fix(lint): flag media clips whose window has no out-point

[xiayewang-heygen]

Why

Two HyperFrames design-element renders failed in prod with PLAN_TOO_LARGE: a 7.0s element produced a 5.41 GiB planDir and an 8.0s element produced 15.11 GiB, against the 2 GiB v1 ceiling.

Neither is about composition length. Both compositions contain one clip shaped like this:

<video id="five9_video" src=".../training.mp4"
       data-start="0" data-media-start="2280" muted playsinline>

An in-point, no out-point. data-media-start says where the media window opens; nothing closes it, so resolveSegmentDuration treats the window as unbounded and extracts durationSeconds - mediaStart — everything from the in-point to EOF. The source is a 54-minute upload (duration=3267.26s, 250.9 MiB — exactly the source-media figure in the error), so:

element	in-point	extracted	frames @30fps	reported
7.0s	2280s	987.3s	29,617	29,622 files / 5.16 GiB video-frames
8.0s	1089s	2178.3s	65,348	15.11 GiB

The render only ever samples 210 frames. Everything else is waste — a 141× overshoot.

Nothing flagged it. media_missing_data_start hard-errors on a missing data-start but mentions data-duration only in a fixHint, and the authoring contract explicitly blessed the omission: "Video/audio can default to media duration when known." Harmless in preview and in-process render, where the composition's 7s window just clips playback; catastrophic in the distributed plan path, where "media duration" silently becomes the frame-extraction budget.

Plan v2 (#43811) disabled the planDir cap, so the error stopped on 2026-07-29 — but the 141× extraction still runs on every such render.

What

New rule media_unbounded_media_window on <video>/<audio> that have data-start and a source but neither data-end nor data-duration:

• error when data-media-start > 0 — an in-point proves a slice was intended, so a missing out-point is a contradiction, not a style choice.
• warning otherwise — "play the whole clip" is a legitimate pattern (full-length A-roll), so this only surfaces the plan cost.

Untimed and sourceless media are left to the rules that already own those shapes.

Docs updated so the guidance no longer authorizes the pattern: data-duration is now listed as required for video/audio that set data-media-start, plus a note in both data-attributes.md and tracks-and-clips.md that a clip's media window is its extraction budget, not just its playback range.

Verification

• Run against the two real failing compositions pulled from S3: both flagged error, on exactly the offending element (five9_video, bg_video).
• Run across the repo's 636 HTML files: 0 errors, 22 warnings. All 22 are the legitimate full-clip A-roll pattern in packages/producer/tests/*-prod/ fixtures — none carries an in-point, so nothing existing is blocked.
• @hyperframes/lint: 515 tests pass (4 new). CLI consumers of lint output (validate, check, lintFormat): 79 pass.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

1. Producer clamp — extract only [max(start,0), min(end, compositionEnd)], using compositionEnd when end is non-finite. Lint can't reach hand-authored or external-API compositions; this bounds the planDir regardless of what was authored. buildPlanVideosJson already threads compositionEnd.
2. Fail fast — the only pre-extraction check measures the compiled tree, so a doomed plan burns full ffmpeg extraction (45s in the observed failure) before pre-freeze rejects it. Estimate Σ(window × fps × bytes/frame) after probe, and drop "shorten the composition" from the error — it is a dead end when the element is already 7 seconds.

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[jerrai-bot-heygen]

Reviewed at head 7d33a53. Correctly scoped, well-verified fix for the exact root cause behind the McKesson PLAN_TOO_LARGE incident (FB-3653/VA-1973):

• New rule media_unbounded_media_window correctly gates on timed (data-start) + sourced (src/data-var-src) media missing BOTH data-end and data-duration, with severity keyed on whether data-media-start > 0 proves an intended slice (error) vs. legitimate full-clip playback (warning). Logic handles the missing-attribute-as-0-vs-NaN edge case correctly either way.
• Untimed/sourceless media correctly left to the rules that already own those shapes (media_missing_data_start/media_missing_src) — verified by a dedicated test.
• Verified against both real failing compositions (both flag error on the exact offending element) and the full 636-file repo sweep (0 errors, 22 warnings, all legitimate full-clip A-roll — nothing existing breaks).
• Docs (data-attributes.md, tracks-and-clips.md) correctly updated to stop blessing the omission that caused this.

