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Last updated: 2026-08-25

Current Product Truth

Build private, low-latency game screen sharing for one broadcaster and a small group of trusted friends. Public or large broadcasts belong on OBS/Twitch-class services.
A room supports one Host and up to 20 authenticated Viewers. Admission is independent of endpoint fanout and SFU capacity; the event-driven route controller must remain efficient at that bound without all-pairs probing.
Authenticated Hosts and shipped clients are trusted media participants in these private rooms; route authority, generation fencing, and server admission remain fail-closed.
Rooms use one bounded, process-memory model: a random free code from 1000..9999, default 24-hour configurable dormant lease, and no database or cross-restart recovery. Active sharing never expires; stop/disconnect starts the lease, the exact Host token may resume before expiry, Viewer activity does not renew it, and expiry releases the code. Process restart invalidates every room, token, invitation, password verifier, and participant.
Viewer grants and code entry are orthogonal. Each room has one random 128-bit/22-character grant digest bound to that exact in-memory incarnation; it has no independent expiry and ends on reclamation, restart, rotate, or revoke. Every new room creates that invitation and defaults code entry to public open with no password; the only other code-entry state is private. A private room with no password is invitation-only, while setting a password also permits matching code-only entry. An unallocated/reclaimed/expired code returns ROOM_NOT_FOUND without a password prompt, while other existing-room denials remain ROOM_ACCESS_DENIED. The Host browser retains its creation preferences and raw ownership token; exact-token invitation/policy/password management remains available while dormant without starting media or renewing the lease. The server keeps only current-process digests/verifiers and uses no fingerprint. Recreation reapplies preferences but creates a new code and credentials.
Web is the current delivery target. The route release covers Browser Host, Viewer, and relay endpoints; packaged/native senders, capture helpers, shared-encode executables, and their acceptance runs are lowest-priority later work outside this milestone.
Keep routing automatic and media distributed. Direct/peer UDP is preferred; the dedicated LiveKit SFU/UDP path is the only application fallback and is not the default topology. Screener configures no TURN, ICE/TCP, media TCP, or TLS-relayed media path.
Every non-server endpoint uses one server-authoritative steady outbound media-copy capacity: default 2, statically configurable as 1, 2, or 3. A peer child or the Host publication consumes one slot; upstream receive is free, and SFU subscriber egress is accounted at the server. Browser role/UA/visibility does not create a separate tier, and clients cannot raise the deployment value.
The stable routing invariants are one authoritative upstream per Viewer, an acyclic source-reachable active graph, exact authenticated route attempts, endpoint and server admission, one room-serial child operation, and bounded success, wait, or failure.
One room controller reconciles allocation, child reparenting, and relay drain through the same operation. It finds one waiting Viewer or invalid edge and builds one deterministic tuple list. The operation owns its cursor, current candidate and reservations, fact version, plus one total deadline; only its current candidate may produce media. A prepare names that exact child, selected transport, and server-issued candidate connection ID. A usable old edge remains until the exact candidate child decodes its first new video frame. settleReady synchronously commits admission before graph promotion; success commits prepare revision P, while failure releases resources, broadcasts rollback R > P from one monotonic allocator, and advances the cursor without resetting the deadline. Exhaustion retires hard-invalid, departed-parent, or overflow edges into explicit waiting but retains a healthy bootstrap edge. Bounded-gap preflights server resources, replans the untried suffix after retirement, and appends one ordinary restore candidate when it cut healthy media. A relay with a bad ingress reparents itself as a child and retains its subtree. A disconnected endpoint, or one whose effective downstream capacity falls below its current child count, accepts no excess children; its direct or overflow children enter the same operation and a disconnected endpoint is removed when childless. Authoritative pause aborts the operation, suppresses decoded-progress stall decisions, and resumes from a fresh reconciliation.
One Host publication may serve all SFU subscriptions. Its exact generation owns one ingress handle and exact Viewer subscription handles own egress; later SFU children reuse the publication, while reserved, committed, and draining handles remain charged until the managed room is deleted and proven absent. Actual SFU usage release wakes only rooms that previously lost a candidate to global admission, and SFU-fed and peer-fed endpoints use the same provisional-child transaction. Parent choice hard-filters authority, reachability, cycles, effective capacity, and producer transition, then orders by shallowest result, remaining steady sender capacity, stable join order, and peer identity; server admission is checked at the current cursor. Acyclicity and room admission bound maximum depth; depth is observed but has no separate hard cap. Healthy committed edges remain sticky: the controller repairs waiting, invalid, departed-parent, and overflow children but does not periodically rebalance the graph. Raw IP, claimed NAT type, UA, geography, all-pairs probes, weighted scores, and periodic room rebalancing are not route inputs.
