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fix(skills): reject empty or partial scene files at assembly time#1629

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When a scene worker errors or is interrupted mid-write, it can leave an empty (or markup-less) compositions/<scene>.html. The assembler only checked that the file existed, so it still emitted a data-composition-src reference to it. The problem surfaced much later — at render — as the confusing compile error:

Composition HTML is empty or could not be parsed: compositions/scene-*.html

By then the broken project had already shipped to the user, and the message pointed at the symptom rather than the cause.

Changes

All three assemblers (product-launch-video, faceless-explainer, pr-to-video) now validate scene-file content — non-empty and contains markup — at the exact point they already read the file for the duration cross-check. If a scene file is blank or partial, assembly fails fast with an actionable message telling the author to re-dispatch that scene worker, before any reference to it is written into index.html.

This moves the failure from a late, opaque render error to an early, clear authoring error, and prevents an unrenderable project from being produced at all.

Verification

  • node --check passes on all three scripts.
  • Repro against the real assembler: empty and whitespace-only scene files now fail at assembly with the new message (exit 1); a valid scene file passes the guard and assembles successfully (no false positives).

A scene worker that errors or is interrupted mid-write leaves an empty (or
markup-less) compositions/<scene>.html. existsSync passed, so assemble-index
emitted a data-composition-src pointing at it and the failure surfaced much
later as the render-compile error "Composition HTML is empty or could not be
parsed: compositions/scene-*.html" — the #1 render_error, ~4.7k users/day and
climbing.

All three assemblers (product-launch-video, faceless-explainer, pr-to-video)
now validate scene-file content (non-empty + contains markup) right where they
already read it for the duration cross-check, and die with an actionable
"re-dispatch that scene worker" message before the broken project can reach a
user's render.
@miguel-heygen miguel-heygen merged commit a843b2a into main Jun 22, 2026
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…ner onto the script-driven architecture (#1635)

* refactor(product-launch-video): restructure onto script-driven architecture

Move product-launch-video onto the shared script-driven authoring flow:
build-frame remixes a hyperframes-creative preset onto brand tokens, audio
routes through the shared hyperframes-media engine, per-preset caption skins,
and every frame is authored as a directed shot. Removes the old bespoke
scripts (captions/validate/prep/hoist/…) in favour of the shared lib.

assemble-index.mjs keeps upstream #1629's blank/partial scene-file guard
(reject an empty or markup-less scene file at assembly, before emitting
data-composition-src, and re-dispatch) carried onto the restructured reader.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(pr-to-video): restructure onto script-driven architecture

Move pr-to-video onto the shared script-driven authoring flow: ingest.mjs
folds the gh PR artifacts into the synthetic capture package the shared
backend (build-frame / captions / assemble-index) reads, add the mechanism
beat, route audio through hyperframes-media, and remix a hyperframes-creative
preset onto brand tokens via the shared lib.

- Fix skill name: pr-to-video-refactor -> pr-to-video (match directory).
- Drop a stale faceless-explainer-refactor reference in an ingest.mjs comment.
- assemble-index.mjs keeps upstream #1629's blank/partial scene-file guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(faceless-explainer): restructure onto script-driven architecture

Move faceless-explainer onto the shared script-driven authoring flow:
every visual is invented (typography / abstract graphics / diagram / data-viz)
and authored through the shared backend (build-frame remixes a
hyperframes-creative preset onto tokens, audio via hyperframes-media,
assemble-index builds the standalone index.html) using the shared lib.

- Fix skill name: faceless-explainer-refactor -> faceless-explainer (match directory).
- assemble-index.mjs keeps upstream #1629's blank/partial scene-file guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(skills): refresh test-skills-fresh.sh workflow roster

Update the install-and-verify harness to the current surface: 10 workflows
(adds website-to-video, embedded-captions, graphic-overlays, slideshow;
drops the removed footage-recut) and refreshed example prompts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* style(product-launch-video): oxfmt storyboard.mjs

Run oxfmt over lib/storyboard.mjs — formatting only, no logic change.
Fixes the Format / Preflight CI check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(studio): import commitGsapPositionFromDrag from its actual module

The function was split out into gsapDragPositionCommit.ts in #1605, but the
test kept importing it from ./gsapDragCommit, which no longer exports it —
yielding 'is not a function' at runtime. Import from the correct module.

Inherited main breakage (same fix as #1631); fixes the Test CI check on this
branch independently of merge order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(hyperframes): refine router skill metadata tags

Update the entry router's metadata tags (video / animation / router focus);
oxfmt collapses the now-shorter metadata to a single line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills): tighten caption comment-strip + document audio --only merge

Review follow-ups (#1635):

- captions.mjs (x3): the HTML-comment strip used a single global replace, which
  CodeQL flags as incomplete multi-character sanitization (a nested/partial pair
  can re-form a marker the single pass misses). Strip in a fixpoint loop instead.
  Input is preset-library content, not user-controlled, so this is lint-
  cleanliness, not XSS defense.
- audio.mjs (x3): document that fetch-sfx (--only sfx) MERGES into the neutral
  audio_engine_meta.json sidecar — the engine reads prev and recomputes only the
  sfx section, so voices/bgm from the generate pass are preserved (review Q).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills): remove existsSync->write TOCTOU in workflow scripts

Clears the 9 js/file-system-race CodeQL alerts (captions/audio/transitions x3).
Each was an existsSync precheck followed by a later write of the same path:

- captions.mjs: caption-overrides shim -> atomic writeFileSync({ flag: 'wx' }).
- audio.mjs (sync-durations) + transitions.mjs (inject): drop the existsSync
  precheck and read directly, surfacing the same friendly error from a try/catch
  on readFileSync — no check->write gap.

Behavior is unchanged (same error messages); these are local single-process
deterministic scripts so the race was never a real risk, but this clears the gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills): paint root composition ground color in assemble-index

Per-frame roots carry data-start/data-duration and get clip-gated against the
global timeline at render, so only the first frame's window overlaps global 0 —
a frame's own full-bleed background can't serve as the video ground, and every
frame after the first renders on the bare body color (black). Paint the ground
on the always-present root composition using the project's frame.md canvas color
(the same role the caption skin maps to --cap-canvas); fall back to the body
letterbox color when frame.md is absent or has no resolvable ground.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(hyperframes): drop router-tag edit (moved to the foundation PR)

The entry SKILL.md is rewritten wholesale by the frame-presets/media foundation
PR (#1632); editing it here too guaranteed a merge conflict. Restore this file
to main and let the router-tag tweak live with the rewrite in #1632, so the two
PRs no longer both touch it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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