This is the authoring-time half (lint) — the two follow-ups (producer clamp, fail-fast estimate) are correctly scoped out as separate work, and James notes in-thread the distributed-renderer side is now fixed too, so this closes the loop from both ends.

— Jerrai

[james-russo-rames-d-jusso]

Solid fix. The severity split — error when data-media-start > 0 (an in-point without an out-point is a contradiction), warning otherwise — is well-argued, and skipping tags that miss data-start / src cleanly delegates to the rules that already own those shapes (media_missing_data_start, media_missing_src, media_variable_src_no_fallback). Tests cover all four branches (error / warning / valid-with-out-point / delegate-to-other-rules) and pin the 2280 interpolation. Docs additions in both data-attributes.md and tracks-and-clips.md reframe the media window as an extraction budget, which is the right mental model to leave in the AI-authoring skill. The deferred producer-side clamp + fail-fast follow-ups in the description are correctly out of scope for a lint fix.

Nits

• skills/hyperframes-core/references/data-attributes.md:31 says data-duration is "required for video/audio that set data-media-start". Read literally, that covers data-media-start="0" too — but the lint rule only errors when data-media-start > 0 (the hasInPoint = Number.isFinite(mediaStart) && mediaStart > 0 gate at packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:550), so data-media-start="0" yields the same warning as omitting the attribute entirely. Doc language of "required for video/audio that set data-media-start to a positive value" would match the enforced contract exactly. Very minor — data-media-start="0" is functionally equivalent to omitting it, so no real author is threading this needle.
• The error/fixHint messages interpolate the Number-coerced mediaStart, so data-media-start="2.28e3" reports back as data-media-start="2280". Fine, semantically identical, but the raw string would echo author intent more literally. Skip if not worth the churn.

What I didn't verify

• The "0 errors, 22 warnings across 636 HTML files" scan (accept on trust — the surface is consistent with the fixture layout).
• Producer-side names cited in the PR body (resolveSegmentDuration, buildPlanVideosJson, compositionEnd) — the lint rule's correctness doesn't depend on them, and the debugging narrative is supporting context, not a code claim to pin.

— Review by Rames D Jusso

[miga-heygen]

R1 — media_unbounded_media_window lint rule (head 7d33a53)

Verdict: Approve (one non-blocking nit)

Well-motivated rule that catches a real prod failure pattern. Two compositions blew past the 2 GiB plan ceiling because a 7s clip cut from a 54-minute source extracted ~29,600 frames instead of ~210. The rule is correctly scoped, the severity split is sound, and the docs update closes the authoring loophole.

What was verified

Rule logic — all edge cases clean:

• data-media-start="0" → 0 > 0 → hasInPoint = false → warning. Correct: "start from beginning" is semantically identical to omitting the attribute.
• data-media-start absent → readAttr returns null, Number(null) = 0, 0 > 0 = false → warning. Correct.
• Negative data-media-start → warning. Correct: invalid offset is a separate concern; runtime clamps to 0 (init.ts:755).
• data-end="" or data-duration="" → readAttr regex [^"']+ requires 1+ chars → returns null → rule fires. Correct: empty attribute is effectively unset.
• data-duration="0" → readAttr returns "0" (truthy string) → rule skips. Correct: zero-duration is bounded (zero frames extracted), not the unbounded problem.
• data-var-src without src → rule proceeds. Correct: clip has a source at render time.
• readAttr boundary safety: (?<!\w-) lookbehind prevents data-start from matching inside data-media-start. Verified.

Rule boundaries — no overlaps:

• Untimed media (no data-start) → deferred to media_missing_data_start. Mutually exclusive gates.
• Sourceless media → deferred to media_missing_src. Mutually exclusive.
• Out-point present (data-end or data-duration) → rule skips. Correct.

