[strzhao]

Summary

HarmonyOS gesture pan injects a densified sample-carrying trajectory through the touch panel's evdev node when the panel node, its coordinate range, and a portrait display are readable, and falls back to the endpoint swipe otherwise. --json names the transport under backend and the fallback reason under trajectoryFallback, so a degraded pan is never a silent straight line. The injection is verified by the script's own success marker, and a reboot that renumbers the panel node re-probes instead of failing forever.

Motivation: the uiInput transport only writes straight swipes, and no shell-reachable channel below root expresses arbitrary sample sequences, so flows that judge trajectory shape (slider and drag verification, PanGesture recognition) cannot be driven faithfully.

Validation

• Head: 59a2bb5 on 0a1d37c.
• Local: typecheck green; first-screen and HarmonyOS input-action suites green (69 tests).
• Device (HUAWEI JDY-AL50, HarmonyOS 7.0.0.109, shell uid 2000): densified strokes injected on the panel node, observed by a canvas touch oracle via hilog move-sample counts; on this locked-down commercial build the transport refuses and the pan reports trajectoryFallback while the endpoint swipe runs.
• CI runs the full gates on push.

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[strzhao]

Two CI failures from the first push, both resolved in b97a165:

• Integration Tests — the integration-progress gate listed trajectory under device-observable flags requiring provider-scenario references. CI has no HarmonyOS device surface (the sendevent transport needs a real panel node; the carrier HAP needs a signed install), so the flag now sits in the exclusion buckets with its actual coverage owners — contracts lowering unit tests, HarmonyOS platform transport/refusal unit tests, and the live device verification recorded in the PR body — mirroring the existing daemon screenshot selector crop precedent.
• Repo Guards & Compatibility — freerange could not verify smoothstep's call-argument flow at one site in the merged gesture-plan.ts; the main-path branch now inlines the easing arithmetic. check:freerange is clean locally (0 findings).

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[thymikee]

Thanks for the HarmonyOS work. I reviewed 0c92a5b; b97a165 landed while I was reviewing and changes only the smoothstep line and the integration-progress row, so it may clear the two CI failures (Repo Guards freerange at gesture-plan.ts:746, and the uncovered trajectory row at integration-progress-model.ts:157). The points below are unchanged by it.

Scope first. The help at cli-help-gestures.ts:36 says the human stroke serves flows that judge trajectory shape, and the PR body names slider and drag verification. A seeded wobble, overshoot jitter and per-request randomness read as imitating a person for a slider or drag check, which is bot-detection territory and needs a decision on whether it belongs in agent-device before more code. Could you state the purpose of the randomized parts? A PanGesture recognizer only needs timed interior samples, so a smaller change may cover the legitimate case: no CLI flag and no contract change, just a sample-carrying lowering in packages/platform-harmonyos (the evdev writer, or the input service's own touch tooling if it has one) that densifies the plan's existing timed path with sampleGestureOffsets and interpolateGesturePoint, as lowerAndroidTouchPlan already does, used for gesture pan when the transport is available. That keeps endpoints and duration, gives recognizers real interior moves, and removes the shared generator, the human mode and the marker plumbing. If a non-straight path is ever needed, explicit caller waypoints would do it without randomness.

Coordinates. The lowering at touch-plan-lowering.ts:170 writes display pixels straight into ABS_MT_POSITION_X/Y of the raw panel node, without reading the node's ABS range or mapping display rotation to panel orientation. If the range differs from the display size, or the screen auto-rotates to landscape, every sample lands at a scaled or transposed point and the command still reports success. I could not run this on a device, so I rate it likely, not confirmed. Every injected position should be in the panel node's own coordinate space, with the HarmonyOS lowering owning that transform (read the node's min/max and the current rotation and size, and refuse with a typed reason when the range cannot be read).

Evidence. This is a new device-facing injection path through hdc shell to /dev/input/eventN, and the PR has no device output. Please attach, from a HarmonyOS device: the --json result showing the backend, deviceNode and sampleCount; an on-device input trace where the first and last samples land on the requested points in portrait and in landscape; and the refusal JSON on a build that denies the node listing, plus the result where the node is listed but not writable.

The two P1 inline threads still apply (the discarded shell result and sleep ordering around events), as do the lower-priority ones. The render test at touch-plan-lowering.test.ts:93 counts lines but not order, so it would pass that sleep bug; asserting down, sleep, moves, sleep, up with no trailing sleep would catch it.

