visual-ai-assertions 0.23.0 → 0.26.0

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  // Explicit configuration
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  const ai = visualAI({
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- model: "claude-sonnet-4-6", // optional, sensible defaults per provider
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+ model: "claude-sonnet-5-5", // optional, sensible defaults per provider
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  apiKey: "sk-...", // optional, defaults to provider env var
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  debug: true, // optional, logs prompts/responses to stderr
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  maxTokens: 4096, // optional, default 4096
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  // Use constants for IDE autocomplete
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  const ai = visualAI({
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- model: Model.Anthropic.SONNET_4_6,
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+ model: Model.Anthropic.SONNET_5_5,
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  ```
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  // Basic comparison
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  const result = await ai.compare(before, after);
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- // gemini-3-flash-preview includes an annotated diff by default.
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- // Pass { diffImage: false } to opt out.
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+ // Every Gemini flash model — the gemini-3.8-flash default included — auto-includes
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+ // an annotated diff. Pass { diffImage: false } to opt out.
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  instructions: ["Ignore date/time differences"],
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- // With AI-generated diff image (supported by gemini-3-flash-preview and gemini-3.5-flash;
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- // only gemini-3-flash-preview auto-enables it — pass diffImage: true explicitly for 3.5-flash)
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+ // Requesting the diff image explicitly (it is already on by default for the flash tier).
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+ // Supported on gemini-3-flash-preview, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8-flash (DIFF_ALLOWED_MODELS);
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+ // Flash-Lite and Pro tiers produce none even when asked.
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  const result = await ai.compare(before, after, {
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  pass: boolean; // true if no critical/major changes
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  reasoning: string; // overall summary
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  changes: ChangeEntry[]; // list of visual differences
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+ diffImage?: { // present when diffing is enabled explicitly or by the Gemini flash default
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  data: Buffer; // PNG image data
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  `ai.check()` and `ai.ask()` also accept short video recordings (`.mp4`, `.webm`, `.mov`, `.mkv`) — useful for asserting on transient UI like toast messages. Accepted shapes are file path, `data:video/...;base64,...` URL, raw base64 string, `Buffer`, and `Uint8Array`. HTTP/HTTPS URLs are not supported for video inputs — fetch the bytes yourself first.
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+ How the video reaches the model depends on the provider. **Google models receive the video itself** (native delivery): Gemini samples and tokenises it server-side and also hears the audio track. **Every other provider gets frames sampled with ffmpeg** and sent as an ordered image timeline. Both paths enforce the same duration cap before any provider call, and both give you per-statement timestamps.
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  ```typescript
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  // Playwright recording on disk
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  const result = await ai.check("./trace/video/recording.webm", [
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  'A success toast with text "Saved" briefly appears',
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+ console.log(result.statements[0].timestampSeconds); // 3.5
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+ // Google model → the video was sent natively
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+ console.log(result.video);
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+ // { durationSeconds: 4.0, fps: 1, mimeType: "video/webm", delivery: "inline" }
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+ // Any other provider → frames were sampled
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+ // { count: 3, timestampsSeconds: [0.5, 2.5, 3.5], durationSeconds: 4.0, droppedUnchanged: 1 }
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- `maxFrames` is hard-capped at 60 to keep memory bounded. Frames are downscaled so the longer edge fits within 1568 px before being sent to the provider.
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+ `fps` applies to both paths: it is the ffmpeg sampling rate, and for native delivery it is passed to the provider as its sampling rate. `maxFrames` and `dedupe` apply to frame sampling only; `maxFrames` is hard-capped at 60 to keep memory bounded, and frames are downscaled so the longer edge fits within 1568 px before being sent.
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+ **Choosing the delivery.** `video.mode` is `"auto"` by default: native where the provider supports it, frames elsewhere. Set `"frames"` to sample frames on a Google model too, or `"native"` to insist on native delivery — that throws `VisualAIConfigError` on providers without it.
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+ ```typescript
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+ // Sample frames on Gemini instead of sending the video
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+ await ai.check("./clip.mp4", ["Loader disappears"], { video: { mode: "frames" } });
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+ await ai.ask("./clip.mp4", "What happens?", { video: { mode: "native" } });
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+ ```
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+ Native delivery is worth preferring where available. Measured on a 15 s recording with a seven-statement `check()` on Gemini 3.8 Flash, native video at 1 fps cost about 60% of the frames path with dedupe on and answered about 1.5 s faster, with identical verdicts and correct timestamps on every run; Gemini tokenises a video frame at roughly 60 tokens against about 1,080 for the same frame sent as an image. Videos over 19 MB are uploaded through the Gemini Files API automatically (`delivery: "file"`) and deleted again afterwards. For `ask()`, native results carry `timestampReferences` (seconds) in place of the frame-indexed `frameReferences`.
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- How it works: the library samples frames with ffmpeg and sends them to the provider as an ordered timeline. A statement passes when it is true at any sampled frame, unless its wording specifies otherwise (e.g. "throughout"). Template helpers (`accessibility`, `layout`, `pageLoad`, `content`, `elementsVisible`, `elementsHidden`) are image-only — pass video to `check()` or `ask()` instead.
