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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe E2E tooling adds an agent command and runner mode for affected tests. The runner uses detected resource limits for default worker counts and combines baseline and local timing data for shard scheduling. ChangesCloud-agent E2E execution
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Other Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI as scripts/e2e
participant Runner as tests/e2e/run.py
participant Sharding as tests/e2e/sharding.py
participant Tests as affected E2E tests
CLI->>Runner: Pass --agent, --affected, and the selected --base
Runner->>Sharding: Detect resource limits and select default worker count
Runner->>Sharding: Merge baseline and local timing sources
Runner->>Tests: Run selected tests fail-fast with pointer capture disabled
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PR Summary by QodoAdd resource-aware cloud-agent E2E fast path
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| # Cloud-agent fast path: changed-surface E2E only, fail-fast, no pointer | ||
| # capture, and resource-aware worker width (max 2 unless explicitly set). | ||
| exec "${RUN[@]}" --agent --affected --base origin/master "$@" |
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In cloud/checkouts without a configured origin/master ref, the newly recommended zero-argument scripts/e2e agent path exits with status 2 during change discovery before running any tests; this reproduces in the current checkout as invalid --base 'origin/master'. Select an available merge-base/default-branch ref or require/discover the base rather than hard-coding a remote-tracking ref, while preserving an explicit --base override.
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| def test_agent_defaults_are_capped_at_two(self): | ||
| self.assertEqual(agent_default_jobs(cpu_count=32, memory_limit_bytes=None), 2) |
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On a cloud runner whose cgroup memory limit allows only one worker (for example, this checkout's 4 GiB limit), memory_limit_bytes=None causes agent_default_jobs() to auto-detect that host limit rather than model unlimited memory, so this assertion expects 2 but receives 1. Consequently the normal unit command fails specifically on the constrained environments this change targets; pass an explicit sufficiently large memory limit or mock detection.
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1. Cloud agents can be overcommitted 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
detect_cgroup_cpu_count and detect_cgroup_memory_limit_bytes read fixed cgroup-root files instead of resolving the current process’s cgroup and its effective limits across constrained ancestors. When an agent runs in a nested cgroup whose CPU or memory allocation is smaller than its parent or the host-visible root, agent_default_jobs can treat resources as unlimited or use the parent limit and launch two Chromium/server workers despite a one-worker budget.
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## Issue description
Agent worker sizing reads cgroup controller files only at fixed root paths, which may describe a parent or host cgroup rather than the cgroup containing the E2E runner. Nested cloud-agent containers can consequently receive an unsafe two-worker default despite having a smaller effective CPU or memory allocation.
## Fix Focus Areas
- tests/e2e/sharding.py[110-193]
- tests/test_e2e_sharding.py[179-198]
## Recommended Fix
Parse `/proc/self/cgroup` to determine the runner’s cgroup v2 path and cgroup v1 controller paths, resolve them against the corresponding mounted cgroup hierarchies, and read the applicable CPU and memory limits. Calculate the effective ceilings across the process cgroup and constrained ancestors, preserve cgroup v1 and v2 support, treat malformed or unlimited values conservatively, and retain the existing conservative fallback if the hierarchy cannot be resolved. Add unit tests that mock nested v1 and v2 memberships where the root is unlimited or differs from a finite process-cgroup or parent limit.
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In `@tests/e2e/run.py`:
- Line 1118: Propagate the `fail_fast` setting through `_spawn_worker` to
`run_worker`, then pass it to the worker’s `TextTestRunner` as `failfast` so
each parallel shard stops after its first failure.
In `@tests/test_e2e_sharding.py`:
- Line 181: Update the `agent_default_jobs` assertion for the
`memory_limit_bytes=None` case so it does not depend on the host’s cgroup limit.
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Make agent job-count tests host-cgroup independent, resolve scripts/e2e agent --base from available refs, and size workers from the tightest nested cgroup-v2 CPU/memory ceiling. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
Agent/dev mode previously only cancelled peer workers after a failure. Pass --fail-fast into each shard so TextTestRunner stops after the first failure inside that worker as well. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Found one remaining issue on the current head:
P1 — scripts/e2e agent can silently pass without testing committed branch changes when no master ref exists.
_resolve_agent_base() now falls back through origin/master → master → HEAD. The first two are valid comparison bases, but HEAD is not: on a clean feature/cloud-agent checkout, git diff HEAD -- contains only uncommitted working-tree changes. Any changes already committed on the agent branch disappear from --affected, so the command reports an affected no-op and exits successfully without running E2E.
This is especially risky because the PR makes scripts/e2e agent the recommended Claude/cloud-agent validation path.
Please remove HEAD as a successful comparison-base fallback. Prefer another real default/base-branch ref when discoverable (for example an explicit --base, tracked/default remote ref, or environment-provided PR base); if none is available, fail closed with an actionable message rather than turning committed changes into an empty affected set.
The existing Qodo cgroup thread is also still relevant for nested cgroup-v1 hierarchies; current code walks v2 ancestors but the v1 fallback still reads fixed root paths. I did not duplicate that inline finding.
Do not fall back to HEAD for scripts/e2e agent --affected: on a clean feature checkout that hides committed branch changes and can no-op. Prefer PRKS_E2E_BASE / GITHUB_BASE_REF / origin/HEAD / master|main, else exit 2. Also walk nested cgroup-v1 CPU/memory controller paths. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@scripts/e2e`:
- Around line 58-63: Update the PRKS_E2E_BASE selection logic so that when an
explicit value does not resolve to a commit, it reports a clear error to stderr
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An explicit PRKS_E2E_BASE that does not resolve must not silently fall through to origin/HEAD or master — report the bad override and exit. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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🔵 Trivial · Restore browser coverage for Settings runtime invariants. · test_app.py:11424-11631
tests/e2e/test_app.py:11424-11631
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestore browser coverage for Settings runtime invariants.
