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stream() with tts.enabled currently waits for the fully drained response and yields exactly one final tts_audio chunk, so audio only arrives after the text finishes. This adds TTSProcessor.synthesizeStream(), which buffers streamed text at sentence boundaries (default 120 characters, configurable via TTSOptions.streamingBufferSize) and synthesizes ordered segments through the existing synthesize() seam. Both the NeuroLink streaming wrapper and fake-stream fallback interleave tts_audio chunks with text; streamResult.audio still resolves after drain.

Streaming synthesis is enabled by tts.enabled === true; useAiResponse continues to select input-vs-response TTS for generate() and does not gate stream(). For stream text over a handler's maxTextLength, the effective segment cap is min(streamingBufferSize, maxTextLength), so stream mode hard-splits and synthesizes segments instead of raising TTS_TEXT_TOO_LONG. generate() retains its existing over-length error.

StreamResult.audio.buffer is now a byte concatenation of independently synthesized segments. It is directly playable for mp3, mpeg, mpga, and pcm16; it is not a valid aggregate container for wav, flac, m4a, mp4, or webm; ogg and opus are chained streams, and some decoders may stop after the first segment.

Provider adapters are untouched. The TTSChunk contract remains sequential indexes, monotonic cumulative size, and exactly one isFinal chunk. The one-final-chunk behavior changes only on streaming paths; provider-native streaming (#481/#492/#505) and #465's full scope remain outside this slice.

Per-segment orchestration timeout is deferred: release's single synthesis call is equally unwrapped, while all six built-in handlers apply 30-second request timeouts. wav/flac aggregate re-headering and an AbortSignal for true zero-billing cancellation are also deferred. Early break stops queued ingestion, but at most one already-dispatched segment can still be billed.

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Streaming TTS now synthesizes sentence-buffered audio during text streaming. It supports provider text limits, configurable buffering, ordered chunks, finality tracking, fallback streams, duplicate-synthesis prevention, and text-only continuation when no provider resolves.

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Incremental streaming TTS

Layer / File(s) Summary
TTS buffering and segmentation
src/lib/types/tts.ts, src/lib/utils/ttsProcessor.ts
Adds configurable buffering, sentence segmentation, provider-length splitting, surrogate-pair safety, cumulative metadata, failure handling, and final-chunk semantics.
Audio and source stream interleaving
src/lib/utils/ttsStream.ts
Adds interleaveTTSStream to queue text, preserve source ordering, emit audio during iteration, aggregate completed audio, and clean up iterators.
Provider streaming integration
src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts, src/lib/neurolink.ts, src/lib/types/stream.ts
Applies incremental TTS to primary, fallback, ModelPool, standard, and fake provider streams. It suppresses duplicate provider synthesis and exposes asynchronous audio and metadata results.
Validation and documentation
test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts, eslint.config.js, docs/features/tts.md
Covers buffering, text limits, fallback streams, setup failures, cleanup, unsupported providers, partial audio failures, validation, format mapping, and the updated streaming flow.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 561c5

This PR changes streaming TTS from one final audio chunk to sentence-buffered audio chunks. At the current head, common default-provider configuration may silently disable incremental synthesis, audio failures may lose already-generated chunks, and analytics failures may become unhandled runtime rejections; several tests can also hide or hang on real failures. The change is therefore not ready to merge without fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant NeuroLink
  participant ProviderStream
  participant interleaveTTSStream
  participant TTSProcessor
  participant StreamConsumer
  NeuroLink->>ProviderStream: start text stream
  NeuroLink->>interleaveTTSStream: wrap provider output
  interleaveTTSStream->>TTSProcessor: queue streamed text
  TTSProcessor-->>interleaveTTSStream: produce TTS audio chunk
  interleaveTTSStream-->>StreamConsumer: yield text and tts_audio
  interleaveTTSStream-->>NeuroLink: complete aggregate audio result
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Pull request overview

This PR improves NeuroLink’s streaming TTS (Mode 2: tts.enabled && tts.useAiResponse) so audio is synthesized and emitted incrementally while text is still streaming, rather than only yielding a single final tts_audio chunk after the stream drains.

Changes:

  • Added incremental sentence-buffered TTS synthesis (TTSProcessor.synthesizeStream) with configurable streamingBufferSize and safe hard-splitting at provider text caps.
  • Introduced a stream wrapper (interleaveTTSStream) to interleave ordered tts_audio chunks alongside streamed text while preserving backpressure.
  • Updated NeuroLink’s stream pipeline, fake-stream fallback, docs, and unit tests to reflect incremental chunk semantics and configuration.

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test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts Adds unit coverage for incremental TTS buffering/splitting, chunk finality, and interleaving behavior (including fake-stream fallback).
src/lib/utils/ttsStream.ts New interleaving helper that turns streamed text into incremental tts_audio chunks via TTSProcessor.synthesizeStream.
src/lib/utils/ttsProcessor.ts Adds synthesizeStream() implementing sentence buffering, cap enforcement, surrogate-safe splitting, and “single final chunk” semantics.
src/lib/types/tts.ts Adds TTSOptions.streamingBufferSize plus validation.
src/lib/neurolink.ts Integrates incremental TTS interleaving into stream() (standard + fallback) and prevents duplicate Mode 2 synthesis in provider streams.
src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts Updates fake-stream generation to interleave incremental Mode 2 TTS and avoid duplicate whole-response synthesis in generate().
docs/features/tts.md Documents incremental streaming behavior, buffer sizing, and the non-throwing behavior when TTS provider can’t be resolved.

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test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts (1)

406-445: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the aggregate audio on the fallback result.

This case drains result.stream and checks the chunk semantics. It does not check result.audio. That is the exact contract the fake-stream path drops, as flagged on src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts lines 718-727. An assertion here would catch the regression.

Add a check that await result.audio resolves with a buffer whose size equals the last chunk's cumulativeSize.

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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts` around lines 406 - 445, Extend the
“fake-stream fallback matches incremental TTS chunk semantics” test to await
result.audio and assert it resolves to a buffer whose size equals the final
audio chunk’s cumulativeSize. Keep the existing stream chunk assertions and
duplicate-synthesis check unchanged.
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497-547: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider extracting the shared drain loop.

The streaming loop and the terminal drain loop have identical bodies. Only the inputComplete argument differs. A single local helper would remove the duplication and keep the pending-chunk bookkeeping in one place.

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+    const drain = async function* (
+      this: void,
+      inputComplete: boolean,
+    ): AsyncGenerator<TTSChunk> { /* shared body using closure state */ };

A simpler variant is a flush(inputComplete: boolean): Promise<TTSChunk[]> helper that returns the chunks to yield.