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+ **Unchanged frames are dropped.** A recording of a mostly static screen would otherwise pay input tokens for every near-identical sample, so by default each sampled frame is compared against the most recently kept frame and dropped when fewer than 0.1% of its pixels changed — roughly a 37x37 px region on a 1568x880 frame. A toast, a loader, or a dialog comfortably clears that; compression noise and a blinking text caret do not. The first frame is always kept, `durationSeconds` still covers the whole clip, and the prompt tells the model how many frames were dropped and that the screen stayed unchanged between the listed timestamps. `result.frames.droppedUnchanged` reports how many were dropped.
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+ ```typescript
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+ How it works: on the frames path the library samples frames with ffmpeg, drops the ones that did not visibly change, and sends the rest to the provider as an ordered timeline; on the native path it probes the duration, then hands the provider the video and a matching prompt. Either way a statement passes when it is true at any point, unless its wording specifies otherwise (e.g. "throughout"). Template helpers (`accessibility`, `layout`, `pageLoad`, `content`, `elementsVisible`, `elementsHidden`) are image-only — pass video to `check()` or `ask()` instead.
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  **ffmpeg setup.** Video support works out of the box — `fluent-ffmpeg`, `@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg`, and `@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe` ship as regular dependencies and bundle platform-specific ffmpeg/ffprobe binaries. If you ran `npm install` you already have everything you need. On platforms where the prebuilt binary is unavailable (or if you've pruned dependencies), `check()` and `ask()` throw `VisualAIVideoError` (import from `visual-ai-assertions` to `instanceof`-narrow it) when called with video input.
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  ### Formatting & Assertion Helpers
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  ### Optional Configuration
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- | `VISUAL_AI_MODEL` | Default model when `model` is not set in config. Overrides the provider's default model. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG` | Enable error diagnostic logging to stderr. Does **not** enable prompt/response logging. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_PROMPT` | Enable prompt-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_RESPONSE` | Enable response-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES` | Persist sampled video frames to disk for offline inspection. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. Frames are written to `./visual-ai-debug-frames/<timestamp>-<id>/` (override path with the next variable). Has no effect on image-only inputs. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES_DIR` | Override the base directory for `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES`. Each call still gets its own timestamped subdirectory inside it. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_TRACK_USAGE` | Enable usage tracking (token counts and cost) to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_MODEL` | Model used when `model` is not set in config, overriding the provider's default. It also **selects the provider**, since the provider is inferred from the model name — so this is how you pick a provider when several API keys are set. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_REASONING_EFFORT` | Reasoning effort when `reasoningEffort` is not set in config. One of `minimal`, `low`, `medium`, `high`, `xhigh` (case-insensitive). An unrecognised value throws `VisualAIConfigError` rather than being ignored. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG` | Enable error diagnostic logging to stderr. Does **not** enable prompt/response logging. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_PROMPT` | Enable prompt-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_RESPONSE` | Enable response-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES` | Persist sampled video frames to disk for offline inspection. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. Frames are written to `./visual-ai-debug-frames/<timestamp>-<id>/` (override path with the next variable). Has no effect on image-only inputs. |
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- | Anthropic (Fable 5/Opus 4.8/4.7/Sonnet 5) | `thinking.type: "adaptive"` + `output_config.effort` | `effort: "xhigh"` |
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- | Google | `thinkingConfig.thinkingLevel` (1:1: low/medium/high) | `"high"` (max level) |
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+ | Claude Fable 5.1 | `claude-fable-5-1` | $10 | $50 | Most capable; long-horizon agentic work |
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+ | Claude Opus 5 | `claude-opus-5` | $5 | $25 | Previous Opus flagship; supports `xhigh` |
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+ | Claude Opus 4.8 | `claude-opus-4-8` | $5 | $25 | Prior Opus tier; supports `xhigh` |
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+ | Claude Opus 4.7 | `claude-opus-4-7` | $5 | $25 | Previous Opus; supports `xhigh` effort tier |
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+ | Claude Opus 4.6 | `claude-opus-4-6` | $5 | $25 | Previous flagship, 128K max output |
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- | Gemini 3.1 Pro | `gemini-3.1-pro-preview` | $2 | $12 | Preview — most advanced reasoning |
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- | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | `gemini-3.1-flash-lite` | $0.25 | $1.50 | GA — lightweight and cheap |
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+ | Kimi K3 | `moonshotai/kimi-k3` | $3 | $15 | Moonshot flagship, 1M context |
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+ | Kimi K2.7 Code | `moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code` | $0.82 | $3.75 | Agentic/coding tier with vision⁵ |
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+ | Qwen3.7 Plus | `qwen/qwen3.7-plus` | $0.32 | $1.28 | Cost-effective, GUI/screen-reading⁴ |
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+ | Qwen3.6 Flash | `qwen/qwen3.6-flash` | $0.19 | $1.13 | Prior default — cheap flash vision |
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+ | GLM 5.3 Flash | `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash` | $0.15 | $0.50 | Z.ai flash tier, 1.3M context² |
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