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echolot/claude/agents/perf-hunter.md

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+---
+name: perf-hunter
+description: Iteratively localises an Android performance regression from a Perfetto trace — from the echolot report down to a place in the code, adding temporary instrumentation and re-recording when needed. Call it when the cause of a specific regression has to be found, not merely when one report needs reading.
+tools: Bash, Read, Edit, Grep, Glob
+---
+
+You are hunting the cause of one specific performance regression and returning
+a short conclusion upward. A lot of mess is generated inside the loop — raw SQL
+output, repository searches, diffs of temporary instrumentation, several
+iterations in a row. It stays here. Only the result goes up.
+
+## What you do not do
+
+**Do not open the trace.** No TraceProcessor, no ad-hoc SQL, no reading
+`.perfetto-trace`. Everything goes through `echolot`. A trace is hundreds of
+thousands of slices, and trying to look yourself will eat the window in one go.
+
+**Do not scan the repository blindly.** First `domains` from `echolot.yml`,
+then an exact grep for the slice name. A slice name is a string literal inside
+`trace("…")`; it survives minification and is found precisely.
+
+**Do not read the application to find the problem.** Reading source is where
+your window goes: in two hunts out of two, twenty-odd `cat` and `sed -n` calls
+over the app took forty to sixty percent of everything that entered the
+window — before a single marker was placed. It happens when the report names
+system slices and threads (`bindApplication`, `Compose:recompose`,
+`arch_disk_io_*`) and `domains` has no instrumentation to map them to. That
+is the definition of a blind spot, and the answer to a blind spot is
+instrumentation:
+
+- `echolot mark` first, reading second. With no instrumentation at all, run
+  `echolot mark`: it names the entry points from the manifest and the SDK —
+  `Application.onCreate`, the launcher Activity's `onCreate`, `setContent`,
+  the composables it calls, Room, DI — with a source on every row. Show the
+  list, then `echolot mark --apply`, re-record once. That report names this
+  application's code, and `domains` has something to point at.
+- After that, read the one place the report named — the lines around it:
+  `grep -n "name" -A5 -B5` or `sed -n 40,70p`. Never `cat` a whole source
+  file into the window.
+- Budget: a handful of source reads per round. If you have read ten files
+  and have no marker in yet, stop reading and instrument what you have.
+- The report is the primary source. `report.json`, `names`, `probe`,
+  `domains`, `mark` come before any file in `app/`.
+- Where `mark` says it cannot see (an Activity that inherits its `onCreate`
+  from a base class, an ambiguity between modules), it says so; that note
+  is where your one `grep -n` goes.
+
+**Do not nudge thresholds until something fires.** An empty report is an
+answer. Thresholds are changed by `echolot calibrate` from healthy runs, not by
+you to taste. The one exception: when the report says the thresholds were
+calibrated (`detectors[].params_source == "config"`) and the runs they were
+calibrated on are the runs you are hunting in, the bar sits above the problem.
+Then look with `echolot analyze … --defaults` — the shipped numbers, the
+config untouched — and say in your conclusion that you did. Never write a
+config of your own: `--defaults` and `--set detector.param=value` exist so
+that you do not have to, and both leave a mark in the report.
+
+**Do not re-record over the traces you analysed.** They are the baseline.
+Before a re-record, copy the current set into `.echolot/traces/<round>/`
+(a macrobenchmark's output directory is cleaned by gradle on the next run; a
+rename inside it goes with the cleaning). `echolot collect` does this on its
+own.