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In `@src/lib/utils/ttsProcessor.ts` around lines 497 - 547, Extract the duplicated
buffering and synthesis logic from the streaming and terminal loops into a local
helper near the surrounding TTS processing flow, parameterized by the
input-complete state passed to takeBufferedSegment. Update both call sites to
use the helper while preserving buffer updates, synthesizeSegment handling,
pendingChunk ordering, and yielding behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts`:
- Around line 718-727: Update createFakeStreamingOutput and its returned
StreamResult so the interleaveTTSStream call supplies an onComplete callback
that resolves a deferred promise with the aggregate audio result, then assign
that promise to StreamResult.audio; preserve the existing stream behavior and
ensure the completion path also retains the produced ttsMetadata.

In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts`:
- Around line 9881-9890: Update the outer catch path in runStandardStreamRequest
to resolve the pending TTS promise with undefined before calling
handleStreamError when internal fallback is used. Use the existing ttsResolver
symbol and preserve the disableInternalFallback rethrow behavior.

In `@src/lib/utils/ttsStream.ts`:
- Around line 159-171: Update the audio-error branch in TTSProcessor to
aggregate the chunks already collected in audioChunks before continuing, so the
final onComplete callback receives the partial audio result instead of
undefined. Preserve the existing stream shutdown and incremental-audio disabling
behavior.
- Around line 139-153: Update the finally block of the stream generator to call
return() on both sourceIterator and audioIterator when iteration ends, including
early consumer termination, and ignore the resulting promises. Preserve the
existing textQueue cleanup so all underlying generators unwind correctly.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts`:
- Line 179: Update the assertEqual calls in the continuous TTS unit test to
provide static structural messages describing the expected discrepancy, rather
than allowing default messages or interpolated actual values to include
sentence-like payload text; apply this to both referenced assertions.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/utils/ttsProcessor.ts`:
- Around line 497-547: Extract the duplicated buffering and synthesis logic from
the streaming and terminal loops into a local helper near the surrounding TTS
processing flow, parameterized by the input-complete state passed to
takeBufferedSegment. Update both call sites to use the helper while preserving
buffer updates, synthesizeSegment handling, pendingChunk ordering, and yielding
behavior.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts`:
- Around line 406-445: Extend the “fake-stream fallback matches incremental TTS
chunk semantics” test to await result.audio and assert it resolves to a buffer
whose size equals the final audio chunk’s cumulativeSize. Keep the existing
stream chunk assertions and duplicate-synthesis check unchanged.
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Flagging a test-policy problem before this goes further, since it affects most of the new test code here.

test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts doesn't satisfy CLAUDE.md critical rule 15 ("Tests are end-to-end only"). This file doesn't exist on release today, so all of it is new here, and eslint.config.js isn't touched — so it isn't on the neurolink/e2e-tests-only allow list either. Four distinct issues, roughly in order of severity:

1. interleaveTTSStream is not part of the shipped surface. The new test "standard stream helper interleaves ordered TTS audio" (lines ~364-404) imports and calls it directly. It is not a runtime export of dist/index.js — so unlike the other findings, this one can't be fixed by correcting the import path. Rule 15's own words apply: "If a behaviour seems reachable only from the inside, that is usually a sign it needs a public surface, not a unit test."

Your PR description says this is exactly what stream() is meant to expose ("Both stream paths … now interleave the resulting ordered tts_audio chunks with the text"). So drive it: neurolink.stream({ input, tts: { enabled: true, provider, streamingBufferSize: 5 } }) and assert on the ordered tts_audio chunks the public stream actually yields.

2. FakeStreamingProvider extends BaseProvider (class at ~line 76, used at ~415-423). BaseProvider is also absent from dist/index.js's runtime exports. The test subclasses it, overrides executeStream to throw, and calls .stream() on that hand-built object rather than on a NeuroLink. Better: construct a real NeuroLink and stream against a provider whose executeStream genuinely fails, asserting the same fallback semantics from outside.

3. Imports come from src/lib paths, not ../dist/index.js (lines 16-37). For the exported pieces (TTSProcessor, TTSError, TTS_ERROR_CODES) this is a one-line fix. Note rule 15's one module graph per suite warning — mixing src/ and dist/ breaks stubs, spies and instanceof silently, with a clean typecheck.

4. The five TTSProcessor.synthesizeStream(...) tests (~154-362: buffering across chunk boundaries, flush boundary, handler text cap, hard-split at 3000 chars, surrogate pairs). These are the most defensible as the rule's determinism exception — deterministic text-chunking control a live call can't give. If you want to take that route, the rule requires both: say so in the file header naming what determinism buys, and add the file to the allow list in eslint.config.js (that's a review decision, not a silencer).

Two other things worth doing while you're in here:

  • The branch is CONFLICTING against release (20+ commits behind) and needs a rebase.
  • The 4 Major findings from the bot reviewers are still unresolved and look substantive to me — dropped streamResult.audio/ttsMetadata on the Mode 2 fake-stream path, a possible forever-hang if setup fails before the generator starts, and a leaked provider stream when a consumer breaks early without return() being called on the iterators.

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Restructured the suite per rule 15 and pushed the round:

  • Both behaviors you called out now drive the public surface: NeuroLink.stream() with tts enabled asserts the ordered tts_audio interleave, and the fallback case streams a real NeuroLink against a provider whose executeStream throws — no helper import, no BaseProvider subclass.
  • Every exported symbol comes from ../dist/index.js; the file has a single module graph.
  • The five deterministic chunking tests took the exception route you offered: the header names what determinism buys (chunk-boundary control a live call can't give), and the file is on the e2e-tests-only allow list.
  • All four majors were real — RED-proven, then fixed: the Mode-2 fake-stream path now carries audio/ttsMetadata; the TTS deferred resolves on pre-generator setup failure instead of hanging; early consumer break releases both iterators via return(); a provider with no TTS handler skips synthesis entirely (TTSProcessor.supports() check first). Both minors fixed too.
  • Branch is current against release (merged to resolve the conflict; happy to let your usual landing flow linearize it). Battery: focused 27/27, Node-24 bugfixes 280/280, lint 0 errors, build/publint clean.

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src/lib/neurolink.ts (1)

10304-10349: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the TTS provider fallback for an explicit "auto" chat provider.

getBestProvider("auto") resolves a concrete provider, but createCleanStreamOptions preserves "auto" in fallbackProvider. This causes TTSProcessor.supports("auto") to return false, so incremental TTS is skipped at both stream call sites when tts.provider is unset. Ignore "auto" before applying fallbackProvider.