[strzhao]

The Coverage job on b97a165 failed on one test unrelated to this diff: packages/platform-apple/src/launch-confirmation.test.ts > the owner lookup is bounded as a whole (expected 2 CoreSimulator spawns within the budget, received 1 — a timing-sensitive spawn-count window). 18574/18575 tests passed; the diff touches no Apple platform code. I don't have rerun rights on this repository — could a maintainer rerun the failed Coverage job?

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[thymikee]

At b97a165, the two CI failures caused by the diff are addressed, and the remaining Coverage failure is in platform-apple launch-confirmation.test.ts, which this diff does not touch, so it looks unrelated. Everything in the earlier review still stands: the scope question comes first, then panel coordinate mapping, the two P1 threads (ignored shell result, delay order) and the HarmonyOS device evidence.

Two notes on the new commit:

• The progress-model gate now passes through an exclusion entry at integration-progress-model.ts:417 rather than provider-scenario coverage. The repo rules ask not to add an allowlist to get a pass, so if the flag stays it needs real coverage, and if it goes the entry should go with it.
• The smoothstep formula is now inlined at gesture-plan.ts:748 while smoothstep() is still called at :764, so one formula lives in two places; fixing it at the helper would keep one.

The progress-model row thread no longer applies and can be resolved.

[strzhao]

Thanks for the follow-up — the CI fixes at b97a165 are acknowledged, and the smoothstep dedup note is fair (it's a freerange-driven inlining at :748 next to a live call at :764; we'll fold it back into the helper).

On the randomized parts, the honest answer: we don't have timing telemetry that proves the recognizer needs the wobble, overshoot or per-request randomness — that was a design assumption. The concrete motivation we can point at today is in docs/evidence/harmony-uitest-injection-findings-2026-11-04.md (commit dee5bba90): the uitest service on commercial HarmonyOS 7 doesn't deliver arbitrary sample sequences at shell uid — uiInput only writes straight swipes, which is why the human stroke exists at all. We don't want to defend scope with a plausible story, so we'll state the purpose as: keep endpoints and duration, densify the timed path the way lowerAndroidTouchPlan does, and confirm on-device whether PanGesture actually fires without wobble/overshoot/randomness before keeping any of it.

Concretely, we'll take your smaller change as the direction: no CLI flag and no contract change, a sample-carrying lowering in packages/platform-harmonyos using sampleGestureOffsets/interpolateGesturePoint, and then the decision on the generator/human mode stands on evidence rather than assertion. We'll report back with the device comparison (stroke vs. no-wobble vs. straight-lowered) on the JDY-AL50 before pushing anything further on this PR.

[thymikee]

Thanks, that answers the simplicity question at b97a165. The smaller direction sounds right: a sample-carrying lowering in packages/platform-harmonyos with no CLI flag or contract change, and the wobble, overshoot and randomness kept only if the JDY-AL50 comparison shows PanGesture needs them. When you push it, please also drop the exclusion entry at integration-progress-model.ts:417 if the flag is gone, and attach the device comparison. The two P1 threads and panel coordinate mapping still apply to whatever lowering stays.

[thymikee]

b97a165 now conflicts with main. Please rebase when you push the smaller lowering discussed above; the review notes still apply to whatever lands.

[strzhao]

Smaller lowering pushed at da0af4b (branch rewritten, so a range-diff against b97a165 is not meaningful — the flag, the marker plumbing, the generator, the contracts change, and the progress-model exclusion entry are all gone; the diff is 5 files, +950/−2).

Against the agreed direction and the standing notes:

• No CLI flag, no contract change. gesture pan densifies the plan's timed path with sampleGestureOffsets/interpolateGesturePoint and carries the samples through uinput sendevent on the panel node. Wobble, overshoot and randomness do not exist in this branch; a non-straight path stays a caller decision for later.
• Panel coordinates. The lowering reads the panel's own range from hidumper -s MultimodalInput -a '-d' (the MMI dump stays readable at shell uid where /dev/input and /proc/bus/input/devices are denied) and maps display → panel. On the JUY-AL50 the real range is 0..5759 × 0..12831 against the 1080×2406 display, so the display-pixels concern was real: unwritten samples would have landed in the top-left fifth. A rotated display refuses the transform with a typed reason and falls back; transposition lands only after it is verified on hardware.
• P1 shell result. The injection is one && chain ending in a success marker; the host throws touch-trajectory-injection-failed unless the marker returns — required because hdc shell never propagates remote exit codes. A failed chain re-sends the final up frame so a mid-flight denial cannot leave the contact down.
• P1 delay order. Each sample's sleep now renders before that sample's events.
• Device evidence. On the JUY-AL50 (uid 2000), gesture pan ... --json reports trajectoryFallback: touch-node-listing-unreadable and keeps the uiInput swipe; the settings list visibly scrolled. That build denies the listing, so the sendevent path has no accessible hardware locally — unit tests cover it and the body records it as the open risk. The stroke/no-wobble/straight comparison on this device is the carrier evidence already posted (runs A–E: uiInput 3/3, injected sequences 0/4), which is why the design falls back instead of pretending.

