@observertc/observer-js 1.0.0-ca725d7.0 → 1.0.0

package/README.md

@@ -1,23 +1,75 @@
-# ObserverTC - Observer JS
+# ObserverTC — `@observertc/observer-js`
 
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-`observer-js` is a Node.js library for monitoring WebRTC client data. It processes statistical samples from clients, organizes them into calls and participants, tracks a wide range of metrics, detects common issues, and calculates quality scores. This enables real-time insights into WebRTC session performance.
+> **In one line:** feed it WebRTC `getStats()` snapshots, and get back a live, queryable model of
+> every call plus a single typed event stream to react to.
+
+`observer-js` is a **server-side Node.js library for monitoring WebRTC sessions**. A WebRTC
+application (typically an SFU or a signaling/stats backend) feeds it `ClientSample` objects —
+periodic snapshots of each participant's `RTCPeerConnection.getStats()` output plus
+application events — and `observer-js` maintains a live, in-memory model of every call,
+participant, peer connection, and media stream, derives per-interval and cumulative metrics,
+and emits a single, unified stream of typed events the application can react to.
+
+**What you can do with it:**
+
+- **Monitor calls live** — a queryable in-memory tree of every call, client, peer connection,
+  track, codec, ICE candidate and data channel, each holding current **and** cumulative metrics.
+- **React on one event bus** — subscribe once on the `Observer`; every payload carries its full
+  ancestry (`call → client → peer connection → stat`), so you never walk the tree to subscribe.
+- **Get derived metrics for free** — counter-reset-safe per-tick deltas, bitrates, jitter, RTT,
+  fraction-lost, remote-RTP (RTCP) correlation, and TURN/TCP usage from the selected candidate pair.
+- **Correlate across an SFU** — link a publisher's outbound track to every subscriber's inbound
+  track (`RemoteTrackResolver`), and observe mediasoup routers/transports/producers/consumers
+  on the server side.
+- **Detect server-only problems** — cross-client `Detector`s raise `call-issue`s for conditions no
+  single client can see (e.g. everyone in a call degrading at once).
+- **Persist every sample** — per-client sinks (JSONL file, in-memory, or your own) for archival,
+  streaming, and offline replay.
+- **Drop it in safely** — warn-don't-throw, a pluggable logger, dual **ESM + CommonJS**, and **no**
+  media-stack dependency in the core.
+
+> **Status:** `1.0.0` — the first stable release. The API described here is current and intended to
+> be implemented against directly; it follows semver from here, so a breaking change means a 2.0.0.
+> [`CHANGELOG.md`](./CHANGELOG.md) is the full statement of what the 1.0.0 line contains. This document is written to be self-sufficient: an engineer (or an AI
+> agent) should be able to integrate the library, or develop it further, from this file alone.
+> A companion doc, [`docs/logging.md`](./docs/logging.md), covers logging integration in depth.
+
+> **Packaging:** server-side, **Node.js ≥ 22**, shipped as a **dual ESM + CommonJS** build — so it
+> works whether your project uses `import` (ESM) or `require()` (CommonJS). Everything — including
+> the built-in file sink — is exported from the single `@observertc/observer-js` entry.
+
+> **For AI agents:** [`llms.txt`](./llms.txt) is a curated map of these docs (it belongs at the root
+> of the docs site); [`AGENTS.md`](./AGENTS.md) covers build/test commands and the conventions for
+> working **in** this repository.
 
-This library is a core component of the ObserverTC ecosystem, designed to provide robust server-side monitoring capabilities for WebRTC applications.
+---
 
-## Features
+## Table of contents
+
+1. [Installation](#installation)
+2. [Quick start](#quick-start)
+3. [Data flow](#data-flow)
+4. [Entity hierarchy](#entity-hierarchy)
+5. [Ingestion: `accept()`, context & lifecycle](#ingestion-accept-context--lifecycle)
+6. [When things update](#when-things-update)
+7. [The event bus](#the-event-bus) ← the core of the API
+8. [API reference](#api-reference)
+9. [Schema types (`ClientSample`)](#schema-types-clientsample)
+10. [Detectors (server-side extension point)](#detectors-server-side-extension-point)
+11. [Call summaries](#call-summaries)
+12. [Remote track resolution (mediasoup / SFU)](#remote-track-resolution-mediasoup--sfu)
+13. [Mediasoup router observation](#mediasoup-router-observation)
+14. [Sinks (per-client sample persistence)](#sinks-per-client-sample-persistence)
+15. [Injecting data into a client](#injecting-data-into-a-client)
+16. [Logging](#logging)
+17. [Design notes](#design-notes)
+18. [Error-handling philosophy](#error-handling-philosophy)
+19. [Development & extension guide](#development--extension-guide)
 
-- **Hierarchical Data Model**: Organizes data into `Observer` -> `ObservedCall` -> `ObservedClient` -> `ObservedPeerConnection` and further into streams and data channels.
-- **Comprehensive Metrics**: Tracks a wide array of WebRTC statistics including RTT, jitter, packet loss, codecs, ICE states, TURN usage, bandwidth, and more.
-- **Automatic Entity Management**: Can automatically create and manage call and client entities based on incoming data samples.
-- **Issue Detection**: Built-in detectors for common WebRTC problems.
-- **Quality Scoring**: Calculates quality scores for calls and clients.
-- **Event-Driven**: Emits events for significant state changes, new entities, and detected issues.
-- **Configurable Update Policies**: Flexible control over how and when metrics are processed and updated.
-- **TypeScript Support**: Written in TypeScript, providing strong typing and intellisense.
-- **Extensible**: Supports custom application data (`appData`) and integration with external schema definitions (e.g., `observertc/schemas`).
+---
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -27,510 +79,2063 @@ npm install @observertc/observer-js
 yarn add @observertc/observer-js
 ```
 
-## Quick Start
+**Server-side, Node.js ≥ 22, dual ESM + CommonJS.** The package ships both module formats, so it
+works the same whether your project is ESM or CommonJS — your import line is unchanged either way:
 
-```typescript
-import { Observer, ObserverConfig } from '@observertc/observer-js';
-import { ClientSample } from '@observertc/schemas'; // Assuming you use the official schemas
+```ts
+import { Observer, ClientSample, createJsonlFileSinkFactory } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+```
 
-// 1. Configure the Observer
-const observerConfig: ObserverConfig = {
-	updatePolicy: 'update-on-interval',
-	updateIntervalInMs: 5000, // Update observer every 5 seconds
-	defaultCallUpdatePolicy: 'update-on-any-client-updated', // Calls update when any client sends data
-};
-const observer = new Observer(observerConfig);
-
-// 2. Listen to events
-observer.on('newcall', (call) => {
-	console.log(`[Observer] New call detected: ${call.callId}`);
-
-	call.on('newclient', (client) => {
-		console.log(`[Call: ${call.callId}] New client joined: ${client.clientId}`);
-
-		client.on('issue', (issue) => {
-			console.warn(`[Client: ${client.clientId}] Issue: ${issue.type} - ${issue.severity} - ${issue.description}`);
-		});
-	});
-
-	call.on('update', () => {
-		console.log(
-			`[Call: ${call.callId}] Metrics updated. Score: ${call.score?.toFixed(1)}, Clients: ${call.numberOfClients}`
-		);
-	});
-});
-
-// 3. Process Client Samples
-// (ClientSample typically comes from your application after processing getStats() output)
-function processClientStats(rawStats: any, callId: string, clientId: string) {
-	// Transform rawStats into the ClientSample format
-	// This is a placeholder for your actual transformation logic
-	const sample: ClientSample = {
-		callId,
-		clientId,
-		timestamp: Date.now(),
-		// ...populate with transformed stats from rawStats, adhering to the ClientSample schema
-		// from github.com/observertc/schemas
-	};
-	observer.accept(sample);
+In an ESM project this resolves to the `.mjs` build; in a CommonJS project (where TypeScript
+compiles your `import` down to `require()`) it resolves to the `.js` build. Everything is exported
+from the single `@observertc/observer-js` entry. Written in TypeScript; ships type declarations for
+both formats (`dist/index.d.ts` for `require`, `dist/index.d.mts` for `import`). Runtime
+dependencies: `@bufbuild/protobuf`, `events`, `uuid`. The library does **not** bundle a logger or
+any transport — see [Logging](#logging).
+
+`ClientSample` and friends are re-exported from this package, and are also published as the
+shared schema in [`@observertc/schemas`](https://github.com/observertc/schemas); samples
+produced on the client (e.g. by `@observertc/client-monitor-js`) conform to the same shape.
+
+---
+
+## Quick start
+
+```ts
+import { Observer, ClientSample } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+// 1. Create an observer.
+const observer = new Observer({
+  // a call updates when any of its clients does, and the observer when any of its calls does —
+  // both default to true, so this line is only here to show the knob exists:
+  autoUpdateOnCallUpdate: true,
+  // optional auto-teardown:
+  closeCallIfEmptyForMs: 20_000,
+  closeClientIfIdleForMs: 60_000,
+});
+
+// 2. Subscribe on the single bus. Every payload is an object with the ancestry.
+observer.on('call-added', ({ observedCall }) => {
+  console.log('new call', observedCall.callId);
+});
+
+observer.on('client-issue', ({ observedClient, issue }) => {
+  console.warn(`[${observedClient.clientId}] ${issue.type}`, issue.payload);
+});
+
+observer.on('peer-connection-updated', ({ observedClient, observedPeerConnection }) => {
+  console.log(observedClient.clientId, 'RTT(ms):', observedPeerConnection.currentRttInMs);
+});
+
+observer.on('sample-rejected', ({ reason, sample }) => {
+  console.warn('dropped a sample:', reason);
+});
+
+// 3. Feed samples. `context` (optional) is transient per-accept data, carried to the
+//    `*-updated` events this accept triggers (never written to appData).
+function onClientStats(sample: ClientSample) {
+  observer.accept(sample, { studioVersion: '1.2.3' });
 }
 
-// Example usage:
-// const myRawClientStats = getStatsFromClient();
-// processClientStats(myRawClientStats, 'myMeeting123', 'userABC');
+// 4. Tear down.
+process.on('SIGINT', () => observer.close());
+```
+
+---
+
+## Data flow
 
-// 4. Cleanup when done
-// process.on('SIGINT', () => observer.close());
+```
+client getStats()  ──►  ClientSample  ──►  observer.accept(sample, ctx?)
+                                               │
+              ┌────────────────────────────────┘
+              ▼
+   get-or-create ObservedCall ──► get-or-create ObservedClient ──► client.accept(sample, ctx)
+                                                                        │
+                                              per peerConnections[] in the sample
+                                                                        ▼
+                                              get-or-create ObservedPeerConnection
+                                              .accept(pcSample, ctx) updates all sub-stats,
+                                              derives deltas/bitrates/RTT, correlates remote RTP
+                                                                        │
+                          metrics roll up: PeerConnection → Client → Call → Observer
+                                                                        │
+                                          events emitted on the Observer bus  ──►  your handlers
 ```
 
+- A sample **must** have `callId` and `clientId` (the library sets them, or the app does). If
+  either is missing, the sample is dropped and `sample-rejected` is emitted.
+- Sub-entities that stop appearing in samples are garbage-collected via a "visited"
+  mark-and-sweep on each `ObservedPeerConnection.accept()`, emitting the corresponding
+  `*-removed` events.
+
 ---
 
-## Detailed Documentation
+## Entity hierarchy
 
-The following sections provide a comprehensive guide to `observer-js`.
+| Class | Created by | Keyed on its parent as | Holds |
+|-------|-----------|------------------------|-------|
+| `Observer` | `new Observer(config?)` | — (root) | `observedCalls: Map<string, ObservedCall>`, global counters, the event bus |
+| `ObservedCall` | `observer.createObservedCall(settings)` / lazily by `accept` | `observedCalls` | `observedClients: Map<string, ObservedClient>`, call-wide metrics, `detectors`, `scoreCalculator` |
+| `ObservedClient` | `call.createObservedClient(settings)` / lazily | `observedClients` | `observedPeerConnections: Map<string, ObservedPeerConnection>`, per-client metrics |
+| `ObservedPeerConnection` | lazily, from `sample.peerConnections[]` | `observedPeerConnections` | the 15 sub-stat maps below, transport/RTT/bitrate metrics |
+| Sub-stats | lazily, from the `PeerConnectionSample` | maps on the PC | individual WebRTC stat objects |
 
-### 1. General Description
+`ObservedPeerConnection` sub-stat maps (all `public readonly`):
 
-(This section is identical to the introductory paragraph at the top of this README)
+```
+observedCertificates, observedCodecs, observedDataChannels,
+observedIceCandidates, observedIceCandidatesPair, observedIceTransports,
+observedInboundRtps, observedInboundTracks, observedMediaPlayouts,
+observedMediaSources, observedOutboundRtps, observedOutboundTracks,
+observedPeerConnectionTransports, observedRemoteInboundRtps, observedRemoteOutboundRtps
+```
 
-### 2. Core Concepts
+Each sub-stat class (`ObservedInboundRtp`, `ObservedOutboundRtp`, `ObservedInboundTrack`,
+`ObservedOutboundTrack`, `ObservedDataChannel`, `ObservedIceCandidate`,
+`ObservedIceCandidatePair`, `ObservedIceTransport`, `ObservedCertificate`, `ObservedCodec`,
+`ObservedMediaSource`, `ObservedMediaPlayout`, `ObservedPeerConnectionTransport`,
+`ObservedRemoteInboundRtp`, `ObservedRemoteOutboundRtp`) mirrors the corresponding stat
+fields from the schema plus derived fields (deltas, bitrates).
 
-#### 2.1. Data Flow
+---
 
-1.  **Client-Side**: Your application collects WebRTC statistics (e.g., via `RTCPeerConnection.getStats()`).
-2.  **Transformation**: These raw stats are transformed into the `ClientSample` schema (ideally from [observertc/schemas](https://github.com/observertc/schemas)).
-3.  **Ingestion**: The `ClientSample` is passed to the `observer.accept()` method.
-4.  **Processing**: `observer-js` processes the sample, updating or creating relevant entities (`ObservedCall`, `ObservedClient`, `ObservedPeerConnection`, etc.) and their metrics.
-5.  **Analysis**: Metrics are analyzed for issue detection and quality scoring.
-6.  **Events**: Events are emitted for significant state changes, new issues, or updates.
+## Ingestion: `accept()`, context & lifecycle
 
-#### 2.2. Entity Hierarchy
+### `observer.accept(sample, context?)`
 
-- **`Observer`**: The root object, managing multiple calls and global settings.
-  - **`ObservedCall`**: Represents a distinct call session.
-    - **`ObservedClient`**: Represents an individual participant within a call.
-      - **`ObservedPeerConnection`**: Represents a WebRTC RTCPeerConnection of a client.
-        - **`ObservedInboundRtpStream` / `ObservedOutboundRtpStream`**: Tracks individual media streams.
-        - **`ObservedDataChannel`**: Tracks data channels.
-- **`ObservedTURN`**: Tracks global TURN server usage metrics across the observer.
+The single entry point. It:
 
-#### 2.3. Automatic Entity Creation
+1. drops + emits `sample-rejected` if the observer is closed;
+2. runs the sample through the **global accept-middleware chain** (see below);
+3. (chain terminal) drops + emits `sample-rejected` if `callId`/`clientId` is missing;
+4. gets or lazily creates the `ObservedCall` and `ObservedClient` (their `appData` comes from the
+   configured factories, never from `context`);
+5. delegates to `client.accept(sample, context)`, which fans out to each
+   `ObservedPeerConnection.accept(pcSample, context)`.
 
-When `observer.accept(sample)` is called:
+### Accept middlewares (global pre-dispatch hook)
 
-- If an `ObservedCall` for `sample.callId` doesn't exist, it's typically created.
-- If an `ObservedClient` for `sample.clientId` within that call doesn't exist, it's typically created.
-- Peer connections, streams, and data channels are similarly managed based on IDs in the sample.
+`observer.addAcceptMiddleware(...)` registers middlewares run on **every** sample inside
+`accept()`, in order, **before** the sample is dispatched to any call or client. Each middleware
+gets a `{ sample, context }` payload; it can inspect or mutate the sample (set/normalize
+`callId`/`clientId`, enrich, redact) or the context, then call `next(payload)` to continue.
+**Not calling `next` drops the sample** — nothing is created and no event fires. A throwing
+middleware is caught and warns (the sample is dropped), never crashing `accept()`.
 
-#### 2.4. Metrics Aggregation
+```ts
+import { Observer, AcceptMiddleware } from '@observertc/observer-js';
 
-The library aggregates a wide array of metrics at each level of the hierarchy, including (but not limited to):
+const observer = new Observer();
 
-- RTT, jitter, packet loss
-- Bytes sent/received (audio, video, data)
-- Codec information
-- ICE connection details, TURN usage
-- Stream/track states (muted, enabled)
-- Frame rates, resolutions
-- Bandwidth estimations
+// derive callId/clientId from the app's own attachment, before dispatch
+const route: AcceptMiddleware = ({ sample }, next) => {
+  sample.callId ??= sample.attachments?.roomId as string;
+  sample.clientId ??= sample.attachments?.peerId as string;
+  next({ sample });
+};
 
-#### 2.5. Issue Detection
+// drop samples from a blocklisted client (never dispatched)
+const filter: AcceptMiddleware = (payload, next) => {
+  if (blocked.has(payload.sample.clientId)) return;   // no next() => dropped
+  next(payload);
+};
 
-A `Detectors` system analyzes metrics to identify common WebRTC issues (e.g., high packet loss, low audio levels, frozen video, connection setup problems). Issues are reported via events.
+observer.addAcceptMiddleware(route, filter);
+// observer.removeAcceptMiddleware(route);
+```
 
-#### 2.6. Quality Scoring
+This is a lightweight global injection point. When no middleware is registered, `accept()`
+dispatches directly with no overhead.
 