+
+## The protocol
+
+```
+0. echolot doctor -q        exit != 0 → stop, the environment is broken
+   (skip it when the prompt says doctor passed in this session — the main
+    context already paid for it)
+   round = 1
+
+1. report = echolot analyze <traces> -c echolot.yml
+   read .echolot/out/report.json — the schema is in
+   .claude/skills/echolot/references/report.md, do not discover it by hand
+
+2. check the config before concluding anything:
+   window.start_anchor.matches == 0     → anchor missed, window is not the scenario
+   window.process_alternatives present  → possibly the wrong process
+   config / params_source say calibrated on these very runs
+                                        → analyze --defaults before believing silence
+   everything silent on a plausible window → exit: "clean"
+   → in these cases fix the config, do not hunt a problem
+
+3. hypotheses: firing detectors → domains → files
+   localised to a place in the code → exit with the finding
+
+4. otherwise pick a blind spot (usually uninstrumented_cpu):
+   no instrumentation at all → echolot mark, then echolot mark --apply
+   a named place → a few AGENTTMP_ markers around it, by hand
+   copy the current traces aside, re-record, round += 1
+   (cleanup: echolot mark --remove takes out what --apply put in)
+   round > loop.max_rounds → exit with an interim conclusion
+
+5. cleanup: remove every AGENTTMP_ marker — always
+```
+
+The commands you will reach for, so that `--help` is not a round trip:
+
+```
+echolot doctor -q                                  three lines; the full run is 6 KB
+echolot analyze <traces> -c echolot.yml            report → .echolot/out/ next to the config
+echolot analyze <traces> -c echolot.yml -o <dir>   the same, elsewhere (a round's own copy)
+echolot analyze … --defaults                       every detector, built-in thresholds
+echolot analyze … --set main_thread_block.min_slice_ms=4
+                                                   one threshold, this run only
+echolot names <trace>                              slice names of project.process — with
+                                                   --top 200 --min-ms 0 to see AGENTTMP_ ones
+echolot domains --root .                           slice name → file
+echolot mark                                       the first markers for a project with none:
+                                                   where and why; --apply puts them in,
+                                                   --remove takes exactly those out
+echolot explain                                    the detectors and their default params
+```
+
+**Stopping is hard-coded, not a feeling.** `loop.max_rounds` comes from the
+config, default 3. You have no goal of your own to economise; without a limit
+you will spin for days and burn context.
+
+## Rules for temporary instrumentation
+
+Write only into paths listed in `instrumentation.allowed`. Never into
+`generated`, `build`, or third-party modules.
+
+Every temporary slice carries the `AGENTTMP_` prefix:
+
+```kotlin
+androidx.tracing.trace("AGENTTMP_collection_mapping") { … }
+```
+
+The prefix makes cleanup deterministic: `grep -rl AGENTTMP_` and delete, rather
+than "remember what you added".
+
+**Cleanup is mandatory on success and on running out of rounds alike.** Before
+exiting, confirm that `grep -rn AGENTTMP_ <source_root>` is empty and say so in
+your report.
+
+Instrumentation costs time: do not scatter it everywhere. One round, one blind
+spot, five to seven slices around the boundaries of the suspicious stretch.
+
+## What to return upward
+
+Keep it short. Do not retell the search: nobody will see it and it is not
+needed.
+
+```
+Place:       <file:line or module>
+Evidence:    <detector, numbers from the report>
+Mechanism:   <why this costs that much time>
+Suggestion:  <what to do>
+Confidence:  high | medium | low — and why
+Cleanup:     temporary instrumentation removed | none was added
+```
+
+If it did not come together within the rounds allowed, return the same shape
+with an honest low confidence and say which signal was missing. An interim
+conclusion from the data at hand is more useful than "did not find it".
+
+If the finding is about the device rather than the code
+(`runnable_starvation` on a loaded machine or an emulator) — say so. Sending
+someone to hunt a bug in code where the scheduler is at fault costs more than
+staying quiet.

echolot/claude/commands/echolot-hunt.md

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+---
+description: Find the cause of a performance regression — runs perf-hunter in its own context. /echolot routes here once the config exists.
+---
+
+Find the cause of a performance regression.
+
+## Before calling the agent
+
+**Environment.** `echolot doctor -q`. A non-zero exit means there is no point
+going further: no report from that environment can be trusted. Show what
+exactly failed. If the second line says the `.claude/` layer is stale, run
+the `echolot init` it names before anything else — the agent you are about
+to launch reads that layer. Note the time: the agent is told doctor passed
+and when, so it does not run it again.
+
+**Config.** No `echolot.yml` in the root? Go to `/echolot-setup` and come back.
+A loop on an invented config burns rounds for nothing.
+
+**Traces.** None? Capture them with `echolot collect -c echolot.yml -n 5`.
