Evan JarrettandClaude Opus 5
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Migrations are forward-only and the appview applies whatever is missing on boot, so moving to the next batch does not need a reset at all — Air rebuilds into the new code and the live DB migrates in place. Verified moving onto val/04-oauth: 0031 appeared in schema_migrations on its own, on top of a level-27 database, with the appview healthy afterwards. That matters more than it sounds. ui.db holds the OAuth sessions and the appview's signing keys, so the old wipe-on-every-switch cost an interactive `docker-credential-atcr login` per batch, which is most of what made the stack awkward to hand to an agent. Validating in stack order is all forward motion, so in the normal case there is now no login at all. A reset is still done when the live DB carries migrations the branch's code has never heard of, which is what going backward means, and the per-set snapshot is still banked so that case can restore rather than start empty. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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.