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In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts` around lines 10304 - 10349, Update
createIncrementalTTSStream so the fallback candidate ignores fallbackProvider
when it is the explicit "auto" value, allowing providerName to be used for TTS
resolution when ttsOptions.provider is unset. Preserve explicit TTS providers
and other fallback providers unchanged, and keep the existing
TTSProcessor.supports validation.
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src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts (1)

4-4: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use a same-directory specifier.

baseProvider.ts lives in src/lib/core/. "../core/constants.js" resolves back into the same directory. Use "./constants.js".

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-import { isImageGenerationModel } from "../core/constants.js";
+import { isImageGenerationModel } from "./constants.js";
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In `@src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts` at line 4, Update the isImageGenerationModel
import in baseProvider.ts to use the same-directory "./constants.js" specifier
instead of "../core/constants.js".
test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts (2)

572-615: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Strengthen the setup-failure assertion.

result?.audio can be undefined on this path. Promise.race then resolves immediately with undefined, so settled !== timeout passes even when no audio promise exists. Both assertions also pass when the field is absent. The test therefore does not prove that a pending audio promise settles.

Assert that result.audio is a promise before racing it.

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   const timeout = Symbol("audio-timeout");
+  assert(
+    typeof (result?.audio as Promise<unknown> | undefined)?.then === "function",
+    "Mode 2 exposes a pending audio promise after setup failure",
+  );
   const settled = await Promise.race([
     result?.audio,
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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts` around lines 572 - 615, Update the
test around the result from neurolink.stream and before Promise.race to assert
that result.audio exists and is promise-like; then race that required audio
promise against the timeout instead of using optional chaining. Keep the final
assertion verifying the promise settles to undefined after setup failure.

544-550: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Drop the redundant ttsMetadata intersection cast.

StreamResult already declares ttsMetadata?: TTSMetadata in src/lib/types/stream.ts at Line 847. Read result?.ttsMetadata directly. The local cast can drift from the shipped contract.

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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts` around lines 544 - 550, Remove the
redundant intersection cast around result in the metadata assignment and read
result?.ttsMetadata directly, relying on StreamResult’s existing ttsMetadata
contract. Keep the optional access and surrounding behavior unchanged.
src/lib/neurolink.ts (1)

10304-10356: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the repeated stream-chunk union into one named type.

The four-variant union ({content: string} | {type: "audio"; audio: AudioChunk} | {type: "tts_audio"; audio: TTSChunk} | {type: "image"; imageOutput: {base64: string}}) is repeated inline in at least five signatures in this file: createIncrementalTTSStream (Lines 10305-10321), createMCPStream's return type, handleStreamFallback's return type, processStreamResult's parameters, and createStreamResponse's parameters. Adding tts_audio in this PR required editing all five copies. A future chunk-type change risks missing one copy and causing a silent type drift.

Extract a named type, for example StreamChunk, into src/lib/types/stream.ts (already part of this PR's touched layer) and import it through the barrel at every usage site in this file.

As per coding guidelines, "All type definitions go in src/lib/types/. Never create type files inside feature subdirectories."

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In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts` around lines 10304 - 10356, Extract the repeated
four-variant stream chunk union into a shared StreamChunk type under
src/lib/types/stream.ts, then export and import it through the existing barrel.
Replace the inline unions in createIncrementalTTSStream, createMCPStream,
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts`:
- Around line 795-828: Update the incremental TTS audio lifecycle around
resolveAudio and onTTSComplete so audio always settles when the caller does not
consume result.stream. Add a bounded fallback that resolves audio to undefined
and updates the completion state/metadata, while preserving normal interleaver
completion and preventing double settlement.

In `@src/lib/types/stream.ts`:
- Around line 841-843: Update the documentation sentence near the stream type
definition to state that incremental stream consumption yields one tts_audio
chunk per buffered segment, while the final chunk contains only its own segment
and not the aggregate audio returned by audio.
- Around line 846-847: Update the documentation for ttsMetadata in the streaming
outcome type to state that callers must drain the stream before reading it,
because success and latency are finalized asynchronously; mirror the existing
mutable-reference contract documented for metadata.finishReason without changing
the type or runtime behavior.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts`:
- Around line 10304-10349: Update createIncrementalTTSStream so the fallback
candidate ignores fallbackProvider when it is the explicit "auto" value,
allowing providerName to be used for TTS resolution when ttsOptions.provider is
unset. Preserve explicit TTS providers and other fallback providers unchanged,
and keep the existing TTSProcessor.supports validation.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts`:
- Line 4: Update the isImageGenerationModel import in baseProvider.ts to use the
same-directory "./constants.js" specifier instead of "../core/constants.js".

In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts`:
- Around line 10304-10356: Extract the repeated four-variant stream chunk union
into a shared StreamChunk type under src/lib/types/stream.ts, then export and
import it through the existing barrel. Replace the inline unions in
createIncrementalTTSStream, createMCPStream, handleStreamFallback,
processStreamResult, and createStreamResponse with StreamChunk while preserving
the current variants.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts`:
- Around line 572-615: Update the test around the result from neurolink.stream
and before Promise.race to assert that result.audio exists and is promise-like;
then race that required audio promise against the timeout instead of using
optional chaining. Keep the final assertion verifying the promise settles to
undefined after setup failure.
- Around line 544-550: Remove the redundant intersection cast around result in
the metadata assignment and read result?.ttsMetadata directly, relying on
StreamResult’s existing ttsMetadata contract. Keep the optional access and
surrounding behavior unchanged.
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Squashed to one commit per the policy gate (same content plus this round), and worked through the new review:

  • The "auto" suppression was real — createIncrementalTTSStream now ignores only the fallback "auto" and uses the resolved concrete provider; a public regression covers it.
  • audio before drain: kept as the drain-first contract the SDK already uses for stream-final fields (usage behaves the same way) — a settle timer would race legitimately slow consumers. It's now documented explicitly, with a test proving pending-before-drain and aggregate-after-drain.
  • Both doc sentences corrected (per-segment final chunk; ttsMetadata finalized after drain), plus the smaller nits: constants import, the setup-failure race in the test, the redundant cast, and a shared ProviderStreamChunk union for the repeated signature type.

Focused 29/29, bugfixes 280/280, lint/build/publint clean. The earlier build-check red was the ffmpeg install timeout, so this push should rerun it.

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src/lib/neurolink.ts (1)

9092-9100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rename wantsStreamTtsMode2 for clarity.

The comment above explains this now applies regardless of useAiResponse. The name still says "Mode2", which was the old useAiResponse-gated semantics. Rename to something like wantsStreamTts to match the new unconditional behavior.

