P1 of #12150: transcript text no longer reaches call logs or durable memory in the clear.
Reconciled on merge — the two persisted-requestBody assertions were failing, and the failure signature was misleading enough to be worth recording. They reported "expected: true, actual: false", which reads like the redaction not applying. It was not: pollForCallLog waited at most 120 tries x 20ms = 2.4s for the asynchronous SQLite write, then returned null, so assert.ok(row) failed before any redaction assertion ran. The observed durations were 5253ms and 4467ms against that 2.4s ceiling — a starved runner, not a leak. The control test failing alongside the positive one was the tell: a real redaction defect would break one direction, not both.
Replaced the fixed try count with a 30s wall-clock deadline: far past any healthy write, still bounded, and a fast machine still returns on the first pass. A privacy test should not depend on how busy the box is.
Verified: 4/4 three consecutive times under synthetic load, and 3/3 unloaded beforehand. Note the synthetic load reached ~7, below the ~38 where the original failure appeared, but the budget is now 12.5x larger and deadline-based rather than count-based.
FU-05 core (closes#11652): caller-supplied Video Bridge transcripts had no bounded, deterministic contract — a client could self-assert source: "embedded"/"audio-bridge" and it was accepted verbatim. normalizeVideoTranscript gained a code-only trustedSource seam unreachable from request-body JSON; without it, any cue declaring embedded/audio-bridge is reclassified to client. Added budgets (256 cues, 4096 code units/cue, 4KiB/cue, 64KiB total), malformed-surrogate rejection, focus-window scoping, deterministic cross-source reconciliation, and bumped the result-cache version v4→v5 so old-contract cache entries can never serve new-contract requests.
All 187 videoBridge* tests pass (185 pass, 2 unrelated pre-existing skips).
Merged via /merge-batch (v3.8.51). Boarded and validated in a combined worktree alongside the batch's other in-flight PRs — full gate suite green (typecheck:core, lint, complexity/cognitive-complexity, file-size, changelog-integrity, focused tests including the video-bridge fusion/transcript suites). Thank you.
The fusion result's availability, partial and failure fields now reach
DescribedVideo.fusion, the guardrail meta (audioFusionRuns/Partials/
FailureCodes), the result-cache metadata and bridge stats. Audio
transcript validation moved inside the fusion's audio branch, so an
invalid audioTranscript records failures.audio and keeps the visual
description instead of failing the whole video.