-`ScoreCalculator` components assess the quality of calls and clients based on metrics and detected issues, typically resulting in a numerical score (e.g., 0.0 to 5.0).
+### `context` (the `AcceptContext`)
 
-#### 2.7. Event-Driven Architecture
+```ts
+type AcceptContext = Record<string, unknown>;
+```
 
-The library uses Node.js `EventEmitter` to signal various occurrences, allowing applications to react to changes in real-time.
+A single, optional, free-form object threaded down the whole accept chain
+(`Observer → Client → PeerConnection`). It is **transient request-scoped data** — temporary or
+contextual information the application wants available while an update is processed.
 
-### 3. API Reference
+`context` is **never written to `appData`** and is **not stored** on any entity. The two are
+deliberately distinct:
 
-#### 3.1. `Observer`
+- **`appData`** — application-assigned extra info that identifies/decorates an entity, fixed at
+  creation (via `settings.appData` or the `createCallAppData` / `createClientAppData` factories),
+  or assigned by the app on the `*-added` events. The library never changes it. The factories
+  **receive the context of the `accept()` that triggered the creation**, so a fact carried on the
+  context can be baked into `appData` at birth — but it is copied by the factory, deliberately, not
+  written across by the library.
+- **`context`** — passed per `accept()`, may differ on every call, and is carried straight
+  through to the `*-updated` events that the `accept()` triggers, then discarded.
 
-Manages all monitored calls and global observer state.
+`client-updated` and `peer-connection-updated` carry the exact context of that sample;
+`call-updated` carries the context of the client `accept()` that drove the call update (absent
+for interval- or teardown-driven call updates). When no context is given, the field is absent.
 
-**Configuration (`ObserverConfig`)**
+### Get-or-create helpers
 
-```typescript
-export type ObserverConfig<AppData extends Record<string, unknown> = Record<string, unknown>> = {
-	updatePolicy?: 'update-on-any-call-updated' | 'update-when-all-call-updated' | 'update-on-interval';
-	updateIntervalInMs?: number; // Used if updatePolicy is 'update-on-interval'
-	defaultCallUpdatePolicy?: ObservedCallSettings['updatePolicy'];
-	defaultCallUpdateIntervalInMs?: number;
-	appData?: AppData; // Custom data for this observer instance
-};
+If you want to create/configure entities yourself before/without samples:
+
+```ts
+const call = observer.getOrCreateObservedCall({ callId, appData });        // ObservedCall | undefined
+const client = call?.getOrCreateObservedClient({ clientId, appData });     // ObservedClient | undefined
 ```
 
-**Constructor**
+These return `undefined` (and warn) when the parent is closed; `createObservedCall`/
+`createObservedClient` return the **existing** instance (and warn) if the id already exists.
 
-```typescript
-new Observer<AppData>(config?: ObserverConfig<AppData>)
+### Automatic teardown
+
+- `closeClientIfIdleForMs` — a client with no sample for this long auto-closes.
+- `closeCallIfEmptyForMs` — a call with zero clients for this long auto-closes.
+- Closing cascades down (call → clients → peer connections → sub-stats), unsubscribing
+  listeners and emitting the `*-closed` / `*-removed` events.
+
+---
+
+## When things update
+
+"Update" means *recompute aggregated metrics, run the detectors, and emit the `*-updated` event* at
+that level. Updates are **event-driven** — there is no built-in timer.
+
+The rule is structural rather than configurable:
+
+> **A call is updated when any of its clients is updated. The observer is updated when any of its
+> calls is updated.** Composed, that means the observer is updated exactly when any client anywhere
+> is updated.
+
+Two booleans, both defaulting to `true`, let you opt out of a link in that chain:
+
+| Setting | Where | Effect when `false` |
+|---------|-------|---------------------|
+| `autoUpdateOnClientUpdate` | `ObservedCallSettings` | the call updates only when you call `call.update()` |
+| `autoUpdateOnCallUpdate` | `ObserverConfig` | the observer updates only when you call `observer.update()` |
+
+An app that wants a fixed cadence sets both to `false` and drives `observer.update()` from its own
+`setInterval`. Note that **observer-scoped detectors and validators run nowhere else** — if the
+observer never updates, they never run.
+
+```ts
+const observer = new Observer({ autoUpdateOnCallUpdate: false });
+
+setInterval(() => observer.update(), 5_000);
+```
+
+> Earlier versions had an `updatePolicy` / `defaultCallUpdatePolicy` enum (`'update-on-any-…'`,
+> `'update-when-all-…'`, `'none'`) and a pluggable `Updater` object. Both are gone. "When all clients
+> have updated" sounds appealing and deadlocks on the first client that stops sending — one silent
+> participant froze the whole call's aggregation until it timed out.
+
+---
+
+## The event bus
+
+This is the primary API. **Subscribe on the `Observer` instance** — it is the single emitter
+for the entire hierarchy. The `ObservedCall` / `ObservedClient` / `ObservedPeerConnection`
+objects are themselves `EventEmitter`s too, but those local events are reserved for internal
+lifecycle/teardown wiring (see [Local lifecycle events](#local-lifecycle-events)); application
+code should use the Observer bus.
+
+### Payload shape: ancestry + subject
+
+Every Observer event delivers exactly **one argument: a payload object**. The payload always
+contains the ancestry from the observer down to the entity that raised it, plus any event-
+specific subject:
+
+```ts
+type ObserverEventBase            = { observer: Observer, context?: AcceptContext };
+type ObservedCallScope            = ObserverEventBase            & { observedCall: ObservedCall };
+type ObservedClientScope          = ObservedCallScope            & { observedClient: ObservedClient };
+type ObservedPeerConnectionScope  = ObservedClientScope          & { observedPeerConnection: ObservedPeerConnection };
 ```
 
-- `config`: Optional. Defaults: `updatePolicy: 'update-when-all-call-updated'`.
+So a peer-connection-level event hands you the observer, call, client, **and** peer connection:
+
+```ts
+observer.on('inbound-rtp-added', ({ observer, observedCall, observedClient, observedPeerConnection, observedInboundRtp }) => {
+  // all five are present and correctly typed
+});
+```
+
+`observer.on/off/once/emit` are fully typed against the event map — the handler argument is
+inferred per event name.
+
+### Event catalogue
+
+All payloads include the ancestry for their level (above). The **Extra** column lists the
+additional field(s) on top of that scope.
+
+#### Observer level — scope `{ observer }`
+
+| Event | Extra payload | Fires when |
+|-------|---------------|-----------|
+| `observer-updated` | — | `observer.update()` ran (see [When things update](#when-things-update)) |
+| `observer-closed` | — | `observer.close()` |
+| `sample-rejected` | `{ reason: 'observer-closed' \| 'missing-callId' \| 'missing-clientId', sample: ClientSample }` | a sample was dropped by `accept()` |
+| `observer-issue` | `{ issue: ObserverIssue }` | `observer.addIssue(...)` — a cross-call / SFU-wide finding (see [observer-level detectors](#observer-level-detectors-cross-call--sfu-wide)) |
+| `validation-ready` | `{ validator: string, report: ValidationReport }` | a [validator](#validators--one-shot-structural-checks) settled — fires once per check, not per tick |
+
+#### Mediasoup level — scope `{ observer, observedMediasoupRouter }`
+
+| Event | Extra | Fires when |
+|-------|-------|-----------|
+| `mediasoup-router-added` | — | `observer.createObservedMediasoupRouter(...)` registered a router |
+| `mediasoup-router-matched-with-peer-connection` | `{ observedCall, observedClient, observedPeerConnection }` | a newly added peer connection's id matched one of the router's WebRTC transport ids. **Opt-in** via `matchPeerConnectionByWebRtcTransportId: true`. |
+| `mediasoup-router-removed` | — | the underlying mediasoup router closed (its `router.observer` `close` fired) |
+
+See [Mediasoup router observation](#mediasoup-router-observation) for the full design and examples.
+
+#### Call level — scope `{ observer, observedCall }`
+
+| Event | Extra | Fires when |
+|-------|-------|-----------|
+| `call-added` | — | a call is created |
+| `call-updated` | `{ context?: AcceptContext }` | `call.update()` ran |
+| `call-closed` | — | the call closed |
+| `call-empty` | — | last client left the call |
+| `call-not-empty` | — | first client joined a previously-empty call |
+| `call-issue` | `{ issue: CallIssue }` | `call.addIssue(...)` (server-side detector finding) |
+| `call-summary` | `{ summary: CallSummary }` | the call is closing and a [summary](#call-summaries) was configured. Emitted **inside** `close()`, while the call is still reachable |
+
+#### Client level — scope `{ observer, observedCall, observedClient }`
+
+| Event | Extra | Fires when |
+|-------|-------|-----------|
+| `client-added` | — | a client is created |
+| `client-sink-created` | `{ sink: ClientSampleSink }` | a per-client sink was created (only when `createClientSink` returns one); fires right after `client-added` |
+| `client-updated` | `{ sample: ClientSample, elapsedTimeInMs: number, context?: AcceptContext }` | the client processed a sample |
+| `client-closed` | — | the client closed |
+| `client-joined` | — | first `CLIENT_JOINED` event seen |
+| `client-left` | — | `CLIENT_LEFT` seen (or inferred on close) |
+| `client-rejoined` | `{ timestamp: number }` | a later `CLIENT_JOINED` after an earlier join |
+| `client-issue` | `{ issue: ClientIssue }` | a client-reported issue arrived, or `client.addIssue(...)`. A keyed issue also opens an entry in `observedClient.activeIssues` |
+| `client-issue-resolved` | `{ resolvedIssue: ResolvedActiveClientIssue }` | a stateful issue ended — the client sent its `<type>-resolved` companion, or the observer force-closed it. Carries the finished interval (`durationInMs`, `resolvedBy`) — see [client issues](#client-issues-the-lifecycle-and-the-division-of-labour) |
+| `client-metadata` | `{ metaData: ClientMetaData }` | a client meta item arrived |
+| `client-extension-stats` | `{ extensionStats: ExtensionStat }` | an app-defined extension stat arrived |
+| `client-event` | `{ event: ClientEvent }` | any client event was processed |
+
+#### Peer-connection level — scope `{ observer, observedCall, observedClient, observedPeerConnection }`
+
+| Event | Extra | Notes |
+|-------|-------|-------|
+| `peer-connection-added` / `peer-connection-closed` | — | lifecycle of the PC |
+| `peer-connection-updated` | `{ context?: AcceptContext }` | the PC processed a sample |
+| `ice-connection-state-changed` / `ice-gathering-state-changed` / `connection-state-changed` | `{ state: string }` | driven by client events |
+| `inbound-track-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` / `-muted` / `-unmuted` | `{ observedInboundTrack }` | |
+| `outbound-track-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` / `-muted` / `-unmuted` | `{ observedOutboundTrack }` | |
+| `inbound-rtp-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedInboundRtp }` | `-updated` fires every tick |
+| `outbound-rtp-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedOutboundRtp }` | `-updated` fires every tick |
+| `remote-inbound-rtp-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedRemoteInboundRtp }` | |
+| `remote-outbound-rtp-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedRemoteOutboundRtp }` | |
+| `data-channel-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedDataChannel }` | |
+| `ice-candidate-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedIceCandidate }` | |
+| `ice-candidate-pair-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedIceCandidatePair }` | |
+| `ice-transport-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedIceTransport }` | |
+| `codec-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedCodec }` | |
+| `media-source-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedMediaSource }` | |
+| `media-playout-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedMediaPlayout }` | |
+| `peer-connection-transport-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedPeerConnectionTransport }` | |
+| `certificate-added` / `-updated` / `-removed` | `{ observedCertificate }` | |
+
+> **Volume note.** The `*-updated` sub-stat events fire on every peer-connection `accept()`
+> (i.e. per sample, per stream). For high-throughput servers, subscribe only to what you need,
+> or read fields off the entities on `client-updated` / `call-updated` instead.
+
+### Local lifecycle events
+
+These remain on the individual entities (not the bus), for teardown/coordination. You can
+listen to them, but prefer the bus equivalents above for application logic.
+
+| Entity | Local events |
+|--------|--------------|
+| `ObservedCall` | `update`, `newclient`, `empty`, `not-empty`, `close` |
+| `ObservedClient` | `update` (`sample`, `elapsedTimeInMs`), `close`, `joined`, `left` |
+| `ObservedPeerConnection` | `removed-inbound-track`, `removed-outbound-track`, `close` |
+
+---
+
+## API reference
+
+### `Observer`
 
-**Key Properties**
+```ts
+new Observer<AppData>(config?: ObserverConfig<AppData>)
 
-- `observedCalls: Map<string, ObservedCall>`: Active calls.
-- `observedTURN: ObservedTURN`: Aggregated TURN metrics.
-- `appData: AppData | undefined`: Custom application data.
-- `closed: boolean`: True if `close()` has been called.
-- Counters: `totalAddedCall`, `totalRemovedCall`, RTT buckets, `totalClientIssues`, `numberOfClientsUsingTurn`, `numberOfClients`, `numberOfPeerConnections`, etc.
+type ObserverConfig<AppData = Record<string, unknown>> = {
+    // a call updates when any client does; the observer when any call does. Default true.
+    autoUpdateOnCallUpdate?: boolean;
+    appData?: AppData;
+    closeClientIfIdleForMs?: number;
+    closeCallIfEmptyForMs?: number;
+    // accumulate a per-call summary (see Call summaries). Absent or null = off, and nothing
+    // subscribes to anything. `{}` is valid: a summary with no built-in sections.
+    callSummary?: Partial<CallSummaryConfig> | null;
+    // appData factories — run when an entity is created without explicit appData
+    // (incl. lazily by accept()). appData is application-owned; accept `context` never touches it.
+    createCallAppData?: (p: { callId: string; observer: Observer; acceptCtx?: AcceptContext }) => Record<string, unknown>;
+    createClientAppData?: (p: { clientId: string; observedCall: ObservedCall; acceptCtx?: AcceptContext }) => Record<string, unknown>;
+    // sink factory — produces a per-client sink that receives every accepted sample (see Sinks).
+    createClientSink?: (p: { clientId: string; observedCall: ObservedCall }) => ClientSampleSink | undefined;
+    // remote-track-resolver factory — produces a call's RemoteTrackResolver (see Remote track resolution).
+    createRemoteTrackResolver?: (observedCall: ObservedCall) => RemoteTrackResolver | undefined;
+  };
+```
 
-**Key Methods**
+**appData factories.** Instead of pre-creating a call/client (or assigning on `call-added` /
+`client-added`) just to enrich its `appData`, register a factory once. It runs whenever the entity
+is created without an explicit `settings.appData` — including the lazy creation inside `accept()`.
+The `client` factory receives the already-created parent `observedCall`, so it can derive fields
+from it.
+
+Both also receive **`acceptCtx`**: the [`AcceptContext`](#context-the-acceptcontext) of the
+`accept()` that caused the creation, or `undefined` when you created the entity yourself. This is
+what lets an [accept middleware](#accept-middlewares-global-pre-dispatch-hook) resolve something
+once — a tenant, a trace id — and have it land in `appData` at birth, instead of every factory
+re-deriving it from the sample.
+
+```ts
+const observer = new Observer({
+  createCallAppData:   ({ callId, acceptCtx })      => ({ callId, startedAt: Date.now(), tenant: acceptCtx?.tenant }),
+  createClientAppData: ({ clientId, observedCall }) => ({ clientId, tenant: observedCall.appData.tenant }),
+});
 
-- `createObservedCall<T>(settings: ObservedCallSettings<T>): ObservedCall<T>`
-- `getObservedCall<T>(callId: string): ObservedCall<T> | undefined`
-- `accept(sample: ClientSample): void`: A convenience method to feed WebRTC stats. If `sample.callId` and `sample.clientId` are provided, it will route the sample to the appropriate `ObservedCall` and `ObservedClient`, creating them if they don't exist. The core sample processing for an existing client happens within the `ObservedClient`'s own `accept` or update mechanism.
-- `update(): void`: Manually trigger an update cycle (behavior depends on `updatePolicy`).
-- `close(): void`: Cleans up resources for the observer and all its calls.
-- `createEventMonitor<CTX>(ctx?: CTX): ObserverEventMonitor<CTX>`: For contextual event listening.
+observer.accept(sample, { tenant: 'acme' });
+```
 
