@gotcos/glasses-server 6.60.0 → 6.61.1

package/server/lib/nemotron-final.ts

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+// The final transcript: one Nemotron pass over the whole meeting at save time.
+//
+// Live chunks are diarized one at a time, so a chunk's Nemotron channels mean
+// nothing in the next chunk. Run once over the meeting, the channels are
+// consistent for the whole call, and the canary's method maps each to a name:
+//   1. place every chunk WAV at its real `elapsed` on one timeline (join
+//      chunkEntries[].chunkIndex to chunk_NNNN.wav, check audioSha256, trim only
+//      the tail that would run into the next chunk);
+//   2. score the raw 10 ms probabilities at 0.5, 8 channels;
+//   3. a channel takes a name only from chunks the voiceprint is sure of
+//      (similarity >= 0.65, a real name, one-sided by Even Hub, or by Nemotron
+//      itself when the chunk has no Even Hub histogram), with at least
+//      FINAL_MIN_SUPPORT such chunks and FINAL_PURITY of them agreeing. A channel
+//      two people share stays unmapped.
+// Every word then takes its channel's name, or keeps its per-chunk name (the
+// live segment it sat in, else its existing label) where the channel is unmapped.
+//
+// SAFETY. Only labels change. The saved transcript's words are relabelled in
+// place (never regenerated and re-cleaned), and nothing is written unless the
+// result holds exactly the same words, in the same order. The original
+// labels stay recoverable: every changed batch word carries `originalSpeaker`,
+// every changed chunk carries `originalSpeaker`, and the sidecar keeps the whole
+// pre-relabel transcript under `diarization.originalTranscript`. Any failure
+// leaves the meeting exactly as it was saved. A human correction always wins:
+// a sidecar with correctionRevision > 0 is never relabelled.
+//
+// No LLM anywhere. Transcription must never call `claude -p`.
+
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto'
+import { chmodSync, closeSync, constants as fsConstants, existsSync, lstatSync, mkdtempSync, openSync, readFileSync, readSync, rmSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { homedir, tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { durableAtomicWriteFileSync } from './atomic-fs.js'
+import { selectBatchTranscriptForPersistence } from './batch-transcript-quality.js'
+import {
+  NEMOTRON_BUNDLE,
+  NEMOTRON_VARIANT,
+  activeDiarizer,
+  nemotronCliPath,
+  prepareNemotronModelsDir,
+} from './diarizer-backend.js'
+import { CONFIDENT_SIMILARITY, isUnattributed } from './meeting-speaker-review.js'
+import { getOwnerSpeakerLabel } from './profile.js'
+import { OWNER_VERIFY_SIMILARITY } from './voiceprint-floor.js'
+import {
+  NEMOTRON_TMP_PREFIX,
+  NemotronRunError,
+  runNemotronCli,
+  trackNemotronDir,
+  untrackNemotronDir,
+  type NemotronPreds,
+  type RunNemotronOptions,
+} from './nemotron-cli.js'
+import type { ChunkSpeakerSegment } from './nemotron-live.js'
+import {
+  channelForSpan,
+  estimateTokenTimes,
+  frameRange,
+  isActive,
+  isWordToken,
+  readPcm16Mono,
+  splitTokens,
+  tokenTimesFromWords,
+  tracksIn,
+  type Activity,
+  type TokenTime,
+  wavHeader,
+} from './nemotron-segments.js'
+import { NEMOTRON_CHANNELS } from './nemotron-cli.js'
+import type { WhisperWord } from './whisper-local.js'
+
+/** A name is evidence only from a chunk the voiceprint was sure of: the review panel's own floor. */
+export const FINAL_MIN_SIMILARITY = CONFIDENT_SIMILARITY
+export const FINAL_ONE_SIDED = 0.8
+export const FINAL_MIN_SUPPORT = 3
+export const FINAL_PURITY = 0.8
+/** The canary's eligibility for a meeting-wide map: at most this many identities... */
+export const FINAL_MAX_IDENTITIES = 4
+/** ...and fewer channels in use than Nemotron has, or two people already share one. */
+export const FINAL_MAX_CHANNELS = NEMOTRON_CHANNELS
+/** A timeline longer than this many times the audio it holds (plus slack) is a bad clock, not a meeting. */
+export const FINAL_MAX_SPAN_RATIO = 1.5
+export const FINAL_SPAN_SLACK_SEC = 600
+const SR = 16_000
+const WAV_HEADER = 44
+
+interface EvenRole { frames?: number; self?: number; other?: number }
+
+export interface SidecarChunk {
+  text: string
+  speaker: string
+  elapsed: number
+  similarity: number
+  words?: WhisperWord[]
+  segments?: ChunkSpeakerSegment[]
+  evenHubSpeakerRole?: EvenRole
+  audioSha256?: string
+  originalSpeaker?: string
+  finalSegments?: ChunkSpeakerSegment[]
+  [key: string]: unknown
+}
+
+export interface SidecarEntry { chunkIndex: number; chunk: SidecarChunk }
+
+export interface SpeakerWord {
+  word: string
+  start: number
+  end: number
+  speaker: string
+  similarity: number
+  originalSpeaker?: string
+  [key: string]: unknown
+}
+
+export interface SidecarBatchSegment {
+  startChunkIdx: number
+  endChunkIdx: number
+  startElapsed: number
+  endElapsed: number
+  text: string
+  words?: WhisperWord[]
+  speakerWords: SpeakerWord[]
+}
+
+export interface TimelineWindow {
+  chunkIndex: number
+  /** Seconds on the meeting timeline. */
+  start: number
+  end: number
+  chunk: SidecarChunk
+}
+
+export interface MeetingTimeline {
+  /** A complete 16 kHz mono WAV. */
+  wav: Buffer
+  durationSec: number
+  windows: TimelineWindow[]
+  byIndex: Map<number, TimelineWindow>
+  /** PCM samples each chunk file holds as concatenateWavChunks reads it (bytes after a 44-byte header). */
+  fileSamples: Map<number, number>
+  excluded: { missing: number; hashMismatch: number; unreadable: number }
+  /** Seconds of chunk audio placed on the timeline. */
+  audioSec: number
+  /** True when the span is far beyond the audio: no WAV was built. */
+  tooLong: boolean
+}
+
+const chunkFile = (audioDir: string, index: number): string => join(audioDir, `chunk_${String(index).padStart(4, '0')}.wav`)
+
+/** lstat, so a symlink or a FIFO in the audio directory is never read. */
+function isRegularFile(path: string): boolean {
+  try { return lstatSync(path).isFile() } catch { return false }
+}
+
+/** Samples concatenateWavChunks reads from a chunk file: everything after a 44-byte header, if it is RIFF. */
+function concatSamples(path: string): number | null {
+  try {
+    const stat = statSync(path)
+    if (!stat.isFile() || stat.size <= WAV_HEADER) return null
+    const size = stat.size
+    // Non-blocking and no symlinks: a FIFO planted in its place must never hang the server.
