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TL;DR

• Read complete JSON format and stream probes natively from qualified ISO standard input, retaining complete fallback replay for unsupported inputs.

Background

Structured ffprobe could not read standard input natively. Treating those bytes as a local file would invent seekability, format size and total-file bitrate that the logical pipe does not expose.

Refs #24.

What changes

coreav ffprobe -of json -show_format -show_streams -i pipe:0 now emits complete native JSON for qualified front-loaded, nonfragmented ISO movies smaller than a 1 MiB prefix. pipe: works too. The reported filename stays the requested pipe spelling; format size and total-file bitrate remain unknown rather than coming from the replay file.

• Covered: incremental bounded-prefix inspection, prompt unsupported or cap-exhausted input fallback with the prefix followed by live stdin, complete JSON staging, strict-safe refusal without partial stdout, and complete-file cleanup/replay after a late native refusal.
• Not covered: a potentially qualified small ISO producer can still wait for EOF while it holds stdin open; relay I/O errors retain the fallback-unusable exit status 4. Cancelling only the CoreAV PID can leave the spawned prefix fallback running; process-group cancellation reaches both processes. Native input at or above 1 MiB, non-interleaved sample-placement qualification, - (the oracle treats it as fd:), tail movie metadata, fragments, other containers, detailed diagnostics, no-section summaries, packet/frame/count/interval inspection, new codecs, oracle qualification changes, registered measurement material and refreshed coverage claims remain outside this change. Local-file probing and ffmpeg spool behavior remain unchanged.
• After merging: None.

How it works

Probe an ISO movie from standard input

sequenceDiagram
  actor U as User
  participant C as coreav ffprobe
  participant P as Native probe
  participant F as Fallback
  U->>C: JSON format and stream command
  rect rgb(254, 243, 199)
    Note over C,P: New: qualify logical pipe facts before committing JSON
    C->>C: Reject unsupported command shapes before reading
    C->>C: Inspect at most 1 MiB and reject unsupported headers early
    C->>P: Stage complete small ISO JSON through existing file owner
    alt Qualified native result
      P-->>C: Complete pipe JSON
      C-->>U: Commit stdout
    else Incomplete prefix or unsupported input
      C->>F: Original arguments and prefix followed by live stdin
      F-->>U: Existing fallback behavior
    else Late native refusal
      C->>F: Original arguments and complete-file replay
      F-->>U: Existing fallback behavior
    end
  end

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Decisions

• Inspect a bounded prefix before using the existing complete-file owner. Unsupported headers and extents that cannot fit refuse early; an undecidable prefix falls back at 1 MiB instead of consuming a live producer to EOF or hitting the old 1 GiB acquisition ceiling. Complete small native candidates retain bounded JSON staging under the existing 16 MiB retained-byte default.
• Spawn and wait only when a prefix must be joined to live stdin. One copy thread feeds the child; its early exit never waits for producer EOF. Normal exit codes remain complete, including Windows codes; Unix signal termination maps to 128 + signal. Inherited stdin and complete-file replay keep Unix process replacement.
• Require complete front-loaded nonfragmented ISO rather than assuming an oracle seek-back buffer size or transporting file-derived timing to other containers. Unsupported command shapes refuse before reading, and late native refusals replay their complete small input unchanged.
• Preserve the existing structured-command diagnostic contract. Detailed diagnostic requests and - remain on fallback; the latter has descriptor-dependent seekability and a different logical identity in the pinned oracle.

Evidence

Verification run: pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2 generated integration passes nine cases with both pipe spellings, compact/default JSON, complete fallback stdout/status/diagnostics, live-pipe shape refusals, temporary-file/read failures and local-file parity. Live-prefix controls require startup before EOF for invalid and declared-large input, exact prefix/remainder SHA-256 and arguments, exit 37 and early exit 29. Binary units cover an unending declared-large stream and the undecidable-prefix cap. CLI library: 265 passed; binary units: four passed; existing structured targets: 52 passed; FFmpeg integration: 57 passed and two existing ignores; checker diagnostic units: two passed. Workspace and fallback-feature all-target Clippy, formatting, diff, public-text, PR-shape and oracle-pin checks pass. Whole workspace tests were not run locally.

