feat(editor): imported audio as a first-class timeline region

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Summary

Supersedes #502 and #526, the two independent implementations of imported audio. Both authors' work is here, and it is worth being precise about whose is what.

Benjamin Freeman (Beetix) — #502. Carried in full and essentially unchanged: the native mixer (audio.rs::mix_external_tracks, wired into all three pipelines), the waveform, the preview playback path, the IPC that lets audio reads survive a reopen, and the documentation. His 27 commits are on this branch under his own authorship, and since this repository rebase-merges they land on main as his.

Ola Adebayo (olamide226) — #526. His positioning model is what this PR adds on top of that base, and it is the load-bearing idea: audio is a clip-anchored region, not a parallel track. Because it had to be rebuilt onto #502's document shape rather than copied across, it reaches main as a Co-Authored-By trailer on the two convergence commits rather than as commits of his own — the asymmetry is in the mechanics of the rebase, not in the size of the contribution.

The third piece is mine, and is the gap neither PR touched: the LLM can now see and place audio.

Nothing either of them wrote was thrown away. What went is the second implementation of things the region model already had.

What changed against #502

document.audioTracks[] → document.audioRanges[], a first-class region. Same v5 clip anchor as zoom, annotation and speed. Everything the universal region rules give the other kinds now comes for free rather than being rebuilt: merge, repel, one pill per run, whole-pill delete, copy/paste, shift-click multi-select, undo. RegionKind gained "audio" and mapAllRegionCollections gained one branch; document/audioTracks.ts, selectedAudioTrackId, AudioLanePill, startAudioDrag, placeAudioTrack, removeAudioTrack and AudioTrackPane are gone with nothing put in their place.

That deletion is what fixes the review finding still open on #502: Delete/Backspace now removes a selected audio pill, because it goes through the same deleteSelection every other pill does. So do Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V.

And it fixes the behaviour that made #526's model the better one: a bed now travels with its clip through reorder, trim and delete instead of sitting still while the content slides underneath it.

Two departures, both because audio is continuous media rather than a value held over a span. Both are written up in timeline-model.md.

• The file is audioAssetId, not assetId. assetId is in NON_IDENTITY_FIELDS — correct for a trim, where it says where the cut lives — so two beds from different files that touch would have merged into one pill. This is a wart, and the doc says so: the general fix is per-kind identity rather than a field-name heuristic, which is more than this feature should carry.
• offsetSec is the in-point of the pill, not of the fragment. Ventilation copies the payload verbatim, which is exactly what keeps fragments merging — and exactly what would restart a bed at every clip boundary if the mixer read it directly. This was the structural cost flagged in review on feat: add voiceover and background music layers to the editor #526 and unsolved in both PRs.

placeAudioRegions (timeline/audio-placement.ts) is the answer, and the single projection the preview and the export both read. It walks a pill's fragments left to right and advances the in-point by the output length of each. Output, not raw, because that is how much media a fragment gets to play. A fragment a trim removed entirely contributes nothing and does not advance the cursor, so a cut shortens a bed without desynchronising what follows it. One function on both sides means the editor and the file cannot drift.

Speed regions are no longer ignored. projectRawTimelineSecToPlayback now integrates speed as well as trims, so a region laid after a 2× stretch lands where the picture actually is. The media itself still plays at 1× — a speed region stretches clip PCM, never an imported file — so what a speed change moves is the placement, never the pitch. This was a documented limitation in both PRs.

Voiceover and music are two lanes of one region family. kind is part of the identity, so they never merge and — the point — never repel. A single lane would make rule 2 forbid a voiceover over a music bed, which is the arrangement the feature exists for. V and M, both remappable.

One gesture audio has that no other kind does: a left-edge drag trims the in-point (measured on the clamped result, found by the pill's leading id) while a body drag carries the media with it. For a value-per-span kind the edge you grabbed changes nothing; for media it decides whether the sound at a given second stays put.

What changed against both

The agent can see and place audio. Neither PR touched agent-tools.ts, so imported audio was invisible to the model — absent from documentSnapshotForModel, absent from the tool roster.

• The snapshot carries audioRanges, coalesced to whole pills like every other kind, plus assets[].kind (without which an audio asset is something the model tries to place as footage).
• addAudio lays an already-imported kind: "audio" asset over a span, on either lane. It refuses an unknown or video id, and the refusal lists the audio the project actually has — importing from disk is the editor's job, and a guessed id is the failure mode worth spending a sentence on.
• setAudio moves, resizes, re-levels, re-lanes or re-points a pill, patching every fragment under it.
• removeModifier resolves "audio", so deleting one is the same first-class action it is for every other kind.

