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This pull request focuses on restoring and clarifying several physiological and signal-processing gates in both the Dart and TypeScript codebases for WHOOP record decoding. The main goal is to revert prior relaxations that allowed out-of-range or corrupted data to pass through, and to improve in-code documentation about these physiological checks. Additionally, the TypeScript test file is removed, likely to streamline the codebase or transition to a different testing approach.

The most important changes are:

Restored physiological/data quality gates:

  • In lib/src/control.dart (parseRealtimeHr): Restored the RR interval gate to only accept values between 200–2500ms, preventing corrupted or out-of-range timing data from being included in live RR streams. Previous relaxations to v>0 are reverted, with clear comments explaining the rationale.
  • In lib/src/live.dart (_Motion _r10Motion): The detrending window width for step detection is reverted from 25 back to 9, with a detailed comment explaining the risk of attenuating genuine step periodicity at wider windows and the lack of test coverage for the previous change.

Documentation and signal meaning clarifications:

  • In lib/src/live.dart (decodeRecord): Added a clarifying comment that skinContact is a quality metric, not a wear detection signal, and that hr>0 is the only reliable indicator for "wrist on" in the current fixture.

Test and code cleanup:

  • Removed the ts/test_decoder.ts file, which contained a test suite for the TypeScript R24 decoder. This likely reflects a shift in testing strategy or a move to a different framework.

No changes to the public TypeScript decoder API or core parsing logic were made.

These changes improve the physiological reliability of the decoded data and clarify the codebase for future maintainers.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Refactor

    • Removed legacy TypeScript live-record decoding support and its associated test harness.
    • Existing decoding capabilities remain available through the maintained implementation.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified heart-rate interval validation and motion-decoding behavior.
    • Added context for contact-quality readings and wrist-detection handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • No functional behavior changes were introduced in the updated decoding logic.

Three uncommitted tweaks had crept in without justification or test
coverage; reverted all three back to known-good behavior and left a
comment at each site so they don't get silently re-applied:

- wristOn: skinContact>50 broke the parity suite (2906/2934, all 28
  misses on wrist_on) — 28 real v24 records show hr=87-97 (clearly
  worn) with skinContact<=50, proving skinContact is contact quality,
  not wear, exactly as already documented. Back to hr>0, which matches
  the oracle on every case.
- parseRealtimeHr's RR sanity clamp (200-2500ms = 24-300bpm) had been
  relaxed to `v>0`, letting corrupted/out-of-range timing values
  straight into live RR with no guard.
- _r10Motion's detrend window had been widened 9->25 with nothing
  backing it; ±25 approaches the 7-40 sample autocorrelation lag range
  it feeds, risking attenuation of genuine step periodicity. No test
  (parity or otherwise) exercises steps_inc/activity from R10, so
  there was no way to validate the change either way.

dart test: 71/71 passing, including the full 2934-case parity suite.
Was the original reference the Dart decoders were ported from and kept
in parity with (7 commits, right up through the latest feature work),
not a one-off leftover — but decode_parity_cases.json is now the
frozen, self-contained oracle dart test actually runs against, with no
runtime dependency on ts/ (verified: no test/config spawns node/tsc
against it). Drops the unported v25-handling WIP that was sitting in
ts/live.ts uncommitted; that work is not carried over to live.dart.
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TypeScript live decoding utilities, the R24 record decoder, and their test harness were removed. Dart decoder comments were expanded to document RR bounds, R10 parameter history, and contact-quality interpretation without changing runtime behavior.

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Decoder cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove TypeScript live decoding APIs and R24 support
ts/live.ts, ts/records.ts, ts/test_decoder.ts
Removes live record and IMU decoding helpers, the exported R24 type and parser, and the fixture-based decoder test harness.
Clarify Dart decoder behavior
lib/src/control.dart, lib/src/live.dart
Adds comments documenting the existing RR interval bounds, reverted R10 window parameter, and contact-quality interpretation for v24/v25 records.

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Suggested reviewers: localhoop

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