The canonical similarity guard checked public head a3e5ec95cbce24caf380f2ae756ada36fab881bb against the main allowlist: 108 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries. Its actual checkout and downloaded artifact were verified.

Links: Plan and qualification boundaries.

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• I copied nothing from other implementations.
• I did not read git history or the archive/m1-prototype tag, except paths named in a port request.

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Walkthrough

The change adds structured JSON probing for selected ffprobe stdin inputs. It checks a bounded prefix, probes qualifying input, and stages output before writing it. Unsupported or live input is relayed to fallback with the captured prefix and remaining stdin.

Changes: Structured stdin probing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Admit stdin commands and prepare replay input crates/coreav-cli/src/ffprobe/args.rs, crates/coreav-cli/src/ffprobe/model.rs, crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs	The parser admits only the supported stdin JSON probe shape. EncodedInput reads from a supplied reader with a configurable byte limit and can provide an owned replay handle.
Relay live prefixes to fallback crates/coreav-cli/src/fallback_cmd.rs	Fallback input now supports a captured live prefix. The runner sends that prefix and then the remaining stdin to a spawned child, and returns the child’s status.
Qualify and render structured stdin crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs, crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd/probe_stdin.rs	The stdin probe checks a bounded prefix and validates top-level box layout. It probes qualifying input and stages JSON output; unsupported or live input uses fallback.
Verify stdin probing and document behavior crates/coreav-cli/tests/ffprobe_stdin.rs, scripts/ffprobe_stdin_check.py, scripts/tests/test_ffprobe_stdin_check.py, docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md, docs/design/ffprobe-stdin-json.md	The integration checks compare native and fallback output with an oracle and cover streamed input, failures, and cleanup. The documentation describes the supported command shape and fallback relay behavior.

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

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a3e5e

The structured stdin path has no established merge-blocking correctness or reliability issue.

Architecture risk: Low · up to a3e5e

The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: scripts, crates, docs

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — scripts (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — crates (service) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs: Adds the private probe_stdin module.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs: Replaces inline rewind, clone, and Unix path removal with EncodedInput::into_replay() when passing spooled stdin to fallback.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs: read now delegates stdin acquisition to read_from, which accepts a reader and limit; the default stdin limit remains 1 GiB.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs: read_from reads from its supplied reader rather than locking stdin directly, and compares accumulated bytes against its supplied limit instead of a hard-coded 1 GiB.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 21.05% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding JSON probing from standard input. It uses the required Conventional Commits format and stays within the length limit.
Description check		The description is complete and relevant. It includes the TL;DR, background, user-visible changes, scope boundaries, post-merge actions, workflow diagram, design decisions, verification results, links…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

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Review: no blocking issue — plan-only review at 830090e9822b130c3c3691bf156ff755ad4eb606.

The gap is real: ffprobe::args::parse rejects pipe:0 and - before acquisition. The frozen top-200 row at rank 147 requests JSON format and stream sections from a pipe; rank 197 requests a no-section summary and remains out of scope. This supports an expected opportunity of one exact shape, not a measured coverage increase or a change to sample-presence counts.

Reusing EncodedInput is sound under the plan's stated contract: exclusive temporary creation, bounded acquisition, terminal incomplete-acquisition failures, shape admission before reading stdin, and atomic rendering before emission. The existing rewind/replay fallback retains original arguments and selection; the Unix unlink-before-exec step must remain intact. Logical pipe identity must govern every size, bitrate and timing fact despite the random-access backing file. The planned layout contrasts and complete-byte fallback checks are necessary implementation gates, not evidence already obtained.

The diff adds only this design note. It leaves input-summary authority (#394), oracle qualification (#403), judging rules, command sets, registered representatives and historical records unchanged. The plan uses specifications and pinned 9.0.2 binaries as black boxes, with no source-derived implementation. No runtime tests or similarity guard were required for this plan-only verdict; implementation and exact-head evidence still need a separate review.

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Review: blocking — implementation review at 84ac212d43cd3747abb397c1165381f2d7bf4fd2, covering the full stdin acquisition path, not only the delta from the plan commit.

