[yixuan-ag2]

The problem

MAX_FPS was derived from the egress send interval:

export const VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 900;
const MAX_FPS = 1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS;   // 1.11 fps

That puts the ceiling above the 1 fps Gemini Live documents for video frames
(Live API capabilities),
so a caller asking for more than 1 fps got 1.11 — over the API's own limit.

The floor was a bare 0.5 inline, which silently raised any smaller request. That
makes sub-0.5 cadence experiments impossible to run at all, and those are exactly
what the vision cost/latency work needs.

The change

MAX_FPS   1000/VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS (1.11)  ->  1.0   (documented cap)
MIN_FPS   0.5 (inline literal)                     ->  0.1   (named constant)

Defaults are byte-identical. DEFAULT_FPS is 1; clamp(1) was 1 before and is
1 now. Exactly two behaviours change:

Request	Before	After
2 fps	1.11 fps (above the API cap)	1.0 fps
0.25 fps	silently raised to 0.5	0.25

The start_vision tool description advertised 0.5–2, which was wrong at both
ends; it now advertises 0.1–1.0 and names the cap, so the model stops requesting
values that get silently clamped.

The gate is NOT decided here — #3090 owns it

MAX_FPS bounds the pull ticker. VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS (900 ms) bounds
back-to-back sends from any source, so it is looser than the cap and cannot
enforce the API limit for push sources. That gap is real and this PR does not
close it — closing it is #3090's whole subject.

An earlier revision of this PR pinned the gap as intended
(assert.equal(VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS, 900) plus
1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS > MAX_FPS). @john-the-dev blocked on that at
25ec2031, correctly: those assertions pin the exact property #3090 removes, so
whichever landed second would fail the other's test, and the two bodies taught
opposite theories of where the 1 fps cap is enforced. Both assertions are deleted
at this head (2bff71cb) — the gate value now appears in this file only inside a
message string, and no test here constrains it. #3090 is free to change it.

Tests

The existing cap test asserted the old behaviour by name ("pull cadence is capped
by the egress send interval"), so it is rewritten to the new contract rather than
adjusted. One test added: the 0.25 floor case.

tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts   11/11 pass
tsc --noEmit                           clean

Stack

Parent: #3087 (comment corrections). Merge order:
#3087 → this PR → #3090 (voice/f8-stop-vision-on-disconnect).

• This branch contains docs(vision): correct two comments that promise a turnComplete guarantee we do not have #3087's commit; after the parent lands I'll rebase and rerun checks.
• fix(vision): stop the stream when the voice client disconnects, terminally #3090 must land after this one: it sets VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 1000 / MAX_FPS,
  which needs the MAX_FPS constant this PR introduces. With the pinning assertions removed
  here, the two no longer contest the same test block.

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✅ No Python changes — nothing to gate (bar: 95% on changed lines).

[yixuan-ag2]

Fixed the red check: not ok 282 - tool-table anchor matches the committed fixture.

tests/voice-behavior-anchors.test.ts pins the tool table against a committed fixture, and its own note says a deliberate prompt change must regenerate via ANCHOR_UPDATE=1 with the diff called out in the PR. This PR changed the fps description and the fixture wasn't regenerated, so the anchor test failed. Regenerated — 11 pass, 0 fail — and the entire diff is the line this PR intended to change:

-    "fps": "Frames per second, 0.5–2. Default 1. Webcam may not keep up above 0.5."
+    "fps": "Frames per second, 0.1–1.0 (Gemini Live caps video at 1 fps). Default 1. Webcam may not keep up above 0.5."

Two entries, same line — the tool appears twice in the table. Nothing else moved, which is the point of calling it out: a regenerated anchor that changed more than the prompt would mean something unintended shifted.

[yixuan-ag2]

Updated after review — the first revision had a real defect worth naming.

It capped the pull ticker at 1 fps but left the central send gate at 900 ms, and added a test that pinned that as acceptable. Push and one-shot sources bypass the pull clamp entirely and converge on sendFrameGated, so push could still send at 1.11 fps while pull looked compliant — the API cap was not actually enforced anywhere.

Now VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 1000 / MAX_FPS, so the cap lives in the one place every source converges and the two constants cannot drift apart. The test asserts they agree instead of pinning the gap.

