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Summary

  • replace the hard-coded /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable screenshot dependency with the same exact Playwright pin and repository-local Chromium cache used by E2E
  • add scripts/update_demo_screenshots.py as one end-to-end command that starts isolated testing storage, seeds public-domain demo data, captures screenshots, and cleans up
  • add docs/screenshots/manifest.json with capture revision, viewport/theme, generator/seed provenance, and logical scenarios
  • add an advisory screenshot-freshness checker that compares the manifest capture revision with later screenshot-affecting source changes
  • add a lightweight PR workflow that emits freshness warnings without downloading browsers or rewriting images
  • document the privacy rule: committed docs imagery must never come from a real personal library

Initial manifest

The existing PNGs predate revision tracking, so the initial manifest deliberately has source_commit: null. The first intentional regeneration with python scripts/update_demo_screenshots.py establishes a trustworthy baseline rather than pretending the legacy images were captured from the current head.

CI behavior

The freshness workflow is advisory and cheap: no Playwright install, browser download, public-domain PDF download, or pixel comparison runs in ordinary PR CI.

Part of #102.
Related to #48.

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  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for generating and tracking documentation screenshots.
    • Documented capture options, reproducible test data, manifest metadata, and freshness checks.
    • Expanded the manifest to cover current documentation captures.
  • Chores

    • Added tools to regenerate screenshots using isolated demo data and selected capture sets.
    • Added automated pull request and manual checks for potentially outdated screenshots.
    • Improved capture reliability with validation, rollback protection, cleanup, and error reporting.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for freshness checks, manifest updates, validation, rollback behavior, and server readiness.

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The PR adds screenshot capture provenance, isolated screenshot regeneration, freshness checks, workflow automation, and documentation for the screenshot process.

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Screenshot freshness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reproducible screenshot capture
scripts/capture_demo_screenshots.py, docs/screenshots/manifest.json, docs/screenshots/README.md
The capture script uses shared expectations, preserves manifest metadata, and promotes files through rollback-safe validation. The manifest and documentation describe expected screenshots and revision behavior.
Isolated screenshot regeneration
scripts/update_demo_screenshots.py
The script starts a temporary localhost testing server, validates readiness and empty storage, seeds demo data, captures selected screenshots, and removes temporary resources.
Freshness checks and workflow automation
scripts/check_screenshot_freshness.py, .github/workflows/screenshot-freshness.yml
The checker identifies affected source changes, compares manifest revisions with HEAD, and reports advisory or strict results. The workflow runs it for relevant pull requests or manual dispatches.
Screenshot tooling validation
tests/test_screenshot_freshness.py
Tests cover path parity, manifest updates, rollback, dirty sources, strict freshness failures, loopback validation, server readiness, and Git failures.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as update_demo_screenshots.py
  participant PRKS
  participant Capture as capture_demo_screenshots.py
  participant Workflow as screenshot-freshness.yml
  participant Checker as check_screenshot_freshness.py
  CLI->>PRKS: start isolated testing server
  CLI->>PRKS: poll /api/works
  CLI->>PRKS: seed demo data
  CLI->>Capture: capture selected screenshot set
  Capture-->>CLI: return screenshots and provenance
  CLI->>PRKS: terminate server and remove temporary storage
  Workflow->>Checker: run freshness check
  Checker->>Checker: inspect source paths and manifest revisions
  Checker-->>Workflow: report fresh, stale, or invalid state
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If promotion and rollback both fail, the command hides the underlying write failure. Preserve that error while separately reporting the retained backup location.

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Automate reproducible documentation screenshot capture and freshness checks

✨ Enhancement 📝 Documentation ⚙️ Configuration changes 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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AI Description

• Automates isolated, public-domain screenshot regeneration with E2E-pinned Playwright Chromium.
• Records capture provenance, scenarios, viewport, theme, and source revision in a manifest.
• Adds advisory CI warnings when screenshot-affecting sources change after capture.
Diagram

graph TD
  U["Update command"] --> S["Temporary server"] --> D["Public demo seed"] --> C["Scenario capture"] --> B["Pinned Chromium"] --> A["Images and manifest"]
  W["Freshness workflow"] --> F["Freshness checker"] --> A
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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Visual regression CI
  • ➕ Detects actual rendering differences rather than source-change heuristics.
  • ➕ Can enforce screenshot updates before merge.
  • ➖ Requires browser installation and screenshot generation in ordinary CI.
  • ➖ Pixel comparisons are brittle across rendering environments.
  • ➖ Adds network, runtime, and artifact maintenance costs.
2. Manual screenshot maintenance
  • ➕ Requires no manifest, Git comparison, or dedicated workflow.
  • ➕ Minimizes automation code.
  • ➖ Provides no capture provenance or consistent browser policy.
  • ➖ Relies on maintainers noticing stale imagery.
  • ➖ Increases the risk of capturing personal library data.