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In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts` around lines 9092 - 9100, Rename the local variable
wantsStreamTtsMode2 to wantsStreamTts and update all references in the
surrounding streaming TTS logic, preserving its existing unconditional
enabled-check behavior.
test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts (2)

717-786: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a timeout guard around the early-break drain.

source.next() at Line 735 and audioIterator.next() at Line 748 return promises that never settle. If a regression makes cleanup await a pending next() before calling return(), the for await teardown never finishes. The suite then hangs without a diagnostic instead of reporting a failure.

Race the drain against a short timer so the regression fails loudly.

♻️ Proposed timeout guard
-  await withStubs([create, execute, synthesizeStream], async () => {
-    const result = await neurolink.stream({
-      input: { text: "offline" },
-      provider: "openai",
-      model: "gpt-4o-mini",
-      disableTools: true,
-      tts: { enabled: true, useAiResponse: true, provider: PROVIDER },
-    });
-    for await (const _chunk of result.stream) {
-      break;
-    }
-  });
+  await withStubs([create, execute, synthesizeStream], async () => {
+    const result = await neurolink.stream({
+      input: { text: "offline" },
+      provider: "openai",
+      model: "gpt-4o-mini",
+      disableTools: true,
+      tts: { enabled: true, useAiResponse: true, provider: PROVIDER },
+    });
+    const drain = (async () => {
+      for await (const _chunk of result.stream) {
+        break;
+      }
+    })();
+    const timeout = Symbol("early-break-timeout");
+    const settled = await Promise.race([
+      drain.then(() => "drained" as const),
+      new Promise<typeof timeout>((resolve) =>
+        setTimeout(() => resolve(timeout), 1000),
+      ),
+    ]);
+    assert(
+      settled !== timeout,
+      "early-break teardown did not complete within the timeout",
+    );
+  });
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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts` around lines 717 - 786, Add a short
timeout guard around the early-break drain in the “consumer early-break releases
source and audio iterators” test, racing the await of result.stream consumption
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pending source.next and audioIterator.next behavior, while ensuring cleanup
regressions fail promptly instead of hanging.

1099-1139: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extend the documented exception, or route these cases through a shipped surface.

This case reaches mapFormat and effectiveFormat off OpenAITTS.prototype with a {} receiver. The direct TTSProcessor.synthesize() validation cases at Lines 894-1012 and Lines 1014-1046 use the same pattern. The header exception at Lines 7-13 names only the five synthesizeStream chunking cases and the auto-provider case, so these cases are outside the documented scope.

Take one of these actions:

  • Extend the header note and the eslint.config.js allow-list entry to name these cases and the reason.
  • Or drive the same behavior through NeuroLink.stream() with a registered handler, and assert the resulting TTSChunk.format.

As per coding guidelines: "Tests are end-to-end only — Every suite must exercise a surface this package actually ships: construct NeuroLink and call generate() / stream(), or drive the built CLI via runCLI (node dist/cli/index.js)."

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In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts` around lines 1099 - 1139, Update the
`#479` test to exercise the shipped API surface instead of calling
OpenAITTS.prototype methods with a bare receiver: construct NeuroLink, register
the OpenAI TTS handler, call stream(), and assert the resulting TTSChunk.format
for the flac and unchanged/coercion cases. Remove the direct prototype-based
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src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts (4)

4-4: LGTM!

Also applies to: 21-23, 42-42


655-728: LGTM!


772-775: LGTM!


795-828: LGTM!

Also applies to: 851-852

src/lib/neurolink.ts (4)

9092-9109: LGTM!


10302-10346: LGTM!


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Verify ProviderStreamChunk is structurally compatible with the broader stream union it replaces here.

createMCPStream, processStreamResult, and createStreamResponse now type the provider stream as AsyncIterable<ProviderStreamChunk>, a narrower union than StreamResult.stream's type (which also includes StreamNoOutputSentinel and { content: string; reasoning?: string } / { content: string; type?: "preliminary" | "final" }). Assigning streamResult.stream (line 11484) into this narrower type only compiles if every member of the source union structurally satisfies a ProviderStreamChunk member. This likely holds if StreamNoOutputSentinel carries a content: string field, but that type isn't in the reviewed context.

Also applies to: 11483-11499, 11504-11507, 11552-11553


106-106: LGTM!

Also applies to: 241-241, 266-266, 10662-10662, 10761-10761, 11383-11383, 11473-11473

src/lib/types/stream.ts (3)

28-28: LGTM!


224-230: LGTM!


842-861: LGTM!

test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts (4)

1-44: LGTM!


148-364: LGTM!


366-715: LGTM!


788-892: LGTM!

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts`:
- Around line 9873-9884: Populate TTS metadata for all streaming paths using the
existing createIncrementalTTSStream callbacks: derive attempted from
TTSProcessor.supports, update success and latency when onComplete receives the
result, and assign the shared streamTtsMetadata to streamResult.ttsMetadata
alongside streamResult.audio in the primary and fallback flows.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/neurolink.ts`:
- Around line 9092-9100: Rename the local variable wantsStreamTtsMode2 to
wantsStreamTts and update all references in the surrounding streaming TTS logic,
preserving its existing unconditional enabled-check behavior.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts`:
- Around line 717-786: Add a short timeout guard around the early-break drain in
the “consumer early-break releases source and audio iterators” test, racing the
await of result.stream consumption against a timer that rejects with a
diagnostic error. Keep the intentionally pending source.next and
audioIterator.next behavior, while ensuring cleanup regressions fail promptly
instead of hanging.
- Around line 1099-1139: Update the `#479` test to exercise the shipped API
surface instead of calling OpenAITTS.prototype methods with a bare receiver:
construct NeuroLink, register the OpenAI TTS handler, call stream(), and assert
the resulting TTSChunk.format for the flac and unchanged/coercion cases. Remove
the direct prototype-based roundTrip coverage while preserving the expected
format mappings and assertions.
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Good catch — that one was real. ttsMetadata is a field this PR adds, and only the fake-stream path was populating it, so NeuroLink.stream() callers saw it stay undefined.

Now wired on both paths, mirroring executeFakeStreaming: attempted comes from the provider resolution createIncrementalTTSStream already does, success/latency are finalized from the completion callback, and the object is assigned beside streamResult.audio. The no-output fallback reuses the same reference rather than replacing it, so the caller keeps the object it already read.

Public-surface coverage: primary success (pending → finalized), primary synthesis failure, unsupported provider (attempted: false), and the fallback path. Focused 32/32, bugfixes 280/280, lint/build/publint clean, still one commit.

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- Line 11085: Update the public stream() example to guard chunk.content before
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Holding off on the rebase until you weigh in, since release moved under this one and the collision isn't mine to guess at.