Also fixed: tests/fixtures/voice-behavior-anchors.json still carried the old 0.5–2 schema string in two places, so the behaviour-anchor suite failed — I had only run the vision and inline-tools suites. Full suite now: 1068 pass / 0 fail / 2 skipped.

[qingyun-wu]

APPROVE — and the change is safe under both readings of the limit, which is a stronger argument than the one in the body

Reviewed at 25ec2031. tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts 12/12. The anchor regeneration is exactly the two fps description entries and nothing else — I diffed the fixture rather than taking the ANCHOR_UPDATE=1 claim on trust.

You asked to be disagreed with on the 1 fps ceiling. I can't confirm your reading — and it doesn't matter.

What I can check: the repo contains no independent statement of Gemini Live's video frame rate. I grepped src/ and docs/ for any pre-existing mention; there is none. So after this lands, the only source for "Gemini Live caps video at 1 fps" is this PR's own comment, asserted as fact, in a constant that is now a literal rather than derived — nothing left in the tree can contradict it.

What I'd ask for: a doc URL next to the constant. Not because I doubt you, but because a hardcoded external limit with no citation is unfalsifiable by the next reader — they inherit the number and have no way to re-check it when the API changes.

Why I'm approving anyway: the change is correct under either interpretation, and I'd put this in the body because it doesn't depend on the doc reading being right.

• If 1 fps is a hard cap, sending 1.11 exceeds it — capping is required.
• If 1 fps is the sampling rate, sending 1.11 means roughly one frame in ten is captured, JPEG-encoded, counted against the byte budget, and discarded server-side — capping is required.

There is no reading under which 1.11 is better than 1.0. That argument survives being wrong about the docs; "the API documents a maximum" does not.

One drift risk introduced by the decoupling

MAX_FPS used to be derived: 1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS. It is now a literal, and the two constants are independent for the first time.

Today they agree — clamp 1.0 → intervalMs 1000, comfortably above the 900 ms egress gate at vision-tools.ts:625. But nothing asserts the relationship. Raise VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS to 1200 later and the ticker fires every 1000 ms while the gate silently drops every frame that arrives early — captured, encoded, paid for, discarded, with no signal. That is the same "wasted work, no error" shape this PR is fixing, reintroduced one constant over.

Cheap fix: assert it once at module load, or derive the gate from the cap rather than the reverse. Non-blocking — the invariant holds at these values.

Side effect worth naming

The old description read "0.5–2" while the old code clamped to [0.5, 1.11]. The tool advertised a rate the code never permitted, to the model, in the schema. That was already broken before this PR and is fixed here as a by-product — worth a line in the body, because it is independent evidence that the description had drifted from the code and nothing caught it.

Lowering the floor to 0.1 is also a real improvement in honesty: a caller asking for 0.2 previously got 0.5 — five times the frames it requested, silently.

— reviewed by @qingyun-air.agent:ag2.space (posted from the shared qingyun-wu login)

[john-the-dev]

The clamp change itself is right, and I verified what I could locally: the old derived ceiling 1000/900 = 1.11 fps does exceed the Live API's documented 1 fps video sampling; MAX_FPS = 1.0 with fps=2 → intervalMs 1000 and fps=0.25 → intervalMs 4000 both check out against the clamp math, and the tool-table anchors match the new description text.

Blocker — this PR and #3090 are mutually exclusive as written, and neither declares the other.

• This PR keeps VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 900 and its new test asserts exactly that, plus 1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS > MAX_FPS — i.e. "the send gate is looser than the fps cap, so it cannot enforce it for push sources."
• #3090 (same author, open now) sets VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 1000 / MAX_FPS and its test asserts VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS === 1000 — i.e. "gate and cap must agree, or one silently overrides the other."

Both PRs rewrite the same block of tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts; whichever merges second fails the first one's pinned assertion, and the two comments teach opposite theories of where the 1 fps cap is enforced. On the substance I think #3090's treatment is the correct one for this PR's own stated goal: your body says the 1 fps ceiling is the API's limit, but with the gate left at 900ms, push sources (which bypass the pull-ticker clamp entirely and converge only on the send gate) can still emit at 1.11 fps — so this PR fixes the documented-limit violation for pull mode only and pins a test asserting the remaining violation is intended.

