docs(testing): say who runs the manual e2e pass, and that a slice counts - #461
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The checklist already told you to drive it with computer-use. What none of the three documents said is that an agent holding that mouse *is* the operator, so the pass kept getting handed back to a maintainer as "manual e2e required" - including by me, one message after cutting v1.10.0-rc.1, while I had the MCP available the whole time. "Manual" names the input, not the operator: real OS mouse and keyboard events, because injected clicks arrive below the OS hit-test and the HUD is input-transparent until a real cursor move lifts it. That constraint is about where the events come from, and computer-use satisfies it. So AGENTS.md now states the availability check (list_granted_applications) and what to say when the MCP is genuinely absent, which is the only case where the checklist really does fall to a human. It also states that a slice is a run. Every row in the results log so far covered a subset - one of them is marked Pass with a NOT-covered list attached - so pretending the file is all-or-nothing only discourages the partial runs that found every defect logged there. The bound is on silence, not on scope: a check not run is skipped with its reason, never passed, and the run exists only as a results-log row carrying build/tag, platform, and what was left out. release-and-secrets.md gets it at the promote step, where the gate actually bites and where promote.yml enforces nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@technical-documentation/engineering/release-and-secrets.md`:
- Around line 35-36: Define explicit promotion gate criteria across
technical-documentation/engineering/release-and-secrets.md lines 35-36,
AGENTS.md line 90, and technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md
lines 5-6: require the complete checklist or an approved risk-based scope, with
results logged for the exact RC before dispatching promote.yml. Keep general
partial-run guidance separate from promotion-specific coverage requirements and
remove any implication that targeted runs are equivalent to a full
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Review on #461 caught that the parenthetical I added to release-and-secrets.md - "or just the sections a given RC put at risk" - weakened a rule the checklist already had. Its opening says to run the whole file for a release candidate, and nothing about a slice being a legitimate run was meant to touch that: the slice rule is for verifying a change, not for clearing a promotion. The results log is the argument. Webcam PiP, microphone, GIF and the AI sections have been scoped out of every run recorded there, so "the sections this RC puts at risk" is exactly the judgement that keeps missing them - which is the failure mode a whole-file gate exists to prevent. Both documents now say a Partial row is not a green light to dispatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three documents describe the manual end-to-end checklist. None of them said who runs it, so it kept being handed back to a maintainer as "manual e2e pass required" — including by me, one message after cutting
v1.10.0-rc.1, with the computer-use MCP available the whole time."Manual" names the input, not the operator: these checks need real OS mouse and keyboard events, because injected clicks arrive below the OS hit-test and the HUD is input-transparent until a real cursor move lifts it. That constraint is about where the events come from — and computer-use satisfies it.
Three additions, no rewrites:
AGENTS.md, in Desktop E2E testing with computer-use: if the MCP is available, the pass is the agent's to run and to offer.list_granted_applicationsis the availability check; when it is genuinely absent, say so — that is the only case where the checklist really does fall to a human.AGENTS.md, same place: a slice is a run. Every row in the results log so far covered a subset (one is marked Pass with a NOT-covered list attached), so framing the file as all-or-nothing only discourages the partial runs that found every defect logged there. The bound is on silence, not on scope — a check not run is skipped with its reason, never passed, and the run exists only as a results-log row carrying build/tag, platform, and what was left out.technical-documentation/engineering/release-and-secrets.md, at Promote to stable: the checklist is the gate before dispatchingpromote.yml, which enforces nothing itself. This is the document a release operator reads, and it did not mention the manual pass at all.technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md: one line at the top pointing to the two rules above. Step 1 already said "drive it with computer-use"; what was missing was the who and the how much.Related issue
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node scripts/check-docs.mjs→check-docs: OK (31 files), which covers the new cross-document links and the#desktop-e2e-testing-with-computer-useanchor.Documentation only — no code path changes.
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