Blocking

1. The admitted command shape now waits for EOF on every pipe, so streams that used to fall back now stall or fail. At crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd/probe_stdin.rs:13, EncodedInput::read() reads stdin to EOF, up to 1 GiB, before any content check. On main, ffprobe::args::parse refuses pipe:0, so -of json -show_format -show_streams -i pipe:0 goes straight to the fallback with stdin inherited, and ffprobe reads only the bytes it needs. At this head, the same command's outcome depends on the content:

   • A live or long-running producer, such as an MPEG-TS stream from curl or fragmented MP4 from ffmpeg -f mp4 -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov pipe:1 (the layout ffmpeg writes to a pipe), keeps coreav waiting. It either waits forever or reads 1 GiB and then exits with EXIT_IO without running the fallback.
   • A finite pipe larger than 1 GiB, of any container, used to work through the fallback and now ends with could not acquire encoded stdin.
   • Every fallback case waits for the producer to finish before ffprobe starts.

   Reproduced on generated bytes: (printf 'not media'; sleep 6) | coreav ffprobe -of json -show_format -show_streams -i pipe:0 held coreav for 5.9 s, which is the producer's lifetime, before it refused with exit 4. The unadmitted -of json -show_streams -i pipe:0 refused in 0.0 s. The plan made an exhausted acquisition limit terminal, and I passed that plan, but I didn't account for what this costs every non-qualifying stream of the targeted shape. The ffmpeg encoded-stdin path has the same property only for its narrow raw-PCM output shapes.

   Possible fixes, either acceptable:

   • Decide from a bounded prefix. Read top-level boxes only until the moov and the first mdat header. If the prefix doesn't qualify, or if acquisition hits its cap, hand the fallback the already-read prefix followed by the live remainder of stdin. That needs a spawned child with a pump instead of exec, which is a documented exception to the process-replacement row in docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md.
   • Keep complete acquisition, but get an explicit decision recorded in the PR's Decisions that breaking live streams and inputs over 1 GiB for this shape is accepted. Add a regression test that pins the new behavior.

   Without one of these, the change trades one exact shape on short front-loaded MP4 for breaking every streaming use of that shape.

Non-blocking

• front_loaded checks only the order of top-level boxes. Chunk offsets can still point into a free or skip box before the moov, or tracks can be stored without interleaving. The native JSON comes from the moov and is correct per the file's bytes, but the pinned ffprobe reading a non-seekable pipe was compared only on interleaved faststart fixtures written by ffmpeg. You could require every stco/co64 offset to fall inside an mdat after the moov. Alternatively, list non-interleaved layouts under Not covered.
• The PR body is still the plan-only text: Evidence says "Not run yet" and has no guard result. Before you take the PR out of draft, record the exact-head similarity guard result there, naming the commit it checked (run 42004508562 is still in progress).

Checked and sound

• Shape admission runs before any read. pipe:1, -, partial selections, -show_entries, packets, counts, intervals, -pretty, non-ISO -f and diagnostic levels at verbose and above all refuse with stdin untouched. Rank 197, the no-section summary, still refuses.
• The factored into_replay keeps the rewind, the Unix unlink before exec, and the Windows lifetime cleanup for both callers.
• Probe and staging failures after a complete acquisition replay all bytes with the original arguments. Strict-safe mode exits 4 with stdout empty. Output is staged with fallible allocation under the 16 MiB retained-byte limit before stdout is touched.
• filename keeps the logical spelling, and format size and bit_rate are omitted. The - alias stays on the fallback, and the stated fd: reason holds.
• No frozen material, registrations, pin or judging files changed, and the scopes of feat(ffprobe): qualify unspecified H.264 aspects #394 and test(ffmpeg): verify local oracle selection #403 are untouched. No source-derived code was found.
• Local run on macOS: the 3 new binary units and the args unit passed. ffprobe_stdin is a Linux x86-64 test that needs the oracle; CI's check job supplies COREAV_FFMPEG, and its result is pending.

There are no Greptile findings. CodeRabbit skipped the draft and posted no inline findings.

CodeRabbit: 0 confirmed, 0 minor, 0 false positive

[capy-ai]

Review: no blocking issue — delta review at adeb0b7e6c642d41a90e2f41183f6c64e5c5267c (changes since 84ac212d).