+    const fd = openSync(path, fsConstants.O_RDONLY | fsConstants.O_NONBLOCK | fsConstants.O_NOFOLLOW)
+    try {
+      const head = Buffer.alloc(4)
+      readSync(fd, head, 0, 4, 0)
+      return head.toString('ascii') === 'RIFF' ? Math.floor((size - WAV_HEADER) / 2) : null
+    } finally { closeSync(fd) }
+  } catch {
+    return null
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The canary's timeline: each WAV at its real elapsed, only the overlapping tail
+ * trimmed. Two passes so that only the timeline itself is held in memory (a
+ * 90-minute meeting is about 170 MB of 16-bit audio): the first checks every
+ * chunk and keeps its place, the second copies its audio in.
+ */
+/** Give the event loop back every this many chunks while the timeline is built. */
+const TIMELINE_YIELD_EVERY = 25
+const yieldToLoop = (): Promise<void> => new Promise(resolve => setImmediate(resolve))
+
+/**
+ * Async and chunked (QA 6.61.0, N7): reads are non-blocking and the loop is given
+ * back every TIMELINE_YIELD_EVERY chunks, so a long meeting's timeline does not
+ * freeze live chunk uploads while it is built.
+ *
+ * Returns `tooLong` instead of a timeline when the span the clocks claim is far
+ * beyond the audio the chunks hold (QA W5: one chunk stamped three hours late
+ * made a 346 MB timeline out of 12 s of audio). Nothing is allocated then.
+ */
+export async function buildMeetingTimeline(entries: SidecarEntry[], audioDir: string): Promise<MeetingTimeline> {
+  const excluded = { missing: 0, hashMismatch: 0, unreadable: 0 }
+  const fileSamples = new Map<number, number>()
+  const indices = entries.map(entry => entry.chunkIndex)
+  const maxIndex = indices.length ? Math.max(...indices) : -1
+  for (let index = 0; index <= maxIndex; index++) {
+    const samples = concatSamples(chunkFile(audioDir, index))
+    if (samples !== null) fileSamples.set(index, samples)
+  }
+  const placed: Array<{ entry: SidecarEntry; at: number; samples: number; dataOffset: number }> = []
+  let seen = 0
+  for (const entry of entries) {
+    if (++seen % TIMELINE_YIELD_EVERY === 0) await yieldToLoop()
+    const path = chunkFile(audioDir, entry.chunkIndex)
+    if (!existsSync(path)) { excluded.missing++; continue }
+    if (!isRegularFile(path)) { excluded.unreadable++; continue }
+    let wav: Buffer
+    try { wav = await readFile(path) } catch { excluded.unreadable++; continue }
+    const expected = entry.chunk.audioSha256
+    if (expected && createHash('sha256').update(wav).digest('hex') !== expected) { excluded.hashMismatch++; continue }
+    const pcm = readPcm16Mono(wav)
+    if (!pcm || pcm.sampleRate !== SR || !Number.isFinite(entry.chunk.elapsed)) { excluded.unreadable++; continue }
+    placed.push({ entry, at: Math.max(0, Math.round((entry.chunk.elapsed / 1000) * SR)), samples: pcm.pcm.length / 2, dataOffset: pcm.pcm.byteOffset - wav.byteOffset })
+  }
+  placed.sort((x, y) => x.at - y.at || x.entry.chunkIndex - y.entry.chunkIndex)
+  let total = 0
+  let audio = 0
+  for (const item of placed) { total = Math.max(total, item.at + item.samples); audio += item.samples }
+  total += SR
+  const empty = { wav: Buffer.alloc(0), windows: [], byIndex: new Map<number, TimelineWindow>(), fileSamples, excluded }
+  if (total / SR > (audio / SR) * FINAL_MAX_SPAN_RATIO + FINAL_SPAN_SLACK_SEC) {
+    return { ...empty, durationSec: total / SR, audioSec: audio / SR, tooLong: true }
+  }
+  const out = Buffer.alloc(WAV_HEADER + total * 2)
+  wavHeader(total * 2, SR).copy(out, 0)
+  const windows: TimelineWindow[] = []
+  for (let i = 0; i < placed.length; i++) {
+    if ((i + 1) % TIMELINE_YIELD_EVERY === 0) await yieldToLoop()
+    const item = placed[i]
+    const next = i + 1 < placed.length ? placed[i + 1].at : item.at + item.samples
+    const room = Math.max(0, next - item.at)
+    const use = Math.min(item.samples, room)
+    let copied = 0
+    try {
+      if (!isRegularFile(chunkFile(audioDir, item.entry.chunkIndex))) throw new Error('not a regular file')
+      const wav = await readFile(chunkFile(audioDir, item.entry.chunkIndex))
+      copied = wav.copy(out, WAV_HEADER + item.at * 2, item.dataOffset, Math.min(wav.length, item.dataOffset + use * 2)) / 2
+    } catch { /* vanished between passes: its window stays silent */ }
+    windows.push({ chunkIndex: item.entry.chunkIndex, start: item.at / SR, end: (item.at + Math.floor(copied)) / SR, chunk: item.entry.chunk })
+  }
+  return {
+    wav: out,
+    durationSec: total / SR,
+    audioSec: audio / SR,
+    tooLong: false,
+    windows,
+    byIndex: new Map(windows.map(window => [window.chunkIndex, window])),
+    fileSamples,
+    excluded,
+  }
+}
+
+/** Too full for one meeting-wide map: more than four identities, or every channel in use. */
+export function isCrowded(identities: number, channelsUsed: number): boolean {
+  return identities > FINAL_MAX_IDENTITIES || channelsUsed >= FINAL_MAX_CHANNELS
+}
+
+/** Names with at least three chunks the voiceprint is sure of: the canary's identity count. */
+export function crowdIdentities(windows: TimelineWindow[]): number {
+  const counts = new Map<string, number>()
+  for (const window of windows) {
+    const chunk = window.chunk
+    if (isName(chunk.speaker) && Number(chunk.similarity) >= FINAL_MIN_SIMILARITY) counts.set(chunk.speaker, (counts.get(chunk.speaker) ?? 0) + 1)
+  }
+  return [...counts.values()].filter(count => count >= FINAL_MIN_SUPPORT).length
+}
+
+function ownerLabelOrNull(): string | null {
+  try { return getOwnerSpeakerLabel() } catch { return null }
+}
+
+function isName(label: unknown): label is string {
+  return typeof label === 'string' && !isUnattributed(label.trim())