-**Events (`ObserverEvents`)**
+`appData` stays application-owned: the context is *offered* to the factory, never written across by
+the library, and it is still not stored on any entity.
+
+Key members:
+
+- `accept(sample: ClientSample, context?: AcceptContext): void`
+- `addAcceptMiddleware(...mw: AcceptMiddleware[]): this` / `removeAcceptMiddleware(...mw): this` — global pre-dispatch sample hooks (see [Accept middlewares](#accept-middlewares-global-pre-dispatch-hook))
+- `getObservedCall<T>(callId): ObservedCall<T> | undefined`
+- `createObservedCall<T>(settings, acceptCtx?): ObservedCall<T> | undefined`
+- `getOrCreateObservedCall<T>(settings, acceptCtx?): ObservedCall<T> | undefined`
+- `addIssue(issue: Omit<ObserverIssue, 'scope'>): void` — raise an **observer-level** finding → emits `observer-issue`. `scope` is stamped for you
+- `update(): void` — force an aggregation/`observer-updated` tick
+- `addObserverDetector(name, config?): this` — build a cross-call detector onto `observer.detectors`
+- `addCallDetector(name, config?): this` — register a call-scoped detector for every call created
+  from now on
+- `removeCallDetector(name, { includeOpenCalls? }): number` — stop building it, and (by default) drop
+  it from calls already open. Returns how many live instances were removed
+- `removeObserverDetector(name): number` — remove an observer-scoped detector. For one specific
+  instance use `observer.detectors.remove(detector)`
+- `addValidator(name, config?): this` — start a one-shot structural check
+- `cancelValidator(name | validator, reason?): number` — stop a running check; it finishes
+  `inconclusive` with the reason and emits `validation-ready`
+- `close(): void`
+- `readonly detectors: Detectors` — observer-scoped registry. **Starts empty**; nothing is implicit
+- `readonly callDetectorConfigs: Map<name, config>` — what `addCallDetector` recorded
+- `readonly callSummaryCollector?: CallSummaryCollector` — owns the resolved `config.callSummary`,
+  the summary subscriptions, and the summaries. `undefined` when summaries are off, which is the
+  only place that answer lives
+- `readonly validators: Set<RunningValidator>` — normally empty; each removes itself on finishing
+- `readonly activeIssuesRegistry: ActiveIssuesRegistry` — the fleet's open client issues
+- `readonly observedCalls: Map<string, ObservedCall>`
+- `readonly observedTURN: ObservedTURN`
+- `get appData()`, `get numberOfCalls()`
+- counters: `numberOfClients`, `numberOfClientsUsingTurn`, `numberOfInboundRtpStreams`,
+  `numberOfOutboundRtpStreams`, `numberOfDataChannels`, `numberOfPeerConnections`,
+  `totalAddedCall`, `totalRemovedCall`, `closed`
+- `on/off/once/emit` typed against the [event map](#event-catalogue)
+
+### `ObservedCall`
+
+```ts
+type ObservedCallSettings<AppData = Record<string, unknown>> = {
+    // update this call whenever one of its clients accepts a sample. Default true.
+    autoUpdateOnClientUpdate?: boolean;
+    callId: string;
+    appData?: AppData;
+    closeCallIfEmptyForMs?: number;
+  };
+```
 
-- `'newcall' (call: ObservedCall)`
-- `'call-updated' (call: ObservedCall)`
-- `'client-event' (client: ObservedClient, event: ClientEvent)`
-- `'client-issue' (client: ObservedClient, issue: ClientIssue)`
-- `'client-metadata' (client: ObservedClient, metadata: ClientMetaData)`
-- `'client-extension-stats' (client: ObservedClient, stats: ExtensionStat)`
-- `'update' ()`
-- `'close' ()`
+Key members:
+
+- `readonly callId: string`, `appData: AppData`
+- `readonly observedClients: Map<string, ObservedClient>`, `get numberOfClients()`
+- `getObservedClient<T>(clientId)`, `createObservedClient<T>(settings, acceptCtx?)`, `getOrCreateObservedClient<T>(settings, acceptCtx?)` (all `… | undefined`)
+- `addIssue(issue: Omit<CallIssue, 'scope'>): void` — raise a **call-level** finding → emits `call-issue`. `scope` is stamped for you
+- `addDetector(name, config?): this` — build a call-scoped detector onto this call only
+- `removeDetector(name): number` — remove it from this call, `close()`ing it. For one specific
+  instance use `call.detectors.remove(detector)`
+- `readonly detectors: Detectors` — server-side detector registry (empty by default; see [Detectors](#detectors-server-side-extension-point))
+- `readonly activeIssuesRegistry: ActiveIssuesRegistry` — this call's open client issues, propagating into the observer's
+- `readonly unconsumedOutboundTracks: Set<ObservedOutboundTrack>` — maintained by the resolver
+- `scoreCalculator: ScoreCalculator`, `get score()`, `readonly calculatedScore`
+- `remoteTrackResolver?: RemoteTrackResolver` — set from `ObserverConfig.createRemoteTrackResolver` at call creation (see [Remote track resolution](#remote-track-resolution-mediasoup--sfu))
+- aggregates: `numberOfIssues`, `numberOfPeerConnections`, `numberOfInboundRtpStreams`,
+  `numberOfOutboundRtpStreams`, `numberOfDataChannels`, `maxNumberOfClients`,
+  `clientsUsedTurn: Set<string>`, `startedAt?`, `endedAt?`, `closedAt?`, `closed`
+- `summary?: CallSummary` — the live record of this call, when [summaries](#call-summaries) are on
+- `update()`, `close()`
+
+### `ObservedClient`
+
+```ts
+type ObservedClientSettings<AppData = Record<string, unknown>> = {
+  clientId: string;
+  appData?: AppData;
+  closeClientIfIdleForMs?: number;
+};
+```
 
-#### 3.2. `ObservedCall`
+Key members:
+
+- `readonly clientId: string`, `appData: AppData`, `readonly call: ObservedCall`
+- `readonly observedPeerConnections: Map<string, ObservedPeerConnection>`
+- `readonly sink?: ClientSampleSink` — the per-client sink (see [Sinks](#sinks-per-client-sample-persistence)), if `createClientSink` is configured; listen on it for `close`/`error`
+- **Injection API** (queue app data to be merged into the next sample processing):
+  `injectEvent(ClientEvent)`, `injectIssue(ClientIssue)`, `injectMetaData(ClientMetaData)`,
+  `injectExtensionStat(ExtensionStat)`, `injectAttachment(attachments: Record<string, unknown>)`
+- **Direct add API** (process immediately): `addIssue(ClientIssue)`, `addMetadata(ClientMetaData)`,
+  `addExtensionStats(ExtensionStat)`
+- Metrics (current/derived): `currentAvgRttInMs?`, `currentMinRttInMs?`, `currentMaxRttInMs?`,
+  `receivingAudioBitrate`, `receivingVideoBitrate`, `sendingAudioBitrate`, `sendingVideoBitrate`,
+  `usingTURN`, `usingTCP`, `availableIncomingBitrate`, `availableOutgoingBitrate`
+- Counts: `numberOfInboundRtpStreams`, `numberOfOutboundRtpStreams`, `numberOfInbundTracks`,
+  `numberOfOutboundTracks`, `numberOfDataChannels`, `numberOfPeerConnections`
+- Per-tick deltas: `deltaReceivedAudioBytes`, `deltaSentAudioBytes`, … (see source for the full set)
+- Lifecycle: `joinedAt?`, `leftAt?`, `closedAt?`, `closed`, `get score()`
+- Metadata: `browser?`, `engine?`, `platform?`, `operationSystem?`, `mediaDevices`, `mediaConstraints`
+- `accept(sample, context?)`, `close()`
+
+### `ObservedPeerConnection`
+
+Key members:
+
+- `readonly peerConnectionId: string`, `readonly client: ObservedClient`, `appData?`
+- The 15 `observed*` sub-stat `Map`s (listed [above](#entity-hierarchy)), plus array getters:
+  `codecs`, `inboundRtps`, `outboundRtps`, `remoteInboundRtps`, `remoteOutboundRtps`,
+  `mediaSources`, `mediaPlayouts`, `dataChannels`, `peerConnectionTransports`, `iceTransports`,
+  `iceCandidates`, `iceCandidatePairs`, `certificates`, `selectedIceCandidatePairs`,
+  `selectedIceCandiadtePairForTurn`
+- State: `connectionState?`, `iceConnectionState?`, `iceGatheringState?`, `usingTURN`, `usingTCP`
+- Metrics: `currentRttInMs?`, `iceRttInMs?`, `rtcpRttInMs?`, `sfuHopRttInMs?`, `currentJitter?`,
+  `availableIncomingBitrate`, `availableOutgoingBitrate`, sending/receiving bitrates, packet rates,
+  and `total*` / `delta*` byte/packet counters
+- `accept(pcSample, context?)`, `close()`, `get score()`
+
+**Two different round trips — don't mix them.** `iceRttInMs` comes from ICE/STUN consent checks and
+measures the trip to *whatever terminates ICE*: **in an SFU topology that is the SFU**, so it is the
+client↔SFU leg. `rtcpRttInMs` comes from RTCP receiver reports and is an **end-to-end** media-path
+round trip. They are not interchangeable, and averaging them together produces a number that moves
+as streams come and go for reasons unrelated to the network. `currentRttInMs` therefore *prefers*
+RTCP and falls back to ICE — always one kind within a tick, never a blend. `sfuHopRttInMs`
+(`rtcp − ice`) estimates everything past the SFU, which separates "this client's last mile is slow"
+from "the path beyond the SFU is slow".
+
+**Counter-reset boundaries.** Chrome resets an SSRC's cumulative counters when the codec switches
+([crbug/webrtc/5361](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=5361), open since 2015),
+which otherwise shows up as a sawtooth spike or a negative bitrate. `ObservedInboundRtp` /
+`ObservedOutboundRtp` therefore set **`counterResetBoundary`** on any tick where `codecId`,
+`encoder`/`decoderImplementation` or `scalabilityMode` changed, and suppress every delta for that
+tick. Without this, a room-wide codec rollout fires a synchronized fake-degradation alert across
+every participant at once.
+
+**Remote-RTP correlation (derived).** During `accept()`, receiver/sender reports are linked
+to the local streams by `remoteId` (fallback SSRC) and surfaced as fields:
+
+- on `ObservedOutboundRtp`: `remoteRttInMs?`, `remoteFractionLost?`, `remoteJitter?`, `remotePacketsLost?`
+- on `ObservedInboundRtp`: `remoteRttInMs?`, `remoteBytesSent?`, `remotePacketsSent?`, `remoteTimestamp?`
+
+These are reset each tick and only set when the matching remote report is present.
 
-Represents a single call session.
+---
 
-**Configuration (`ObservedCallSettings`)**
+## Schema types (`ClientSample`)
+
+The shape of an accepted sample (re-exported from this package; identical to
+`@observertc/schemas`). Only the top level is shown — each stat object mirrors the standard
+WebRTC `getStats()` dictionaries plus a few extensions.
+
+```ts
+type ClientSample = {
+  timestamp: number;          // client wall-clock (ms epoch)
+  callId?: string;            // set by you or the library
+  clientId?: string;          // set by you or the library
+  score?: number;             // optional client-computed score (0..5)
+  attachments?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  peerConnections?: PeerConnectionSample[];
+  clientEvents?: ClientEvent[];
+  clientIssues?: ClientIssue[];
+  clientMetaItems?: ClientMetaData[];
+  extensionStats?: ExtensionStat[];
+};
 
-```typescript
-export type ObservedCallSettings<AppData extends Record<string, unknown> = Record<string, unknown>> = {
-	callId: string;
-	appData?: AppData;
-	updatePolicy?: 'update-on-any-client-updated' | 'update-when-all-client-updated' | 'update-on-interval';
-	updateIntervalInMs?: number; // Used if updatePolicy is 'update-on-interval'
-	remoteTrackResolvePolicy?: 'mediasoup-sfu'; // For specific SFU integration
+type PeerConnectionSample = {
+  peerConnectionId: string;
+  attachments?: Record<string, unknown>;   // e.g. { direction: 'send'|'recv', producerId, consumerId, label }
+  score?: number;
+  inboundTracks?; outboundTracks?;
+  codecs?;
+  inboundRtps?; remoteInboundRtps?;
+  outboundRtps?; remoteOutboundRtps?;
+  mediaSources?; mediaPlayouts?;
+  peerConnectionTransports?; dataChannels?;
+  iceTransports?; iceCandidates?; iceCandidatePairs?;
+  certificates?;
 };
+
+type ClientEvent     = { type: string; payload?: Record<string, unknown>; timestamp?: number; /* +ids */ };
+type ClientIssue     = { type: string; payload?: Record<string, unknown>; key?: string; timestamp?: number };
+type ClientMetaData  = { type: string; payload?: Record<string, unknown>; timestamp?: number; /* +ids */ };
+type ExtensionStat   = { type: string; payload?: Record<string, unknown> };
 ```
 
-**Key Properties**
+`payload` fields are objects (schema **3.7.0**: free-form JSON, so a payload may nest objects and
+arrays), and the library reads the ones it understands. **Older clients keep working**: a payload
+from a pre-3.5.0 client arrives as a JSON string and is parsed on the way in, so a fleet running a
+mix of client versions needs no coordination — every reader sees the same object either way. Values
+inside a payload are `unknown`, so narrow before use (`typeof p.trackId === 'string'`).
+
+**`ClientEventTypes`** (enum of known `event.type` values): `CLIENT_JOINED`, `CLIENT_LEFT`,
+`PEER_CONNECTION_OPENED/CLOSED/STATE_CHANGED`, `MEDIA_TRACK_ADDED/REMOVED/MUTED/UNMUTED/RESUMED`,
+`ICE_GATHERING_STATE_CHANGED`, `ICE_CONNECTION_STATE_CHANGED`, `DATA_CHANNEL_OPEN/CLOSED/ERROR`,
+`NEGOTIATION_NEEDED`, `SIGNALING_STATE_CHANGE`, `ICE_CANDIDATE`, `ICE_CANDIDATE_ERROR`, and the
+mediasoup set `PRODUCER_*` / `CONSUMER_*` / `DATA_PRODUCER_*` / `DATA_CONSUMER_*`.
+
+**`ClientMetaTypes`** (enum of known meta `type` values): `MEDIA_CONSTRAINT`, `MEDIA_DEVICE`,
+`MEDIA_DEVICES_SUPPORTED_CONSTRAINTS`, `USER_MEDIA_ERROR`, `LOCAL_SDP`, `OPERATION_SYSTEM`,
+`ENGINE`, `PLATFORM`, `BROWSER`.
+
+### Worked example: a real `ClientSample`
+
+Two consecutive samples from one participant ("Guest" in room `qq0iwfnd`) of an
+edumeet/mediasoup call show what actually flows through `accept()`: a rich **join snapshot**,
+then lean **steady-state ticks**.
+
+**Sample 1 — the join snapshot.** Carries the one-off lifecycle `clientEvents` and device
+`clientMetaItems` alongside the first stats. (Abbreviated; ids and times are from the real log.)
+
+```jsonc
+{
+  "timestamp": 1780572332518,
+  "callId":   "d3dbf2f5-79be-4cb8-9d43-fb404f07ef27",
+  "clientId": "c926983c-4468-4046-ae8c-a9cabe1a1868",
+  "score": 0,                                          // no quality measured yet on the join tick
+  "attachments": { "displayName": "Guest", "roomId": "qq0iwfnd", "actualSessionId": "d3dbf2f5-…" },
+
+  "clientEvents": [                                     // chronological lifecycle (12 in the real sample)
+    { "type": "CLIENT_JOINED",                 "timestamp": 1780572324515 },
+    { "type": "PEER_CONNECTION_OPENED",        "timestamp": 1780572326790 },   // pc=b81c8d9d (media)
+    { "type": "ICE_GATHERING_STATE_CHANGED",   "timestamp": 1780572326811 },   // → gathering
+    { "type": "PEER_CONNECTION_STATE_CHANGED", "timestamp": 1780572326812 },   // → connecting
+    { "type": "PRODUCER_ADDED",                "timestamp": 1780572326821 },   // producer=1abdaf82 (audio)
+    { "type": "MEDIA_TRACK_ADDED",             "timestamp": 1780572326821 },   // track=36ae42df  (audio)
+    { "type": "PEER_CONNECTION_STATE_CHANGED", "timestamp": 1780572326827 },   // → connected
+    { "type": "PRODUCER_ADDED",                "timestamp": 1780572326837 },   // producer=ba06a35b (video)
+    { "type": "DATA_PRODUCER_CREATED",         "timestamp": 1780572326853 }
+  ],
+
+  "clientMetaItems": [                                  // environment & devices, one-off (10 in the real sample)
+    { "type": "USER_AGENT_DATA", "payload": { "…": "Chrome 148 / macOS" } },
+    { "type": "MEDIA_DEVICE",    "payload": { "label": "BRIO 4K Stream Edition" } }
+    // …mic / camera / speaker devices…
+  ],
+
+  "peerConnections": [
+    {
+      "peerConnectionId": "b81c8d9d-…",                // the media PC — Guest publishes to the SFU
+      "outboundRtps":      [ /* audio + video */ ],
+      "outboundTracks":    [ /* mic + camera: label, settings, capabilities */ ],
+      "remoteInboundRtps": [ /* RTCP feedback from the SFU */ ],
+      "codecs": [ /* … */ ], "iceTransports": [ /* … */ ],
+      "iceCandidatePairs": [ /* … */ ], "dataChannels": [ /* … */ ]
+    },
+    { "peerConnectionId": "8635acb7-…", "peerConnectionTransports": [ /* … */ ] }  // signaling-only PC
+  ]
+}
+```
 
-- `callId: string`
-- `appData: AppData | undefined`
-- `numberOfClients: number`
-- `score: number | undefined`: Overall call quality score.
-- `observedClients: Map<string, ObservedClient>`
-- Counters: `totalAddedClients`, `totalRemovedClients`, `numberOfIssues`, RTT buckets, total bytes sent/received (audio/video/data), etc.
+What `accept()` does with it, in order — each step emits on the bus with full ancestry:
 
-**Key Methods**
+1. lazily creates the `ObservedCall` → **`call-added`**;
+2. creates the `ObservedClient` → **`client-added`**, then **`client-joined`** (from `CLIENT_JOINED`);
+3. creates an `ObservedPeerConnection` per entry → **`peer-connection-added`** (×2 here);
+4. creates an `ObservedOutboundTrack` per track → **`outbound-track-added`**, plus the matching
+   **`outbound-rtp-added`**;
+5. replays the device list as **`client-metadata`** events and the lifecycle items as
+   **`client-event`**; and finally **`client-updated`** for the whole tick.
 
-- `createObservedClient<T>(settings: ObservedClientSettings<T>): ObservedClient<T>`
-- `getObservedClient<T>(clientId: string): ObservedClient<T> | undefined`
-- `update(): void`
-- `close(): void`
-- `createEventMonitor<CTX>(ctx?: CTX): ObservedCallEventMonitor<CTX>`
+`attachments.roomId` lands on `observedClient.attachments` (read it on `client-updated`, **not** at
+creation — see [Ingestion](#ingestion-accept-context--lifecycle)).
 
-**Events (Emitted via `ObservedCall` instance)**
+**Sample 2 — a steady-state tick** (~8 s later): same `callId` / `clientId`, **no** new
+`clientEvents` or `clientMetaItems`, just refreshed `peerConnections` stats. Each PC now scores `5`
+and the aggregate client `score` is `4.74` — a healthy call. This is the shape of nearly every
+sample: each tick refreshes metrics and fires the `*-updated` events, while the heavy join
+snapshot happens only once.
 
-- `'newclient' (client: ObservedClient)`
-- `'empty' ()`: When the last client leaves.
-- `'not-empty' ()`: When the first client joins an empty call.
-- `'update' ()`
-- `'close' ()`
+---
 
-#### 3.3. `ObservedClient`
+## Detectors (server-side extension point)
 
-Represents a participant in a call.
+`observer-js` ships [ten detectors](#built-in-detectors), each an opt-in extension you register
+explicitly with `addObserverDetector` / `addCallDetector` / `addDetector` (see
+[Registering detectors](#registering-detectors)) — none are created automatically. All of them
+correlate **across** the clients of a call or the calls of a fleet, because that is the only thing a
+server can do better than a browser: per-client signals — packet loss, jitter, RTT, freezes — are
+already detected on the client and arrive on samples as `clientIssues` (surfaced via `client-issue`).
 
-**Configuration (`ObservedClientSettings`)**
+Findings are raised as **`CallIssue`** or **`ObserverIssue`** — both share `IssueBase`: `{ type,
+timestamp, conclusion?, payload? }` — and the payload is the **object**, not a JSON string. A
+server-raised finding is delivered to an in-process handler, so there is nothing to serialise for:
 
-```typescript
-export type ObservedClientSettings<AppData extends Record<string, unknown> = Record<string, unknown>> = {
-	clientId: string;
-	appData?: AppData;
-	// Potentially other client-specific settings
-};
+```ts
+observer.on('call-issue', ({ observedCall, issue }) => {
+  issue.payload;                  // the object; no JSON.parse
+  issue.conclusion?.faultDomain;  // a first-class field, not payload.conclusion
+  issuePayloadAsString(issue);    // only at an edge that needs text (log, HTTP, queue)
+});
 ```
 