Earlier blocker: resolved. probe_stdin::prefix now reads at most 1 MiB and re-checks the top-level box layout after each chunk.

• An unsupported box kind, a malformed header, or a declared box end at or beyond the cap sends the command to the fallback before EOF. So does reaching the cap.
• Only input that reaches EOF inside the prefix goes to the spool and the native renderer.
• The inspection reads through the shared Stdin buffer, and the relay thread reads from that same buffer. Bytes that a read buffered past the returned chunk near the cap therefore reach the child in order.
• Input::Prefix spawns the fallback with a piped stdin and copies Cursor(prefix).chain(stdin) on one thread. The parent waits only for the child, so a producer that stays open no longer holds the result. A child that exits early ends the process through process::exit while the relay thread is still blocked. BrokenPipe from that early exit is ignored.
• Inherited and complete-file replay keep the Unix exec path. The docs row records the spawn exception and why it is needed.
• Native coverage now applies only to complete inputs under 1 MiB. The registered representative for this shape is a small generated MP4, so the expected opportunity is unchanged. Say this size limit plainly in the PR text.

Non-blocking

• fallback_cmd.rs, run, the relay branch reads the relay result with try_recv only after the child exits, so it races the thread:

  • A non-BrokenPipe relay error, such as a stdin read error partway through, turns into "could not run …", a NotRun::Unusable log entry and exit 4. That happens even though the child ran and may already have written to stdout.
  • The same error is dropped silently when the thread hasn't reported yet.

  One fix: when the child has exited, report a relay error as a stdin failure (EXIT_IO) instead of a launch failure.

• A complete, qualifying ISO under 1 MiB whose producer keeps the pipe open after the last box still waits for EOF. The check needs EOF to know the input is complete, so this is consistent with the design, but list it under Not covered.

• Each chunk re-walks the boxes from the start. The top-level box cap and the 1 MiB limit bound that work, and the only party who can exploit it is whoever controls the input.

• Still needed before you take the PR out of draft: the exact-head similarity guard result naming adeb0b7e, and the rewritten PR body.

Verification. I read the code only at this head. My MacBook went offline before I could rebuild it, so I didn't rerun the relay locally. The process-level checks for READY before EOF, exact SHA-256 of prefix plus remainder, original arguments, exit 37 and early exit 29 are in ffprobe_stdin_check.py, and they run in CI's Linux check job, which is still pending. At 84ac212d the new binary units and the args unit passed locally.

There are no Greptile findings. CodeRabbit left no inline findings on the draft.

CodeRabbit: 0 confirmed, 0 minor, 0 false positive

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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• crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd.rs
• crates/coreav-cli/src/compat_cmd/probe_stdin.rs
• crates/coreav-cli/src/fallback_cmd.rs
• crates/coreav-cli/src/ffprobe/args.rs
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Review: no blocking issue — delta review at a3e5ec95cbce24caf380f2ae756ada36fab881bb, covering the changes since adeb0b7e.

Nothing under crates/ changed. The delta is the read-error fixture in scripts/ffprobe_stdin_check.py and one row in docs/agents/ffmpeg-cli.md. The fixture now passes stdin as an O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY descriptor. It requires exit 3, the could not acquire encoded stdin: diagnostic, empty stdout and no leftover spool. That exercises the terminal acquisition-error path, not the empty-input refusal the old write-only descriptor reached. My verdict and notes on the unchanged Rust code at adeb0b7e still apply, including the local relay check.

CodeRabbit:

• Inline 4479203999 (write-only fd read as end of input): confirmed as a test gap. Without the fix, the check passed without ever reaching the read-error path. It doesn't block, because production behavior was unaffected. The fix at this head is correct, and the thread is resolved.
• Security note on the walkthrough (a spawned live-prefix fallback outlives a supervisor that cancels only the coreav PID): valid but minor. Cancelling the process group reaches both processes, and pipe EOF ends the relay. Strict-safe mode creates no child. This is a consequence of the documented spawn exception, not a regression for the inherited or complete-replay paths, which keep exec. Mention it under Not covered or in the design note's exception paragraph.
• The docstring-coverage warning doesn't apply: the repository has no docstring threshold.

Still required before merge: CI green at this head, the exact-head similarity guard result (run 42012806432), and the final PR body.

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