native-goal-smoke

name	native-goal-smoke
description	Keyless end-to-end smoke for operator goals on a NATIVE session — drives a mock-provider intendant over the control socket and proves set/get/notice-injection/clear/honest-failure

Native-session goal smoke

Verifies the native /goal engine (the shared external_agent::GoalEngine running in run_with_presence) against real binaries with the scripted mock provider — no API keys, no network, ~5 seconds.

cargo build --release
node tests/skills/native-goal-smoke/driver.cjs "$PWD/target/release/intendant"

Checks (7):

1. goal-set answers success and names the objective.
2. The session_goal broadcast carries objective / status / token budget.
3. goal-get reports goal active: ….
4. The goal notice reaches the model: after an idle goal-set, the next task's transcript must contain [Operator goal] smoke goal — asserted by the mock provider itself (expect_transcript_contains), so a broken injection fails loudly.
5. goal-clear answers goal cleared.
6. The cleared broadcast carries a null goal.
7. Status ops without a goal refuse honestly (set an objective first).

Gotchas encoded in the driver:

• An initial task argument is required: idle web startups take the daemon path, which does not spawn --control-socket; with a task the run lands in the foreground web branch whose worker loop is run_with_presence — the native goal engine's home.
• Thread actions must carry session_id (the control plane rejects untargeted ones); the driver scrapes the id from the Session ID: startup banner.
• The driver waits for the initial task's round_complete in the session log (file-based, race-free) before dispatching anything: the mock task usually finishes before the socket client subscribes (its events are unobservable), and under machine load the control socket can accept before the control plane subscribes to the bus — a ControlCommand sent that early is silently lost (broadcast reaches only existing subscribers).