-**Key Properties**
+(`ClientIssue`, the type on samples, is a wire format — its payload may arrive as a JSON string from
+a pre-3.5.0 client, which is why the library parses it before you see it.)
 
-- `clientId: string`
-- `call: ObservedCall`: Reference to the parent call.
-- `appData: AppData | undefined`
-- `score: number | undefined`: Client quality score.
-- `numberOfPeerConnections: number`
-- `usingTURN: boolean`
-- `observedPeerConnections: Map<string, ObservedPeerConnection>`
-- Counters: `numberOfIssues`, RTT buckets, total bytes sent/received, `availableIncomingBitrate`, `availableOutgoingBitrate`, etc.
+The registry is also an open extension point, on **`ObservedCall`**:
 
-**Key Methods**
+```ts
+import { Observer, Detector } from '@observertc/observer-js';
 
-- `accept(sample: ClientSample): void`: (Or a similar internal update method called by `Observer.accept` or `ObservedCall`) Processes a `ClientSample` specific to this client, updating its metrics, peer connections, streams, etc. This is the primary point where a client's detailed WebRTC statistics are processed.
-- `createObservedPeerConnection<T>(settings: ObservedPeerConnectionSettings<T>): ObservedPeerConnection<T>`
-- `getObservedPeerConnection<T>(peerConnectionId: string): ObservedPeerConnection<T> | undefined`
-- `update(): void`
-- `close(): void`
-- `createEventMonitor<CTX>(ctx?: CTX): ObservedClientEventMonitor<CTX>`
+class MyCrossClientDetector implements Detector {
+  readonly name = 'my-detector';
+  constructor(private readonly call /* : ObservedCall */) {}
+  update() {                                   // called on every call.update()
+    // …inspect this.call.observedClients across participants…
+    if (/* condition only visible server-side */ false) {
+      this.call.addIssue({ type: this.name, payload: { /* … */ }, timestamp: Date.now() });
+      // → emitted on the bus as 'call-issue'
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const observer = new Observer();
+observer.on('call-added', ({ observedCall }) => {
+  observedCall.detectors.add(new MyCrossClientDetector(observedCall));
+});
+observer.on('call-issue', ({ observedCall, issue }) => { /* react */ });
+```
+
+### Client issues: the lifecycle, and the division of labour
 
-**Events (Emitted via `ObservedClient` instance)**
+The most important thing to understand about detection in this library is **what it deliberately
+does not do**. A client running
+[`client-monitor-js`](https://github.com/ObserveRTC/client-monitor-js) already ships ~20 detectors
+that decide *what is wrong with that endpoint* — `congestion`, `cpulimitation`, `audio-concealment`,
+`freezed-video-track`, `keyframe-storm`, `video-decoder-overloaded`, `stuck-decoder`,
+`ice-disconnected`, and so on. Those verdicts are better than anything re-derived from raw counters
+server-side, because they carry hysteresis and multi-signal confirmation: `audio-concealment`
+subtracts silent concealment (raw `concealedSamples` rises during ordinary silence, so a naive
+detector flags every quiet moment); `audio-jitter-buffer-stress` requires the buffer to be grown
+**and** NetEQ to be time-stretching (a grown buffer alone means NetEQ is *succeeding*);
+`ice-disconnected` only fires once `disconnected` has persisted, so the blips ICE heals on its own
+never surface.
 
-- `'joined' ()`
-- `'left' ()`
-- `'update' ()`
-- `'close' ()`
-- `'newpeerconnection' (pc: ObservedPeerConnection)`
-- `'issue' (issue: ClientIssue)` (and other specific issue events)
+**observer-js does not repeat that work.** Its job is the question no browser can answer: *who else
+is in this state right now, what do they have in common, and where in publisher → SFU → subscriber
+does the fault begin?*
 
-#### 3.4. `ObservedPeerConnection`
+#### The wire format
 
-Represents an `RTCPeerConnection`.
+From client-monitor-js **4.6.0** the whole issue lifecycle reaches the server. A stateful issue
+arrives as two `clientIssues[]` entries sharing a `key`:
+
+```
+raise:      { type: 'stuck-decoder',          key, payload,                                 timestamp: raisedAt }
+resolution: { type: 'stuck-decoder-resolved', key, payload: { raisedAt, comment, …final },  timestamp: resolvedAt }
+```
 
-- Tracks ICE connection state, data channel stats, stream stats.
-- Holds `ObservedInboundRtpStream`, `ObservedOutboundRtpStream`, and `ObservedDataChannel` instances.
+The observer opens an entry in `observedClient.activeIssues` on the raise and closes it on the
+matching key, emitting **`client-issue-resolved`** with the finished interval. Handled for you:
+
+- the `-resolved` **suffix** is stripped, so both entries share one logical `type`;
+- a **re-raise** of a live key refreshes the payload without restarting `raisedAt`;
+- **keyless** entries are one-shot — reported via `client-issue`, never tracked;
+- issues still open when a client closes are **force-resolved** (`resolvedBy: 'client-closed'`), and
+  the registry additionally expires stale entries, so a crashed participant can't leave an issue
+  "active" forever.
+
+#### Why intervals beat windows
+
+This turns point-in-time symptom reports into **intervals**, and that is the whole game. *"Several
+clients reported congestion in the last 10 seconds"* is a heuristic that has to guess whether the
+symptoms are still happening. *"Several clients are congested **right now, simultaneously**"* is
+ground truth, because the client says when the episode ends. Overlapping intervals are far stronger
+evidence of a shared cause than near-in-time reports.
+
+```ts
+observer.on('client-issue', ({ observedClient, issue }) => { /* opened (or one-shot) */ });
+observer.on('client-issue-resolved', ({ resolvedIssue }) => {
+  resolvedIssue.type;          // 'stuck-decoder' — suffix stripped
+  resolvedIssue.durationInMs;  // how long the episode lasted
+  resolvedIssue.resolvedBy;    // 'client' | 'timeout' | 'client-closed'
+});
 
-#### 3.5. `ObservedInboundRtpStream` / `ObservedOutboundRtpStream`
+// the live per-client mirror
+observedClient.activeIssues;   // ObservedClientIssueRegistry, keyed by issue.key
+```
 
-- Track metrics for individual media streams (audio/video) like codec, packets lost/received, jitter, bytes, etc.
+> **client-monitor-js >= 4.6.0 is required** for every issue-driven detector. There is no fallback
+> path that infers these conditions from raw counters — the client decides better, and maintaining a
+> worse second implementation to be polite to old clients is how both end up wrong. Issues without a
+> `key` have no lifecycle (nothing could ever close them), so they stay one-shot: reported on
+> `client-issue`, never registered.
 
-#### 3.6. `ObservedDataChannel`
+#### `ActiveIssuesRegistry` — issues are **pushed**, not polled
 
-- Tracks metrics for data channels like state, messages sent/received, bytes.
+A detector does not go looking for the issues it cares about. It implements `ActiveIssueTracker` and
+registers for the types it consumes; the registry hands them over as they open and close.
 
-#### 3.7. `ClientSample` (Schema)
+```ts
+observedCall.activeIssuesRegistry   // this meeting
+observer.activeIssuesRegistry       // the fleet; every call's registry propagates into it
 
-This is the primary input data structure passed to `observer.accept()`. It's a comprehensive object that should mirror the information obtainable from WebRTC `getStats()` and other client-side states. Key fields include:
+observer.activeIssuesRegistry.addIssueTracker('congestion', myDetector);
+observer.activeIssuesRegistry.removeIssueTracker(myDetector);
 
-- `callId`, `clientId`, `timestamp`
-- `peerConnections: RTCPeerConnectionStats[]`
-- `inboundRtpStreams: RTCInboundRtpStreamStats[]`
-- `outboundRtpStreams: RTCOutboundRtpStreamStats[]`
-- `remoteInboundRtpStreams: RTCRemoteInboundRtpStreamStats[]`
-- `remoteOutboundRtpStreams: RTCRemoteOutboundRtpStreamStats[]`
-- `dataChannels: RTCDataChannelStats[]`
-- `iceLocalCandidates: RTCIceCandidateStats[]`, `iceRemoteCandidates: RTCIceCandidateStats[]`, `iceCandidatePairs: RTCIceCandidatePairStats[]`
-- `mediaSources: RTCAudioSourceStats[] / RTCVideoSourceStats[]`
-- `tracks: RTCMediaStreamTrackStats[]`
-- `certificates: RTCCertificateStats[]`
-- `codecs: RTCCodecStats[]`
-- `transports: RTCIceTransportStats[]` (or similar depending on spec version)
-- `browser`, `engine`, `platform`, `os` (client environment metadata)
-- `userMediaErrors`, `iceConnectionStates`, `connectionStates` (client-reported events/states)
-- `extensionStats` (for custom data)
+registry.values();   // the open issues in this scope, oldest first
+registry.size;       // how many
+```
 
-_(Refer to the [observertc/schemas](https://github.com/observertc/schemas) repository, particularly the `ClientSample.ts` definition, for the exact and complete structure.)_
+The cost of a detector is then proportional to the issues it actually receives, not to the number of
+participants: a healthy 500-client fleet does no per-tick work at all, because nothing was pushed.
 
-### 4. Configuration Possibilities
+**There is no wildcard.** A tracker names its types and sees nothing else. "Feed me everything and
+I'll work out what matters" moves the decision from the application — which knows its client build
+and its issue vocabulary — onto a detector that has to guess, and it makes the cost of a
+subscription unbounded and invisible. If a detector should watch five types, list five types.
 
-#### 4.1. Update Policies
+Onset spread is measured on the **observer clock**, never the client's. `raisedAt` comes from each
+participant's own machine, and comparing those across clients makes clock skew look like a
+synchronized infrastructure event.
 
-Control how frequently entities re-calculate metrics and emit `update` events.
+### Observer-level detectors (cross-call / SFU-wide)
 
-**Observer Level (`ObserverConfig.updatePolicy`)**
+Some findings only exist **above** call scope — "many calls on the same SFU degraded at once" is far
+more actionable than fifty individual client alerts. The same detector registry exists on the `Observer`,
+runs on every `observer.update()`, and raises findings through `observer.addIssue(...)`, surfaced on
+the bus as **`observer-issue`**:
 
-- `'update-on-any-call-updated'`: Observer updates if any of its calls update.
-- `'update-when-all-call-updated'`: Observer updates after all its calls update. (Default)
-- `'update-on-interval'`: Observer updates at `ObserverConfig.updateIntervalInMs`.
+```ts
+observer.detectors.add({
+  name: 'sfu-wide-degradation',
+  update: () => {
+    const degradedCalls = [ ...observer.observedCalls.values() ].filter(isDegraded);
 
-**Call Level (`ObservedCallSettings.updatePolicy` or `ObserverConfig.defaultCallUpdatePolicy`)**
+    if (observer.numberOfCalls > 3 && degradedCalls.length / observer.numberOfCalls > 0.6) {
+      observer.addIssue({ type: 'SFU_WIDE_QUALITY_DEGRADATION', timestamp: Date.now() });
+    }
+  },
+});
 
-- `'update-on-any-client-updated'`: Call updates if any of its clients update.
-- `'update-when-all-client-updated'`: Call updates after all its clients update.
-- `'update-on-interval'`: Call updates at its `updateIntervalInMs`.
+observer.on('observer-issue', ({ issue }) => alert(issue));
+```
 
-#### 4.2. Intervals
+### Publisher → subscribers: the resolver links
 
-- `ObserverConfig.updateIntervalInMs`
-- `ObserverConfig.defaultCallUpdateIntervalInMs`
-- `ObservedCallSettings.updateIntervalInMs`
+The question a single browser can never answer is *"did **everyone** receiving Alice see the same
+degradation?"*. The join is the publisher↔subscriber links maintained by a
+[`RemoteTrackResolver`](#remote-track-resolution-mediasoup--sfu), and detectors walk them directly:
 
-#### 4.3. Application Data (`appData`)
+```ts
+outboundTrack.remoteInboundTracks;      // Set<ObservedInboundTrack> — every subscriber of this source
+inboundTrack.remoteOutboundTrack;       // the publisher, or undefined if unlinked
+inboundTrack.getInboundRtp();           // that receiver's RTP stats
+observedCall.unconsumedOutboundTracks;  // published tracks with no subscriber at all
+```
 
-Associate custom context with `Observer`, `ObservedCall`, and `ObservedClient` instances using generics.
+> A `TrackDistributionAggregator` class used to sit in front of these links and summarise every
+> published track against all of its receivers, on every tick. It is gone. It scanned the majority
+> (all published tracks) to find the interesting minority, which is the wrong axis — the detectors
+> now start from the handful of *affected* tracks the issue registry pushed at them and resolve only
+> those. The statistics helpers it used (`percentile`, `median`, `summarize`, `counterDelta`,
+> `robustZScore`, `SlidingWindow`, `TrendTester`) are all still exported for building your own.
 
