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-# CODEC Live Demo — SEALED FINAL (25 beats)
+# CODEC Live Demo — SEALED FINAL (24 beats)
 
-> The locked recording scenario. 15 (Apr) → 22 → 25, now **sealed** and renumbered
-> in **performance order** (run top to bottom). Each beat: exact **TRY** line +
-> **EXPECT** + status. The 20 "hidden moats" that aren't separate beats live in
-> **§ Name-drop moats** — say them *during* the beat noted.
+> The locked recording scenario. 15 (Apr) → 22 → 25 → **24** (webcam cut). Sealed
+> and renumbered in **performance order** (run top to bottom). Each beat: exact
+> **TRY** line + **EXPECT** + status. The "hidden moats" that aren't separate
+> beats live in **§ Name-drop moats** — say them *during* the beat noted.
 >
-> Status: ✅ verified · ⚠️ needs fix before filming · 🔑 needs Google/Notion auth ·
-> 🧑 you run (voice/hardware) · 🖥️ software (Claude can pre-verify).
+> Status: ✅ verified · ⚠️ needs a decision/check before filming ·
+> 🔑 needs Google auth · 🧑 you run (voice/hardware).
 >
-> **Last sealed:** 2026-07-14 · **Last status refresh:** 2026-07-16.
+> **Last sealed:** 2026-07-16.
 
 ## Act 1 — It hears you, acts, and types for you
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | Wake word → Calendar + Task | "Hey CODEC — add 'edit and upload demo video' to my calendar tomorrow 3pm, and to my to-do list." | Google Calendar event tmrw 15:00 + a Google Task. *(Re-open Calendar+Tasks later = the "trust receipt".)* | 🧑🔑 |
 | 2 | Voice app control | "Open Time Magazine in Safari." | Safari opens time.com | 🧑 |
-| 3 | **F5 Live Cursor Typing** 🆕 | Click into any text field / search bar → hold **F5** → talk normally | Your words stream in live, in place — a free local SuperWhisper (CODEC Dictate) | 🧑 |
+| 3 | **F5 Live Cursor Typing** | Click into any text field / search bar → hold **F5** → talk normally | Your words stream in live, in place — a free local SuperWhisper (CODEC Dictate) | 🧑 |
 | 4 | Instant Read Aloud (Kokoro) | Select a paragraph → Read Aloud | CODEC reads the selection in a natural voice | 🧑 |
 | 5 | Vision → draft email reply | Open a client email in Gmail → "Look at my screen and draft a reply." | A polished, context-aware draft appears | 🧑🔑 |
 | 6 | Instant Translate (UA→EN) | Select a Ukrainian message → Translate | Instant English in place | 🧑 |
@@ -26,44 +26,43 @@
 | # | Feature | TRY (live) | EXPECT | Status |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7 | **Vision Mouse Control (UI-TARS)** — showstopper | On Cloudflare DNS: "Click the DNS button." | Cursor moves to the button and clicks — pixel coords, no accessibility API | ✅ |
-| 8 | Live webcam vision (PIP) | "CODEC, look through my webcam — what do you see?" | Describes the live view | ⚠️ works but **out of focus** — Swift fix pending |
-| 9 | Think mode + reveal reasoning | Ask a logic trap (rate / car-wash) with Think on → "Reveal train of thought" | Correct answer + readable reasoning panel | ✅ |
+| 8 | Think mode + reveal reasoning | Ask a logic trap (rate / car-wash) with Think on → "Reveal train of thought" | Correct answer + readable reasoning panel | ✅ |
 
