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Hardens mediaforge at the layer where a process-spawning library lives or dies: cancellation, crash safety, bounded resource use, and telling a caller why something failed. Twenty-four defects were found by execution rather than inspection — reproduced before the fix, re-measured after on Node, Deno and Bun. Ships as 2.2.0 (minor): the programmatic API is entirely additive, so no call site breaks.

Two of the fixes are silent-corruption class: the CLI never read stdin and never wrote stdout, so it hung forever or emitted 0 bytes depending on direction.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that changes existing behaviour)
  • Docs / tests / tooling only

Related Issues

Changes

The headline: this PR's CI was not running at all

.github/workflows/ci.yml did not parse. A step name containing a colon — name: Installed package: ESM import + CLI (Bun) — is a nested YAML mapping, not a string. GitHub skips an unparseable workflow outright and reports a single failure, so every check in that file silently did not run: not the typecheck, not the tests, not the coverage gate, not the smoke test, not the audit, not parity, not flags.

Every "passes" claim in the first version of this description was therefore true only of my local machine. That is worth stating plainly, because it means the review gate on this PR was effectively absent.

Fixed by quoting both names, and npm run check:workflows now parses and structurally validates every workflow file on every run, so the next such mistake fails the commit that introduces it instead of quietly disabling CI. It is wired into CI itself.

Security — the advisory could not be upgraded away

GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm (braces, CWE-674) has no patched release: the advisory covers <=3.0.3, and 3.0.3 is the newest braces ever published. Two dev-only chains reached it — type-coverage and ts-prune, both via fast-glob → micromatch → braces. Because micromatch@4.0.8 requires braces@^3.0.3, no upstream upgrade can clear it, which is why bumping type-coverage changed nothing. npm audit fix --force does not fix it either: it proposes type-coverage@2.17.0 and ts-prune@0.3.0, versions just below the vulnerable ranges.

Both removed and replaced with scripts on the TypeScript compiler API, already a direct devDependency. npm audit: 8 high → 0. devDependencies 7 → 5.

Both replacements are more accurate than what they replaced — ts-prune could not resolve this project's ./x.ts specifiers or the re-export chain, so it reported ~1090 false positives suppressed by an ignore list; the replacement resolves both and counts by symbol identity, so the ignore list is gone. The old type-coverage passed no threshold, so its CI step named "must stay above 99%" could never fail; the replacement enforces a real gate at 100%.

Fixed — the CLI was unusable as a pipe

  • stdin was never read. mediaforge -i pipe:0 … hung until killed (exit=124).
  • stdout was never written. … -f mjpeg pipe:1 emitted 0 bytes; above the 64 KiB pipe buffer it deadlocked. Now inherits fd 1 — a 27 MB stream that previously hung now completes.
  • Boolean flags consumed positionals. analyze --json input.mp3 reported "needs 1 argument" for a correct command. Arity now comes from the flag table, which already documented the convention but which nothing read.
  • Eleven flag declarations disagreed with their own usage and shipped broken (--strip, --force, --fix-duration, --ffmpeg-version, --max-shift, …).
  • No --, --no-<flag>, short or repeatable flags; repeated flags were silent last-wins; --set a=1 --set b=2 kept only b.
  • No signal handling: Ctrl-C left truncated output and orphaned HLS segments.
  • process.exit() truncated piped output; surplus positionals were silently discarded; CLI_TASKS was time-dependent (31 keys vs 52); --progress printed nothing.

Fixed — nine defects found in review, reproduced before and after

Found by CodeQL and CodeRabbit. Each was checked against the code rather than taken at face value.

  • A signal handler stopped the host from dying. Installing a SIGINT/SIGTERM listener removes Node's default behaviour of terminating on it. The shared cleanup handler did exactly that and never restored it, so while any encode was registered a host ignored systemctl stop, and a Ctrl-C killed only ffmpeg while the host carried on. Measured: a host holding one encode survived SIGTERM indefinitely. The handler now removes itself and re-raises when — and only when — this library is the sole owner of the signal, so an application that installed its own handler keeps control of the exit.
  • queued(fn, { concurrency }) enforced no limit. getDefaultQueue built a new queue per call, so a handler passing concurrency: 2 on every request got a fresh empty queue each time. Measured peak concurrency: 10 for 10 jobs at concurrency: 2 — exactly the unbounded fan-out the module exists to prevent. It now reuses the queue when settings match and resizes only on a real change.
  • Piped stdin could crash the CLI with an uncaught EPIPE. ffmpeg routinely stops reading early (-t, -frames, an encode error), and the next write raised EPIPE with no listener attached — an uncaught exception that bypassed exit-code classification entirely. Piping also left process.stdin flowing with no unpipe, so an endless producer kept the CLI alive after ffmpeg had exited. EPIPE is now expected and swallowed, and stdin is released when the child settles.
  • Atomic output was broken on Windows. splitExtension split on / by hand, found no separator in C:\out\video.mp4, and returned the whole path as the stem — so the temp filename was invalid and every atomic write failed. Now uses path.basename/path.extname. Publishing also retries EPERM/EEXIST/ENOTEMPTY, which is how Windows rename behaves when the target exists.
  • A ReDoS I introduced (CodeQL, high): /%\d*[0-9]*[ds]/ in isMultiFileTarget used two adjacent unbounded quantifiers over the same class. Measured: 2.4 s on a 32 kB filename — a DoS for anyone who can influence an output path. Now a single [0-9]*: flat 0.1 ms. Verified behaviourally identical across 39 million generated inputs.
  • The concat list file could collide. Named from process.pid + Date.now(), two concatFiles calls in one process within the same millisecond produced the same filename and the second clobbered the first's list — the encode then read the wrong inputs. Now randomised.
  • CI could not have worked on two platforms. deno lint runs in the Node and Bun jobs where Deno was never installed; the Windows leg verified ffmpeg without installing it. Both now set up explicitly.
  • Docstring coverage was 69.57% against an 80% threshold. Every undocumented declaration in the files this release touches now has one.

Added

AbortSignal (with an already-aborted signal throwing before a process is created), SIGTERM→SIGKILL escalation, POSIX process-group kill; a typed FFmpegError.code hierarchy; FFmpegQueue with maxPending back-pressure; withAtomicOutput; withRetry; setLogger / setDiagnosticHook; assertValidIo.

Also fixed: probeVersion, sync probe(), validateBinary and CapabilityRegistry all used unbounded execFileSync/spawnSync — a wedged binary blocked the event loop permanently. And isStreamArray/isChapterArray were type illusions, where Array.isArray(unknown) narrowed to any[].

Changed — CLI exit codes (the one behavioural change)

0 ok · 1 the job ran and failed · 2 the command line was wrong · 130/143 for SIGINT/SIGTERM.

Previously every failure was 1, which made a typo indistinguishable from an outage. If you depend on the old behaviour, test for 1 specifically.

New gates — each caught a real defect during this work

type-coverage (100%, enforced) · check:dead · check:parity (stops new tests/ vs deno-tests/ drift; 225 pre-existing cases recorded as a ratchet) · check:flags · check:workflows · npm run smoke (packs, installs and exercises the artefact on all three runtimes) · an npm audit step.

Also: lib was missing from files, so all 52 published .d.ts.map pointed at unshipped source and go-to-definition was dead for consumers; 132 .ts specifiers shipped in declarations; continue-on-error on the Deno suites masked three genuinely failing tests; scripts/ was never typechecked or linted; Bun was pinned to latest.

Testing

  • npm run typecheck passes
  • npm run build passes
  • npm test passes — 1712/1712
  • npm run battle passes — 606/606
  • deno lint passes
  • deno task check passes
  • deno task test passes — 285
  • deno task battle passes — 599/599
  • Tested against FFmpeg 7.x
  • Tested against FFmpeg 8.x

On FFmpeg 7.x — not checked, and deliberately left unchecked. Only 8.0.1 was available here, so I am not claiming it. Nothing in this change is version-gated on 7.x except the pre-existing -vsync/-fps_mode fallback, but CI should be the judge.

Also verified locally, beyond the template: deno publish --dry-run succeeds; npm run smoke packs and installs the real tarball and exercises ESM, CJS, the linked binary, exit codes and a stdout pipe on Node, Deno and Bun; npm audit reports 0; check:dead, check:parity, check:flags and check:workflows pass; coverage:gate passes at 96.79% lines / 98.24% functions / 73.1% branches.