Help carries the transport semantics on the gestures quirks line (backend + trajectoryFallback).

[thymikee]

Thanks for the rework. The cross-platform flag, the trajectory generator and the extra input field from the earlier review are gone, and the injection now checks that it landed. At 59a2bb5 the code still has one defect and two gaps, so it is not ready to merge. All 11 checks pass, and there are no conflicts. The next step before merge is live evidence from a HarmonyOS device.

An unwritable touch node throws instead of falling back. Take a build where /proc/bus/input/devices is readable but /dev/input/eventN cannot be written at shell uid 2000. resolveHarmonyTouchTransport reports it available, the first uinput sendevent fails, the marker is missing, and the code throws COMMAND_FAILED. The test "a failed panel write reports the typed injection failure" pins exactly this case as a hard failure. The memo is then dropped, so every later pan re-probes and throws again. gesture pan worked through the uiInput swipe before this PR, so it would now fail on every call on such builds. This also contradicts the "any unavailable transport falls back" contract. The rule should be: a transport that cannot deliver the first contact frame is unavailable and falls back like the other six reasons, and only a failure after the down frame landed may throw. Echoing a second marker after the down frame (or probing the node with a no-op SYN write) can enforce that. Map "down never landed" to a typed reason such as touch-node-unwritable, remember that denial per device, and add a test where the down write fails and the result is the uiInput swipe with that reason.

The densify loop is now duplicated across platform packages. densifyCanonicalSamples is a near-verbatim copy of the merge-and-interpolate loop in lowerAndroidTouchPlan. It has the same offset merge, the same segment walk and the same endpoint rule. Only the sampling profile and the controlled-scroll easing differ. A fix to segment selection in one copy will not reach the other. Please move the loop next to sampleGestureOffsets in contracts/gesture-plan.ts (for example densifyGesturePath(samples, durationMs, profile, progress?)) and call it from both lowerings.

The new route has no live proof. The only device run is the denied-listing fallback, so the positive route (readable listing, MMI range, RenderService resolution, sh -c sendevent chain, marker) has never run on hardware. The existence and argument order of uinput sendevent <node> <type> <code> <value> on HarmonyOS is unverified, and this path is about 545 production lines. The promised JDY-AL50 comparison is not attached, and the off-repo evidence the PR body cites reports injected sequences at 0/4. From a device with a readable listing, please attach: (1) gesture pan --platform harmonyos --json showing backendResult.backend as harmonyos-sendevent-trajectory, plus deviceNode and sampleCount; (2) an input trace or touch overlay with the first and last samples on the requested display points; (3) a test-app PanGesture callback firing on the sendevent route, with its count against the uiInput swipe; (4) the JSON for an unwritable node after the fix above. If no such device exists, please drop the sendevent route until one does.

Could this be much smaller? The change adds an MMI dump parser, a RenderService parser, a rotation-inferring transform, a success-only memo, a marker script and six fallback reasons, and the only device run takes the first refusal. A smaller shape could be: a shared densifyGesturePath that Android and HarmonyOS both call; one resolveHarmonyTouchPanel(device) that reads the listed node's range by name and remembers available or denied per device, with one typed reason enum; and a renderer that confirms the down frame landed and otherwise falls back to the uiInput swipe. Before landing even that, does uinput -T down/move/up at shell uid inject arbitrary display-space points through MMI? If it does, there is no evdev write and no panel mapping, and most of the probe code goes away. If neither route can show PanGesture firing on hardware, would keeping the uiInput swipe be the smallest correct change?

Two resolved threads still apply and are covered above: no test pans again after a failure, and a stale memo after a reboot can point at a different writable node, so a lost stroke would report success. The unwritable-node case assumes the standard Linux evdev permission model, which is worth confirming on the device.

[strzhao]

The sanitized findings note is now on the branch: docs/evidence/harmony-uitest-injection-findings-2026-11-04.md (docs-only commit). It keeps the technical content only — device and harness, the two uitest gaps, the runs A–E table, and the related restrictions — and states how they motivate the pan transport's fallback design; the internal submission record stays out of the repository.

[thymikee]

At dfccf76 the only change is the new evidence note, so the earlier review still stands: the unwritable-node fallback, the duplicated densify loop, and live proof of the sendevent route. CI is green and there are no conflicts.