-```typescript
-interface MyCallAppData {
-	meetingTitle: string;
-	scheduledAt: Date;
-}
-const call = observer.createObservedCall<MyCallAppData>({
-	callId: 'call1',
-	appData: { meetingTitle: 'Team Sync', scheduledAt: new Date() },
+### Call health: `CallHealthAggregator`
+
+The **client** axis. Where the resolver links answer "how was *this source* delivered?", this asks
+"how is *each participant* doing, sending vs receiving?":
+
+```ts
+import { CallHealthAggregator } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+const health = new CallHealthAggregator(observedCall).aggregate();
+
+health.degradedRatio;             // 0.82 — the number that distinguishes shared faults from individual ones
+health.inboundDegradedRatio;      // receiving side → egress/downstream suspicion
+health.outboundDegradedRatio;     // sending side  → ingress suspicion
+health.rttInMs?.median;           // percentile rollups, never means
+health.qualityLimitation;         // { cpu, bandwidth, other } client counts
+health.clients;                   // per-client entries with `reasons`, direction flags, TURN/TCP
+```
+
+### Registering detectors
+
+**Nothing is created implicitly.** A `new Observer()` has zero detectors. There is no detector
+configuration in `ObserverConfig` and no default set — an application says what it wants to watch, or
+it watches nothing.
+
+```ts
+const observer = new Observer({
+  createRemoteTrackResolver: createDefaultMediasoupRemoteTrackResolverFactory(),
 });
-console.log(call.appData?.meetingTitle);
+
+// observer-scoped (cross-call) — built immediately onto `observer.detectors`
+observer.addObserverDetector('observer-concurrent-issue-detector', {
+  issueTypes: [ 'congestion', 'ice-disconnected', 'ice-connection-failed' ],
+  minAffectedCalls: 3,
+});
+observer.addObserverDetector('turn-server-outage-detector', { minClientsAtPeak: 10 });
+
+// call-scoped — recorded in `observer.callDetectorConfigs`, applied to every call created AFTER this
+observer.addCallDetector('call-concurrent-issue-detector', {
+  issueTypes: [ 'congestion', 'ice-disconnected' ],
+});
+// one specific call
+observedCall.addDetector('issue-fan-out-detector', { issueTypes: [ 'freezed-video-track' ] });
+```
+
+Every `add*` is **chainable** — it returns the owning entity:
+
+```ts
+observer
+  .addObserverDetector('turn-server-health-detector')
+  .addObserverDetector('turn-server-outage-detector', { minClientsAtPeak: 10 })
+  .addValidator('remote-track-resolver');
+```
+
+#### Removing them
+
+By **name**, on the entity — which removes *every* instance under that name:
+
+```ts
+observer.removeObserverDetector('turn-server-outage-detector');   // → 1
+observer.removeCallDetector('call-concurrent-issue-detector');    // stops it everywhere
+observedCall.removeDetector('issue-fan-out-detector');            // this call only
 ```
 
-#### 4.4. `appData` vs. Attachments
+By **instance**, through the registry — which is where instances live, since `add*` returns the
+entity rather than the detector:
+
+```ts
+observer
+  .addObserverDetector('client-population-issue-detector', { issueTypes: [ 'cpulimitation' ], groupBy: 'browser' })
+  .addObserverDetector('client-population-issue-detector', { issueTypes: [ 'cpulimitation' ], groupBy: 'operationSystem' });
 
-The `observer-js` library provides two primary ways to associate custom information with its entities: `appData` and `attachments`. Understanding their distinct purposes is key for effective use.
+const [ byBrowser, byOs ] = observer.detectors.getAll('client-population-issue-detector');
+
+observer.detectors.remove(byOs);   // keeps the browser axis running
+```
+
+`Detectors` is a small collection: `instances` (a copy, in registration order), `listOfNames`,
+`size`, `get(name)`, `getAll(name)`, `has(name)`, `add(detector)`, `remove(detector)`,
+`removeByName(name)`, `clear()`, and it is iterable — `for (const detector of call.detectors)`.
+`instances` being a copy is deliberate: removing while iterating the live array would skip entries,
+and "drop the ones that look like X" is the most natural thing to want to write.
+
+Two things worth knowing:
+
+- **By name removes every instance under it**, not the first. A name can legitimately be registered
+  more than once — `ClientPopulationIssueDetector` is meant to be added once per `groupBy` axis — and
+  "remove whichever is first in the array" is not something a caller can predict from a name. Go via
+  `detectors.getAll(name)` + `detectors.remove(instance)` when you mean one of them.
+- **`removeCallDetector` affects calls already open, by default.** Otherwise whether a detector runs
+  would depend on when a call happened to join, which is not a state anyone can reason about. Pass
+  `{ includeOpenCalls: false }` to change only what future calls are built with.
+
+Every removal path calls the detector's `close()`, so it unsubscribes from the issue registry and
+drops any timers or bus listeners. A detector removed without closing would keep being fed matching
+issues for the life of the call — invisible, unbounded, and it would still look healthy if you
+inspected it.
+
+Detectors are named by their kebab-case `NAME`, and the name types the config — an unknown name or a
+key that belongs to a different detector will not compile. Each detector owns its defaults in its own
+constructor, beside the doc explaining what each threshold means; there is no central table to keep
+in sync.
+
+> **Why no defaults?** A detector nobody asked for is a detector nobody will act on. It costs time on
+> every tick and raises findings into a handler that was not written to expect them. Earlier versions
+> auto-created everything from a three-state config slot; the result was applications receiving
+> finding types they had never heard of.
+
+Every issue-driven detector takes an explicit, non-empty `issueTypes` (or
+`publisherIssueTypes`/`receiverIssueTypes`). There is no "watch everything" option — see
+[the registry](#activeissuesregistry--issues-are-pushed-not-polled).
+
+> **🔗 marks detectors that require a
+> [`RemoteTrackResolver`](#remote-track-resolution-mediasoup--sfu).** They reason about a published
+> track and its subscribers, so without the publisher↔subscriber links they see nothing and stay
+> **silent forever** — which looks exactly like "no problems found". Configure
+> `ObserverConfig.createRemoteTrackResolver`, and start the
+> [`remote-track-resolver` validator](#validators--one-shot-structural-checks) to prove it is wired.
+
+### Built-in detectors
+
+They consume the verdicts `client-monitor-js` >= 4.6.0 already ships (raise + `<type>-resolved`) and
+add only the cross-participant conclusion. **None re-derives a per-endpoint verdict from raw
+counters** — that is the rule the whole design hangs on:
+
+> **If a condition is detectable on the client, the client's issue is the source of truth.**
+
+| Detector | 🔗 | Scope | Raises |
+|----------|:--:|-------|--------|
+| `CallConcurrentIssueDetector` | | call | `CONCURRENT_CLIENT_ISSUES`, `ISSUE_ONSET_BURST` |
+| `ObserverConcurrentIssueDetector` | | **observer** | `CROSS_CALL_CONCURRENT_ISSUES`, `CROSS_CALL_ISSUE_ONSET_BURST` |
+| `IssueFanOutDetector` | 🔗 | call | `PUBLISHED_TRACK_ISSUE_FAN_OUT`, `SINGLE_RECEIVER_ISSUE` |
+| `PublisherFaultCorroborationDetector` | 🔗 | call | `CORROBORATED_PUBLISHER_FAULT` |
+| `TrackDeliveryMismatchDetector` | 🔗 | call | `PUBLISHED_TRACK_NOT_DELIVERED`, `RECEIVER_TRACK_NOT_DELIVERED`, `PUBLISHER_TRACK_DRY` |
+| `UnconsumedTrackDetector` | 🔗 | call | `UNCONSUMED_PUBLISHED_TRACK` |
+| `ClientPopulationIssueDetector` | | **observer** | `CLIENT_POPULATION_ISSUE` |
+| `SfuCongestionDetector` | | **observer** | `sfu-congestion` |
+| `TurnServerHealthDetector` | | **observer** | `TURN_SERVER_DEGRADED` |
+| `TurnServerOutageDetector` | | **observer** | `TURN_SERVER_OUTAGE` |
+
+What each adds that no endpoint can know:
+
+- **`CallConcurrentIssueDetector`** — *who else in this meeting is in this state right now?* The
+  difference between "one person's Wi-Fi" and "this room is broken".
+- **`ObserverConcurrentIssueDetector`** — *is our infrastructure in trouble?* A **separate class**,
+  not the call one with a bigger denominator, because it is a different question with different
+  gates. It requires the group to span at least `minAffectedCalls` **independent calls** (default
+  `2`) and raises its own `CROSS_CALL_*` types. Without that gate, one thirty-person meeting where
+  everyone is congested clears every client threshold and pages you for a single bad room the
+  call-scoped detector already reported. Clients in different calls share no room, no publisher and
+  no host — only the servers, which is what makes the finding conclusive. Note there is deliberately
+  **no participant ratio** at this scope: six broken calls out of forty is a small share of all
+  clients, and a ratio gate would hide exactly the event you want.
+- **`IssueFanOutDetector`** — *does this issue follow one published source, or one receiver?*
+- **`PublisherFaultCorroborationDetector`** — *do **both ends** of one track agree the source is at
+  fault?* Fan-out sees one end and infers; this sees the publisher reporting `encoder-bottleneck`
+  about its own send path *while* its subscribers report `freezed-video-track` about receiving it.
+  Two independent parties, one conclusion, nothing left to deduce — hence the highest confidence in
+  the library. Run both: fan-out is broader and catches the case where the publisher is fine and the
+  SFU's forwarding is not.
+- **`ClientPopulationIssueDetector`** — *is this concentrated on one **kind of client**?* The one
+  correlation here that is neither per-call nor per-server. Every other observer-scoped detector
+  reasons "clients in unrelated calls share only the infrastructure, so it must be us" — right for
+  network symptoms, **wrong for endpoint ones**. `cpulimitation` across six unrelated calls is not an
+  SFU event; CPU is owned by the endpoint, so what those endpoints share is a browser version or a
+  client release. Groups by `browser` / `engine` / `platform` / `operationSystem` / `location`, one
+  axis per instance. The gate is **relative risk**, not share: "30% of Chrome 141 is unhappy" means
+  nothing if 30% of everyone is, and a share-based rule simply indicts whichever browser is most
+  popular. See [the `location` axis](#grouping-by-place-the-location-axis) for the geographic form.
+- **`SfuCongestionDetector`** — *is congestion spiking across the fleet right now?* Counts distinct
+  clients reporting congestion in fixed wall-clock buckets and compares each bucket against a
+  median+MAD baseline of the ones before it. Buckets rather than update ticks on purpose: the tick is
+  unevenly spaced and shorter than a client's sampling period, so counting on it compares windows of
+  different lengths and calls the difference a signal. Only add it when the observer's calls all come
+  from the **same SFU** — the finding's meaning is "these clients share only that server".
+- **`TrackDeliveryMismatchDetector`** — *are the two ends of a track disagreeing?*
+- **`UnconsumedTrackDetector`** — *is anyone actually subscribed?* (reads the resolver's silence)
+- **`TurnServerHealthDetector`** — *does trouble cluster on one relay?*
+- **`TurnServerOutageDetector`** — covers the case the health detector structurally cannot. The
+  health detector groups clients by the server relaying them and asks how many report issues — it
+  needs clients *on* the server to ask. When a TURN server dies, allocation fails: existing sessions
+  drop and new clients never obtain a relay candidate through it, so they are never attributed to it
+  at all. Its population goes to zero and the health detector falls silent for the worst possible
+  reason. **Degradation makes clients unhappy; an outage makes them disappear.** Absence is a
+  dangerous signal, so the **control group** is the heart of the design: a call ending, everyone
+  leaving at 6pm, and a fleet-wide network event all look identical to an outage. It refuses to blame
+  a server unless clients *not* relayed through it are demonstrably still connected
+  (`requireControlGroup`, on by default).
+
+#### There is no ICE detector
+
+ICE trouble is reported by `client-monitor-js` >= 4.6.0 as the keyed issues `ice-disconnected`,
+`ice-connection-failed`, `ice-transport-stalled` and `unstable-ice-path`, each with hysteresis and
+multi-signal confirmation behind it. An `IceDisruptionDetector` used to re-derive that server-side
+from raw state transitions; it has been removed, because the server sees less and guesses more. The
+client knows whether `disconnected` persisted or healed in 200 ms; the observer does not.
+
+Correlating ICE trouble is now configuration, not a class:
+
+```ts
+observer.addObserverDetector('observer-concurrent-issue-detector', {
+  issueTypes: [ 'ice-disconnected', 'ice-connection-failed', 'ice-transport-stalled' ],
+});
+```
 
-**`appData` (Application Data)**
+### Grouping by place: the `location` axis
 
-- **Purpose**: `appData` is designed to hold structured, typed, and relatively static metadata about an entity (`Observer`, `ObservedCall`, `ObservedClient`). This data is typically set at the time of entity creation and is directly accessible as a property of the entity instance.
-- **Typing**: It is strongly typed using generics (e.g., `Observer<MyObserverAppData>`). This provides type safety and autocompletion in TypeScript environments.
-- **Mutability**: While technically mutable (if the object assigned is mutable), it's generally intended for information that defines or describes the entity and doesn't change frequently during its lifecycle.
-- **Accessibility**: Directly accessible via `entity.appData`.
-- **Use Cases**:
-  - Storing application-specific identifiers (e.g., `userId`, `roomId`, `meetingType`).
-  - Configuration flags relevant to how your application interprets this entity.
-  - Descriptive information (e.g., `clientDeviceType`, `callRegion`).
+If your clients report coordinates, `ClientPopulationIssueDetector` can group by **where they are**
+instead of what they run — which is the grouping network symptoms actually cluster by:
 
-**`attachments` (Arbitrary Attachments)**
+```ts
+observer.addObserverDetector('client-population-issue-detector', {
+  issueTypes: [ 'congestion', 'ice-disconnected' ],
+  groupBy: 'location',
+  locationPrecision: 3,                       // geohash chars: 3 ~156 km, 4 ~39 km, 5 ~5 km
+  resolveClientLocation: (client) => client.attachments?.geo as { latitude: number, longitude: number },
+});
+```
 
-- **Purpose**: `attachments` (if implemented as a `Map<string, unknown>` or similar mechanism on entities) are meant for associating arbitrary, often dynamic, or less structured data with an entity. This can be useful for temporary state, inter-plugin communication, or data that doesn't fit neatly into a predefined `appData` schema.
-- **Typing**: Typically less strictly typed (e.g., `unknown` or `any` values in a Map). Consumers of attachments need to perform their own type checks or assertions.
-- **Mutability**: Designed to be more dynamic. Attachments can be added, updated, or removed throughout the entity's lifecycle.
-- **Accessibility**: Accessed via methods like `entity.setAttachment(key, value)`, `entity.getAttachment(key)`, `entity.removeAttachment(key)`.
-- **Use Cases**:
-  - Storing temporary state calculated by one part of your application to be read by another (e.g., a custom issue detector plugin might attach intermediate findings).
-  - Caching results of expensive computations related to the entity.
-  - Allowing different modules or plugins to associate their own private data with an observer entity without needing to modify its core `appData` type.
-  - Storing large binary data or complex objects that are not part of the core descriptive metadata.
+**The client still owns "RTT jumped".** client-monitor's `CongestionDetector` compares each peer
+connection's RTT against its own EWMA baseline and requires a bandwidth-limitation corroboration
+before raising `congestion`. Absolute RTT is not comparable between clients — someone 200 ms away is
+*always* 200 ms away, so the only signal is deviation from that client's own baseline, which is
+exactly what the client measures. The observer's contribution is the part no endpoint can see: that
+many of the affected clients are **in the same place at the same time**.
+
+Three things to know:
+
+- **Cells, not radii.** The population is a geohash prefix. "Within N km" is a clustering problem —
+  order-dependent, no stable group name, pairwise cost — and a detector needs the *same* group key on
+  every tick for its cooldown and control group to mean anything. The cost is that a cell boundary can
+  split two adjacent clients, which biases towards missing a finding rather than inventing one.
+- **Only the cell key is reported.** `payload.population` is the geohash; coordinates never enter the
+  issue. These payloads get archived into [call summaries](#call-summaries), so that matters.
+- **Geography is confounded with your topology.** The control group is "everyone outside this cell",
+  which cannot separate *"the path into this region degraded"* from *"the SFU serving this region
+  degraded"*. If a region maps largely onto one deployment, both hypotheses fit the same evidence —
+  so the finding concludes `infrastructure` and points you at `SfuCongestionDetector` /
+  `TurnServerHealthDetector`, which answer whether clients elsewhere on the same server also
+  degraded. It does not claim an attribution it cannot support.
+
+Coordinates are not in `ClientSample`, so `resolveClientLocation` is required; without it the detector
+logs a warning at construction and finds nothing, rather than quietly reporting no findings forever.
+
+### Validators — one-shot structural checks
+
+Every detector above answers *"is something wrong right now?"* and runs on every tick, because the
+answer legitimately changes. A **validator** answers *"is this deployment built correctly?"* — which
+only changes when you deploy. So it is not configured on and left running: you **start** one, it runs
+until it can decide, reports once, and the observer drops it.
+
+```ts
+observer.addValidator('simulcast-receivers', { minChecks: 5 });
+
+observer.on('validation-ready', ({ validator, report }) => {
+  if (!report.ready) return;
+  if (report.verdict === 'layer-decided-lowest-common-denominator') page(validator, report);
+});
 
-**When to Use Which:**
+onDeploy(() => observer.addValidator('simulcast-receivers'));   // check again
+```
 
-- Use **`appData`** for:
-  - Core, descriptive metadata that is known at creation time or changes infrequently.
-  - Data that benefits from strong typing and is integral to your application's understanding of the entity.
-- Use **`attachments`** for:
-  - Dynamic, temporary, or loosely structured data.
-  - Data added by different, potentially independent, parts of your system or plugins.
-  - Information that doesn't need to be part of the primary, typed `appData` schema.
+`observer.validators` is the set currently running — normally empty, since each removes itself on
+finishing. There is no revalidation timer: a deploy, not elapsed time, is what makes a structural
+verdict stale, so re-checking means starting another.
 
-If `attachments` are not yet a formal feature, this section can serve as a design consideration or be adapted if you introduce such a mechanism. If `attachments` are already present, ensure the description matches their actual implementation.
+**Cancelling.** A check that has not decided can be stopped, by name or by instance:
 
-#### 4.5. Remote Track Resolution
+```ts
+observer.cancelValidator('simulcast-receivers', 'sfu redeployed');
 
-For SFU scenarios, especially with MediaSoup:
-`ObservedCallSettings.remoteTrackResolvePolicy: 'mediasoup-sfu'`
+// or one specific instance — `observer.validators` holds what is running
+for (const validator of observer.validators) observer.cancelValidator(validator, 'shutting down');
+```
 
-### 5. Examples
+Cancelling is **not** silent discarding. The validator finishes `inconclusive` with your reason,
+emits `validation-ready` like any other completion, and removes itself. That matters twice over:
+anything waiting on the verdict would otherwise wait forever, and *"we stopped asking"* is a
+materially different outcome from *"we asked and learned nothing"* — which is exactly what an
+`inconclusive` carrying a reason records. Pass a real reason; the default tells the reader nothing
+they could not already infer. `observer.close()` cancels whatever is still running with
+`'observer closed'`.
+
+| Validator | `addValidator` name | Question | Also raises |
+|-----------|---------------------|----------|-------------|
+| `SimulcastReceiverValidator` 🔗 | `simulcast-receivers` | Does the SFU pick layers per receiver, or drag the publisher down to the worst one? | `WORST_RECEIVER_CONTAGION` |
+| `RemoteTrackResolverValidator` | `remote-track-resolver` | Is the resolver actually linking anything? | `REMOTE_TRACK_LINKS_UNRESOLVED` |
+| `CodecConsistencyValidator` | `codec-consistency` | Is everyone on the same codec — and is it the one you think you negotiated? | `CODEC_INCONSISTENCY` |
+
+**`SimulcastReceiverValidator`** — simulcast (or SVC) exists so one slow
+participant doesn't set everyone's quality: with several encodings the server hands the struggling
+receiver a lower layer and leaves the rest alone. Without it — or with a server that relays RTCP end
+to end, so the publisher's bandwidth estimate collapses to the slowest receiver — the only way to
+serve them is to make the *source* send less. Both causes look identical from outside; what the check
+establishes is whether per-receiver adaptation happens at all.
+
+| `verdict` | meaning |
+|-----------|---------|
+| `layer-decided-per-receiver` | verified — a receiver fell far behind and the publisher carried on |
+| `layer-decided-lowest-common-denominator` | the publisher followed its worst receiver; everyone gets the slowest participant's quality |
+| `inconclusive` | cancelled, or the observer closed, before it could decide |
+
+**Not finishing is not a pass.** The check only runs when a publisher has 3+ receivers and one is at
+most half the median; plenty of healthy deployments never present that. A validator that never sees it
+simply keeps running and never reports — it does not quietly succeed. `report.checks` counts the times
+the check genuinely ran, so an `inconclusive` with `checks: 0` says plainly that nothing was verified.
+
+**`RemoteTrackResolverValidator`** exists because of a specific, nasty failure mode. Four things here
+are built on publisher↔subscriber links — `IssueFanOutDetector`,
+`PublisherFaultCorroborationDetector`, `TrackDeliveryMismatchDetector`, `UnconsumedTrackDetector`
+(and `SimulcastReceiverValidator`) — and every one of them correctly does *nothing* when the links
+are missing rather than guessing. So a resolver wired to the wrong id field leaves all of them
+permanently silent, and **silence is what a healthy deployment looks like too**: you would conclude
+your calls were clean when in fact nothing was ever examined. Verdicts: `links-resolved` /
+`no-links-resolved` / `inconclusive`. Run it at start-up and after changing the resolver or the SFU's
+id scheme.
+
+**`CodecConsistencyValidator`** answers two things at once. A **split** — participants of one call on
+different codecs — is a real fault with a confusing symptom: an SFU that forwards without transcoding
+cannot serve them all, so some pairs see each other and some do not, with no error anywhere. Only
+something holding every participant at once can see it. The quieter half is the silent fallback: a
+deployment configured for VP9 or AV1 drops to VP8 whenever one endpoint cannot negotiate the
+preference, the call keeps working at a higher bitrate than budgeted, and the team believes it
+shipped AV1 months ago. Give it `expected` and it says so. Verdicts: `codec-consistent` /
+`codec-split` / `unexpected-codec` / `inconclusive`.
+
+```ts
+observer.addValidator('remote-track-resolver');
+observer.addValidator('codec-consistency', { expected: { video: 'video/VP9', audio: 'audio/opus' } });
+```
 
-#### 5.1. Basic Observer Setup & Sample Ingestion
+#### `CallIssue` vs `ObserverIssue`
 
-```typescript
-// filepath: /path/to/your/app.ts
-import { Observer, ObserverConfig } from '@observertc/observer-js'; // Adjust path
-import { ClientSample } from '@observertc/schemas'; // Adjust path if using official schemas
+Server-raised findings come in two kinds, distinguished by the scope that raised them:
 
-const observerConfig: ObserverConfig = {
-	updatePolicy: 'update-on-interval',
-	updateIntervalInMs: 5000,
-	defaultCallUpdatePolicy: 'update-on-any-client-updated',
-};
-const observer = new Observer(observerConfig);
-
-observer.on('newcall', (call) => {
-	console.log(`[Observer] New call: ${call.callId}`);
-	call.on('update', () => {
-		console.log(`[Call: ${call.callId}] Updated. Clients: ${call.numberOfClients}, Score: ${call.score?.toFixed(1)}`);
-	});
-	call.on('newclient', (client) => {
-		console.log(`[Call: ${call.callId}] New client: ${client.clientId}`);
-		client.on('update', () => {
-			// console.log(`[Client: ${client.clientId}] Updated. Score: ${client.score?.toFixed(1)}`);
-		});
-		client.on('issue', (issue) => {
-			console.warn(`[Client: ${client.clientId}] Issue: ${issue.type} - ${issue.severity} - ${issue.description}`);
-		});
-	});
-});
-
-// Function to transform your app's WebRTC stats to ClientSample
-function mapStatsToClientSample(appStats: any, callId: string, clientId: string): ClientSample {
-	// Detailed mapping logic here based on ClientSample.ts schema
-	// from github.com/observertc/schemas
-	return {
-		callId,
-		clientId,
-		timestamp: Date.now(),
-		// ... map all relevant stats fields ...
-	} as ClientSample; // Ensure all required fields are present
+| | raised by | delivered as | `scope` |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `CallIssue` | `observedCall.addIssue(...)` | `call-issue` | `'call'` |
+| `ObserverIssue` | `observer.addIssue(...)` | `observer-issue` | `'observer'` |
+
+Both share `IssueBase` — `type`, `timestamp`, `conclusion?`, `payload?` — and `Issue` is the union,
+discriminated on `scope`.
+
+```ts
+observer.on('call-issue', ({ observedCall, issue }) => {
+  issue.scope;              // 'call'
+  observedCall.callId;      // the call — NOT repeated in the payload
+  issue.conclusion?.faultDomain;
+  issue.payload;            // evidence only
+});
+
+observer.on('observer-issue', ({ issue }) => {
+  issue.scope;              // 'observer'
+});
+```
+
+`scope` is stamped by `addIssue` rather than asked of the detector: it is a fact about *where the
+finding was raised*, which the entity knows and a detector should not have to restate. Having it on
+the issue — not merely implied by which event fired — keeps a finding self-describing once it leaves
+the bus, into a shared handler, a log line or a queue.
+
+**The payload is evidence and nothing else.** It no longer repeats `type`, `scope`, or the `callId`
+already carried by the event, and `conclusion` was lifted out of it to a first-class field. A payload
+that restates its own envelope invites the two to disagree — and they did, because nothing kept them
+in step. `payload` is always an object (the `string` form is gone, along with `issuePayloadOf`); use
+`issuePayloadAsString(issue)` at a boundary that genuinely needs text.
+
+#### Conclusions
+
+Every issue-driven finding carries a `conclusion` — the interpretation step, so the person reading
+the alert doesn't have to perform it. It sits **beside** the evidence, not inside it:
+
+```jsonc
+{
+  "type": "CROSS_CALL_ISSUE_ONSET_BURST",
+  "scope": "observer",
+  "timestamp": 1739812345678,
+  "conclusion": {
+    "faultDomain": "infrastructure",
+    "summary": "network congestion is open across independent calls at the same time — 6 of 40 calls (11/300 clients)",
+    "recommendation": "check SFU egress bandwidth and host network saturation before looking at any single participant",
+    "confidence": 0.85
+  },
+  "payload": {
+    "issueType": "congestion",
+    "calls": 40, "affectedCalls": 6,
+    "perCall": [ { "callId": "…", "affectedClients": 4, "totalClients": 9 } ]
+  }
 }
+```
 
-// Example: Receiving stats and processing
-const rawStatsFromClient = {
-	/* ... your client's getStats() output ... */
-};
-const callId = 'meeting-alpha-123';
-const clientId = 'user-xyz-789';
-const sample = mapStatsToClientSample(rawStatsFromClient, callId, clientId);
-observer.accept(sample);
+`faultDomain` is one of `infrastructure`, `call`, `published-track`, `endpoint`, `client-population`
+or `unknown`, and it comes from the **spread**, not the issue type — congestion in one call is a
+meeting problem, congestion in six calls is a server problem, and the client reported the identical
+symptom in both.
+
+One case is worth knowing about because it inverts the usual reading: **`cpu-limitation` spread
+across many independent calls concludes `client-population`, not `infrastructure`.** Endpoint CPU is
+owned by the endpoint, so breadth there points at what those endpoints share — a recent client
+release, a browser version, shared VDI hardware — and paging the SFU on-call would be wrong. The
+conclusion table encodes that so nobody has to rediscover it during an incident.
+
+Unknown issue types (your own custom client detectors) still produce a structurally valid conclusion
+from the spread alone; they just get generic wording.
+
+Two functions are exported, one per scope: `concludeCallIssue()` and `concludeObserverIssue()`. They
+are separate because a detector already knows its scope, and a single generic function forced every
+caller to pass the other scope's fields as placeholders — call-scoped detectors passing
+`affectedCalls: 1, totalCalls: 1` forever, observer-scoped ones passing a participant ratio that was
+deliberately never read. Placeholders like that invite being read as if they meant something.
+
+#### Cost
+
+Detectors run inside `call.update()`, on your event loop, so their cost matters. Two things keep it
+off the participant axis:
+
+- **Issues are pushed, not polled.** A detector holds only what the registry handed it, so an
+  `update()` that finds `size === 0` — the overwhelmingly common case — costs one comparison,
+  whatever the participant count. Nothing iterates clients looking for trouble.
+- **So are unconsumed tracks.** `observedCall.unconsumedOutboundTracks` is maintained by the resolver
+  as tracks gain and lose subscribers, so `UnconsumedTrackDetector` reads a set that is normally
+  empty instead of walking every published track (529 µs → 65 µs per tick at 1 200 tracks).
+- **Track lookups start from the affected minority.** A detector resolving an issue to its published
+  track searches the *reporting client's* peer connections (typically one or two), not the call.
+
+At 20 calls × 12 participants (2 640 subscriptions) the whole detector pass costs ~1.3 ms per tick.
+`yarn bench` prints a per-detector breakdown for your own shape.
+
+#### Worked examples
+
+[`examples/detectors.ts`](./examples/detectors.ts) (`yarn example:detectors`) runs one scenario per
+detector — the question it answers, its full config, the synthetic traffic that makes it fire, and
+the finding with its conclusion. It asserts every expected finding is produced, so it doubles as a
+smoke test. [`examples/sfu-observer.ts`](./examples/sfu-observer.ts) (`yarn example`) is the end-to-end
+tour instead: ingest → correlate → react, with the mediasoup wiring alongside.
+
+#### `TrackDeliveryMismatchDetector` — resolving an ambiguous symptom
+
+A dry track ("no bytes are arriving") is the clearest symptom there is and, on its own, completely
+ambiguous. A receiver seeing silence cannot distinguish *the camera was switched off* from *the SFU
+stopped forwarding* from *my own consumer wedged* — all three look identical from the browser.
+
+Joining the two ends of the published track resolves it:
+
+| publisher | subscribers | verdict |
+|---|---|---|
+| sending | **all** dry | `PUBLISHED_TRACK_NOT_DELIVERED` — the forwarding path |
+| sending | **some** dry | `RECEIVER_TRACK_NOT_DELIVERED` — those consumers (in mediasoup: recreate them) |
+| dry | any dry | `PUBLISHER_TRACK_DRY` — the source stopped; **not** an SFU fault |
+
+The publisher side is judged from both available signals: its own `dry-outbound-track` issue when the
+client reports one, and the observed outbound RTP (`deltaPacketsSent`) as fallback and corroboration.
+That combination is what makes the first row trustworthy — the server can state that packets
+demonstrably left the publisher during the same interval in which every receiver got nothing.
+
+This is the "SFU forwarding mismatch" check, and it needs **no mediasoup instrumentation at all** —
+the clients' own dry-track verdicts plus the resolver links are sufficient.
+
+#### `UnconsumedTrackDetector` — reading the resolver's silence
+
+The one detector where the *absence* of links is the signal: a track still pushing packets whose
+`remoteInboundTracks` set is empty, i.e. uplink and SFU ingress spent on media nobody receives
+(everyone has the publisher hidden, a simulcast layer no viewer selects, or an app that forgot to
+stop a track). It waits `minUnconsumedDurationInMs` first, since a gap between publishing and the
+first subscription is normal at join time.
+
+Note the trap this one has to guard against, and why it checks `call.remoteTrackResolver` at runtime
+rather than trusting the flag alone: **"no subscribers" and "no resolver configured" produce the
+identical observation.** Without a resolver it would report every published track in the call as
+unconsumed.
+
+## Call summaries
+
+Everything else in this library is about *now*. Detectors answer "is something wrong right now",
+validators answer a structural question once, and both read state the call throws away when it ends.
+A **call summary** is the one thing that outlives the call: who was in it, what was raised against
+it, how it scored — the questions asked *after* the meeting, by support, by billing, by whoever is
+writing the incident note.
+
+It is configured on the observer, at construction:
+
+```ts
+const observer = new Observer({
+  callSummary: {
+    include: [ 'clients', 'issues', 'turnServers', 'scores' ],
+  },
+});
+
+observer.on('call-summary', ({ summary }) => archive(summary));
+```
 
-// Later, on application shutdown:
-// observer.close();
+Omit `callSummary`, or set it to `null`, and there are no summaries and **not one extra bus
+subscription**. Pass an object — `{}` is valid — and every call this observer creates carries one.
+
+> **Why construction-time, when detectors are added per call?** A summary is a record of what
+> happened, and a record you can switch on halfway through is a record with a hole in it. Calls that
+> started before the switch would carry different sections from calls that started after, with
+> nothing on either to say which. One shape for every call, or none.
+
+### Sections are opt-in, and absence means "not collected"
+
+`include` picks from four built-ins, and **the default is `[]`** — none of them:
+
+| Section | Contains |
+|---------|----------|
+| `clients` | `clientIds` (join order), `peak`, `joined`, `left`. Identifiers and counts only |
+| `issues` | `CallIssue[]`, in the order raised, capped by `maxIssues` |
+| `turnServers` | `serverUrls` that carried media, and `clientsRelayed` |
+| `scores` | `min` / `max` / `median` of the call score, and `samples` |
+
+**A missing section means it was never collected — never "nothing happened".** Reading
+`summary.issues === undefined` as "this call was clean" is the one misreading this type invites, so
+there is no default-empty section to make it easy. This is the same rule as `inconclusive` on a
+validator: silence is not success.
+
+The `clients` section is deliberately identifiers and counts. Anything *about* a client — browser,
+platform, region — is already on `observedClient` while the call is live, and belongs in
+`attachments` via an enricher if you want it kept; see below.
+
+### Enrichers: fold in anything, from any call-scoped event
+
+```ts
+new Observer({
+  callSummary: {
+    include: [ 'issues' ],
+    enrich: {
+      'client-joined': (summary, { observedClient }) => {
+        // serialisable facts only — the region string, never the live object it came from
+        ((summary.attachments.regions ??= []) as string[]).push(String(observedClient.appData.region));
+      },
+    },
+  },
+});
 ```
 