 ## Act 3 — Autonomous agents (work while you watch)
 
 | # | Feature | TRY (live) | EXPECT | Status |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| 10 | Deep Research crew | Agent mode: "Research the top 5 Notion competitors and summarize." | Crew launches, streams progress for a few minutes | ✅🖥️ |
-| 11 | **Project mode** | Project: "Research Notion, Figma and Linear; draft a personalized Head-of-Growth outreach email to each; save as Gmail drafts." Approve the plan once. | Approve once → runs autonomously → 3 Gmail drafts appear | ✅ |
-| 12 | Chat auto-escalation | Chat: "plan and build me a 5-page competitor report with charts." | CODEC offers "Promote to Project mode?" | ✅ *(fixed #244)* |
-| 13 | **Vibe** live coding | Vibe: "Build me a snake game." | Code writes itself live in Monaco; preview plays | ✅ |
-| 14 | **Pilot** — teach by doing + self-healing replay | Pilot: record "check the price of a MacBook on Amazon" once → replay | Records your clicks → compiles a zero-LLM skill → replays; self-heals if the page changed | ⚠️ **navigation ✅ confirmed live** (#245 health-token fix, #251 CSRF fix) — but the live view still isn't click-through-able (clicking it opens a static screenshot). **Rebuild in progress**: click/type/scroll straight into the headless browser. Until it lands, drive Pilot via a typed mission or the Quick Actions element-index click, not by clicking the stream. |
+| 9 | Deep Research crew | Agent mode: "Research the top 5 Notion competitors and summarize." | Crew launches, streams progress for a few minutes | ✅ |
+| 10 | **Project mode** | Project: "Research Notion, Figma and Linear; draft a personalized Head-of-Growth outreach email to each; save as Gmail drafts." Approve the plan once. | Approve once → runs autonomously → 3 Gmail drafts appear | ✅ |
+| 11 | Chat auto-escalation | Chat: "plan and build me a 5-page competitor report with charts." | CODEC offers "Start as Project?" + asks the clarifying questions | ✅ |
+| 12 | **Vibe** live coding | Vibe: "Build me a snake game." | Code writes itself live in Monaco; preview plays | ✅ |
+| 13 | **Pilot** — teach by doing + self-healing replay | Pilot tab → **click directly on the live view** to drive the browser → Record → replay | You click what you see; CODEC compiles those clicks into a reusable skill and replays it, self-healing if the page changed | ✅ click-through live (verified: a click at (297,207) resolved to the link and navigated example.com → iana.org) |
 
 ## Act 4 — The nerve center & oversight
 
 | # | Feature | TRY (live) | EXPECT | Status |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| 15 | Cortex neural map | Open Cortex *(leave it on a 2nd screen all demo)* | Pulsing zones update live as tools fire | 🧑 |
-| 16 | Forensic audit log (16 categories) | Open Audit → filter by category | Every vision click / clipboard hit / LLM call logged locally — zero hidden telemetry | 🧑 |
-| 17 | Deep Research → real **Google Doc** | Open the doc from beat 10 | A real docs.google.com doc: report, citations, native tables | 🔑 verifier live (#246); needs one run + Google auth |
+| 14 | Cortex neural map | Open Cortex *(leave it on a 2nd screen all demo)* | Pulsing zones update live as tools fire | 🧑 |
+| 15 | Forensic audit log (16 categories) | Open Audit → filter by category | Every vision click / clipboard hit / LLM call logged locally — zero hidden telemetry | 🧑 |
+| 16 | Deep Research → real **Google Doc** | Open the doc from beat 9 | A real docs.google.com doc: report, citations, native tables | ✅ confirmed working |
 
 ## Act 5 — Bidirectional MCP (the differentiator)
 
 | # | Feature | TRY (live) | EXPECT | Status |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| 18 | **CODEC as MCP server** (Claude drives your Mac) | Claude Desktop (CODEC connector on): "Research the 3 best noise-cancelling headphones, then use CODEC to save the summary to my Desktop, add a calendar reminder, and dim my office lights." | Claude thinks; CODEC acts locally: file saved, reminder set, lights dim | 🧑 set the CODEC connector to **Always Allow** in Claude's settings first (done) — was blocking on a per-call approval prompt, not a CODEC bug |
-| 19 | **CODEC as MCP client / Connector tab** (CODEC drives other servers) | Connector tab: toggle a server on → **Sign in** → say "list tools on notion" | Card shows **Connected**, with a **Disconnect** option; CODEC lists the server's tools | ⚠️ **OAuth sign-in itself works** (confirmed live with Notion) but the tab doesn't show connected/disconnect state and tokens don't survive a restart (in-memory only). **Full rebuild in progress**: proper inactive → sign-in → Connected → Disconnect states + persistent Keychain-backed tokens + real styling. |
-| 20 | Observer recall | "Hey CODEC, what was I doing 20 minutes ago?" | Recalls Safari/Time, the Gmail draft, etc. from its buffer | ✅ **fully fixed** — routing (#256), real capture via NSWorkspace instead of the TCC-blocked osascript path (#258), and it now tells you honestly when a question ("today between 11am and 1pm") is outside its ~10-min rolling window instead of guessing (#260) |
+| 17 | **CODEC as MCP server** (Claude drives your Mac) | Claude Desktop (CODEC connector on): "Research the 3 best noise-cancelling headphones, then use CODEC to save the summary to my Desktop, add a calendar reminder, and dim my office lights." | Claude thinks; CODEC acts locally: file saved, reminder set, lights dim | ✅ confirmed working (connector set to **Always Allow**) |
+| 18 | **Connector tab** (CODEC drives other MCP servers) | Connector tab → toggle Notion on → **Sign in** → say "list tools on notion" | Card flips to **● Connected** with a **Disconnect** option; CODEC lists Notion's tools | ✅ full state machine + Keychain-persistent tokens. **Sign in once more** — the old token was in-memory and is gone; this one survives restarts |
+| 19 | Observer recall | "Hey CODEC, what was I doing 20 minutes ago?" | "Over the last 9 minutes, you were in Claude the whole time. You touched 4 files: …" — conversational, and honest if you ask outside its ~10-min window | ✅ |
 
