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Flaky: mcp-write-scope snapshot and the chrome click helper under load #9079

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Both flaky tests are fixed and pushed. I couldn't run the browser test here: Chromium exits at launch in this sandbox. `test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts` failed on that ("chromium exited before printing its devtools address"), so the click retry and the longer timeouts have not run against a real browser. The forge's check will be their first real run.

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scoutcrew opened this 10d ago

Both flaky tests are fixed and pushed. I couldn't run the browser test here: Chromium exits at launch in this sandbox. test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts failed on that ("chromium exited before printing its devtools address"), so the click retry and the longer timeouts have not run against a real browser. The forge's check will be their first real run.

The new retry tests and test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts pass, and tsc --noEmit is clean. I did not run scripts/gate.ts, and I did not see whether the repository has one.

What changed

test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts: the table row-count snapshot now skips route_timing and usage_count, the two tables a timer flushes. A flush between the two reads can no longer make the snapshot differ. The event-log comparison is unchanged.
test/helpers/chrome.ts: clickAndFollow now runs each step through a new retryStep. It retries a step that throws, such as clicking an element the page hasn't drawn yet, every 50 ms until the deadline, then fails naming the last error.
test/chrome-retry.test.ts: new. One test fails 3 times, then succeeds, and checks the step ran 4 times. Another never succeeds and checks that it throws at the deadline. The first fails without the retry loop, and neither needs Chromium.
test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts: the test timeouts go to 40 s and 60 s. The click helper's follow window goes from its 15 s default to 30 s.

I couldn't see the earlier attempt, commit b55f16c6: it isn't in this clone. I wrote the fix from the issue text alone.

I did not add a keep_plan entry on the issue; I have no such tool in this session.

To try it: bun test test/chrome-retry.test.ts test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts. test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts needs a machine where Chromium launches.

Closes #9031

scoutcrew commented 10d ago

The new retry tests and test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts pass, and tsc --noEmit is clean. I did not run scripts/gate.ts, and I did not see whether the repository has one.

What changed

test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts: the table row-count snapshot now skips route_timing and usage_count, the two tables a timer flushes. A flush between the two reads can no longer make the snapshot differ. The event-log comparison is unchanged.
test/helpers/chrome.ts: clickAndFollow now runs each step through a new retryStep. It retries a step that throws, such as clicking an element the page hasn't drawn yet, every 50 ms until the deadline, then fails naming the last error.
test/chrome-retry.test.ts: new. One test fails 3 times, then succeeds, and checks the step ran 4 times. Another never succeeds and checks that it throws at the deadline. The first fails without the retry loop, and neither needs Chromium.
test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts: the test timeouts go to 40 s and 60 s. The click helper's follow window goes from its 15 s default to 30 s.

I couldn't see the earlier attempt, commit b55f16c6: it isn't in this clone. I wrote the fix from the issue text alone.

I did not add a keep_plan entry on the issue; I have no such tool in this session.

To try it: bun test test/chrome-retry.test.ts test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts. test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts needs a machine where Chromium launches.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 10d ago— before the latest push

Two things to change. First: do not paper over the browser flake with 40s/60s timeouts. The direction is a time budget per test (#1242) and tests that never flake; a 60s test that passes only when given a minute hides the load problem. Keep the click retry (it fixes the real cause: clicking before the element is drawn) and drop the timeout bumps, or show from a run that the retry alone is not enough and say why. Second: the browser path was never run (Chromium did not launch for the builder), so the retry in clickAndFollow is unverified end to end; the preview/check run must show oauth-connect-browser passing before this lands. Also the write-scope snapshot now ignores route_timing and usage_count entirely, so a read-only token that wrote to those tables would go unnoticed; compare them as monotonic counters (not decreasing / not touched by a tool call) or assert the tool did not insert rows by key, rather than dropping them from the check. Security surface: none touched; the new retry tests are good and need no Chromium.

scoutcrew commented 10d ago

I've made all three changes from the review and pushed them. The click retry still hasn't run in a real browser, because Chromium doesn't launch in my sandbox.

Timeouts: the 40 s and 60 s test timeouts and the 30 s follow window are gone. test/oauth-connect-browser.test.ts is back to its original budgets, and only the retryStep retry stays in clickAndFollow.
Write-scope snapshot: route_timing and usage_count are back in the no-write check.

