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ironclaw-reborn-testing

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Use when adding or reviewing tests for Reborn behavior — choosing a test tier, covering a bug fix, testing model/tool-choice behavior, touching tests/integration or tests/fixtures/llm_traces, or when a test needs Postgres, Docker, or a live LLM.

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Reborn Testing

Pick the tier first; everything else follows. The repo's tier knowledge lives in tests/integration/CLAUDE.md (read it before writing harness tests); this skill is the decision layer plus the traps.

Tier decision tree

  1. Pure logic, no gated side effect → unit test in the crate (mod tests / crate tests/).
  2. A helper gates a side effect (HTTP, DB write, egress body, approval, dispatch) → you also need a caller-path test driving the real entry point (*_handler, facade method, adapter, coordinator). Helper-only is insufficient — .claude/rules/testing.md has the bug catalog. Gold standard: tests/integration/group_approvals/scenario_gate_then_approve.rs asserts the approved write exists on disk.
  3. Whole-turn Reborn behavior (submit → runner → loop → reply), deterministic → the in-process scripted-model harness (tests/integration/, run as cargo test --test reborn_integration_<name>, zero setup, offline). Mock only at the vendor-SDK seam (TraceLlm): the real ironclaw_llm decorator chain (retry/failover/circuit-breaker) must execute. Mocking at the gateway seam skips it — that's the gateway-seam replay tier's job (RebornBinaryE2EHarness / RebornTraceReplayModelGateway), not yours by default.
  4. Model tool-choice / request-shape is the behavior under test → recorded QA fixtures (tests/fixtures/llm_traces/reborn_qa/ + tests/reborn_qa_recorded_behavior.rs: ignored live recorder → hermetic contract assertions → hermetic replay). Fixtures must pass scripts/ci/check-reborn-qa-fixtures.sh (secret/PII scrub). Never commit unscrubbed traces.
  5. Browser-visible → tests/e2e/ Playwright (reborn_v2_* fixtures for WebChat v2). Live LLM → #[ignore] canary tier; supplemental only, never the PR gate.

Repo-specific traps

  • Regression-per-fix is mechanically checked for conventionally marked fix/high-risk changes (commit-msg hook + regression-test-check.yml). Escape hatch [skip-regression-check] exists — using it on a real fix will be questioned in review.
  • Consolidate, don't proliferate: extend the existing test that already drives the path (a case, a scripted turn, an assertion) before standing up a new file. Say why an existing test couldn't absorb a genuinely new scenario.
  • Persistence = both backends. PostgreSQL + libSQL parity where production-facing; the model is the hooks trio (hooks_postgres/hooks_libsql + the hooks_parity adversarial equivalence crate). Feature-gate integration tests (check-boundaries.sh enforces the gating for root tests/).
  • The integration tier is NOT a PR gate unless the workflow says so (re-verify: grep -n integration .github/workflows/test.yml): full --features integration/Postgres coverage may run post-merge or nightly. A green PR does not prove the integration tier ran; run it locally when your change is DB/runtime-shaped: cargo test --features integration.
  • Never add a silent self-skip to PR-gated tests. if docker_missing { return } hides the suite from CI. Existing Docker sandbox canaries still need migration; new tests should skip loudly via feature gates or explicit env opt-outs.
  • Safe summaries and terminal errors have their own test shape — capability handlers must route recoverable failures to Ok(CapabilityOutcome::Failed(..)), not Err (which kills the whole run), and safe summaries must survive the real validator; see .claude/rules/agent-loop-capabilities.md for the two invariants and how to test them past the helper.
  • A contract doc change needs its test named. The house pattern: docs/reborn/contracts/conversation-binding.md names its test file + run command; scripts/reborn-e2e-rust.sh is the machine-readable contract→test map. If you implement contract behavior, wire both.

Verify

cargo test -p <crate> → cargo test --test reborn_<harness> (offline) → cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture if edges changed → cargo test --features integration locally for DB-shaped changes → bash scripts/reborn-e2e-rust.sh when touching contract behavior.

Exemplar tests to open and imitate, per tier: references/exemplar-tests.md — the living copies; update as the suite evolves.