 ## Act 6 — Self-improvement, voice duplex, finale
 
 | # | Feature | TRY (live) | EXPECT | Status |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| 21 | **Self-improve live** | "CODEC, create a new skill that tells me the current moon phase." | CODEC **talks first** — briefs what it's about to build and asks "Build it?" — then on confirm generates it, stages it in the Skills tab, and explains the outcome in chat | ✅ **fully conversational now** (#257) — no more silent builds. Approve the staged skill in the **Skills** tab to activate it. *(External Claude-MCP-connector path to create_skill still 401s — separate non-demo bug, handed off.)* |
-| 22 | **Compare across models** | "Compare across models: what's the best programming language for a beginner?" | Side-by-side answers from multiple models | ⚠️ only local answered on dev Mac — **verify on licensed machine** |
-| 23 | Voice call + interrupt (RMS duplex) | Start a voice call → interrupt CODEC mid-sentence | It cuts instantly — true duplex, not turn-based | 🧑 worked once already — re-confirm on the day |
-| 24 | Phone Touch ID remote | On phone at `codec.avadigital.ai` → Touch ID → issue a command | Mac Studio at home executes it | 🧑 |
-| 25 | **FINALE** — Hue + Spotify | "CODEC, turn off the lights." then "CODEC, play music on Spotify." | Lights dim, music starts. Cut. | 🧑 |
+| 20 | **Self-improve live** | "CODEC, create a new skill that tells me the current moon phase." | CODEC briefs what it'll build and asks "Build it?" → generates → stages it in the **Skills** tab → explains the outcome. Approve it there to activate | ✅ conversational |
+| 21 | **Compare across models** | "Compare across models: what's the best programming language for a beginner?" | Side-by-side answers from several models | ⚠️ **DECIDE** — on the dev Mac only the local model answered, so it just reads like a normal chat reply. Only keep this beat if the demo machine actually shows 3+ models side by side; otherwise cut it — it makes no point with one column |
+| 22 | Voice call + interrupt (RMS duplex) | Start a voice call → interrupt CODEC mid-sentence | It cuts instantly — true duplex, not turn-based | 🧑 worked once — re-confirm on the day |
+| 23 | Phone Touch ID remote | On phone at `codec.avadigital.ai` → Touch ID → issue a command | Mac Studio at home executes it | 🧑 |
+| 24 | **FINALE** — Hue + Spotify | "CODEC, turn off the lights." then "CODEC, play music on Spotify." | Lights dim, music starts. Cut. | 🧑 |
 
 ## § Name-drop moats — say these *during* the beat (the hidden gems, no extra action)
 
@@ -71,29 +70,30 @@
 |---|---|---|
 | **Five-pillar moat** | Opening | "Local-first + voice + MCP server *and* client + self-writing skills + zero-dependency runtime — no other project combines all five." |
 | Pure-vision (UI-TARS) | 7 | "No accessibility APIs — it screenshots, a vision model finds pixel coords, it clicks like a human eye. Works on any legacy app or Flash frame." |
-| 3-agent zero-dep concurrency | 10 | "Up to 3 background agents on a custom sub-800-line thread pool — no LangChain, no CrewAI." |
-| Plan-hash tamper + R/W grants | 11 | "The plan is sha256-hashed on approval — if the agent alters its own goals mid-run it auto-aborts. Reads and writes are glob-sandboxed to `~/codec-projects/`." |
-| Self-healing replay + HITL takeover | 14 | "Replay falls back XPath → CSS → local-LLM rescue; and if it hits a captcha you pause, take the wheel through the live stream, and hand back." |
-| CCF compression + temporal memory | 15 / 20 | "~65% token reduction; an FTS5 SQLite fact store with valid_from/valid_until — tell it your plans changed and it supersedes the old fact." |
-| Watchdog + blocked_on_qwen recovery | 15 / 16 | "A watchdog kills zombie >500MB/<0.5%-CPU processes; if the local model drops mid-project, the agent auto-resumes the moment the port recovers." |
+| 3-agent zero-dep concurrency | 9 | "Up to 3 background agents on a custom sub-800-line thread pool — no LangChain, no CrewAI." |
+| Plan-hash tamper + R/W grants | 10 | "The plan is sha256-hashed on approval — if the agent alters its own goals mid-run it auto-aborts. Reads and writes are glob-sandboxed to `~/codec-projects/`." |
+| Self-healing replay + HITL takeover | 13 | "Your click is recorded as an element, not a pixel — so replay survives the page moving. It falls back XPath → CSS → local-LLM rescue; hit a captcha and you take the wheel, then hand back." |
+| CCF compression + temporal memory | 14 / 19 | "~65% token reduction; an FTS5 SQLite fact store with valid_from/valid_until — tell it your plans changed and it supersedes the old fact." |
+| Watchdog + blocked_on_qwen recovery | 14 / 15 | "A watchdog kills zombie >500MB/<0.5%-CPU processes; if the local model drops mid-project, the agent auto-resumes the moment the port recovers." |
 | AppKit overlay over fullscreen | any notification | "A native NSPanel floats status over *any* fullscreen app — watch it appear while I'm full-screen." |
-| Proactive nudges → iMessage/Telegram | 20 | "The observer can nudge you — a doc you've dwelled on — to a macOS banner, iMessage, or Telegram. The desktop agent reaches your pocket." |
+| Proactive nudges → iMessage/Telegram | 19 | "The observer can nudge you — a doc you've dwelled on — to a macOS banner, iMessage, or Telegram. The desktop agent reaches your pocket." |
 | Ed25519 signed self-updates | settings | "Updates verify an Ed25519-signed Sparkle appcast against an embedded key — hardened from execution all the way to updates." |
 