Ordinary peer ICE is STUN-only. Browser LiveKit publisher and subscriber PCs use no external ICE server, retain LiveKit-signaled UDP candidates, and let standard ICE nominate a non-relay pair; deployment STUN remains available to ordinary peers and LiveKit server-side public-IP discovery. This Browser SFU ICE-server isolation avoids the reproduced external-STUN/SFU association conflict without constraining candidate type or count and without adding TURN, another route, a port, or a timeout. Credentials, room secrets, candidate details, and diagnostic data remain private and narrowly scoped. A future strict-firewall transport requires separate evidence and must remain inside LiveKit rather than becoming another Screener route candidate.
Browser peers use existing periodic WebRTC/LiveKit stats to maintain one exact-route decoded-progress timestamp. New frames or route/connection changes reset it; a non-paused deadline reports the edge once. Track availability, bitrate, FPS, resolution, freeze, RTT, jitter, loss, sender stats, and SFU layer describe only the current path: they remain framework or diagnostic inputs and cannot prove another parent would be better.
ADR-0007 accepts one Browser SFU VP8 HIGH representation without LOW, simulcast, Dynacast, or an application layer selector. Weak Viewers cannot change Host publication, healthy paths, or topology; dual representation requires a new decision and physical proof.
Browser capture requests available share audio by default on initial capture and source switch, with an explicit video-only warning when no audio track is returned. Its screen-audio control offers live-switchable 64/128/256 kbps sender ceilings and defaults to 128. The last-wins quality wire owns desired state; each endpoint serially applies and reads back current Host/relay/SFU audio senders, exposes local failures, and gives future senders the latest desired value. Opus remains fixed, and without an applied-ack wire the Host does not claim room-wide atomic convergence. These are configuration ceilings, not fidelity claims.
Browser display video leaves contentHint unset so Chromium retains its screen-capture classification; returned audio tracks keep contentHint = "music". Browser video is fixed to VP8 across direct, browser-relay, and SFU paths; codec selection, fallback to another media codec, quality-state/wire fields, and share-lifetime codec branches are not product features. Actual codec/profile/encoder stats remain diagnostic only.
Recommended quality remains exactly 1080p60, 1080p30, and 720p30, with the middle 1080p30 as the accepted default. 480p means only an advanced 854x480 resolution choice whose FPS and bitrate remain independently selected; it is not a fourth recommended profile.
Two distribution artifacts are accepted only after the current feature, NAT, and real-network ledger is complete. A public-server one-click deployment package installs the current application plus STUN/SFU and proxy components on a user-owned server. A Windows/macOS/Linux local package runs the Host, application server, and local state on the broadcaster's machine without source, Node, or any external Screener/network service; it keeps workable direct P2P but reports the reachability loss imposed by public ingress, TLS, gateway, NAT, or firewall limits rather than promising universal connectivity.
Current UI, presence, route labels, and diagnostics describe observed state only; they do not create route authority.
Before an explicit public-release decision, the private deployment and repository keep only the current product contract. Incompatible wire, configuration, parser, and API changes ship atomically; stale clients fail before authority, replaced compatibility surfaces are deleted, and Git history owns rollback.
A routine application-only deployment verifies one new immutable artifact and switches to it atomically while reusing unchanged environment, service, LiveKit, coturn, reverse-proxy, and firewall configuration. The pre-cutover application release is guaranteed only through bounded health and postflight checks; it has no retention contract afterward and is not a maintained backup. A future change to infrastructure, secrets, persistent data, or irreversible state must define recovery only for the surfaces it actually changes.
Viewer presentation stays on stage until current-generation frame proof, distinguishes typed access/Host/route/media/autoplay/recovery phases, and reserves Play for autoplay rejection. Pages expose local connection details but no diagnostic download; the bounded Host-only route snapshot remains for acceptance tooling. Route/quality facts are diagnostic only. Browser ICE owns direct reachability; Screener does not predict ports, classify NATs, probe TCP, synthesize candidates, or reparent healthy edges speculatively.

