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 **N118 — `useCallSpeakers` Relies on Three Layers of Undocumented EC Internal APIs**
 
 - **File:** `src/app/hooks/useCallSpeakers.ts`, lines 15, 28–35
-- **Status:** **OPEN** [Claude_Found]
+- **Status:** **ACKNOWLEDGED (inherent)** — not a discrete bug: EC exposes no stable speaker API, so DOM/CSS reverse-engineering is unavoidable (the same applies to mute/spotlight/control poking elsewhere). The `19feca49` rewrite documents exactly which EC internals are depended on (`[data-video-fit]`, `::before` background-image, `aria-label`), which is the practical mitigation. A build-time EC-version assertion is a deferred CI/infra task; an upstream request for a stable `data-speaking` attribute is the real long-term fix.
 - **Issue:** Speaker detection depends on three private Element Call implementation details that are not part of any stable EC API contract and can silently break on any EC version bump:
   1. **`[data-video-fit]`** — selector for video tile wrapper elements (internal EC data attribute).
   2. **`getComputedStyle(el, '::before').getPropertyValue('background-image') !== 'none'`** — speaking state is inferred from a `::before` pseudo-element's `background-image`. Any EC refactor of the speaking indicator (e.g. switching to a CSS class, `data-speaking` attribute, or canvas overlay) silently breaks detection with no error.