Interface ConformanceDeskOptions

The ANALYSER PAIR door — what the alignment watchers read (2026-08-31-smart-alignment.md §2 and §9b). This desk captures no audio, so absent (the default) every alignment reading refuses no-capture, which is visible and honest. A caller that declares one gets the real rows and the real watchers over it: the same move ConformanceDeskOptions.meterSource makes for the meters.

The console allocation. Default: the DEFAULT_PRESET console (16:8).

Plugin catalog path. Default: NONE — the desk declares its roster (./test-support/declared-catalog.ts) rather than reading the host's scan, for the reason the clock and the NIC list are declared: a scan is a measurement of the machine, and the checked-in row artifact carried its 958-plugin count as if it were a fact about the console. A caller that needs the host's real catalog names its path here.

The engine's clip CAPTURE door (an internal spec §3). This desk measures no real audio, so absent (the default) every /channel/{kind}/{index}/clip row answers its fresh, never-latched state and /channel's clipped fold stays empty — the same absent-by-default move ConformanceDeskOptions.meterSource and ConformanceDeskOptions.alignSource make. A caller that declares one gets the real capture poll over it, on ConformanceDeskOptions.clipCapturePollMs's cadence.

The clip capture poll's cadence, forwarded to the server. Omitted, the operator's ruling (~500 ms) holds; a caller that wants a captured over to land inside a short-lived probe (the matrix's own console) names a fast one here instead of waiting on the real cadence.

The graph clock. Default DECLARED_CLOCK — a DECLARED graph, never the host's. MixerServerOptions.clock falls back to PwMetadataClock, which reads the machine's PipeWire graph; on this desk that made four rows answer with whatever else the suite run had put on the shared scratch daemon (test-support/declared-clock.ts carries the measurement). A suite that needs a clock which MOVES declares its own here.

Convergence heartbeat period; omitted, the server default (1 s) holds.

HTTP/WS bind. Default 127.0.0.1:0 (an ephemeral port, reported in the return).

Where the desk logs. Default: silent (the bin passes stderr).

A peak source for the desk's meters. This desk has no audio path to measure, so absent (the default) the console offers no meter tick and /meters is a 404 — absence is a fact. A caller that declares one gets the real meter row over it: the console drives the read while /meters is watched and serves the frame it flattened and encoded itself.

The NATIVE BUS LANES — what carries a non-MAIN bus's own output stage, including the per-destination delay of 2026-08-31-smart-alignment.md §9b. Absent (the default) an aux / mix / matrix output STORES its delay and plays none of it, and a loudspeaker-alignment reading over it refuses correction-not-actuated: the same absent-by-default discipline ConformanceDeskOptions.nativeOutputRoutes takes for MAIN's.

MAIN's per-destination OUTPUT ROUTE STAGE — the trim/mute/delay MAIN applies to its own destination. Absent (the default) this desk STORES those values and plays none of them, exactly as a console with no native fan-out does, and a loudspeaker-alignment reading over it refuses correction-not-actuated rather than offering a delay nothing would read. Every OTHER bus's destination rides ConformanceDeskOptions.nativeMatrices instead.

The plugin host the desk racks into. Default DeclaredPluginHost — a declared rack with no daemon, for the reason the clock and the catalog are declared: a desk that boots on any machine cannot spawn mod-host, and a console that cannot rack closes three write doors (/channel/{kind}/{index}/inserts plugins, a rack slot's plugin, a chain processor's plugin), which a battery standing on this desk then cannot probe.

A caller measuring the NO-HOST console passes AbsentPluginHost: the desk reads that declaration and reports plugins.available: false on /health, so the rack doors refuse and OPTIONS greys the same fields.

Whether an empty state dir is seeded with the shipped sessions so the desk comes up as a real minimal show. Default true — a desk is a console, and that is what a console with no history does. Set false where the caller DECLARES ITS OWN SHOW (the matrix probe console dimensions itself deliberately, and a shipped session would overwrite what it just said).

Sources to declare AND patch at boot, through the real addChannel source door — a declared stagebox input whose head-amp capability the rows then genuinely resolve. The hardware behind such a source is absent on this desk, so its patch defers (the honest pseudo-patch), while its DECLARATION — name, head-amp caps — is real console state.

Where the desk persists sessions/scenes/settings — also where a template session goes.