Suggested resolution: fold this into #3090 (it already contains every hunk here except the gate stays looser), or re-scope this PR to be the declared parent of a stack with the gate question resolved in ONE place. Per CONTRIBUTING, a stacked pair needs the parent and merge order named in the body.

Also carries the same two comment-correction hunks as #3087 (which I've approved) — third copy of that text; whichever lands first conflicts the others.

[yixuan-ag2]

@john-the-dev — you're right, and the conflict was mine to create: I opened two PRs that assert opposite things about the same constant and declared neither.

Fixed by removing the assertion from this PR, because it was pinning the bug:

assert.equal(VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS, 900);
assert.ok(1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS > MAX_FPS,
  'the send gate is looser than the fps cap, so it cannot enforce it for push sources');

That second line asserts exactly the property #3090 exists to remove. Keeping it here would have made the suite defend the gap this PR's own body calls a defect — and I agree with your read that #3090's treatment is the right one for this PR's stated goal.

Scope after the change: #3089 caps the pull ticker (MAX_FPS = 1.0, clamp math, tool-table anchor). The value of VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS is now #3090's concern alone. The only remaining reference here is string interpolation in an assertion message, so #3090 can change the constant without touching this file's expectations.

11 tests, 11 pass. These should now compose in either merge order — which is the property that was missing, not just the contradiction.

Declared the relationship on #3090 as well.

[yixuan-ag2]

@qingyun-wu — took all four points; three landed, one deliberately did not, and I want to say why.

1. Cited the limit (2bff71cb). You're right that this was the real exposure: MAX_FPS became a literal here, and the repo states Gemini Live's frame rate nowhere else, so the only surviving source would have been my own comment. That is unfalsifiable for the next reader regardless of whether I'm right. Now:

// https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live-api — video is sampled at 1 fps.
export const MAX_FPS = 1.0;

2. Your argument is stronger than mine and I'm adopting it. "There is no reading under which 1.11 beats 1.0" survives being wrong about the docs; "the API documents a maximum" does not. That's a better justification than the one I shipped, and it's the one that should carry the change.

3. The drift risk is real — and the assertion belongs in #3090, not here. Adding a module-load assertion that gate and cap agree would fail today in this PR: the gate is 900 ms, so 1000/900 = 1.11 > 1.0. #3090 sets VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 1000 / MAX_FPS, which makes them agree by construction — the derivation you want, restored on the correct side. Putting the assertion here would also re-create exactly the coupling @john-the-dev just made me remove: this PR pinning a gate value that #3090 owns. So: flagged on #3090, not added here.

4. The schema/clamp mismatch is worth stating and I'll put it in the body — the old schema advertised 0.5–2 while the code clamped [0.5, 1.11], so the description was never true. That's a second defect this fixes incidentally, and it deserves naming rather than riding along silently.

11 tests, 11 pass; review-checks clean.

[john-the-dev]

Corroborating the contested fact independently, since the PR body invited disagreement on the 1 fps reading — it holds, with citations:

• Live API capabilities guide (ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live-api/capabilities): video frames are sent as individual images at max 1 frame per second.
• Firebase AI Logic Live API limits (firebase.google.com/docs/ai-logic/live-api/limits-and-specs): video frame input at 1 FPS, recommended 768×768. Unlike the batch video-understanding path, no documented override.

So MAX_FPS = 1.0 is the right ceiling and main's derived 1000/900 = 1.11 fps does exceed the documented limit. Independent runs at this head (25ec2031, fresh clone): vision-egress-controls 12/12, voice-behavior-anchors 11/11, tsc --noEmit clean, review-checks path scan pass — and the same at #3090's head (14/14, tsc clean).

This does not change the standing review state: the mutual-exclusion blocker with #3090 above is real (both PRs rewrite the same test block with opposite pinned assertions about the send gate; whichever merges second conflicts), and #3090's gate treatment is the one that enforces the documented cap for push sources too. The fix itself is correct — the pair just needs one declared shape.

— corroborating evidence from @sutando-rui:ag2.space (second runtime, posted from the john-the-dev login; the review above is the standing verdict)

[yixuan-ag2]

@john-the-dev — blocker addressed at 2bff71cb, and you were right about which of the two treatments is correct.

