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Reopened from #36 (auto-closed when its stacked base branch was deleted after #35 merged); main merged in, no conflicts.

Stacked on #35 (base fix/restore-prairie-customizations). Merge #35 first. GitHub then retargets this PR to main.

Problem

Stats for nerds on iOS and tvOS showed only Aether telemetry. When a stream failed or degraded, the panel did not show the server's plan, why the planner chose it, or the player's own error. prairie-smarttv Silo-Server#116 and the web overlay already show this.

Solution

Reuses PlaybackStats, AetherPlaybackStatsProjection and PlaybackStatsPanel. The new Prairie-only logic is in Screens/Player/PlaybackDiagnostics.swift (pure Foundation):

  • Plan section (new rows in PlaybackStats.planRows):
    • Method: Direct play, Remux (progressive/HLS) or Transcode (HLS)
    • Plan: container, video codec, resolution, dynamic range, audio codec, channels and bitrate from the protocol-v3 effective_recipe, falling back to source
    • Planner reason (decision_reason)
    • Quality: the active picker label
    • Audio track: the selected track's label with language, channels and codec, plus its track id
    • Stream path: the kind (Remote, Loopback proxy or Offline file) and the path with query, fragment, user info, ids/signatures (:id) and media filenames ([media]) removed
  • Recent events: PlaybackEventLog is a ring buffer of the last 8 events, recorded whether or not diagnostics upload is on.
    • Events recorded: plan committed, first frame, rebuffering, stalls, ended, replans (warning for recovery, info for user changes), quality and audio changes, external playback, typed Aether failures, and untyped playback errors.
    • Messages pass through MediaLogRedactor, capped at 160 characters.
    • Consecutive repeats collapse into one entry with a ×N count, so a flapping state cannot push the causing error out of the buffer.
    • The log survives item teardown, so an error stays readable after it happens.
  • tvOS Info HUD stats pane: Plan sits under Source in the left column. Recent events (timestamp and message, colored by severity) close the right column and are a paging target.
  • iOS overlay: the plan rows join the compact set, and long values wrap at 320 pt. The event list sits beside the rows when the screen is wide enough (landscape) and drops to 4 events below them otherwise. The overlay stays inert.
  • Resolution, bitrate, dropped frames and buffer rows already existed. They are unchanged.

Tests

  • New PlaybackDiagnosticsTests: ring buffer capacity and order, repeat collapse, severity not collapsed, blank or zero-capacity input, redaction and length cap, time and severity formatting, event row order and identity, plan summary formatting for every delivery, a summary built from the vendored v2 plan fixture, and stream-path redaction (query, user info, UUID, loopback, manifest names kept, media filenames, offline files).
  • AetherPlaybackStatsProjectionTests: plan detail passes through to PlaybackStats, and tokens never reach any row.
  • The invariant manifest gains 6 anchors (53 total, all passing).

Risks

  • UI layout has only been checked in code review. I had no simulator, so I have no screenshots. Please check the tvOS pane and the iOS landscape overlay on a device.

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  • New Features
    • Playback statistics now show plan details, including playback method, quality, audio track, and delivery information.
    • Recent playback events appear with timestamps and severity styling, helping you review transitions, buffering, and errors.
    • Sensitive stream-path details are redacted in playback diagnostics.
    • Playback stats adapt to available screen space on iPhone and Apple TV.

JonahMMay and others added 2 commits September 30, 2026 13:32
Stats for nerds showed Aether telemetry only, so a failed or degraded
stream said nothing about what the server planned or what went wrong.
Match prairie-smarttv Silo-Server#116 on iOS and tvOS:

- Plan section: method (direct play / remux / transcode), container,
  codecs, resolution, dynamic range and bitrate from the protocol-v3
  plan, the planner's decision reason, active quality, selected audio
  track, and the stream path with query, user info, ids and media
  filenames stripped.
- Recent events: a ring buffer of the last 8 player events and errors
  (plan, first frame, rebuffering, stalls, replans, quality and audio
  changes, typed Aether failures), timestamped, redacted through
  MediaLogRedactor, with consecutive repeats collapsed so a flapping
  state can't flush the error that caused it.
- tvOS Info HUD stats pane shows Plan in the left column and Recent
  events at the end of the right column (added to the paging targets).
  The iOS overlay adds the plan rows and lists events beside the rows in
  landscape, or four events below them when narrow.

Unit tests cover the ring buffer, summary and path formatting, and the
projection pass-through. Invariant anchors added for the new wiring.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The change adds playback event logging and playback-plan diagnostics. It projects plan details and recent events into playback stats, then displays them in the iOS and tvOS player interfaces.

