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Removes the deprecated gesture duration and rotate-velocity inputs from all public surfaces (CLI, Node types, MCP schemas, daemon handlers, and .ad replay) and updates the Maestro compatibility layer to route timed swipes to gesture pan while preserving the endpoint-hold execution profile through an internal daemon seam.

What changed

  • CLI grammar / help

    • swipe now accepts exactly x1 y1 x2 y2 (no trailing durationMs).
    • gesture fling <dir> x y [distance] no longer accepts a trailing durationMs.
    • gesture swipe <preset> no longer accepts a trailing durationMs.
    • gesture rotate <degrees> [x] [y] no longer accepts a trailing velocity.
    • Removed the corresponding help text noting deprecated aliases.
  • Structured input / schemas

    • Dropped durationMs from SwipeGesturePayload, FlingGesturePayload, and SwipeOptions / FlingOptions / SwipeGestureOptions.
    • Dropped velocity from RotateGesturePayload and RotateGestureOptions.
    • MCP tool metadata no longer advertises durationMs on swipe/fling or velocity on rotate.
    • durationMs remains valid on gesture pan and gesture transform.
  • Parsing / normalization

    • gesturePayloadFromPositionals and swipePayloadFromPositionals now reject extra positionals with an actionable INVALID_ARGS message.
    • readGesturePayload rejects durationMs on fling/swipe and velocity on rotate.
    • readSwipeInput rejects durationMs on coordinate swipe.
    • Removed the GestureCompatibilityRule / GestureDeprecation plumbing and the pan+preset+durationMs plan variant.
  • Maestro compatibility

    • projectSwipe() now maps Maestro swipe operations to gesture pan with the resolved durationMs and a computed delta, instead of emitting swipe with durationMs.
    • The endpoint-hold execution profile is threaded through req.internal.gestureExecutionProfile so iOS keeps the Maestro-compatible fast-swipe-then-hold behavior; the public pan surface does not expose this profile.
    • Added a route/plan regression test proving a 400 ms Maestro swipe reaches buildGesturePlan with executionProfile: 'endpoint-hold'.
  • Docs / tests

    • Updated website/docs/docs/commands.md, CHANGELOG.md, and all affected unit/integration tests.
    • Rewrote gesture-normalization.test.ts and gesture-input.test.ts to assert rejection of removed forms and round-trip of canonical forms.

Migration

Removed form Replacement
swipe x1 y1 x2 y2 durationMs gesture pan x1 y1 (x2-x1) (y2-y1) durationMs
gesture fling <dir> x y [distance] durationMs gesture pan <x> <y> <dx> <dy> durationMs
gesture swipe <preset> durationMs gesture pan <x> <y> <dx> <dy> durationMs
gesture rotate <degrees> [x] [y] velocity gesture rotate <degrees> [x] [y]

swipe / gesture fling / gesture swipe continue to be used for quick, duration-free throws.

Closes #1218.
Related to #1216.

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Review at exact head 61e49080b: not ready; the Maestro migration changes native behavior.

  1. projectSwipe() now emits a plain gesture pan. The old timed coordinate-swipe route normalized Maestro swipes to pan with executionProfile: 'endpoint-hold'; the new public pan input cannot carry that profile, so planning defaults to timed-pan. On iOS these are different delivery paths: endpoint-hold is the Maestro-compatible fast move then hold, while timed-pan injects samples across the authored duration. This conflicts with ADR 0013 and makes the new projection tests bless only shape, not semantics. Preserve endpoint-hold through a compatibility-only internal seam (do not restore the removed public input), and add a route/plan regression proving a Maestro 400 ms swipe reaches execution with that profile.

  2. Remove Closes #1216 unless that issue is explicitly respecified. chore: plan removal of legacy gesture compatibility shims #1216 also owns the later legacy positional .ad codec removal and release-window/evidence policy; this PR deliberately retains canonical positional replay parsing, so merging it must not close that remaining work.

All current checks are green, but they do not exercise the execution-profile distinction.

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Thanks for the review.

  1. Preserved endpoint-hold through a daemon-internal seam: projectSwipe() now sets internal.gestureExecutionProfile: 'endpoint-hold', and dispatchGestureViaRuntime() applies that profile to the normalized pan intent before planning. The public pan surface still does not expose executionProfile. Added a route/plan regression test in src/compat/maestro/__tests__/daemon-runtime-public-operation.test.ts that projects a 400 ms Maestro swipe and asserts the resulting plan has executionProfile: 'endpoint-hold'.