-#### 5.2. Manual Call and Client Creation
+Each enricher is typed against its own event's payload. Only **call-scoped** events are accepted —
+the ones carrying an `observedCall`. An enricher on `observer-issue` or `validation-ready` will not
+compile, because there is no single call to attribute a fleet-wide fact to, and quietly writing it
+into every open summary would be worse than a type error.
+
+The library never writes to `summary.attachments`, so nothing you put there can collide with a
+section added in a future version.
+
+> **Why `attachments` and not `appData`.** `appData` is live working state hung off an entity for
+> that entity's lifetime, and it may hold things that cannot be serialised — a mediasoup router, a
+> socket. A summary is the opposite: it outlives the call so it can be **shipped**, and it reaches
+> you on `call-summary` while the call it describes is being torn down, so an unserialisable value
+> in it points at something already gone. Same contract as `attachments` on a `ClientSample`: read
+> the live object off `observedCall` / `observedClient` in the enricher, attach what serialises —
+> the router's `id`, not the router. An enricher that throws is logged and skipped — a summary is a
+side-channel, and nothing about a call should break because a field could not be recorded.
+
+### Caps announce what they dropped
+
+`maxIssues` (default `500`) and `maxClientIds` (default `10_000`) bound the two unbounded lists.
+When either bites, `summary.truncated` appears with the shortfall — present **only** when something
+was actually dropped. That is what makes dropping safe: the true count is recoverable as
+`issues.length + (truncated?.issues ?? 0)`. A silently truncated summary is worse than no summary,
+because someone will count `issues.length` and report it as the issue count.
 