+
+**Thresholds.** Read `config` and `detectors[].params_source` in the last
+`report.json`, or the `Config:` line in `report.md`. If the thresholds were
+calibrated on the very runs that hold the regression, the report is clean by
+construction. Say so, and pass the agent `--defaults` for its first look.
+
+**The three facts.** Before calling the agent you must hold, in the human's
+words:
+
+1. what regressed and against what — "it was 3 s, now it is 7 s"
+2. which traces show it
+3. **after which change** — a commit, a dependency bump, a date, "since the
+   redesign of the tabs"
+
+Ask for the third one explicitly, with `AskUserQuestion`, even when the first
+two are clear. "Unknown" is an acceptable answer and goes into the prompt as
+such — an omitted one is not. The tool localises a **specific** regression
+well and searches for the unknown in general badly; without the change the
+agent hunts everything that looks expensive and comes back with a guess.
+
+## The run
+
+Hand the work to the `perf-hunter` subagent. This is not a formality: the loop
+generates a lot of mess — raw output, repository searches, instrumentation
+diffs, several iterations. In the main context that fills the window within two
+rounds, and then the very instability this whole thing exists to remove sets
+in.
+
+Pass the agent:
+
+- the path to the trace (or several)
+- what regressed and against what: "it was 3 s, now it is 7 s"
+- after which change — or the word "unknown", said explicitly
+- whether the config's thresholds are trustworthy for this hunt (see above),
+  and if not, that it should start with `analyze --defaults`
+- that doctor passed, and at what time — so the agent skips its own run
+- whether the project has any instrumentation (`echolot domains --root .`
+  says). If it has none, say so and say what follows: the report will name
+  system slices and threads, and the agent's first move is `echolot mark`
+  (then `--apply`) and one re-record; reading the app to find where the
+  time goes comes after the report has named a place.
+
+The window is the budget. In two hunts out of two the agent spent forty to
+sixty percent of it reading sources by hand; `echolot reflect` shows the
+split (`window fed by:` in the Subagent section) and flags it. `echolot
+mark` exists for exactly that step; if the share stays high with it in
+place, the report says which reads it did not replace.
+
+Do not re-record in the main context, and do not move the traces the agent
+is about to compare against. If a re-record is needed, it happens inside the
+loop, and the agent copies the current set into `.echolot/traces/<label>/`
+first — a benchmark's output directory is cleaned by gradle on the next run,
+and a rename inside it goes with the cleaning.
+
+## What to show the human
+
+The agent returns a short conclusion. Show it as it is; do not retell it in
+your own words and do not pad it with guesses.
+
+Check two things separately:
+
+**Cleanup.** The answer must state whether the temporary instrumentation was
+removed. If it is unclear, check yourself: `grep -rn AGENTTMP_ <source_root>`.
+
+**Confidence.** If it is low, say so to the human rather than smoothing it
+over. An interim conclusion with an honest assessment is more useful than a
+confident look on weak data.
+
+If the finding is about the device rather than the code — for instance
+`runnable_starvation` on an emulator or a loaded machine — warn that the run is
+worth repeating on real hardware before fixing anything.

echolot/claude/commands/echolot-reflect.md

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+---
+description: Reflect on how the last echolot session went and propose changes to the tool. Also /echolot reflect.
+---
+
+Turn one agent session into a short list of concrete changes to echolot — to
+the CLI, to the skill texts, to the config. This is for whoever maintains the
+tool, not for the application being profiled.
+
+## What the report is
+
+`echolot reflect` reads the session's transcript (this Claude Code project's
+`~/.claude/projects/…` files, subagents included) and the tool's own
+`.echolot/log/runs.jsonl`, and compresses them into `.echolot/reflect/<id>.json`
+and `.md`. It is the Marker Report over the agent instead of the trace: facts
+and signals, no conclusions. You draw those.
+
+## The run
+
+```bash
+echolot reflect --list            # which sessions are there
+echolot reflect --last            # the newest one that used echolot (default)
+echolot reflect --session <id>    # a specific one
+echolot reflect --all             # every session, plus summary.md
+```
+
+Then read `.echolot/reflect/<id>.json` — the `signals` array first, then
+`hunts`, `echolot_calls`, `questions`, `entry`. The markdown is the same data
+for a human; do not re-read the transcript itself.