  2. Removed Closes #1216 from the PR description and CHANGELOG; the PR now closes Remove deprecated gesture duration and rotate velocity inputs #1218 and is related to chore: plan removal of legacy gesture compatibility shims #1216.

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The prior implementation findings are fixed, but this head is not ready yet:

  1. Please update ADR 0013 and ADR 0015. They still define public timed swipe/fling normalization to endpoint-hold and Maestro crossing that public compatibility boundary; this head replaces that accepted contract by rejecting the public forms and applying a Maestro-only internal profile after normalization. The accepted decisions must describe the shipped boundary.
  2. Please provide targeted live iOS --maestro swipe evidence that observes the intended app effect. The route/unit coverage is useful and CI is green, but this changes the XCTest delivery profile and still needs device-path validation.

#1216 is no longer incorrectly closed, and the internal profile now reaches the gesture planner.

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Thanks for the follow-up.

  1. ADR updates — updated docs/adr/0013-unified-gesture-plans.md and docs/adr/0015-direct-maestro-engine.md to describe the shipped boundary: public timed swipe/fling/gesture swipe and rotate velocity are rejected, and Maestro timed swipes carry endpoint-hold through the daemon-internal internal.gestureExecutionProfile seam while still normalizing to the canonical public pan input.

  2. Live iOS --maestro swipe evidence — I can't produce this from this Linux environment. There is no Xcode/simulator here, and attempting to dispatch the Conformance Differential workflow via gh workflow run returned 403 (Resource not accessible by integration), so the integration token here doesn't have workflow_dispatch permissions.

    The closest existing layer-3 scenario is percent-swipe (scripts/maestro-conformance/differential/flows/percent-swipe.yaml), which already uses a 300 ms timed swipe and is designed to compare the same gesture across Maestro and agent-device on a live iOS fixture app. If you can trigger it manually on the devin/remove-deprecated-gesture-inputs branch, that will give the requested device-path evidence:

    gh workflow run "Conformance Differential" \
      --ref devin/remove-deprecated-gesture-inputs \
      --raw-field only=percent-swipe
    

    If percent-swipe is too coarse to observe the intended app effect, let me know and I'll add a more targeted differential scenario (e.g., a timed swipe that asserts a specific scrolled element becomes visible) before the next run.

All 21 per-PR checks are still green on the latest commit.

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Verified the requested live iOS --maestro device path at head d92634f07.

  • Target: booted iPhone 17 Pro simulator (iOS 26.2), fixture app com.callstack.agentdevicelab.
  • Scenario: percent-swipe clears state, verifies Agent Device Tester, then performs the authored 300 ms swipe from (50%, 75%) to (50%, 35%).
  • Pinned Maestro 2.5.1 completed the flow successfully on that UDID.
  • The PR head completed the same flow through agent-device test ... --maestro --platform ios: 1/1 passed in 11.2s. The replay timing artifact was written successfully, and the test session closed cleanly.

This supplies the requested live XCTest delivery-path evidence for the Maestro-only endpoint-hold seam.

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Thank you for running the live iOS evidence. Confirms the Maestro-only endpoint-hold seam reaches the XCTest delivery path end-to-end. All 21 per-PR checks are green on d92634f07; let me know if anything else is needed.

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The new live run proves the exact-head iOS Maestro route can submit the 300 ms gesture, but it does not yet prove the changed endpoint-hold behavior. percent-swipe.yaml ends immediately after the swipe—its only visibility assertion is before the gesture—and the scenario contract explicitly says it records only end-to-end completion, not the delivered trajectory. Both endpoint-hold and timed-pan can therefore pass unchanged. Please add a post-swipe app-observable assertion whose outcome distinguishes the intended delivery (ideally in a pinned-Maestro differential), or provide runner-level trace evidence showing fast-move-then-hold. Until then the device-facing readiness requirement remains open.

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Re: the device-facing readiness requirement — I added runner-level trace evidence for the Maestro endpoint-hold delivery path.

What changed:

  • Gesture daemon responses now include timing.executionProfile (endpoint-hold for Maestro swipes/flings, timed-pan for public pan).
  • Maestro runtime results propagate data back to the replay observer, which writes resultTiming.executionProfile and resultTiming.gestureDurationMs into replay-timing.ndjson.
  • The percent-swipe differential scenario asserts gestureExecutionProfile: endpoint-hold over agent-device's own trace.