+}
+
+export interface ChannelMapping {
+  map: Map<number, string>
+  evidence: Array<{ channel: number; name: string | null; support: number; purity: number; top: string | null }>
+  eligible: number
+}
+
+/** The canary's dominant-channel map, made many-to-one with a purity floor. */
+export function mapChannelsToNames(windows: TimelineWindow[], a: Activity, options: {
+  minSimilarity?: number
+  oneSided?: number
+  minSupport?: number
+  purity?: number
+} = {}): ChannelMapping {
+  const minSimilarity = options.minSimilarity ?? FINAL_MIN_SIMILARITY
+  const oneSided = options.oneSided ?? FINAL_ONE_SIDED
+  const minSupport = options.minSupport ?? FINAL_MIN_SUPPORT
+  const purity = options.purity ?? FINAL_PURITY
+  const tallies = new Map<number, Map<string, number>>()
+  let eligible = 0
+  for (const window of windows) {
+    const chunk = window.chunk
+    if (!isName(chunk.speaker) || !(Number(chunk.similarity) >= minSimilarity)) continue
+    const [f0, f1] = frameRange(a, window.start, window.end)
+    const counts = new Array<number>(NEMOTRON_CHANNELS).fill(0)
+    let speech = 0
+    for (let f = f0; f < f1; f++) {
+      let any = false
+      for (let c = 0; c < NEMOTRON_CHANNELS; c++) if (isActive(a, f, c)) { counts[c]++; any = true }
+      if (any) speech++
+    }
+    if (speech === 0) continue
+    let dom = 0
+    for (let c = 1; c < NEMOTRON_CHANNELS; c++) if (counts[c] > counts[dom]) dom = c
+    const role = chunk.evenHubSpeakerRole
+    const frames = Number(role?.frames ?? 0)
+    const sided = frames > 0
+      ? Math.max(Number(role?.self ?? 0), Number(role?.other ?? 0)) / frames >= oneSided
+      : counts[dom] / speech >= oneSided
+    if (!sided) continue
+    eligible++
+    const tally = tallies.get(dom) ?? new Map<string, number>()
+    tally.set(chunk.speaker, (tally.get(chunk.speaker) ?? 0) + 1)
+    tallies.set(dom, tally)
+  }
+  const map = new Map<number, string>()
+  const evidence: ChannelMapping['evidence'] = []
+  for (const [channel, tally] of [...tallies.entries()].sort((x, y) => x[0] - y[0])) {
+    let top: string | null = null
+    let topCount = 0
+    let support = 0
+    for (const [name, count] of tally) {
+      support += count
+      if (count > topCount || (count === topCount && top !== null && name < top)) { top = name; topCount = count }
+    }
+    const share = support ? topCount / support : 0
+    const accepted = top !== null && support >= minSupport && share >= purity
+    if (accepted) map.set(channel, top!)
+    evidence.push({ channel, name: accepted ? top : null, support, purity: Math.round(share * 1000) / 1000, top })
+  }
+  return { map, evidence, eligible }
+}
+
+/** The live segment that held chunk-relative time t, else null. */
+/**
+ * 6.61.1 owner guard for per-chunk names. 6.61.0 named split tracks as the wearer
+ * from the glasses' default label (similarity 0) or a weak search match
+ * (0.55 to 0.65). In a chunk with more than one live turn, the wearer's name
+ * counts only at owner-verify confidence; otherwise it is Ext. A one-turn chunk
+ * keeps its label exactly as 6.60.0 gave it.
+ */
+export function guardOwnerName(name: string, similarity: unknown, chunk: SidecarChunk, owner: string | null | undefined): string {
+  if (!owner || name !== owner) return name
+  const split = Array.isArray(chunk.segments) && chunk.segments.length > 1
+  if (!split) return name
+  return Number(similarity) >= OWNER_VERIFY_SIMILARITY ? name : 'Ext'
+}
+
+function liveSpeakerAt(chunk: SidecarChunk, t: number, owner?: string | null): string | null {
+  const segments = chunk.segments
+  if (!Array.isArray(segments) || segments.length === 0) return null
+  let best: ChunkSpeakerSegment | null = null
+  let distance = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY
+  for (const segment of segments) {
+    const s = Number(segment.startSec)
+    const e = Number(segment.endSec)
+    if (!Number.isFinite(s) || !Number.isFinite(e)) continue
+    const d = t < s ? s - t : t > e ? t - e : 0
+    if (d < distance) { distance = d; best = segment }
+  }
+  return best && typeof best.speaker === 'string' ? guardOwnerName(best.speaker, best.similarity, chunk, owner) : null
+}
+
+export interface RelabelStats {
+  total: number
+  /** Words whose label changed. */
+  relabeled: number
+  /** Words labelled through a mapped channel. */
+  viaChannel: number
+  /** Words whose channel was unmapped or silent, kept on their per-chunk name. */
+  kept: number
+}
+
+/** Word times in a batch segment are relative to its concatenated chunk files. Put them on the timeline. */
+export function batchWordToTimeline(segment: SidecarBatchSegment, t: number, timeline: MeetingTimeline): { window: TimelineWindow; inChunk: number; at: number } | null {
+  let offset = 0
+  let lastWindow: { window: TimelineWindow; inChunk: number; at: number } | null = null
+  for (let index = segment.startChunkIdx; index <= segment.endChunkIdx; index++) {
+    const samples = timeline.fileSamples.get(index)
+    if (samples === undefined) continue
+    const length = samples / SR
+    const window = timeline.byIndex.get(index)
+    if (t < offset + length || index === segment.endChunkIdx) {
+      if (!window) return null
+      const inChunk = Math.max(0, t - offset)
+      const span = Math.max(0, window.end - window.start - 0.005)
+      return { window, inChunk, at: window.start + Math.min(inChunk, span) }
+    }
+    if (window) lastWindow = { window, inChunk: length, at: window.end - 0.005 }
+    offset += length
+  }
+  return lastWindow
+}
+
+export function relabelBatchSegments(
+  segments: SidecarBatchSegment[],
+  timeline: MeetingTimeline,
