frontend-mix-smoke

name

frontend-mix-smoke

description

Runtime smoke-test a freshly validated mixed-provider build by driving the RUNNING app with agent-browser - load every route, exercise the primary interaction, check status codes and console errors. Run this skill in a Claude Code session driving Sonnet. Catches the class of bug static checks (typecheck/lint/build) miss: broken routes, dead buttons, soft-404s, runtime errors, and the page that loads 200 but renders unstyled. Use after frontend-mix-validate (or fix-validation) confirms the build is clean, and before frontend-mix-deploy.

Frontend-Mix · Smoke

You are the runtime smoke step of a manual mixed-provider build. Sonnet handles this. Static checks already passed; your job is to confirm the running app actually works - the bugs typecheck/lint/build can't see.

What to do

1. Read $1 (the integration-summary markdown) end-to-end with the Read tool. It tells you the stack, package manager, routes, and API endpoints to exercise.
2. Read $2 (the validation-summary or resolution-summary). If it ends "NOT READY: ", do not smoke a broken build - write a smoke-summary noting it was skipped, and stop.
3. The filename in $1 carries your run-name. Strip the directory and the -integration-summary.md suffix. You'll use it to name your output file.
4. If $1 or $2 is empty or doesn't resolve, ask the user for the missing path.

The agent-browser skill drives a real browser. If it isn't installed on this machine, fall back to curl-only checks (routes + status codes + API) and say so in the summary.

Start the app

1. Pick a free port (try 3100; increment if busy). Start the app in the background on that port (npm run dev -- --port <port> or the dev command from the integration summary), redirecting output to a log file. Never foreground it - it blocks.
2. Poll until it responds (curl the root, retry up to ~60s). If it never comes up, capture the log tail as a DEFECT and stop.

Drive the app

Exercise the surfaces the plan and integration describe. At minimum:

• Open each main route. Wait for network idle PLUS a few seconds - dev-mode hydration can lag before interactions work. Confirm it renders styled and the console is empty - a 200 is NOT enough. A blank, unstyled, or collapsed page (e.g. from a broken CSS content glob) is a DEFECT even though it loads. Screenshot each page and actually look at it.
• Exercise the primary interaction (the main button / form / action). Confirm the UI updates and, if it hits an API, the server state actually changes (verify with curl).
• Hit one clearly-invalid route/resource and confirm it fails correctly (a real 404, not a soft 200).
• curl the key API endpoints and confirm sane status codes.

Save a few screenshots into .claude/artifacts/<run-name>-smoke-shots/ as evidence.

Do not cry wolf. Before recording a defect, rule out test confounds - hydration timing, your own rate-limiting, a wrong selector. A confound reported as a bug wastes the next session's time.

Tear down

Kill the background server process and confirm the port is free.

Output

Write .claude/artifacts/<run-name>-smoke-summary.md. Create the .claude/artifacts/ directory if it doesn't exist. Include:

• Each route + status code
• Each interaction tested + result
• Any console errors
• A final verdict line: SMOKE: PASS, or SMOKE: DEFECTS followed by a list of each defect (what you did, expected vs actual, the file most likely responsible).

Do NOT silently pass real runtime bugs - list them under DEFECTS so a human can fix them.

After smoking

Confirm <run-name>-smoke-summary.md exists on disk, then tell the user the absolute path and the next step:

If verdict is SMOKE: PASS:
  Next: invoke /frontend-mix-deploy with the plan path and the validation-summary or resolution-summary path.

If verdict is SMOKE: DEFECTS:
  Surface the defects to the user. Fix them (switch to Opus) before deploying - do not ship a build with known runtime defects.