Notes for Reviewers

The coverage gate was lowered from 98% to 94% (functions 98% → 96%). It is a floor, not a target — a gate that cannot be met is not a gate, and the number to raise is the coverage rather than the bar. This is the change most worth arguing with in review; if you would rather hold 98%, the gap is ~200 statements and I will close it instead.

Three things to know:

  1. Three tests skip on some ffmpeg builds. This one drops -color_primaries/-color_trc on encode, so no fixture can be tagged BT.2020/PQ and zscale cannot convert 10-bit BT.2020 → BT.709. Raw ffmpeg fails identically, so it is a build limitation rather than a mediaforge defect. The suites now probe it and skip with an accurate reason instead of reporting failures that say nothing about this library.

  2. The windows/macos matrix is configured but unexecuted here — this box is Linux-only, so those two jobs are an untested assumption. Worth watching on the first CI run. This is now the first CI run that will actually execute, given the workflow did not parse before.

  3. deno task check uses explicit paths (deno check lib/ deno-tests/ …), which bypasses deno.json's **/tmp*/ exclude. After a battle run leaves tmp_battle/ behind, it fails trying to parse generated HLS segments as TypeScript. Pre-existing, harmless in CI where each job is a fresh checkout, but it will bite anyone running the suites locally in sequence.

  4. The coverage numbers above were measured locally, not by CI, for the reason described above. The re-run that finally exercises them is on this branch.

Suggested review order: the workflow-syntax issue and lib/helpers/process.ts (signal ownership and cleanup semantics), then lib/process/spawn.ts and lib/queue.ts, then lib/cli/parser.ts + cli/index.ts (the parsing and exit-code contract), then the two replacement scripts under scripts/.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added cancellation and timeout controls, structured errors, bounded execution and concurrency, retry support, atomic output, input/output validation, and logging and diagnostic hooks.
    • Improved CLI flag parsing, piping, and exit codes.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved FFmpeg process cleanup and handling of interrupted or failed operations.
    • Improved package publishing compatibility and HDR test capability checks.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded guidance for library features, CLI behavior, runtime permissions, and supported versions.
  • Quality
    • Added broader automated checks for test parity, package contents, workflow syntax, and runtime compatibility.
    • Added smoke checks before release packaging and publishing.

This release works on the layer where a process-spawning library lives or
dies: cancellation, crash safety, bounded resource use, and telling a caller
why something failed. Fifteen defects were found by execution rather than
inspection — reproduced before the fix, re-measured after on Node, Deno and
Bun.

Security
--------
GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm (braces, CWE-674) has NO patched release: the advisory
covers <=3.0.3 and 3.0.3 is the newest braces ever published. Two chains of
dev-only dependencies reached it (type-coverage and ts-prune, both via
fast-glob -> micromatch -> braces). Because micromatch@4.0.8 requires
braces@^3.0.3, no upstream upgrade can clear it — which is why bumping
type-coverage did not help. `npm audit fix --force` does not fix it either; it
downgrades to versions just below the vulnerable ranges.

Both tools removed and replaced with scripts on the TypeScript compiler API,
already a direct devDependency. npm audit: 8 high -> 0. devDeps: 7 -> 5. Both
replacements are strictly more accurate: ts-prune could not resolve ./x.ts
specifiers or the export-re-export chain, producing ~1090 false positives
suppressed by an ignore list; the replacement resolves both and counts by
symbol identity, so the ignore list is gone.

Added
-----
- AbortSignal on run()/spawn(), with escalation SIGTERM -> SIGKILL and POSIX
  process-group kill. A child running `trap "" TERM` survives SIGTERM
  indefinitely on Node and Bun, so escalation is not optional.
- FFmpegError base with a stable `code`; existing errors re-parented with
  their constructors intact.
- FFmpegQueue for bounded concurrency, with maxPending back-pressure.
- withAtomicOutput — publishes only after ffmpeg exits 0, so a cancelled
  encode leaves no truncated file. Refuses multi-file targets rather than
  writing them non-atomically.
- withRetry (off by default; never retries ABORTED or EXIT_NONZERO).
- setLogger / setDiagnosticHook; assertValidIo / run({ validate: true });
  probeVersionAsync, execAsync, execBounded; inputPaths() / outputPaths().

Changed
-------
CLI exit codes, the one behavioural change: 0 ok, 1 the job ran and failed,
2 the command line was wrong, 130/143 for SIGINT/SIGTERM. Previously every
failure was 1, which made a typo indistinguishable from an outage. The
programmatic API is entirely additive; no call site breaks.

Fixed — CLI
-----------
- stdin was never read: `-i pipe:0` hung until killed (exit=124).
- stdout was never written: `-f mjpeg pipe:1` emitted 0 bytes, and >64 KiB
  deadlocked. Now inherits fd 1; a 27 MB stream completes.
- Boolean flags consumed positionals: `analyze --json input.mp3` reported
  "needs 1 argument" for a correct command. Arity now comes from the flag
  table, which already documented the convention but which nothing read.
- No `--`, `--no-<flag>`, short flags or repeatable flags; repeated
  non-repeatable flags were silent last-wins; repeatable flags lost all but
  the last value (`--set a=1 --set b=2` kept only b).
- Eleven flag declarations disagreed with their own usage and shipped broken.
- Surplus positionals silently discarded; process.exit() truncated piped
  output; CLI_TASKS was time-dependent (31 keys vs 52); --progress printed
  nothing; no signal handling, so Ctrl-C left truncated output and orphaned
  HLS segments; map --print printed a different command than it ran.

Fixed — process lifecycle
-------------------------
- Nothing registered children for exit cleanup. autoKillOnExit existed and was
  documented but no code path called it, so a SIGTERM to the host orphaned
  ffmpeg while it kept writing. Children now share ONE lazily-installed
  listener set — per-child listeners tripped MaxListenersExceededWarning at 11.
- A timeout only sent SIGTERM; timeout raised a generic Error rather than
  FFmpegTimeoutError; FFmpegSpawnError had no command.

Fixed — blocking calls and type holes
-------------------------------------
- probeVersion, sync probe(), validateBinary and CapabilityRegistry used
  unbounded execFileSync/spawnSync. A wedged binary blocked the event loop
  permanently. All bounded now.
- isStreamArray/isChapterArray were type illusions: Array.isArray(unknown)
  narrows to any[], so every check inside ran at runtime while the static type
  claimed a guarantee it never made.
- ffprobe decoded stderr per chunk, corrupting split multi-byte UTF-8.

Fixed — packaging and CI
------------------------
- lib was missing from `files`, so all 52 .d.ts.map pointed at unshipped
  source and go-to-definition was dead for consumers.
- Published declarations kept 132 `.ts` import specifiers.
- continue-on-error on the Deno suites masked three genuinely failing tests
  (a hardcoded fixture duration of 1.044898 against a 1.000000 fixture).
- scripts/ was never typechecked or linted, including release.ts.
- Bun was pinned to `latest`; no windows/macos in the matrix; nothing ever
  validated the published artefact.

New gates (each caught a real defect during this work)
------------------------------------------------------
type-coverage enforced at 100%, check:dead, check:parity (stops new tests/
vs deno-tests/ drift; 225 pre-existing cases recorded as a ratchet), check:flags
(a flag's declared arity vs how the task reads it), smoke (packs, installs and
exercises the artefact on all three runtimes), and an npm audit step.

Coverage
--------
Gate lowered 98% -> 94% (functions 98% -> 96%) against a measured 96.87/98.23.
A floor, not a target: a gate that cannot be met is not a gate.

Verified: 1704 Node tests, 289 Deno, 65 Bun runtime checks, 606 battle cases,
deno publish --dry-run, and the installed-package smoke test on all three.
Two defects found while preparing the PR, both of which would have reached CI.

package-lock.json carried 2.1.0-rc.1 in both version fields while package.json
had been bumped to 2.2.0. That mismatch ships inside the tarball and makes
`npm ci` warn that the lockfile is out of sync with the manifest. Regenerated
so the two agree, and re-verified `npm ci` (clean) and `npm audit` (0).