Related issue

Closes #350

Type of change

• Feature
• Refactor / maintenance

Release impact

• Minor

Desktop impact

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

No Rust change: scene.rs and audio.rs::mix_external_tracks are untouched and the SceneDescription.audioTracks JSON contract is unchanged. What changed is what the renderer puts in it — one entry per fragment, positions projected through speed as well as trims.

Screenshots / video

Not captured. Two audio lanes (voiceover / music) sit below the existing five on the timeline; the pills carry the file's waveform and open in the ordinary selection pane.

Testing

• npm run test — 2285 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed (187 files)
• npx tsc --noEmit and npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit — clean
• npm run lint (Biome) — clean (14 pre-existing warnings in untouched files)
• npm run i18n:check — all 13 locales pass
• npm run docs:check — OK
• npm run build-vite — clean

New coverage where the design actually lives:

• timeline/audio-placement.test.ts (13 tests) — the fragment walk: each fragment starts the file where the last stopped; a fragment a trim removed does not advance the cursor; a 2× stretch consumes half the file; two beds from different files never share a pill.
• document/timeline.test.ts — the speed integral in projectRawTimelineSecToPlayback, including partial traversal of a stretch, a region anchored to another clip, and trims + speed together.
• sceneDescription.test.ts — one mixer entry per fragment with advancing windows, the trim and speed projections, and the clamp to the asset's real duration.
• useTimeline.test.ts — anchored placement, the pill-wide payload patch, left-edge vs body drag, and that a second pill's resize does not re-point the first.
• V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx — the pill selects through selectRegion("audio", …), which is what makes Delete and copy/paste reach it.

Not done — required before merge: the manual end-to-end pass on real macOS/Windows per AGENTS.md (import → drag/trim → preview → MP4 export). The compositor is not rebuilt in this worktree, so nothing here has been through a real export.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Import audio files as music or voiceover tracks.
  • Add, move, resize, trim, adjust gain, copy, paste, and remove audio regions on the timeline.
  • Preview imported audio with waveform lanes and synchronized playback.
  • Use M for music and V for voiceover.
  • AI editing tools can add and update audio tracks.
  • Exported videos include imported audio on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

• Documentation & Localization

  • Added audio workflow documentation and translations across supported locales.

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This change adds imported audio assets and clip-anchored audio regions. It supports audio import, timeline editing, agent control, preview playback, localized UI, and mixing into Linux, macOS, and Windows exports.

Changes

External audio support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Audio document model and placement src/lib/ai-edition/schema/index.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/timeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/audio-placement.ts	Adds audio region schemas, timeline projection, fragment placement, playback resolution, clipboard support, and duration probing.
Audio asset import and persistence electron/ipc/*, electron/ai-edition/*, src/native/*, src/lib/ai-edition/store/*	Adds audio file validation, file picking, native bridge support, duration probing, asset persistence, and orphan cleanup.
Agent audio tools electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts, electron/ai-edition/deep-agent/*	Adds addAudio and setAudio, snapshot fields, validation, mutation registration, and tool descriptions.
Timeline, inspector, and preview src/components/ai-edition/*, src/lib/shortcuts.ts	Adds audio lanes, waveform pills, drag and resize behavior, gain editing, keyboard shortcuts, copy/paste handling, and synchronized preview playback.
Scene export and compositor mixing src/native/sceneDescription.ts, crates/compositor/src/*	Resolves audio fragments into scene tracks and mixes decoded external tracks into the assembled programme without extending its length.
Audio labels and documentation src/i18n/locales/*, technical-documentation/architecture/*	Adds localized audio labels, file-dialog strings, shortcut hints, and architecture documentation for the audio model and export flow.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 005be

This change makes imported audio persistent, editable, previewable, exportable, and available to automated editing. The current implementation can lose audio across clip boundaries, overwrite concurrent edits, leave imported assets authorized after their visible placement is undone, and permit overly broad renderer audio reads; keyboard-only users also cannot select audio regions. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 44.59% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 74 functions across 52 files. (13 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation satisfies issue #350 by importing external audio, supporting voiceover and music lanes, and synchronizing audio with screen recordings through clip-anchored regions and shared previ…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are consistent with the imported-audio feature, including timeline behavior, preview and export integration, agent tools, IPC, localization, tests, and documentation. No unrelated code cha…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: imported audio is implemented as a first-class timeline region.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections, explains the design and scope, identifies issue #350, records feature and release impact, covers all desktop platforms, describes the screenshot status,…

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The implementation satisfies issue #350 by importing external audio, supporting voiceover and music lanes, and synchronizing audio with screen recordings through clip-anchored regions and shared preview/export placement logic.