Recommendation: Keep the PR's reproducible local capture command and advisory source-based CI check. It provides provenance, privacy isolation, and useful staleness signals while avoiding expensive and brittle browser-based golden testing in every pull request.

Files changed (6) +424 / -29

Enhancement (3) +331 / -29
capture_demo_screenshots.pyMake screenshot capture reproducible and manifest-aware +134/-29

Make screenshot capture reproducible and manifest-aware

• Reuses the exact Playwright pin and repository-local Chromium cache from E2E instead of a hard-coded system Chrome executable. Exposes capture as a callable operation, records logical scenarios, and writes capture provenance to the manifest.

scripts/capture_demo_screenshots.py

check_screenshot_freshness.pyAdd advisory Git-based screenshot freshness checker +88/-0

Add advisory Git-based screenshot freshness checker

• Compares the manifest source revision with HEAD and warns when tracked UI-affecting files changed afterward. Missing, unreadable, or legacy manifests remain non-blocking and emit actionable warnings.

scripts/check_screenshot_freshness.py

update_demo_screenshots.pyOrchestrate isolated end-to-end screenshot regeneration +109/-0

Orchestrate isolated end-to-end screenshot regeneration

• Starts PRKS on a free loopback port with temporary testing storage, seeds public-domain data, captures the requested screenshot set, and cleans up the server and runtime directory. Reports failures through a single maintainer-facing command.

scripts/update_demo_screenshots.py

Documentation (2) +57 / -0
README.mdDocument safe screenshot regeneration and freshness policy +29/-0

Document safe screenshot regeneration and freshness policy

• Explains the one-command regeneration process, capture groups, manifest semantics, and advisory freshness behavior. Explicitly prohibits screenshots sourced from real personal libraries.

docs/screenshots/README.md

manifest.jsonEstablish screenshot provenance manifest +28/-0

Establish screenshot provenance manifest

• Introduces schema, viewport, theme, generator, seed, and logical scenario metadata for existing screenshots. Leaves the initial source revision unset because the legacy images predate trustworthy capture tracking.

docs/screenshots/manifest.json

Other (1) +36 / -0
screenshot-freshness.ymlAdd advisory screenshot freshness workflow +36/-0

Add advisory screenshot freshness workflow

• Runs the freshness checker for pull requests touching UI, screenshot tooling, documentation imagery, or relevant backend sources. Uses a full Git history checkout while avoiding browser installation and image regeneration.

.github/workflows/screenshot-freshness.yml

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

The PR appears safe to merge from an application-runtime perspective, with non-blocking correctness gaps in screenshot provenance and freshness tooling.

Findings

  1. P2 Partial captures reset provenance
  2. P2 Orchestrator changes appear fresh
  3. P2 Failed captures leave mixed output

Summary

This PR adds a reproducible, isolated screenshot-generation command, records capture provenance in a manifest, and introduces an advisory CI freshness check.

  • Reuses the pinned E2E Playwright installation and repository-local Chromium cache.
  • Seeds synthetic/public-domain data in temporary testing storage.
  • Adds manifest metadata and source-change-based freshness warnings.
  • Documents capture regeneration and privacy requirements.
  • The new provenance workflow needs stronger handling of partial capture sets, orchestrator changes, and interrupted runs.
Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  U[Maintainer runs update_demo_screenshots.py] --> S[Start isolated testing server]
  S --> D[Seed public-domain demo library]
  D --> C[Capture selected screenshot set]
  C --> P[Write PNGs to docs/screenshots]
  P --> M[Write manifest with HEAD revision]
  M --> F[Freshness checker compares source_commit to HEAD]
  F --> W{Affecting paths changed?}
  W -->|Yes| A[Emit advisory warning]
  W -->|No| N[Report screenshots not stale]
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Preserve per-file provenance on partial captures, refuse dirty
screenshot-affecting sources, stage PNGs before replacing committed
outputs, harden isolated-server startup against port races, and expand
freshness path coverage for the orchestrator and browser/PDF inputs.

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Restrict capture HTTP to loopback bases to clear the Sonar SSRF finding,
and make the advisory freshness checker able to exit non-zero under an
explicit strict env so main is not a constant return.