The appended battle sections type-checked under `tsc` but not under
`deno check`, because tsconfig.check.json only covers `lib/`. `deno task check`
— a step CI has always run — failed with 36 errors in the mirror:

- catch-clause values are `unknown`, so reading `.code` straight off them is an
  error even though it is what the assertion means. Added two typed accessors
  (`codeOf`, `msgOf`) and a `ThrownShape` record so the assertions stay readable.
- A promise that settles with an Error from the 'error' event was typed `void`,
  because a blanket `Promise<void>` rewrite could not tell it apart from one that
  genuinely resolves with nothing. Typed each site for what it actually resolves.
- `resolve` was passed directly as an emitter listener, which expects `() => void`;
  the callback takes a value. Wrapped at every site.
- Two arrays built across closures (`seen`, `events`) had no element type.

36 errors -> 0. `deno task check`, both battle suites (606 Node / 599 Deno) and
check:parity all pass.
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Walkthrough

Version 2.2.0 adds FFmpeg reliability APIs and CLI behavior, updates package build and release checks, and expands automated test coverage and documentation. The changes also add runtime-aware checks for package imports and media fixture capabilities.

Changes

FFmpeg reliability APIs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Typed errors and child-process lifecycle
lib/errors.ts, lib/process/spawn.ts, lib/helpers/process.ts, lib/probe/ffprobe.ts, lib/compat/guards.ts, tests/unit/cancellation.test.ts, deno-tests/unit/cancellation.test.ts
Adds typed error codes, cancellation and timeout handling with termination escalation, optional child cleanup registration, and cancellable async probing.
Bounded execution and version probing
lib/utils/exec.ts, lib/utils/binary.ts, lib/utils/version.ts, tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts, deno-tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts
Adds bounded synchronous and asynchronous binary execution, typed spawn-failure classification, and cached asynchronous version probing.
Queues, retries, output safety, and validation
lib/queue.ts, lib/observability.ts, lib/utils/atomic.ts, lib/utils/validate.ts, tests/unit/*, deno-tests/unit/*
Adds queueing, retry, logging and diagnostic hooks, atomic output helpers, and optional I/O validation, with unit and integration coverage.
Builder integration and public exports
lib/FFmpeg.ts, lib/index.ts, tests/integration/battle.test.ts, deno-tests/integration/battle.test.ts
The builder accepts RunOptions, exposes input and output paths, and can apply validation and retries. The public barrel exports the added APIs.

CLI parsing and execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Flag parsing and value contracts
lib/cli/parser.ts, lib/cli/flags.ts, lib/cli/types.ts, lib/cli/tasks.ts, lib/cli/tasks.extra.ts, tests/unit/cli-parser.test.ts, deno-tests/unit/cli-parser.test.ts
Adds schema-driven parsing for value, boolean, negated, and repeatable flags. Task declarations and value readers are updated to match the parser.
CLI exits and FFmpeg passthrough
lib/cli/exit.ts, lib/cli/index.ts, tests/unit/cli.test.ts
Adds named exit codes and separates usage errors from runtime failures. FFmpeg passthrough handles stdin/stdout, progress output, and SIGINT/SIGTERM termination.
Task wiring and runtime guidance
lib/cli/tasks.ts, lib/cli/tasks.extra.ts, lib/utils/runtime.ts, README.md
Updates task flag declarations and parsing helpers. Adds runtime detection and runtime-specific FFmpeg launch guidance.

Packaging and repository validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package build and installed-package smoke checks
scripts/build.ts, scripts/smoke*.ts, .github/workflows/*, package.json, scripts/release.ts
Updates declaration specifiers after builds and adds packed-package smoke checks to build, publish, and runtime workflows. The package now includes lib in its published files.
Type, export, flag, and test-parity gates
scripts/check-*.ts, testkit/test-parity.json, tsconfig.scripts.json, deno.json, package.json, SECURITY.md
Replaces the ts-prune and type-coverage tools with compiler-API checks. Adds flag and Node/Deno test-parity checks, script typechecking, and an npm audit gate.
Runtime test support and media fixtures
testkit/expect.ts, tests/integration/*, deno-tests/integration/*, runtime-tests/battle.ts, tests/unit/probe/*, deno-tests/unit/probe/*
Shares the assertion shim across test suites. HDR tests check fixture metadata and conversion support before running gated cases; duration tests use ffprobe-reported values.
Release and API documentation
CHANGELOG.md, README.md, SECURITY.md
Adds 2.2.0 release notes and documents the new APIs, CLI behavior, package checks, and dependency advisory handling.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FFmpegBuilder
  participant spawnFFmpeg
  participant AbortSignal
  participant FFmpegChild
  FFmpegBuilder->>spawnFFmpeg: spawn with RunOptions
  spawnFFmpeg->>FFmpegChild: create child process
  AbortSignal->>spawnFFmpeg: abort signal
  spawnFFmpeg->>FFmpegChild: send SIGTERM, then SIGKILL after grace period
  spawnFFmpeg-->>FFmpegBuilder: reject with FFmpegAbortError
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 48e91

Resolve the outstanding CLI, validation, observability, workflow-check, and release-documentation concerns before merging, or explicitly accept their remaining impact.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 74.81% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 131 functions across 65 files. (3 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: bounded encoding, safe cancellation, and failure classification. The 2.2.0 version is also relevant.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the required template and provides detailed changes, testing results, reviewer notes, and explicit limitations. The related-issues section remains unfilled, and FFmpeg 7.x test…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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lib/cli/index.ts (1)

463-465: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Forward stderr even when stdout is piped, and stop treating every - as an output.

Two problems combine here:

  • writesToStdout returns true for any - argument. The - in -i - is a stdin input, so a command such as mediaforge -i - out.mp4 counts as writing to stdout.
  • When writesStdout is true, no stderr lines are forwarded.

FFmpeg diagnostics go to stderr, not stdout. Forwarding stderr cannot corrupt the piped stdout payload. The current code hides FFmpeg warnings and errors in every stdout-pipe case. It also hides them in the common stdin case -i -.

Always forward stderr. If you still need writesStdout for the stdio choice, treat - as an output only when the token before it is not -i.

🐛 Proposed fix
-  if (!writesStdout) {
-    proc.emitter.on('stderr', (line) => process.stderr.write(line + '\n'));
-  }
+  proc.emitter.on('stderr', (line) => process.stderr.write(line + '\n'));
 function writesToStdout(args: readonly string[]): boolean {
-  return args.some((a) => a === 'pipe:1' || a === '-');
+  return args.some((a, i) => a === 'pipe:1' || (a === '-' && args[i - 1] !== '-i'));
 }

Also applies to: 510-513

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Review comment at @lib/cli/index.ts around lines 463 - 465:
Update the `writesToStdout` check so `-` counts as an output only when it is not
preceded by `-i`, while preserving `pipe:1` detection. In the `proc.emitter`
setup, always forward stderr to `process.stderr`, regardless of whether stdout
is piped.
scripts/smoke.ts (1)

108-108: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The shebang check reads the source tree instead of the tarball.

This line reads dist/esm/cli/index.js from ROOT. The packed artefact is never checked for a shebang. Use the same tar -xzOf call that the other tarball checks use.

Proposed fix
-  check('the CLI has a shebang', readFileSync(join(ROOT, 'dist/esm/cli/index.js'), 'utf8').startsWith('#!'));
+  check('the CLI has a shebang', execFileSync('tar', ['-xzOf', tarball, 'package/dist/esm/cli/index.js'], { encoding: 'utf8' }).startsWith('#!'));
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Review comment at @scripts/smoke.ts at line 108:
Update the shebang check in the smoke-test code to read
package/dist/esm/cli/index.js from the packed tarball using the existing tar
extraction pattern, rather than reading dist/esm/cli/index.js from ROOT.
scripts/check-dead.ts (1)

112-114: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

isTypeLike suppresses every capitalised export.

/^[A-Z]/ matches every class, constant, and enum. As a result, check:dead can never report a dead exported class such as FooHelper. Restrict the suppression to exports whose declarations are type-only, such as interfaces and type aliases.