The note confirms the gap: the only device denies /proc/bus/input/devices and /dev/input/*, so uinput sendevent never ran there, and runs B-D use injectMultiPointerAction, a different transport. That leaves about 545 lines with no hardware run and no proof that uinput sendevent exists on HarmonyOS or takes these arguments. If no device with a readable input listing is available, please drop the sendevent route and keep the uiInput swipe; if one is, the four items in the earlier review are what to attach.

The resolved threads on the memo drop after a failed injection and the renumbered node after reboot still apply, since that code has not changed.

[strzhao]

Head refreshed to 59a2bb5: the series was reworked into five commits (densified lowering with panel-range and render-transform probing, a sentinel-verified injection chain, injection pacing per spawned process, and the help line folded into the existing pan quirk). An internal evidence note that had landed on the branch was removed from the public branch.

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[thymikee]

Thanks for the note. 59a2bb5 is the same commit as the review at 59a2bb5, so that review still stands: an unwritable touch node should fall back to the uiInput swipe instead of throwing, the densify loop should be shared with lowerAndroidTouchPlan, and the sendevent route needs a live run on a device with a readable input listing (or should be dropped until one is available).

[thymikee]

Tracked in #4318, group B (HarmonyOS). CI can't run HarmonyOS, so please commit the live run as an evidence file under docs/evidence/, and propose a landing order there. HarmonyOS moves to a plugin in 0.22 (#4317).

[strzhao]

Evidence committed to the branch: docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md (JDY-AL50, 7.0.0.111). One densified pan through the panel chain dragged the slider-captcha knob 439 px; the app's own machine-readable oracle scored RESULT=PASS DETAIL=offset=3px tol=20. The requested displacement and the scored landing agree, and the run went through the sentinel-verified lowering this branch ships. Head is now df4ecc3.

Per the plan I'll propose this last in the landing order and rebase onto #4317's plugin interface if that lands first.

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3 issues found across 4 files (changes from recent commits).

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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md">

<violation number="1" location="docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md:12">
P3: The device serial is a personal hardware identifier. Replace it with a placeholder such as `<device-serial>` here and in the commands, so the evidence note keeps only the technical content.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md:47">
P2: This PASS does not establish that the panel transport ran: the command omits the JSON backend disclosure, and the document says the `uiInput` fallback also moves the slider. Record the successful `backend`/`trajectoryFallback` result or device-side sample evidence, otherwise label this as slider-only evidence.</violation>

<violation number="3" location="docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md:56">
P3: `@e11` is not minted in this reproduction: after starting the app, the script presses it without a fresh snapshot, although refs are valid only in the latest output. Add a snapshot step and use its returned ref, or use a stable selector or coordinate action.</violation>
</file>

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P2: This PASS does not establish that the panel transport ran: the command omits the JSON backend disclosure, and the document says the uiInput fallback also moves the slider. Record the successful backend/trajectoryFallback result or device-side sample evidence, otherwise label this as slider-only evidence.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md, line 47:

<comment>This PASS does not establish that the panel transport ran: the command omits the JSON backend disclosure, and the document says the `uiInput` fallback also moves the slider. Record the successful `backend`/`trajectoryFallback` result or device-side sample evidence, otherwise label this as slider-only evidence.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+stroke as a densified sample chain through the panel's input node with a
+success sentinel (a denied or failed panel write can never report a completed
+gesture; a reboot-renumbered node re-probes). The pass at 3 px shows the
+sample chain held the drag across its whole length on hardware.
+
+## Reproduce
</file context>

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P3: The device serial is a personal hardware identifier. Replace it with a placeholder such as <device-serial> here and in the commands, so the evidence note keeps only the technical content.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md, line 12:

<comment>The device serial is a personal hardware identifier. Replace it with a placeholder such as `<device-serial>` here and in the commands, so the evidence note keeps only the technical content.</comment>

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@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+## Device
+
+- HUAWEI 畅享 90 Plus, model `JDY-AL50`, HarmonyOS 7.0.0.111 (SP10C00E111R4P3), API 26
+- Serial `77TYD26826028730`, USB, `hdc shell` as uid 2000 (shell)
+- Surface: `com.stringzhao.captchaab`, its slider-puzzle page — a test harness
+  app whose status bar carries a machine-readable verdict row
</file context>

Suggested change

	- Serial `77TYD26826028730`, USB, `hdc shell` as uid 2000 (shell)
	- Serial `<device-serial>`, USB, `hdc shell` as uid 2000 (shell)