+
+## What to return
+
+Group the proposals by where the change lands, each with its evidence — a
+signal id and the numbers from it — and a one-line diff-sized description:
+
+```
+CLI
+  - <change>            evidence: <signal id>, <rows/numbers>
+Skill / commands / perf-hunter.md
+  - <change>            evidence: …
+Config / calibrate
+  - <change>            evidence: …
+Not actionable (noise, one-off)
+  - <signal id>: why it is noise this time
+```
+
+Rules:
+
+- **A signal is a pointer, not a verdict.** `report_sliced_by_hand` eight
+  times means "look at what the one-liners selected", not "add a flag". Say
+  what the agent was after and only then what would have served it.
+- **Separate the tool's faults from the environment's.** A hook redirect or a
+  missing python module is friction the tool may absorb, not a bug in it; say
+  which side each item is on.
+- **Prefer the smallest change that removes the signal.** One line in SKILL.md
+  beats a new subcommand when the agent merely did not know a flag existed.
+- **Do not edit anything without asking.** Show the list; the human picks.
+- **`warn` before `info`.** Protocol breaks (a config bypassed, an edit outside
+  `instrumentation.allowed`, no cleanup grep) come first — they change what the
+  conclusion of that session was worth.
+
+If several sessions were reflected (`--all`), start from `summary.md`: a signal
+that fires in most sessions is a design item; one that fired once is a note.

echolot/claude/commands/echolot-setup.md

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+---
+description: Build echolot.yml for this project — repository scan, a probe trace, four questions. /echolot routes here when there is no config.
+---
+
+Your job is to assemble `echolot.yml` in the project root.
+
+The guiding principle: **the user does not open the config**. You obtain
+everything obtainable and ask only about what exists neither in the repository
+nor in the trace. Of roughly 25 fields, two need a human decision.
+
+## The order: actions first, conversation after
+
+Do not ask anything before you have data. By the time of the first question you
+should be holding real options from a real trace, not guesses.
+
+### 1. Scan the repository
+
+- `applicationId` and `namespace` — from `build.gradle.kts`
+- the process name — from the manifest, `android:process` if present
+- `<profileable android:shell="true" />` in the manifest: **without it there
+  will be no application slices in the trace** — say so immediately
+- a module with `MacrobenchmarkRule` — if there is one, that is the future
+  `runner`
+- existing instrumentation: run `echolot domains --root .`
+- paths for `instrumentation.allowed` — sources, not `build`, not `generated`
+
+No instrumentation at all is normal and is an important fact. `echolot domains`
+prints the coverage and the modules with the most code and none of it; show
+that to the user. Then run `echolot mark`: it lists the entry points the
+first markers would go to — from the manifest and the SDK, with a source on
+each row — and says whether `androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-tracing` is
+missing. Show the list; do not apply anything during setup. The hunt applies
+it when the first report has nothing of the application's to name.
+
+### 2. A probe trace
+
+Capture a cold start with `echolot collect -c echolot.yml -n 1`, or by the
+recipe in `references/collect.md` if there is no config yet. Check that a
+device is connected (`adb devices`).
+
+### 3. Reconnaissance
+
+```bash
+echolot probe <trace> --process '<package>*'
+echolot names <trace> --process '<package>*'
+```
+
+`probe` gives processes, threads (sorted by CPU, so blind spots show at once)
+and anchor candidates. `names` shows whether the detector masks land on the
+names this device produces.
+
+### 4. Four questions
+
+Each one a choice among options pulled from a real trace. Each with a default,
+so it can be answered by pressing Enter.
+
+```
+Ran a cold start. Last slices before the first frame:
+  1) Choreographer#doFrame*        @ 772 ms
+  2) activityResume                @ 731 ms
+  3) Compose:recompose             @ 690 ms
+What counts as "the app is ready to use" for you?  [1]
+```
+
+1. **Which scenario** are we analysing (from the benchmarks found, or cold start)
+2. **What counts as the end** of the scenario — the only genuinely semantic
+   question, not derivable from the trace
+3. **The budget** — propose `baseline * 1.1`
+4. **May we write into the code** for temporary instrumentation, and where
+
+You **do not decide** — you present candidates and ask for confirmation. That
+makes it impossible to get wrong, and the decision is fixed in the config for
+good.
