manga-recap-pipeline/NEXT.md

NEXT

Updated 2026-08-12. What this session did is in HANDOFF.md.

State

The chapter runs end to end. The A/V sync defect is fixed and chapter.mp4 is rebuilt: video 364.120s against audio 364.122s at 25/1. The identity defects are still in the output.

Job 778297bc-e7ce-439d-91b5-8a027060d17f, chapter 7c944dd4-e972-42c7-ba60-9f6939548e80, 116 panels, status=completed, finished 2026-08-11T20:08:16Z. s3://video/ holds 49 clips and a 50MiB chapter.mp4. The user watched it and read out 19 defects. They are grouped by cause in HANDOFF.md.

One number sets the agenda:

• Panel 7 checked against the art has zero correct identity bindings out of two, and the one character who matters is unbound. HANDOFF.md#panel-7-walked-against-the-art has the table. The coordinate cause is fixed. The registry built on it is not.

Next

1. Re-run vision and identity. The bbox space is settled and converted at /vision (decisions/identity-bbox.md#bbox-is-normalized). Every stored box, embedding and ref_image_uris in the registry came from the wrong space. The fix changes nothing until those stages run again. This is GPU work and needs the user's go-ahead. Clear vision and everything downstream of it, or accept that the boxes in the database stay normalized while new ones are pixels.

   Watch two things on the rerun. Whether som_face still returns unknown on every face, since gated pairing was comparing pixel face boxes against 0-1000 character boxes. And whether Choi Haeseon still absorbs every unnamed woman, which is item (b) below and independent of the crops.

   Smaller follow-on: nine _audio_dur calls in worker_render.py measure finished clips with format=duration. So the durations reported to the orchestrator are blind to per-clip drift. They position no filter, so invariant 9 does not cover them. Worth converting to _stream_dur.

2. Fix identity, in this order. Panel 7 is the worked example and HANDOFF.md#panel-7-walked-against-the-art carries the evidence. Do not start at the registry.

   a. Settle the bbox coordinate space. Done 2026-08-12, proven over all 113 detections and checked by eye on panel 7, where five of six converted boxes land on their subject (decisions/identity-bbox.md#bbox-is-normalized). person_1 still frames an empty window mullion, which is (c). b. Let identity abstain and stay abstained. Done 2026-08-12, not yet run on a GPU (decisions/identity-bbox.md#none-mints-an-anonymous-character). The resolver could always answer "none of these". The orchestrator was discarding the answer: it read only character_id, so a deliberate NONE and a hallucinated index both unassigned every crop of the tracklet. A NONE now mints an anonymous character from the crop, using the embedding /identity/resolve ships beside it as emb_uri. Deployed: image rebuilt, resolve_outcome verified inside the container. c. Separate extra from cast. Done 2026-08-12, not yet run on a GPU (decisions/identity-bbox.md#face-gates-enrollment, decisions/identity-bbox.md#extras-gate-consumers). has_face stops a faceless detection enrolling, and two more consumers now skip it: worker_scene's actions, which is the script prompt's content and the verifier's evidence, and service._beat, the director's "who". _present_characters stays ungated on purpose, reasoned out in the decision. The remaining gap is that vision still emits extras into the blob, which is deliberate so the audit can see what was gated. d. The worked examples are gone. The registry reset deleted Lim Seonho and character_afa7623b. The current registry is 8 rows, one named (Seonho), so there is nothing to merge or split until the rerun mints a new set.

   What was done instead is the safety net for that rerun, since reconcile runs inside it. A merge no longer deletes the losing row: it sets merged_into, and stamps every repointed assignment with method = merged_from:<loser_id>. A wrong merge now costs a hand-written SQL walk, not a full rebaseline (caveats/audit-open.md#destructive-reconcile).

   Deliberately not built: the unmerge path and the split. No wrong merge has been observed since the crops were fixed, so the consumer of those records waits for one. The forward case is partly covered by 2b, because a resolver NONE now mints rather than folding a stranger into the nearest match. Splitting a character that is ALREADY over-merged still needs a re-embed pass over its detections.

   Cast profiles already exist. Do not rebuild them. The user asked whether the main cast could get a profile built from reference frames and reused. characters already carries ref_image_uris and embedding_uri, and all 53 rows have both populated. The mechanism is not missing, it is enrolled from the wrong crops, so today it stores references to balloon edges and window frames. Step (a) is what makes it work. Three things are genuinely absent and are the smaller follow-on:

   • no quality gate on enrollment, so nothing checks that a reference crop holds a face at all
   • nothing re-enrolls a reference set once it is written, so the wrong crops persist

   The visual "is this them?" check is already built. Do not write it again. /vision/resolve at worker_vision.py:963 sends the query crop plus up to 3 labelled reference images per candidate. build_resolve_prompt tells the model to judge face shape first, to treat hair and outfit as secondary, that two people sharing a hair colour are not the same, and to answer 0 for NONE when unsure. choice: 0 becomes a new character, an out-of-range index becomes unresolved, and ref_image_uris is republished as reference_image_uris at worker_identity.py:152 and :161. The mechanism, the prompt and the abstain path are all correct. They are fed crops of the wrong region, which is step (a).

