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Auto-enhance → Automatic zooms only looked at where the pointer rests: detectZoomDwellCandidates turned still stretches into zoom candidates and ignored clicks entirely, so a click made while the pointer was still moving produced no zoom at all.

This makes the detector place suggestions on recorded clicks as well:

  • click, double-click, right-click and middle-click samples become zoom candidates anchored on the click sample's own time and position, even when the pointer never dwells.
  • Clicks are honoured before the dwells: only a click that the spacing and existing-region rules ACCEPT folds the dwells within SUGGESTION_SPACING_MS of it into one zoom anchored where the user clicked. A click those rules reject leaves its nearby dwells standing as the fallback, so rejecting a click can never silent-drop an otherwise valid dwell.
  • Suggestion spacing and the existing-region reserve apply to clicks exactly as they did to dwells; dwell ranking by duration is untouched when no click interferes.
  • Takes without click metadata (browser fallback, Linux without the input group, imported videos) keep today's dwell-only behaviour; move and mouseup are still not treated as clicks. A positive-duration clip that trims asset telemetry down to a single click sample still gets its zoom.

The renderer's telemetry path had the same blind spot in two places: the sidecar parser coerced double-click / right-click / middle-click to "move", and readCursorTelemetryFile then projected every sample down to time/cx/cy — so the detector never saw a click however many the take recorded (its own old comment flagged the drop as "wrong for anything that wants to know where the user acted" — that is exactly what this feature is). Both now carry the recorded kind through; the test that locked the stripping in place now locks the opposite.

buildAutoZoomSuggestionsForClips is reused verbatim, so trimmed clips, source offsets, and the same source replayed by several clips project click zooms exactly as they already projected dwell zooms. No capture, sidecar-schema, UI or persistence changes.

Related issue

Fixes #699

Type of change

  • Feature

Release impact

  • Minor

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Click metadata is recorded on Windows, on macOS with Accessibility, and on Linux with the input group; takes without it are unaffected.

Screenshots / video

None — no UI surface changed; the feature's output is the zoom ranges already shown in the timeline.

Testing

  • New regression tests in zoom-suggestions.test.ts cover: a click made while the pointer is moving, click-sample focus, every supported click kind, move/mouseup not treated as clicks, a nearby dwell folded into its accepted click, a dwell clear of the click kept alongside it, a rapid click burst collapsed into the first click's zoom, existing-region suppression of a click, the dwell fallback surviving a click that the existing region rejects, a second click surviving the first's rejection, dwell-only behaviour without click metadata, edge clamping at take start/end, singleton-click telemetry (direct and via a clip's source window), and per-clip projection of clicks (trimmed source in-point; the same source replayed by two clips).
  • cursorSidecar.test.ts now locks the opposite of what it used to: the telemetry loader keeps interactionType instead of stripping it.
  • All 29 tests in the zoom-suggestions file pass on this HEAD. Measured against the original implementation, 12 of them fail — exactly the tests that need click awareness; the rejected-click-fallback test passes there, since original main has no click logic for it to regress. The first pushed cut of this PR failed its 3 new regression tests — the rejected-click fallback and the two singleton-click tests — which the second commit fixed.
  • The four touched test files pass together (zoom-suggestions, cursorSidecar, apply-auto-zooms, useTimeline).
  • npx tsc --noEmit and npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit are clean; Biome is clean on the changed files.
  • Verified end-to-end on real Windows: recorded a fresh take, clicked at distinct spots while the pointer kept moving, ran Auto-enhance → Automatic zooms in the editor, and got one zoom per recorded click — each centred on the click's time and focused on the click's exact position, including one clamped at the recording end. Before the loader fix the same run produced no click zooms at all.

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  • New Features
    • Auto-zoom suggestions now recognize recorded clicks, including single, double, right-, and middle-clicks.
    • Clicks can guide zoom focus while the pointer is moving.
    • Nearby dwell activity is combined with clicks for more relevant suggestions.
    • Rapid clicks and overlapping regions are consolidated for cleaner recommendations.
    • Suggestions remain accurately positioned across clips and recording boundaries.
    • Pointer movement and mouse-up activity alone do not generate zoom suggestions.

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Automatic zoom suggestions now use recorded clicks as zoom candidates in addition to cursor dwells. Telemetry preserves click interaction types through projection and normalization. Click candidates merge with nearby dwells, and per-clip projection handles clicks. Tests cover click types, fallback behavior, boundaries, and clip projection.

