

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
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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.
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