   • no human gate to name, merge or split the clusters. The user wants this as a minor adjustment on top, not as the mechanism. The gates table and the review gates from [#136] are the place to hang it

   The chibi at 1:35 will survive all of this. He genuinely is brown hair plus a yellow shirt, so a profile match is correct on appearance and wrong on reality. That needs item 4 below, plus requiring a real face before a crop can enroll.

3. Stop the narration inventing facts. 0:43, 2:03, 2:05 and 2:15 assert things no panel shows. The correctness verifier passed 116/116 because it checks quotes and names, never invented claims.

4. Teach vision that art inside a panel is not the scene. A chibi on a monitor became "a man holding a drink" at 1:35. A colleague pointing into the distance became "pointing towards the screen" at 1:59.

5. layers writes nothing and reports completed 116/116, so no clip has parallax and a still holds for 28s from 2:24 (caveats/audit-open.md#layers-writes-nothing).

6. Clear the stale job error. The completed job still carries error: "partial: 112/116 completed" (caveats/audit-open.md#stale-job-error).

7. Balloon-to-speaker geometry via the unused det/seg heads (caveats/speaker-attribution.md#tail-is-not-geometry) is now behind item 2. With no name to attach, geometry buys nothing.

8. Resolve a speaker answer across the whole dialogue window, not just the answering panel. The last 3 unresolved refs describe a neighbouring panel in the same 8-panel call.

9. Start Phase 2 from ROADMAP.md. Set SQLite busy_timeout before any concurrency work (caveats/audit-open.md#sqlite-locking).

Lesson worth keeping

Every metric recorded before this session said the pipeline was fine or nearly fine. script 116/116, "9 named speech lines", layers 116/116, assemble 1/1. Watching two and a half minutes of output found a 20% sync failure, a cast that is 84% anonymous, invented narration, and a stage that writes nothing while reporting success. Stage counters measure whether code ran. They say nothing about whether the result is correct. Watch the output before trusting a number.

Running the pieces

./start_workers.sh              # session_manager + 9 workers, each a uvicorn in a tmux window
tmux attach -t manga-workers    # per-worker logs
.venv/bin/python worker_render.py    # self-check, runs real ffmpeg, about 4 minutes

Read the state, or clear a stage and resume:

/usr/bin/ssh kami@192.168.1.104 "curl -s 'http://127.0.0.1:9090/job/status?job_id=778297bc-e7ce-439d-91b5-8a027060d17f'"
/usr/bin/ssh kami@192.168.1.104 "curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9090/stage/clear -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"job_id\":\"778297bc-e7ce-439d-91b5-8a027060d17f\",\"stage\":\"<stage>\"}'"
/usr/bin/ssh kami@192.168.1.104 "curl -s -X POST 'http://127.0.0.1:9090/job/resume?job_id=778297bc-e7ce-439d-91b5-8a027060d17f'"

Traps: tmux respawn-window -k does NOT re-run the window's command, it drops to a bare shell and the worker stays down. Restart one worker by re-sending the send-keys line from start_workers.sh, and confirm with /health plus ./check_stale.sh. docker compose up --build orchestrator recreates the container, which drops any docker cp'd script such as audit_registry.py. Plain ssh is the kitty ssh kitten and refuses non-interactive stdin, so use /usr/bin/ssh. mc aliases on homesrv are homesrv and mio. local returns Access Denied and rfs is the empty rustfs. cp is aliased to cp -i and hangs on overwrite, so use /usr/bin/cp -f.

Re-fixing assembly needs the real clips, which the session scratchpad no longer holds:

/usr/bin/ssh kami@192.168.1.104 'P=homesrv/video/ef105a86-4b7e-4ac4-b45c-b7d83b8f5b5e/7c944dd4-e972-42c7-ba60-9f6939548e80; mc cp -q -r $P/clips/ /tmp/rclips/; cd /tmp/rclips && tar cf - .' | tar xf - -C clips/

Storage and viewer, tasks #116/#117

[#117] is done. stowage serves the manga buckets. It was never a MinIO problem: the container had been dead since 2026-07-19 on an arm64 digest pin.

[#116] is closer but not cut over. Artifacts split one bucket per class (decisions/storage-layout.md#bucket-per-artifact), and both MinIO and rustfs hold all six buckets. rustfs on 127.0.0.1:9010/9011 is still empty and nothing is repointed, so MinIO serves every read and write. Remaining: mc mirror the live buckets, verify counts and sizes, then decide on cutover (decisions/storage-layout.md#rustfs-staged).

Two containers on homesrv had been dead for two weeks and now run. manga-fetch is the one /job/create needs. manga-web is what manga.kvmx.ru proxies to on 8083. Nothing watches them, and nothing watches the workers.

Open questions

Four Phase 1 items have no Vikunja task, because writing to the tracker was not asked for: the speaker contract fix, the verifier rules, the tracklet constraints, and the flag resolution path. Only [#203] existed and is closed by decisions/audit-phase1.md#unlocked-model-load.

Three audit items are deliberately not done and are recorded as caveats rather than silently dropped: honest stage clearing, ComfyUI under the session mutex, and reversible identity merges. Each needs a design decision, not a patch.

Carried over from the reconstruction: .venv needs the ROCm torch wheel reinstalled, and dots.tts/, legacy/, RESUME_SPEC.md, pipeline-design-notes.md, spec-v2.md are unrecoverable.