c035f50fixed a hand-built tag rkey in DeleteManifestHandler and shipped with no test. The hazard is not specific to that handler: io.atcr.tag rkeys come from RepositoryTagToRKey, which encodes "/" as "~", so any code building one by hand targets a record that does not exist — and deleteRecord being idempotent makes that a silent no-op. The local view looks right and the tag returns on the next backfill. The by-digest path now builds tag rkeys too (594d73b), so it could reintroduce exactly this bug. TestManifestDelete_NestedRepoTagRKey pins it there: push to stream/cache, delete by digest, and assert the tag is no longer listed. Listing is what catches a survivor — TagStore.All reads the records back from the PDS and filters by repository, so a stale one is still reported. Mutation-verified by hand-building the rkey as "repo:tag": the nested test fails with the tag still listed, and TestManifestDelete passes unchanged. That second half is the point — every existing delete test uses a flat repository name, and a flat name cannot reproduce this bug at all. batch11-nested-rkey.mjs drives the same property through the UI handler thatc035f50actually fixed, asserting against the PDS record rather than the page, since the page looks correct either way until a backfill runs. It needs an interactive appview login in the Playwright profile and is not yet run; the session that exists belongs to a different browser profile. Two instrument notes are baked in: probe /settings rather than the repo page to detect a session, because /r/ renders for anonymous visitors and can never report a missing one, and use maxRedirects:0, because RequireAuth 302s and a followed redirect surfaces as a confusing 405 on DELETE /login. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SeaUS5AFPX9gqCahoLRMRh
Browser-driven batch validation
Checks for the val/* validation stack — the branch-per-batch series used to
sign off the range between the deployed commit and main.
These complement, and do not replace, go test and the in-process integration
harness (internal/testharness, test/integration, make integration-test).
Pick by what needs proving:
| Prove | Use |
|---|---|
| A function's logic, a query's shape, a guard's behaviour | Go unit test |
| A push/pull/delete round trip across appview + hold + S3 | make integration-test |
| A fragment renders into the right target, a job outlives its request, a 500 dressed as an empty state | these scripts |
Running
npm i -D @playwright/test && npx playwright install chromium
node test/e2e/login.mjs # interactive, once per hold rebuild
node test/e2e/batch00-admin-jobs.mjs # then the batch checks
Env overrides: ATCR_HOLD_URL, ATCR_APPVIEW_URL, ATCR_E2E_PROFILE,
ATCR_E2E_SEED.
Things that will cost you an afternoon
Use 127.0.0.1, never localhost. The appview canonicalises to
http://127.0.0.1:5000 and answers localhost with a 307. Any snippet written
against localhost:5000 measures the redirect, not the endpoint.
Admin sessions are in-memory and die on every hold rebuild. They live in
ui.sessions (pkg/hold/admin/admin.go), not the admin_sessions table, which
is vestigial for this path. Air rebuilds the hold whenever tracked source
changes — including a batch checkout — so budget one interactive login per
switch. There is no test-mode bypass; server.test_mode only affects OAuth
redirect URLs.
Never drive the admin panel with curl. Sessions are pinned to User-Agent and
client IP prefix, and a mismatch does not merely reject the request — it calls
deleteSession and logs you out. Drive everything through ctx.request, which
inherits the browser's cookie jar and UA.
Closing every Playwright page disposes ctx.request. It fails with "Request
context disposed". Keep one about:blank page open when the test needs the
browser out of the way.
Crew delete is a <button hx-post>, not a <form>. Scraping for forms
finds nothing, deletes nothing, and cheerfully reports a clean tab while every
seeded member is still live. Assert against page text after a reload, not
against the scrape that just ran.
Crew rows hydrate per-row via hx-trigger="load". The tab needs a real
settle window (~6s here) before anything is scrapeable.
A seeded fixture makes the second run lie. Crew import skips DIDs that already exist, so a re-run finishes instantly and the detachment check silently passes without ever exercising a running job. Purge before re-running.
Preconditions are easy to miss. The tier reconciliation card only renders
for crew on a tier absent from quota config (handleCrewList), so it is invisible
on a healthy hold. Crew add/update do not validate the tier against config,
which is how these tests manufacture the condition without restarting the hold.
The repo page is /r/{handle}/*. Not /{handle}/{repo} — that is a 404
"Lost at Sea" page, which reads exactly like an access denial if you are
checking whether a logged-out visitor gets denied. Verify the route before
concluding anything from a 404.
Tags are <option>s in a <select>. Scraping a, td or span for tag
text finds nothing and reports "no tags render" against a page that is
rendering them correctly.
A headed browser will not launch from an agent shell here. Both
chromium.launch() and launchPersistentContext() time out on the handshake
despite DISPLAY=:0 being set; headless works. Interactive flows (the admin
login, docker-credential-atcr login) still need a human at a real browser —
but non-interactive page checks can run headless, and batch10-anonpull.mjs
does.
Logged-out checks need their own profile. lib.mjs's PROFILE is signed
in, and clearing its cookies costs an interactive re-login for everything else.
Use a throwaway launchPersistentContext dir instead of a fresh
chromium.launch().
The dev hold is public: false by default, so anything testing the
allowed half of anonymous pull is unreachable until you flip it. Do not edit
the captain record: hold_pds.go:335 reconciles captain.Public from config
on every boot, so an untracked docker-compose.override.yml setting
HOLD_SERVER_PUBLIC: "true" flips it, and deleting the file flips it back.
Never commit that file. Allow ~15s after the container comes up for the appview
to see the new value — a token minted too early is still judged against the old
one, which looks exactly like a failing test.
Per-batch stack switching
Use val-switch.sh. The appview DB migrates forward only, so older batch
code hits a schema from the future: batch 00 selects tags.id (dropped by
0032) and cannot write manifests.manifest_key (added NOT NULL by 0033/0034,
which kills every backfill insert). The script destroys and re-migrates the
appview volume so the DB matches the branch.
It deliberately does not touch atcrio_atcr-hold, which holds the hold's
did:web signing key and the CAR store — captain, crew, layer, stats and scan
records. Losing it means a new hold identity and every pushed layer gone.
docker-compose.yml is pinned to main throughout. a7c7db6 (batch 01) is
what makes the appview share the hold's netns so did:web:localhost%3A8080
resolves, and every compose-based batch needs it — including batch 00, which
lands before it. The file is dev-only, so pinning it is a fixture decision
rather than a change to what is under validation. Never commit it from a batch
branch; the script unstages it for you, because git checkout main -- <path>
stages what it restores.