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Problem

moq-dev/studio's redesigned Add page, its source that follows the game, and its privacy shield each need something moq_video::capture cannot do today: the listing gives ids, names, and sizes with no app identity off macOS, no icon, no picture, and no notice of change; nothing reports which app is in front; and a display capture cannot leave an app out. The studio plans those features now and waits on moq through pin quests, so the moq side needs quests to wait on.

Approach

Three quests, quest tree only, planned 2026-11-09 by the maintainer in the studio's /quest-plan interview:

• quest/m3/capture-list.md [XL]: windows grouped by app with a restart-stable identity and icon, camera kinds, low-rate pictures at a stated cost, and a wait for list changes, on macOS, Windows, and X11. Wayland is told up front that the portal's picker owns windows and displays.
• quest/m4/capture-foreground.md [M]: which app and window are in front, with a wait for changes, on macOS, Windows, and X11, and Unsupported on Wayland.
• quest/m4/capture-exclude.md [M]: a display capture that never shows chosen apps. Planning found only ScreenCaptureKit can filter; Windows, X11, and the portal are Unsupported, with the reason recorded.

Each has a Goal stating the observable outcome, a test sized to what each runner has (Xvfb and vivid lanes in CI, ignored desktop tests by hand on a Mac and on Windows), and its studio consumer. The foreground and exclusion quests require the listing, since they name apps by its identity. Search of the tree, deleted quests, and open PRs found no quest that owns any of this. The Windows and Linux capture parity quests keep app capture, and gain a Related link to the listing.

Decisions

Settled by the maintainer in the interview:

• Work a named consumer waits on joins m3. ✅ The listing is in m3, since the studio's m0 waits on it.
• A supported path per desktop decided at setup, an error otherwise, never a silent fallback.
• Hiding the studio's own windows is the studio's, through its windows' sharing flags.

Applied by this PR, for review:

• Milestone of the foreground and exclusion quests: ✅ m4 (rejected: m3). Their consumers are in the studio's m1, "after the studio ships", and quest/m3/README.md sends work only a downstream's later plans need to m4.
• One quest for the listing, as planned, although it is XL. Rejected for now: an epic split by desktop or by capability, which would move the path the studio's pin links.
• Exclusion names apps, not single windows: the consumer marks apps.
• Wayland is refused for the foreground app even with XWayland, which sees X11 clients only.

Left to the maintainer, as ## Waiting items in the quests:

• Listing: how macOS notices another app's windows changing. Recommended: moq-video re-lists inside the watch on macOS only. Rejected otherwise: asking for the Accessibility permission, or app-level events alone.
• Foreground: which window macOS reports. Recommended: the app's front window as of the app change, without the Accessibility permission.

Impact

None: quest tree only. The quests record that the listing breaks capture::{Camera, Display, Window, App} and that exclusion may break Source::Display.

Alternatives

• Extend Windows and Linux capture parity instead of new quests: rejected, since those own app capture and system audio, not listing, focus, or exclusion.
• Paint over an excluded window where the system cannot filter: rejected in the quest, since a moving window shows for a frame or more.

Follow-ups

Gaps between the studio's plans and what it asked of moq, for whoever plans the studio side:

• The privacy shield draws a lock "where the window was", and the camera that keeps out of the way treats the foreground window as mattering. Both need a window's position on its display, which capture::Window lacks and no quest here adds. Recommend: plan it into the listing if the studio keeps those two behaviors.
• The source that follows the game can narrow to full-screen apps. No quest here reports whether a window is full screen. Recommend: drop it, since the window's size against its display's answers it once position exists.
• An excluded app's sound still reaches moq_audio's system capture. Recommend: plan it only if the studio's shield should cover sound.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-fable-5-2, high effort

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1c61f-28e9-7e61-971e-091299b9ccb2, round 1
• Head: 4277157
• Base: origin/main at cd560bd
• Score: 9/10, The diff adds capture planning documents and related links without changing executable behavior, with unresolved macOS choices explicitly recorded for the maintainer.
• Findings: none

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed full patch at d4257d9 (7 quest/documentation files), the recorded prior review, milestone rules, and current capture API. No actionable defects found in this planning-only change.

Direction: the dependency split and explicit unsupported paths are consistent with the stated scope. Keep the macOS choices in Waiting unresolved until the maintainer decides; implementation must reconcile the foreground Goal/tests with any chosen app-change-only behavior and prove exclusion across app launch/filter updates.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review. No builds, tests, or desktop/API experiments run; this does not verify the proposed platform behavior.

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one Wayland outcome in the listing quest reads two ways.

