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junior-qa

Validate Junior changes through local app-facing paths. Use for local client or agent QA, dashboard mock reporting UI QA, PR readiness, plugin CLI commands, skill/tool/prompt/plugin behavior, and behavior that tests do not cover well but can be exercised with `pnpm cli -- chat ...`, another `pnpm cli` command, or `JUNIOR_DASHBOARD_MOCK_CONVERSATIONS=true pnpm dev`.

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Validate Junior changes through local app-facing paths. Use for local client or agent QA, dashboard mock reporting UI QA, PR readiness, plugin CLI commands, skill/tool/prompt/plugin behavior, and behavior that tests do not cover well but can be exercised with `pnpm cli -- chat ...`, another `pnpm cli` command, or `JUNIOR_DASHBOARD_MOCK_CONVERSATIONS=true pnpm dev`.
Use the local Junior CLI to exercise behavior the test suite does not prove well. The goal is to run the same app-facing path a developer or operator would use from `apps/example`, inspect the result, and report concrete evidence. Start by reading `packages/junior/src/chat/local/README.md`. Read the owning package or module README when the changed behavior belongs elsewhere. ## Running the Local CLI Use the repo wrapper so commands run from `apps/example` with root and app env loaded. Pick the command and prompt that exercise the changed behavior; do not treat any example prompt here as the required QA: ```sh pnpm cli -- chat -p "<targeted prompt>" ``` For agent behavior, prompts, skills, tools, and model-facing plugin behavior, use `chat -p` or interactive `chat` with a prompt that naturally exercises the change. A trivial exact-output prompt is only useful when the requested check is limited to proving the local runner starts and delivers one response. For host or plugin CLI behavior, call the command directly through the same wrapper: ```sh pnpm cli -- memory search --scope personal --scope-key local:local-cli --limit 5 ``` Use example app discovery probes when the change touches skill or plugin discovery: ```sh pnpm cli -- chat -p "/example-local confirm local QA discovery" pnpm cli -- chat -p "/example-bundle-help" ``` Healthy startup usually logs `SOUL.md`, `WORLD.md`, loaded plugins, and discovered skills. Treat those logs as useful evidence that the example app path was exercised. ## Dashboard UI QA For dashboard UI changes that depend on reporting payload shape, use the typed mock reporting overlay before relying on ad-hoc local conversations: ```sh JUNIOR_DASHBOARD_MOCK_CONVERSATIONS=true pnpm dev ``` Then open the dashboard in a browser and exercise the relevant conversation, transcript, search, or conversation stats surface. The mock overlay returns read-only `@sentry/junior/reporting` conversation API-shaped data, including dashboard QA edge cases such as activity-only tool rows and inverted tool timestamps. It also includes an advisor tool call/result paired with advisor subagent activity so transcript rendering can be checked against nested tool activity without manufacturing a live agent run. Use it when a UI change needs deterministic reporting records that are hard to produce through a live local chat. Plugin report data is pass-through from the configured reporting provider and needs separate validation. The root dev command owns local auth-disabled defaults and the production-like Nitro preset. If it fails to start, diagnose or report the dev runner failure; do not change `apps/example/nitro.config.ts`, dashboard auth settings, or OAuth configuration to make visual QA run. Do not treat mock dashboard data as proof of runtime ingestion, Slack delivery, credential behavior, or model behavior. Pair it with local CLI or integration tests when the changed contract crosses those boundaries. ## Choosing a Probe Pick the smallest local CLI run that demonstrates the changed behavior: - Prefer a targeted prompt or direct CLI command tied to the modified feature. - Use exact-output prompts for simple agent routing or prompt-context checks. - Use natural-language prompts when the behavior is an agent/tool workflow. - Use direct plugin commands when the behavior is an operator CLI surface. - Use interactive `pnpm cli -- chat` when continuity across turns matters. - Use dashboard mock reporting when the behavior is dashboard rendering, filtering, search, or metrics over reporting API payloads. - Do not use local CLI to claim Slack-only behavior, such as Slack formatting, delivery retries, reactions, files, or OAuth UI. Automated tests, typechecks, linters, and