1274ff10 landed its own rule-15 rewrite of test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts at the same path mine occupies, and moved TTSProcessor onto the handler registry. The registry part is straightforward — supports() is unchanged, so synthesizeStream re-applies on top of it.

The test file is the real question. As I see it: I fold my incremental-TTS cases (interleave ordering, the drain contract, ttsMetadata, the fallback path) into the new file and drop whatever the rewrite already covers, or I move them into a separate suite so the two don't fight, or you'd rather handle the reconciliation when you land it. Any of those works here — tell me which and I'll push it.

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Status update, and one genuine compliment buried in it.

First, the compliment, because it's the substantive point. I measured what the added tests in every open PR actually drive. Yours is the only one that does what CLAUDE.md rule 15 asks: test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts constructs NeuroLink 12 times and calls .stream() 13 times, imports from ../dist/index.js (the public entry, one module graph), uses TTSProcessor.registerHandler as setup rather than as the assertion subject, and declares its determinism exception in the header. Three of the other five PRs adding tests contain zero calls to the public surface. Yours is the model, not the outlier.

Now the blockers, neither of which is about your code.

1. The branch conflicts with release (mergeable=CONFLICTING, confirmed twice). 11 commits behind; needs a rebase.

2. None of the four required checks have ever run on your current head (57da4921). release now has enforced branch protection requiring test, provider-safety-net, build-check and 🔒 Single Commit Policy Validation. On this SHA only CodeRabbit and the SentinelOne scans have results — the GitHub Actions jobs never triggered, so GitHub can't evaluate the rule at all. Your previous head (6070ec9e) had all four passing, so this is about the current push, not a regression.

A rebase and force-push resolves both at once. Note your branch predates the removal of the ffmpeg install from CI — if you see an "Install ffmpeg" failure, that's the stale workflow, not your code, and the rebase clears it.

3. Two small things still open, verified against the live files:

  • src/lib/neurolink.ts (~line 8714): the public stream() JSDoc example does process.stdout.write(chunk.content) without guarding chunk.content. A tts_audio chunk has no .content, so a copy-pasted example throws — slightly awkward given this PR is what makes those chunks appear.
  • test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts:219: assertEqual(calls.join("|"), "One. Two. Three.", ...) puts the payload into the compared value. Worth knowing why that matters here specifically: defineSuite's test() downgrades a thrown error to SKIP when the message matches isExpectedProviderError(), so payload text in an assertion can turn a real failure into a green run. Three genuine failures hid that way on this repo once.

The four Major findings from the earlier round appear addressed in the current diff — I checked the dropped-audio path and the iterator cleanup and both look handled.

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2057-2082: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Attach a rejection handler to the eagerly created analytics promise.

The IIFE starts immediately and awaits finishReason and usage. If either promise rejects, the resulting analytics promise rejects too. analytics is only exposed on the returned StreamResult, so a consumer that never awaits it leaves the rejection unhandled. Node terminates the process on an unhandled rejection by default.

Providers resolve these promises from stream teardown, so a transport failure can reject them.

Catch the failure inside the IIFE and return a minimal analytics object, or record the failure on metadata.error and rethrow only for consumers that opted in.

🛡️ Proposed fix
     const analytics = (async () => {
-      const [resolvedFinishReason, resolvedUsage] = await Promise.all([
-        finishReason,
-        usage,
-      ]);
+      let resolvedFinishReason: string;
+      let resolvedUsage: { inputTokens: number; outputTokens: number };
+      try {
+        [resolvedFinishReason, resolvedUsage] = await Promise.all([
+          finishReason,
+          usage,
+        ]);
+      } catch (error) {
+        logger.warn(`[${this.providerName}] doStream analytics unavailable`, {
+          provider: this.providerName,
+          error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
+        });
+        metadata.error = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+        resolvedFinishReason = "error";
+        resolvedUsage = { inputTokens: 0, outputTokens: 0 };
+      }
       metadata.finishReason = resolvedFinishReason;
       metadata.rawFinishReason = resolvedFinishReason;
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src/lib/types/stream.ts (1)

224-230: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Include StreamNoOutputSentinel in ProviderStreamChunk. The sentinel has content: "", so it matches the existing { content: string } member, but metadata.noOutput is not exposed to typed consumers. Provider code currently casts the sentinel and hides this metadata.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/features/tts.md`:
- Around line 648-652: Update the Mode 2 documentation near the
streamingBufferSize description to explicitly state that stream() synthesizes
the streamed response based on ttsOptions.enabled and ignores useAiResponse,
regardless of whether that option is true, unset, or false.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts`:
- Around line 533-537: Update test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts lines
533-537 and 1342-1346 to prevent sentence payloads entering assertion error
text: at lines 533-537, assert calls.length is 1, then use assert for the
joined-value comparison with a static structural message; at lines 1342-1346,
replace the joined-value assertEqual with assert and a static structural
message. Follow the existing pattern near lines 487-491 and 682-685.

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In `@src/lib/core/baseProvider.ts`:
- Around line 2057-2082: Update the eagerly created analytics promise in the
analytics IIFE to handle rejections from finishReason or usage, returning a
minimal analytics result or recording metadata.error without creating an
unhandled rejection for consumers that do not await analytics.

---

Nitpick comments:
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- Around line 224-230: Update the ProviderStreamChunk type to explicitly include
StreamNoOutputSentinel, exposing its metadata.noOutput field to typed consumers
while preserving the existing chunk variants.
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Took the rebase and both small fixes together. The note on the test coverage was good to hear.

  1. Rebased onto current release, so this now sits on top of ac158855. It does not disturb the path: stream() still goes through executeStream(), the new default hands off to doStream(), and the TTS wrapper sits on the stream that comes back. A provider that only implements doStream() gets the same incremental path.
  2. Confirmed on the checks — only the SentinelOne ones landed on that head. The force-push gives Actions a fresh head to attach to; not claiming them green until they actually report.
  3. Guarded the JSDoc example on "content" in chunk. The assertion hazard is real, but the named calls.join("|") assertion was already safe because it supplied an explicit message; compared values enter the thrown message only when msg is omitted. Hardened the seven message-omitting assertEqual sites that did expose compared values to isExpectedProviderError().

Two contract changes need calling out before this lands. stream() now synthesizes whenever tts.enabled === true, matching #516; useAiResponse still controls input-vs-response TTS for generate(). That inverts the fourth test in your rule-15 rewrite, the one asserting stream() does not synthesize without useAiResponse, so I replaced it rather than leave a contradiction in the file. If you prefer the old gate, I can flip it and restore your test as written. Over-cap stream text now splits at min(streamingBufferSize, maxTextLength) and synthesizes each segment instead of raising TTS_TEXT_TOO_LONG; generate() still raises.