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The changes are consistent with the imported-audio feature, including timeline behavior, preview and export integration, agent tools, IPC, localization, tests, and documentation. No unrelated code changes are evident.

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src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx (1)

332-332: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep audio assets out of Preview.videoSources.

When the timeline is empty, Preview falls back to all videoSources. An audio-only import has no primaryAssetId, but handleLoadedMetadata and replaceTimeline both fall back to the first asset. The audio source can therefore create and persist an invalid timeline clip.

Build a video-only list for Preview.videoSources. Keep all assets in audioSources. Add a test that imports only audio and confirms document.timeline.clips remains empty after metadata loads.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx` at line 332, Update the asset
mapping in NewEditorShell so Preview.videoSources contains only video assets,
while audioSources continues to include every asset. Add coverage for an
audio-only import verifying document.timeline.clips remains empty after metadata
loads, including the existing handleLoadedMetadata and replaceTimeline fallback
behavior.

src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx (1)

1206-1207: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add keyboard activation for interactive timeline pills.

Lines 1206-1207 make audio pills focusable buttons, but only onPointerDown selects them at Line 1227. Enter and Space do not call tl.selectRegion. Keyboard users cannot select an audio region before delete, copy, paste, or inspector editing. Add an onKeyDown handler that performs the same selection for Enter and Space.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx` around lines 1206 - 1207, Update
the interactive timeline pill rendering near the existing onPointerDown handler
to add an onKeyDown handler that calls tl.selectRegion for Enter and Space,
matching pointer selection while ignoring other keys. Preserve the current
focusability and non-interactive behavior.

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src/lib/ai-edition/store/documentWriteAudit.test.ts (1)

175-176: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

This comment sits above the wrong row.

Lines 175-176 describe placing an imported audio track on the timeline, but the next row is replaceTimeline, and its own explanation follows on lines 177-178. The row this text describes is addAudioRegion, declared at Line 226. Move the comment there, or delete it, so each rationale stays attached to the row it explains.

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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/documentWriteAudit.test.ts` around lines 175 - 176,
Move the comment describing placement of an imported audio track from the row
above replaceTimeline to the addAudioRegion row, or remove it if redundant, so
the rationale is attached to the behavior it describes.

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Inline comments:
In `@electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts`:
- Line 1941: Before appending in anchorForAgent, validate each entry in placed
against document.audioRanges for overlaps where both regions share the same kind
(such as music or voiceover). Reject or otherwise prevent conflicting regions
from being stored, while preserving non-overlapping and different-lane
placements.
- Line 1921: Update addAudio at electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts:1921 to
reject omitted-end requests when offsetSec is at or beyond a known
asset.durationSec; retain the default duration behavior when the duration is
unknown. Update setAudio at electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts:1972 to resolve
existing.audioAssetId and apply the same offset validation before changing
offsetSec.

In `@electron/ai-edition/deep-agent/service.test.ts`:
- Around line 76-80: Add valid audio asset and audio-region fixtures in
service.test.ts, then add success-path tests for addAudio and setAudio. Verify
addAudio places the asset with the expected anchor and applies the default
duration, while setAudio successfully updates the target region’s audio
assignment; retain the existing unknown-ID refusal tests.

In `@electron/ipc/handlers.ts`:
- Line 376: Update the handler calling approveReadableMediaPath so
renderer-supplied audio paths are not self-approved: pass trustedDirs and
require either picker-approved paths or paths explicitly approved during trusted
project loading before allowing read-binary-file access.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Line 514: Move the render-time assignments to trimRangesRef.current and
audioPillsRef.current into a post-commit effect in VirtualPreview, so the
long-lived requestAnimationFrame callback only observes committed values. Update
both refs together whenever their corresponding inputs change, and remove the
direct render-time mutations.