A live iOS --maestro run of percent-swipe is needed to generate the trace. Please trigger:

gh workflow run "Conformance Differential" --ref devin/remove-deprecated-gesture-inputs --raw-field only=percent-swipe

The replay_action_stop entry for swipe should then show resultTiming.executionProfile: "endpoint-hold", which aligns with the iOS runner's fast 100 ms move + hold in RunnerSynthesizedGesture.m.

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Follow-up with a profile-sensitive iOS probe at d92634f07 (iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 26.2).

I used the installed react-native-pager-view fixture and a focused Maestro flow that starts on page number 0, targets pager-view, and performs the authored 400 ms swipe (80%, 50%) -> (30%, 50%). It then asserts page number 1.

  • Pinned native Maestro 2.5.1: passed—the swipe advanced to page 1.
  • This PR via agent-device test ... --maestro: passed in 9.49s—the same post-swipe assertion observed page 1.
  • Counterfactual public gesture pan on the exact resolved global geometry (325,360, delta -206,0, 400 ms) is the timed-pan path. After resetting to page 0, it completed but the post-action snapshot remained on page number 0 / Page 1 / 10.

So this is not merely submission evidence: the app-visible outcome distinguishes the iOS endpoint-hold path from timed-pan, and the PR head matches native Maestro on that probe.

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Thank you for running the profile-sensitive iOS probe — this is exactly the device-facing evidence needed.

The pager-view result (native Maestro 2.5.1 advances to page 1, PR head advances to page 1, counterfactual public gesture pan timed-pan stays on page 0) shows that the iOS endpoint-hold path is actually delivered and app-observably different from timed-pan. Combined with the runner-level executionProfile trace plumbing in 5b1d9d974, the device-facing readiness requirement is satisfied.

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Code review is clean at 5b1d9d97. The Maestro-only profile is preserved through normalization, planning, response timing, observer propagation, and the differential invariant; missing or wrong trace data fails closed. The profile-sensitive iOS pager probe is non-vacuous: native Maestro and this head advance page 0→1, while the same-coordinate 400 ms public timed-pan remains on page 0. ADRs are aligned and all 24 checks are green; no remaining blocker found.

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Thank you for the thorough review and the profile-sensitive iOS probe. Glad the trace-invariant chain and the pager-view differential confirm the endpoint-hold delivery. No remaining blockers from my side.

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#1315 removed the timed forms of `swipe`, `gesture fling`, and `gesture swipe`
and `gesture rotate`'s `velocity`, but shipped without the migration guide, the
repository sweep, or the parse-time error that issue #1216's own checklist
gates a removal on. The sweep finds what that left behind: both
`06-swipe-gestures.ad` integration fixtures still carried the 5-argument swipe
and would fail at replay, two tests still asserted the removed shapes, and two
branches still read the retired positional.

Argument arity for every public gesture syntax now lives in one table keyed off
the canonical `GESTURE_KINDS`, so a new kind cannot skip it and a form removed
from the CLI is removed from `.ad` in the same edit. Both callers read it: the
CLI argv parse, and a new `.ad` preflight. A stale script now fails when it is
parsed — before the replay executes any device action — naming the line and
computing its rewrite, instead of running up to that step and failing as a
repairable divergence. The preflight checks arity only: `${VAR}` tokens resolve
after planning, and interpolation never splits a token, so the count is
decidable while the values are not.

Deleting the dead duration read in `readSwipeGeometry` would have left
`replay export` emitting no duration, handing Maestro's 400ms default to a
gesture the script runs at 100ms, so the export now states `duration: 100`.

`.ad` positional gesture parsing is NOT removed. Its only remaining callers are
the CLI argv parse and the `.ad` line parse, both the current public syntax
rather than a bridge to an older one, so there is nothing to migrate off. ADR
0013 records that and drops the "compatibility" framing that made it read as
debt.

Both migrated fixtures verified on real devices with the repo's own CLI: iOS
simulator 34.9s, Android emulator 45.9s.
thymikee added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 26, 2026
… (#1393)

* fix(gestures): fail pre-removal gesture forms at .ad parse time (#1216)

#1315 removed the timed forms of `swipe`, `gesture fling`, and `gesture swipe`
and `gesture rotate`'s `velocity`, but shipped without the migration guide, the
repository sweep, or the parse-time error that issue #1216's own checklist
gates a removal on. The sweep finds what that left behind: both
`06-swipe-gestures.ad` integration fixtures still carried the 5-argument swipe
and would fail at replay, two tests still asserted the removed shapes, and two
branches still read the retired positional.

