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TL;DR

• Report qualified AAC PCM output as compatible without adding exact coverage.

Background

The maintainer requested separate compatibility accounting for AAC decode tolerance, following the avc1 category in #433. The existing AAC and PNS qualifications establish numerical compatibility, not exact output. Refs #25.

What changes

The measurement can report compatible_aac and its repository weight separately. Library and CLI behavior does not change.

• Covered: the plan, complete qualification and measured-output binding, exact WAV framing, PNS exact-credit protection, accounting, replay and generated oracle controls.
• Not covered: pipe inputs, PCM in MP4, F32 WAV, native codec changes, MP3 qualification, frozen results, gate records or published numbers.

After merging, any new measurement result requires a separate submission. No judged command, judged fixture generation, held-out input or retained judged output was executed with this predicate.

Decisions

• Reuse the registered qualification unchanged. Each measured payload must equal its own decoder's qualified bytes; admission alone cannot pass.
• Preserve exact comparison first. Before AAC-decoded exact credit, scan every stored packet for PNS. Unknown scans fail closed, and PNS can receive only compatible credit in the registered PCM scope. Copied AAC retains its packet predicate.
• Restrict compatibility to one input and one audio-only raw F32, raw S16 or S16 WAV output. Every non-PCM WAV byte must match the same-command reference, including metadata.

Evidence

Verification run: 64 shape-control tests passed with pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2, including 18 generated audio output combinations. The unchanged 35 PNS transform controls and nine AAC qualification unit tests passed. Oracle-policy, workflow, issue-reference and whitespace checks passed. No measurement was rerun. No Rust changed; exact-head similarity evidence is recorded separately before merge.

Links: registration, PCM qualification, PNS qualification.

• Every commit is signed off (git commit -s, DCO).
• I copied nothing from other implementations.
• I did not read git history or the archive/m1-prototype tag, except the explicitly requested prior compatibility changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a separate compatibility result for eligible AAC-to-PCM conversions. This result is reported independently and does not increase exact-match or coverage counts.
  • AAC compatibility checks now account for decoder output, audio framing, and packet-level PNS detection; unsupported or inconclusive cases remain classified as different.

• Tests

  • Added automated checks for AAC compatibility classification, output integrity, and replay results. Pull requests now run AAC-related eligibility and compatibility checks.

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Walkthrough

The change adds an AAC-to-PCM compatibility outcome to the shape corpus. It qualifies eligible commands, checks PNS evidence, and binds measured PCM output to decoder output. Replay, accounting, and pull-request controls now include the AAC path.

Changes: AAC PCM compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Qualification contract and payload capture docs/design/github-shapes-200.md, docs/agents/compat-corpus.md, scripts/aac_pcm_eligibility.py	The design and compatibility rules define AAC eligibility, accounting, output binding, and PNS checks. PCM eligibility can optionally capture native and oracle output bytes by format.
AAC qualification and comparison tools/compat-corpus/github_shapes_aac.py	The AAC module validates decoder mappings, PNS metadata, and command formats. It compares measured output with qualified decoder output before returning a compatibility outcome.
Corpus integration and replay tools/compat-corpus/github_shapes.py	Corpus processing invokes AAC comparison for eligible outputs and reports the AAC outcome separately. The PNS diagnostic and pinned dependency are included in method identity and replay mappings.
Replay validation and automated controls tools/compat-corpus/tests/test_github_shapes.py, tools/compat-corpus/tests/test_github_shapes_aac.py, .github/workflows/github-shapes.yml	Tests cover AAC classification, output binding, replay recomputation, and generated controls. The pull-request workflow builds the diagnostic and runs AAC eligibility and shape tests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a0904

This change adds a separately counted AAC-to-PCM compatibility outcome. It leaves exact counts and coverage unchanged and fails closed for unqualified cases. No merge-blocking issue was identified in the supplied material.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to a0904

The change is confined to measurement and validation tooling. AAC compatibility remains separate from exact coverage, and measured outputs must match qualified decoder output. The additional diagnostic executable and numerical dependency add a small execution surface, but no introduced privilege escalation or qualification bypass was identified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The added executable processing operates with the local measurement account's or CI runner's authority. The high-fanout test helpers construct temporary control outputs and invoke explicitly configured binaries; their inspected consumer is the PR control job, not a new public service.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Manifest, executable, command, and staged-input identity checks constrain replay acceptance, while qualification-produced bytes constrain compatibility acceptance. Executable paths remain trusted operator inputs: digest identity supports reproducibility but does not independently establish executable provenance or provide sandboxing.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Qualification subprocesses have a 120-second timeout, and temporary-directory contexts clean up on ordinary completion and exception unwinding. Strict log-decoding or option-parsing failures can abort replay, but the CLI returns an error and the summary is written only after all classifications finish; these failures do not grant compatibility.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% 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. Documentat…	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 describes the separate AAC compatibility accounting.
Description check		The description is mostly complete. It omits the required scenario diagram and the commands used for verification.
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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Explanation

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Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Exact-head similarity evidence for a090444d25525f302ccfe1dc6a71498f91514aac, checked with the current main allowlist: 108 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries. The guard and its self-tests passed.

