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Build cross-layer regression coverage that ties browser-visible behavior to backend truth.

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Fullstack Regression Worker

NOTE: Startup and cleanup are handled by worker-base. This skill defines the work procedure.

When to Use This Skill

Use for features that must prove a browser-visible regression and a backend read-model truth in the same workflow, especially when current state and history can contradict each other.

Required Skills

  • vite-plus — use for repo-local JS/toolchain commands and website test execution.
  • agent-browser — use to verify the browser-visible half of the regression against the reused local runtime.

Work Procedure

  1. Read mission.md, mission AGENTS.md, .factory/services.yaml, and the relevant validation assertions.
  2. Reproduce the regression first end-to-end so the contradiction is explicit.
  3. Write the narrowest failing tests needed on both sides:
    • backend test or smoke proving the canonical read truth
    • browser/page-flow/E2E proving the user-visible contradiction disappears
  4. Keep local runtime on 8080 and 5173, and keep backend assertions bound to the dedicated test schema.
  5. Use the same seeded/session state across backend and browser proof; do not validate two unrelated scenarios and call them “fullstack.”
  6. Prefer one reproducible story path:
    • create or start the relevant timer fact
    • perform the action that used to create stale divergence
    • read both current-timer and history truth
    • prove the browser now matches backend truth
  7. Run both the backend and frontend commands touched by the feature.
  8. Use agent-browser for one manual replay of the regression path after automated tests pass. If that replay is not possible because of a tooling/session conflict, record the blocker explicitly and return partial/failure instead of silently treating the manual step as complete.
  9. Do not claim the procedure was fully followed unless the handoff includes either a real interactiveChecks replay entry or an explicit blocker for the manual replay step.
  10. In the handoff, explain the original contradiction, the shared seeded/session setup, and how the final proof spans both layers.

Example Handoff

{
  "salientSummary": "Closed a stale-current-vs-history regression by pairing one backend truth test with one browser-visible replay. The same seeded timer flow now shows matching current-timer and history state after start, stop, and edit.",
  "whatWasImplemented": "Added a cross-layer regression lane for tracking state consistency. The new coverage uses one shared seeded/session scenario to prove backend current-timer reads and browser-visible timer history no longer contradict each other after the previously flaky flow.",
  "whatWasLeftUndone": "",
  "verification": {
    "commandsRun": [
      {
        "command": "go test ./apps/backend/internal/tracking/... -count=1 -parallel 4",
        "exitCode": 0,
        "observation": "Backend truth tests passed for the regression scenario."
      },
      {
        "command": "vp run test:e2e:website -- e2e/timer-page.spec.ts",
        "exitCode": 0,
        "observation": "Browser regression replay passed on the reused local runtime."
      }
    ],
    "interactiveChecks": [
      {
        "action": "Replayed the start-stop-edit flow in agent-browser and compared the visible history with backend readback.",
        "observed": "The running header cleared at the same time history showed the stopped entry, with no stale contradiction."
      }
    ]
  },
  "tests": {
    "added": [
      {
        "file": "apps/website/e2e/timer-page.spec.ts + apps/backend/internal/tracking/...",
        "cases": [
          {
            "name": "current timer and history stay aligned after stop and edit",
            "verifies": "VAL-REG-004"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "discoveredIssues": []
}

When to Return to Orchestrator

  • The regression cannot be reproduced against one shared seeded/session state
  • The browser symptom and backend truth disagree because the product contract itself is ambiguous
  • The work would require changing mission boundaries or test topology rather than closing one regression lane