Changes

Playback diagnostics and stats

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event log, plan summaries, and stream paths
iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/PlaybackDiagnostics.swift, iosApp/Tests/PlaybackDiagnosticsTests.swift
Adds a bounded event log, formatted plan summaries, and stream-path descriptions with sensitive components redacted. Tests cover event handling, plan details, and path descriptions.
Stats data and projection
iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/PlaybackStats.swift, iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/AetherPlaybackStatsProjection.swift, iosApp/Tests/PlaybackDiagnosticsTests.swift, iosApp/Tests/AetherPlaybackStatsProjectionTests.swift
Adds plan and event rows to playback stats and projects plan, quality, audio-track, and stream-path metadata. Tests check row contents and projection, including URL-token redaction.
Event capture and stats interfaces
iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/PlayerViewModel.swift, iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/PlaybackStatsPanel.swift, iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/iOS/MobilePlaybackStatsOverlay.swift, iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/tvOS/TVPlayerInfoHUD.swift, scripts/prairie-invariants.txt
Records playback events in the view model and publishes them with stats. The iOS and tvOS stats interfaces add event displays and plan details; the mobile overlay adapts its layout to available width.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PlayerViewModel
  participant PlaybackEventLog
  participant PlaybackStats
  participant PlaybackStatsPanel
  PlayerViewModel->>PlaybackEventLog: Record playback events
  PlayerViewModel->>PlaybackStats: Publish plan details and recent events
  PlaybackStatsPanel->>PlaybackStats: Request stats and event rows
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 278e5

The richer stats have one bounded accuracy issue: rejected or queued requests can appear as started replans. Moving event recording to task creation fixes this; otherwise the change is mergeable with this limitation acknowledged.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 278e5

The change primarily expands on-device diagnostics, not access or privileges. The main concern is that the stream-path filter can preserve short identifiers that resemble route names. Exposure appears limited to the local statistics display; no credential disclosure or cross-account access was established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: The new stream-path display uses lexical shape to distinguish route names from identifiers. Alphabetic components up to 24 characters, and short lowercase word-like components containing separators, are preserved without checking their route semantics. A sensitive identifier or path-carried token matching those patterns would therefore remain visible in the statistics panel. This is a newly introduced display exposure; production use of such sensitive path components has not been established.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is the local iOS/tvOS statistics display for the active player. Server-derived metadata and the selected stream URL reach text-rendering consumers. No new privilege gain, backend mutation, or direct diagnostics-upload consumer was established by the inspected flow; indirect export coverage remains incomplete.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The conditional disclosure path is a selected stream URL containing a sensitive short word-like path component, followed by acceptance by redactedComponent, projection into streamPath, and local display. For example, an opaque alphabetic identifier fits the same pattern as a route word. This demonstrates a filtering limitation, not a verified production credential leak; control over production URL issuance and sensitive matching values was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Every event message is passed through MediaLogRedactor with a 160-character limit before storage. Stream descriptions use only URL path components, exclude user information, query and fragment, reduce file URLs to “Offline file,” and replace recognized media filenames and unaccepted components. These controls materially narrow the newly displayed data, although route-word acceptance remains heuristic.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The inspected transition paths keep diagnostics separate from playback control. Mutations are owned by the main-actor player, stale Aether callbacks are guarded, typed failures avoid duplicate untyped logging, and default retention is eight entries. Logging before replan acceptance can produce attempted or queued-event records, but no change to recovery authority or failure containment was established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Use explicit recognized route and protocol-name rules, or route-position semantics, rather than word shape alone when retaining URL components. Document which planner fields are guaranteed non-sensitive; unknown free-form values could receive bounded redaction before entering the shared display model.
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- Around line 1976-1980: In attemptProtocolV3Replan, record the “Replan”
playback event only after all rejection and queue-only exits have passed. Move
the existing recordPlaybackEvent call to immediately before protocolV3ReplanTask
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  • iosApp/Tests/AetherPlaybackStatsProjectionTests.swift
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  • iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/PlaybackDiagnostics.swift
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  • iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/PlayerViewModel.swift
  • iosApp/iosApp/Screens/Player/iOS/MobilePlaybackStatsOverlay.swift
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Comment on lines +1976 to +1980
// A user-driven change names its operation; recovery replans don't.
recordPlaybackEvent(
"Replan: \(classification.replacingOccurrences(of: "_", with: " "))",
kind: operation == nil ? .warning : .info
)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record the replan event only after the replan is accepted.

attemptProtocolV3Replan records the "Replan: …" event before its early exits. Several exits return false and start no replan: an unmappable track target, a busy replan task without requeue, and a missing currentWatchDetail. In these cases the log still shows a replan that did not happen. A seek-reanchor or track change that only gets queued also logs an event, and the event is logged again when the queue drains. This makes the diagnostics wrong for exactly the failure paths they exist to show.

Move the recordPlaybackEvent call to just before protocolV3ReplanTask = Task { … }. At that point the replan is committed.

Proposed fix
-        // A user-driven change names its operation; recovery replans don't.
-        recordPlaybackEvent(
-            "Replan: \(classification.replacingOccurrences(of: "_", with: " "))",
-            kind: operation == nil ? .warning : .info
-        )

Then add the call before the task is created:

        recordPlaybackEvent(
            "Replan: \(classification.replacingOccurrences(of: "_", with: " "))",
            kind: operation == nil ? .warning : .info
        )
        protocolV3ReplanTask = Task { @MainActor [weak self] in
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In attemptProtocolV3Replan, record the “Replan” playback event only after all
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recordPlaybackEvent call to immediately before protocolV3ReplanTask is created,
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