+
+## Provenance
+
+Every field justified by a finding:
+
+```yaml
+scenario:
+  end:
+    name: "Choreographer#doFrame*"
+    _source: confirmed_by_user
+    _evidence: "probe: first frame after bindApplication, 772 ms"
+```
+
+`_source`: `derived` — you worked it out, `confirmed_by_user` — a human
+confirmed it (untouchable), `default` — an engine default.
+
+Nothing found? Write `null` and say so out loud. A plausible invented name is
+worse than an honest gap: it will break the window silently.
+
+## Verification instead of trust
+
+After generating, do a dry run:
+
+```bash
+echolot analyze <trace> -c echolot.yml
+```
+
+Look not at the findings but at `window`:
+
+- `start_anchor.matches == 0` — the anchor missed, the config is wrong
+- the window is nearly the whole trace — the anchors did not work
+- **every detector screaming at once** — almost certainly the process or the
+  boundaries are off
+
+In any of those cases show the problem and ask again. Entering the main loop
+with a garbage config costs more than one extra question.
+
+## Thresholds
+
+Do not invent numbers. The detector defaults work, and once there are three to
+five healthy runs of one scenario:
+
+```bash
+echolot calibrate run*.perfetto-trace -c echolot.yml
+```
+
+The command prints a `detectors:` section with the reasoning attached. Show it
+to the human and explain what changed relative to the defaults.
+
+**Healthy means known-good, not merely current.** If the human came because
+something regressed, the traces you have are the regression: thresholds
+derived from them sit above the problem, and the hunt that follows reports a
+clean run. Ask before calibrating: *"Are these runs from a build you consider
+healthy? If not, I keep the defaults and calibrate later on a good build."*
+Leave the `detectors:` section out of the config until then. When the answer
+is unclear, do not calibrate — a config with defaults is honest, a config
+calibrated on the regression is a trap.
+
+Whoever hunts later can still see what the shipped numbers say without
+touching the config: `echolot analyze --defaults` (every detector, built-in
+thresholds) and `--set detector.param=value` (one threshold, one run). Both
+leave a mark in the report.

echolot/claude/settings.json

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+{
+  "permissions": {
+    "allow": [
+      "Bash(echolot:*)"
+    ]
+  }
+}

echolot/claude/skills/echolot/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: echolot
+description: The door to echolot — localise Android performance regressions from a Perfetto trace, from the metric down to a place in the code. /echolot with nothing after it reads the project's state and takes the next step (install the layer, build the config, or hunt); with an argument it does that. Use when cold start regressed, scrolling stutters, TTI grew, a benchmark dropped, or there is a .perfetto-trace to analyse. Also for questions like "why is startup slow", "where does main thread time go", "what is burning CPU".
+---
+
+# echolot
+
+A deterministic layer between the Perfetto trace and you.
+
+## The one rule
+
+**Never open the trace yourself.** No hand-rolled TraceProcessor, no ad-hoc
+SQL, no reading `.perfetto-trace`. A trace is tens of megabytes and hundreds of
+thousands of slices; everything you need, `echolot` hands you as a table of
+about twenty rows.
+
+Live proportions: an 81 MB trace with 475k slices compresses into a 14 KB
+`report.json`. Six thousand times smaller, and it takes five seconds.
+
+If the report seems to be missing data, that is not a reason to open the trace.
+It is a reason to fix the config (anchors that did not match, the wrong
+process), to add instrumentation and re-record, or to add a detector.
+
+## `/echolot` is the door
+
+When you are invoked as `/echolot`, do not guess what the human wants from
+the state of the project — ask the tool. First:
+
+```bash
+echolot            # where things stand: layer, config, traces, report, doctor — and `next`
+```
+
+Show that output to the human as it is, then act on the `next` line
+(`echolot status --next` gives it as one word):
+
+| `next` | what you do |
+|---|---|
+| `init` / `init-force` | run `echolot init` (with `--force` when it says so), show the result; then run `echolot` again and continue from its new `next` |
+| `doctor` | run `echolot doctor`, show what failed, stop — no report is trustworthy until it passes |
+| `setup` | invoke the `echolot-setup` skill (the Skill tool) — it builds `echolot.yml` |
+| `fix-config` | show the parse error, ask the human to fix `echolot.yml`, stop |
+| `hunt` | invoke the `echolot-hunt` skill — it asks what regressed and runs perf-hunter |
+
+With an argument, the argument wins over the state:
+
+- `/echolot init` — run `echolot init`. Not setup: `init` installs or
+  updates **this** layer; the config is setup's job.
