Mimir/docs/implementation-plan.md

Implementation Plan

Current Cut Line

docs/native-rebuild-plan.md is now the active plan.

No more Python live hot path. No more OpenGL production Spout sink. No more JSON live data stores. Edge JSON may define CultNet schema or export diagnostics, but the real process/network data stays typed because every subsystem is under our control.

The native reservoir is now one time-ordered rolling buffer with typed views. The previous shared-edge typed rings proved the retention invariant; the new shape removes independent per-kind storage from the live foundation.

Implemented

• Perfect Machine contract:
  • docs/perfect-machine.md defines the target native machine: one five-second spatiotemporal reservoir, Aquarium-owned dense visual fusion/material/brush rendering, Faust-owned hot audio DSP, OBS-owned broadcast controls, and LocalCastBridge-owned calibration/config/status.
  • config/perfect-machine.example.json declares the contract shape for six cameras, six microphones, reservoir typed views, native authorities, outputs, and the demotion of bridge scripts to tooling.
  • native/reservoir is the first native Rust crate. It implements one shared-edge five-second rolling buffer with typed views and proves that every kind expires from the newest live sample.
  • native/reservoir/include/localcast_reservoir.h exposes the initial Aquarium/Faust C ABI: opaque reservoir create/destroy, sample-handle push, edge/window queries, ring counts, and latest sample lookup by sensor hash. The ABI now exposes total rolling-buffer length and typed-view length.
  • LocalcastRuntime wraps the current reservoir with typed native producer calls. It is the intended live spine, but must be rebuilt on the single rolling-buffer invariant before new runtime work.
• Repo-local persistence machinery.
• First architecture map.
• Example config for one video source plus two audio sources.
• Sender device discovery script.
• Sender launch script with dry-run mode and per-source FFmpeg commands.
• OBS receiver setup notes.
• Neighbor sender deployment under C:\Meta\LocalCastBridge.
• Madman's desktop start/stop launchers for the sender.
• Receiver OBS scene has Neighbor PC - Video and Neighbor PC - Focusrite Media Sources.
• Direct co-streamer loopback capture is now attempted with the repo WASAPI shim instead of Voicemeeter.
• Receiver OBS scene has Neighbor PC - System Audio on SRT port 5102.
• Sender script uses -nostdin and repo-root logs so desktop launchers stay alive and diagnostics land in C:\Meta\LocalCastBridge\logs.
• Sender video config is 1920x1080 for the interactive desktop. The 1024x768 SSH session size is not the streaming target.
• Desktop .cmd launchers delegate to PowerShell wrappers so paths with spaces and apostrophes are handled in one place.
• Audio-field sidecar profile and tool:
  • config/audio-field.example.json declares the actual distributed six-mic rig: two Kiyo mics, two PS Eye mics, local Focusrite shielded cardioid, neighbor Focusrite shotgun on the co-streamer, two local speakers, placeholder geometry, clock domains, capture policy, calibration sweep settings, and FOA AmbiX ACN/SN3D output.
  • scripts/audio_field.py lists devices, validates shared or distributed profiles, checks local distributed sources, generates calibration sweeps, summarizes clock-domain sync requirements, preserves shared-input capture helpers, and encodes already aligned offline WAVs to FOA.
  • audio_field/ contains testable core modules for source buffering, bounded latency convergence, injectable capture/alignment/encoder/sink ports, and pipeline orchestration.
  • docs/audio-field.md maps the audio pipeline and its invariants.
• Sensor-fusion render bridge:
  • localcast.sensor_fusion.calibration_space solves fixed-board ChArUco observations into camera poses in one common world frame.
  • localcast.sensor_fusion.surface_features matches cross-view features and triangulates calibrated surface tracks.
  • localcast.sensor_fusion.render_bridge emits render-frame packets with visual/audio timing metadata and Spout sender identity.
  • localcast.diagnostics.visual_cache stores diagnostic visual state as typed CultCache MessagePack documents. It is not the production live boundary.
  • localcast.diagnostics.spout_output renders render-frame packets into a GPU texture and publishes it as a named Spout sender for OBS. This is diagnostic/migration code, not production runtime.
  • scripts/diagnostic_live_sensor_fusion.py writes fused render frames into calibration/runs/visual-state.msgpack. This is diagnostic/migration code, not production runtime.
  • The live visual producer writes a multi-LOD scene cache with source kind and priority. Real Leap frames are promoted as the highest-priority visual timing/spatial evidence; Leap fallback frames remain lower-priority diagnostics.
  • Live clap calibration is wired into the visual producer. It keeps a rolling frame window from the Kiyo pair plus Leap, reads the live spatial audio frame for transient candidates, publishes clap-events.msgpack, injects clap calibration markers into the render frame, and writes clap evidence into the LOD cache. Kiyo stereo owns the current rough 3D solve; Leap owns the best visual timing witness until its geometric model is calibrated.
  • Clap peaks now update a per-camera clock sync model. The point-cloud builder can sample camera history buffers at oracle_time - camera_offset instead of using whichever frame arrived last.
  • The live visual producer now uses an explicit five-second spatiotemporal reservoir. RGB/Leap frame history expires from the newest shared sample, the multi-LOD cache only accepts evidence inside that same window, and RenderFramePacket.source_time_min_ns/source_time_max_ns declares the reservoir slice being rendered.