evals are separate validation. They do not replace local QA evidence from running the client or agent. ## OAuth Flow QA (MCP and Plugin) Junior has two OAuth pause/resume flows: - Plugin (non-MCP) OAuth: sandbox egress `auth_required` signal resumes via `/api/oauth/callback/<provider>`. In `apps/example` the `sentry` plugin is the OAuth-manifest provider (`SENTRY_CLIENT_ID`/`SENTRY_CLIENT_SECRET`). - MCP OAuth: a remote MCP server 401 challenge resumes via `/api/oauth/callback/mcp/<provider>`. In `apps/example` the `linear`, `notion`, and `hex` plugins use remote MCP URLs. The local CLI prints the private authorization URL, waits for the provider callback, and resumes the same turn as the `local-cli` user. Keep `pnpm dev` running so the configured public callback and tunnel can verify the signed local state and redirect the browser to the CLI's loopback listener. Before starting the chat command: 1. Keep one `pnpm dev` process running in the foreground. 2. Confirm only one Cloudflare tunnel for this development hostname is active. 3. Probe both callback hops. Each request should reach Junior and return `400` because the probe intentionally omits OAuth state: ```sh curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \ http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/oauth/callback/mcp/linear curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \ https://junior-dev.sentry.cool/api/oauth/callback/mcp/linear ``` Do not present an authorization URL until both probes return `400`. A public `502` means the tunnel is running without a reachable local server; restart the dev command and re-run both probes before creating a fresh OAuth attempt. ```sh pnpm cli -- chat -p "Use the linear skill to list Linear teams." ``` Expect an authorization URL on stderr. Complete the provider flow in a browser; the same CLI process should then continue the blocked request and print its reply without requiring the prompt again. Use the integration tests as the deterministic check for both local and Slack resume behavior: ```sh pnpm --filter @sentry/junior exec vitest run tests/integration/local-agent-runner.test.ts pnpm --filter @sentry/junior exec vitest run tests/integration/oauth-callback.test.ts pnpm --filter @sentry/junior exec vitest run tests/integration/mcp-oauth-callback.test.ts tests/integration/mcp-auth-runtime-slack.test.ts ``` For SQL conversation storage changes, verify the resumed turn rebuilds context from SQL, not `thread-state` mirrors: conversation context must hydrate from `junior_conversation_messages` (`hydrateConversationMessages`) and pi history from `junior_conversation_events` through the Pi adapter (`loadProjection`). In those tests, transcripts seeded only into `thread-state` must also be persisted to SQL (`persistConversationMessages`) before the callback runs, and the resumed agent-run input `conversationContext` must contain the SQL-seeded messages. ## Failure Handling If local chat fails because credentials are missing or expired, refresh the environment when appropriate with `pnpm dev:env`, then rerun the same command. If local chat fails with a `junior_conversation_messages` or `junior_conversation_events` query error, the local Postgres schema predates the SQL conversation storage cutover; run `pnpm cli -- upgrade`, then rerun. If Redis errors appear during ordinary local QA, check whether `JUNIOR_STATE_ADAPTER=redis` was set; local chat normally defaults to memory state. If OAuth returns `502`, verify port 3000 is listening and remove stale duplicate dev servers or tunnel clients before retrying. If the provider says the authorization expired, discard that URL and start a fresh chat attempt after the callback health checks pass. If the model answer is too loose to prove the behavior, use a narrower prompt, an exact-output prompt, interactive mode, or a direct plugin CLI command. If the behavior cannot be exercised through the local client/agent, say local QA is insufficient and name the runtime surface that still needs manual coverage. ## Reporting Report: - the exact `pnpm cli -- ...` commands run - for dashboard mock QA, the dev-server command, URL, mock conversation or page inspected, and the visible UI evidence - exit status and the key output that proves the behavior - whether `apps/example` loaded the expected app/plugin/skill path - whether local QA was sufficient, or what remains unproven locally Keep any automated test/lint/typecheck/eval results in a separate validation section so they are not confused with local QA.
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