Tests: 4 tests covering error (in-point, no out-point), warning (no in-point, no out-point), acceptance (out-point present via data-duration or data-end), and boundary delegation (untimed/sourceless → other rules fire, this one doesn't).

Docs: data-attributes.md table updated: data-duration now required for video/audio with data-media-start. New paragraph explains extraction budget concept. tracks-and-clips.md gains a matching paragraph. Both close the "Video/audio can default to media duration when known" loophole that authorized the pattern.

Nit (non-blocking)

data-playback-start alias not checked for severity classification. The runtime resolves the media offset as data-playback-start ?? data-media-start (init.ts:751), and the attribute is documented in 21 files across docs, runtime, and lint fix hints. A composition with data-playback-start="120" (no data-media-start, no bounds) would get a warning instead of an error, even though it has a clear non-zero in-point — the exact 54-minute-source disaster scenario the error severity is designed to catch.

Fix would be:

const mediaStart = Number(
  readAttr(tag.raw, "data-playback-start") ?? readAttr(tag.raw, "data-media-start")
);

Mirroring the runtime's resolution order. The error message would also want to name whichever attribute was actually found. This is severity-only (the rule fires either way), so non-blocking for merge — but worth a follow-up if data-playback-start appears in real compositions.

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Review by Miga

[jrusso1020]

Additive runtime-contract review at head 7d33a53. The existing reviews cover the rule predicate and test branches; this checks the premise against the renderer behavior already present in this PR's base.

The new tests are internally consistent with the proposed rule (packages/lint/src/rules/media.test.ts:235-292), but the rule no longer matches production video extraction.

Blocker

• [blocker] packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:533-560 — the exact video failure described by this rule is already bounded by #2955, so this creates a false hard error. This PR already contains packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/extractVideosStage.ts:379, which passes the finite composition duration as timelineEnd; packages/engine/src/services/videoFrameExtractor.ts:951-956 intersects the source window with that timeline. Both in-process and distributed-plan callers go through this shared stage, with regression coverage at packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/extractVideosStage.timelineBound.test.ts:99-109. The reported 7-second composition therefore extracts seven seconds, not the remaining 987 seconds, even with data-media-start="2280" and no authored duration. Lines 557-560 nevertheless make this supported shape an error and claim it still creates a multi-GiB plan / PLAN_TOO_LARGE. I recommend closing this PR as superseded by #2955 unless an uncovered production video path can be demonstrated.

Important if the rule is repurposed

• packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:540-564 also applies the video-frame/plan-size diagnostic to <audio>, which does not publish pre-extracted video frames into the plan. There is a real but different audio-preprocessing concern: the current mixer can prepare the full remaining source before the final mix trims to composition duration (packages/engine/src/services/audioMixer.ts:736-760,783-788). If that is worth linting, scope and describe it as temporary audio CPU/disk work—or preferably bound the audio stage—rather than preserving this obsolete Plan-too-large rule.
• packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:563 suggests data-end, but packages/lint/src/rules/composition.ts:466-485 emits deprecated_data_end as an error when it appears without data-duration. The acceptance test at packages/lint/src/rules/media.test.ts:266-276 checks only that this new finding is absent, not that the full lint result is green.
• skills/hyperframes-core/references/data-attributes.md:31-37 and skills/hyperframes-core/references/tracks-and-clips.md:46 would publish the now-false extraction/PLAN_TOO_LARGE claim while packages/core/docs/core.md:260-261,285-286 still documents omitted duration as supported natural-source behavior.

Miga's data-playback-start alias gap also remains valid if any narrower rule is retained.

— Codex

Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES
Reasoning: #2955 already fixes the cited video over-extraction on every production video-render path, so the PR now blocks a safe supported pattern and documents behavior that is no longer true.

[miguel-heygen]

Additive exact-head review at 7d33a53. The predicate and branch tests in packages/lint/src/rules/media.test.ts:235-292 are clear, but I independently confirmed the runtime-contract blocker raised by jrusso1020.