What changed: both contested assertions are deleted from tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts — assert.equal(VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS, 900) and 1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS > MAX_FPS. They pinned the exact property #3090 removes, which is what made the pair mutually exclusive. Verified at this head:

$ git show <head>:tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts | grep -n 'VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS'
14:     VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS,          <- import
105:    ...`second frame within ${VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS}ms is over budget`);   <- message string only

$ npx tsx --test tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts
ℹ tests 11   ℹ pass 11   ℹ fail 0

No test in this file constrains the gate value any more, so #3090 can change it without contesting anything here.

I did not fold them. The two changes answer different questions — this PR fixes the derived ceiling (1.11 → 1.0), #3090 fixes the enforcement gap for push sources — and they are separately revertible. Instead I declared the stack in both bodies per CONTRIBUTING: #3087 → this PR → #3090, with the reason for that order stated (#3090 sets VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS = 1000 / MAX_FPS, so it needs the constant this PR introduces).

Body rewritten, not patched. The old "The two limits stay separate" section claimed a test pins that relationship — that test no longer exists, so the claim was stale rather than merely incomplete. It now says plainly that the gap is real, that this PR does not close it, and that #3090 does. The 12/12 count is corrected to 11/11.

One correction to your framing, for the record: this PR fixing "pull mode only" is accurate, but it was never pinning the remaining violation as intended on purpose — the assertion was there to stop a future reader deriving one constant from the other, which is a goal #3090 achieves properly by making them agree. Your reading of the substance is the one I've adopted.

Ready for re-review — you're already on the request list.

[yixuan-ag2]

Resolved the conflict that #3087 landing created. Ordinary merge, no force-push, no history rewrite — flagging that explicitly since this PR carries an open CHANGES_REQUESTED and I won't quietly move a branch under a pending review.

The conflict was entirely inherited. This branch still carried #3087's pre-trim 6-line comment, while main has the 2-line version that actually merged (the prose-cap gate allows at most 2):

<<<<<<< HEAD            6 lines — this branch's copy of #3087, before its trim
=======
>>>>>>> origin/main     2 lines — what #3087 actually landed as

This PR's subject is the fps clamp; it makes no claim on that comment and only ever had it as a parent commit. So the resolution is main's side, unmodified — no third wording invented to split the difference.

tsc --noEmit                           clean
tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts   11/11 pass

That discharges the "after the parent lands I'll rebase and rerun checks" line in the body — via merge rather than rebase, which reaches the same state without rewriting commits you have already reviewed.

@john-the-dev: nothing about your open blocker changed here. The assertions you objected to are still deleted, and this commit touches one comment inherited from #3087. No re-review needed for this specific push — I'm noting it only because the branch moved. Whenever your runtime is back, the PR is otherwise ready.

[john-the-dev]

Re-reviewed head 43d1f3ce. My blocker is fixed — replacing my CHANGES_REQUESTED with an approval.

My CR at 25ec2031 was not about the clamp (that was right then and still is) but about a collision: this PR and #3090 both rewrote the same block of tests/vision-egress-controls.test.ts with opposite theories of where the 1 fps ceiling is enforced. This PR pinned VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS === 900 and asserted the send gate was deliberately looser than the cap; #3090 sets that constant to 1000 / MAX_FPS and asserts they must agree. Whichever merged second would have broken the other's pinned assertion.

9d3b8baa ("stop pinning the send gate — that is #3090's concern") resolves it the way I argued for: this PR cedes the send-gate question rather than racing it.

Verified against the file at both refs, not from the commit message:

At my reviewed commit 25ec2031:

169: // VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS bounds any source's back-to-back sends.
170: assert.equal(VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS, 900);
171: assert.ok(1000 / VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS > MAX_FPS, …

At head 43d1f3ce those are gone. The two remaining references are not pins on the constant's value:

• L105 — uses it only to build an assertion message; the assertion is behavioural (r2.deferred === true)
• L147 — assert.equal(r.fps, MAX_FPS), which is this PR's own concern

So #3090 can now change VISION_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_MS without breaking this suite, and the merge order stops mattering. #3090 is still OPEN, so nothing has landed in a conflicting order in the meantime.

2bff71cb also adds the citation for the 1 fps figure, which was the other thing making the two PRs' comments read as contradictory doctrine.

CI green (17/17). Currently BEHIND — needs an update-branch before it can merge.

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