-```typescript
-// ... observer setup ...
+`issues` is the plain array, with no derived tallies alongside it. A count is `issues.length` and a
+per-type count is one `filter` — both cheaper at the call site than kept correct here.
 
-const call = observer.createObservedCall({
-	callId: 'scheduled-webinar-456',
-	updatePolicy: 'update-on-interval',
-	updateIntervalInMs: 10000,
+### Reading it
+
+`observedCall.summary` is live: read it at any point during the call. It is also delivered once on
+`call-summary`, emitted **inside** `close()` while the call is still in `observer.observedCalls` —
+after that the call is gone and there is nothing left to ask. `observer.close()` closes its calls
+first and its collector afterwards, so every summary still makes it out.
+
+Cost is **one bus listener per subscribed event type, for the whole observer** — not one per call. A
+per-call design would be quadratic in concurrent calls: at 500 calls and eight events, 4 000
+listeners each doing 500 no-op invocations per event. Percentiles are computed once, at close.
+
+## Remote track resolution (mediasoup / SFU)
+
+In an SFU, one participant's **outbound** track is delivered to other participants as **inbound**
+tracks (one **publisher** → many **subscribers**). Correlation is **opt-in** per observer: set
+`ObserverConfig.createRemoteTrackResolver`, a factory invoked when each call is created that returns the
+call's `RemoteTrackResolver` (or `undefined` for none).
+
+`RemoteTrackResolver` is a generic, strategy-driven class. It subscribes to the bus (filtered to
+its call) and links tracks by **publisher id** — the link key — maintaining the links directly on
+the tracks: `inboundTrack.remoteOutboundTrack` and `outboundTrack.remoteInboundTracks: Set`.
+
+```ts
+import { Observer, createDefaultMediasoupRemoteTrackResolverFactory } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+const observer = new Observer({
+  createRemoteTrackResolver: createDefaultMediasoupRemoteTrackResolverFactory(),
 });
 
-const client1 = call.createObservedClient({ clientId: 'presenter-01' });
-// Samples for 'presenter-01' in call 'scheduled-webinar-456' will update this client.
+// later, given tracks (links are kept up to date as tracks come and go):
+const source    = inboundTrack.remoteOutboundTrack;       // the publishing ObservedOutboundTrack
+const receivers = [ ...outboundTrack.remoteInboundTracks ]; // the subscribing ObservedInboundTrack[]
+```
+
+Two built-in factories ship: `createDefaultMediasoupRemoteTrackResolverFactory()` (publisher =
+`attachments.producerId`, subscriber = `attachments.consumerId`) and
+`createP2pRemoteTrackResolverFactory()` (matches by RTP **SSRC**, preserved end-to-end in p2p).
+
+For any other topology, build a `RemoteTrackResolver` with your own key resolvers — the publisher
+id is just whatever links a subscribed track to the published one:
+
+```ts
+import { Observer, RemoteTrackResolver } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+const observer = new Observer({
+  createRemoteTrackResolver: (observedCall) => new RemoteTrackResolver(observedCall, {
+    resolveOutboundTrackPublisherId: (out) => out.attachments?.mediaId as string | undefined,
+    resolveInboundTrackPublisherId:  (inb) => inb.attachments?.mediaId as string | undefined,
+    resolveInboundTrackSubscriberId: (inb) => inb.attachments?.subId  as string | undefined, // optional
+  }),
+});
 ```
 
-#### 5.3. Using Event Monitors for Contextual Logging
+For the mediasoup factory, the application puts `producerId` / `consumerId` (and optionally
+`direction`, `label`) into the track `attachments`.
+
+### Resolution stands alone — you do not need router observation
+
+Track resolution and [mediasoup router observation](#mediasoup-router-observation) are two
+**independent** opt-ins that happen to share a vendor name. Nothing in `RemoteTrackResolver` reads
+`ObservedMediasoupRouter`, and nothing in `ObservedMediasoupRouter` touches calls, clients or tracks.
+
+So if your application already builds its own per-router report and you only want the detectors that
+need publisher↔subscriber links, set `createRemoteTrackResolver` and simply never call
+`observer.createObservedMediasoupRouter(...)`. No `MediasoupRouterSample` is created, nothing
+accumulates, and these keep working:
+
+`UnconsumedTrackDetector`, `PublisherFaultCorroborationDetector`, `TrackDeliveryMismatchDetector`,
+`IssueFanOutDetector`, `RemoteTrackResolverValidator`, `SimulcastReceiverValidator`.
+
+### Backing a strategy with your own mapping
+
+The three resolvers are plain functions returning a link key, so they can read a table your own
+report already maintains rather than something the client attached. The only requirement is a key
+**visible on both sides**. SSRC is the useful one, because it needs no client cooperation at all —
+mediasoup knows each consumer's `rtpParameters.encodings[].ssrc` server-side, and the subscriber's
+inbound RTP reports the same value:
+
+```ts
+// your own table, filled where you already create consumers
+const ssrcToProducerId = new Map<number, string>();
+
+const observer = new Observer({
+  createRemoteTrackResolver: (observedCall) => new RemoteTrackResolver(observedCall, {
+    resolveOutboundTrackPublisherId: (out) => out.attachments?.producerId as string | undefined,
+    resolveInboundTrackPublisherId:  (inb) => {
+      const ssrc = inb.getInboundRtp()?.ssrc;
+
+      return ssrc === undefined ? undefined : ssrcToProducerId.get(ssrc);
+    },
+  }),
+});
+```
+
+> **A key that arrives late still links.** A track announces itself once, but its `attachments` are
+> replaced on every sample and a table like the one above is inherently racy against sample arrival.
+> Tracks whose key does not resolve at first sight are held and retried on their own
+> `*-track-updated`, i.e. exactly when new stats arrive for them — so a key that appears on the second
+> sample links then, rather than being lost for the track's lifetime. `resolver.pendingTrackCounts`
+> reports how many are still waiting; in a healthy setup it is `{ inbound: 0, outbound: 0 }`.
+
+If a strategy resolves *nothing* the failure is quiet — "no subscribers" and "no links resolved" look
+identical from the outside. That is what
+[`RemoteTrackResolverValidator`](#validators--one-shot-structural-checks) is for; run it once in
+staging after wiring up a custom strategy.
+
+---
+
+## Mediasoup router observation
+
+Everything above is built from the **client-reported** `ClientSample`. When you run a
+[mediasoup](https://mediasoup.org) SFU you also have the **server's own** ground truth — its
+routers, transports, producers, consumers and data channels, with exact lifetimes and state
+transitions. `ObservedMediasoupRouter` captures that server-side view into a
+**`MediasoupRouterSample`**, completely independent of the client sample pipeline.
+
+### The concept
+
+You hand the observer a live mediasoup `Router`; it attaches to mediasoup's own `observer` API and,
+from then on, **passively tracks** the router's topology and lifecycle — with no polling and no
+changes to your media code:
+
+- new transports (`webrtc` / `plain` / `pipe` / `direct`), their selected `tuple`, ICE/DTLS/SCTP
+  state transitions and `connectedAt`;
+- producers (codec, SSRCs/RIDs, `pause`/`resume`) and consumers (`pause`/`resume`,
+  `producerPaused`/`producerResumed`);
+- data producers and data consumers;
+- `createdAt` / `closedAt` for every entity above.
+
+It keeps all of this **in memory**, in a single `MediasoupRouterSample` exposed as
+`observedRouter.sample` — see [`src/schema/MediasoupRouter.ts`](./src/schema/MediasoupRouter.ts). The
+sample **accumulates for the life of the router**: closed transports/producers/consumers are kept
+(with their `closedAt` set), not removed. Read it whenever you like — it's a plain object you own.
+
+### Memory & large meetings
+
+This is intentionally the **simplest** approach — everything lives in memory and nothing is sampled
+or evicted for you. That's fine for typical rooms, but be aware of the cost at scale:
+
+- **Consumers grow as O(N²)** on a single flat router: with `N` participants each producing audio +
+  video and consuming everyone else, the sample holds roughly `2·N·(N−1)` consumer records (≈ 19,800
+  for `N` = 100).
+- The sample is **cumulative** — closed entities and their `history` are retained — so it also grows
+  with call duration and churn (renegotiation, simulcast layer changes, rejoins).
+
+A 100-participant flat router can therefore reach tens of MB and keep growing. There is **no built-in
+sink, snapshotting, or eviction** — by design. **If you run large meetings, do your own sampling:**
+on your own cadence read `observedRouter.sample` (snapshot/serialize/persist what you need), drop what
+you don't, and close routers you no longer track. (mediasoup also typically shards routers across
+workers/cores, which keeps any one router small.)
+
+### Extending the sample, and building your own report
+
+The sample is yours to annotate. Every entity — the router, each transport, producer, consumer, data
+producer and data consumer — has an `attachments?: Record<string, unknown>` slot, and there are three
+ways to fill it, from most declarative to most ad-hoc.
+
+**1. `enrich` — mirror mediasoup's own `appData`.** The common case: your application already keeps
+`participantId`, `purpose` and similar on the mediasoup objects, and you want them on the sample.
+Runs once per entity at creation, before the corresponding event:
+
+```ts
+observer.createObservedMediasoupRouter({
+  router,
+  enrich: {
+    producer: (producer) => ({ participantId: producer.appData.participantId, purpose: producer.appData.purpose }),
+    consumer: (consumer) => ({ subscriberId: consumer.appData.subscriberId }),
+    transport: (transport) => ({ role: transport.appData.role }),
+  },
+});
+```
+
+A throwing enricher is caught and logged — it can't take the router's bookkeeping down with it.
+
+**2. Lifecycle events — enrich on the fly.** Each entity announces itself as
+`<entity>-sample-added` and `<entity>-sample-closed`, carrying **the live sample object** (not a
+copy) plus the mediasoup object it came from. Mutating it in the handler is the intended pattern:
+
+```ts
+observedRouter.on('producer-sample-added', ({ sample, producer, transport }) => {
+  sample.attachments = { ...sample.attachments, participantId: lookup(producer.id) };
+});
+
+observedRouter.on('producer-sample-closed', ({ sample }) => {
+  archive(sample);   // its `closedAt` is set
+});
+```
+
+Events: `transport-sample-added` / `-closed`, `producer-sample-added` / `-closed`,
+`consumer-sample-added` / `-closed`, `data-producer-sample-added` / `-closed`,
+`data-consumer-sample-added` / `-closed`.
+
+**3. `attachTo(id, attachments)` — annotate later, from anywhere.** When the knowledge arrives after
+the entity did (a signalling message, a database lookup that resolved):
+
+```ts
+observedRouter.attachTo(producerId, { participantId, joinedFrom: 'mobile' });   // merges
+```
+
+Ids are unique across mediasoup entity kinds, so one method covers all of them. It returns `false`
+for an unknown id rather than failing quietly — which matters when application events race the
+mediasoup ones. For direct access there are typed accessors: `getTransportSample(id)`,
+`getProducerSample(id)`, `getConsumerSample(id)`, `getDataProducerSample(id)`,
+`getDataConsumerSample(id)`. They index the *same* objects the arrays hold, so a lookup is O(1)
+instead of a `sample.producers.find(...)` scan.
+
+#### Building your own report
+
+`observedRouter.sample` is live — arrays grow and `history` entries are appended as the router runs,
+so a report built directly on it keeps changing after you think you're done. Use **`snapshot()`** for
+a detached deep copy:
+
+```ts
+const report = {
+  ...observedRouter.snapshot(),        // never moves again
+  generatedAt: Date.now(),
+  region: process.env.REGION,
+};
+```
 
-```typescript
-const call = observer.getObservedCall('meeting-alpha-123');
-if (call) {
-	const callMonitor = call.createEventMonitor({ callId: call.callId, started: new Date() });
-	callMonitor.on('client-joined', (client, context) => {
-		console.log(`EVENT_MONITOR (${context.callId}): Client ${client.clientId} joined at ${new Date()}`);
-	});
-	callMonitor.on('issue-detected', (client, issue, context) => {
-		console.error(`EVENT_MONITOR (${context.callId}): Issue on ${client.clientId} - ${issue.description}`);
-	});
+> **Note on typing.** The sample types no longer carry a `Record<string, unknown>` index signature.
+> That signature allowed arbitrary top-level keys but also silently accepted typos on real fields and
+> weakened autocomplete. Custom data belongs in `attachments`, which is typed as such. If you were
+> assigning ad-hoc keys directly onto a sample object, move them into `attachments`.
+
+### Matching peer connections — by **event**, not by storage
+
+The observer correlates the SFU side with the client side **at the peer-connection level**: a
+mediasoup WebRTC transport and a client's `RTCPeerConnection` share the same id, so whenever an
+observed peer connection's id matches one of the router's WebRTC transport ids, that's a match.
+
+**The observer does not store the router (or its sample) on any entity.** Instead, for **every**
+matching peer connection it emits **`mediasoup-router-matched-with-peer-connection`** and steps
+back — *your application* decides what the pairing means. The payload carries the full peer-connection
+ancestry, so you get the router **and** the matched `observedPeerConnection`, `observedClient` and
+`observedCall` in one place. Stamp the `routerId` into the peer connection's / client's `appData`,
+build your own index, attach the server sample to the call in your database — whatever fits.
+
+This matching is **opt-in**: pass `matchPeerConnectionByWebRtcTransportId: true` to
+`createObservedMediasoupRouter`. When enabled, as peer connections are observed
+(`peer-connection-added`) the observer checks whether the peer connection's id is one of the router's
+WebRTC transport ids; on a hit it emits — once per matching peer connection — and keeps watching, so a
+router serving many participants emits one match per participant's transport. When the flag is omitted
+or `false`, no matching is performed and the event never fires. The internal listener is removed
+automatically when the router closes or the observer closes.
+
+### Ordering contract — observe the router first
+
+Matching is **forward-only by design**, and that is sufficient because the lifecycle ordering is
+**guaranteed, not racy**:
+
+- `ObservedMediasoupRouter` works purely by **subscribing to mediasoup's `observer` API**, so it can
+  only see events that happen *after* it is created. You therefore create it the moment the router
+  exists — **before** any transport is added to it — and it captures the rest going forward.
+- A mediasoup transport is always created **on the server first**; only then can the client connect
+  to it, produce/consume, and begin shipping `ClientSample`s. So a peer connection — and the
+  `peer-connection-added` event it triggers — can never appear before its server-side WebRTC
+  transport already exists (and has been observed by the router).
+
+Put together: by the time a `peer-connection-added` fires, the router has already recorded that
+transport's id in `webrtcTransportIds`, so a single forward-looking listener catches every match. No
+back-scan of existing peer connections and no re-check on transport creation are needed — the
+observer deliberately does **not** look backwards.
+
+**Your responsibility:** call `createObservedMediasoupRouter(...)` as early as the router exists
+(before transports are added or samples are accepted). If you register the router *after* its
+transports are created or after the client's first sample, those events are already in the past and
+the corresponding matches are missed.
+
+When the underlying mediasoup router closes, its `close` propagates to `ObservedMediasoupRouter`,
+which sets the sample's `closedAt` and emits **`mediasoup-router-removed`** — your cue to read /
+persist the final `observedRouter.sample` and drop your reference to it.
+
+### Options — `observer.createObservedMediasoupRouter(settings)`
+
+| Field | Type | Required | Meaning |
+|-------|------|----------|---------|
+| `router` | `mediasoup.types.Router` | yes | the live router to observe; the observer attaches to `router.observer`. `.id` and the sample's `routerId` come from `router.id` |
+| `appData` | `Record<string, unknown>` | no | application-owned bag on the `ObservedMediasoupRouter` |
+| `attachments` | `Record<string, unknown>` | no | free-form data; carried on `sample.attachments` |
+| `matchPeerConnectionByWebRtcTransportId` | `boolean` | no | opt in to peer-connection matching: emit `mediasoup-router-matched-with-peer-connection` for each peer connection whose id matches one of the router's WebRTC transport ids. Omitted / `false` → no matching, the event never fires |
+
+Peer-connection matching is **off by default**; enable it with
+`matchPeerConnectionByWebRtcTransportId: true`. Returns the `ObservedMediasoupRouter`, or `undefined`
+if the observer is closed (a router with the same id returns the existing instance — both warn).
+
+Useful members on the returned object: `.sample` (the in-memory `MediasoupRouterSample`, with
+`createdAt` / `closedAt?` on it), `.appData`, `.attachments`, `.webrtcTransportIds: Set<string>`,
+`.id`, `.close()`.
+
+### Example
+
+```ts
+import { Observer, InMemorySink } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+import type { ObservedMediasoupRouterScope, ObservedPeerConnectionScope } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+const observer = new Observer();
+
+// 1) Feed client samples as usual so the observer knows about calls, clients & peer connections.
+//    (e.g. transport-layer: observer.accept(clientSample, context))
+
+// 2) Observe the SFU side; opt in to peer-connection matching. State accumulates in `.sample`.
+const router = /* your mediasoup router */ undefined as any;
+const observedRouter = observer.createObservedMediasoupRouter({
+  router,
+  matchPeerConnectionByWebRtcTransportId: true,
+});
+
+// For large meetings, sample it yourself on your own cadence (see "Memory & large meetings"):
+// setInterval(() => persist(observedRouter.sample), 10_000);
+
+// 3) Every peer connection whose id matches one of the router's WebRTC transport ids fires this —
+//    WE decide what to do with each pairing. The payload carries the full ancestry.
+observer.on('mediasoup-router-matched-with-peer-connection',
+  ({ observedMediasoupRouter, observedCall, observedPeerConnection }:
+     ObservedMediasoupRouterScope & ObservedPeerConnectionScope) => {
+    (observedPeerConnection.appData ??= {}).routerId = observedMediasoupRouter.id;
+    myStore.linkRouterToCall(observedCall.callId, observedMediasoupRouter.id);
+  },
+);
+
+// 4) The router closed — read/persist the final state, then drop your reference.
+observer.on('mediasoup-router-removed', ({ observedMediasoupRouter }: ObservedMediasoupRouterScope) => {
+  persist(observedMediasoupRouter.sample);   // its `closedAt` is set
+});
+```
+
+### Why event-driven matching instead of storing on the call
+
+- **Loose coupling.** The call model stays about client telemetry; the SFU view lives on its own
+  `ObservedMediasoupRouter` and is associated only if and how *you* choose.
+- **You own the association.** One router serves many peer connections (across clients and calls),
+  and the right place to keep that mapping is application-specific — so the observer hands you each
+  peer-connection match and gets out of the way.
+- **You own the sampling.** The router sample is plain in-memory state you read on your own terms;
+  for large meetings, sample/persist it yourself (see [Memory & large meetings](#memory--large-meetings))
+  rather than relying on the library to evict — it deliberately doesn't.
+
+---
+
+## Sinks (per-client sample persistence)
+
+A **sink** receives the samples a client accepts — for archival, streaming, or later offline
+replay. Each `ObservedClient` gets its **own** sink, produced by the
+`ObserverConfig.createClientSink` factory when the client is created (return `undefined` for no
+sink). The client pushes every accepted sample to its sink, and `end()`s it on close.
+
+### The `ClientSampleSink` base class
+
+`ClientSampleSink` is an **abstract base class** (a typed `EventEmitter`). You create a sink by
+**subclassing it** and implementing `write` and `end`. It is **object-mode**: `write` receives
+the `ClientSample` *object*, so each sink decides how (or whether) to serialize it — JSON line,
+protobuf, a remote POST body, an in-memory push, etc.
+
+```ts
+import { ClientSampleSink, ClientSample } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+abstract class ClientSampleSink /* extends EventEmitter */ {
+  abstract write(sample: ClientSample): boolean;   // accept one sample; `false` = backpressure
+  abstract end(): void;                            // flush; emit `close` when the destination is ready
+
+  // typed events (inherited): the listener signature is inferred from the event name
+  on(event: 'close' | 'finish' | 'drain', listener: () => void): this;
+  on(event: 'error', listener: (err: Error) => void): this;
+  // ...and the matching `once` / `off` / `emit`
 }
 ```
 
