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Three ways the camera-background feature could be silently absent. They turn out to be one bug: nothing ever asked whether a mask could be produced.

Intel Macs Upstream publishes no ONNX Runtime binary for osx-x64, so runtime_available() is false there forever. The control was shown anyway.
Nothing reached the renderer runtime_available() existed in Rust and stopped there. The user clicked Blur, the setting persisted, the button highlighted, the slider appeared — and the camera was untouched, in the preview and in the exported file.
before-pack did not require the library A build that skipped staging, or hit a network blip in a job that continued, passed the payload guard and shipped an installer whose control does nothing.

The fix

segmentation_runtime_available() on the addon, composed with the model lookup in compositorViewService.probeSegmentation(), gives a four-state answer: ready / no-runtime / no-model / none.

It rides the probeBackend chain exactly — N-API → addon.d.ts → service → IPC → contracts → client — and useSegmentationSupport mirrors useCompositorBackend: memoised once per session, failing closed on every non-ready answer, including "still probing".

Asked rather than guessed, because the guess was wrong in both directions. The old process.platform gate hid the control on Linux builds that could segment, and showed it on Intel Macs that never can. Platform is not capability: a dev checkout and a --dir build have no runtime staged either, and neither is distinguishable from darwin or win32.

before-pack now names the library in all three payload lists — with no entry on Intel macOS, since a package without it is correct there. That guard's own header records that a mac package built without the compositor addon "shipped silently"; the same hole was open for this one.

Verification

2208 JS tests, 146 Rust, tsc clean, before-pack.cjs loads. Seven new tests on the hook; three of them fail when the fail-closed rule is mutated away (=== "ready"!== "none").

The one thing not covered: no test asserts the native probe returns false without the library, because that needs a machine without it. The Rust side is a one-line delegation to runtime_available(), which is itself guarded and cfg-tested.

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  • New Features

    • Added camera segmentation capability detection, including runtime and model availability checks.
    • Webcam background controls now appear only when segmentation is fully supported.
    • Packaging verifies required segmentation runtime components across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented unsupported webcam background options from being displayed when segmentation is unavailable.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for readiness states, failure reasons, probing behavior, and session-level caching.

Three separate ways the camera-background feature could be silently absent,
and they turn out to be one bug: nothing ever asked whether a mask could be
produced.

- **Intel Macs.** Upstream publishes no ONNX Runtime binary for osx-x64, so
  `runtime_available()` is false there forever. The control was shown anyway.
- **Nothing reached the renderer.** `runtime_available()` existed in Rust and
  stopped there. The compositor logged one line and left `fx.z` at 0; the user
  clicked Blur, the setting persisted, the button highlighted, the slider
  appeared — and the camera was untouched in the preview and in the export.
- **`before-pack` did not require the library.** A build that skipped staging,
  or hit a network blip in a job that continued, passed the payload guard and
  shipped an installer whose control does nothing.

`segmentation_runtime_available()` on the addon, composed with the model lookup
in `compositorViewService.probeSegmentation()`, gives a four-state answer:
`ready` / `no-runtime` / `no-model` / `none`. It rides the `probeBackend` chain
exactly — N-API, addon.d.ts, service, IPC, contracts, client — and
`useSegmentationSupport` mirrors `useCompositorBackend`, memoised once per
session, failing closed on every non-`ready` answer including "still probing".

Asked rather than guessed, because the guess was wrong in both directions: the
old `process.platform` gate hid the control on Linux builds that could segment
and showed it on Intel Macs that never can. Platform is not capability — a dev
checkout and a `--dir` build have no runtime staged either, and neither is
distinguishable from `darwin` or `win32`.

`before-pack` now names the library in all three payload lists, with no entry
on Intel macOS since a package without it is correct there. This is the guard
whose own header says a mac package built without the compositor addon
"shipped silently"; the same hole was open for this one.

Verified: 2208 JS tests (7 new on the hook, three of which fail when the
fail-closed rule is mutated away), 146 Rust, tsc clean, before-pack loads.
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The PR adds native segmentation capability probing, bridge contracts, cached renderer hooks, ONNX Runtime packaging checks, and conditional rendering for camera-background controls.

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Segmentation support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Native probe and bridge flow
crates/compositor-view-napi/src/lib.rs, electron/native/compositor-view/addon.d.ts, electron/native-bridge/services/compositorViewService.ts, electron/ipc/nativeBridge.ts, src/native/contracts.ts, src/native/compositorViewClient.ts, scripts/before-pack.cjs
The native addon reports ONNX Runtime availability. The compositor service returns runtime and model support states. The bridge exposes the probe, and packaging checks require platform-specific ONNX Runtime libraries.
Cached hook state and validation
src/native/hooks/useSegmentationSupport.ts, src/native/hooks/useSegmentationSupport.test.ts
The renderer caches one probe per session. The hooks fail closed while probing and for unsupported states. Tests cover results, probing state, and shared probes.
Camera-background control gating
src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx
LayoutPane renders webcam background controls only when useCanSegmentCamera() returns true.

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The change makes camera-background controls depend on actual segmentation capability and strengthens packaging checks. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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  participant LayoutPane
  participant useCanSegmentCamera
  participant probeSegmentationSupport
  participant NativeBridge
  participant CompositorViewService
  participant CompositorViewAddon
  LayoutPane->>useCanSegmentCamera: Request segmentation capability
  useCanSegmentCamera->>probeSegmentationSupport: Probe once per session
  probeSegmentationSupport->>NativeBridge: Send probeSegmentation
  NativeBridge->>CompositorViewService: Call probeSegmentation()
  CompositorViewService->>CompositorViewAddon: Check segmentationRuntimeAvailable()
  CompositorViewService-->>NativeBridge: Return support status
  NativeBridge-->>probeSegmentationSupport: Return SegmentationSupport
  probeSegmentationSupport-->>useCanSegmentCamera: Return ready or unsupported
  useCanSegmentCamera-->>LayoutPane: Enable or hide camera controls
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In `@scripts/before-pack.cjs`:
- Line 80: Update the MAC_REQUIRED validation in checkMacNativePayload so
libonnxruntime.dylib is required only for darwin-arm64, while preserving the
existing validation for other required libraries and architectures.

In `@src/native/contracts.ts`:
- Around line 137-140: Update the `"none"` contract documentation near the
native capability result definitions to include cases where an addon is present
but unusable or stale, including older addons lacking
segmentationRuntimeAvailable(). Keep the existing pure-web/dev meaning while
aligning the definition with compositorViewService’s producer behavior.
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The comment said "no entry on x64" and the code added one anyway, for every
macOS arch. Upstream publishes no ONNX Runtime binary for Intel Macs —
`fetch-onnxruntime.mjs` says so and exits 0 without staging anything — so a
clean x64 payload would have failed at pack time. The guard would have turned
against exactly what it protects.

Split into `MAC_ONNX_REQUIRED` and applied only on arm64, so the comment and
the code now say the same thing.

Also aligns the `SegmentationSupport` doc with its producer: `"none"` is also
what the service returns when an addon is present but too old to answer the
probe, not only when none loaded at all. Consumers were told it meant one
thing and could get the other.

Both caught in review.
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