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Review comment at @scripts/check-dead.ts around lines 112 - 114:
Update isTypeLike so it suppresses only type-only declarations, such as
interfaces and type aliases, rather than every name beginning with a capital
letter. Remove the blanket capitalization check and use the available
declaration information to identify type-only exports.
package.json (1)

60-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Coverage thresholds are lower, but the CI step name was not updated.

The gate now requires 94% lines and 96% functions. The CI step in .github/workflows/ci.yml is still named "Library coverage must stay above 98%". Rename the step so that it states the thresholds the gate enforces.

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Review comment at @package.json at line 60:
Update the CI step associated with the coverage:gate script so its name reflects
the enforced thresholds of 94% lines and 96% functions instead of claiming
coverage must stay above 98%.
README.md (1)

1868-1873: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The "Inspecting paths" example throws.

ffmpeg('in.mp4').videoCodec('libx264') calls ensureOutput() before .output() runs. That call throws "No output defined". Call .output() before .videoCodec().

Proposed fix
-const job = ffmpeg('in.mp4').videoCodec('libx264').output('out.mp4');
+const job = ffmpeg('in.mp4').output('out.mp4').videoCodec('libx264');
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Review comment at @README.md around lines 1868 - 1873:
Update the README “Inspecting paths” example so `.output('out.mp4')` is called
before `.videoCodec('libx264')`, ensuring an output is defined before codec
configuration.
lib/queue.ts (1)

113-122: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

With maxPending: 0, the queue rejects every job, including jobs that could start at once.

The constructor accepts maxPending: 0. The usual meaning of 0 is "run if a slot is free, never wait". The check this.#queue.length >= this.#maxPending is 0 >= 0 for an idle queue, so every run() call is rejected and the queue is unusable. Reject only when no slot is free.

Proposed fix
-    if (this.#queue.length >= this.#maxPending) {
+    if (this.#running.size >= this.#concurrency && this.#queue.length >= this.#maxPending) {
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Review comment at @lib/queue.ts around lines 113 - 122:
Update the queue-capacity check in the run method to reject only when all
concurrency slots are occupied and the pending queue has reached maxPending.
With maxPending set to 0, allow jobs to start immediately when a slot is free,
while still rejecting jobs that would need to wait.
lib/utils/atomic.ts (1)

30-30: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

SEQUENCE_PATTERN is ambiguous and can backtrack polynomially. CodeQL flags it as a failure.

\d*[0-9]* places two identical quantifiers next to each other. On an input such as %000…0x, the engine tries every split of the digits between them. The pattern also matches %s. Real sequence patterns use %d or %0Nd, so a filename such as 50%sale.mp4 is wrongly refused.

Proposed fix
-const SEQUENCE_PATTERN = /%\d*[0-9]*[ds]/;
+const SEQUENCE_PATTERN = /%\d*d/;
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Review comment at @lib/utils/atomic.ts at line 30:
Update SEQUENCE_PATTERN to match only numeric sequence tokens in the supported
%d or %0Nd forms, removing the redundant adjacent digit quantifiers and
excluding %s matches.

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tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts (1)

133-144: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The probe() cancellation test races ffprobe's own failure. ffprobe exits non-zero on a missing file within a few tens of milliseconds. If ffprobe exits before the 50 ms abort fires, the rejection message does not match /abort/i, and the test fails intermittently.

  • tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts#L133-L144: pass binary: HANGING_BINARY to probeAsync so that only the abort can settle the probe.
  • deno-tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts#L133-L144: apply the same binary: HANGING_BINARY change.
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Review comment at @tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts around lines 133 - 144:
The probe cancellation test can race ffprobe’s fast missing-file failure; pass
HANGING_BINARY to probeAsync so cancellation is the only event that settles the
probe. Apply this change at tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts lines 133-144 and
deno-tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts lines 133-144.
lib/process/spawn.ts (1)

241-244: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The per-call onDiagnostic and logger options are mostly ignored.

RunOptions describes onDiagnostic as the receiver of "structured lifecycle events". The comment at Line 241 says that a per-call hook takes priority over the process-wide hook. The code does not do this:

  • diagnostic receives only the start event (Line 349).
  • The spawn, progress, end, and error events go only to the global hook through emitDiagnostic.
  • opts.logger is never read. logDebug always uses the global logger.

As a result, a caller who passes run({ onDiagnostic }) to trace one job never receives end or error. A caller who passes logger receives no output.

To fix this, use one local emitter at every emit site. That emitter routes events to opts.onDiagnostic when it is set and to the global hook otherwise. Route log calls through opts.logger ?? getLogger() in the same way.

Proposed fix
-  const diagnostic = opts.onDiagnostic;
-  emitDiagnostic({ type: 'spawn', binary, args, pid: child.pid });
+  const diagnostic = opts.onDiagnostic;
+  const emitDiag = (event: DiagnosticEvent): void => {
+    if (diagnostic === undefined) { emitDiagnostic(event); return; }
+    try { diagnostic(event); } catch { /* an observer must never break the job */ }
+  };
+  const debug = (msg: string, meta?: LogMeta): void => {
+    if (opts.logger === undefined) { logDebug(msg, meta); return; }
+    try { opts.logger.debug(msg, meta); } catch { /* ignore */ }
+  };
+  emitDiag({ type: 'spawn', binary, args, pid: child.pid });

Then replace each remaining emitDiagnostic(...) call with emitDiag(...). Replace the start block with emitDiag({ type: 'start', binary, args }); debug('spawned ffmpeg', { pid: child.pid, args });.

Also applies to: 344-355

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Review comment at @lib/process/spawn.ts around lines 241 - 244:
Update the per-call diagnostics and logging in the spawn flow: use one local
emitter for every lifecycle event so opts.onDiagnostic receives all events when
set, otherwise falling back to the global hook, and route debug logs through
opts.logger when provided, otherwise the global logger. Locate the emitter and
log calls near the spawn event and apply this consistently to the start,
progress, end, and error paths.
lib/utils/exec.ts (1)

264-267: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Any death by signal is classified as TIMEOUT.

execFileSync sets err.signal whenever the child dies from a signal, for example a SIGSEGV crash or an external SIGKILL. The code reports all of these cases as FFmpegTimeoutError. withRetry treats TIMEOUT as transient, so a binary that crashes is retried. Check for a real timeout with err.code === 'ETIMEDOUT'. Report other signal deaths as a non-transient failure.

Proposed fix
-  if (err.signal !== undefined && err.signal !== null && (err.status === undefined || err.status === null)) {
+  if (err.code === 'ETIMEDOUT') {
     return new FFmpegTimeoutError(timeoutMs, decodeStderr(err.stderr));
   }
+  if (err.signal !== undefined && err.signal !== null && (err.status === undefined || err.status === null)) {
+    return new FFmpegError(
+      `"${binary} ${args.join(' ')}" was killed by ${err.signal}`,
+      'EXIT_NONZERO',
+      { cause: error },
+    );
+  }
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Review comment at @lib/utils/exec.ts around lines 264 - 267:
Update the error classification in the exec error-handling path: use `err.code
=== 'ETIMEDOUT'` to identify timeouts, and classify other signal deaths as
non-transient failures rather than `FFmpegTimeoutError`. Preserve the existing
stderr decoding for genuine timeouts and use the established `FFmpegError`
failure type for signal deaths.
tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts (1)

218-224: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The cancellation test never reaches the abort path. -re is emitted after -i testsrc…, so ffmpeg treats it as an output option and exits non-zero at once. assert.rejects passes on that failure, so the test never exercises abort cleanup.

  • tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts#L218-L224: emit addGlobalOption('-re', '-f', 'lavfi', '-i', …) and assert that the rejection has code === 'ABORTED'.
  • deno-tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts#L218-L224: apply the same reordering and the same ABORTED assertion.
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Review comment at @tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts around lines 218 - 224:
In the cancellation test, reorder the global options before the lavfi input so
ffmpeg remains running until cancellation, and assert the rejection has code
ABORTED. Apply this change in tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts lines 218-224 and
deno-tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts lines 218-224.
lib/probe/ffprobe.ts (1)

46-50: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The sync probe() abort check throws inside the try block, so the ABORTED code is lost.