+  a: Activity,
+  map: Map<number, string>,
+  owner?: string | null,
+): { segments: SidecarBatchSegment[]; stats: RelabelStats } {
+  const stats: RelabelStats = { total: 0, relabeled: 0, viaChannel: 0, kept: 0 }
+  const out = segments.map(segment => ({
+    ...segment,
+    speakerWords: (segment.speakerWords ?? []).map(word => {
+      stats.total++
+      const original = typeof word.originalSpeaker === 'string' ? word.originalSpeaker : word.speaker
+      const start = batchWordToTimeline(segment, Number(word.start), timeline)
+      const end = batchWordToTimeline(segment, Number(word.end), timeline)
+      let name: string | null = null
+      if (start) {
+        const channel = channelForSpan(a, start.at, Math.max(start.at, end?.window === start.window ? end.at : start.at + 0.01))
+        if (channel !== null && map.has(channel)) { name = map.get(channel)!; stats.viaChannel++ }
+      }
+      if (name === null) {
+        stats.kept++
+        name = (start && liveSpeakerAt(start.window.chunk, start.inChunk, owner))
+          ?? (start ? guardOwnerName(original, start.window.chunk.similarity, start.window.chunk, owner) : original)
+      }
+      if (name !== word.speaker) stats.relabeled++
+      const next: SpeakerWord = { ...word, speaker: name }
+      if (name !== original) next.originalSpeaker = original
+      else delete next.originalSpeaker
+      return next
+    }),
+  }))
+  return { segments: out, stats }
+}
+
+/** Token times for a streaming chunk, chunk-relative seconds. */
+function streamingTokenTimes(chunk: SidecarChunk, tokens: string[], window: TimelineWindow, a: Activity): TokenTime[] | null {
+  if (Array.isArray(chunk.words) && chunk.words.length) {
+    const fromWords = tokenTimesFromWords(tokens, chunk.words)
+    if (fromWords) return fromWords
+  }
+  const shift = (times: TokenTime[] | null): TokenTime[] | null => times && times.map(time => ({ start: time.start - window.start, end: time.end - window.start }))
+  const segments = Array.isArray(chunk.segments) ? chunk.segments : []
+  const counts = segments.map(segment => splitTokens(String(segment.text ?? '')).length)
+  if (segments.length && counts.reduce((sum, n) => sum + n, 0) === tokens.length && segments.map(s => s.text).join(' ') === chunk.text) {
+    const out: TokenTime[] = []
+    let from = 0
+    for (let i = 0; i < segments.length; i++) {
+      const piece = tokens.slice(from, from + counts[i])
+      const s = window.start + Number(segments[i].startSec ?? 0)
+      const e = window.start + Number(segments[i].endSec ?? (window.end - window.start))
+      const times = shift(estimateTokenTimes(piece, a, s, Math.max(s + 0.01, e)))
+        ?? piece.map(() => ({ start: s - window.start, end: e - window.start }))
+      out.push(...times)
+      from += counts[i]
+    }
+    return out
+  }
+  return shift(estimateTokenTimes(tokens, a, window.start, window.end))
+}
+
+export function relabelStreamingChunks(
+  timeline: MeetingTimeline,
+  a: Activity,
+  map: Map<number, string>,
+  owner?: string | null,
+): { finals: Map<number, { speaker: string; segments: ChunkSpeakerSegment[] }>; stats: RelabelStats } {
+  const stats: RelabelStats = { total: 0, relabeled: 0, viaChannel: 0, kept: 0 }
+  const finals = new Map<number, { speaker: string; segments: ChunkSpeakerSegment[] }>()
+  for (const window of timeline.windows) {
+    const chunk = window.chunk
+    if (typeof chunk.text !== 'string' || !chunk.text.trim()) continue
+    const tokens = splitTokens(chunk.text)
+    const times = streamingTokenTimes(chunk, tokens, window, a)
+    const base = guardOwnerName(typeof chunk.originalSpeaker === 'string' ? chunk.originalSpeaker : chunk.speaker, chunk.similarity, chunk, owner)
+    const labels: string[] = []
+    let carry: string | null = null
+    for (let i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++) {
+      if (!isWordToken(tokens[i]) || !times) { labels.push(carry ?? liveSpeakerAt(chunk, 0, owner) ?? base); continue }
+      stats.total++
+      const span = times[i]
+      const channel = channelForSpan(a, window.start + span.start, window.start + Math.max(span.end, span.start + 0.01))
+      let name: string
+      if (channel !== null && map.has(channel)) { name = map.get(channel)!; stats.viaChannel++ }
+      else { name = liveSpeakerAt(chunk, span.start, owner) ?? base; stats.kept++ }
+      labels.push(name)
+      carry = name
+    }
+    const segments: ChunkSpeakerSegment[] = []
+    for (let i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++) {
+      const last = segments.at(-1)
+      if (last && last.speaker === labels[i]) { last.text += ` ${tokens[i]}`; if (times) last.endSec = Math.round(times[i].end * 100) / 100; continue }
+      segments.push({
+        speaker: labels[i],
+        text: tokens[i],
+        ...(times ? { startSec: Math.round(times[i].start * 100) / 100, endSec: Math.round(times[i].end * 100) / 100 } : {}),
+      })
+    }
+    const wordsBy = new Map<string, number>()
+    for (const segment of segments) wordsBy.set(segment.speaker, (wordsBy.get(segment.speaker) ?? 0) + splitTokens(segment.text).filter(isWordToken).length)
+    let speaker = chunk.speaker
+    let most = -1
+    for (const [name, count] of wordsBy) if (count > most) { most = count; speaker = name }
+    const liveLabels = Array.isArray(chunk.segments) && chunk.segments.length
+      ? chunk.segments.flatMap(segment => splitTokens(String(segment.text ?? '')).map(() => segment.speaker))
+      : tokens.map(() => chunk.speaker)
+    for (let i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++) if (isWordToken(tokens[i]) && labels[i] !== (liveLabels[i] ?? chunk.speaker)) stats.relabeled++