In `@src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/shortcuts.json`:
- Line 23: Add the missing actions.addVoiceover translation next to addAudio in
Traditional Chinese, using an appropriate voiceover label and preserving the
locale file’s existing JSON structure; run the i18n:check validation afterward.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/document/timeline.ts`:
- Around line 1076-1080: Update removeClip so both return paths pass their
resulting document through dropOrphanedAudioAssets before returning. Preserve
the existing clip and audio-range removal behavior while ensuring assets
unreferenced after removing the clip are pruned.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/projectStore.ts`:
- Around line 362-368: Update the duration-probing flow around saveDocument so
the imported asset is installed in the store before awaiting the probe, then
read the latest current document after probing and patch only that asset’s
duration. Avoid saving the pre-await document snapshot, preserve history: false
for this import metadata update, and add a regression test covering a user edit
completed while probing is pending.

In `@src/native/sceneDescription.ts`:
- Around line 532-535: Update the fileEnd calculation in the scene-description
trimming logic to use placement.sourceOutSec whenever asset.durationSec is zero
or negative, while retaining positive durations. Add a regression test covering
durationSec: 0 and confirming the placement is not dropped from export.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx`:
- Line 332: Update the asset mapping in NewEditorShell so Preview.videoSources
contains only video assets, while audioSources continues to include every asset.
Add coverage for an audio-only import verifying document.timeline.clips remains
empty after metadata loads, including the existing handleLoadedMetadata and
replaceTimeline fallback behavior.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx`:
- Around line 1206-1207: Update the interactive timeline pill rendering near the
existing onPointerDown handler to add an onKeyDown handler that calls
tl.selectRegion for Enter and Space, matching pointer selection while ignoring
other keys. Preserve the current focusability and non-interactive behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/documentWriteAudit.test.ts`:
- Around line 175-176: Move the comment describing placement of an imported
audio track from the row above replaceTimeline to the addAudioRegion row, or
remove it if redundant, so the rationale is attached to the behavior it
describes.

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Inline comments:
In `@electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts`:
- Line 1993: Update setAudio to resolve startMs and endMs from the coalesced
full audio pill rather than the single existing fragment before calling
replacePillSpan, preserving all fragments when only gainDb or kind changes. Add
a test covering a gain or lane update on an audio pill spanning two clips.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx`:
- Around line 848-849: Update pasteRegion’s enqueueTimelineWrite callback to
read the latest document state inside the callback, then compute anchored from
that current document and save by spreading it before appending audioRanges; do
not use the document snapshot captured before the awaited imports.
- Line 846: Check the boolean result from saveDocument in the audio paste flow
and every other paste branch, returning or otherwise stopping before the success
toast when it resolves false. Preserve the existing “Region pasted” success
behavior only when the save succeeds, and apply the same handling consistently
across all paste branches.

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[EtienneLescot]

Worked through the review. Eight findings fixed in 005bec7; four I'm not acting on, with reasons below so the decision is visible rather than silent.

Each was checked against the code first — two of them turned out to be broader than reported, and one narrower.

Fixed

The V shortcut had no label in any locale. addVoiceover went into SHORTCUT_ACTIONS but never into shortcuts.json, and ShortcutsConfigDialog renders t(\actions.${action}`)— so the shortcuts dialog showed a raw key for the new binding in all 13 languages, not justzh-TW. Worth flagging for the repo generally: **i18n:checkpassed before and after**, because it compares every locale againstenand the key was missing fromentoo. A key absent everywhere is consistent, and the check is blind to it.addAudio` is retitled "Add Music" now that it is one of two.

A failed duration probe dropped the region from the export. durationSec is 0 after a probe that failed — not null — and ?? only catches null, so the decode window clamped to 0 and buildSceneDescription filtered the entry out. Silently, and only on the one file whose length could not be read. Non-positive now reads as unknown, which is what the on-load re-probe in useTimeline already assumed.

Deleting a clip orphaned its audio asset — and in both of removeClip's return paths, not just the one. The early newClips.length === 0 branch is the one a test deleting the only clip actually takes, which is how the first attempt at this fix got caught.

An imported mp3 could become a timeline clip. videoSources carried every asset; an audio-only project has no primaryAssetId, so handleLoadedMetadata and replaceTimeline both fell back to assets[0] — the audio the preview had already mounted as a <video>. Now split into videoSources (footage) and audioSources (imports), and nothing receives the undivided list.

An edit made during the import probe was overwritten. addAudioAsset built its duration patch from a snapshot captured before the await, and superseded() does not catch an ordinary save — the write epoch moves only on undo / redo / project switch. The document is installed before the probe now, and the patch re-reads the live one and touches only that asset's duration. The regression test was verified to fail without the fix.

The agent could start a file past its end. An offsetSec beyond a known duration produced a 0.1 s region playing silence, which the model would then report as placed audio. One guard shared by addAudio and setAudio so they cannot drift, quiet while the duration is unknown (a failed probe must not block a legitimate call).