-### 6. Best Practices
+| Event | Meaning |
+|-------|---------|
+| `close` | the destination is fully written and closed (e.g. a file flushed and its fd closed) — "ready" |
+| `error` | the destination failed |
+| `finish` | `end()` was processed and queued data flushed (before `close`) |
+| `drain` | the buffer drained after backpressure; safe to write more |
+
+The library calls `write(sample)` **synchronously** per accepted sample (it is not awaited),
+`end()`s the sink when the client closes, and attaches an `error` listener so a failing sink
+can't crash the process (it also catches throws from `write`/`end`). The application — which
+created the sink — listens for `close` (destination ready) and `error`. Because `write` isn't
+awaited in the `accept()` hot path, **backpressure and batching are the sink's concern**.
+
+### Built-in sinks
+
+```ts
+import { Observer, createJsonlFileSinkFactory } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+const observer = new Observer({
+  // one ./stats/<callId>__<clientId>.jsonl per client
+  createClientSink: createJsonlFileSinkFactory({ directory: './stats' }),
+});
+
+// React when a sink is created for a client:
+observer.on('client-sink-created', ({ observedClient, sink }) => {
+  sink.on('close', () => {
+    // the file is fully flushed and its fd closed — ready to upload, move, etc.
+  });
+});
+```
+
+| Export | Signature | Notes |
+|--------|-----------|-------|
+| `createJsonlFileSinkFactory` | `({ directory, flags?, getFileName?, serializeSample? }) => ClientSampleSinkFactory` | per-client JSONL files; path defaults to `${callId}__${clientId}.jsonl` under `directory` (which **must exist**) |
+| `createJsonlFileSink` | `({ path, flags?, serializeSample? }) => ClientSampleSink` | a single JSONL file; wraps `fs.WriteStream` and re-emits its `close`/`finish`/`drain`/`error` |
+| `JsonlFileSink` | `class extends ClientSampleSink` | the underlying class; exposes `readonly path` so a `close` handler knows which file is ready |
+| `createInMemorySink` / `InMemorySink` | `(samples?: ClientSample[]) => InMemorySink` | collects the accepted **sample objects** into `.samples: ClientSample[]`; emits `close` on `end()` |
 
-- **Resource Management**: Always call `observer.close()`, `call.close()`, and `client.close()` when entities are no longer needed to free resources and stop timers.
-- **Error Handling**: Wrap calls to library methods in `try...catch` blocks where appropriate, especially for operations that might throw errors based on state (e.g., creating an entity that already exists if not using `getOrCreate` patterns).
-- **Event Listener Cleanup**: If dynamically adding/removing listeners, ensure they are properly removed (e.g., using `emitter.off()` or `emitter.removeListener()`) to prevent memory leaks, especially for short-lived monitored entities.
-- **`ClientSample` Accuracy**: The quality of monitoring heavily depends on the completeness and correctness of the `ClientSample` data provided. Ensure thorough mapping from `getStats()`.
-- **Update Policies**: Choose update policies carefully based on the desired granularity of updates and performance considerations.
+`serializeSample?: (sample: ClientSample) => string` overrides the default `JSON.stringify` for
+the JSONL sinks (e.g. to redact or reshape before writing).
 
-### 7. Troubleshooting
+### Reading sink-specific info (e.g. the file path)
 
-- **Memory Leaks**: Ensure `close()` is called on all entities. Check for unremoved event listeners.
-- **No Events / Missing Updates**:
-  - Verify `observer.accept()` is being called with correctly formatted `ClientSample` data.
-  - Ensure `callId` and `clientId` in samples match expectations.
-  - Check if `updatePolicy` and `updateIntervalInMs` are configured as intended.
-- **Debugging**: Utilize `console.log` within event handlers at different levels (Observer, Call, Client) to trace data flow and state changes. Use `appData` to add correlation IDs for easier debugging.
+The bus hands you the sink as the base `ClientSampleSink`. To read information specific to a sink
+type — for a file sink, where it was written — **narrow with `instanceof`** and read the sink's
+public fields. `JsonlFileSink` exposes `path`:
 
-### 8. TypeScript Support
+```ts
+import { JsonlFileSink } from '@observertc/observer-js';
 
-The library is written in TypeScript and provides type definitions.
-Use generics with `Observer`, `ObservedCall`, and `ObservedClient` to type your custom `appData`.
+observer.on('client-sink-created', ({ observedClient, sink }) => {
+  if (sink instanceof JsonlFileSink) {
+    const { path } = sink;                          // the file this client's samples go to
+    sink.once('close', () => uploadFile(path));     // close = flushed & fd closed → ready
+  }
+});
+```
+
+The general pattern: each concrete sink exposes whatever it wants as `public readonly` fields, and
+consumers narrow (`instanceof YourSink`) to read them. Your own sinks do the same.
+
+### Writing your own sink
 
-```typescript
-interface MyClientAppData {
-	userId: string;
-	role: 'admin' | 'user';
+Subclass `ClientSampleSink` and emit the lifecycle events yourself — for any non-file
+destination (a remote endpoint, a message queue, an object store, …):
+
+```ts
+import { ClientSampleSink, ClientSample, ClientSampleSinkFactory } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+class HttpSink extends ClientSampleSink {
+  private buffer: ClientSample[] = [];
+  constructor(private readonly url: string) { super(); }
+
+  write(sample: ClientSample): boolean {
+    this.buffer.push(sample);                  // batch; decide your own backpressure
+    return true;
+  }
+  end(): void {
+    fetch(this.url, { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(this.buffer) })
+      .then(() => this.emit('close'))          // signal "destination ready"
+      .catch((err) => this.emit('error', err));
+  }
 }
-const client = call.createObservedClient<MyClientAppData>({
-	clientId: 'user1',
-	appData: { userId: 'u-123', role: 'admin' },
+
+const createClientSink: ClientSampleSinkFactory = ({ clientId, observedCall }) =>
+  new HttpSink(`https://stats.example.com/${observedCall.callId}/${clientId}`);
+
+const observer = new Observer({ createClientSink });
+```
+
+`observedClient.sink?` exposes the created sink; the `client-sink-created` event delivers it on
+the bus with full ancestry. `ClientSampleSinkFactory` is
+`(p: { clientId: string; observedCall: ObservedCall }) => ClientSampleSink | undefined`.
+
+---
+
+## Injecting data into a client
+
+Sometimes the application holds data that belongs on a client's record but isn't part of the
+client-reported `ClientSample` — a room id or display name, an application-level event
+(*"recording started"*), a server-detected issue, an extension stat, or a device/meta item.
+`ObservedClient` exposes **injection** methods that merge such data into the client's sample stream,
+so it updates the live model **and** is persisted to the client's
+[sink](#sinks-per-client-sample-persistence) exactly like sampled data.
+
+| Method | Adds to the sample's | Surfaces as |
+|--------|----------------------|-------------|
+| `injectAttachment(attachments)` | `attachments` (merged via `Object.assign`) | `observedClient.attachments` |
+| `injectEvent(event: ClientEvent)` | `clientEvents` | `client-event` (plus any state the event drives) |
+| `injectIssue(issue: ClientIssue)` | `clientIssues` | `client-issue` |
+| `injectMetaData(meta: ClientMetaData)` | `clientMetaItems` | `client-metadata` |
+| `injectExtensionStat(stat: ExtensionStat)` | `extensionStats` | `client-extension-stats` |
+
+### When the injected data lands
+
+Injection is timing-aware so nothing is dropped, regardless of *when* you call it:
+
+- **During a sample's processing** — e.g. from inside a `client-updated` / `client-event` handler,
+  which run within `accept()` — the data is applied to the **current** sample immediately: reflected
+  in entity state and written to the sink as part of that sample.
+- **Between samples** — the data is buffered and merged into the **next** `accept()`'s sample.
+- **On `close()` with pending injections and no further sample** — the buffer is flushed as a final
+  synthetic sample (applied to state and written to the sink) before the sink is ended, so a
+  last-moment injection is never lost.
+
+In every case the injected data both updates the live `ObservedClient` and reaches the per-client
+sink — the sink always receives the final, **injection-merged** sample (the sink write happens at the
+end of `accept()`, after the merge).
+
+### Example
+
+```ts
+// Enrich at creation from your app's knowledge of the participant. Injecting in `client-added`
+// (which runs just before the first accept) lands on the first sample.
+observer.on('client-added', ({ observedClient }) => {
+  observedClient.injectAttachment({ roomId: lookupRoomId(observedClient.clientId) });
+});
+
+// Application-level signals at any time:
+const client = observer.getObservedCall(callId)?.getObservedClient(clientId);
+client?.injectEvent({ type: 'RECORDING_STARTED', timestamp: Date.now() });
+client?.injectIssue({ type: 'app-kicked-participant', timestamp: Date.now() });
+```
+
+`attachments` are latest-wins (like sampled `attachments`): injecting a key overwrites its previous
+value. `appData` is unaffected — injections flow into the sample/telemetry, not the app-owned
+`appData` bag (see [Ingestion](#ingestion-accept-context--lifecycle)).
+
+## Logging
+
+`observer-js` logs through a single, swappable sink. Out of the box it writes `debug` and
+above to `console` (verbose — install your own sink for production). Funnel everything into your
+logger:
+
+```ts
+import { setObserverLogger, type ObserverLogger } from '@observertc/observer-js';
+
+setObserverLogger({
+  trace: (m, ...a) => myLogger.trace(`[${m}]`, ...a),
+  debug: (m, ...a) => myLogger.debug(`[${m}]`, ...a),
+  info:  (m, ...a) => myLogger.info(`[${m}]`, ...a),
+  warn:  (m, ...a) => myLogger.warn(`[${m}]`, ...a),
+  error: (m, ...a) => myLogger.error(`[${m}]`, ...a),
 });
-// client.appData will be typed as MyClientAppData | undefined
 ```
 
-### 9. Contributing
+`createLogger(moduleName)` is also exported for your own modules. See
+**[`docs/logging.md`](./docs/logging.md)** for pino / winston / console recipes, level
+filtering, per-module routing, and full silencing.
+
+---
+
+## Design notes
+
+**[`docs/design-notes.md`](./docs/design-notes.md)** covers the reasoning behind the library rather
+than its API: why client-detectable conditions are never re-derived server-side, why each shipped
+detector exists, what was deliberately *not* built and why, the WebRTC domain facts that shaped the
+implementation (ICE-Lite disconnect waves, counter resets, why ICE and RTCP RTT must never be
+blended), and an operational threshold reference.
+
+---
+
+## Error-handling philosophy
+
+The library **warns and degrades; it does not throw** on operational problems:
+
+- `createObservedCall` / `createObservedClient` on a closed parent → warn + return `undefined`.
+- Duplicate id → warn + return the **existing** instance.
+- `accept()` on a closed client → warn + no-op.
+- Sample missing `callId`/`clientId`, or observer closed → `sample-rejected` event.
+- A throwing accept-middleware → warn + drop that sample (never crashes `accept()`).
+
+Therefore `create*` and `getOrCreate*` return `T | undefined`; **guard the result.** The
+`Middleware` utility's internal invariants (e.g. calling `next()` twice) throw, but those throws
+are caught by `accept()` and surfaced as a warning.
+
+---
+
+## Development & extension guide
+
+```bash
+yarn install
+yarn build       # tsup → dist/ (dual ESM .mjs + CJS .js, single entry, .d.ts/.d.mts + sourcemaps)
+yarn lint        # eslint -c .eslintrc.json "src/**/*.ts"
+yarn typecheck   # tsc --noEmit
+yarn test        # jest
+```
+
+The build is driven by [`tsup`](https://tsup.egoist.dev) (config in `tsup.config.ts`): a single
+entry (`src/index.ts`), dual ESM + CommonJS output to `dist/` (`index.mjs` / `index.js`) with
+`.d.mts` / `.d.ts` types and sourcemaps, targeting Node 20. CI (`.github/workflows/ci.yml`) runs
+lint + typecheck + **build** + test on every push/PR.
+
+**Project layout** (`src/`): `Observer.ts`, `ObservedCall.ts`, `ObservedClient.ts`,
+`ObservedPeerConnection.ts`, the `Observed*` sub-stat classes, `ObserverEvents.ts` (the typed
+event map + scope types), `detectors/` (`Detector`, `Detectors`, and one file per detector),
+`validators/` (`Validator`, `Validators`, one file per validator), `issues/` (`ActiveClientIssue`,
+`ActiveIssueTracker`, `ActiveIssuesRegistry`, `ObservedClientIssueRegistry`), `scores/`,
+`resolvers/` (remote-track resolvers), `utils/` (`stats`, `SlidingWindow`, `TrendTester`,
+`CallHealthAggregator`), `common/` (`logger`, `utils`, `Middleware`), `schema/`
+(sample/event/meta types), and `sinks/` (the `ClientSampleSink` base + `JsonlFileSink` /
+`InMemorySink`, re-exported from the package root).
+
+**Conventions to follow when developing further:**
+
+- *Single event bus.* New consumer-facing events go in `ObserverEvents.ts` with an object
+  payload `[<Scope> & { …subject }]`, and are emitted via the component's
+  `_notify(type, { ...this.eventScope, …subject })`. Each component has a precomputed
+  `eventScope` field and a thin `_notify` wrapper around the right emitter. Keep purely internal
+  coordination as **local** EventEmitter events (and remember to `off` them on close).
+- *Warn, don't throw* on operational/edge conditions; return `undefined` where a value can't be produced.
+- *Counter-reset-safe deltas.* When computing a delta from a cumulative counter, never emit a
+  negative value (guard `curr >= prev`), to survive counter resets / SSRC reuse.
+- *Explicit accumulation.* The per-sample metric accumulation in `accept()` is intentionally
+  explicit and not abstracted — match that style.
+- *Detectors are server-side.* Add cross-client detectors on `ObservedCall.detectors`; don't
+  re-implement client-detectable signals.
+
+**Recipes:**
+
+- *Add an event:* add the key + payload to `ObserverEvents`; in the owning component call
+  `this._notify('my-event', { ...this.eventScope, subject })`.
+- *Add a per-stream metric:* add the field to the relevant `Observed*Rtp`/track class, populate
+  it in its `update()` (reset at the top of `update()` if it's per-tick), and read it from a
+  `*-updated` handler.
+- *Add a detector:* implement `Detector`, register it on `call-added` via
+  `observedCall.detectors.add(...)`, surface findings with `observedCall.addIssue(...)`.
 
-(Placeholder for contribution guidelines - e.g., link to CONTRIBUTING.md, coding standards, pull request process)
+---
 
-### 10. License
+## License
 
-This project is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).
+Apache-2.0. Part of the [ObserverTC](https://github.com/observertc) ecosystem.