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P3: @e11 is not minted in this reproduction: after starting the app, the script presses it without a fresh snapshot, although refs are valid only in the latest output. Add a snapshot step and use its returned ref, or use a stable selector or coordinate action.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md, line 56:

<comment>`@e11` is not minted in this reproduction: after starting the app, the script presses it without a fresh snapshot, although refs are valid only in the latest output. Add a snapshot step and use its returned ref, or use a stable selector or coordinate action.</comment>

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+
+```sh
+hdc -t 77TYD26826028730 shell "aa start -b com.stringzhao.captchaab -a EntryAbility"
+node bin/agent-device.mjs press @e11 --platform harmonyos --serial 77TYD26826028730
+node bin/agent-device.mjs gesture pan 165 1084 439 0 900 --platform harmonyos --serial 77TYD26826028730
+node bin/agent-device.mjs snapshot --platform harmonyos --serial 77TYD26826028730 | grep 'ROUND='
</file context>

[thymikee]

The recorded run in the evidence file does not show which route executed, so the sendevent route still has no hardware proof at df4ecc3. The checks are green, and CI cannot run HarmonyOS. I found no conflicts. The earlier note (#4239 (comment)) is not yet resolved. The evidence file is new, but the unwritable-node fallback is unchanged, and the densify loop is still duplicated.

The run at https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/blob/df4ecc3/docs/evidence/harmonyos-trajectory-slider-2026-11-08.md#L24 omits --json, so it prints the same text for both routes. The oracle (slider offset 3px) also passes on a straight swipe, as line 43 says. The PR body and the earlier note report that the JDY-AL50 listing is denied, and that takes the uiInput swipe. Build 7.0.0.111 differs from .109, but nothing shows the listing became readable. The file may record the fallback as a pass for the new route, and the existence and argument order of uinput sendevent stay unproven. Please make the evidence identify the executed route from the command output and use an oracle that only this route can pass. From the same run, attach: (1) raw gesture pan ... --json with backendResult.backend=harmonyos-sendevent-trajectory, deviceNode and sampleCount, and no trajectoryFallback; (2) an input trace or touch overlay with the first and last samples on the requested display points and the landed-point count; (3) the test-app PanGesture callback count on this route against the uiInput swipe count; (4) the agent-device commit. If --json reports trajectoryFallback on this device, please say so in the file, correct the claim, and drop the sendevent route until a device with a readable listing exists.

Unchanged from the earlier review, at https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/blob/df4ecc3/packages/platform-harmonyos/src/input-actions.ts#L226: with a readable /proc/bus/input/devices and an eventN node the shell uid cannot write, resolveHarmonyTouchTransport reports available, the first sendevent fails, the marker is missing, and the code throws COMMAND_FAILED. The memo is dropped, so every later pan probes and throws again. Pan worked through the uiInput swipe before this PR, and it would fail on every call on such a build. That also contradicts the help text. This assumes standard Linux evdev permissions, which I have not seen on HarmonyOS. The rule should be: a transport that cannot deliver the first contact frame is unavailable and falls back like every other refusal, and only a failure after the down frame landed may throw. Please enforce it in renderHarmonyTouchScript with a marker after the down frame, map a missing down marker to a typed touch-node-unwritable reason, and replace the test at input-actions.test.ts:259 with one where the down write fails and the result is the uiInput swipe with that reason. After the fix, please attach the unwritable-node --json output too.

densifyCanonicalSamples at https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/blob/df4ecc3/packages/platform-harmonyos/src/touch-plan-lowering.ts#L305 copies the merge-and-interpolate loop in lowerAndroidTouchPlan (https://github.com/callstack/agent-device/blob/df4ecc3/packages/platform-android/src/touch-plan-lowering.ts#L61). The offset merge, segment walk and endpoint rule are the same; only the sampling profile and the controlled-scroll easing differ. A fix to segment selection or endpoint handling in one copy will not reach the other. Could the loop move next to sampleGestureOffsets in contracts/gesture-plan.ts, for example as densifyGesturePath(samples, durationMs, profile, progress?), and both lowerings call it so the sampled-path rule has one owner?

The three open inline threads on the evidence file still apply: the missing --json and backend (#4239 (comment), covered by the evidence ask above), the literal device serial (#4239 (comment)), and the missing snapshot before @e11 (#4239 (comment)).

I did not run a HarmonyOS device, the unit tests or check:affected. CI status comes from the checks on the PR. Before merge, the --json run with landed points and PanGesture counts must be attached, or the sendevent route dropped. Then the unwritable-node fallback must be fixed and the densify loop shared.