+    finals.set(window.chunkIndex, { speaker, segments })
+  }
+  return { finals, stats }
+}
+
+const LABEL_PREFIX = /^\[[^\]\n]+\]:\s*/
+
+/** The words of a transcript with speaker labels removed. Gap markers stay words. */
+export function transcriptWords(transcript: string): string[] {
+  return transcript.split('\n').flatMap(line => line.replace(LABEL_PREFIX, '').split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean))
+}
+
+export function sameWords(before: string, after: string): boolean {
+  const x = transcriptWords(before)
+  const y = transcriptWords(after)
+  return x.length === y.length && x.every((word, i) => word === y[i])
+}
+
+/** Re-render a streaming transcript: each `[X]: text` line that is exactly one chunk's text becomes that chunk's final turns. */
+export function relabelStreamingTranscript(
+  transcript: string,
+  chunksInOrder: Array<{ chunkIndex: number; text: string }>,
+  finals: Map<number, { speaker: string; segments: ChunkSpeakerSegment[] }>,
+): string {
+  const out: string[] = []
+  let pointer = 0
+  for (const line of transcript.split('\n')) {
+    const match = /^\[([^\]\n]+)\]: ([\s\S]*)$/.exec(line)
+    if (!match) { out.push(line); continue }
+    let found = -1
+    for (let k = pointer; k < Math.min(chunksInOrder.length, pointer + 8); k++) {
+      if (chunksInOrder[k].text === match[2]) { found = k; break }
+    }
+    if (found < 0) { out.push(line); continue }
+    pointer = found + 1
+    const final = finals.get(chunksInOrder[found].chunkIndex)
+    if (!final) { out.push(line); continue }
+    for (const segment of final.segments) out.push(`[${segment.speaker}]: ${segment.text}`)
+  }
+  return out.join('\n')
+}
+
+/**
+ * Relabel a transcript that is already on disk, word by word, without touching a
+ * word. The saved batch transcript is the speaker-words grouping AFTER cleaning
+ * (URL-only lines dropped, negative rules applied), so regenerating it from the
+ * relabelled words and cleaning again can change which words survive when the
+ * groups change. Instead each transcript word is matched, in order, to the next
+ * relabelled word with the same text (a small window, then a three-word anchor
+ * to resynchronise past anything cleaning removed). A word with no match keeps
+ * the turn it is in. Gap markers and other unlabelled lines are kept as they are.
+ */
+export function relabelTranscriptWords(transcript: string, sequence: Array<{ word: string; speaker: string }>): string {
+  const WINDOW = 12
+  const ANCHOR = 3
+  const RESYNC = 600
+  const lines = transcript.split('\n')
+  const parsed = lines.map(line => {
+    const match = /^\[([^\]\n]+)\]:\s*([\s\S]*)$/.exec(line)
+    return match ? { speaker: match[1], words: match[2].split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean) } : null
+  })
+  const flat: string[] = parsed.flatMap(line => line?.words ?? [])
+  const out: string[] = []
+  let pointer = 0
+  let flatIndex = 0
+  for (let li = 0; li < lines.length; li++) {
+    const line = parsed[li]
+    if (!line) { out.push(lines[li]); continue }
+    // Line breaks are kept (QA 6.61.0 W4): a line splits where its words change
+    // speaker and is never merged with its neighbour, so a pass that changes no
+    // label reproduces the transcript byte for byte.
+    const turns: Array<{ speaker: string; words: string[] }> = []
+    for (const word of line.words) {
+      let speaker: string | null = null
+      for (let k = pointer; k < Math.min(sequence.length, pointer + WINDOW); k++) {
+        if (sequence[k].word === word) { speaker = sequence[k].speaker; pointer = k + 1; break }
+      }
+      if (speaker === null) {
+        const anchor = flat.slice(flatIndex, flatIndex + ANCHOR)
+        if (anchor.length === ANCHOR) {
+          for (let k = pointer; k <= Math.min(sequence.length - ANCHOR, pointer + RESYNC); k++) {
+            if (anchor.every((w, a) => sequence[k + a].word === w)) { speaker = sequence[k].speaker; pointer = k + 1; break }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+      if (speaker === null) speaker = turns.at(-1)?.speaker ?? line.speaker
+      const turn = turns.at(-1)
+      if (turn && turn.speaker === speaker) turn.words.push(word)
+      else turns.push({ speaker, words: [word] })
+      flatIndex++
+    }
+    if (turns.length === 1 && turns[0].speaker === line.speaker) { out.push(lines[li]); continue }
+    for (const turn of turns) out.push(`[${turn.speaker}]: ${turn.words.join(' ')}`)
+  }
+  return out.join('\n')
+}
+
+const TRANSCRIPT_SECTION = /## Transcript\n\n([\s\S]*)$/
+
+export function readTranscriptSection(markdown: string): string | null {
+  const match = TRANSCRIPT_SECTION.exec(markdown)
+  return match ? match[1].replace(/\n+$/, '') : null
+}
+
+/** Replace the transcript section and nothing else (the quality row stays as saved). */
+export function replaceTranscriptSection(markdown: string, transcript: string): string | null {
+  if (!TRANSCRIPT_SECTION.test(markdown)) return null
+  return markdown.replace(TRANSCRIPT_SECTION, () => `## Transcript\n\n${transcript}\n`)
+}
+
+const sha = (text: string): string => createHash('sha256').update(text).digest('hex')
+
+export type FinalPassStatus = 'applied' | 'skipped' | 'failed'
+
+/**
+ * Every reason a final pass can give, a fixed set. `/api/health` is public (no
+ * token) and the server listens on the LAN, so health may carry only these codes
+ * and counts: never a speaker name, a path, a meeting title or a raw error
+ * message (QA 6.61.0 blocker). Anything else is reported as `error`, and the raw
+ * text goes to server.log only.