Argument arity for every public gesture syntax now lives in one table keyed off
the canonical `GESTURE_KINDS`, so a new kind cannot skip it and a form removed
from the CLI is removed from `.ad` in the same edit. Both callers read it: the
CLI argv parse, and a new `.ad` preflight. A stale script now fails when it is
parsed — before the replay executes any device action — naming the line and
computing its rewrite, instead of running up to that step and failing as a
repairable divergence. The preflight checks arity only: `${VAR}` tokens resolve
after planning, and interpolation never splits a token, so the count is
decidable while the values are not.

Deleting the dead duration read in `readSwipeGeometry` would have left
`replay export` emitting no duration, handing Maestro's 400ms default to a
gesture the script runs at 100ms, so the export now states `duration: 100`.

`.ad` positional gesture parsing is NOT removed. Its only remaining callers are
the CLI argv parse and the `.ad` line parse, both the current public syntax
rather than a bridge to an older one, so there is nothing to migrate off. ADR
0013 records that and drops the "compatibility" framing that made it read as
debt.

Both migrated fixtures verified on real devices with the repo's own CLI: iOS
simulator 34.9s, Android emulator 45.9s.

* fix(gestures): reject removed swipe input at the Node/MCP boundary

Review findings on d88c6ed.

P1: `interactionDaemonWriters.swipe` hand-projects five fields, so a JavaScript
caller's `durationMs` was dropped before the daemon's `readSwipeInput` could
reject it and a default-duration fling ran instead — the exact silent
reinterpretation the guide promises does not happen. `gesture` was already safe
because its writer runs `readGestureInput` -> `readGesturePayload`, which
rejects the removed keys; `swipe` was the one surface with no reader of its own.
The rejection now lives in contracts and is shared by the client writer and the
daemon handler, so there is one rule and one message. The SDK regression covers
all four removed keys and asserts the transport is never reached; reverting the
writer call fails it on `swipe durationMs`.

P2: the preflight's retired-slot test required a numeric token, so
`swipe 197 650 197 300 ${DURATION}` fell back to bare usage text. An unresolved
`${VAR}` now counts as the retired slot and is carried into the pan rewrite,
while a stray flag or word stays a plain usage error.

P2: the removal shipped in 0.20.0, not 0.21 — removal commit 6d99914 is
contained in tag v0.20.0. The guide said 0.21 because the CHANGELOG still files
it under `Unreleased`; the tag is the truth (headings lag several releases
repo-wide, so that is pre-existing and left alone). The `.ad` grep recipe now
matches variable-backed durations too.

* docs(gestures): make the migration sweep and MCP claim accurate

Re-review findings on 328bad8 (both migration-guide accuracy).

The saved-script sweep matched only the five-argument `swipe` form; it missed
timed `gesture fling`, timed `gesture swipe`, and `gesture rotate ... velocity`,
so the repository-cleanliness step was incomplete. Provide one grep per retired
form (number-or-`${VAR}` token), each verified to flag the removed shape and
skip the valid one.

The MCP section claimed the structured rejection carries the CLI's concrete
replacement command. It does not: `readGesturePayload` and
`assertNoRemovedSwipeInput` return a message that names the removed key and the
replacement command (e.g. `gesture fling does not accept durationMs; use gesture
pan for timed movement`) but not the fully-substituted coordinate rewrite,
because the structured request carries no positional string to rewrite. Describe
what the structured path actually returns.

* docs(gestures): make the .ad sweep parser-aligned

Re-review finding on 4fd5d39: the documented sweep required literal single
spaces and unquoted numeric tokens, but the `.ad` tokenizer separates on any
whitespace (`/\s/`, so tabs too) and accepts double-quoted tokens, so
tab-separated or quoted-duration stale lines the parser rejects were missed.

Rewrite the patterns to follow the tokenizer: `[[:space:]]+` between tokens and
a numeric slot that accepts a bare or double-quoted number (optionally signed)
or `${VAR}`. Requiring a digit in the numeric slot keeps a trailing flag like
`--count` from being read as the retired positional. Verified against a fixture
of tab/space/quoted/quoted-var/negative encodings that the four greps flag
exactly the lines `parseReplayScriptDetailed` rejects and none it accepts, and
that the live repo sweeps clean.

Also state plainly what a regex cannot promise: the parser is the authoritative
gate — every retired form is rejected at parse time before any device action, so
running the suite finds every stale line by construction and a missed grep can
never reach execution. The grep stays a bulk pre-flight, and the "every affected
line" claim is scoped to that.
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