verify

name	verify
description	Build, launch, and drive the mindwalk web UI end-to-end for verification.

Verifying mindwalk

Build & launch

npm --prefix web run build                  # tsc -b && vite build → web/dist
go build -o bin/mindwalk ./cmd/mindwalk
bin/mindwalk serve --no-open --dev --port <PORT> # --dev serves web/dist from the working tree

Gotchas:

• Always pass --no-open during automated verification so repeated server starts do not create tabs or steal focus from the user's current work.
• Port 8765 is the vite-proxy convention and is often already taken by a dev server; pick another port and check the log for bind: address already in use.
• Sessions come from ~/.claude/projects, ~/.codex/sessions, and ~/.pi/agent/sessions — this machine has real data, no fixtures needed. testdata/claude-session.jsonl works via mindwalk open.
• bin/mindwalk map <repo> (or the /?map=1&repo=<path> URL) serves the static citymap with no session.

Drive (headless Chrome + CDP, no npm installs)

System Chrome + raw CDP over Node's built-in WebSocket works. WebGL renders under plain --headless=new on the real GPU (Metal, ~120fps); add --use-angle=swiftshader --enable-unsafe-swiftshader only if GPU init fails (software rendering is ~3x slower):

"/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" \
  --headless=new --remote-debugging-port=9333 --user-data-dir=<tmp> \
  --window-size=1440,900 --no-first-run about:blank &

New-tab endpoint needs PUT: fetch('http://127.0.0.1:9333/json/new?<url>', {method:'PUT'}).

Flows worth driving

• Load via /?session=<key> deep link (legacy bare session id resolves only if unique); assert .session-row.active .session-title.
• Readout .deck-pos-count shows N / N after load (playhead starts at end).
• [aria-label="Restart playback"] → 1 / N; [aria-label="Play playback"] → ~3 ticks/second at 1× (the .speed-btn / S key cycles the multiplier); playback draws the ember trail + firefly.
• Scene view lives in the dock's scene section: the top strip icon (tree/ mountain shape mirrors the current view) opens a compact pop with Tree / Terrain radio rows plus the encoding legend; pressing V cycles views directly. Switching rebuilds the scene — watch for Runtime.exceptionThrown. The pop coexists with an open sheet (report stays open while switching).
• /?map=1&repo=<abs-path> renders the citymap with no trace and no transport (map-only mode); the rail-head folder icon ([aria-label="Open a repository map"]) opens a popover — primary card for the active session's repo (name + path), then an "or open any repository" path input — and opens the map via window.open, so in headless drive the URL directly instead of clicking.
• The right-edge dock strip is a panel registry with two sections (scene / session, hairline divider): View (pop), Crosshair = Inspect (sheet; file details, teaching empty state when nothing is selected), Sparkles = Evaluate (sheet; judge report, status dot mirrors running/done/stale/failed). Clicking a report finding jumps the playhead to its evidence seq and selects the file; the rail rows mirror evaluation state with .rail-eval badges.
• [aria-label="Export video"] records playback client-side (MediaRecorder → webm download): the label flips to Recording video, the transport, rail, and view toggle lock while recording, and the playhead restores afterwards. Capture the download in CDP with Browser.setDownloadBehavior.
• Rapid session switch (click uncached row, 150ms later a cached row) must end showing the last-clicked session's data.
• Bogus ?session= must fall back to the newest session with a console.warn.