+ */
+export const FINAL_REASON_CODES = [
+  'embedding_requested', 'cli_missing', 'models_missing', 'meeting_missing', 'no_audio', 'human_corrected',
+  'no_transcript', 'already_applied', 'no_chunks', 'nemotron_timeout', 'nemotron_cli_failed',
+  'nemotron_bad_output', 'nemotron_spawn_failed', 'nemotron_error', 'no_speaker_words', 'chunk_map_ambiguous',
+  'word_mismatch', 'no_change', 'changed_during_pass', 'markdown_write', 'sidecar_restore_failed', 'too_long',
+  'metadata_not_persisted', 'error',
+] as const
+export type FinalReasonCode = typeof FINAL_REASON_CODES[number]
+const REASON_SET: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(FINAL_REASON_CODES)
+export const finalReasonCode = (reason: string | undefined): FinalReasonCode | null =>
+  reason === undefined ? null : REASON_SET.has(reason) ? reason as FinalReasonCode : 'error'
+
+export interface FinalPassOutcome {
+  status: FinalPassStatus
+  reason?: string
+  /** Raw failure text for server.log. Never published. */
+  detail?: string
+  mode?: 'batch' | 'streaming'
+  /** True when the room was too full for a meeting-wide map (only per-chunk turns applied). */
+  crowded?: boolean
+  identities?: number
+  ms?: number
+  audioSec?: number
+  channels?: number
+  mapped?: Record<string, string>
+  words?: RelabelStats
+  /** Chunks left off the timeline: no file, a hash that disagrees, unreadable. */
+  excluded?: { missing: number; hashMismatch: number; unreadable: number }
+  /** Distinct speakers in the transcript before and after. */
+  speakersBefore?: number
+  speakersAfter?: number
+}
+
+export interface FinalPassOptions {
+  meetingPath: string
+  sidecarPath: string
+  audioDir: string
+  env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv
+  home?: string
+  run?: (options: RunNemotronOptions) => Promise<NemotronPreds & { loadSec?: number | null }>
+  tmpRoot?: string
+  log?: (line: string) => void
+  now?: () => number
+  /** The wearer's label, for the 6.61.1 owner guard (default: the profile's). */
+  owner?: string | null
+  /** Seam: how files are written (durable atomic by default). */
+  write?: (path: string, data: string) => void
+  /** Seam: the batch relabeller (word-aligned in place by default). */
+  relabelWords?: (transcript: string, sequence: Array<{ word: string; speaker: string }>) => string
+}
+
+/** 20x realtime is the floor (the canary ran 155x), plus two minutes for a cold Neural Engine compile. */
+export function finalPassTimeoutMs(durationSec: number): number {
+  return 120_000 + Math.round((durationSec * 1000) / 20)
+}
+
+/** What `/api/health` may say about the last final pass: codes and counts only. */
+export interface PublicFinalOutcome {
+  status: FinalPassStatus
+  reasonCode: FinalReasonCode | null
+  mode: 'batch' | 'streaming' | null
+  crowded: boolean | null
+  channels: number | null
+  mappedChannels: number | null
+  wordsRelabeled: number | null
+  wordsTotal: number | null
+  excludedChunks: number | null
+  ms: number | null
+  at: string
+}
+
+let finalLane: Promise<unknown> = Promise.resolve()
+let lastFinal: PublicFinalOutcome | null = null
+const finalCounts: Record<string, number> = {}
+
+export function publicFinalOutcome(outcome: FinalPassOutcome, at: string): PublicFinalOutcome {
+  return {
+    status: outcome.status,
+    reasonCode: finalReasonCode(outcome.reason),
+    mode: outcome.mode ?? null,
+    crowded: typeof outcome.crowded === 'boolean' ? outcome.crowded : null,
+    channels: typeof outcome.channels === 'number' ? outcome.channels : null,
+    mappedChannels: outcome.mapped ? Object.keys(outcome.mapped).length : null,
+    wordsRelabeled: outcome.words?.relabeled ?? null,
+    wordsTotal: outcome.words?.total ?? null,
+    excludedChunks: outcome.excluded ? outcome.excluded.missing + outcome.excluded.hashMismatch + outcome.excluded.unreadable : null,
+    ms: typeof outcome.ms === 'number' ? outcome.ms : null,
+    at,
+  }
+}
+
+export function finalPassSnapshot(): { last: PublicFinalOutcome | null; counts: Record<string, number> } {
+  return { last: lastFinal ? { ...lastFinal } : null, counts: { ...finalCounts } }
+}
+
+/** One meeting's final pass, serialised with every other final pass. Never throws. */
+export function runNemotronFinalPass(options: FinalPassOptions): Promise<FinalPassOutcome> {
+  const job = finalLane.then(() => finalPassNow(options)).catch((error): FinalPassOutcome => ({
+    status: 'failed',
+    reason: 'error',
+    detail: error instanceof Error ? error.message.slice(0, 300) : String(error).slice(0, 300),
+  }))
+  finalLane = job.then(() => undefined, () => undefined)
+  return job.then(outcome => {
+    const published = publicFinalOutcome(outcome, new Date((options.now ?? Date.now)()).toISOString())
+    const key = outcome.status === 'applied' ? 'applied' : `${outcome.status}:${published.reasonCode ?? 'error'}`
+    finalCounts[key] = (finalCounts[key] ?? 0) + 1
+    lastFinal = published
+    const log = options.log ?? console.log
+    if (outcome.status === 'applied') {
+      log(`[diarizer] final pass applied (${outcome.mode}${outcome.crowded ? `, crowded: ${outcome.identities} identities, per-chunk turns only` : ''}) in ${outcome.ms} ms: ${outcome.channels} channels, mapped ${JSON.stringify(outcome.mapped)}, ${outcome.words?.relabeled}/${outcome.words?.total} words relabelled, speakers ${outcome.speakersBefore} -> ${outcome.speakersAfter}${excludedNote(outcome)}`)
+    } else if (outcome.reason === 'sidecar_restore_failed') {
+      log(`[diarizer] final pass FAILED and could not restore the sidecar: ${outcome.detail}`)
+    } else {
+      log(`[diarizer] final pass ${outcome.status}: ${outcome.reason}${outcome.detail ? ` (${outcome.detail})` : ''}${excludedNote(outcome)}; the saved transcript is unchanged`)
+    }
+    return outcome
+  })
+}
+
+function excludedNote(outcome: FinalPassOutcome): string {
+  const e = outcome.excluded
+  if (!e || e.missing + e.hashMismatch + e.unreadable === 0) return ''
+  return `; chunks left off the timeline: ${e.missing} missing, ${e.hashMismatch} hash mismatch, ${e.unreadable} unreadable`
+}
+
+/** A pass the caller decided not to run (the save path's metadata guard): counted and logged like any other. */
+export function recordFinalPassSkip(reason: FinalReasonCode, detail: string, options: { log?: (line: string) => void; now?: () => number } = {}): void {
+  const outcome: FinalPassOutcome = { status: 'skipped', reason, detail }