Blocker

• [blocker] packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:533-560 — this hard error and its PLAN_TOO_LARGE explanation are obsolete on this PR base. The head already contains #2955. There is exactly one production call to extractAllVideoFrames, at packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/extractVideosStage.ts:368-386, and it always passes the finite composition.duration as timelineEnd. The only two production callers of that shared stage are the in-process renderer (packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts:2325-2346) and distributed planner (packages/producer/src/services/distributed/plan.ts:1033-1045); both validate duration before extraction. The engine then intersects the natural source range with that timeline at packages/engine/src/services/videoFrameExtractor.ts:928-956 and :815-889. The regression at packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/extractVideosStage.timelineBound.test.ts:99-119 explicitly covers both materialization modes. A 7-second composition with an open 55-minute video now extracts at most its visible 7-second timeline window, so this PR would reject a supported shape and publish a false multi-GiB/PLAN_TOO_LARGE claim. Close as superseded, or demonstrate a remaining production video path and scope the rule to it.

If repurposed

• packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:540-564 applies video-frame/plan-size language to audio, although audio does not create the plan video-frame tree. A narrower audio preprocessing rule needs its own accurate cost/failure contract.
• Miga’s alias finding is real, but secondary: packages/core/src/runtime/init.ts:750-752 and Studio trimming use data-playback-start before data-media-start, while the rule reads only data-media-start at packages/lint/src/rules/media.ts:549. Because hyperframes lint exits zero on warnings (packages/cli/src/commands/lint.ts:50-62), that is a genuine blocking-severity bypass if a narrower rule remains.

Exact-head CI is terminal-green (37 success, 8 intentional skips); the objection is semantic, not CI.

Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES
Reasoning: #2955 already bounds every production video-extraction path by the finite composition timeline, so the proposed video error and documentation describe a failure that this head can no longer produce.

— Magi

[jerrai-bot-heygen]

Superseding my own APPROVE above at the same head (7d33a53) — I got this wrong.

I independently re-verified the blocker jrusso1020 and Magi raised, not just taking their word: #2955 ("fix: bound HDR and video extraction resources") merged 2026-08-03T03:21:55Z, and #2972's base (bc6dbc7) was branched from main at 2026-08-03T19:05:41Z — i.e. after #2955 landed. Reading the actual source at this PR's own head confirms it:

• packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/extractVideosStage.ts:379 — the single production call to extractAllVideoFrames — passes timelineEnd: composition.duration.
• packages/engine/src/services/videoFrameExtractor.ts — resolveTimelineExtractionWindow computes visibleDuration = Math.max(0, Math.min(resolvedVisibleDuration, timelineDuration)) where timelineDuration = timelineEnd - compositionStart. This clamps extraction to the composition's own duration regardless of how long the source file is.
• extractVideosStage.timelineBound.test.ts has regression coverage for exactly this.

So the premise I approved against — "an in-point with no out-point extracts to EOF of a 54-minute source" — is no longer true on this base. A 7s composition with data-media-start="2280" and no data-duration now extracts ~7s, not ~987s. The hard error severity and the docs updates (data-attributes.md, tracks-and-clips.md) describe a PLAN_TOO_LARGE failure mode this head can no longer produce.

I missed this because my original verification confirmed the lint rule fires correctly on the two known-bad HTML snippets, but I never re-ran the actual extraction/render pipeline at this head to check whether the underlying runtime bug this PR cites was still live — I took the PR description's incident narrative at face value instead of checking it against a same-day sibling PR that had just landed. That's on me.

Agree with jrusso1020's recommendation: close as superseded by #2955, or narrow this to the audio-preprocessing concern he identified (with its own accurate cost/failure contract) if that's still worth linting. Also agree Miga's data-playback-start alias gap is real and would need fixing if any narrower rule survives.

— Jerrai (correcting my own review)

[xiayewang-heygen]

#2955 has done the job