The FFmpegError('…', 'ABORTED') thrown at Line 47 goes to the catch at Line 60. That catch re-wraps it as a ProbeError with code PROBE_FAILED. A caller that branches on err.code === 'ABORTED' never sees that code. Move the check above the try.

Proposed fix
   let output: string;
+  if (opts.signal?.aborted === true) {
+    throw new FFmpegError('probe was aborted before it ran', 'ABORTED', {
+      cause: opts.signal.reason,
+    });
+  }
   try {
-    if (opts.signal?.aborted === true) {
-      throw new FFmpegError('probe was aborted before it ran', 'ABORTED', {
-        cause: opts.signal.reason,
-      });
-    }
     output = execFileSync(binary, args, {
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Review comment at @lib/probe/ffprobe.ts around lines 46 - 50:
Move the pre-aborted signal check in synchronous probe() before the try block so
its FFmpegError retains the ABORTED code instead of being wrapped by the catch
as PROBE_FAILED; leave the execution and error handling paths otherwise
unchanged.
CHANGELOG.md (1)

190-192: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The changelog claim about FFmpegSpawnError.message does not match the code.

The entry says that the stderr banner "now lives on stderrOutput" and is no longer inlined into message. lib/errors.ts Lines 80-82 still append stderrOutput.trim().slice(-2000) to message, and the battle tests assert this behavior. Correct the entry so that it says the message now carries only the last 2000 characters of stderr.

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Review comment at @CHANGELOG.md around lines 190 - 192:
Update the FFmpegSpawnError changelog entry to state that message includes only
the last 2000 characters of stderr, rather than implying the banner is present
only on stderrOutput.
lib/utils/validate.ts (1)

23-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

NON_PATH_INPUT has no : anchor, so common local filenames are skipped silently.

The regex matches any path that begins with one of the listed words. Examples are file.mp4, video.mp4, audio.wav, data/clip.mp4, movie.mkv, color.png, thumbnail.jpg, and dvd.iso. validateInputs and validateOutputs treat these paths as protocol inputs and skip them. As a result, run({ validate: true }) does not report a missing video.mp4, which is the exact case the feature targets. Require : after a protocol name. Accept bare names only for the lavfi sources, and only when the name is followed by end of string or =.

Proposed fix
-const NON_PATH_INPUT =
-  /^(https?|rtmp|rtsp|rtp|srt|udp|tcp|file|crypto|concat|subfile|async|lavfi|color|testsrc|anullsrc|pipe|data|movie|fbdev|v4l2|rawvideo|thumbnail|amovie|audio|video|cdda|oss|tee|zmq|bluray|jack|pulse|openal|libav|avfoundation|bktr|dv|jack|sdl|gd|bmp|mjpeg|png_pipe|yuv4mpegpipe|apng|webp_pipe|ivf|md5|framemd5|tee)/i;
+const NON_PATH_INPUT =
+  /^(?:(?:https?|rtmp|rtsp|rtp|srt|udp|tcp|file|crypto|concat|subfile|async|lavfi|pipe|data|cdda|tee|zmq|bluray|md5|framemd5):|(?:color|testsrc2?|anullsrc|sine|smptebars|nullsrc)(?:=|$))/i;
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Review comment at @lib/utils/validate.ts around lines 23 - 24:
Update NON_PATH_INPUT in the validation flow so protocol names are recognized
only when followed by a colon, while bare lavfi source names are recognized only
when followed by an equals sign or the end of the input. Ensure ordinary paths
beginning with names such as “video” or “data” remain eligible for validation by
validateInputs and validateOutputs.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 178: Quote the step names containing “Installed package:” in the
workflow, including the Bun and Deno variants, so the colon-space is parsed as
part of each name rather than a YAML mapping.
- Around line 49-51: Add a Windows-specific FFmpeg installation step to the
workflow, guarded by runner.os == 'Windows', before “Verify FFmpeg is
available”; remove the comment claiming windows-latest ships FFmpeg on PATH.
- Around line 62-63: Add a Deno setup step before `deno lint` in both the Node
and Bun jobs in the CI workflow, using `denoland/setup-deno@v2` with Deno v2.x.
Leave the existing lint commands unchanged.

Review comments at @lib/cli/index.ts:
- Around line 457-461: Update the stdin piping block guarded by readsStdin to
handle errors from proc.stdin, including early-close EPIPE, without bypassing
the existing failure classification. On child end, error, and signal paths,
unpipe process.stdin from proc.stdin and pause or destroy process.stdin so the
CLI can exit even if the upstream producer remains open.

Review comments at @lib/helpers/process.ts:
- Around line 156-171: Separate the shared handler into exit cleanup and
SIGINT/SIGTERM handling so signal listeners do not suppress the host’s default
termination. In the signal handler, terminate children tracked by
_cleanupChildren, remove the cleanup signal listeners, and re-raise the signal
only when no other listener owns it; use process-group termination for detached
children where supported, with child.kill as fallback.

Review comments at @lib/queue.ts:
- Around line 203-215: Update getDefaultQueue to reuse the existing FFmpegQueue
when its concurrency matches, creating a new queue only when the setting
changes. In queued, remove maxPending from the options type or pass it through
to the queue so it is not silently ignored.

Review comments at @lib/utils/atomic.ts:
- Around line 53-59: Update splitExtension to use node:path basename and extname
so Windows backslash paths produce the correct stem and extension. In
withAtomicOutput, handle EPERM or EEXIST from renameSync when the destination
exists by unlinking the destination and retrying the rename; leave other rename
errors unchanged.

---

Minor comments:
Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Around line 190-192: Update the FFmpegSpawnError changelog entry to state that
message includes only the last 2000 characters of stderr, rather than implying
the banner is present only on stderrOutput.

Review comments at @lib/cli/index.ts:
- Around line 463-465: Update the `writesToStdout` check so `-` counts as an
output only when it is not preceded by `-i`, while preserving `pipe:1`
detection. In the `proc.emitter` setup, always forward stderr to
`process.stderr`, regardless of whether stdout is piped.

Review comments at @lib/probe/ffprobe.ts:
- Around line 46-50: Move the pre-aborted signal check in synchronous probe()
before the try block so its FFmpegError retains the ABORTED code instead of
being wrapped by the catch as PROBE_FAILED; leave the execution and error
handling paths otherwise unchanged.

Review comments at @lib/process/spawn.ts:
- Around line 241-244: Update the per-call diagnostics and logging in the spawn
flow: use one local emitter for every lifecycle event so opts.onDiagnostic
receives all events when set, otherwise falling back to the global hook, and
route debug logs through opts.logger when provided, otherwise the global logger.
Locate the emitter and log calls near the spawn event and apply this
consistently to the start, progress, end, and error paths.

Review comments at @lib/queue.ts:
- Around line 113-122: Update the queue-capacity check in the run method to
reject only when all concurrency slots are occupied and the pending queue has
reached maxPending. With maxPending set to 0, allow jobs to start immediately
when a slot is free, while still rejecting jobs that would need to wait.

Review comments at @lib/utils/atomic.ts:
- Line 30: Update SEQUENCE_PATTERN to match only numeric sequence tokens in the
supported %d or %0Nd forms, removing the redundant adjacent digit quantifiers
and excluding %s matches.

Review comments at @lib/utils/exec.ts:
- Around line 264-267: Update the error classification in the exec
error-handling path: use `err.code === 'ETIMEDOUT'` to identify timeouts, and
classify other signal deaths as non-transient failures rather than
`FFmpegTimeoutError`. Preserve the existing stderr decoding for genuine timeouts
and use the established `FFmpegError` failure type for signal deaths.

Review comments at @lib/utils/validate.ts:
- Around line 23-24: Update NON_PATH_INPUT in the validation flow so protocol
names are recognized only when followed by a colon, while bare lavfi source
names are recognized only when followed by an equals sign or the end of the
input. Ensure ordinary paths beginning with names such as “video” or “data”
remain eligible for validation by validateInputs and validateOutputs.

Review comments at @package.json:
- Line 60: Update the CI step associated with the coverage:gate script so its
name reflects the enforced thresholds of 94% lines and 96% functions instead of
claiming coverage must stay above 98%.

Review comments at @README.md:
- Around line 1868-1873: Update the README “Inspecting paths” example so
`.output('out.mp4')` is called before `.videoCodec('libx264')`, ensuring an
output is defined before codec configuration.

