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Victor KuznetsovandClaude Opus 5 613b349358 Cover the fidelity probe, and run it where ffmpeg actually exists
The probe shipped with no tests while every sibling research script has them,
and it needs neither a model nor a GPU, so nothing justified the gap. Its whole
output is a ranking and a mispaired comparison still prints a plausible number,
so the pairing tests carry more weight than the metric ones.

The centerpiece builds a correctly phased and a wrong-phased delivery of the
same clip. Both have six frames, so the frame-count check the probe used to rely
on passes for both; the misaligned one scores near 9 dB against 40+. A separate
assertion pins that the probe binds the engine's sampler rather than a copy,
which is the contract a same-phase private copy would otherwise satisfy
silently. This file now holds the only constraint on that sampler's phase.

CI ran none of this. The test matrix installs no ffmpeg, and the job that does
install it ran one class from another file, so five of these tests would have
skipped on every runner. The video-e2e job now collects this file too.

Recorded in .claude/rules/development.md: mutating the sampler's >= to > proves
nothing, because the 1e-9 epsilon makes both branches agree on exact equality.
The phase or the period is what has to move. That inert mutation passed a green
suite here before the real one failed five tests.

Dropped the downscale test's PSNR bound: solid colors survive both the downscale
and the upscale exactly, so any score there pins the local ffmpeg's chroma
rounding rather than the probe. Geometry is the assertion that means something.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 22:24:49 -07:00