-## Fix-before-filming (2 rebuilds in progress, 1 hardware check)
-- **#14 Pilot live view** — click/type/scroll straight into the browser stream (currently click-through opens a screenshot instead of controlling the page). Building.
-- **#19 Connector tab** — connected/disconnect state + persistent tokens (OAuth itself already works). Building.
-- **#8 webcam** — exposure fix shipped, but the softness looks like the **Anker C200 lens/hardware** itself, not code. Check the lens is clean/unobstructed before re-testing.
-- *(Fully done since last cut: #12 auto-escalation, #14-navigation, #17 GDoc verifier, #20 observer recall — routing + real capture + honesty on out-of-range asks, #21 self-improve now conversational.)*
+## Cut from the demo
+- **Live webcam vision** (ex-beat 8) — removed 2026-07-16. The capture was soft (the Anker C200's lens, not code) and it landed as a gadget rather than a capability. Nothing else depends on it.
+
+## Decide before filming
+- **Beat 18** — sign in to Notion once in the Connector tab (it persists now).
+- **Beat 21 (Compare)** — does the demo machine show 3+ models side by side? If not, cut it.
+- **Beat 22** — re-confirm voice interrupt.
 
 ## Pre-record checklist
 - Chrome tabs L→R: `opencodec.org` → GitHub → Gmail → WhatsApp Web → Cloudflare → CODEC Chat
 - An empty text field / Notes open for the **F5 live-typing** beat (3)
 - Safari: Time Magazine article open
-- Claude Desktop: CODEC MCP connector active (Act 5)
+- Claude Desktop: CODEC connector active **and set to Always Allow** (Act 5) — otherwise beat 17 stalls on a per-call approval prompt
 - Phone: `codec.avadigital.ai` loaded, Touch ID ready
-- Notion connector signed in already (Connector tab); Philips Hue reachable; Spotify authorized (finale)
-- Claude Desktop: CODEC connector set to **Always Allow** (Settings → Connectors) so beat 18 doesn't stall on a per-call approval prompt
+- Notion signed in (Connector tab, beat 18); Philips Hue reachable; Spotify authorized (finale)
 - Vision Mouse tested 10× on the Cloudflare DNS button
 - Observer running with a populated buffer
 - Cortex map open on a 2nd screen (persistent visual anchor)
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 
 ## Director's notes
 - Act 1 is the emotional hook — promise (1), deliver, and F5 (3) is an unexpected early "wow".
-- Showstopper risk: 7 (Vision Mouse) — if it fails live, skip to 9.
-- Core "works while you watch" trio: 11 Project, 13 Vibe, 14 Pilot.
-- Act 5 is THE differentiator: 18 (server) + 19 (client) back-to-back = bidirectional MCP.
-- Save Hue + Spotify (25) for the very last frame.
+- Showstopper risk: 7 (Vision Mouse) — if it fails live, skip to 8.
+- Core "works while you watch" trio: 10 Project, 12 Vibe, 13 Pilot.
+- Act 5 is THE differentiator: 17 (server) + 18 (client) back-to-back = bidirectional MCP.
+- Save Hue + Spotify (24) for the very last frame.