The replacement tests inspect source text and static markup. They do not open Settings and verify the default category, runtime
hidden/inertstate, orlocation.hash. The surviving browser tests cover state retention only for a General input. A regression can therefore clear Backup or Maintenance state during category switches, select a non-General default, or change the hash when Backup is clicked without failing a test.Suggested fix
class SettingsCategoryWorkflowTests(_BrowserE2E): + def test_settings_runtime_invariants(self): + _server, page, _collector = self._start_app() + _open_settings(page) + self.assertEqual( + page.locator("`#prks-settings-tab-general`").get_attribute("aria-selected"), + "true", + ) + self.assertFalse(page.locator("`#prks-settings-panel-general`").is_hidden()) + for category in ("reading", "export", "backup", "maintenance", "diagnostics"): + panel = page.locator(f"`#prks-settings-panel-`{category}") + self.assertTrue(panel.is_hidden()) + self.assertTrue( + page.evaluate( + "id => document.getElementById(id).hasAttribute('inert')", + f"prks-settings-panel-{category}", + ) + ) + + hash_before = page.evaluate("() => location.hash") + page.locator("`#prks-settings-tab-backup`").click() + page.wait_for_selector("`#prks-settings-panel-backup`:not([hidden])") + self.assertEqual(page.evaluate("() => location.hash"), hash_before) + page.evaluate( + "() => { document.getElementById('prks-backup-file-label').textContent = 'chosen-e2e.prks-backup'; }" + ) + page.locator("`#prks-settings-tab-maintenance`").click() + page.wait_for_selector("`#prks-settings-panel-maintenance`:not([hidden])") + page.evaluate( + "() => { document.getElementById('prks-reindex-pdf-text-status').textContent = 'Rebuilt 3 files.'; }" + ) + page.locator("`#prks-settings-tab-backup`").click() + page.wait_for_selector("`#prks-settings-panel-backup`:not([hidden])") + self.assertEqual( + page.locator("`#prks-backup-file-label`").inner_text(), "chosen-e2e.prks-backup" + ) + page.locator("`#prks-settings-tab-maintenance`").click() + page.wait_for_selector("`#prks-settings-panel-maintenance`:not([hidden])") + self.assertEqual( + page.locator("`#prks-reindex-pdf-text-status`").inner_text(), "Rebuilt 3 files." + ) +🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Found one remaining reliability issue in the current head.
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P2 — Cap agent workers by CPU affinity/cpuset as well as quota. detect_cgroup_cpu_count() starts from os.cpu_count(), which on Python 3.12/Linux reports the machine CPU count rather than the CPUs actually available to this process. A cloud container can be restricted to a single CPU via cpuset/affinity while cpu.max is unlimited; this function then returns the host count and agent_default_jobs() can launch 2 Chromium/server workers on one available CPU. Since this mode is specifically intended to avoid cloud-agent overcommit, use len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)) when available (fall back to os.cpu_count()), then take the minimum with the quota-derived count. Add a unit test with affinity=1 and unlimited/no quota.
Prefer os.sched_getaffinity(0) over os.cpu_count() so cpuset-restricted cloud agents do not launch two Chromium workers on a single available CPU. Co-authored-by: Nikola Perović <Fooftilly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Goal
Reduce PRKS browser-test cost and cloud-agent flakiness without weakening the browser contracts that genuinely require Chromium.
This is the first bounded E2E-rationalization wave: make Claude/cloud-agent execution resource-aware, give stateless environments useful sharding weights, and move clearly duplicated Settings contracts out of the real-browser suite.
What changes
1. Dedicated cloud-agent E2E path
Adds:
which runs the affected E2E selection against
origin/masterwith:--jobs/PRKS_E2E_JOBSstill taking precedence.tests/e2e/run.py --agent <selection>exposes the same mode directly.This avoids the current failure mode where
python run_tests.py --e2eautomatically starts four independent Chromium + PRKS-server workers on a small cloud VM.CLAUDE.mdnow directs Claude to the bounded agent path instead of the four-worker full gate during normal validation.2. Committed bootstrap timing baseline
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tests/e2e/timing-baseline.json.The existing LPT sharder currently learns exact timings into gitignored
.tests/e2e-timings.json, so every fresh cloud-agent checkout otherwise begins with no history and assumes every unknown test costs 3 seconds.The runner now combines:
The baseline is scheduling metadata only: it is never copied into local timing history and is excluded from the human "slowest tests" report.
3. Resource-aware worker selection
The sharding layer now detects, best-effort:
Agent mode selects a conservative width from those limits. The memory heuristic budgets roughly 3 GiB per Chromium/server worker and never chooses more than two workers automatically.
Unit coverage verifies the cap, low-memory serial fallback, prefix baseline matching, and local-timing precedence.
4. First E2E coverage rationalization
Four Settings browser tests were removed because their contracts are already covered by the fast
tests/test_frontend_settings_categories.pylayer:The Settings E2E suite still keeps the behavior that genuinely benefits from a real browser, including:
The smoke suite now uses the keyboard-navigation Settings test instead of the removed structural test, so smoke still has a real Settings browser boundary.
Why this should help Claude/cloud agents
Before this PR, a fresh cloud environment has no timing history and common entry points can launch four full browser/server stacks. Under constrained CPU/RAM this can make nominal parallelism slower and can surface intermittent Chromium/offline timeouts.
After this PR, the recommended cloud-agent path:
Validation
New/updated non-browser regression coverage is included in:
tests/test_e2e_sharding.pytests/test_e2e_policy.pyThe PR intentionally preserves the full E2E gate and its existing isolation model. It does not introduce retries, fake backends, shared browser contexts, or shared PRKS server state.
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