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Document that isolated --testing PRKS speaks plain HTTP on 127.0.0.1
and mark the intentional loopback URL construction for S5332.

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- Around line 166-167: Only advance the manifest-level source_commit for a
complete all capture: update the condition around captured and source_commit so
it requires all EXPECTED_ALL_FILES, defining that count from the complete
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Preserve per-file capture behavior while preventing skipped person.png,
note.png, or group.png files from receiving the global revision.

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Only advance the global screenshot source_commit when an all run
captures every expected file, refuse extra/all when demo entities are
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Re-review findings on current head fc6ab4d

Most earlier provenance issues are fixed, and all current checks are green. I found two remaining correctness gaps in the screenshot-maintenance path:

  1. Legacy extra screenshots can disappear from provenance after the first partial capture.

docs/screenshots/ currently contains 11 PNGs, but the initial manifest.json lists only folders.png, work.png, and people.png. If the first regeneration is the documented --set readme, _write_manifest() updates those three entries and keeps only entries that already existed in the manifest. The eight existing extra PNGs remain on disk but remain absent from the manifest. check_screenshot_freshness.py then has non-empty checked entries and no longer emits the “legacy/unknown baseline” warning, so those eight images are effectively invisible to freshness tracking.

Please either seed the initial manifest with all EXPECTED_ALL_FILES entries (with no revision until regenerated), or have the checker compare the manifest against the expected/existing PNG set and warn for any untracked screenshot. Add a regression test for: legacy manifest → readme partial capture → extra files still reported as unknown/stale.

  1. Promotion is not atomic with manifest.json.

The capture itself is staged, but after a successful capture the code does os.replace() on each committed PNG one-by-one and only then calls _write_manifest(). If one replacement fails midway, or if writing the manifest fails after the PNG replacements, the repository is left with a partially/new screenshot set under the old provenance. That is the same mixed-output class the staging change was meant to eliminate.

Please make promotion rollback-safe across both PNGs and the manifest (for example, back up existing targets + manifest, prepare the new manifest before promotion, then restore all originals on any promotion/write failure), and add a failure-path test that injects an os.replace or manifest-write failure.

I would hold #106 for these two fixes; they are maintenance-path issues rather than application-runtime blockers.

Seed EXPECTED_ALL_FILES into manifests so partial captures leave extras
revisionless rather than untracked, warn when compare fails without
dropping those notes, and roll back PNG+manifest promotion on failure.

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- Around line 281-290: Update the rollback cleanup around manifest_backup and
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…k backups

Seed expected extras with source_commit null so global provenance cannot
bless them; fail strict freshness when revision compare fails; preserve
backup_dir when promotion rollback cannot restore every artifact.

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Addressed the three CodeRabbit findings on tip 88c3056:

  1. Seeded expected screenshots now carry explicit "source_commit": null; _entry_revision falls back to the global revision only when the per-file key is absent.
  2. Promotion rollback keeps backup_dir and raises with its path if any restore fails.
  3. Strict freshness returns exit 1 when revision comparison fails.

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Print retained backup_dir details to stderr, then bare-raise so the
orchestrator still surfaces the original failure message.

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Addressed #106 (comment) on tip a04d3a0: incomplete rollback now prints backup_dir + restore errors to stderr, then bare-raises the original promotion exception.

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Both owner re-review items from #106 (comment) are fixed on tip a04d3a0:

  1. Legacy extras — manifests seed all EXPECTED_ALL_FILES with explicit "source_commit": null; partial captures keep them revisionless (no global-revision blessing); the freshness checker warns for untracked/revisionless expected or on-disk PNGs.
  2. Atomic promotion — staged promote backs up targets + manifest, restores on failure, and on incomplete restore prints backup_dir to stderr then bare-raises the original error.

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Re-review finding on a04d3a0 — missing expected PNGs can pass as fresh

The two previous owner findings are fixed correctly on the current head. I found one remaining edge case in check_screenshot_freshness.py:

After a full capture gives every manifest entry a valid source_commit, deleting an expected screenshot file (for example docs/screenshots/work.png) does not produce a warning. The workflow does run because of the docs/screenshots/** path filter, but untracked only checks whether an expected/on-disk filename is missing from the manifest or lacks a revision. It does not check whether an expected filename is missing from on_disk.

That means a PR can delete a canonical screenshot, leave its manifest entry intact, and the checker can print “Screenshots are not stale…” because the deletion itself is not an AFFECTING_PATHS change.

