The shared test module was named harness.ts inside a repo whose product
IS a harness — hopelessly ambiguous. Renamed to scaffold.ts with
launchWebScaffold/WebScaffold; tsconfig plane-split entries, the seam
JSDoc/README mentions, and both Agent Note languages updated.
Both scenarios gain a Playwright interaction step over the settled
transcript (after the golden capture, so committed aria surfaces stay
untouched): replay-round-trip clicks the reasoning fold open/closed over
wire-delivered state; seeded-history expands a read tool row rebuilt from
the cold log and asserts the recorded result text appears (read rows are
expand-in-place — rowExpands routes the click to the inline fold, not the
details column). test:web 30 passed | 1 skipped.
Chinese counterpart translated per the terminology table and the
2026-07-18 TUI note's register; switcher lines added on both sides; pair
recorded. doc-sync 24/24.
Regenerate config-catalog for the llm-replay paceMs row; condense the
testing.md web-lane entry to pointer form and raise its ceiling 1020->1060
(the two-sentence tier entry for a genuinely new surface does not fit the
old ceiling after relocation-first trims); internalize two harness helpers
knip flagged (rawSessionLog/normalizeAria are module-internal).
testing.md gains the web browser snapshot tier entry (divergent
DSH_SNAPSHOT=... test:web commands) and names apps/web/tests/snapshots/
as the web surface's snapshot home. The GUI testing note's tier map and
lane map gain the e2e scenarios (both languages, pair re-recorded) and
drop the stale verify-session-real references (those scripts left with
the missions/ tree). packages/client/AGENTS.md check ladder covers the
wire-carriage trigger and refresh/record commands. acp-snapshot README
stops claiming the whole package is ACP-specific — its normalizers are
transport-neutral with three consumers now. vitest.web.config.ts header
carries TODO(ci-browser) with the staged-reversal pointer.
The design-study Agent Note moves proposed/ -> implemented/ rewritten in
present tense: all review decisions recorded (llm:false seam over the
placeholder-key hack, providers-mode replay, whenIdle barrier stack,
single aria golden + anchors, TUI-style inline modes over a suite
factory, scrub-only header stance, CI deferral) with re-entry triggers
under Deferred.
apps/web/tests/harness.ts boots the real web assembly in-process
(startHost llm:false -> installLlmReplay providers-mode -> mountWebPlugins
-> startWebServer) under DSH_SNAPSHOT replay/record/refresh. Barrier
stack: in-process turn/end -> agent.whenIdle (covers the persistence
flush) -> browser settled-poll. Seeding goes through the real persistence
API (semantic-checkpoint precedent); record harvests fixtures from live
session memory and tokenizes {{sessionId}}/{{cwd}}; refresh is the sole
golden writer. Console tripwires fail scenarios on reconnect/gap-repair
self-healing; harness close asserts full replay-fixture consumption.
Scenarios, each with fixtures recorded against THIS assembly via a live
model run: replay-round-trip (real composer -> real bash echo -> settled
markdown + aria golden + world-state event asserts) and seeded-history
(cold sidebar list -> implicit resume on open -> history tool cards from
the log, zero model calls). apps/web/tests are host-plane programs:
excluded from the client-registered apps/web project, included in
tsconfig.host.json (one program cannot hold both Context merge sides).
The fake terminal retains earlier autocomplete frames, so the directory follow-up assertion could pass before the scoped lookup completed. Wait for the quoted file mention to be applied before submitting.
BootHostOptions.llm: 'deepseek' | false — false mounts no adapter, boots
keyless, and leaves the llm capability seam open for the embedder to fill
on RunningHost.ctx (now the third sanctioned ctx use, JSDoc + README
amended); an unfilled seam fails loud with NO_ADAPTER at the first stream.
dsh-llm-replay grows two additive surfaces for the web browser e2e lane:
paceMs (validated per-chunk delay so a real transport shows incremental
delivery; abort during a pace wait cancels promptly) and a ReplayHandle
return — dispose() plus assertConsumed(), the teardown check that every
recorded script bound and drained, converting silent fixture underruns
into diagnostics. Existing callers updated; config catalog regenerated.
Design study for a deterministic, keyless browser e2e lane over the real
assembled web chain (chromium -> SSE/HTTP wire -> apiproxy -> agent loop ->
persistence), replayed through dsh-llm-replay from recorded session-log
fixtures, with aria-tree goldens plus in-process world-state assertions.
Synthesized from an OSS prior-art survey (LibreChat, ai-chatbot, lobe-chat,
OpenHands, cline, aimock...), a repo seam deep-dive, and three adversarial
critiques (doctrine, flakiness, YAGNI). Records the settled shape (no new
package, no suite factory, seed via the real persistence API, whenIdle
barrier stack, no transient-DOM assertions) and the open questions (LLM
seam, Loader-izing dsh web, header pin, golden breadth, settled signal).
Tianyi Cui
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