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Review info

Run configuration

• Source mode: Auto
• Repository: coreav-dev/coreav
• Branch: main
• File: .coderabbit.yaml
• Commit: 1cfe2a5
• Layers: Repository YAML
• Review profile: CHILL
• Plan: Advanced
• Run ID: 0587817e-72e9-4163-bd04-f3b709da9861

Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 1cfe2a5 and a090444.

Files selected for processing: 8

• .github/workflows/github-shapes.yml
• docs/agents/compat-corpus.md
• docs/design/github-shapes-200.md
• scripts/aac_pcm_eligibility.py
• tools/compat-corpus/github_shapes.py
• tools/compat-corpus/github_shapes_aac.py
• tools/compat-corpus/tests/test_github_shapes.py
• tools/compat-corpus/tests/test_github_shapes_aac.py

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Review: no blocking issue at head a090444d25525f302ccfe1dc6a71498f91514aac

I read the plan commits (0d1fc83, e1790f1) first, then the implementation at a090444, and compared it with how #433 wires compatible_avc1.

Checks

• The predicate calls the registered qualification (check_output, pns_check, compare_wav) unchanged. The only change to aac_pcm_eligibility.py is an optional capture that exports bytes the qualification already compared. No bound or tolerance moved. aac.compare is stricter than the qualification in two places: any unsafe predicate refuses, and a diagnostic exit fails closed.
• Everything outside the AAC payload stays exact. Raw output must equal each arm's own qualified bytes. S16 WAV must match the same-command reference byte for byte before the data payload, and its payload must equal the qualified bytes. File outputs need empty stdout. The final exact_frame_timeline recheck accepts only decoded samples or exact.
• Accounting: summarize takes counted, counted_pairs and both shares from counted only, and the tests pin that. PNS has no route to counted. In the PCM path, exact output with noise goes to qualification and can earn at most compatible_aac. Every other AAC-decoded exact output, including encoded and avc1-compatible ones, needs a clean full packet scan. The aac path needs len(mapping) == 1, so it cannot overlap compatible_avc1.
• The listed shapes match the code: output_format over the roster gives exactly 5, 13, 33, 43, 53, 57, 67, 72, 77, 89, 98, 139, 168 and 174. Ranks 15 and 188 (pipe) and 44 (PCM in MP4) are excluded. This also matches the eligibility notes: MP4 input, explicit mono or stereo LC, native rate and channels, raw F32, raw S16 or S16 WAV, and no F32 WAV.
• No judged run: github-shapes has no workflow_dispatch run, run is dispatch-only and gated on merged main, and aac-controls uses only generated media. Nothing under docs/measurements/ changed, and the design note did not change after the plan commits.

Controls I reran on Linux x86_64 with pinned FFmpeg 9.0.2, a release coreav --features aac and pns_diagnostic: test_github_shapes_aac.py passed 15 of 15 with the pinned class running, not skipped, and test_github_shapes.py passed 49 of 49.

Tamper attempts. I ran these with real binaries on the tone, mono-PNS and stereo-PNS controls, for raw F32, raw S16 and S16 WAV, each as file and stdout. Every one was rejected as different:

• one candidate sample moved within tolerance (+2^-20 F32 or ±1 S16 LSB). The tolerance comparison alone would accept this; the qualified-byte binding rejects it.
• the same change on the reference arm.
• for PNS, the candidate replaced with FFmpeg's own output (an exact match).
• a flip of each single header byte (offsets 12 to 77) of the stdout WAV.
• a known-size file WAV rewritten to declare an unknown size.

Non-blocking

1. In tools/compat-corpus/github_shapes_aac.py, compare calls output_format before its try. A non-numeric -ar/-ac, a missing sample_rate/channels or a missing -i raises ValueError/KeyError. That aborts the replay instead of returning different. The frozen roster can't reach this today, because every value is numeric. Moving the call inside the try is a one-line hardening.
2. The github-shapes.yml path filter does not include crates/coreav-aac/** or the CLI. A decoder or diagnostic change alone will not rerun aac-controls here.
3. The plan's exclusion list names rank 44 but not rank 16 (pcm_s16le into output0.mp4, with video). The code excludes rank 16 correctly; only the note is incomplete.
4. The exact-credit scan uses the MP4-only diagnostic, so AAC decoded from the Matroska or concat fixtures loses exact credit for a reason other than PNS. The plan allows this ("only lower exact credit"). No frozen counted ffmpeg shape decodes AAC, since both are copies, so no published number moves. Name it in the later results submission.
5. This predates the PR: no-PNS AAC exact credit still trusts the stored candidate bytes. On the tone control, a candidate replaced with the reference output gives counted, as every exact class does today. The new compatible path does not have this gap, because it reruns both decoders.

Greptile is paused, and no Greptile findings exist. CodeRabbit had posted only its walkthrough at review time, with no inline findings.
CodeRabbit: 0 confirmed, 0 minor, 0 false positive

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Replying to #450 (comment)

Accepted the five notes as non-blocking and recorded the follow-up checklist. The frozen roster cannot reach malformed numeric options. Decoder-triggered shape controls and broader input qualification remain separate work; a later result submission must disclose the MP4-only scan and mixed-video exclusion. The pre-existing exact-output trust model is unchanged. No code change or new measurement is included in this review round.