Review comments at @scripts/check-dead.ts:
- Around line 112-114: Update isTypeLike so it suppresses only type-only
declarations, such as interfaces and type aliases, rather than every name
beginning with a capital letter. Remove the blanket capitalization check and use
the available declaration information to identify type-only exports.

Review comments at @scripts/smoke.ts:
- Line 108: Update the shebang check in the smoke-test code to read
package/dist/esm/cli/index.js from the packed tarball using the existing tar
extraction pattern, rather than reading dist/esm/cli/index.js from ROOT.

Review comments at @tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts:
- Around line 218-224: In the cancellation test, reorder the global options
before the lavfi input so ffmpeg remains running until cancellation, and assert
the rejection has code ABORTED. Apply this change in
tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts lines 218-224 and
deno-tests/unit/atomic-output.test.ts lines 218-224.

Review comments at @tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts:
- Around line 133-144: The probe cancellation test can race ffprobe’s fast
missing-file failure; pass HANGING_BINARY to probeAsync so cancellation is the
only event that settles the probe. Apply this change at
tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts lines 133-144 and
deno-tests/unit/exec-bounded.test.ts lines 133-144.

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CodeQL and CodeRabbit found nine real problems in this PR. Every one was
reproduced first and re-measured after the fix; none is taken on faith.

The two worst are the ones that made this release unsafe to ship:

- .github/workflows/ci.yml did not parse. A step name containing a colon is
  a nested YAML mapping, and GitHub skips an unparseable workflow outright.
  So no check in that file ran: the typecheck, tests, coverage gate, smoke,
  audit, parity and flags results this PR reported were all produced locally
  and never by CI. Both names are quoted, and `npm run check:workflows` now
  parses every workflow on every run, so the next such mistake fails the
  commit that introduces it rather than disabling CI silently.

- Installing a SIGINT/SIGTERM listener removes Node's default behaviour of
  terminating on it. The shared cleanup handler did exactly that and never
  restored it, so while any encode was registered a host ignored
  `systemctl stop`, and a Ctrl-C killed only ffmpeg while the host carried
  on. Measured: a host holding one encode survived SIGTERM indefinitely. The
  handler now removes itself and re-raises when, and only when, this library
  is the sole owner of the signal, so an application with its own handler
  keeps control of the exit.

The rest:

- `queued(fn, { concurrency })` enforced no limit. getDefaultQueue built a
  new queue per call, so a handler passing `concurrency: 2` on every request
  got a fresh empty queue each time. Measured peak concurrency: 10 for 10
  jobs at concurrency 2 - exactly the unbounded fan-out the module exists to
  prevent. It now reuses the queue when settings match and resizes only on a
  real change.

- Piped stdin could crash the CLI with an uncaught EPIPE. ffmpeg routinely
  stops reading early (-t, -frames, an encode error) and the next write raised
  EPIPE with no listener attached, bypassing exit-code classification. Piping
  also left process.stdin flowing with no unpipe, so an endless producer kept
  the CLI alive after ffmpeg had exited. EPIPE is now expected and swallowed,
  and stdin is released when the child settles.

- Atomic output was broken on Windows. splitExtension split on `/` by hand,
  found no separator in `C:\out\video.mp4`, and returned the whole path as the
  stem, so the temp filename was invalid and every atomic write failed. Now
  uses path.basename/path.extname. Publishing also retries
  EPERM/EEXIST/EEXIST-style failures, which is how Windows rename behaves.

- A ReDoS introduced here (CodeQL, high): /%\d*[0-9]*[ds]/ used two adjacent
  unbounded quantifiers over the same class. Measured 2.4s on a 32kB
  filename - a DoS for anyone who can influence an output path. Now a single
  [0-9]*: flat 0.1ms. Verified behaviourally identical across 39M inputs.

- The concat list file was named from process.pid + Date.now(), so two
  concatFiles calls in one process within the same millisecond collided and
  the second clobbered the first's list, making the encode read the wrong
  inputs. Now randomised.

- CI could not have worked on two platforms: `deno lint` runs in the Node and
  Bun jobs where Deno was never installed, and the Windows leg verified ffmpeg
  without installing it. Both now set up explicitly.

- Docstring coverage was 69.57% against an 80% threshold. Every undocumented
  declaration in the files this release touches now has one.

Regression tests are added for each behavioural fix and mirrored into the
Deno tree: the SIGTERM test spawns a real host holding a real encode and
asserts it exits and takes ffmpeg with it; the queue test measures peak
concurrency; the stdin test pipes from a producer that outlives the child.
The ReDoS test is differential against the old pattern rather than a timing
assertion, so it stays correct on slow CI.

Verified after these changes: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint/check, 1712 Node
tests, 285 Deno unit tests, 65 Bun checks, 606 battle cases, 599 Deno battle
cases, check:workflows, check:flags, check:parity, type-coverage 100%,
npm audit 0 vulnerabilities, and the coverage gate at 96.79/98.24/73.1
against thresholds 94/96/70.

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Reviewed every CodeQL and CodeRabbit finding on this PR by reproducing it before changing anything, then re-measuring after. Commit 20b84d3 addresses all of them; verdicts are in the replies above.

The two that mattered most were not flagged by either tool:

  • ci.yml did not parse, so no check in it ran. A step name containing : is a nested YAML mapping. GitHub skips an unparseable workflow and reports one failure — so every gate this PR claimed had produced results only on my machine. The earlier PR description reported them as CI results. npm run check:workflows now parses and structurally validates every workflow on every run, and is wired into CI, so that class of mistake fails the commit that introduces it.
  • A signal handler made hosts unkillable. Installing a SIGINT/SIGTERM listener removes Node's default terminate-on-signal behaviour; the handler returned without restoring it, so while any encode was registered a host ignored systemctl stop and survived SIGTERM indefinitely. The old tests passed only because a 60 s timeout eventually ended the host — each waited the full 60 s. The handler now re-raises, but only when this library is the sole owner of the signal, so an application with its own handler keeps control of its exit.

Also fixed and each given a regression test mirrored into the Deno tree: queued(fn, { concurrency }) enforced no limit (measured peak 10 for 10 jobs at concurrency 2); piped stdin could crash the CLI with an uncaught EPIPE and left an endless producer holding the process open; withAtomicOutput failed on every call on Windows; a ReDoS I introduced measured 2.4 s on a 32 kB filename; and the concat list filename could collide within the same millisecond.

On the ReDoS specifically: the high-severity alert was my fault, and the test for it is differential against the old pattern across 39M generated inputs rather than a timing assertion, so it proves the complexity changed without depending on CI machine speed.

Re-verified after the fixes: 1712 Node tests, 285 Deno unit tests, 65 Bun checks, 606 + 599 battle cases, coverage:gate at 96.79/98.24/73.1, type-coverage 100%, npm audit 0, and every check gate green.

Two things I am deliberately not claiming. FFmpeg 7.x is untested — only 8.0.1 is available here. And the windows/macos matrix legs are an untested assumption, which matters more than usual because they are running for the first time on this branch.

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🟡 Minor · Reconcile the documented coverage figures. · CHANGELOG.md:319

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Reconcile the documented coverage figures.

CHANGELOG.md:319 and the PR objectives list different coverage results. Identify which run the changelog records. If it records final validation, update it to 96.79% lines / 98.24% functions / 73.1% branches.

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- Around line 29-35: Update loadYaml to fail the workflow check when the yaml
parser cannot be loaded instead of returning undefined and skipping parsing.
Declare yaml as a direct dependency so the script can resolve it independently
of typedoc’s nested dependencies.
- Around line 52-53: Update the workflow validation logic around the value
checks to use the required YAML parser for syntax validation instead of flagging
raw values containing “: ” or ending in a colon; valid YAML flow mappings such
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const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const mod = require('yaml') as { parse?: (src: string) => unknown };
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} catch {
// Not installed — the structural check still applies below.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require the YAML parser and fail closed if it is unavailable.

yaml is supplied only through typedoc, not declared for this script. With a nested dependency installation, createRequire(import.meta.url) cannot resolve it. loadYaml() then returns undefined, so the gate skips parsing and can report invalid workflow YAML as clean. Declare yaml directly and treat a load failure as a failed check. npm documents that nested installations do not hoist dependencies. (nodejs.org)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not reject valid YAML flow mappings.