+  const published = publicFinalOutcome(outcome, new Date((options.now ?? Date.now)()).toISOString())
+  const key = `skipped:${published.reasonCode ?? 'error'}`
+  finalCounts[key] = (finalCounts[key] ?? 0) + 1
+  lastFinal = published
+  ;(options.log ?? console.log)(`[diarizer] final pass skipped: ${reason} (${detail}); the saved transcript is unchanged`)
+}
+
+function distinctSpeakers(transcript: string): number {
+  const names = new Set<string>()
+  for (const line of transcript.split('\n')) {
+    const match = /^\[([^\]\n]+)\]:/.exec(line)
+    if (match) names.add(match[1])
+  }
+  return names.size
+}
+
+async function finalPassNow(options: FinalPassOptions): Promise<FinalPassOutcome> {
+  const started = (options.now ?? Date.now)()
+  const env = options.env ?? process.env
+  const home = options.home ?? homedir()
+  const choice = activeDiarizer(env, home)
+  if (choice.requested === 'embedding') return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'embedding_requested' }
+  if (choice.fallback) return { status: 'skipped', reason: choice.fallback }
+  if (!existsSync(options.sidecarPath) || !existsSync(options.meetingPath)) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'meeting_missing' }
+  if (!existsSync(options.audioDir)) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_audio' }
+
+  const sidecarText = readFileSync(options.sidecarPath, 'utf8')
+  const sidecar = JSON.parse(sidecarText) as Record<string, any>
+  const owner = options.owner !== undefined ? options.owner : ownerLabelOrNull()
+  if (Number(sidecar.correctionRevision ?? 0) > 0) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'human_corrected' }
+  const markdown = readFileSync(options.meetingPath, 'utf8')
+  const transcript = readTranscriptSection(markdown)
+  if (transcript === null) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_transcript' }
+  if (sidecar.diarization?.status === 'applied' && sidecar.diarization?.outputSha256 === sha(transcript)) {
+    return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'already_applied' }
+  }
+  const entries = (Array.isArray(sidecar.chunkEntries) ? sidecar.chunkEntries : []) as SidecarEntry[]
+  if (!entries.length) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_chunks' }
+
+  const timeline = await buildMeetingTimeline(entries, options.audioDir)
+  const excluded = timeline.excluded
+  if (timeline.tooLong) {
+    return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'too_long', excluded, detail: `timeline ${Math.round(timeline.durationSec)} s for ${Math.round(timeline.audioSec)} s of audio` }
+  }
+  if (!timeline.windows.length) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_audio', excluded }
+
+  const cli = nemotronCliPath(env, home)
+  const modelsDir = prepareNemotronModelsDir(env, home)
+  if (!cli || !modelsDir) return { status: 'skipped', reason: !cli ? 'cli_missing' : 'models_missing' }
+
+  // Tracked, so a server exit mid-run kills the CLI and deletes this directory
+  // (it holds the whole meeting's audio); a sweep at the next start catches a crash.
+  const work = mkdtempSync(join(options.tmpRoot ?? tmpdir(), `${NEMOTRON_TMP_PREFIX}final-`))
+  trackNemotronDir(work)
+  let run: NemotronPreds
+  try {
+    try { chmodSync(work, 0o700) } catch { /* mkdtemp is already 0700 */ }
+    const wavPath = join(work, 'meeting.wav')
+    await writeFile(wavPath, timeline.wav, { mode: 0o600 })
+    try {
+      run = await (options.run ?? runNemotronCli)({
+        cli,
+        modelsDir,
+        wavPath,
+        timeoutMs: finalPassTimeoutMs(timeline.durationSec),
+        computeUnits: 'ane',
+        niceness: 10,
+        tmpRoot: options.tmpRoot,
+      })
+    } catch (error) {
+      return {
+        status: 'failed',
+        reason: error instanceof NemotronRunError ? `nemotron_${error.reason}` : 'nemotron_error',
+        detail: (error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)).slice(0, 300),
+        excluded,
+      }
+    }
+  } finally {
+    untrackNemotronDir(work)
+    try { rmSync(work, { recursive: true, force: true }) } catch { /* best effort */ }
+  }
+
+  const activity: Activity = run
+  // A channel is in use once it holds a track's worth of speech (QA 6.61.0 N2:
+  // one 10 ms blip on a third channel made a two-person call "crowded").
+  const channelsUsed = new Set(tracksIn(activity, 0, activity.frames).map(track => track.channel))
+  // The canary's rule for a meeting-wide map (OUTCOME_2026-10-01, retro plan 4):
+  // four or fewer identities and fewer than eight channels. A crowded room
+  // (Wed 07:31 filled all eight with five names) gets no channel map; its words
+  // keep their per-chunk names, which are the live Nemotron turns where those exist.
+  const identities = crowdIdentities(timeline.windows)
+  const crowded = isCrowded(identities, channelsUsed.size)
+  const mapping = crowded
+    ? { ...mapChannelsToNames(timeline.windows, activity), map: new Map<number, string>() }
+    : mapChannelsToNames(timeline.windows, activity)
+
+  let mode: 'batch' | 'streaming'
+  let next: string
+  let stats: RelabelStats
+  const nextSidecar: Record<string, any> = JSON.parse(sidecarText)
+  if (sidecar.batchApplied === true) {
+    mode = 'batch'
+    const segments = (Array.isArray(sidecar.batchSegments) ? sidecar.batchSegments : []) as SidecarBatchSegment[]
+    if (!segments.length) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_speaker_words' }
+    const relabeled = relabelBatchSegments(segments, timeline, activity, mapping.map, owner)
+    stats = relabeled.stats
+    // finalizeBatch wrote labelled turns only when every segment had speaker words.
+    const selected = selectBatchTranscriptForPersistence(
+      String(sidecar.batchTranscript ?? ''),
+      segments.map(segment => ({ text: segment.text, speakerWords: segment.speakerWords })),
+    )
+    if (selected.source !== 'speaker-words') return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_speaker_words' }
+    const sequence = relabeled.segments.flatMap(segment => segment.speakerWords
+      .map(word => ({ word: String(word.word ?? '').trim(), speaker: word.speaker || 'Ext' }))
+      .filter(word => word.word))
+    next = (options.relabelWords ?? relabelTranscriptWords)(transcript, sequence)
+    nextSidecar.batchSegments = relabeled.segments
+    // finalizeBatch records the exact canonical text here; keep that true.