On the collision, I took the first of the three options and folded mine into your file. Ported the unconfigured, throwing, and unregistered degradation cases as they stand, adapted the max-length case to the split contract, and kept your loop and case naming plus the registry snapshot/restore. Rewrote the PR body to carry the aggregate-buffer format caveat and the three deferred follow-ups: per-segment orchestration timeout, container re-headering, and an AbortSignal for zero-billing cancellation. Current early-break handling stops queued ingestion, but at most one already-dispatched segment can still be billed.

One FYI: test/continuous-test-suite-voice.ts T3 still asserts the old useAiResponse: false stream gate. No workflow invokes that file, so it does not gate the required checks, but it should be corrected if this contract stays.

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Checks are back. build-check, provider-safety-net and the single-commit gate pass. Three reds, and none of them look like this branch:

  • test and 🛡️ Code Quality & Security Gate both fail in validate:security on Unaccepted high advisory 1145636 in fast-uri. release itself is red on the same two jobs at 3beae606; its 69e4ce43 run passed at 15:42, so the advisory landed after that. Nothing here touches a dependency or the lockfile.
  • Validate Documentation fails on one broken link, /docs/features to /docs/proxy-accounts-endpoint, which comes from docs/features/index.md. That workflow only runs on pull requests, so pushes to release never surface it.

Happy to add 1145636 to the accepted-risk list in this branch if you want the gate green here, but it looks like a release fix rather than a PR one.

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All three red checks here are stale-base artefacts, not your code. This branch is 31 commits behind release, and everything goes green once it catches up. I reproduced each one locally.

The security gate — fast-uri, already accepted on release

The gate reports Security validation failed - critical issues detected. The "2 critical issues" in that summary are just its own two closing lines; the real cause is one entry:

FAIL dependencies: failed
  Unaccepted high advisory 1145636 in fast-uri:
  fast-uri vulnerable to host confusion via failed IDN canonicalization

That's a transitive dependency advisory, nothing to do with TTS. release already handles it: scripts/security-check.ts moved to a per-package severity ceiling instead of a list of advisory ids, and its own comment names this exact case — "fired mid-release on fast-uri 1145636 and had to be unblocked by hand." Your branch point predates that change (git show <base>:scripts/security-check.ts | grep -c 11456360).

Merging current release in locally and re-running:

PASS secrets: passed
PASS dependencies: passed
Security validation completed with 1 warnings.

The test job fails for the same reason — it runs validate:all, which includes validate:security.

Documentation validation — also clears

pnpm run docs:validate✅ Documentation sync complete! on the merged tree.

Everything else on the merged tree

pnpm run check                                 4816 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings
eslint (suite + ttsStream + ttsProcessor)      clean
npx tsx test/continuous-test-suite-tts-unit.ts 41 passed / 0 failed

Clean merge, no conflicts. So this just needs a rebase onto release.

On the eslint.config.js change — this is done right

A contributor adding themselves to a lint rule's allow list is normally where I look hardest, so it's worth saying plainly that this one is correct and I have no objection.

The rule's own message names this as the intended escape hatch: "If this genuinely needs deterministic control a live call cannot give, add the file to the rule's allow list in eslint.config.js and say why in its header." You did both halves — the config entry carries a reason, and the suite header spells out which six cases take the exception and why:

exact input chunk-boundary control that a live provider call cannot give: sentence carry-over, configurable flushing, provider text caps, the default cap, surrogate-pair-safe splitting, and per-segment failure isolation

That's a real determinism argument, not a convenience one — you cannot make a live provider stream split a surrogate pair at a chosen offset. It's also correctly scoped: one file, the integration cases still driving NeuroLink.stream(), and the import is ../dist/utils/providerHealth.js rather than a deep ../dist/lib/... path (worth noting, since the build now deletes dist/lib outright — anything importing through it fails to load).

Scope of what I checked

To be clear about what this comment is and isn't: I verified the gates — why they're red and that they go green on rebase. I have not reviewed the 2.5k lines of streaming logic itself, so treat this as unblocking, not as an approval.

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Correction to my previous comment — I gave you the wrong mechanism.

I said release handles the fast-uri advisory because scripts/security-check.ts moved to a per-package severity ceiling. That's wrong. fast-uri isn't in that accepted-risk table at all:

$ git show origin/release:scripts/security-check.ts \
    | sed -n '/const ACCEPTED_RISK_PACKAGES/,/^};/p' | grep -c fast-uri
0

What actually fixed it is aec7f8ac fix(deps): raise the fast-uri override past the 3.x advisories, which added a pnpm.overrides entry:

fast-uri@<3.1.5: ">=3.1.5 <4"

That lifts the dependency out of the vulnerable range, so on release the advisory doesn't appear in the audit at all — pnpm audit --prod reports 0 fast-uri advisories there. Your branch point predates that commit, so it still resolves the vulnerable version.

The comment I quoted ("fired mid-release on fast-uri 1145636") is describing the old advisory-id-list model's failure, not an acceptance of this package. I read it too quickly.

Nothing about my conclusion changes: this is still a stale base, still not your code, and still fixed by rebasing onto release. I verified that empirically before commenting — merged release in locally and got PASS dependencies, plus typecheck 4816/0, eslint clean, and tts-unit 41 passed / 0 failed. Only the explanation of why was wrong.

Flagging it because the distinction matters if you go looking: you won't find fast-uri in the accepted-risk table, and I don't want you concluding my diagnosis was wrong when it's only my reasoning that was.

Separately — this exposed a real gap in the gate itself, so I've opened #1477 to make it say "origin/release pins this package out of the vulnerable range and this branch does not — rebase and re-run" instead of a bare "Unaccepted advisory". Your PR and #1441 are the two cases that motivated it.

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Rebased onto release as the same single commit. Nothing upstream had touched the files in this diff, so the code and tests are unchanged. The only other change is in docs/features/tts.md: the streamAndSpeak example still passed useAiResponse: true to stream(), which ignores it, so I dropped it and added a sentence stating that stream() synthesizes whenever tts.enabled is set. validate:security and the focused TTS suite pass locally on the rebased tree.

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Regenerated docs/api for the stream and TTS type changes in this PR; the typedoc-drift check in the test job is new since my original base and was the remaining red. Same single commit, nothing else changed.

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Deep review against both the diff and the current release tip — every finding below was independently verified against the actual code before posting. The incremental design is sound and the docs discipline is appreciated; one contract violation needs fixing before this can land.