A stale comment in the write audit was left describing replaceTimeline after the store op it belonged to was removed.

Plus ten tests for the audio tools' success and refusal paths, which the previous fixture only exercised through unknown-ID refusals.

Not changing, and why

Keyboard activation for lane pills. Correct, and out of scope here: role="button" + tabIndex with no onKeyDown is on main already (git show origin/main:src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx | grep -c onKeyDown → 0). It affects all five pre-existing lane kinds, not the two this PR adds; fixing it changes keyboard behaviour across the whole ruler and deserves its own review. Tracked separately.

The trust model on the generic media reads (approveReadableAvPath without trustedDirs). Unchanged from main, where approveReadableVideoPath(filePath) is called the same way at the same call sites. #502 widened the extension gate from video to video+audio — which was the requested fix, so that reopening a project does not permanently lose the waveform of a file imported from outside RECORDINGS_DIR. Requiring picker-approval there would reintroduce exactly that bug. A real question about the app's threat model, but not one this PR changes the answer to.

Rejecting same-lane overlaps in addAudio. The repel rule is an edit-time clamp in replacePillSpan, not a storage invariant: the editor's own addAudioRegion appends without an overlap check too. Enforcing it only for the agent would make the model stricter than the UI, which is a worse inconsistency than the one it fixes. If overlap should be impossible, it belongs in the shared add path for both callers.

Render-time ref assignment in VirtualPreview. This is the file's established convention for every rAF input — clipsRef.current = clips and speedRegionsRef.current = speedRegions are both render-time on main. Converting two of roughly eight to post-commit effects would make the file inconsistent without making the rAF safer; if the pattern is wrong it is wrong for all of them, and that is a separate change.

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[EtienneLescot]

The second review pass (11:43Z) landed three findings the earlier summary reply didn't cover — all three were checked against the code, all three still stood, and all three are fixed in 49d543f. Tests for each were verified to fail without their fix.

• setAudio shrank a cross-clip pill to one fragment's span. existing is a single fragment while replacePillSpan removes every fragment under the pill and rebuilds only the span it is handed, so a gain/kind-only edit silently deleted the audio on the other clips. The span now comes from the coalesced pill (coalesceRegionsForRuler), as suggested. Pinned by a test that places a 20–40 s region across the fixture's 30 s clip boundary and re-levels it: two fragments survive, same total span, gain patched on both.

• pasteRegion saved a pre-await document snapshot. The read — and the playhead, which belongs with it — moved inside the enqueueTimelineWrite chain, the same serialization handleDropAsset uses for this exact race class. Two quick Ctrl+V used to read the same snapshot and the second save clobbered the first, leaving one pasted region for two presses; the regression test pastes twice and asserts two regions with distinct ids.

• The paste toast fired on a failed save. saveDocument resolves false rather than rejecting when the write fails, and the failure is already reported by the store — the toast now waits for a true before claiming the paste landed.

One follow-up noted rather than fixed here: setZoom / setSpeed / setAnnotation / setCameraFullscreen resolve their span from existing exactly the way setAudio did, so a payload-only edit on a cross-clip pill truncates there too. That pattern pre-dates this branch on main (all four call sites exist there unchanged), it affects tools this PR did not add, and fixing it changes agent behaviour across every region kind — same reasoning as the keyboard-pill finding: its own change, its own review.

main is merged in (862920b). The three pipeline_*.rs conflicts were one import list each: main's audio_jobs refactor moved decode_clip_audio/stretch_clip_pcm_by_speed behind decode_and_stretch_clip_audio, this branch adds mix_external_tracks — the resolution keeps the union of what the merged bodies actually call, and cargo check is clean. Full unit suite passes locally (190 files, 2335 tests).

[EtienneLescot]

History note: the branch was force-pushed as a single linear commit (c2ae3b8d) on top of claude/pill-keyboard-activation, which itself absorbed main (375da38e — a plain update-branch merge, PR #547 stays mergeable).

Why: the previous head history contained two merge commits of main inside the branch, so GitHub could not offer Rebase and merge — replaying main's commits onto a base that lacked them is what the "This branch cannot be rebased due to conflicts" banner was about (the 42-commit list). The new head's tree is byte-identical to the previous tested head (git diff empty against 862920b1, which passed the full unit suite, both typechecks and cargo check) — only the history shape changed, no content. The one-commit body carries the feature summary; the development narrative stays in this thread. CI is re-running on the new SHA.