+    if (typeof sidecar.batchTranscript === 'string') nextSidecar.batchTranscript = next
+  } else {
+    mode = 'streaming'
+    const relabeled = relabelStreamingChunks(timeline, activity, mapping.map, owner)
+    stats = relabeled.stats
+    const textEntries = entries.filter(entry => typeof entry.chunk?.text === 'string' && entry.chunk.text.trim())
+    next = relabelStreamingTranscript(transcript, textEntries.map(entry => ({ chunkIndex: entry.chunkIndex, text: entry.chunk.text })), relabeled.finals)
+    const chunks = Array.isArray(nextSidecar.chunks) ? nextSidecar.chunks as SidecarChunk[] : []
+    const nextEntries = (Array.isArray(nextSidecar.chunkEntries) ? nextSidecar.chunkEntries : []) as SidecarEntry[]
+    const textNext = nextEntries.filter(entry => typeof entry.chunk?.text === 'string' && entry.chunk.text.trim())
+    const aligned = textNext.length === chunks.length && textNext.every((entry, i) => entry.chunk.text === chunks[i]?.text)
+    if (!aligned) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'chunk_map_ambiguous' }
+    textNext.forEach((entry, i) => {
+      const final = relabeled.finals.get(entry.chunkIndex)
+      if (!final) return
+      for (const chunk of [entry.chunk, chunks[i]]) {
+        const original = typeof chunk.originalSpeaker === 'string' ? chunk.originalSpeaker : chunk.speaker
+        chunk.finalSegments = final.segments
+        chunk.speaker = final.speaker
+        if (final.speaker !== original) chunk.originalSpeaker = original
+        else delete chunk.originalSpeaker
+      }
+    })
+  }
+
+  // Both relabelers keep every word by construction (the batch one matches the
+  // saved words, the streaming one splits a line only into its own chunk text).
+  // This check is the last line of defence should either ever change.
+  if (!sameWords(transcript, next)) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'word_mismatch', mode, excluded }
+  // Both relabellers keep line breaks, so an unchanged transcript means no label
+  // changed: nothing is written and no revision moves.
+  if (next === transcript) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_change', mode, words: stats, excluded, crowded, identities, channels: channelsUsed.size }
+
+  const speakers = new Set<string>(Array.isArray(sidecar.speakers) ? sidecar.speakers : [])
+  for (const line of next.split('\n')) {
+    const match = /^\[([^\]\n]+)\]:/.exec(line)
+    if (match && isName(match[1])) speakers.add(match[1])
+  }
+  const ms = (options.now ?? Date.now)() - started
+  const mapped = Object.fromEntries([...mapping.map.entries()].map(([channel, name]) => [String(channel), name]))
+  nextSidecar.speakers = [...speakers]
+  nextSidecar.lifecycleRevision = Number(sidecar.lifecycleRevision ?? 0) + 1
+  nextSidecar.diarization = {
+    engine: 'nemotron3',
+    variant: NEMOTRON_VARIANT,
+    bundle: NEMOTRON_BUNDLE,
+    computeUnits: 'ane',
+    status: 'applied',
+    mode,
+    appliedAt: new Date((options.now ?? Date.now)()).toISOString(),
+    ms,
+    audioSec: Math.round(timeline.durationSec * 10) / 10,
+    frames: run.frames,
+    channelsUsed: channelsUsed.size,
+    channelMap: mapped,
+    mapping: {
+      crowded,
+      identities,
+      eligibleChunks: mapping.eligible,
+      minSimilarity: FINAL_MIN_SIMILARITY,
+      oneSided: FINAL_ONE_SIDED,
+      minSupport: FINAL_MIN_SUPPORT,
+      purity: FINAL_PURITY,
+      evidence: mapping.evidence,
+    },
+    words: stats,
+    excludedChunks: timeline.excluded,
+    originalTranscript: transcript,
+    outputSha256: sha(next),
+  }
+  const nextMarkdown = replaceTranscriptSection(markdown, next)
+  if (nextMarkdown === null) return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'no_transcript' }
+
+  // The CLI ran for tens of seconds. A human relabel or deattribution, or a
+  // summary, may have landed meanwhile; writing from the copy read before the
+  // run would erase it. Re-read both files: any change and this pass is stale.
+  // Everything from here to the writes is synchronous, so no request handled by
+  // this process can land in between.
+  let sidecarNow: string
+  let markdownNow: string
+  try {
+    sidecarNow = readFileSync(options.sidecarPath, 'utf8')
+    markdownNow = readFileSync(options.meetingPath, 'utf8')
+  } catch (error) {
+    return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'changed_during_pass', detail: (error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)).slice(0, 300) }
+  }
+  if (sidecarNow !== sidecarText || markdownNow !== markdown) {
+    return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'changed_during_pass', detail: sidecarNow !== sidecarText ? 'sidecar changed' : 'markdown changed' }
+  }
+
+  // Sidecar first, markdown second, as the store does: the markdown is the
+  // visible commit. If the markdown write fails, put the sidecar back, and say
+  // so loudly if even that fails (the two files then disagree).
+  const write = options.write ?? ((path: string, data: string) => durableAtomicWriteFileSync(path, data, { mode: 0o600 }))
+  try {
+    write(options.sidecarPath, JSON.stringify(nextSidecar, null, 2))
+  } catch (error) {
+    return { status: 'failed', reason: 'markdown_write', detail: `sidecar write: ${(error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)).slice(0, 280)}`, excluded }
+  }
+  try {
+    write(options.meetingPath, nextMarkdown)
+  } catch (error) {
+    const why = (error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)).slice(0, 200)
+    try {
+      write(options.sidecarPath, sidecarText)
+    } catch (restoreError) {
+      return {
+        status: 'failed',
+        reason: 'sidecar_restore_failed',
+        detail: `markdown write: ${why}; sidecar restore: ${(restoreError instanceof Error ? restoreError.message : String(restoreError)).slice(0, 200)}; the sidecar holds the relabel and the markdown does not`,
+        excluded,
+      }
+    }
+    return { status: 'failed', reason: 'markdown_write', detail: `${why}; sidecar restored`, excluded }
+  }
+  return {
+    status: 'applied',
+    mode,
+    crowded,
+    identities,
+    ms,
+    audioSec: Math.round(timeline.durationSec),
+    channels: channelsUsed.size,
+    mapped,
+    words: stats,
+    excluded,
+    speakersBefore: distinctSpeakers(transcript),
+    speakersAfter: distinctSpeakers(next),
+  }
+}