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Recorded click zoom suggestions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve interaction types
src/native/contracts.ts, electron/media/cursorSidecar.ts, electron/media/cursorSidecar.test.ts
The telemetry contract and projection now retain click, double-click, right-click, and middle-click interaction types.
Detect and merge click candidates
src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts
The pipeline detects four click types as zoom candidates, accepts single-click telemetry, merges nearby dwells, and keeps dwell-only behavior when no clicks exist.
Validate click behavior and clip projection
src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.test.ts
Tests cover click focus, accepted interaction types, click and dwell merging, overlap handling, take-edge clamping, fallback behavior, and per-clip projection.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CursorSidecar
  participant ZoomSuggestions
  participant ClipProjection
  CursorSidecar->>ZoomSuggestions: provide telemetry with interactionType
  ZoomSuggestions->>ZoomSuggestions: detect clicks and dwells
  ZoomSuggestions->>ZoomSuggestions: merge nearby candidates
  ZoomSuggestions->>ClipProjection: project suggestions per clip
  ClipProjection-->>ZoomSuggestions: return shifted zoom suggestions
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Click-based zoom suggestions preserve supported click types, work for single samples and trimmed clips, and retain dwell fallback when a click is rejected. The change is ready to merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request satisfies the coding requirements in [#699]. normalizeTelemetrySample and readCursorTelemetryFile preserve interactionType. detectZoomClickCandidates accepts click, `double-…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within [#699]. Source changes expose recorded click metadata and use it for automatic zoom detection. Tests cover the linked behavior and preserve existing clip projection behavior.…
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🟡 Minor · Allow a single click sample to reach click detection. · zoom-suggestions.ts:154-165

src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts:154-165
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Allow a single click sample to reach click detection.

A valid CursorTelemetryPoint can contain one click sample. A positive-duration clip can also reduce clipTelemetry to one sample before calling buildAutoZoomSuggestions. Both length guards then return before detectZoomClickCandidates runs.

Keep the two-sample requirement in detectZoomDwellCandidates. Relax only these top-level guards and add a singleton-click test.

Proposed fix
-	if (totalMs <= 0 || cursorTelemetry.length < 2) {
+	if (totalMs <= 0 || cursorTelemetry.length === 0) {
 		return [];
 	}
...
-	if (normalizedSamples.length < 2) {
+	if (normalizedSamples.length === 0) {
 		return [];
 	}
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts` around lines 154 - 165,
Update the top-level guards in buildAutoZoomSuggestions to allow non-empty
singleton telemetry through by checking for zero samples instead of requiring
two; retain the two-sample requirement inside detectZoomDwellCandidates. Add a
test covering a positive-duration clip with one click sample and verify click
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts`:
- Around line 177-181: Adjust the candidate filtering in the timeline
zoom-suggestion generation so dwell candidates are suppressed only after a
nearby click candidate has passed existing-region suppression; rejected clicks
must not remove otherwise valid dwells. Preserve the spacing rule for accepted
clicks and add a regression test covering the rejected-click fallback scenario.

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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts`:
- Around line 154-165: Update the top-level guards in buildAutoZoomSuggestions
to allow non-empty singleton telemetry through by checking for zero samples
instead of requiring two; retain the two-sample requirement inside
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Comment on lines +177 to +181
...dwellCandidates.filter(
(dwell) =>
!clickCandidates.some(
(click) => Math.abs(click.centerTimeMs - dwell.centerTimeMs) < SUGGESTION_SPACING_MS,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Defer dwell suppression until a nearby click is accepted.

This filter removes the dwell before existing-region suppression checks the click. A dwell centered at 1000 ms and a click at 2700 ms are 1700 ms apart. With a 1000 ms duration and an existing region at 2300–2400 ms, the click span 2200–3200 ms is rejected, but the dwell span 500–1500 ms is valid. Keep the dwell until the nearby click is accepted, and add a regression test for this fallback.

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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/zoom-suggestions.ts` around lines 177 - 181,
Adjust the candidate filtering in the timeline zoom-suggestion generation so
dwell candidates are suppressed only after a nearby click candidate has passed
existing-region suppression; rejected clicks must not remove otherwise valid
dwells. Preserve the spacing rule for accepted clicks and add a regression test
covering the rejected-click fallback scenario.

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🟠 Major · Preserve all supported click interaction types. · cursorSidecar.ts:59-63

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Preserve all supported click interaction types.

normalizeCursorSample converts "double-click", "right-click", and "middle-click" to "move". The projection at Line 242 then returns "move" to the auto-zoom detector. Add these click types to the accepted interaction values, or normalize them to the click representation that the detector consumes.

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In `@electron/media/cursorSidecar.ts` around lines 59 - 63, Update
normalizeCursorSample to preserve “double-click”, “right-click”, and
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A click made while the pointer is still moving forms no dwell, so the
dwell-only detector produced no zoom for exactly the moments users care
about most. Recorded clicks (click / double-click / right-click /
middle-click) now become zoom candidates in their own right, anchored on
the click sample's own time and position.

Clicks are honoured before the dwells: only a click accepted by the
spacing and existing-region rules folds the dwells within
SUGGESTION_SPACING_MS of it into one zoom, so a click those rules reject
leaves its nearby dwells standing as the fallback. A positive-duration
clip that trims asset telemetry down to a single click sample still gets
its zoom; the dwell detector keeps its two-sample requirement.

The renderer's telemetry path had the same blind spot in two places. The
sidecar parser coerced double-click / right-click / middle-click to
"move" and the loader then projected every sample down to timeMs/cx/cy,
so the detector never saw a click however many the take recorded. Both
now carry the recorded kind through; the test that locked the stripping
in place now locks the opposite.

Takes with no click data, move/mouseup annotations, trimmed clips,
source offsets, and repeated replays of one source all keep their
existing behaviour; existing-region suppression and suggestion spacing
apply to clicks exactly as they did to dwells.
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@My-Denia did you receive my message on Discord?
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@EtienneLescot Yes. Thanks a lot for reaching out and for the invitation — I really appreciate it.

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