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Partial mid-stream synthesis failures are silently swallowed. When a segment fails after earlier ones succeeded:

  • synthesizeSegment in ttsProcessor.ts catches the error, logs a warning, and returns undefined — the segment is dropped and chunkIndex isn't incremented, so there isn't even an index gap to signal the loss.
  • interleaveTTSStream resolves from aggregateTTSChunks(audioChunks), which is defined whenever any segment succeeded — the actual error is logged and discarded.
  • Both consumers compute ttsMetadata.success = result !== undefined and never set ttsMetadata.error (createIncrementalTTSStream even runs delete ttsMetadata.error unconditionally).

Net effect: a caller following the documented TTSMetadata contract ("success: whether synthesis completed successfully; error: present only when synthesis failed") gets success: true and no error while the aggregate audio is missing bytes for text they already received as content chunks. This reintroduces for streaming exactly the class of bug 464a1cb just fixed for generate(). The suite's own cases demonstrate the drop (calls=3, chunks=2; "audio failure retains the already-emitted aggregate") but never assert on the metadata — the partial-failure path with metadata assertions is untested.

Suggested shape: carry the per-segment error out of synthesizeSegment, surface it via ttsMetadata.error (and arguably success: false or a distinct partial signal), and pin it with a case where segment 2 of 3 fails and the metadata is asserted.

Majors

  1. ttsMetadata.error is never populated on any streaming-TTS failure path — related to the blocker but broader; no new test catches it.
  2. The rule-15 allow-list justification overstates the need. The suite's own makeTextStream proves exact chunk-boundary control is achievable through the public stream() surface, so sentence carry-over/flush-threshold behaviour can be pinned end-to-end; the determinism exception is defensible for the handler-synthesis half only. Narrowing the unit suite to that half would keep the allow-list honest.
  3. The OpenAITTS format-mapping test reaches into private methods without the header declaring that exception.
  4. Minor: one stub imports an internal class that isn't exported from the public entry.

Compat + rebase notes

The gate change (enabled && useAiResponseenabled for streaming) is documented and doesn't affect the CLI (it always sets useAiResponse: true) or the proxy — only SDK stream() callers with tts.enabled alone, who newly receive tts_audio chunks; worth one explicit line in the migration notes. Rebase-wise the core files merge cleanly over the current tip (including #1527's stream changes); only docs/api and the test-file header conflict, so the rebase is mechanical.

Happy to re-review once the metadata contract is fixed and pinned.

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Fixed the streaming metadata contract: any segment failure now keeps the partial aggregate available, sets ttsMetadata.success to false, and records a sanitized structured error with the failed segment count and positions. The segment-2-of-3 case pins all three attempts, two surviving chunks with unchanged indexing, the partial aggregate, and the failure metadata.

Wired that error through both the main incremental stream and provider fake-stream completion paths, including total and partial failures.

Moved the sentence carry-over and flush-threshold cases onto the public stream() surface, and narrowed the direct synthesizeStream exception to handler-synthesis coverage.

Declared the existing private OpenAITTS format-mapping exception in the suite header.

Kept the ProviderHealthChecker stub only for the auto-provider case because selection must be fixed before the public provider surface exists, and declared that last-resort exception in the header.

Added the register-matched migration entry for SDK stream() callers setting tts.enabled without useAiResponse, who now receive tts_audio chunks and the aggregate audio result.

Aligned the disclosed T3 loose end to expect resolved audio for tts.enabled with useAiResponse: false; the keyed case remains live-only and was not run here.

Collapsed the revision to one commit over the observed release tip 208c8dba.

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Re-reviewed the revision (db557b19 → current head) against every finding — each one verified in the diff, not the description:

  1. Blocker resolved at the source. synthesizeStream now tracks failedSegments + firstFailure, still yields the surviving chunks (final-marker on the last survivor), and throws a structured IncrementalTTSSynthesisError(firstError, failedSegments) after the final flush — so partial failure is a signal, not a silent drop. Both consumer paths (recordCompletion in the incremental stream, onTTSComplete in the fake-stream path) now compute success = error === undefined && result !== undefined and set the sanitized structured ttsMetadata.error, with double-record guards. The documented TTSMetadata contract now tells the truth for total and partial failures.

  2. Pinned where it counts: "stream() reports a failed middle segment while retaining partial audio" drives the public surface and asserts the partial aggregate, attempted, non-success, the structured error code, and the failed-segment position — exactly the segment-2-of-3 shape requested.

  3. Rule-15 scope honestly narrowed: sentence carry-over and flush-threshold cases moved onto public stream(); the direct synthesizeStream exception is now justified only for the handler-synthesis seam, and the remaining private-access/stub exceptions are declared in the header with reasons.

  4. The MIGRATION.md entry covers the one real compat surface (SDK stream() callers with tts.enabled and no useAiResponse).

Nice work — the failure-signal design (indices stay contiguous for survivors, positions carried in the error) is cleaner than what I would have suggested. Approving.

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Thank you for seeing this through the review rounds — they made the result better, and seeing it ship in v11.26.0 closes the loop well.

murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Breaking out of a TTS-enabled stream blocked the consumer permanently:

  pnpm run test:tts:unit    2.95s user    1% cpu    5:09.80 total

1% CPU over five minutes is not slow work — nothing was running. The
process sat idle in teardown.

interleaveTTSStream's finally awaited Promise.allSettled on the source
and audio iterators' .return(). `.return()` on an async generator parked
inside an `await` does not interrupt it: the request is queued behind the
in-flight next() and only runs when the generator next suspends. A
provider stream is wrapped several times — lifecycle in baseProvider, MCP
and pool wrappers in neurolink — and during a pull every one of those
layers sits in an `await` on the layer below. None can unwind, so those
promises settle never, not late. Instrumented, at the hang:

  finally ENTERED completed=false nextSource=true nextAudio=true
  awaiting allSettled of 2 release(s)
  calling sourceIterator.return()
  calling audioIterator.return()
  <neither ever resolved>

Two changes, because the generator protocol alone cannot express this.

streamCancellation.ts adds an out-of-band channel. A wrapper registers a
cancel callback on the stream object it returns; the callback closes its
own upstream iterator and forwards the request downward. These are plain
function calls, not generator protocol, so they run immediately and do not
depend on any pending next() settling. baseProvider hoists its upstream
iterator — iterating the hoisted handle is equivalent to iterating the
original, it just leaves something reachable from outside the generator —
and registers a hook. interleaveTTSStream fires it on abandonment before
asking politely via .return().

Registration is optional and reading it is defensive, so a stream that
knows nothing about this behaves exactly as before.

Teardown is also now bounded. Even with the channel, this module cannot
assume every upstream cooperates, and a consumer's exit must not depend on
one that may never answer. The releases are still issued and still
propagate whenever the upstream is responsive.

  test:tts:unit   327s exit 0, 1 test skipped  ->  83s exit 0, 43 passed

That test had never passed. It and the cleanup it probes both arrived in
c173102 (#1336), and its own CI run shows PER_TEST_TIMEOUT_SKIP — the
feature merged green with its headline test having never once succeeded,
and every CI run since spent 240s waiting on it.