Reviewed changes

• quest/m3/capture-list.md — adds the [XL] listing quest: restart-stable app identity and icons, camera kinds, low-rate pictures, and a wait for list changes on macOS, Windows, and X11, with the Wayland picker described.
• quest/m4/capture-foreground.md — adds the [M] foreground app and window watch across macOS, Windows, and X11, refusing Wayland, with the macOS window choice left to the maintainer.
• quest/m4/capture-exclude.md — adds the [M] display-capture exclusion quest: macOS supported via the ScreenCaptureKit content filter, Windows/X11/Wayland Unsupported with the reasons recorded.
• Milestone indexes and parity links — lists the new quests in quest/m3/README.md and quest/m4/README.md, and links the listing from the Windows and Linux capture-parity quests.

The Plan's claims about today's listing code, app identity, display ids, callers, CI lanes, and the empty ScreenCaptureKit exclusion list all match the tree, and the studio pins in moq-dev/studio#124 name these same moq paths and milestones.

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The pull request adds planning documents for cross-platform capture listings, foreground capture, and app exclusions from display capture. The documents describe proposed behavior, platform support, API considerations, implementation recommendations, tests, and unresolved decisions. Quest index entries and related links point to these plans.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review d4257

This PR only adds quest planning documents, so nothing ships at runtime. Before merging, tighten the exclusion plan so newly launched non-private apps stay visible, and note that the macOS app-capture fallback covers only the main display.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title identifies the three capture-planning topics and the studio dependency. It is longer than preferred but remains clear and specific.
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Actionable comments posted: 4

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quest/m3/capture-list.md-142-143: 1

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Remove the incomplete macOS notification option.

Option 3 misses windows opened or retitled within a running app. That conflicts with the Goal and leaves the studio picker stale until an unrelated app event. Remove this option, or make the window watch return Unsupported under it and revise the consumer contract.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m4/capture-exclude.md:
- Around line 69-70: Update the capture-filter plan to require automatic
inclusion of newly launched non-private apps while keeping private apps
excluded. Add a test that verifies non-private apps remain visible in display
capture as apps launch; preserve the existing exclusion behavior for private
apps.
- Around line 17-18: Update the capture-exclusion documentation to remove the
claim that the caller’s window sharing flags hide its windows; state that caller
windows are not protected unless a reliable ScreenCaptureKit exclusion mechanism
is established and supported.

Review comments at @quest/m4/capture-foreground.md:
- Around line 77-79: Revise the planned macOS capture contract around option 1
so switching between windows of the same app is reported, consistent with the
goal, change-notification contract, and Mac test; if option 1 remains unable to
detect such switches, update the goal, tests, and consumer expectations together
to reflect that limitation.
- Around line 79-80: Update the option 1 guidance in this capture documentation
to state that the Source::App fallback through open_app captures only the main
display and does not include a foreground game on a secondary display; identify
a supported capture path for other displays before recommending this option.

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Reviewed head 4277157 against the previously reviewed d4257d9, with the full planning patch and current review discussion.

No new actionable findings. The update makes Wayland refusal explicit, removes reliance on macOS window sharing flags, requires newly launched non-excluded apps to remain visible, and records the foreground option's same-app and secondary-display limits. The macOS choices correctly remain pending rather than silently changing the promised contract.

Direction: retain those limits through implementation and align the Goal/tests with the eventual maintainer choice. The existing thread already notes that the claimed late non-excluded-app test was not added to the test plan; that issue is not duplicated here.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static documentation review. No builds, tests, desktop experiments, or validation of platform privacy guarantees performed.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Incremental review of the commit pushed since the prior pullfrog review (d4257d9), which addresses the open review feedback on the three quests.

• Wayland listing settled to refusal — quest/m3/capture-list.md now says every window and display listing call is Unsupported on a Wayland session, even with XWayland running, removing the contradiction with the settled decision and the studio's picker-only Add page.
• Own-window hiding described per desktop — quest/m4/capture-exclude.md replaces the generic sharing-flags claim with Windows SetWindowDisplayAffinity, macOS naming its own app in the exclusion, and X11/Wayland left unprotected.
• Late-app inclusion requirement added — the exclusion quest now requires an inclusion filter to admit each newly launched non-excluded app, so excluding one app cannot hide a newly started game or browser.
• macOS foreground options costed — the recommended option in quest/m4/capture-foreground.md now states it requires narrowing the Goal, change contract, and Mac test, and records that the Source::App workaround captures the main display only.

The two new load-bearing platform claims check out: open_app does build a display-scoped filter against the main display (rs/moq-video/src/capture/screencapture.rs), and ScreenCaptureKit ignoring NSWindow.sharingType matches Apple's own guidance and current reports.

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