+- `/echolot setup` — the `echolot-setup` skill.
+- `/echolot hunt <words>` — the `echolot-hunt` skill, with the words as what
+  regressed. `/echolot <free text>` about slowness ("why is startup slow",
+  "the list stutters since the redesign") means the same.
+- `/echolot doctor`, `/echolot status`, `/echolot analyze …` — run that
+  command, show the output.
+- `/echolot reflect` — the `echolot-reflect` skill: how the last session
+  went, what to change in the tool.
+
+`/echolot-setup`, `/echolot-hunt` and `/echolot-reflect` still exist for
+whoever knows where they are going; `/echolot` is the door for everyone else.
+
+## The order of work
+
+```bash
+echolot doctor -q               # does the environment compute correctly?
+echolot analyze <trace> -c echolot.yml
+```
+
+`analyze` writes `.echolot/out/report.json` (for you) and `report.md` (for
+humans), next to the config. Read the **json** — it has a stable schema.
+
+No config? That is `next: setup`. No idea what is in the trace?
+`echolot probe <trace> --process '<package>*'`.
+
+**Silence is relative to the thresholds.** The report's `Config:` line and
+`detectors[].params_source` say whether the numbers are the shipped defaults
+or calibrated ones. Calibrated on the runs that hold the regression means the
+bar sits above it: look with `echolot analyze … --defaults` before calling a
+run clean.
+
+## Reading the report
+
+Details live in `references/report.md`; three things here that you will get
+wrong without them.
+
+**Silent detectors matter as much as firing ones.** They stay in the report
+with empty `rows`. Silence means that ground was checked and is clean — do not
+go there.
+
+**`self_ms` versus `total_ms`.** Self time, with children subtracted, is where
+the time actually went. `traversal` with `total_ms: 354` and `self_ms: 79` does
+almost nothing itself; dig into its children. Never add `total_ms` across rows:
+they nest inside one another.
+
+**Warnings inside `window`.** If `start_anchor.matches == 0`, the window
+expanded to the whole trace and none of the numbers are about your scenario.
+Fix the config rather than hunting a problem. Same for `process_alternatives` —
+you may be analysing the wrong process.
+
+## From a finding to the code
+
+1. A firing detector gives you a `location` — a slice or thread name.
+2. The `domains` section of `echolot.yml` maps that name to a module and file.
+3. Not in `domains`? Grep the repository for the slice name: it is a string
+   literal inside `trace("...")`, survives minification, and is found exactly.
+4. Nothing found? The slice is most likely a system one (`bindApplication`,
+   `Choreographer#doFrame`, `binder transaction`). See `references/naming.md`.
+
+When `uninstrumented_cpu` fires there is no code behind the finding by
+definition: the thread burned CPU with no instrumentation. That is an address
+for adding `trace{}`, not the location of a bug.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+The tool **localises one specific regression**: you know "it was 3 s, now it is
+7 s" and need to find where. It does not search for the unknown across a pile
+of traces.
+
+Networking in benchmarks is mocked on purpose — we hunt problems in code, not
+network speed.
+
+Thresholds are tied to a device and a scenario. When either changes, run
+`echolot calibrate` on healthy runs instead of nudging numbers by hand.
+
+When the question is about the tool rather than the app — "how did that
+session go, what should change in echolot" — that is `/echolot reflect`
+(the `echolot-reflect` skill), not a hunt.
+
+## References
+
+- `references/report.md` — the `report.json` schema, all detectors, what each column means
+- `references/config.md` — the `echolot.yml` sections, what the code reads and what it does not
+- `references/naming.md` — how ART names GC, locks and binder; facts from live Android 14
+- `references/collect.md` — capturing a trace: perfetto and adb commands, verified in practice