Which is the second change. The harness classified a per-test timeout as
SKIP, reasoning it cannot distinguish an SDK bug from an upstream that
never answered. True of a live suite; not true of tts:unit, which drives
stub handlers and createOfflineProvider and touches no network. Suites can
now declare `offline: true`, and a timeout there is a failure. Its own doc
comment already claimed timeouts were treated as FAIL, so the code was not
matching its stated contract either.

Verified both directions with a throwaway suite that simply hangs:
offline true reports FAIL and exits 1; offline false still reports skip
and exits 0, so live suites are unaffected.

Regression checked: providers-mocked 67 passed / 0 failed,
provider-structure 3 passed, tts 17 passed. check and lint clean.

Read the cancel hook inside the try, not before it: reading a symbol off
an arbitrary object can execute user code via a Proxy trap or a throwing
getter, and this function is documented as never throwing because it runs
from teardown finally blocks. Verified against a hostile Proxy, a throwing
hook, and null/undefined/non-object inputs.
murdore added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Breaking out of a TTS-enabled stream blocked the consumer permanently:

  pnpm run test:tts:unit    2.95s user    1% cpu    5:09.80 total

1% CPU over five minutes is not slow work — nothing was running. The
process sat idle in teardown.

interleaveTTSStream's finally awaited Promise.allSettled on the source
and audio iterators' .return(). `.return()` on an async generator parked
inside an `await` does not interrupt it: the request is queued behind the
in-flight next() and only runs when the generator next suspends. A
provider stream is wrapped several times — lifecycle in baseProvider, MCP
and pool wrappers in neurolink — and during a pull every one of those
layers sits in an `await` on the layer below. None can unwind, so those
promises settle never, not late. Instrumented, at the hang:

  finally ENTERED completed=false nextSource=true nextAudio=true
  awaiting allSettled of 2 release(s)
  calling sourceIterator.return()
  calling audioIterator.return()
  <neither ever resolved>

Two changes, because the generator protocol alone cannot express this.

streamCancellation.ts adds an out-of-band channel. A wrapper registers a
cancel callback on the stream object it returns; the callback closes its
own upstream iterator and forwards the request downward. These are plain
function calls, not generator protocol, so they run immediately and do not
depend on any pending next() settling. baseProvider hoists its upstream
iterator — iterating the hoisted handle is equivalent to iterating the
original, it just leaves something reachable from outside the generator —
and registers a hook. interleaveTTSStream fires it on abandonment before
asking politely via .return().

Registration is optional and reading it is defensive, so a stream that
knows nothing about this behaves exactly as before.

Teardown is also now bounded. Even with the channel, this module cannot
assume every upstream cooperates, and a consumer's exit must not depend on
one that may never answer. The releases are still issued and still
propagate whenever the upstream is responsive.

  test:tts:unit   327s exit 0, 1 test skipped  ->  83s exit 0, 43 passed

That test had never passed. It and the cleanup it probes both arrived in
c173102 (#1336), and its own CI run shows PER_TEST_TIMEOUT_SKIP — the
feature merged green with its headline test having never once succeeded,
and every CI run since spent 240s waiting on it.

Which is the second change. The harness classified a per-test timeout as
SKIP, reasoning it cannot distinguish an SDK bug from an upstream that
never answered. True of a live suite; not true of tts:unit, which drives
stub handlers and createOfflineProvider and touches no network. Suites can
now declare `offline: true`, and a timeout there is a failure. Its own doc
comment already claimed timeouts were treated as FAIL, so the code was not
matching its stated contract either.

Verified both directions with a throwaway suite that simply hangs:
offline true reports FAIL and exits 1; offline false still reports skip
and exits 0, so live suites are unaffected.

Regression checked: providers-mocked 67 passed / 0 failed,
provider-structure 3 passed, tts 17 passed. check and lint clean.

Read the cancel hook inside the try, not before it: reading a symbol off
an arbitrary object can execute user code via a Proxy trap or a throwing
getter, and this function is documented as never throwing because it runs
from teardown finally blocks. Verified against a hostile Proxy, a throwing
hook, and null/undefined/non-object inputs.
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Heads-up on something this PR could not have known about, because CI reported it as green.

consumer early-break stops queued TTS ingestion after one dispatched segment has never passed. Not "regressed later" — it has never once succeeded, including on this PR's own run:

⊘ consumer early-break stops queued TTS ingestion after one dispatched segment (PER_TEST_TIMEOUT_SKIP)

It deadlocks, hits the harness's 240s per-test timeout, and the harness classifies a timeout as skip rather than failure. So the suite printed RESULT: PASS, exited 0, and the check went green. Nothing was hidden deliberately — the gate genuinely could not tell you.

Confirmed locally, deterministically:

pnpm run test:tts:unit    2.95s user    1% cpu    5:09.80 total

1% CPU over five minutes: nothing was running, the process sat idle in teardown.

The cause is not really yours. interleaveTTSStream's finally awaits .return() on the source and audio iterators. .return() on an async generator parked inside an await does not interrupt it — the request queues behind the in-flight next() and only runs when the generator next suspends. A provider stream is wrapped several times (baseProvider lifecycle, MCP and pool wrappers in neurolink), and during a pull every one of those layers is parked awaiting the layer below. None can unwind, so those promises settle never, not late. That is a JS async-generator limitation the code as written cannot express its way out of.

Practically it meant a consumer breaking out of a TTS-enabled stream blocked forever on a stalled provider — with no error, and no way to defend against it from outside the library.

#1550 fixes it: an out-of-band cancel channel that closes upstream iterators with ordinary function calls rather than generator protocol, plus bounded teardown so a consumer's exit never depends on an upstream that may never answer. Your test passes there for the first time, and tts:unit goes from 327s with a skip to 83s with 43/43 passing — it was also costing 240s of every CI run.

Two things worth taking from this rather than any action on your side:

  • The test was a good one. It described real, desirable behaviour precisely enough that once the hang was removed it failed on exactly the right assertion (early-break closes the queued source once), which is what pointed at the fix.
  • fix(tts): stop early stream break from hanging the caller forever #1550 also makes offline suites treat a timeout as a failure, so the next hang of this kind cannot merge green. perTestTimeoutMs's own doc comment already claimed timeouts were "treated as FAIL"; the code had drifted from that.

One limitation still open and tracked on #1550: cancellation reaches the wrapper chain but not yet the provider transport, which needs an AbortSignal threaded through the provider layer.

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