diff --git a/docs/engineering/windows-native-recorder-roadmap.md b/docs/engineering/windows-native-recorder-roadmap.md
index 29986db..146582a 100644
--- a/docs/engineering/windows-native-recorder-roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/engineering/windows-native-recorder-roadmap.md
@@ -206,6 +206,39 @@ Acceptance:
 - `npm run test:wgc-mic:win`: validates default-microphone capture writes an AAC track when an input endpoint is available.
 - `npm run test:wgc-mixed-audio:win`: validates system loopback plus microphone writes one mixed AAC track when endpoint formats are compatible.
 
+## Backlog
+
+### Native Cursor Click Bounce Is Not Visibly Applied
+
+Status: open. Do not treat Windows native cursor `Click Bounce` as shipped.
+
+Problem:
+
+- The cursor settings UI exposes `Size`, `Smoothing`, `Motion Blur`, and `Click Bounce`.
+- On Windows native cursor recordings, `Size`, `Smoothing`, and `Motion Blur` are visibly applied in preview/export.
+- `Click Bounce` still has no visible effect in manual packaged-app testing, even after adding click-related sample metadata.
+
+What has already been tried:
+
+- Added `interactionType: "click" | "mouseup" | "move"` to native cursor samples.
+- Added polling-based left-button state through `GetAsyncKeyState`.
+- Added the `GetAsyncKeyState` low-bit path to catch quick clicks between samples.
+- Added a PowerShell/C# `WH_MOUSE_LL` mouse hook experiment and launched the sampler through a temporary `.ps1` file to avoid Windows command-line length limits.
+- Updated `npm run test:cursor-native:win` so the diagnostic can observe a synthetic short click and emit `clickSampleCount`.
+
+Current diagnosis:
+
+- The diagnostic can observe synthetic click events, but this has not translated into a visible `Click Bounce` effect in the real packaged app.
+- The test currently proves that some click metadata can be recorded, not that the full OpenScreen record -> preview -> export path displays a bounce at the expected time.
+- The current native implementation may be animating from metadata that is not present in the real recording session, may be using the wrong timestamp origin, or may be applying a scale change too subtle to notice on the DOM/native cursor path.
+
+Next investigation when resumed:
+
+- Inspect the actual `.cursor.json`/session sidecar generated by a packaged-app manual recording and confirm whether real clicks produce `interactionType: "click"` at the right `timeMs`.
+- Add a targeted end-to-end fixture that records a known click, loads the generated project, and asserts the preview/export cursor scale changes across adjacent frames.
+- Compare the native DOM cursor path against the older `PixiCursorOverlay` click visual state and decide whether native cursor bounce should be a scale-only animation, an additional click ring, or a short explicit keyframe animation independent of sample cadence.
+- If event capture remains unreliable in the PowerShell sampler, move click events into a small native cursor helper instead of PowerShell/C# script injection.
+
 ## Ship Criteria
 
 - Windows display capture works with cursor, system audio, microphone, and webcam.
diff --git a/docs/testing/windows-native-cursor.md b/docs/testing/windows-native-cursor.md
index 4c7da94..f6d214b 100644
--- a/docs/testing/windows-native-cursor.md
+++ b/docs/testing/windows-native-cursor.md
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ Together, the scripts make it quick to inspect:
 
 They are not a full substitute for an end-to-end manual recording pass. Before shipping cursor changes, also test a real capture session and export from the packaged app.
 
+## Known Gap
+
+Windows native cursor `Click Bounce` is currently backlogged. `Size`, `Smoothing`, and `Motion Blur` can be validated through preview/export, but `Click Bounce` has not shown a visible effect in packaged-app manual testing. The current diagnostic can observe synthetic click metadata, but that is not enough to validate the real OpenScreen record -> preview -> export path.
+
+Track the open item in `docs/engineering/windows-native-recorder-roadmap.md` under `Native Cursor Click Bounce Is Not Visibly Applied`.
+
 ## Native Windows capture backend
 
 The app now routes Windows recordings through an external WGC helper instead of Electron `getDisplayMedia`. This is meant to remove the coordinate and clock split that made the reconstructed cursor drift in the preview/export path.