Current Source And Production

Production runs exact application/runtime revision bf328590b3de5dfa509fcc70f6316286af3eae7e, release bf32859, on strict screener-v12; canonical main contains the same application/runtime tree plus the current truth checkpoint.
Current source and production admit up to 20 Viewers and implement the uniform 1/2/3 endpoint cap, exact prepare candidate, first-decoded-frame commit, strict rollback revision, decoded-progress stall, a two-stage direct/SFU operation deadline, and one event-driven room controller. A short-lived exact-generation decoded-frame observer proves only the pending candidate inside the existing total deadline; the periodic stats sampler remains responsible for active-path diagnostics and stalls. Ordinary peer ICE is STUN-only and the sole application fallback is SFU/UDP; stale TURN environment keys fail startup. SFU admission uses exact publication and Viewer-subscription handles with explicit no-default ingress/egress capacities and a listener-fenced dedicated LiveKit owner. Browser SFU publisher/subscriber connects use fresh empty ICE-server options; the owner physically verified deployed SFU fallback media after release c4962f5, closing the prior core-route hold.
Source and production use random four-digit memory rooms, dormant leases, exact-Host resume, restart loss, local preference replay, orthogonal grants/code entry, and no SQLite runtime. V12 uses a 22-character room-incarnation grant, ROOM_NOT_FOUND, no diagnostic-file export, and a compact UI showing the complete shorter URL.
Exact production artifacts, services, ports, and any change-scoped infrastructure recovery boundary are owned by deployment and indexed by status.
Source and production require v12, fixed VP8, and no video hint. Their SFU publisher still sends ordered q,h simulcast and is not yet aligned with accepted single HIGH. Current Pause/Resume, live audio ceilings, exact-sender metrics, relay/SFU audio continuity, typed Viewer presentation, and quality profiles match the product truths above.
Browser SFU subscribers reconcile eligible Host screen publications across connect/activate event ordering, participant/track arrival, and reconnect. Production LiveKit logs only warn/error, and the application service has a bounded same-host LiveKit readiness preflight.
Exact main@bf32859 passed TypeScript, 613 Web tests, both builds, hygiene, review, and production postflight. Chrome 151 closed direct/browser-relay VP8 cadence and active-audio ceilings; its SFU A/B rejected always-active LOW without claiming a deployed single representation, public SFU 60 fps, or real-game synchronization. Exact metrics live in verification status.
Chrome loopback, cap2/cap3, short resource, recovery, MBB, and A/V fixtures are bounded evidence only. They do not establish quality, resource limits, or product policy.

Current Priority

Implement, deploy, and physically verify the accepted single-HIGH Browser SFU publication; leave direct, browser-relay, content-hint, and routing behavior unchanged.
Then finish real-network route, recovery, screen-audio and real-game A/V acceptance. Browser VP8 hardware acceleration and mobile Viewer lifecycle remain Accepted Later; Native/executable, distribution, and repository-wide simplification remain later phases.

The desktop Host background/minimized report is deferred until it reproduces on current production with a real game and synchronized media plus CPU/GPU evidence. The bounded current-Chrome screening found no immediate Host-page lifecycle drop, and removal of the old harmful contentHint = "motion" remains a plausible confound rather than a proven background fix. Mobile Viewer playback and assigned-relay survival remain a separate lifecycle gate.

Working Rules

Generic task authority, scope, smallest-correct implementation, and current-result delivery are owned by the repo-tracked stop-that-shit skill; repository-specific truth and execution rules remain in AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING.md.
Old branches may contribute scoped code or evidence only after reconciliation. Their memory, requirements, ADRs, status, and deployment snapshots never overwrite newer mainline truth.
Preserve dirty, unique, open-stack, and evidence worktrees until their disposition is explicitly decided. Workspace counts are sampled on demand rather than stored here.

Source Map

Current execution: status
Executable and held work: TODO ledger
Requirements and design: requirements, design, and ADRs
Evidence and limits: research and verification status
Operations: deployment, maintenance, and contributing

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