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Converts examples/camera-display to the Python-forward model, starting from a real streamlib new scaffold, and retires the Rust approach. Rebuilds the E2E fixture that drives it.

The example

Scaffolded with streamlib new, then adapted to pure camera → display — the scaffold's InvertingEffect and processors/ dropped, since the example's whole content is two native built-ins wired together. numpy came out of the dependency list with it; nothing imports it now.

def setup(rt: Runtime) -> None:
    camera = rt.add(CameraSource, config=camera_configuration)
    window = rt.add(DisplayWindow, config={"title": ..., "width": 1920, ...})
    rt.connect(camera.output("video"), window.input("video"))

STREAMLIB_CAMERA_DEVICE survives as the one runtime knob, because an automated fixture needs to select a capture device without editing the app. The old max_width / max_height env plumbing became literal config — edit and re-run is the model.

Removed: src/main.rs, Cargo.toml, setup.sh, plus untracked .cargo/, .streamlib/, Cargo.lock, streamlib.lock, target/, and two stale streamlib_modules/@tatolab/* symlinks.

The retired app was already dead code, not merely dated — processor_type_ref!, RunnerAutoBuild and Runner::with_auto_build grep absent across sdk/ and runtime/, and the crate was never a root-workspace member. Nothing that currently works depended on it compiling.

The fixture

e2e_camera_display.sh now boots the app with streamlib run (no build step), waits for the node to register, asserts against streamlib graph, captures the window, and requires a clean SIGTERM exit.

The change that matters is what it asserts on. It used to grep engine tracing prose — Ring textures created, First frame captured, Failed to create camera texture — none of which exist in the engine tree. Combined with building a crate that no longer compiles, the gate was vacuous: it would have reported FAIL on a perfectly healthy run. It now gates on the graph JSON, process exit status, driver-owned Vulkan error strings, and pixels. Our own tracing messages are not a test API.

Window capture prefers ImageMagick import, falling back to capture_window.py — that fallback needs PIL in whichever python3 wins on PATH, which is not the wheel venv.

E2E Test Report

  • Scenario: camera+display-only
  • Example: examples/camera-display via e2e_camera_display.sh
  • Codec: n/a
  • Camera device: /dev/video0 (vivid)
  • Resolution: 1920x1080
  • Build profile: n/a — the app is Python; the wheel is the artifact
  • Command:
    STREAMLIB_CAMERA_DEVICE=/dev/video0 runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/fixtures/e2e_camera_display.sh /tmp/streamlib-e2e-final
    

Log signals

  • OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY: 0 (pass)
  • DEVICE_LOST: 0 (pass)
  • process() failed: 0 (pass)
  • Validation Error: 0
  • Frames: CameraSource 30 captured, DisplayWindow 30 presented
  • Shutdown: [stop] Graceful shutdown complete — clean on SIGTERM, no SIGKILL needed

PNG samples

  • Directory: /tmp/streamlib-e2e-final/png_samples/
  • Sample count: 1 (window capture)
  • What was in the image: the window titled "StreamLib Camera Display" showing live vivid SMPTE colour bars — grey, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, blue, left to right — with vivid's own overlay reading 1920x1080, input 0, brightness 128, contrast 128, saturation 128, hue 0 and timecode 00:00:05:608. Colour order is correct (red bar red, blue bar blue — no R↔B swap). Not black, not uniform, not stale.

camera-display E2E: vivid SMPTE bars in the app window

The captured window. Uploaded lossless rather than the usual JPEG step — colour fidelity is the assertion here, and JPEG chroma subsampling would undermine the very R↔B check the image exists to prove.

Also verified: streamlib nodes clean afterwards, no stranded processes. ship-change-removed-gate.test.sh 37 passed / 0 failed.

Deliberately not in this diff

.claude/ files → #1966. .claude/rules/flow.md requires operating-model changes to be their own PR and forbids a session editing the agents, rules or skills it is itself using — this session used verify-live and rig-brake. So verify-live/SKILL.md (four dead display env vars), rig-brake.sh (watches cargo run -p camera-display), evidence-verifier.md and two agent-knowledge index files still describe the retired harness. Filed with the measurements behind the replacement design.

The three PSNR fixtures. e2e_fixture_psnr.sh, _jpeg and _vivid carry identical rot, but converting them needs vulkan-video-psnr / jpeg-psnr / vulkan-video-roundtrip in Python, which needs codec blocks — a named engine gap blocking consumer conversion. Half-converting them would produce three more vacuous gates.

Notes, not asks

  • DisplayWindow scaling: "fit" appears to left-align rather than centre. Visible as asymmetric letterboxing in the captured frame. Pre-existing, unrelated to this change, and uninvestigated — a lead, not a diagnosis.
  • Tap channel naming is easy to get wrong, and I did first: the channel is the source processor's id, lowercased, joined to its output port (pgzkx96imh0emnguea13jjhfm/video), never its display name. A display name fails with "no tappable channel named". The README now derives it from graph, and that incantation was run verbatim against a live node before it went in.
  • A tap bag carries no pixels — measured at 247 bytes for 1920x1080: surface_id, width, height, timestamp_ns, color_info. Relevant to how the harness evolves; discussed on chore(loop): retarget the verify-live harness docs at the Python camera-display path #1966.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a Python-based camera-to-display example with configurable camera selection and display settings.
    • Added Python 3.12 project configuration and streamlined setup using the StreamLib CLI.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup, runtime observation, validation, and troubleshooting guidance.
    • Documented graph, JSONL, window-capture, and shutdown checks.
  • Tests

    • Enhanced end-to-end validation with real window capture, contract checks, prerequisite detection, and stable error monitoring.

