demobite 1.8.1 → 1.8.3

package/launcher/index.mjs

@@ -141,6 +141,19 @@ if (needed.length) {
   if (r.status === 0) ok("Playwright ready");
   else warn(`Install failed — run: npm install --prefix ~/.claude/skills/agentic-recorder ${needed.join(" ")}`);
 }
+// Playwright's OWN ffmpeg: recordVideo needs it even when the real Chrome is
+// the browser (founder's test 2026-10-14: the first take failed — the
+// launcher had checked the system ffmpeg, not the one Playwright's capture
+// uses, and with Chrome present `playwright install` never ran). Always.
+{
+  const pw = path.join(dest, "node_modules", "playwright", "cli.js");
+  const marker = path.join(dest, ".pw-ffmpeg-ready");
+  if (!fs.existsSync(marker) && fs.existsSync(pw)) {
+    const r = spawnSync("node", [pw, "install", "ffmpeg"], { stdio: "inherit", cwd: dest });
+    if (r.status === 0) { fs.writeFileSync(marker, new Date().toISOString()); ok("Playwright's video encoder ready"); }
+    else warn(`Playwright's ffmpeg install failed — run: node ${pw} install ffmpeg`);
+  } else if (fs.existsSync(marker)) ok("Playwright's video encoder ready");
+}
 // No Chrome on this machine: fetch Playwright's Chromium once so the first
 // take has a browser. Linux needs the shared libraries too (--with-deps).
 if (!haveChrome) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "demobite",
-  "version": "1.8.1",
+  "version": "1.8.3",
   "description": "The DemoBites agentic recorder — you prompt, it films a real browser, and DemoBites turns the take into an editable demo bite.",
   "bin": {
     "demobite": "launcher/index.mjs"

package/skill/SKILL.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ The plugin is a product. Every line you say is read by the person who asked for
 - **Progress you can glance at.** While filming, relay record.mjs's `Filming ████░░ step n of N` line. While writing the storyboard, one dim line of what you are reading.
 - **Plain words only.** Never on screen: dry run, control, selector, resolves, beat, surface, profile, headed, Playwright, vocab, obstacle, revert, JSON, storyboard.json, manifest, take. Use: step, demo, page, window, sign in, film, deliver, Demos grid.
 - **Demo, never recording.** The thing the person gets is a demo; the act is filming.
+- **Findings go to us, never to the person.** Anything you learned about the recorder, the installer, the camera or DemoBites itself (a title that got cut, a merge rule, a missing encoder) is written to `.recorder/notes.md` in the project — dated, one paragraph each — and never said in the chat. The person asked for a demo, not a report on our product. (Founder 2026-10-14: "all this nonsense and all this explanation is not relevant.")
 
 ## Phase 0: Auth gate, ALWAYS FIRST — announced, never silent
 
@@ -88,6 +89,8 @@ Write the answers to `.recorder/config.json` and never ask again:
 
 ## Phase 1a: The address and the sign-in — in the FIRST reply
 
+The plugin's record door does this step BEFORE loading this file (so the window opens within seconds, not after you have read these pages). If `signin.mjs --check <url>` already says "session", or the window is already open, skip this phase — never ask the sign-in question twice.
+
 Work out the starting address yourself, in seconds: the person's words if they named one, else `url` in `.recorder/config.json`, else the codebase (the app's dev server, the route the brief points at). Then:
 
 ```bash
@@ -364,7 +367,7 @@ On the person's "1": say "Filming. About <m:ss>; I'll tell you when it lands." a
 
 ## Phase 6: Deliver into DemoBites
 
-When `upload.mjs` prints its last line, say: "✓ Delivered. \"<title>\" (<m:ss>) is landing in your Demos grid now: <base>/demos — watch it come in there. You can change any sentence, the voice and the zooms in the editor." When minutes ran out, relay upload.mjs's "Kept…" line as it is.
+When `upload.mjs` prints its last line, say ONE line: "✓ Delivered. \"<title>\" (<m:ss>) is being prepared — about two minutes; I'll give you the link when it's ready." Then run `node scripts/status.mjs <takeDir>` (it waits until the demo is completed and prints `Studio: <url>`). When it does, say exactly, and only: "✓ Ready — open it: <that url>". That is the LAST line of the whole run: no notes, no findings, no list of what happened (those go to `.recorder/notes.md`, How you talk). When minutes ran out, relay upload.mjs's "Kept…" line as it is, and stop.
 
 
 Send the TRIMMED CLEAN take into DemoBites. The studio owns the look: NO backdrop, NO rounded corners, NO shadow on the uploaded file. Everything (voice, zooms, look, intro, outro) becomes editable there.