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---
globs: ["src/**/*.py", "tests/**/*.py", "scripts/**/*.py", "pyproject.toml", "uv.lock", "maintain.sh", ".github/workflows/*.yml"]
description: Command contracts, project gate, typing boundaries, model-adjacent test invariants, and the detection-path measurement rule.
---
# Development invariants
## Command contracts
Every single-image command declares `source` with `dir_okay=False`; `batch` declares its directory with `file_okay=False`. Keep `tests/test_cli_robustness.py::TestDirectoryInputIsRejected` as the regression guard.
Exit-code and no-signal behavior is a public contract. Read the command-line section of [`../../docs/module-internals.md`](../../docs/module-internals.md) before changing it.
Do not add an option whose only outcome is an error. Model id, step count and CFG are fixed by the profile, so none of them is a parameter of the CLI, `InvisibleEngine`, or `WatermarkRemover` -- they were accepted-then-rejected for a while, which moved the failure several frames below the caller and advertised choices the pinned stack cannot honor. If a value cannot vary, delete the knob rather than validating it.
`device` is the deliberate exception and stays a library parameter: `None`/`"auto"` detect, `"cuda"` pins without detecting, and everything else raises at construction. It is not a CLI option, because the only value a user could usefully type is the one auto-detection already finds.
The same rule applies to install hints: name the extra that actually makes the command work (`qwen-zimage`, not `diffusion`), and keep the printed command shell-quoted -- bare `pkg[extra]` is a glob in zsh.
## Local gate
Run `bash maintain.sh` from the repository root. The authoritative type gate is scoped to `src/`; full-project Pyright can exhaust Node memory on the ML dependency graph.
Boundary modules for cv2, Torch, and Diffusers may carry narrow per-file relaxations for unknown third-party types. Keep pure-logic files strict, preserve the local piexif stub, and fix real errors before widening a pragma.
From a worktree, `uv run` imports the package from the MAIN checkout -- that is where the editable install points. A script measuring a worktree's edit must insert that worktree's `src` at `sys.path[0]` and assert `module.__file__` resolves inside it, or it silently compares unmodified code against itself.
## Model-adjacent tests
Do not classify an entire module as untestable because its main path downloads a model. Keep pure behavior covered without downloads, including:
- target-size selection in `test_invisible_engine.py`;
- unsharp and adaptive-polish helpers in `test_humanizer.py`;
- tiling geometry and blending in `test_tiling.py`;
- prompt-embedding cache keying, storage round-trip, and the cross-pipeline reuse
that lets a stack load without its text encoder, in `test_qwen_zimage_pipeline.py`;
- the face stack's dtype, in `test_qwen_zimage_pipeline.py`. A subclass that changes
the pipeline dtype for its own global model must not change the inherited face
stage's; `sdxl-zimage` shipped doing exactly that and crashed on every image with a
face. When one profile inherits another's stage, guard the invariants that stage
relies on, not just the code path.
- the `InvisibleOptions` defaults, in `test_api.py`. When one signature promises to
mirror another, compare them field by field rather than pinning the values you happen
to know about, so the next field added on one side and not the other fails at the
seam. Two of these defaults drifted in practice and neither needed a GPU to catch;
the incident is recorded in `docs/module-internals.md`. Keep the comparison free of
an exception table: a field that needs one is a field that belongs elsewhere, which
is what `force` turned out to be.
A defaults comparison is not a forwarding test, and the two fail differently. Pin the
VALUE at the seam, not just the name -- `_run_invisible` passed the whole suite with
`controlnet_conditioning_scale` hardcoded, because nothing asserted the caller's value
arrived. `test_every_field_arrives_at_the_engine_with_the_caller_s_value` drives the
real seam with every field set off its default, so one test covers the whole bag
instead of one assertion per knob.
Count the seams before believing a knob is covered. Each of `force` and
`controlnet_conditioning_scale` reaches the engine through TWO paths -- `remove_all`
versus `remove_batch(mode="all")` for the first, `_run_invisible` versus `_batch_engine`
for the second -- and in both cases guarding one path left the other free to hardcode a
constant with a green suite. The mode-parametrized guards in
`TestRemoveBatchLibrary::test_force_reaches_the_scrub_gate_in_every_scrubbing_mode` and
`TestBatchCommand::test_batch_controlnet_scale_flows_to_the_cached_engine` exist because
that is what actually happened.
Use availability checks only for paths that actually load large models.
## One measurement, one gate seam
A detector is split into a trust-level-blind scan and a verdict that applies the
threshold, so `detect` and `detect_both` reach the same numbers by construction. Two
rules follow, and both were broken in practice before they were written down:
- A per-mark demotion goes in the `_post_gate` hook (or, for a whole-scan precondition
like LibLibAI's size floor, in `_scan`) -- never in a `detect` override. An override
is invisible to `detect_both`, so the RunningHub and Yuanbao anchor gates silently
stopped applying on the arbiter's perception path. `TestSinglePassPerception` is the
guard: it asserts `detect_both` equals two `detect` calls field for field.
- Detection and the removal mask must read ONE sweep. The winning box travels on
`TextMarkDetection.match_box` and the registry threads the detection into the mask
builder; a mask path that re-runs its own sweep is how the two drift apart.
The C2PA manifest-store JSON is NOT stable across reads: the reader regenerates manifest
URNs and instance ids. Compare the derived `c2pa_info`, never the raw store.
A third seam reaches the same verdict: `collect_metadata_record` ->
`evidence_from_metadata_record` -> `identify_from_evidence`, the path a caller uses when
collection and verdict run on different machines. Its contract is equality with
`identify(path, check_visible=False, check_invisible=False)` on the same image, and it
can break from EITHER side -- a region the collector stops walking, or a placement the
file path learns to read and the record does not. `tests/test_metadata_record.py` pins
it over the tracked fixtures; a separate local evaluation corpus catches placements the
fixtures do not cover. Change either side and re-run both.
Before changing anything in the detection path, record the detectors' exact verdicts
over a local sample first and diff them after. A refactor here is only correct if that
record is byte-identical, and a green test suite does not establish that on its own. A
change that is meant to FIX detection is the exception that proves the rule: the diff
must then be exactly the files you intended to change, named in advance.
## A certified operating point is data, not a constant
The video SynthID default is only meaningful as a row in
`data/evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv`, so
`test_shipped_defaults_match_a_certified_manifest_row` derives the pin from that
manifest instead of restating literals. Pinning `noise_std` alone had let `long_side`
and `fps` -- two thirds of what the oracle was actually shown -- move with a green
suite.
The certified profile is a perturbation-to-signal ratio, not a bare `noise_std`, so
the latent scaling factor is gated in `load_video_vae_runtime`, carried on
`VideoVaeRuntime`, and passed into encode and decode: the validated value and the
applied value are one measurement. Anything that produces oracle evidence loads
through that function. `video_synthid_sweep.py` hand-rolled the load and was the one
path exempt from the gate it exists to feed, which is exactly backwards.
Prove a video-path refactor the same way the detection path is proven, and without
needing an oracle carrier: build a clip from a tracked fixture with ffmpeg, run the
engine before and after, and require an identical output sha256. Keep the generated
media outside the repository.
Frame sampling is compared as `timestamp + 1e-9 >= next_sample_time`, so mutating
that `>=` to `>` changes nothing and a green suite proves nothing. Mutate the phase
or the period instead -- starting the accumulator half a period late shifts the
selection by one frame while keeping the count identical, which is the drift a
frame-count check cannot see and what
`test_pairing_follows_the_engine_sampling_rule_not_just_the_frame_count` exists to
catch.
Environment setup, dependency recovery, CI behavior, and fixture policy: [`../../docs/development.md`](../../docs/development.md).