Scaffolded with `streamlib new`, then adapted to camera → display. The
retired Rust app was already dead code: `processor_type_ref!`,
`RunnerAutoBuild` and `Runner::with_auto_build` no longer exist anywhere
in sdk/ or runtime/, and the crate was never a root-workspace member.

Rebuild the E2E fixture around `streamlib run`. It now gates on the
control plane's graph JSON, a captured window, and a clean SIGTERM exit
rather than on engine tracing prose. The prose it used to grep — "Ring
textures created", "First frame captured", "Failed to create camera
texture" — greps absent in the engine tree, so the gate would have
reported FAIL on a healthy run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The camera-display example now uses a Python StreamLib app with built-in camera and display processors. Its E2E fixture validates graph contracts, captures the display window, checks runtime errors, and verifies shutdown.

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Camera-display migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Python example application
examples/camera-display/app.py, examples/camera-display/pyproject.toml, examples/camera-display/README.md, examples/camera-display/.python-version, examples/camera-display/.gitignore, examples/camera-display/src/main.rs, examples/camera-display/Cargo.toml, examples/camera-display/setup.sh
The example now defines a Python setup(rt) entry point with CameraSource and DisplayWindow. Python project configuration and usage instructions replace the Rust binary, Cargo manifest, and setup script.
Window-capture E2E validation
runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/fixtures/e2e_camera_display.sh
The fixture runs the Python app through streamlib run, validates node registration and graph JSON, captures the real window, checks PNG dimensions, tracks Vulkan and process errors, and verifies SIGTERM shutdown.
Validation guide updates
docs/learnings/camera-display-e2e-validation.md, docs/learnings/README.md
The documentation now covers the vivid driver, current built-ins, window capture, durable contracts, JSONL logs, and forced-kill findings. The index now identifies window capture and contract-based gating.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 252fb

The updated end-to-end fixture can accept an incorrectly wired camera-to-window graph and can hang indefinitely when shutdown does not complete, allowing integration failures to be misreported or CI to stall. These bounded test-harness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as streamlib CLI
  participant App as camera-display app
  participant Camera as CameraSource
  participant Display as DisplayWindow
  participant Capture as xdotool/xwd/PIL
  CLI->>App: Start Python application
  App->>Camera: Add camera source
  App->>Display: Add display window
  Camera->>Display: Connect video output
  CLI->>Capture: Capture composited window
  Capture-->>CLI: Return PNG dimensions
  CLI->>App: Send SIGTERM
  App-->>CLI: Return shutdown status and logs
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In `@runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/fixtures/e2e_camera_display.sh`:
- Around line 163-177: Update the graph validation around nodes, types, and
links to resolve the IDs for CameraSource and DisplayWindow, then require a link
directed from the camera’s video output to the window’s video input. Keep the
existing missing-node diagnostic, but report failure instead of “ok” for absent,
reversed, unrelated, or incorrectly ported links.
- Around line 203-210: Update the shutdown handling around the NODE_PID polling
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Comment thread runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/fixtures/e2e_camera_display.sh
Comment thread runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/fixtures/e2e_camera_display.sh
Two review findings, both real.

The graph check reported `ok` when both block types existed and any link
existed, so a reversed link, a link on the wrong port, or a link to an
unrelated processor all passed — the exact wiring bug the fixture is for.
It now resolves both processor ids and requires a link from the camera's
`video` output to the window's `video` input.

`wait` on a node that ignores SIGTERM blocks forever, and the EXIT trap
cannot fire while the script is blocked in it, so the fixture hung
instead of reporting the shutdown failure it had just detected. Escalate
to SIGKILL inline before reaping.

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Both inline findings were real and are fixed in 8974dff — replies in-thread. Re-ran the fixture live on the rig afterwards: Graph: ok, clean SIGTERM, zero OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY / DEVICE_LOST / process() failed / Validation Error, window PNG captured.

Declining: Docstring Coverage 33.33%

The uncovered function is setup(rt) in examples/camera-display/app.py. Adding a docstring there would be wrong on two counts:

It would break scaffold parity. This example's whole claim is that it is what streamlib new gives you, adapted. Verified against the current CLI just now:

def setup(rt: Runtime) -> None:
    source = rt.add(CameraSource)

No docstring — and the entry file already carries a module docstring explaining what setup is and how streamlib dev finds it. An example that diverges from the generator it claims to demonstrate is a worse teaching artifact, not a better-documented one.

It would restate the code. .claude/rules/comments.md: "Write a comment only when it carries information you can't get by reading the code. Default to none. Don't restate what the code does." The only honest docstring for a 6-line function named setup that calls rt.add twice and rt.connect once is "builds the graph", which the reader already has.

If the threshold should apply to examples/, that's a config change to argue on its own merits rather than something to satisfy by writing a comment the house style bans.

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