  • Multi-LOD cells now carry first-pass material estimates: weighted albedo plus roughness/metallic hints derived from source evidence. Aquarium should treat this as relightable material evidence to refine, not as the final BRDF solve.
  • The Spout/audio overlay boundary clamps stale visual packets to the current audio reservoir edge. If camera geometry ages out, it is dropped instead of being broadcast out of sync.
  • Live fallback-only RGB/Leap mode exists for deadline operation when OpenCV/MSMF/DirectShow reads block longer than the five-second reservoir. It keeps the reservoir and OBS output alive while real camera capture is moved to nonblocking ingress.
  • OpenCV camera reads now run behind LatestFramePump workers so blocking drivers cannot freeze the fusion hot loop. The live deadline command uses lower per-frame sample density (--rgb-room-step 16 --leap-step 16 --points 64) so the reservoir/TAA path stays fresh enough for Spout to render visual points inside the five-second budget.
  • localcast.sensor_fusion.chirp_pose converts live phase-field delay meaning for Kiyo/PS Eye microphone sources into camera-body range constraints and per-camera pose-correction estimates. It can load camera-mic and speaker geometry from the audio-field profile, with the example profile used as the live fallback until measured local geometry exists. scripts/diagnostic_live_sensor_fusion.py injects those constraints as camera-chirp:* and camera-pose-correction:* render points plus chirp-camera-pose LOD evidence.
  • scripts/diagnostic_stream_spout.py runs the deadline Spout sender loop from the typed cache with typed and JSON heartbeat status. This is diagnostic/migration code, not production runtime.
  • The deadline Spout renderer has a named kiyo-mid-deru virtual camera preset: eye at the midpoint between the two Kiyo-class cameras and target on the co-streamer body volume. It also applies a renderer-owned point budget with pinned calibration/cross-modal constraints, stable high-confidence anchors, and frame-varying remainder samples so downstream TAA/supersampling can accumulate detail without forcing every source claim into every OBS frame. Its JSON heartbeat reports the prefix counts that survived the render budget.
  • docs/obs-spout-streaming.md documents OBS setup and the Aquarium replacement boundary.
  • docs/typed-visual-state.md documents the diagnostic CultCache file shape and the CultNet visual schema target.
• OBS synchronized program surface:
  • scripts/setup_obs_synced_program.py derives OBS-controllable stems from an aligned program audio timeline: host voice, co-streamer voice, ambient, transients, co-streamer loopback, and local loopback.
  • scripts/capture_co_streamer_surfaces.py captures neighbor Focusrite and neighbor loopback with local loopback ground truth, estimates the late remote-family offset, and writes aligned co-streamer surfaces for the stem packer.
  • scripts/wasapi-loopback-capture.ps1 is the direct primary-playback loopback path. It must run in the neighbor's interactive console session; SSH-only capture sees the device but receives no render packets.
  • The tool creates/updates local OBS Media Sources for those stems and mutes/disables raw unsynchronized inputs.
  • Strict mode disables every scene item except the synchronized LocalCastBridge program video and stem controls.
• Live phase-field meaning:
  • audio_field.phase_meaning extracts actionable delay, coherence, confidence, suppression, correction-energy, and active-probe need from internal phase/chirplet evidence.
  • localcast.audio.phase_field is a typed CultCache document at calibration/runs/audio-phase-field.msgpack.
  • scripts/stream_phase_field.py publishes the live meaning document from an aligned mic field plus known program/loopback reference without exposing raw phase bands as the renderer API.
  • stream_phase_field.py also writes audio-phase-field-status.json, which declares whether the phase estimator is running against replayed WAVs or closed-loop live capture. Current deadline mode is explicit wav-replay with open-loop probe playback.
  • audio_field.active_probe wires low phase-field confidence into ActiveProbeOptimizer, emits bounded chirplet WAVs plus active-probes.jsonl, and can play probes through the default output device.
  • scripts/stream_live_audio_field.py is the live local capture owner for the deadline rig. It publishes localcast.audio.mic_field and localcast.audio.phase_field from visible local WASAPI/PortAudio mics plus Scarlett loopback, reports missing rig channels as explicit placeholders, plays confidence probes through the selected Scarlett output, and resamples probe playback when the output device runs at 44.1 kHz while the field timeline remains 48 kHz.
  • Active probe maintenance only targets source ids backed by live local capture devices. Missing distributed channels remain stable placeholders in the mic/phase field, but they do not consume chirp budget.
  • Active probe artifacts are bounded: emitted chirps rotate through a fixed slot set and the manifest rotates at a byte cap. The calibration loop is allowed to be noisy; it is not allowed to become an unbounded filesystem leak.
  • scripts/start-live-audio-phase-field.ps1 starts the live dense harmonic confidence loop with near-ultrasonic probes; scripts/stop-live-audio-phase-field.ps1 stops the PID recorded in logs/audio-phase-field.pid.
• Faust voice-separation boundary:
  • localcast.audio.mic_field publishes aligned six-mic float32 blocks at calibration/runs/audio-mic-field.msgpack.
  • faust/localcast_voice_separation.dsp is the first Aquarium-hosted graph surface for host voice, co-streamer voice, ambient, transient, and loopback stems.
  • scripts/start-live-faust-mic-field.ps1 starts the mic-field publisher for Aquarium/Faust.