Please treat EXPECTED_ALL_FILES - on_disk as a freshness/problem condition (ideally distinguish it as missing expected screenshots) and add a regression test with a fully revisioned manifest where one expected PNG is absent. Advisory mode can still exit 0; strict mode should fail consistently with the existing stale/unknown behavior.

Once that is covered, I don't see another blocker in the current implementation.

Treat EXPECTED_ALL_FILES not present under docs/screenshots/ as a
freshness problem so deleting a canonical PNG cannot pass as fresh.

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Fixed on tip 7bac575: expected-but-missing PNGs (EXPECTED_ALL_FILES - on_disk) are now reported as missing expected screenshots. Advisory still exits 0; strict fails. Regression covers a fully revisioned manifest with work.png absent.

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Follow-up: optimize generated documentation PNGs at source

Since this PR now owns the reproducible screenshot-generation pipeline, it is also the right place to add lossless PNG optimization rather than installing Imgbot and creating separate image-only PR churn.

Recommended scope:

  • Add a small lossless PNG optimization step in scripts/capture_demo_screenshots.py.
  • Run it on each staged screenshot immediately after page.screenshot(...), before validation/promotion.
  • Reuse the already-pinned Pillow==12.3.0; do not add another dependency just for this.
  • Optimize via a temporary output and os.replace() so an optimizer failure cannot corrupt the staged screenshot.
  • Preserve the original staged PNG if the optimized output is larger.
  • Verify dimensions/pixel content are unchanged before accepting the optimized file.
  • Keep optimization inside the existing staging + atomic promotion/rollback contract.
  • Add regression tests for successful optimization and for optimizer failure preserving the original staged image.
  • Document in docs/screenshots/README.md that committed documentation screenshots are automatically losslessly optimized.
  • Optionally record optimizer metadata in manifest.json (for example Pillow version + lossless mode) if that helps reproducibility.

Please keep this strictly lossless. Do not convert screenshots to JPEG/WebP or introduce lossy processing in this PR.

The PWA icons under frontend/icons/ are outside this PR's documentation-screenshot scope and can be handled separately.

If this is implemented, Imgbot should be unnecessary for the canonical PRKS documentation screenshots because the supported generation path will already emit optimized assets.

Recompress each staged PNG with Pillow (optimize + compress_level 9)
after capture, replacing only when pixels match and the rewrite is
smaller; record optimizer metadata in the manifest.

Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Implemented on tip (pushing): staged screenshots are losslessly recompressed with pinned Pillow (optimize=True, compress_level=9) via temp+os.replace, keeping the original on failure/larger output and verifying dimensions/pixels. Manifest records png_optimize (Pillow version + lossless). Documented in docs/screenshots/README.md. No JPEG/WebP; frontend/icons/ untouched.

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Correction: shipped on tip f8d3cd9 (lossless Pillow optimize on staged PNGs + tests + README/png_optimize metadata).

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Re-review finding on f8d3cd9 — track the Pillow pin as a screenshot-affecting input

The new lossless optimizer is implemented safely: it writes to a temp file, verifies dimensions/pixels, keeps the original when optimization fails or is not smaller, and stays inside the existing staged/rollback-safe promotion path.

One new freshness gap was introduced by this commit: the optimizer uses Pillow, but Pillow is pinned in requirements.txt (Pillow==12.3.0). AFFECTING_PATHS and .github/workflows/screenshot-freshness.yml currently track requirements-dev.txt, but not requirements.txt.

A Pillow version change can alter PNG encoding/compression output (and the manifest's recorded optimizer version) while the screenshot freshness workflow does not run and the checker does not consider that source change. Since the PR explicitly records the optimizer version for reproducibility, the production requirements pin is now part of the screenshot-generation inputs.

Please add requirements.txt to AFFECTING_PATHS and the workflow path filters; the existing path-parity test should then lock this in. It would also be good to update the screenshot README wording so a fresh environment installs both normal runtime deps and maintainer/browser deps before regeneration, since the capture path needs Pillow/PyMuPDF from requirements.txt as well as Playwright from requirements-dev.txt.

After that, I don't see another blocker in the new optimization code.

Track the Pillow pin in freshness AFFECTING_PATHS and the workflow path
filters, and document installing both runtime and maintainer deps before
regeneration.

Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Fixed on tip 2c74a86: requirements.txt is now in AFFECTING_PATHS and the screenshot-freshness workflow path filters (parity test locks it). README regenerate steps install both requirements.txt (Pillow/PyMuPDF) and requirements-dev.txt (Playwright).

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