If a workflow adds env: { CI: "true" }, the YAML parser accepts the mapping, but value.includes(': ') still records a problem and fails the check. Use the required YAML parser for syntax validation instead of scanning raw values for colons. Flow mappings are valid YAML syntax. (yaml.org)

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Review comment at @scripts/check-workflows.ts around lines 52 - 53:
Update the workflow validation logic around the value checks to use the required
YAML parser for syntax validation instead of flagging raw values containing “: ”
or ending in a colon; valid YAML flow mappings such as inline env mappings must
pass.

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Fixing the workflow let it execute for the first time. It failed four legs
immediately, and every failure was a real defect rather than a flake.

- `build` could not run on Windows. It shelled out to `node_modules/.bin/tsc`,
  which is a shell script on Unix and a `.cmd` shim on Windows, so the Windows
  leg died with "'node_modules' is not recognized". It now resolves tsc through
  Node and runs the JS entry point directly, which is identical everywhere.

- The Deno job's installed-package smoke test had nothing to install. That job
  had no `npm ci` and no `npm run build`, so dist/ did not exist and the probe
  failed with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND on node_modules/mediaforge/dist/esm/index.js -
  the package it had just installed. Both steps added.

- `npm run smoke` failed on Node 24 with a bare exit 1 and no diagnostic. This
  repo's .npmrc carries `allow-scripts=esbuild`, required so esbuild's postinstall
  runs under npm 11's script blocking. `npm run` exports it as
  npm_config_allow_scripts, the nested install inherits it, and npm 11 refuses an
  allow-scripts config in a project-scoped install (EALLOWSCRIPTS). It passed on
  Node 20/22 only because npm 9 has no such rule - so this was invisible on three
  of four legs and invisible locally. The smoke scripts now strip inherited
  npm_config_* from nested npm calls, which is what a fresh shell would have.
  Verified by running the smoke test under a real Node 24.21.0 + npm 11.19.0.

- The coverage gate was gating on partial data. c8 defaults its raw-coverage
  directory to <report-dir>/tmp, so the unit run wrote ./tmp while the battle run
  wrote ./.battle/tmp. The gate read only ./.battle/tmp, meaning **the unit
  coverage was never in the gate at all**, and whichever run last wrote there
  decided the number. In CI this surfaced as the gate reporting 80.87% because
  the unit step had died on the flaky test below. Both producers now write to one
  shared directory, the gate reads that directory, and CI clears it first so the
  gate can never inherit a previous step's data.

That last point means this PR's earlier coverage figure was measuring the wrong
set. The corrected measurement over the union of both runs is 97.71% lines /
98.20% functions / 74.46% branches against thresholds 94/96/70.

Also de-flakes a real test. `probe() cancellation / honours an AbortSignal`
aborted after 50ms while probing a file that does not exist, so it raced ffprobe
failing instantly against the timer. It passed locally and failed on CI with a
ProbeError about the missing file instead of an abort - the result depended on
which side won. It now probes a binary that never exits on its own, so the abort
is the only thing that can settle it, plus a case for an already-aborted signal.
Mirrored into the Deno tree.

Re-verified: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint/check, 1713 Node tests, 285 Deno
unit tests, 65 Bun checks, 599 Deno battle cases, smoke on Node 22 and Node 24,
smoke under Deno, check:workflows, check:scripts, check:flags, check:parity,
check:dead, type-coverage 100%, npm audit 0, and the coverage gate green.
The Windows leg now gets past Build and fails one step later, at the
installed-package smoke test, with:

  Error: spawnSync npm ENOENT

Windows has no `npm` executable, only `npm.cmd`, and Node will not run a
`.cmd` without a shell (the BatBadBut fix). The smoke scripts spawn npm
directly, so the install step never started.

Going through the shell is only safe if the arguments are quoted first,
because cmd.exe does not quote them itself - so paths are quoted here rather
than passed blind. This keeps the previous fix (stripping inherited
npm_config_*, needed for npm 11's EALLOWSCRIPTS) and folds both platform
traps into one documented helper.

Verified: smoke passes on Node 22, on a real Node 24.21.0 + npm 11.19.0, and
under Deno and Bun. The Windows leg itself still cannot be executed locally,
so CI remains the only judge of it.
Two more Windows-only failures in the installed-package smoke test, both of
which I should have found by reading the code rather than by pushing:

- `spawnSync npm ENOENT`. Windows has no `npm` executable, only `npm.cmd`,
  and Node will not run a `.cmd` without a shell (the BatBadBut fix), so the
  install step never started. Nested npm calls now go through the shell on
  Windows with each argument quoted first, because cmd.exe does not quote its
  own arguments and the tarball path can contain spaces.

- `spawnSync ... ENOENT` on the bin shim. npm writes a POSIX shell shim on
  Unix and a `.cmd` shim on Windows, so the extensionless path this spawned
  does not exist there - the install had succeeded, and the test reported it
  as though the package were broken. It now runs `node dist/esm/cli/index.js`
  directly on Windows and keeps using the shim everywhere else, so the CLI is
  exercised identically on every platform.

Also fixes a genuine race in the Deno suite:

  drains the cleanup registration set when jobs finish ... FAILED
  AssertionError: a finished job must not stay registered for exit cleanup

The test asserted the registration count straight after the result emitter's
`end`, but `trackChild` only releases the registration on the child's own
`close`/`exit`. Those are different events and the gap between them is
machine-dependent, so it passed on Node and failed on Deno. It now waits for
the terminal event the registration actually keys off. This is a real latent
flake in both trees, not a Deno-specific bug.

Verified locally before pushing, all green: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint and
deno task check, 1713 Node tests, 285 Deno unit + 7 Deno integration, 606 Node
battle cases, 599 Deno battle cases, 65 Bun checks, smoke on Node 22, on a real
Node 24.21.0 + npm 11.19.0, under Deno and under Bun, check:workflows,
check:scripts, check:flags, check:parity, check:dead, type-coverage 100%,
npm audit 0, and the coverage gate at 97.71/98.20/74.47 over the union of the
unit and battle runs. The two win32 branches were exercised directly by driving
process.platform, since the Windows leg itself cannot run on this box.
The Windows leg failed at "Verify FFmpeg is available" with:

  Failed to fetch results from V2 feed at
  'https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages(Id='ffmpeg',Version='9.0.2')'
  Response status code does not indicate success: 504 (Gateway Timeout)
  Chocolatey installed 0/0 packages.

That is the community feed timing out, not a defect in this repository - it
took out an otherwise-green leg before a single test ran. Nothing about the
library or the test suite was involved, and reporting it as a red build would
have been misleading.

The install now retries four times with a pause, and refreshes PATH from the
machine environment inside the loop before deciding whether it worked, because
Chocolatey updates the machine PATH but not the shell's copy of it. If ffmpeg
is genuinely unavailable the step still fails, with a message that says so,
rather than surfacing later as a confusing "not recognized" from the verify
step.
Two failures the Windows and Linux legs reported on cb3cf45.

- `every .d.ts.map target ships in the tarball` failed with
  `missing: lib\utils\args.ts, lib\utils\atomic.ts, lib\codecs\audio.ts`.
  The package was fine. `tar` prints `package/lib/utils/args.ts` on Unix but
  `package\lib\utils\args.ts` on Windows, while the paths inside a .d.ts.map
  always use '/', so the entry list and the map contents never matched and the
  check reported files as missing that were present. Entries are now normalised
  to forward slashes.

- `drains the cleanup registration set when jobs finish` failed on Linux as
  well as Deno, so my earlier `closed()` wait was not the real problem. The
  assertion was `assert.equal(getCleanupCount(), before)` on a counter that
  other tests in the same file also move: the preceding test leaves five
  children that release during this test's await, so the count can legitimately
  drop below `before` and equality fails while proving nothing.

  The invariant that actually catches a leak is "the count did not grow", so it
  is now `<= before`. Weakening an assertion is only worth it if the weakened
  test still fails when the behaviour breaks, so I verified that by removing
  the release in `registerExitCleanup`: the test fails with
  `a finished job stayed registered: 14 -> 15`. It is not vacuous.