Temporary

• Audio and video are separate SRT endpoints. This preserves OBS mixing authority but may need latency tuning.
• Audio defaults to AAC inside MPEG-TS for compatibility; test Opus later only if there is a concrete reason.
• Desktop capture uses gdigrab first because it is broadly available. ddagrab is a candidate once the installed FFmpeg build is confirmed.
• The scripts assume Windows sender and OBS receiver on the same LAN.
• The Python live producers/renderers and OpenGL Spout sink are diagnostics or migration fossils only. They should be quarantined or deleted early instead of adapted.

Next

1. Delete remaining production dependence on scripts/diagnostic_live_sensor_fusion.py, localcast.diagnostics.spout_output, JSON render-frame stores, JSON LOD stores, and Python reservoir-window clipping.
2. Bind Aquarium/Faust to the rolling-buffer LocalcastRuntime.
3. Move camera/mic/loopback ingest into native capture workers that append typed sample handles.
4. Move feature extraction, flow, cross-view matching, LOD reconciliation, material fitting, brush/splat rendering, and Spout2 publication into Aquarium GPU compute.
5. Move mic alignment, room suppression, voice separation, Ambisonic/HOA spatialization, and stem generation into Faust/native DSP.
6. Keep FFmpeg/SRT scripts as simple LAN ingest/capture utilities, not the synchronized program authority.