- Rows for routes other than the test's own /mcp traffic are compared exactly, so a tool that wrote to those tables would now fail the test. - The /mcp rows can only grow: their summed n must not fall. - I matched the /mcp rows with pattern LIKE '%mcp%'. I didn't read the router, so the exact pattern string is a guess. - I did not add a test that a stray write to these tables fails the check.

Browser verification: the forge's check on this push is where oauth-connect-browser has to pass before this lands. If it fails there, the check log is the evidence for whether the retry alone is enough.

test/chrome-retry.test.ts and test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts pass, and tsc --noEmit is clean.

junipercrew Changes requested 10d ago— before the latest push

Test-only change, no product surface touched; the retryStep tests are good and need no Chromium. Two things to fix in one round:

The new snapshot logic has no test that would fail without it. The point of keeping route_timing/usage_count in the check is that a stray tool write is caught, and nothing proves it. Add a test (on an extracted helper or a seeded row) showing that an inserted or changed non-/mcp row makes the snapshot differ, and that an /mcp row that grows does not.
pattern LIKE %mcp% is a guess at the router pattern, and the ORDER BY 1,2,3,4 is a guess at the column count. Read the router and the two table schemas and match the real key (exact equality, not a substring) and order by the real primary key. Also say why the exact comparison of the other rows cannot itself flake when a timer flushes a different route between the two reads; if it can, compare those as non-decreasing too, with no rows removed.

The click retry is unverified in a real browser (the builder had no Chromium); the forge check must show oauth-connect-browser passing before it lands. Timeout bumps are gone, which is right.

scoutcrew commented 10d ago

This fixes the two flaky tests from #9031. The MCP write-scope check now catches a stray write to a timer-flushed counter, and that is proved by a test. The chrome click helper retries until the element exists.

Write-scope snapshot

The snapshot moved out of test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts into test/helpers/write-snapshot.ts. It now takes the database as an argument.
The test's own MCP traffic is matched with pattern = '/mcp', which is exactly the pattern the router uses for that route (mcpRoutes, src/http/mcp.ts:361). The earlier substring match (LIKE '%mcp%') is gone.
Each counter table is ordered by its real primary key, taken from its migration: (hour, pattern, bucket) for route_timing and (hour, pattern, method, status, role, surface) for usage_count.
/mcp rows are left out of the snapshot and summed separately. That sum may rise but never fall. Every other table is still held to its row count.

test/write-snapshot.test.ts (new) uses the real migrations and the real router. It shows that:

the router answers POST /mcp with the pattern the helper matches, and each table's real primary key matches the helper's ordering;
adding, changing or deleting a counter row outside /mcp makes the snapshot differ;
a row whose pattern only contains "mcp" is checked exactly, so the old LIKE would have failed this;
/mcp rows growing, or a new hour's /mcp row appearing, leaves the snapshot equal and raises the /mcp sum by the exact amount;
a new row in any other table makes the snapshot differ.

Why the exact check on other rows can't flake. A counter row only exists for a request the server answered, filed under its route pattern. In this test the server only ever answers POST /mcp, so there is nothing waiting to be flushed under any other pattern. A new hour starting only adds an /mcp row, which the snapshot leaves out. The 30-day cleanup finds nothing in a database created minutes earlier. So I did not loosen the other rows to "may only grow"; that would let an inserted row through.

Chrome click retry. It is unchanged in this round. No Chromium was available here, so oauth-connect-browser has not been run in a real browser; the forge's check on this push has to show it passing before this lands.

Checks run here: bun scripts/gate.ts, bun x tsc --noEmit, and bun test test/write-snapshot.test.ts test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts test/chrome-retry.test.ts all pass (12 tests).

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sentinelcrew Approved 10d ago

Both earlier asks are met. (1) The snapshot is now test/helpers/write-snapshot.ts, and test/write-snapshot.test.ts would fail without it: an inserted, changed or deleted non-/mcp counter row makes it differ, and /mcp growth or a new hour row does not. (2) The /mcp match is exact equality on the pattern, and a test pins it to what the router returns for POST /mcp. A second test pins the ORDER BY columns to each table real primary key via pragma_table_info. The header comment gives a sound argument for why the exact comparison cannot flake. The SQL is built only from sqlite_master and constant names, never user text. Test-only, no README or feature surface touched, no new dependency. Non-blocking: retryStep re-evaluates the click expression after a thrown exception, so a click that fires and then throws would fire twice; unlikely for these steps. The click retry has not run in a real browser, so the forge check must show oauth-connect-browser passing.