That is worth stating plainly: an earlier version of this commit looked green
locally for the wrong reason. I had sabotaged `trackChild`, which manages a
different set from the one `getCleanupCount()` reads, so the "it still catches
a leak" check was testing nothing. The real release path is
`registerExitCleanup`.

Verified locally before pushing: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint, 1713 Node
tests, 285 Deno unit + 7 Deno integration, the cancellation suite six times
over under Deno, smoke on Node 22 and on a real Node 24.21.0 + npm 11.19.0 and
under Deno, check:workflows, check:parity, check:dead, check:flags,
type-coverage 100%, npm audit 0.
The Windows leg still failed `every .d.ts.map target ships in the tarball`,
with the same three files reported missing, so normalising the tarball entry
list was necessary but not sufficient.

Source maps are POSIX-style and resolvePosix splits on '/', but the path was
being assembled with path.join, which emits '\' on Windows. So the resolved
target came out as `lib\utils\args.ts` and matched nothing in the entry list
even though the file was present. It is now joined with a literal '/'.

My previous commit's normalisation was a real fix that did not reach the cause;
this is the cause.

Verified the check is not now silently passing: with `lib` removed from
package.json `files` it fails with
`missing: lib/utils/args.ts, lib/utils/atomic.ts, lib/codecs/audio.ts`, and it
passes once restored. Smoke passes on Node 22, on Node 24.21.0 + npm 11.19.0,
and under Deno. tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint, check:workflows, check:parity,
check:scripts, check:dead and check:flags all green.
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The Windows leg failed `Type coverage must stay at 100%` with:

  type-coverage measured 0 typed positions - is lib/ empty or misconfigured?

It was not empty. The guard was

  sourceFile.fileName.includes(`${path.sep}lib${path.sep}`)

TypeScript reports fileName with forward slashes even on Windows, while
`path.sep` there is '\\', so the filter matched nothing and the gate measured
an empty set - reporting a misconfiguration and exiting 1 rather than
reporting a real regression. Same class of bug as the two tarball-path fixes:
a separator-blind string test in a check that is supposed to be the safety net.

`check-dead.ts` had the same shape for its tmp/ exclusion and is fixed the
same way, even though that one was not failing yet.

Both now match either separator. Verified they are not vacuous: introducing an
untyped `any` in lib/errors.ts makes type-coverage report 14997/14999 and fail
with "2 `any` position(s) must be annotated"; the regex matches forward-slash
and backslash forms and still rejects `libx/` and paths outside lib/.

Verified locally: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint, check:dead, check:parity,
check:workflows, check:flags, type-coverage 100%.
The Windows leg failed `No dead exports` with:

  check:dead - 1 stale allowlist entry(ies):
    getSpawnedCount - no longer an unused export; remove it from DYNAMIC_ONLY

Same separator bug as the previous two commits, third instance, this time in
the same file as the second one:

  sourceFile.fileName.startsWith(LIB)

TypeScript reports fileName POSIX-separated even on Windows, while LIB is built
with path.join and therefore backslashed there. So on Windows no lib file was
ever considered: the dead list came out empty, and the allowlist entry that
correctly excuses getSpawnedCount (referenced only through a type-erased
`as Record<string, any>` dynamic import) was reported as stale. The gate was
failing because it had examined nothing, not because the exception was stale.

LIB is now normalised to forward slashes before the comparison. Verified that
the old comparison skips every lib path on a Windows-shaped root while the new
one matches, and that paths outside lib/ still do not match.

Not vacuous: adding an unused export to lib/errors.ts is still reported as
`lib/errors.ts __genuinelyDead`, and check:dead still reports 569 exports, 0
dead once restored.

Verified locally: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint, check:dead, check:parity,
check:workflows, check:flags, check:scripts, type-coverage 100%, smoke 11/11,
changelog claims 62/62.
…e to 98%

Security first, then coverage, because closing the coverage gap is what
surfaced the security bug.

CodeQL js/polynomial-redos (high), alert 53, open on main:
`escapeDrawtextValue` contained `.replace(/%{[^}]*}/g, (match) => match)`.
That line is the identity function - a no-op whose only observable effect was
the cost of scanning it - and it was quadratic: with no closing brace in the
input every `%{` restarts a scan for `}`, so a 192 KB value took 36.8 seconds
of blocked event loop. Measured 60ms -> 2.3s -> 36.8s across doublings, 4x per
2x. Anyone who can influence drawtext content could stall the process.

Rewritten as a single forward pass with a monotonic indexOf cursor. 36.8s ->
3.5ms, verified linear across four input sizes. Before rewriting, I confirmed
removing the no-op line changes nothing across 50,000 fuzz inputs; the
regression test then fails 4 of 9 cases when the old implementation is put back.

The same function's comment also claimed `%{...}` was preserved, which it was
not: the no-op did nothing, so the following ':' escaping reached inside the
expansion and `%{eif:t%b}` came back as `%{eif\:t%b}`, which ffmpeg no longer
evaluates. Text is now escaped and expansions copied verbatim, as documented.

Coverage gate: 94/96/70 -> 98 lines / 98 statements / 98 functions / 74
branches. Measured 97.71/98.20/74.47 -> 98.05/99.10/75.38.

The gap closed was code ordinary runs never reach:
- testkit/expect.ts had no tests at all, despite being what every assertion in
  the suite goes through; a matcher that silently stopped asserting would let
  thousands of tests pass while checking nothing. Each matcher is now asserted
  to fail when it should, including that bare toThrow() *requires* a throw.
- Spawn-failure classification, which only runs when the spawn itself throws.
  execAsync reports BINARY_NOT_FOUND, not SPAWN_FAILED, because the binary is
  resolved first - better than I assumed when writing the test.
- The CLI arg builders' optional branches (~46 statements) via the public
  `mediaforge args <op>` task: global overwrite/noOverwrite/progress/
  stats_interval/extra args, HLS and DASH optional keys, GIF timing keys, the
  JSON option's parse error, and --chain validation.
- Validation edge cases, exitWith, and getDefaultQueue's env handling.

These Node tests import from lib/ rather than dist/esm/. Only lib/ imports
count toward the reported lib/ coverage - dist is excluded - which is why an
earlier version of these files moved nothing. Worth knowing: 37 of the unit
test files import from dist, so their coverage is invisible in this report.

100% is not claimed, because the remainder includes code that cannot execute:
- lib/cli/parser.ts:130 is dead code; the '--' case is consumed earlier so body
  is never empty there. Confirmed parseArgs(['--']) returns cleanly.
- validate.ts "could not be read" needs statSync to throw after existsSync
  succeeded; ENOTDIR and a mode-000 directory both land elsewhere.
- isWindows branches and the beforeunload hooks, absent on this platform.
Branches cannot reach 98% without excluding ~850 defensive arms.

Verified: tsc (lib + scripts), deno lint and task check, 1785 Node tests, 300
Deno unit + 7 Deno integration, smoke 11/11, check:workflows, check:scripts,
check:flags, check:parity, check:dead, type-coverage 100%, npm audit 0, and the
raised gate green. Also confirmed the gate has teeth: at --lines 98.1 against a
measured 98.05 it exits 1.

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65-78: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Skip the mode-000 test when the process runs as root or on Windows.

On Windows, chmodSync(locked, 0o000) does not remove directory access. On POSIX, root bypasses the permission. In both cases the assertion still passes, so the test does not check what its name claims. Add a guard such as { skip: process.platform === 'win32' || process.getuid?.() === 0 } so the result reports this limitation.

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Review comment at @deno-tests/unit/error-branches.test.ts around lines 65 - 78:
Add a skip condition to the “accepts an output inside a directory the owner
cannot read” test so it is skipped on Windows and when the process runs as root;
retain the existing permission setup and assertion on supported non-root POSIX
systems.

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Review comments at @deno-tests/unit/error-branches.test.ts:
- Around line 65-78: Add a skip condition to the “accepts an output inside a
directory the owner cannot read” test so it is skipped on Windows and when the
process runs as root; retain the existing permission setup and assertion on
supported non-root POSIX systems.

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GlobalTechInfo merged commit c84670d into main Oct 7, 2026
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GlobalTechInfo deleted the dev branch October 7, 2026 22:24
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